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Here it is! The much awaited column by the "Dean" of the Washington press corp, David Broder, who trashes the health care bill. Broder is concerned about the impact on the budget. Nobody should be surprised that Broder cites the Concord Coalition (founded by Pete Peterson) and the Committee ...
Congress
Appropriations Committee
Howard Dean
Washington, D.C
You know your image is bad when ... Stories like this pop up: Goldman Sachs to take out garbage at Thanksgiving NEW YORK – The Salvation Army plans to serve 10,000 free dinners across the city this Thanksgiving — meals planned by a star chef, cooked by one of New York's ritziest caterers and ...
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U.S. Army
Sarah Palliteration: From her book : It took years for Alaska to achieve victory. As governor, I directed our attorney general to write an amicus brief in the case, and, thanks to Alaska's able attorneys arguing in front of the highest court in the land, in 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in ...
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Does it matter that Palin resigned from office? Not according to David Gregory: It's extraordinary ... I mean, she's extraordinary ... I mean, all this year, it's as if [Palin's] like a senator or something. I mean, she issues statements and posts things on Facebook as if she's an incumbent or ...
White House
Sarah Palin
David Gregory
Microsoft, always looking out for your best interests: From zdnet.com: Microsoft has issued a security advisory to acknowledge a crippling denial-of-service flaw affecting its newest operating systems — Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Exploit code for the vulnerability was released by ...
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What's the problem? Over at Calculated Risk, this post title: One million Workers to Exhaust Unemployment Benefits in January Yeah. So? This country is way over-concerned with jobs. I mean, the big action, profits, and bonuses are taking place on Wall Street. So everything is okay.
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Explain this: Michael Gerson, writing about Eric Holder, says: (emp add) In the end, Holder made a decision memorable for its incoherence. He declared American military tribunals constitutional and appropriate for some terrorists -- then awarded Sept. 11 mastermind [Khalid Sheik ] Mohammed a ...
Law
Eric Holder
Mohammed al-Qahtani
You can change public opinion: This chart of poll results is striking: Is the movement in the last 18 months the result of Murdoch/McCaughey? Maybe not all of it, but a hefty portion. Messaging works. Also, Obama should be faulted for being so passive in the wake of various lies and ...
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Blog post title at the Big Picture: Special Inspector General: NY Fed Screwed Up AIG Bailout Yes, the NY Fed would have done the right thing except they somehow "screwed up". I mean, how about that? Could have gone the other way, don't you know. But somehow the screw up just got in the room, ...
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General David Petraeus
Palin surprises: There has been a lot of talk about Palin's statement on evolution in her book: she “didn’t believe in the theory that human beings — thinking, loving beings — originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea” or from “monkeys who eventually swung down from ...
White House
Sarah Palin
This looks interesting: Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- The decline of the dollar and decisions in the U.S. not to raise interest rates have caused “huge” speculation in foreign exchange trading and seriously affected global asset prices, said Liu Mingkang, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory ...
World
Japan
China
David Broder doesn't read his own paper: Broder writes on the health care bill: (h/t Balloon Juice ) While House Democrats spent the week congratulating themselves for squeezing out the midnight passage of their version of health-care reform, neutral observers were reminding them: You've left ...
Congress
Reaction to Frederic Mishkin: I consider Mishkin's remarks that "pure irrational exuberance bubbles" are no big deal, to be one of the most significant statements ever made by a (former) Fed Governor (see this post ). Mishkin is clearly sending a Bernanke-approved signal about how they judge ...
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The Fed is ready to roll : “The second category of bubble, what I call the “pure irrational exuberance bubble”, is far less dangerous … Because the second category of bubble does not present the same dangers … as a credit boom bubble, the case for tightening monetary policy to restrain a pure ...
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Snapshot of the economy: Bloomberg : Nov. 9 -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, are set to pay record bonuses this year. The firms -- the three biggest banks to exit the ...
World
Question: If we are going to prevent anyone receiving a federal subsidy from buying a health insurance plan that covers abortions, why not also prevent anyone receiving federal unemployment benefits from from buying a health insurance plan that covers abortions?
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Which Democrats voted for the Stupak amendment, then voted no on the overall health care bill? From the roll call on the amendment and TPM's list of Dems against final passage : John Adler (NJ) John Barrow (GA) Dan Boren (OK) Bobby Bright (AL) Travis Childers (MS) Artur Davis (AL) Lincoln ...
Congress
Bart Stupak
Democratic National Committee
John Adler
John Barrow
Dan Boren
Bobby Bright
This may explain why reporting the recession is lacking the gloom-and-doom tone of prevous recessions: NYTimes : (emp add) One of the more striking aspects of the Great Recession is that most of its impact has fallen on a relatively narrow group of workers. This is evident primarily in two ...
