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Republicans Unveil Alternative Budget that Looks Strangely FamiliarI will begin by admitting that I was not the first to think of the correlation, but it is so fitting that it is worth repeating - maybe at length. Do some of these diagrams in the Budget Proposal from the Republicans released today look a little like the underpants gnomes business model. And isn't it missing a little bit of the

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Campaign Finance Reform on the Horizon as Congress Considers Optional Public FinancingThe only news on this today so far is covering Sam Waterston's involvement with the plan, but word on the street is that on Wednesday, Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) will be releasing a proposal to overhaul campaign contributions in a voluntary program titled the "Fair Elections Now Act," that would

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Congress Bares its Teeth at AIG, Misses the PointThe Congress OK'd a Punitive Excise Tax on bonuses paid to AIG executives worth over $250,000 today to attempt to regain the $165 Million paid out beginning at the end of last week. I've covered this over the last two days and wish that this issue would go away just a little bit.Democrats, led by Representative Charles Rangel of New York, pushed

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Teabag protests are breaking out all over the country as Obama's support dips. And everything else that actually happened today.First, let's look at news that slipped under the radar with the AIG debacle:Secretary Gates has signaled an end to Stop-loss policy in the Military - this means that the military is actually going to start upholding its contract with military personnel regarding the

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Financial Crises lead to Financial Arms Race. But who will have the bigger guns?AIG is the topic of today with many stories popping up from the news to the blogs for the overwhelming response from pundits and politicians regarding salary bonuses to executives of the company - bonuses that were promised last year, before the company ended up being owned by the U.S. Government. Freshman

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Steele Continues to get Pounded, Obama Meets with "New Democrats," Senate Dems Waver in Support of EFCA, and Arlen Specter Might Become a Democrat!Well, it's for sure been an exciting week for politics. The GOP is not alone in its quest to redefine itself as President Obama finally identifies himself as a New Democrat. This paves the way for unifying a party that has such broad boundary lines,

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Banks say, "Thanks, but no thanks" on that bailout to nowhere...Today, New York Times Journalist Steven Labaton published a story about the major banks that are having a hard time swallowing the new rules that come along with taking federal money in the bailout. This article has raised a number of responses on the topic and I want to cover some of these positions and what this could mean for the

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Labor and Business go at it over NLRA RevisionsEFCA is proposed legislation that is now up for review in the Senate regarding revisions to the original National Labor Relations Act of 1935. There are already strong arguments that have been made from the left and the right regarding this act's potential impact on business and labor. Here is what some are saying.Proponents (Labor: AFL-CIO, SEIU)

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Atlases of our Society are pissed and are considering societal fissureI have to start this by saying that I was really hoping to cover the EFCA. I was also urged to cover the budget today, all of which I will dedicate great care in dealing with this week...but I have to take some time to really flesh out this phenomenon - and this is my format for that.To begin, an operational definition (note:

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Prop 8 discussed in terms of "is." Thank you Ken StarrProposition 8, the most watched ballot initiative in the 2008 presidential election, has come to a 90 day hiatus as the California Supreme Court discusses the legality of its original placement on the November ballot in the first place. Here's the deal, and I hope the California Supreme Court is listening very close right now, this is a slam

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RNC Chairman Michael Steele tossed about like rag doll. Meanwhile, conservative entertainer Rush Limbaugh continues to spew extreme values.It's time for a little disclosure. I am a pretty strong Democrat. And by that I mean that I have worked in Democratic politics for a couple of years now and I want everyone to know before reading this that I may display a slant to this opinion. Please note

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No Introduction, let's just get into it, eh?West Virginia judge benefits from massive 527 support and turns around to support 527's major donor in appeal.It is interesting to me that there is so much concern for a justice's impartiality regarding decisions. The U.S. Supreme Court is discussing the issue as a case for determining when a judge should recuse themselves from a case that they may

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