politics as usual

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• Reform

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  No, that’s not a typo: They’re making it easier to trade derivatives. Talk about putting lipstick on a pig: A bipartisan coalition in the House voted late Thursday to make it easier for corporations to engage in complex derivatives trades without government restrictions, eroding the reach of proposed ...
  9 hours ago

• Yep

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  What Digby said.
  10 hours ago

• The H8 Continues | Politics as Usual

  
  Hip Hop Is Read — Authority: 546
  By now I’m sure you’ve heard of a proposed bill in Uganda which would authorize the execution of homosexuals. And you thought Prop 8 was bad! Obviously opposed by gay groups, I think that anybody with two brain cells to rub together should be outraged about this legislation that’s actually being taken into ...
  17 hours ago

• Change

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  Joe Bageant: This frustrating ping pong game in which the margin of first-time, disenchanted and undecided voters are batted back and forth has become the whole of American elections. That makes both the Republican and Democratic parties very happy, since it keeps the game down to fighting the enemy they know, each ...
  21 hours ago

• What To Watch

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  First of all, I’d like to reiterate that yes, a bill without a public option can serve the same purpose as the public option: namely, to force efficiency and competition. And I don’t buy the insurance company “we won” mantra just yet, because the Medicare buy-in proposal is a real threat to them. After all, ...
  22 hours ago

• Alternative Names for the “National Championship” Game

  
  CollegeGameBalls: College Football at its Finest — Authority: 576
  A House subcommittee approved legislation Wednesday aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine a national champion, over the objections of some lawmakers who said Congress had more pressing matters on its plate. The bill, which faces long odds of becoming law, would ban the promotion ...
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• Promises, Promises

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  Well, yeah.
  1 day ago

• Are Liberals Pathetic?

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  Chris Hedges with a provocative essay.
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• Joe Vs. Joe

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  
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• The Teacher’s Union That Stole Christmas

  
  Stop The ACLU — Authority: 678
  -By Warner Todd Huston The Weekly Standard has an excellent new article in its latest issue that reports on the discouraging story of the Washington D.C. teachers union that is rushing headlong toward destroying the successful and popular federally-funded D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP). The program ...
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• Poll: Used Car Salesmen More Ethical than Congress

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 553
  According to a new poll , “Congressmen were rated as having a “low/very low” ethical standards by 55 percent of 1,017 adults across the nation.” The same poll found that 45% of 1,017 adults across the nation had either never heard of Congress, or are big believers in grade inflation. The shocking part is ...
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• Fixing A Hole

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  This is one of the reason s why the proposed plan to offer Medicare is a good idea.
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• Why I Miss Boondocks

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  Here.
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• Antitrust as Corporate Welfare for Aggrieved Competitors

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 553
  Wayne Crews and I have an article in today’s American Spectator about the antitrust crusade against Intel. Our key points: -An FTC picking winners and losers is not capitalism. It is crony capitalism. -Chips in “Wintel” desktop computers increasingly constitute just one subset of a vast semiconductor ...
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• Welcome To Vietnam

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  Aren’t you glad the Democrats have control so we can stop this war ? Oh, wait… And it doesn’t speak well for Democratics when their main claim to our votes is that… they’re not as crazy as Tom Coburn or Michele Bachmann. Just sayin’! Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Washington – ...
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• Franken Amendment in Bill

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  This is really good news. Via Chris Bowers: Additionally, there was consensus support for a requirement long backed by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and other liberals for insurance companies to spend at least 90 percent of their premium income providing benefits , a step that supporters argue effectively limits ...
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• Healthcare Roundup

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  Okay, keeping in mind that this is not the final version, I’m linking to stories about the Senate healthcare bill here , here , here , here and here . News reports state that Howard Dean was working behind the scenes to push the Medicare buy-in as a compromise (just as he suggested when I interviewed him ...
  2 days ago

• About those jobs...

  
  Tertium Quids — Authority: 574
  Mark Warner finds work as a comic foil in this Daily Show clip...not because hes a radical centrist, former business guy whos all concerned about bending cost curves and more transparency...but because hes just another money-grabbing pol:The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cAmerican ...
  2 days ago

• There, That’s Fixed

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  I have this one friend who, whenever I say anything critical about Obama, says, “You just hate him, you’re not rational about him.” And I always respond, “Are you fucking crazy? If he’d stop doing shit like this , I’d be his best friend.” Like this unbelievable news: The UN Copenhagen climate talks ...
  2 days ago

• Bush 2: The Sequel

  
  Suburban Guerrilla — Authority: 580
  Just to be fair, I’ll say here that I believe Hillary Clinton would probably do the same thing . But she’s not the constitutional law professor who was supposed to fix all this, was she? (12-07) 11:33 PST SAN FRANCISCO — The Obama administration has asked an appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing former ...
  2 days ago

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