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Do Blue Dogs Bark when the get a Treat?
"Two Blue Dogs Get New Subcommittee Chairs."
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10424
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Unemployment rises in 30 states in January
"Unemployment rose in 30 states in January, the Labor Department said Wednesday, evidence that jobs remain scarce in most regions of the country."
"The data is somewhat better than December, when 43 states reported higher unemployment rates, but worse than November, when rates fell in most states."
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10423
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3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10422
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Slaughter Preps Rule To Avoid Direct Vote On Senate Bill
"House Rules Chairwoman Louise Slaughter is prepping to help usher the healthcare overhaul through the House and potentially avoid a direct vote on the Senate overhaul bill, the chairwoman said Tuesday."
"Slaughter is weighing preparing a rule that would consider the Senate bill passed once the House approves a corrections bill that would make changes to the Senate version."
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10421
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Uncovered Shocker: Sen. Byrd Single-Handedly Stopped President Clinton From Using Reconciliation
"President Clinton got on the phone and called me also and pressed me to allow his massive health care bill to be insulated by reconciliation's protection."
Obama & Dems in ‘05: 51 Vote ‘Nuclear Option’ Is ‘Arrogant’ Power Grab Against the Founders’ Intent.
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10420
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3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10419
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Why Obama has not nudged Congress to pass long-stalled treaties
"To pass healthcare reform, Obama needs his core union support. And a push for new trade agreements would alienate Big Labor."
Result: ObamaCare is killing free trade
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10418
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2,000 grades raised at Chicago Public Schools' Hyde Park Academy
"Last school year at struggling Hyde Park Academy High, more than 2,000 grades were boosted at least one notch — including more than 870 F’s that were changed to passing marks, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis shows."
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10417
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When will students figure out the politicians have sold them out?
"Hundreds of University of California students rallied against a 32% tuition hike last week. Let's hope their future employers get a better work product. With just a little research, the students could have discovered that compensation packages won from the state by unions were a big reason for the hike."
"Last year, the state cut funding to the 10-campus system to $2.6 billion from $3.25 billion. To make up for the reduction in state funding, the UC Board of Regents increased tuition to $10,300, about triple 1999's cost."
"Understandably, students have gone wild. The UC system is supposed to offer low- and middle-income students a cheaper alternative to a private college education. Now a year at a UC school can cost students as much as at many private schools."
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10416
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3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10415
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Hearing Delayed for Obama Judicial Nominee Who Supported Serial Killer
"The Senate Judiciary Committee has postponed the hearing for a controversial Court of Appeals nominee after the panel received a letter from a home-state prosecutor blasting him as a judicial loose cannon and Republicans raised concerns about his alleged bias in favor of sex offenders."
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10414
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Nancy Pelosi and the CIA: Who's Lying Now?
"Once the full truth is known from the CIA memos, Pelosi will be caught in a web of her own making."
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10413
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MATT WELCH: The president’s habit of telling untruths
"Presidential defiance, dissembling, and disinformation are nothing new, even if such political perennials are more disappointing coming from someone who still boasts (as he did in the State of the Union address) of “telling hard truths” to the American people and “doing what’s best for the next generation.” Voters pretty much knew that Bill Clinton was a slime ball when they sent him to the White House; Barack Obama held out the promise of being more dignified."
"The difference between these two most recent Democratic presidents, substantial to begin with (especially in the crucial area of economic policy), may come into sharper relief in 2010. Clinton’s reptilian relationship with the truth, suffused as it always has been with a catch-me-if-you-can sense of personal preservation, actually turned out to have some uses for the nation when he changed course after the 1994 Republican revolution and began co-opting some of the limited-government policies proposed by his opponents. It’s easier for a chameleon to change his spots."
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10412
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3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10411
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3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10410
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Parliamentary Hurdle Could Thwart Latest Health Care Overhaul Strategy
"The White House and Democratic Congressional leaders said Tuesday that they were bracing for a key procedural ruling that could complicate their effort to approve major health care legislation, by requiring President Obama to sign the bill into law before Congress could revise it through an expedited budget process."
"Democratic leaders had been contemplating an intricate legislative two-step, by which the House would approve the original Senate health care measure and both chambers would adopt a package of changes in a budget reconciliation bill. Both measures would then be sent to Mr. Obama for his signature."
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10409
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Obama's attempts to ram health- are starting to resemble a really eventful episode of "The Sopranos"
"But when Obama promised to change the way Washington does business, we didn't think he meant making it a "family" business."
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10408
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Toyota Dealers Fight Back Against "Predatory Tactics" by GM
"The head of the Toyota National Dealer Council today blasted the federal government for using 'taxpayer dollars' to fund incentive campaigns to lure customers away from Toyota, and accused GM of using ‘fear’ in an attempt to lure away its customers, 1200 WOAI news reports."
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10407
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3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10406
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3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10405
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3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10404
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Pelosi is looking for guinea pigs
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it"
By "we" she means "they" the people, because she THE Queen is exempt from this experiment.
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10403
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Health Insurance Premiums Fell by 3.2% in 2009
"Describing runaway entitlement spending as “health inflation” is terribly misleading (even when Rep. Ryan does it), because doing so confuses rising prices with rising utilization of medical goods and services by people who are insulated from actual costs by taxpayer-financed subsidies."
"Government subsidies also raise costs to those using private insurance. The CMS notes that 2009’s 4.6% increase “private health insurance premium spending per employee . . . resulted in part from an increase in the proportion of high-cost claims—many of whom have temporary COBRA coverage” [emphasis added], which is 65% financed by taxpayers."
"By contrast, health inflation per se is projected to be 2.8% this year — comparable to other labor-intensive service industries and also down from 3.2% in 2009 and 3% in 2008. Morevoer, “out-of-pocket spending is projected to have grown 2.1 percent in 2009, down from 2.8% in 2008.”
"What about all the uninformed media fuss about health insurance companies supposedly “asking for” premium increases of “up to” 39%?"
"If President Obama really wanted to find out how quickly typical health insurance premiums have been increasing, he could have a staffer call the Bureau of Labor Statistics and ask for Table 3A of the “Consumer Price Index Detailed Report Tables Annual Averages 2009.” It turns out the consumer price index for health insurance premiums fell by 3.2% in 2009."
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10402
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68% say - Democrats should not pass a bill with GOP support
"Americans and their lawmakers are dramatically out of sync on health care, with large majorities of people looking for bipartisan cooperation that's nowhere in sight."
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10401
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Under the Byrd rules, legislation is subject to a reconciliation point of order challenge because it is "extraneous" if:
- ...it has no budgetary impact;
- ...it increases outlays or reduces revenues and the instructed committee fails to meet its overall instruction;
- ...it is not in the jurisdiction of the committee reporting the title of the reconciliation bill;
- ...it has a budgetary impact which is merely incidental to the policy components of the provision;
- ...it increases outlays or decreases revenues in any one year after 2014 and that offense is not netted at least to zero by other outlay reductions or revenue increases in that title of the bill in that year; and/or,
- ...IT INCLUDES CHANGES IN SOCIAL SECURITY.
3/10/2010
Permalink ID:10400
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3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10399
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3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10398
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UK: Patients' medical records go online without consent
"Patients’ confidential medical records are being placed on a controversial NHS database without their knowledge, doctors’ leaders have warned."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10397
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3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10396
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Krauthammer: Maybe Obama Thinks, ‘If I Just Give My 38th ObamaCare Speech…’
“If you do the math you start with Pelosi’s 220. One death, two retirements, a switch – the Republican who went for ‘yes’ is now a ‘no.’ You’ve got Stupak on abortion, two others on abortion, and perhaps 8 or 9 others. So Pelosi – and you need 216, so she’s got to make up at least 8 or 10 and for every ‘yes’ that you lose you’re going to have to switch a ‘no.'"
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10395
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CBO’s Estimate of the Budgetary Effects of the President’s Budget - $1.5 trillion in 2010
"If the President’s proposals were enacted, the federal government would record deficits
of $1.5 trillion in 2010 and $1.3 trillion in 2011. Those deficits would
amount to 10.3 percent and 8.9 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), respectively.
By comparison, the deficit in 2009 totaled 9.9 percent of GDP."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10394
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Winning health care by a nose not good enough
"Passing legislation that is not only major but, arguably, revolutionary in scope when a majority of the people actually oppose it is hardly the definition of prudence."
"The legislation that instituted the Social Security system in 1935 passed the House by a vote of 372-33 (2 present and 33 not voting), with Republicans favoring it 81-15. The Senate approved its version by a 77-6 vote (12 not voting), with Republicans voting 16-5 in favor. After a conference committee reconciled the two versions final passage came by voice vote in both houses."
"Medicare was approved in 1965 by a 313-115 vote in the House, Republicans favoring it (70-68) and a 68-21 vote (with Republicans opposing it, 17-13) in the Senate."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10393
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The question that dogs Dems: What if Obama fails?
"If Obama fails on health care, the fallout could be significant. The rest of his agenda makes health care look easy: controlling air pollution, tackling immigration reform, reforming education, relocating detainees from Guantanamo Bay prison, creating jobs and more."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10392
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3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10391
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The Food and Drug Administration goes off its meds
"Your prescription for Cheerios is ready."
"Foods that promote certain health benefits are now, according to the FDA, "considered to be drugs and must meet the regulatory requirements for drugs.""
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10390
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Supreme Court Takes ‘Informational Privacy’ Case
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The U.S. Supreme Court is agreeing to decide how much personal information the federal bureaucracy may acquire on its workers."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10389
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3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10388
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Hatch: Biden Gambit Will ‘Blow Up the Senate’
"Hatch says that Senate Republicans are already prepping to fight Democratic efforts to suppress GOP amendments. “Our conference is in the process of discussing that strategy right now,” he says. “No option will be overlooked. There is a distinct possibility that the Democrats’ very partisan exercise could shut down the Senate. Let’s face it — if they’re going to play this kind of game then we will make sure they have one heck of a rough time from this day forward. There are all kinds of ways we could shut down the Senate, and I know them all.”
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10387
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3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10386
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3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10385
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3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10384
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3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10383
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3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10382
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N.J.’s Christie Says Layoffs Out for Cutting Budget
"New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he’s unable to lay off or furlough unionized state workers to help close an $11 billion budget gap."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10381
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The Limits of Rahmism
"In early January, you'll recall, he foreswore any interest in the job, a statement I interpreted as applying only to running against Mayor Richard M. Daley. But if Mr. Daley retires, according to an upcoming magazine piece in the New York Times, Mr. Emanuel "of course" is interested...."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10380
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Alabama Dem lawmaker will break from campaign trail to oppose health reform
"Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.), who opposed the House version of the healthcare reform bill last year, will make sure to take a break from his campaign for governor to travel to Washington to vote against the final version of the bill."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10379
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Is the Declaration of Independence Still Relevant?
"My friends, the Declaration of Independence is gone: irreparably faded. And I fear that the ideals so boldly pronounced in that document are also fading from the pages of society. A few years ago, they opened the Super Bowl telecast by having players from both teams simply read lines from the preamble of the Declaration of Independence, and the switchboards were flooded with thousands of irate calls protesting this “right-wing propaganda.”
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10378
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3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10377
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The Stimulus Bill’s Hidden Attack on What We Eat, Drink, and Smoke
"It’s on pages 66 and 67 on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which created a $1 billion “Prevention and Wellness Fund.” Of that, $650 million went to Kathleen Sebelius’s Department of Health and Human Services and has been used to start a new program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called “Communities Putting Prevention to Work” (CPPW)."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10376
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If You're Gonna Soak the Rich You Might As Well Balance the Budget
"Surprise! Under the new budget plan by the rising star that conservatives are flipping over, the rich would pay a lot less, the poor and middle class a lot more. I'd have never guessed."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10375
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Democrats' mishmash
"Senate Democratic leaders have decided to pair an overhaul of federal student lending with healthcare reform, according to a Democratic official familiar with negotiations."
"The only way this makes sense is if the Democrats want an excuse for a failure to pass ObamaCare. Some of the Democrats supporting the health-care bill already oppose the nationalization of the student-loan industry. Adding them together won’t increase support for either program, but more likely will decrease support for a bill that’s already choking on its own massive size."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10374
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BOB HERBERT's path: From "More Than Charisma" to "Obama era chanting health care"
At the beginning "Yes, as everyone agrees, Mr. Obama is handsome, fit, smart, and a great speaker. As Ms. Ifill noted in her book, “Voters are attracted to youth, vitality and change.”
And now: "A major employment rebound is the only real way to alleviate the deep economic anxiety that has gripped so many Americans. Unaddressed, that anxiety inevitably evolves into dread and then anger."
But while the nation is desperate for jobs, jobs, jobs, the Democrats have spent most of the Obama era chanting health care, health care, health care.
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10373
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VIDEO: Pelosi: "...We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it"
Pelosi: "This legislation alone will create 4 million jobs, about 400,000 jobs very soon."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10372
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Counting the Heads of House Democrats
Remember to check back in for updates.
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10371
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Meet the 18 House Dems whose votes matter most on health care
"...as many as a dozen Democrats who voted “yes” on the House version say they will vote “no” on the Senate version because it lacks language to prevent taxpayer subsidies for abortion coverage. Included in this group are Reps. Bart Stupak (Mich.), Jim Oberstar (Minn.), Marion Berry (Ark.) and Dan Lipinksi (Ill.)."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10370
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3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10369
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Senate votes 100-0 to highlight spending
"In a rare 100-0 roll call vote, the Senate adopted an amendment offered by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) that would create a running tally on the secretary of the Senate's website of any new mandatory spending that isn’t paid for through offsetting spending cuts or tax increases."
"If Congress passes the unemployment aid and tax extenders bill, it will have approved $120 billion in spending that isn't paid for since the pay-go law was signed by President Barack Obama, Coburn said."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10368
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Democrats Voice Health-Bill Doubts
"Some House Democrats wavering over whether to back a health-care overhaul questioned whether it would effectively curb the country's health costs, highlighting a difficult issue that the White House and congressional leaders must address in the final negotiations on the measure."
Makes you wonder how much will Obamacare cost us after all bribes.
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10367
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Toyota finds no flaw with safety electronics
"Toyota called its news conference to discredit what it said were mistaken conclusions being drawn from a study of its accelerator controls by David Gilbert, an auto engineering expert at Southern Illinois University."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10366
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3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10365
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Nancy Pelosi's grip on House slips
I want Pelosi to fail. Does that make me racist?
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10364
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Breaking: Pennsylvania Woman Charged With Recruiting Violent Jihadist Fighters
"A Pennsylvania woman known to authorities as "Jihad Jane" was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10363
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Breaking: Pennsylvania Woman Charged With Recruiting Violent Jihadist Fighters
"A Pennsylvania woman known to authorities as "Jihad Jane" was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10362
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Senate Staffers Warned to Stay Clear of Drudge Report
The Senate's official gatekeeper, said the Drudge Report, a conservative news aggregator, and whitepages.com "are responsible for the many viruses popping up throughout the Senate," according to an e-mail to the Environment and Public Works Committee.""
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10361
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Cut their pay, keep them at home
... and let America heals without Congress "help".
"It's been 77 years since members of Congress took a pay cut. It happened April 1, 1933, and it was no April Fool's joke, as the nation was in the Great Depression. Today, a first-term Arizona Democrat, Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, has garnered a record number of co-sponsors for her proposed Taking Responsibility for Congressional Pay Act. Her bill requires a 5 percent cut, or $8,700, from the $174,000 annual salary now paid to senators and representatives."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10360
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Howard Dean Leads Massive Healthcare Rally of Dozens ...
"Dozens of health care activists are protesting in the nation's capital against what they call an abusive health insurance industry."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10359
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California watchdog sees climate policy job losses
"California is likely to see modest job losses in the near term from its aggressive climate change policy due to higher energy costs and other factors, the state's independent Legislative Analyst's Office said. Skip related content."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10358
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Are unemployment benefits no longer temporary?
"About 11.4 million out-of-work people now collect unemployment compensation, at a cost of $10 billion a month. Half of them have been receiving payments for more than six months, the usual insurance limit. But under multiple extensions enacted by the federal government in response to the downturn, workers can collect the payments for as long as 99 weeks in states with the highest unemployment rates -- the longest period since the program's inception."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10357
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Sean Penn Wants Reporters Jailed for Calling Chavez 'Dictator'
"First Amendment be damned . . . If Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn had his way, any journalist who called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a dictator would quickly find himself behind bars."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10356
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Sen. Schumer’s Immigration Reform Is a National ID
What is wrong with the old SSN cards? Employers cannot read them? It says on a top of your SSN card if you are not qualified to work.
"Once in place, watch for this national ID to regulate access to financial services, housing, medical care and prescriptions—and, of course, serve as an internal passport."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10355
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57% Predict Health Care Plan Will Hurt The Economy
"Two-out-of-three voters (66%) also believe the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats is likely to increase the federal deficit. That’s up six points from late November and comparable to findings just after the contentious August congressional recess. Ten percent (10%) say the plan is more likely to reduce the deficit and 14% say it will have no impact on the deficit."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10354
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Obama's War on Fishing
"The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters."
"This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is "fluid" and the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force still hasn't issued its final report on zoning uses of these waters."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10353
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Does the President’s budget increase the deficit or reduce it?
"Team Obama says the President’s budget would reduce the deficit. CBO says the President’s budget would increase the deficit. What the heck is going on? Who is right?..."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10352
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Program Will Pay Homeowners to Sell at a Loss with your money
"In an effort to end the foreclosure crisis, the Obama administration has been trying to keep defaulting owners in their homes. Now it will take a new approach: paying some of them to leave."
Let me see if I understand this.
First we encouraged bank to loan to unqualified home buyers. As a result this increased artificially the prices. Now when the very same unqualified home buyers defaulted and their home values plummeted the government is paying them to leave.
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10351
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Obama Is Late to the Party
"The One We Have Been Waiting For must be disappointed to have arrived at the spending party so late. It's just about over."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10350
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Complicated Enemy: Obama Seeks to Vilify Health Insurers, Give Them $336 Billion Check
"To help pay for the new insurance requirements the government would give to people money to buy insurance - $336 billion over the next ten years. That money, ultimately, would have to go to... drum roll... insurance companies."
3/9/2010
Permalink ID:10349
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3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10348
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3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10347
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Good News Is Hard to Find for Democrats as Spring Begins
"With a nearly 80-seat House majority, 60 seats in the Senate for more than eight months, a GOP brand so damaged that the party looked completely incompetent and a charismatic African-American president taking over from a failed two-term Republican president, you’d have thought that Democrats were set up for a pretty decent two years."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10346
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Dem plan to twin healthcare and student lending complicates vote
"Senate Democratic leaders have decided to pair an overhaul of federal student lending with healthcare reform, according to a Democratic official familiar with negotiations."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10345
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AP: Stupak “more optimistic” on ObamaCare deal
"Rep. Bart Stupak said he expects to resume talks with House leaders this week in a quest for wording that would impose no new limits on abortion rights but also would not allow use of federal money for the procedure."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10344
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Obama Confuses Decades, Inflates Estimated Health Care Savings by $868B
"Obama boasted Monday that Democrats' health care proposals would cut deficits by $1 trillion "over the next decade," a flub that inflated the actual estimate by $868 billion."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10343
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As Reid Announces Reelection Bid, Voters Are Reminded That He Has Lost Touch With Nevada
"National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Communications Director Brian Walsh issued the following statement today in response to Reid’s reelection bid:"
"As Majority Leader Harry Reid officially announces his reelection bid in what will be the toughest battle of his political career, he will be forced to defend his reckless voting record that has saddled future generations with billions of dollars of debt."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10342
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Obama to request 1.4% military pay raise for 2011
"If approved by Congress, it would be the smallest annual military pay raise since the birth of the all-volunteer force in 1973, a reflection of the lingering recession’s dampening effect on wage growth and living costs. The next-smallest raise in the volunteer era was a 2 percent increase in 1988."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10341
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3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10340
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Martyr to the Public Option
"Rep. Eric Massa suspects the real reason he is being forced from office is that he wouldn't play ball with the House leadership on health care."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10339
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3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10338
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3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10337
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Massa: Rahm Emanuel "Would Sell His Own Mother" For Votes
“Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil’s spawn,” Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) said. “He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.”
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10336
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Massa Implicates Emanuel, Dem Leaders
"Embattled Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) lashed out in an emotional radio appearance Sunday, accusing Dem leaders of what he suggested was an orchestrated campaign to force his resignation."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10335
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Massa Hints He Could Rescind Resignation
"Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) suggested on a New York radio station Sunday that he could rescind his resignation — scheduled to take effect at 5 p.m. Monday — after asserting that an ethics investigation into allegations that he sexually harassed one of his aides may have been orchestrated by Democratic leaders to get him out of office before the health care vote."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10334
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Eric Massa: Democrats ousted me over health care
"Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill," Massa, who on Friday announced his intention to resign, said during a long monologue on radio station WKPQ. "And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10333
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For every “green job” that is created another 2.2 jobs are LOST in the real economy
"Do our political leaders think we’re stupid? Or so supine and malleable that we simply won’t mind being lied to if it’s for our “own good”?"
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10332
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Make your voice heard: Counter-protest the Obamacare Road Show
"This is it, Tea Party people. This is the week for your on-the-ground mobilization to help drive a final nail into the Obamacare coffin. "
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10331
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Va. health bill could foil Obama proposal
"The Virginia Legislature this week is poised to become the first state to pass legislation that says citizens cannot be required to have medical insurance."
"Dozens of other states are considering similar measures, possibly setting the stage for one of the greatest tests of federal power over the states since the civil rights era."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10330
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Defaulted Loans May Haunt Seniors
"Social Security benefits are off-limits to creditors, such as credit-card companies and banks. But the U.S. can collect debts to federal agencies by "offsetting," or withholding Social Security and disability payments."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10329
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U.S. Sales Tax Rates Hit Record High
"While President Obama's push to raise federal income taxes for the wealthy gets lots of attention, the continuing upward creep in the sales tax rates imposed by state and local governments has gotten less notice."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10328
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3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10327
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What else may go into 'reconciliation'
"One of these controversial measures rewrites the Higher Education Act to ban private companies from offering federally guaranteed student loans as of this July. Congress has already passed laws in recent years discouraging private lenders from making loans without a federal guarantee. But most college financial-aid departments still want private companies to originate and service the guaranteed loans. That's because the alternative—a public option run by the Department of Education—has been distinguished by its Soviet-style customer service."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10326
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3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10325
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Take the Town Halls to Washington
"If members of Congress won't come to their constituents, their constituents will come to them."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10324
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Obama's student loan monopoly
"...Here is what they haven't told us: The Education Department will borrow money at 2.8 percent from the Treasury, lend it to you at 6.8 percent and spend the difference on new programs. So you'll work longer to pay off your student loan to help pay for someone else's education-and to help your U.S. representative's reelection."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10323
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3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10322
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Guess Who's Coming to Your House!
"Federal funding and supervision for a vast expansion of government intrusion into family life. This is the Nanny State on steroids. All buried in the Senate Obamacare bill being forced down out throats."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10321
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53% Remain Opposed to Health Care Plan - only 20% who Strongly Favor
"These figures include just 20% who Strongly Favor the plan and 41% who are Strongly Opposed.'
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10320
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Massa Claims Democrats Railroaded Him
"Could well just be sour grapes, though at the same time the guy did vote against ObamaCare and we know the Democrats have said they'll do anything to pass this crap sandwich."
3/8/2010
Permalink ID:10319
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3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10318
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Calling All Conservatives – Strike Now
"We can stop the reconciliation efforts if we strike now. Please forward this to the Conservative Media."
"How? Congress listens to and is afraid of MONEY. We stalled the health care bill when money poured into the Scott Brown campaign. The democrats stopped in their tracks, called in the big guns (Pres. Obama) and LOST. They lost in Massachusetts!"
3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10317
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Fiscal schizophrenia
White House talks spending freeze but keeps splurging
3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10315
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`Hurt Locker' earns best-picture Academy Award
"Bigelow is the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top prize for filmmakers."
3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10314
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3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10313
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Program to pay homeowners to sell at a loss
"In an effort to end the foreclosure crisis, the Obama administration has been trying to keep defaulting owners in their homes. Now it will take a new approach: paying some of them to leave."
3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10312
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Bring the post office into the 21st century
"Competition improves the breed, and no breed is more in need of improvement than the U.S. Postal Service. Postmaster General John Potter has proposed ending Saturday delivery because his operation, already a chronic money loser, faces a $7 billion deficit this year and an estimated $238 billion in losses for the current decade. Potter may have the toughest job in town because he faces three immovable objects in his quest to stop the red ink and save a government institution that has been with us since the nation's earliest days."
3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10311
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Release all White House visitor logs
"In reality, the Obama administration is not making public "all White House visitor records," and is fighting in federal court against efforts by Judicial Watch to force it to actually do what it claims to be doing."
3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10310
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Anti-Abortion Side Packs Political Wallop
"I've been meaning to post about this for days. A new poll came out the week that should really get the attention of some of the key, swing, "pro life" Democrats, and should help convince them not to even consider voting for Obamacare unless it contains the full Stupak language against abortion. These eight Dems are directly affected: Jason Altmire (PA-04), Paul Kanjorski (PA-11), Brad Ellsworth (IN-11), Baron Hill (IN-09), Steve Dreihaus (OH-01), Charlie Wilson (OH-06), Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), and John Boccieri (OH-16)."
3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10309
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3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10308
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Unrest in Democratic Party plays out in Emanuel controversy
"Emanuel has become the flash point in those arguments as liberals express betrayal over Obama's failure to convince Congress to pass a public option in healthcare reform and close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba."
3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10307
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3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10306
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How hundreds of military personnel, millions of pounds and an experimental 'lung' saved the life of a British soldier... shot by accident in his own camp
"It was one of the most complex military logistical and medical operations ever undertaken – and it saved the life of a young British soldier critically injured in Afghanistan."
3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10305
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Media Plays Along With WH Employment Report Whitewash; No One Wants to Recognize That Reality Differs
"It's bad enough that the Obama administration ("Obama administration encouraged by steady unemployment rate") and Harry Reid (see video snippet at link) both tried to pretend that February's Employment Situation Report issued by Uncle Sam's Bureau of Labor Statistics, which showed that the official unemployment rate was the same as January's 9.7% and that 36,000 seasonally adjusted jobs had been lost, was somehow a reason to be upbeat."
3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10304
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The National Enquirer Earns Some Respect Over John Edwards Scandal
"The call came into The National Enquirer’s Los Angeles tip line — the kind advertised in the supermarket tabloid with the promise “We’ll Pay Big for Your Celebrity Gossip” — in late September 2007. The message was that a woman named Rielle Hunter had been hinting at an affair with John Edwards, then a candidate for president."
3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10303
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Obama Picks Former Army Intel Officer to Lead TSA
"An administration official says President Barack Obama has chosen retired General Robert Harding to lead the federal agency charged with keeping terrorists and bombs off airplanes."
3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10302
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Iowa governor faces tough reelection as another state sours on incumbents
"Republican Terry Branstad's lines have a familiar ring as he campaigns to return to the governor's office after 11 years away. He blasts the incumbent Democrat for "mismanagement," promising an "economic comeback" and the end of "more government than we can afford."
3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10301
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Inside the world of Obama's secret-service bodyguards
"Protecting the US president has presented the secret service with the greatest challenge in its history. But who wants to kill him? And how likely are they to succeed?"
3/7/2010
Permalink ID:10299
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