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Re: The World Today
DIR By: msf
Date: April 15, 2011, 4:46 pm
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Loveland just wants to make a game out of it, trying to guess
who is answering whom.
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Re: The World Today
DIR By: Shoeless
Date: April 15, 2011, 5:18 pm
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Great. Let's cut food stamps. That will solve all of our
problems!
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Re: The World Today
DIR By: Shoeless
Date: April 15, 2011, 6:30 pm
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will there be any outrage from the right?
doubtful. they are too interested in making middle and poor
america pay for their luxury
HTML http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-real-housewives-of-wall-street-look-whos-cashing-in-on-the-bailout-20110411?page=1
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Re: The World Today
DIR By: boatdrink
Date: April 15, 2011, 9:27 pm
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Those Wall Street clowns are just the symptom, the Fed is the
culprit. Who the hell wouldn't take free money and make a
killing off of it??
I know it might bruise your brain, but you might want to take a
few minutes and watch these clips from Glenn Beck's show back in
June 2009:
HTML http://youtu.be/SM7ZuvxswMQ
HTML http://youtu.be/nm3QRPy3Qaw
He and many on the "right" have been on these weasels at the Fed
for a very, very long time.
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Re: The World Today
DIR By: BlackSox
Date: April 15, 2011, 9:34 pm
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Republi-tards and Douche-ocrats.
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Re: The World Today
DIR By: boatdrink
Date: April 15, 2011, 9:47 pm
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"We're not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an
end run around Congress." - Barack Obama, May 2008
HTML http://youtu.be/seAR1S1Mjkc
HTML http://youtu.be/seAR1S1Mjkc
President Obama Issues “Signing Statement” Indicating He Won’t
Abide by Congressional Provision in Budget Bill - April 2011
HTML http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/04/president-obama-issues-signing-statement-indicating-he-wont-abide-by-provision-in-budget-bill.html
HTML http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/04/president-obama-issues-signing-statement-indicating-he-wont-abide-by-provision-in-budget-bill.html
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Re: The World Today
DIR By: Fury
Date: April 16, 2011, 4:33 pm
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--- Quote from: aka Loveland link ---
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> I vote we ban the quote feature.
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I luuuuuuuuv the quote feature. 'Cause I'm lazy.
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Re: The World Today
DIR By: Shoeless
Date: April 17, 2011, 9:49 am
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Very good read - on taxes, etc
HTML http://www.wweek.com/portland/print-article-17350-print.html
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Re: The World Today
DIR By: WshflThinking
Date: April 18, 2011, 7:14 am
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GOP wave reshapes nation's agenda state by state
COLUMBUS, Ohio – State by state, Republicans are moving at
light speed on a conservative agenda they would have had no hope
of achieving before the big election gains of November.
The dividends are apparent after only a few months in office,
and they go well beyond the spending cuts forced on states by
the fiscal crunch and tea party agitation. Republican governors
and state legislators are bringing abortion restrictions into
law from Virginia to Arizona, acting swiftly to expand gun
rights north and south, pushing polling-station photo ID laws
that are anathema to Democrats and taking on public sector
unions anywhere they can.
All this as Democrats find themselves cowed or outmaneuvered in
statehouses where they once put up a fight. In many states, they
are unable to do much except hope that voters will see these
actions as an overreach by the Republicans they elected — an
accidental revolution to be reversed down the road.
A tug to the right was in the cards ever since voters put the
GOP in charge of 25 legislatures and 29 governors' offices in
the 2010 elections. That is turning out to be every bit as key
to shaping the nation's ideological direction as anything
happening in Washington.
A close-up review of the first wave of legislative action by
Associated Press statehouse reporters shows the striking degree
to which the GOP has been able to break through gridlock and
achieve improbable ends. The historic and wildly contentious
curbs on public sector bargaining in Wisconsin, quickly followed
by similar action in Ohio, were but a signal that the status quo
is being challenged on multiple fronts in many places.
The realignment in Florida has produced a law imposing more
accountability on teachers, along with 18 proposed abortion
restrictions, some bound to become law. Immigration controls are
motivating lawmakers far from borders, constitutional amendments
against gay marriage are picking up steam, Michigan is
shortening the period people can get jobless benefits and
Indiana may soon have the broadest school voucher program in the
U.S.
At least 20 states are going after public-sector benefits, pay
or bargaining rights.
In Virginia, Republicans used a deft legislative maneuver to
enact a law that will close the state's 21 abortion clinics. In
Missouri, a presidential swing state where Republicans are at
their strongest numbers in decades, a tax cut sought by business
for 10 years has been given final legislative approval and
Democrats are putting up little resistance to Republican
priorities they once tied in knots.
"You can't get up on every issue when you're in the minority,"
said state Sen. Tim Green, a Democrat from St. Louis. "So you
pick the ones you're most passionate about."
In North Carolina, where Republicans won control of both
legislative levers for the first time since 1870, the party has
secured approval in at least one chamber for charter school
expansion, limits on damages in medical malpractice suits and a
bill that would create separate crimes for the death or injury
of a fetus at any stage of development. Republicans have made
unexpected progress in giving gun owners more rights to carry
concealed pistols. North Carolina is also among nearly a dozen
states where an initiative to require photo IDs at polls is
getting traction. Democrats and civil libertarians worry photo
ID rules would suppress minority and legal immigrant voting.
Conservatives welcome the pace and breadth of it all. "When you
have one side that's been put out in the legislative wilderness,
there's a lot of pent-up ideas that are going to move quickly,"
said Dallas Woodhouse, director of Americans for Prosperity in
North Carolina.
Even solidly Democratic Vermont is coming up a paler shade of
blue as legislators seek cuts in spending on the elderly and
disabled after shelving a plan to raise taxes on the rich. The
squeeze on state budgets and the shaky economy are forcing
lawmakers of both parties to rethink the usual partisan
prescriptions.
"In the context of that kind of a fiscal reality, I think
agendas become a little bit more polarized and opportunities for
finding the kind of adjustments on the margins become less and
less," said political scientist Philip Russo of Ohio's Miami
University.
In bellwether Ohio, new Republican Gov. John Kasich burst out of
the gate with a plan, now law, to hand over job creation
functions from the government to a nonprofit corporation whose
board he chairs. Bills that would have met quick death under
Democratic control have advanced under Republican majorities —
none more apparent than the law to curtail the collective
bargaining rights of more than 350,000 public workers.
Democrats in Ohio are complaining about "one-party rule" and
want buyer's remorse legislation that would help voters recall
lawmakers who are doing things they didn't elect them to do.
Their chances of getting it are close to zero.
So is a conservative tide sweeping the nation?
If so, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin sees it as a tide that can
wash out as fast as it rushed in.
Sitting in the State Room of the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio,
where she had come for a historical event, Goodwin said
declining party loyalty has accelerated shifts in public opinion
and swings of the pendulum. She recalled the Democratic
statehouse gains of 2008, the year of Barack Obama. "We thought
in 2008, many pundits did, that that meant a progressive era was
coming in; now everybody's talking about a conservative era in
the states and maybe in the nation," she said.
"When one whole party comes in, and they come in having been out
before, there's that flush of victory that makes them think this
is our time, whether they're Democrats or Republicans, to get
through what we want to get through."
In South Carolina, where Republicans are fashioning further
restrictions to one of the country's toughest immigration
enforcement laws, Democrats have mostly dropped the delaying
tactics they once used with relish. The Democratic opposition
has essentially vaporized in Tennessee, Kansas and Oklahoma,
too.
In Oklahoma, where the GOP controls both chambers and the
governor's office for the first time in history, Republicans are
making sweeping changes to the state's civil justice system,
shoring up the state's pension system by making workers
contribute more and work longer, and aiming to eliminate
bargaining rights for municipal workers in the state's seven
largest cities.
"They're power mad," said Democratic lawmaker Richard
Morrissette of Oklahoma City. "They weren't out there
campaigning on the idea of consolidating power. They know they
have control of the House, the Senate and the governor's office,
and they're ramming this stuff through just because they can."
If Republicans are overreaching, it's also true that voters did
not elect them to govern like Democrats.
"All this should come as no surprise to people," said New
Hampshire GOP lawmaker Gene Chandler. With supermajorities in
both chambers, giving them a stronger hand against a Democratic
governor, GOP legislators in the state have passed bills to
shift more public employee pension costs to workers and opt for
spending cuts over tax increases. They've also approved
legislation to expand the right to use deadly force in
self-defense.
It's not all coming up tulips for the tea party or the social
conservatives, however. New Mexico and Utah are among
Republican-led states where governors are bypassing the GOP
playbook. The tea party movement is in tatters in Colorado and
not much better off in Alaska.
In Montana, Republican leaders are struggling to keep their eye
on the big picture — cutting spending, developing natural
resources — while the swollen GOP freshman class peppers the
debate with calls to nullify federal laws, create an armed
citizen's militia, legalize spear hunting, force FBI agents to
get a sheriff's OK before arresting anyone, and more.
"Stop scaring our constituents and stop letting us look like
buffoons," veteran Republican lawmaker Walt McNutt told the
aggressive newcomers.
Gov. Brian Schweitzer, not one of the Democrats to roll over,
came up with a cattle brand that reads "VETO" and seems itching
to use it. "Ain't nobody in the history of Montana has had so
many danged ornery critters," he said.
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Re: The World Today
DIR By: ISF
Date: April 18, 2011, 3:36 pm
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Empty Suit paid significantly less in taxes than the bracket he
is supposed to be in. Even took a $12000+ refund.
HTML http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=13401680
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