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Obama jokes that health care reform can’t follow the path of Thelma and Louise ‘over the cliff.’
Think Progress —
At today’s White House health care summit, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) observed, “We’re past the Harry and Louise moment,” referring to the the 1990s anti-health reform ad campaign. “We’re at the Thelma and Louise moment. We’re in the car heading for the cliff.” At the conclusion of the summit today, President Obama quoted Whitehouse, but warned that in the movie, Thelma and Louise actually drove off the cliff in the end:
OBAMA: Now I just want to be clear if you actually saw the movie, they did drive over the cliff. So, just want to be clear, that’s not our ...
US dollar on death watch as UN panel recommends ditching dollar as world reserve currency
Flopping Aces —
The Obama admin spending may just be the final straw on the already fragile status of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Today there’s news that a UN panel is recommending ditching the US dollar in favor of a shared basket of currencies instead.
Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the proposal was to create something like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, that was a hard-traded, weighted basket.
Persaud, chairman of consultants Intelligence Capital and a former currency chief at JPMorgan, said the recommendation would ...
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From NBC's Lauren Appelbaum WASHINGTON -- Judicial Watch formally filed a federal civil rights law suit on behalf of Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, Joe the Plumber today. It alleges that "officials of the State of Ohio violated Mr. ...
Brad Pitt in the House —
CNN Political Ticker 3/5/2009
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(CNN) –- Actor and sustainable housing advocate Brad Pitt brought his pitch to the nation’s capital Thursday, meeting with President Obama at the White House and Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Capitol Hill.
After a brief stop by ...
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