The Senate Republican plan to mail $100 checks to voters to ease the burden of high gasoline prices is eliciting more scorn than gratitude from the very people it was intended to help.
Aides for several Republican senators reported a surge of calls and e-mail messages from constituents ridiculing the rebate as a paltry and transparent [...]
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Apr
Sharp Reaction (”scorn,” “ridicule”) to GOP $100 Gas Rebate Plan
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30
Apr
A US congressional inspection team set up to monitor reconstruction in Iraq today publishes a scathing report of failures by contractors, mainly from the US, to carry out projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In one case, the inspection team found that three years after the invasion only six of 150 health centres proposed [...]
29
Apr
Telecommunications and cable companies scored a victory in the US Congress on Wednesday when a key House committee defeated plans for strict price controls on the high-speed networks that will form the next generation of internet connectivity.
The House energy and commerce committee voted 34-22 on Wednesday to defeat a Democrat-sponsored amendment that would have prevented [...]
29
Apr
Mommy, why is this creepy old man touching me?
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Cadets angry over a drug search rioted for more than an hour last week, throwing fireworks and garbage from their barracks in an uproar one officer described as “shameful.”
“Hundreds of cadets were hollering obscenities out of their windows and some were throwing objects,” in what the unidentified officer termed a riot in an incident summary [...]
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Apr
Rush Limbaugh Arrested and Liberal Blamed: Plus We Have the Mugshot!
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O’Reilly said he didn’t want to report the story about Rush but claimed he had to do it so he brought Judge Napolitano on to do the spin. Napolitano claimed, right after O’Reilly plugged his new book, that Limbaugh was the victim of an aggressive, Liberal Palm [...]
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Apr
A spokesman for New York Democrats asks what a 50-year-old congressman could be doing “cavorting with students 30 years his junior” at one in the morning. Blake Zeff asks if Sweeney was “teaching them how a bill becomes a law. “Sweeney stopped at the Alpha Delta Phi party at Union College in Schenectady over the [...]
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Apr
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Apr
Kooky lobby deniers pretend Israeli influence in U.S. is a myth
Posted by JCMach1 Published in UncategorizedOne of the consistent deformities in American policy debate has been challenged by a couple of professors, and the reaction proves their point so neatly it’s almost funny.
A working paper by John Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, professor of international affairs at the Kennedy School of Government [...]
28
Apr
ouse Speaker Dennis Hastert of Ill., center, gets out of a Hydrogen Alternative Fueled automobile, left, as he prepares to board his SUV, which uses gasoline, after holding a new conference at a local gas station in Washington, Thursday, April 27, 2006 to discuss the recent rise in gas prices. Hastert and other members of [...]
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Apr
0/31/04
Columbus, Broward Co County, Florida
Two unrelated people (taxi driver & store clerk) told our volunteer they had voted on touch screens this week and screen showed they had voted for Bush when they know they voted for Kerry — they got someone to change it before their vote was filed.
11/01/04
Broward County, Florida
Voted early at main [...]
28
Apr
On March 23, unnoticed by many, the US Federal Reserve quietly stopped publishing the quantum of broad money (referred to as M3) in the US economy.
Simply put, this meant the central bank will not reveal the amount of currency it pumps into the system each year. So, it will now be impossible to distinguish dollar [...]
28
Apr
Senators to push for $100 gas rebate checks: Just in Time for the Elections
Posted by JCMach1 Published in UncategorizedEvery American taxpayer would get a $100 rebate check to offset the pain of higher pump prices for gasoline, under an amendment Senate Republicans hope to bring to a vote Thursday… {{link http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/27/gas.rebate/index.html MORE}}
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11 ranking Members of the United States House of Representatives will be filing a law suit in U.S. District court on Friday, The BRAD BLOG has learned, seeking a permanent injunction of “Deficit Reduction Act” which George W. Bush signed into law on February 8th of this year, despite its not having passed both houses [...]
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Apr
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