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To Dream The (Im)Possible Health Care Reform Dream
This is a joint post of Justin Gardner (Donk Quixote) and Mike Wallach (Phanto), wherein they endeavor to tilt at windmills (with many apologies to Miguel de Cervantes): “And no sooner did Donk...
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Why 2010 Will Not Be Like 1994
It’s pretty easy…the only people that voters like less than Congressional Democrats and Congressional Republicans. Add in the facts that Republicans have no coherent plan, no definitive leadership and...
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72 Hour Transparency Call Is Right For Any Bill
Regardless of what you think about the current health care legislation being debated on Capitol Hill, being able to read it before it goes to the floor for a vote is the right thing to do and I’m glad...
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Updating “10 in 10″ on 10-10-10 at 10:10
What better day and time to update our “10 in 10″ election prognostications? Last we checked in – Nate Silver (our polling analyst of choice) showed that 9 of the 10 seats most likely to change...
View ArticleTaiwanese animation, Christine O’Donnell, U.S. media, and an old joke.
As noted here before, Taiwanese animation is the future of news. This week, Republican Senate hopeful Christine O’Donnell gets the animation treatment and is explained to the domestic China/Taiwan...
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Investors Still Love Divided Government
Early in July, we took note of a CNBC panel discussion worrying about a Double Dip and Ron Insana offering an explanation for a stock market rally in the midst of unrelenting bad economic news. “All...
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Republicans, Please Stop Using Gun Metaphors In Your Campaign Literature
The motives of the coward who shot a bunch of people (including Dem Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords) down in Arizona earlier today are not known, but I think we can all agree that campaign literature...
View ArticleGiffords’ Condition Stable; Brain Swelling Next Hurdle
With each passing day, Gabrielle Giffords’ chances for making a recovery get better and better. National Journal shares the details… Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has been “holding her own” as she fights to...
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Honest Graft, Dishonest Graft, Pelosi, Boehner, and the STOCK Act
John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi schooled by George Washington Plunkitt In a recent feature story on 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft detailed how many in Congress use their privileged access to information on...
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Let’s play “Clue”– Was it Mr. Corzine in the Board Room with the “Smoking...
As we have chronicled from the first week that MF Global declared bankruptcy, the mystery of the missing “sacrosanct” segregated client funds was not something that could be explained away with...
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The sequester is not the problem. The sequester is [part of] the solution.
Find the “meat cleaver” sequester The steady drumbeat in the mainstream media about the sequestration “crisis” is getting louder by the day. With less than two weeks until the cuts go into effect it...
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The Legend of Sequestivus and the Airing of Grievances.
The legend of the origin of Sequestivus The great leader Obama, who was dearly loved by (52% of) the people spoke to his minions and said “Hear me! You must fear the great beast Sequester, for if it...
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