The Nest Is For Nothing When The Bird Is Flown
gerrymander.
Posted to Politics on Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 11:28:55 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Care to guess what qualifies as a critical health issue to to be solved by the Obamacare bill? If you said "the ability of non-governmental agencies to provide student loans", congratulations! You have the makings of a Democratic legislator!
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The Houses That Buffalo Built
pO157.
Posted to Politics on Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 08:46:59 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
"I doubt I'll get that kind of deal again," said Tameka Jenkins (then 19 and pregnant with her fourth child) about a Buffalo, NY program that allowed her to put $500 down on a $89,900 brand new home in 2000 and receive a subsidy for $25,000 towards the mortgage principal. She agreed to mortgage payments of $556/month but stopped paying them after developing relationship problems. After the bank refused her demand to take her husband's name off the mortgage & title she abandoned the home and moved into a nearby, smaller, and more expensive rental unit.
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Featured Diary: Put Pinky To Lips, and Use Dr. Evil's Voice
gerrymander.
Posted to Politics on Mon Mar 08, 2010 at 09:13:27 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
9.8 trillion dollars.
That's how much the CBO projects Obama's latest budget is going the put United States into the red over the next ten years.
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Scandal Deepens, Gov. Personally Linked to Cover-Up
pO157.
Posted to Politics on Wed Mar 03, 2010 at 07:30:09 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
A week after a new domestic violence and witness intimidation scandal forced widely unpopular and unelected NY Governor David Paterson (D) from an election year race, new information has surfaced that indicates the Governor may have been personally involved in having his protective detail contact a domestic violence victim that was allegedly brutalized by a friend and member of his staff. The New York Times reports that it has confirmed the Governor himself called the alleged domestic abuse victim to speak to her while her case was pending against his aide and friend.
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Liar finds herself on wrong end of legal system. Again.
pO157.
Posted to Politics on Mon Feb 22, 2010 at 03:10:28 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Crystal Gail Mangum, 33, the woman who started the Duke Lacrosse incident by lying about an accused gang rape incident that sparked national headlines, now finds herself in jail on charges of arson, child abuse and attempted first degree murder. Durham, NC police say she attempted to stab her boyfriend, then light his clothes and their apartment on fire for some reason. The Durham Fire Department rescued three children from the smoke filled unit after they were called.
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Breaking News: Alexander Haig Is Dead
Bertrand.
Posted to Politics on Sat Feb 20, 2010 at 12:00:34 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Alexander Haig, former Secretary of State died from an infection at the age of 85.
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KTHXBAYH
pO157.
Posted to Politics on Thu Feb 18, 2010 at 07:35:15 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
In a surprise move Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) announced he will retire at the end of his term and not seek re-election to a third term in 2010.
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Breaking News: Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) dead at 77
pO157.
Posted to Politics on Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 06:15:19 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
John Murtha, Congressman from Pennsylvania's 12th district since 1974, has died of complications from gallbladder surgery. He was 77. The longest serving member of Congress from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Murtha was a veteran of the Vietnam war. Retiring as a Colonel from the Marines in 1990, Murtha was known as one of the most hawkish Democrats on the hill. Back in 2002, he voted for the use of force in Iraq. Because of his hawkish position and military experience, Murtha made national headlines when he called for early withdrawal of US troops in 2005.
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Featured Diary: Obama and the Deficit
port1080.
Posted to Politics on Wed Feb 03, 2010 at 03:26:19 PM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
Republicans and right-wing talking heads have been decrying Obama's new deficit as a budget busting nightmare. From their frenzy, you would think that Obama's policies must be worse than what would have happened if we had just stuck with the baseline and kept all of the policies in place that were passed by the Republicans during the Bush years, right? Bullshit.
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Breaking News: Top Military Brass Calls For End to Unit Cohesion!
profwhat.
Posted to Politics on Wed Feb 03, 2010 at 10:00:20 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
Or, an end to the ban on gays in the military, more specifically. The criticism of Defense Secretary Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivered a serious blow to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, as it undercut the chief argument in its favor: that the military should be the ones to decide who gets into the military, lest "unit cohesion" suffer from service members being forced to serve with people they find icky. Now that military leaders are saying that the policy is stupid, and affirmatively harmful--and, for that matter, military leaders not originally appointed by Obama--can anyone still support this thing? Sure.
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xXx: State of the Union
pO157.
Posted to Politics on Wed Jan 27, 2010 at 02:49:14 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The President is expected to give his first state of the union at a time when a large segment of America is very angry at the way the government is behaving. Having no health care victory to report on, the President is expected to try to present a hopeful plan for the future and assuage the fears of 72% of Americans who believe the federal government is not effective or needs large reforms.
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Featured Diary: Traditional Debt Management Issues Should Be Important Public Policy Concern
Steve Urkel.
Posted to Politics on Tue Jan 26, 2010 at 11:22:00 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
Rogoff and Reinhart examine the effect of public debt on economic growth: "Across both advanced countries and emerging markets, high debt/GDP levels (90 percent and above) are associated with notably lower growth outcomes. In addition, for emerging markets, there appears to be a more stringent threshold for total external debt/GDP (60 percent), that is also associated with adverse outcomes for growth. Seldom do countries simply "grow" their way out of deep debt burdens."
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