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Vast majority of Americans disagree with Kyl and Republicans on Bush tax cuts
Image by Getty Images via @daylife At Talking Points Memo, Brian Beutler highlights the continued defense of the Bush administration tax cuts by ranking Republican senators like Jon Kyl, Mitch...
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Democrats gain six point lead on generic ballot
Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife Republicans have not been quiet about their opposition to Democratic efforts to pass financial reform legislation aimed at reining in Wall Street and...
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Why strong financial reform was so important
Remember when the Securities and Exchange Commission bringing a suit against Goldman Sachs was big news? Goldman is the darling of Washington financiers and the idea that the SEC could sue them over,...
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Campaign finance reform and Democrats’ midterm playbook
Image via Wikipedia Having failed to receive the support of a single Republican, Democrats’ campaign finance reform bill, the DISCLOSE Act, seems now to be banished to legislative limbo and their...
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Republicans block small-business bill, play into Democrats’ hands
Image by AFP/Getty Images via @daylife I didn’t have a chance to write about this yesterday, but didn’t the GOP just become the goose that laid the golden egg for Democrats? Apparently doubling down...
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Reid not cowed by GOP tactics
It seems that GOP obstructionism is having the opposite of its intended effect on Harry Reid. Reid is lining up more jobs related votes to test Republican resolve on its block-block-block strategy,...
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Welcome to the Bitter Enders Club
Image via Wikipedia It seems that Erik Kain and I have unofficially agreed to create the eleventh hour Bitter Enders Club of True/Slant. Expect no weepy goodbye post from this corner of the...
View Article‘You vote in favor of something if you believe it’s the right thing!’
Is it me, or have Democrats suddenly found their footing against Republicans? Politics is not inherently about righteous indignation, but a little righteous indignation on an appropriate issue never...
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Weiner’s rant and the Democratic base
Greg Sargent says the following about Weiner’s rant, To be clear, I’m all for the kind of passion Weiner is showing here, but let’s direct it properly. Don’t get into a shouting match about procedure....
View ArticleTo Lose Sight of the Shore
French author and Nobel Prize winner André Gide once famously said, “one does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time”. I came across that quote...
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