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 Old Nancy seems to be limping her way ever closer to her goal of 216. She swears she’s got the votes to get this done, and probably by tomorrow afternoon, barring some other delay, we’ll know whether it’s still safe to get sick in this country or not. But with them so close to their goal, we [...]  David Brooks swings so wildly back-and-forth in some of his opinion pieces, I’m surprised his glasses haven’t flown off. One moment, the liberal commenters on his NYT posts call him a crazed right-winger, and the next moment republican commenters are saying he’s a radical leftist media-type. I guess to be a moderate, which Brooks is [...]  And by fun, I don’t mean, “Ha ha” fun, I mean more like kick you in your crotch, steal your money and burn it in your face fun. Numbers continue to roll in on the effectiveness of our government’s “Cash for Clunkers” program. You know, that program that was going to jump-start our crawling economy. As we [...] 
Are you sitting down? Ready? He doesn’t care what you think about health care. Yup. That’s right. Just 41% of voters nationwide now favor the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s down two points from a week ago and the lowest level of support yet measured. 41% of voters. That’s… not much. Especially for such [...]  Thankfully, new polling seems to suggest America agrees, at least a little, with the Gulch about how really miserable this cash for clunkers program is, in spite of some sources hailing it as an ”inarguable success. ” Ostroy at the Huffington Post calls it a “recession-busting program,” which is something we probably need to share with the recession, [...]  Usually the way these things go is that a general idea gets support, but when the actual specifics come out, popularity begins to sink. Not so, apparently, with the idea of health care reform, where 54% of Americans are opposed to having their taxes raised for it right out of the gate. I would have assumed [...] |
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