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I mean, everyone's getting all mad, like this whole BP getting the Lockerbie Bomber released thing is new. As I recall, McCain and his posse visited Gadaffi in Libya back in August of 2009 (see link at bottom of page). Everyone is trying to distance themselves from this whole affair, but McCain's people confirmed back then to realwashington that the subject of the Lockerbie Bomber's pending release was broached. Now, in fairness, McCain's people said that McCain expressed strong disapproval at the release of the killer of 189 Americans, but you know what? Expressing strong disapproval isn't the same as saying, "Look, Great Britain and BP, we're not gonna let this motherfkucer walk free just so BP can make you all a lot of money." http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLE528109

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Read how the New York Times breaks down how lawmakers sidestep the ban one earmarks to for-profit companies here: http://nyti.ms/cMQ7rr

These lawmakers don't even care that their actions make them look like straight up sleazeballs. They merely stress that what they are doing is technically legal. They should be in prison.

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Sen. Scott Brown has arrived in the Senate. Mr. Brown rode into DC promising to eliminate back room deals, and railing against sweetheart deals like the "Cornhusker Kickback" and the "Louisiana Purchase", deals aimed at winning support for bills from specific senators. Mr. Brown has managed to get a sweetheart deal for his bank constituents, which undermines the whole point of the financial reform bill. Congrats, Mr. Brown, on becoming the newest Senator from Wall St!
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/06/28/scott-brown-difficult/

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The nation's longest serving senator has died. Robert Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, has been a US senator since the Civil War, or something. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-me-byrd-20100628,0,25...

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Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would extend unemployment benefits to the millions of workers jobless for more than six months. The bill also contained business tax cuts, and allowed hedge fund managers to be taxed like everyone else. Republicans and Ben Nelson, who considers himself a Democrat, say that they were worried about the deficit, but, of course, it was to make Obama look bad.

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I mean, really. In 2010, is there really a need to have your daily publication be called The Whipping Post?
It's bad enough that there are positions called "whips" in Congress, and it's pretty wack that the Dems publish "The Whipline". But The Whipping Post? THE WHIPPING POST? That is all. http://republicanwhip.house.gov/floor/5-6-10.pdf

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This weekend saw America's current top villian, BP's CEO Tony Hayward, kicked back on his yacht and yucking it up with the international mega-ballers. Soon after, Republicans pointed out that President Obama went golfing Saturday.
Now it is incredible that Mr. Hayward had the nerve to be enjoying the life that most Gulf residents have only seen on Ralph Lauren Polo commercials. This man is a bumbling fool who seems to have a knack for saying the exact worst thing at every opportunity, and the world was still shocked at his frollicking.
Obama golfing? Not that big a deal, although it's another reason to wonder at the ineptitude of the political team in the White House (Rahm Emanuel). But I say, who gives a damn? I don't want Tony Hayward anywhere near the Gulf of Mexico. I want him as far away from oil as possible, even if it means he gets to live it up in luxury sailing around the Isle of Wight (for now, anyway).
Same goes for Obama. Stop going to the Gulf. People want to see clean beaches and some fish and shrimp, not a bunch of yada yada about how we'll build it better (Bush said the same thing after Katrina, but last I checked, IT AINT BETTER). People want to see you do big things, like punk BP for $20,000,000,000.
So Hayward, we suggest you stay on the other side of the pond until the oil stops gushing and you get your day in court. Obama, as long as you can get this shit cleaned up and make BP pay for all of it, relax, but get a new hobby, cause you seem mad nerdy.

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In what can only be described as a mad villian's nocturnal emission, Congress is considering a killswitch for the whole damn Internet. This is some ol' Braniac stuff. Read more here: http://www.govtrackinsider.com/articles/2010-06-14/lieberman-cybersecur

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