tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 3/31/2009
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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Here's what Douglas Feith, undersecretary of defense for
policy during the Bush Administration, told the BBC in...
response to the prospect of torture-related charges being brought against him in Spain: The charges as related to me make no sense. ...
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Feith Shocked, Simply Shocked By Possible Torture ...
powerlineblog.com - 3/20/2009
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powerlineblog.com —
I've been waiting for Michael Ramirez to come
up with a brilliant cartoon that will definitively sum...
up the theater of the absurd to which we have been subjected over the past few days. This cartoon adopts the Casablanca theme that has occurred to a ...
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Chris Dodd Is Shocked
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Wizbang —
American Issues Project is the organization that created the political ad that put the stimulus bill into perspective with its ad that said Obama's and the Democrats' stimulus bill is so costly that we could spend a $1million a day since the day Christ was born and still not spend as much as they did in the stimulus. That ad was very effective. In fact, it was so effective that Frank Luntz said that it received one of the highest ratings from both Republicans and Democrats for a political ad that he's ever seen. He personally gave it a 9.5 out of 10. AIP is back again with another winner of an ad that highlights Obama's and ...
On Hill, Tone Shifts on Curbing Bonuses
The Caucus —
As this week progressed, the likelihood of Congress imposing a 90-percent tax on huge bonuses for executives at companies receiving federal bailouts slipped farther and farther from reality. By week’s end, new proposals were floating in the House, with its Financial Services Committee approving a far different proposal Thursday afternoon. The measure, H.R. 1664, would prohibit companies receiving bailout money from paying “unreasonable or excessive” compensation and would ban so-called retention bonuses (like those issued to employees at the troubled unit of American International Group) if they weren’t performance-based. ...
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politics.theatlantic.com 8/4/2009 — In eight years of writing about politics, nothing gets people angrier than when I try to make the case that most activists and most journalists practice politics differently, have different worldviews, and are both forces for good in the democracy. ...
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