openleft.com - 10/2/2008
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According to a press release just off the wire, the U.S. Senate will allow a vote on only one amendment to the Wall Street bailout bill - an amendment by Bernie Sanders to impose a surtax on millionaires to finance the bailout. I wrote about Sanders' proposal in my last newspaper column . ...
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After the Wall St Bailout: More Plutocracy, or the Rise of Net-Powered Politics?
techPresident —
... in searching to get the actual text of the proposed legislation. They've swarmed all over metastasizing text of the draft bill (which now contains sections on wool modifications and wooden arrows) and are creating a new expectation, that Members actually read the full bill they are voting on, before they vote. They're networking together to draft better ideas into life (see Jon Pincus's effort on MixedInk here and David Sirota's efforts on OpenLeft here and here. And they're finding and elevatin a new array of economist-bloggers, who are ...
Micah Sifry: After the Wall St. Bailout: More Plutocracy, or the Rise of Net-Powered Politics?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... in searching to get the actual text of the proposed legislation. They've swarmed all over metastasizing text of the draft bill (which now contains sections on wool modifications and wooden arrows) and are creating a new expectation, that Members actually read the full bill they are voting on, before they vote. They're networking together to draft better ideas into life (see Jon Pincus's effort on MixedInk here and David Sirota's efforts on OpenLeft here and here. And they're finding and elevatin a new array of economist-bloggers, who are ...
Micah Sifry: After the Wall St Bailout: More Plutocracy, or the Rise of Net-Powered Politics?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... in searching to get the actual text of the proposed legislation. They've swarmed all over metastasizing text of the draft bill (which now contains sections on wool modifications and wooden arrows) and are creating a new expectation, that Members actually read the full bill they are voting on, before they vote. They're networking together to draft better ideas into life (see Jon Pincus's effort on MixedInk here and David Sirota's efforts on OpenLeft here and here. And they're finding and elevatin a new array of economist-bloggers, who are ...
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