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Democrats push $150B stock tax on Wall Street

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:47:00 +0000

A House bill still being drafted aims to raise $150 billion each year to pay for new jobs. Under a bill being drafted by Democratic Reps. Peter DeFazio (Ore.) and Ed Perlmutter (Colo.), the sale and purchase of financial instruments such as stocks, options, derivatives and futures would face a ...

SCSUScholars found this 13 hours ago on thehill.com

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Peter Cook and Brinkley – Sex Scandals - Newsweek 2010

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:47:57 +0000

Three thousand dollars a month is a lot to spend on pornography by any measure and in any era, but it’s a particularly egregious sum in the Internet Age, when there’s a no shortage of free porn readily available online, and even premium-quality new releases are available on the cheap. That ...

NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias found this 38 hours ago on 2010.newsweek.com

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CREW Calls On State Dept. To Probe Galbraith Over Kurdish Oil Dealings

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:06:14 +0000

A good government group is calling on the State Department to investigate the role of former ambassador Peter Galbraith in drafting Iraq's constitution in 2005 while he held a lucrative stake in a Kurdish oil field. The letter from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington to the ...

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Peter Galbraith's $100M Oil Patch

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:40:58 +0000

Peter Galbraith is a person that I have admired for years not least for his work as a Senate aide in the late-1980s when he went to northern Iraq and smuggled out the documents that proved Saddam Hussein's culpability in the gassing of Kurdish civilians. As ambassador to Croatia during the war ...

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Conflicts of Interest for Diplomats, Former Diplomats, and the UN: Ruth Wedgwood on Peter Galbraith

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:20:50 +0000

Ruth Wedgwood’s new column at Forbes.com takes up the uncomfortable question of Peter Galbraith and his financial dealings with regard to Kurdish autonomy, oilfields, and Galbraith’s consulting deal with a Norwegian company that could conceivably pay him somewhere up to $100 million. That ...

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House Dem: 'Growing consensus' among liberals to dump Geithner

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:25:00 +0000

A member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) said Wednesday that there is a "growing consensus" among the liberal bloc to force Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to step down. {mosads}Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) said that he and other liberal House members are becoming increasingly ...

The Political Carnival found this 6 days ago on thehill.com

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Rep. DeFazio: Fire "Timmy" Geithner

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:00:58 +0000

Rep. Peter DeFazio called for the firing of President Barack Obama's top two economic aides on Wednesday for pursuing a recovery plan skewed too heavily towards Wall Street's favor. The Oregon Democrat told MSNBC's Ed Schultz that he was dismayed with the administration's lack of focus on job ...

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Schiff for governor?

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:24:12 +0000

It's not going to happen, said his brother and advisor Andrew Schiff. "Peter's expertise lies more with national economic issues,'' Andrew Schiff said in an email to me this morning.

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The "Sister Souljah" Moment As A Core Political Value

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:29:56 +0000

Peter Beinart has a rather bizarre column praising the Democrats for "sacrificing abortion and immigrant rights to get conservative Democrats to vote for expanded health-care coverage" amidst some nostalgia for the era in which the Democrats were forced to make sacrifices by its pro-apartheid ...

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Giving Geithner the Boot?

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:56:04 +0000

I dunno. Even if we got him canned, do you think they’d hire anyone much different to replace him? A Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) member said there’s “growing consensus” among liberals that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner should step down. Rep. Peter ...

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Peter DeFazio, Dem Rep.: It's 'Pretty Embarrassing' That Dems Now Identified With Wall Street

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:07 +0000

One of the loudest populist voices in the Democratic Caucus predicted on Thursday that the party may have to forcefully challenge the White House on economic matters if it wanted to hold on to power in the 2010 elections. One day after calling on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to resign, ...

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Leiken fined $2,250 for campaign finance violation

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:28:05 +0000

The Oregon secretary of state's office has levied a $2,250 fine against Republican congressional candidate Sid Leiken for violating state laws that prohibit converting campaign money to personal use.

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Palin helps RGA get discount on 'Going Rogue'

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:30:00 +0000

Palin helps RGA get discount on 'Going Rogue'. (CNN) - Sarah Palin helped the Republican Governors Association get a discount on "several thousand" copies of her new book so the group can use them as a fundraising tool, RGA chairman Haley Barbour said Tuesday. Barbour, the governor of Mississippi, said Palin has been "very gracious as a former governor" and helped the group negotiate a bulk purchase price. "We purchased them at a great discount, at the publisher's ...

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OR-GOV: DeFazio to decide by ... March.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:26:13 +0000

The O's David Sarasohn pinned down Congressman Peter DeFazio on whether he's still considering a run for Governor in 2010. The answer? You bet. Last spring, DeFazio talked about making a decision on the governor's race by Labor Day, and now Kitzhaber and Bradbury have been running for ...

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Democrats want homeowners and workers to get money from TARP

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:07:31 +0000

Congressional Democrats want struggling workers and homeowners to receive money from the $700 billion Wall Street bailout.

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