"Could an Unmarried Woman Sink Obama?"
This is the question posed by a FOX News headline.
Holy crap, Obama is involved with an unmarried woman? This is so salacious and sooo...Obama-like. We all knew that the fall of the Obama presidency would come at the hands of an unmarried woman.
Oh, wait. It's an article about single women voters. Obviously. Fox must make sure that they present every scrap of hope that buttresses their dream of the demise of Obama with as incendiary of a headline as possible.
Classy journalism, guys.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/10/07/could-unmarried-woman-sink-obama/

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President Obama has proposed extending the payroll tax cut, giving relief to the wage earners of this country and stimulating demand. The GOP immediately pounced on this idea as "too little, too late" (Rep. Paul Ryan, R-WI). In a stunning display of crass hypocrisy, Ryan went on to call the expiration of the Bush tax cuts as a tax increase.
"We can't raise taxes on job creators in a recession."
What I think he meant to say was, "We can't ever raise taxes on the rich, who help me get re-elected year after year, and with whom I intend to sup with once I retire to my lobbying gig. But the wage earners of this country do not fill my campaign coffers, nor do they subsidize my $300 bottles of wine at The Capitol Grille. Why do they deserve a break?"
What a jerk.
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct3=MAA4CUgAUABgAWoCdXN6AWjYAQE&usg=AFQj...://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-deficit-plan-20110919,0,2114442.story

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Last Sunday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) walked out of debt ceiling negotiations, citing the Democrats' insistence on tax increases.
What Mr. Cantor should be citing is the fact that he has money invested in the ProShares UltraShort Treasury ETF. This fund bets against the value of US Treasuries, so if, for example, the US were to default on its debt, Treasuries would tank, and Cantor would profit handsomely. Seems hard to believe, right?
Not really. There are no laws whatsoever preventing Congressmen and their staff from buying or selling securities; they can even buy or sell shares in companies with business before their committees, so long as they disclose it, as Cantor did.
On July 7th, some unsigned resolution popped up, suggesting that Mr. Cantor has caused the appearance of a conflict of interest. A "Question of Privilege" resolution, it was.
This is what's called "The appearance of a conflict of interest" in Washington. A person who will benefit financially from US default is in charge of coming to an agreement to prevent such default. He seems to be doing everything he can to prevent such an agreement from occurring. That's not the appearance of a conflict. That's a homeowner, holding an insurance policy, lighting a match and setting his house ablaze.
Here's the resolution. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/84054824/CANTOR%20QUESTION%20OF%20PRIVILEGE

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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.
Republicans make the dubious argument that to add to the deficit right now is a bad thing. Most economists disagree. Unemployment benefits are the most stimulative type of government spending, because the unemployed spend that money. The GOP standard demands of tax cuts for the rich had the opposite effect: they don't need to spend it, and in a recession, hesitate to invest. Therefore, money that could be circulating through the economy is instead in some billionaire's offshore account, doing nothing.
Since I couldn't find much in the way of specifics of the business tax cuts, I'll go straight to the hedge fund managers.
As you may know, hedge funds invest very wealthy people's money. Hedge fund managers, who live in Connecticut and buy vineyards, can make can make hundreds of millions, sometimes over a billion dollars, a YEAR. But they were able to pay--I mean convince--Congress to allow them to treat their income as what's known as carried interest, on which they pay 15% tax. Meanwhile, an hourly worker pays double that in payroll taxes. The bill that the GOP killed today would've made these rich bastards pay their fair share. This naturally bothers the Republican Party, the party OF rich bastards.
In the end, we've saved $30 billion, but a state like PA will be laying off hundreds, maybe thousands of the teachers, firefighters, police, etc. that all politicians love to talk about, but won't lift a finger to help. Some of those people will lose their homes. Many will lose their health insurance, because no one I know can afford COBRA. States with Democratic leadership will raise taxes, Republican governors will cut services. The cascading effect makes the dreaded double dip recession all the more likely. GREAT JOB, CONGRESS.

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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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Speaking to Fox News' Chris Wallace, Mitch McConnell explained that he was "troubled" by some of Elena Kagan's views. He therefore will "have to decide whether or not to apply the sixty vote threshold."
Now of course, we all know that the Republicans, having pandered to the crazies for more than a year, are going to filibuster Kagan. They would filibuster Antonin Scalia if Obama nominated him.
But my problem is with the new language being bandied about by Mr. McConnell. The Sixty Vote Threshold? Sounds palatable, if you disregard the constitution, and slept through every single class. Majority, people.

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Thank you, Sarah! This will help more than the 20 billion dollars Obama secured.

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• The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting a notification stating that the emergency declared with respect to the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissle material in the territory of the Russian Federation is to continue beyond June 21, 2010. - referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed (H. Doc. 111-123). H. Con. Res. 286: recognizing the 235th birthday of the United States Army 7:30 PM

This was Thursday. Did YOU hear anything about this?

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Republican State Senator Jake Knotts of South Carolina took to the airwaves to diss Gubernatorial Candidate Nikki Haley, and had some choice racist language for the President, as well.

Speaking on Internet radio show Pub Politics, Knotts said of Haley, "We already have a raghead in the White House, we don't need another raghead in the statehouse."

The intelligence of Knotts is being questioned, not only because he made racist comments in public, but also for his choice of slur. "Raghead" is used by racists to diss those of middle eastern or Indian descent. Obama is black. But there are those that think he's a Muslim from Kenya. Perhaps Knotts is one of those.

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