In today’s column in the New York Times, Nobel Prize-wining economist Paul Krugman notes that Republicans are closer than ever of achieving their goal of “straving the beast” to force drastic spending cuts on needed program as necessary to tame budgets in lieu of their tax cutting ways. The problem is the party of...
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At this point, I don't think it's well understood how many of the GOP's central health-care policy ideas have already been included as compromises in the health-care bill. But the GOP's "Solutions for America" homepage lays out four planks. All of them -- are in the Senate health-care bill.
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In honor of our friends at Red County, here’s timely video from CurrentTV’s “SuperNews” antimated program. CurrentTV is run by former VP Al Gore, you know, the guy who got more votes than W did in 2000.
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In the early hours of Monday morning, the Republican effort to block the Senate version of Health Care Reform legislation failed on a 60-40 vote. There will be several votes to follow, but this was the big one. Later this week the final bill will be the subject of a simple majority vote, which...
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The New York Times reported today that about 20 percent of the nation’s water supply is dirty, and while the story certainly gets to the cleanliness of the water, there’s a different kind of dirty water story in Tustin where the Republican city council majority is in a quandry. They need the vote of...
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The Latino community has been reporting for the past couple of weeks a woman who has been going around the community named Cecilia "Ceci" Iglesias touting herself as an Independent candidate for Congress in the 47th Congressional District, Loretta Sanchez' seat. A little digging is revealing a much bigger picture, a clear effort by...
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As I noted in a post Friday, I used to live in NY23, a sprawling district in Upstate NY that’s been Republican since the 19th century; but while Republican, the area is hardly conservative. Its’ very moderate and often difficult to tell Democrats and Republicans apart. These are good people; salt of the earth...
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