WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats at both ends of the Capitol accelerated their drive to enact health care legislation on Tuesday, outlining proposals to extend coverage to uninsured millions but omitting most details on plans for raising more than $1 trillion needed to cover costs. “We are going to be deficit-neutral—even—over five or 10 years,” White [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – A bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved Chrysler’s plan to terminate 789 of its dealer franchises, while the automaker’s plan to partner with Italy’s Fiat hinged on the Supreme Court’s interest and both automakers warned that the deal could fall apart if it’s not completed soon. U.S. Judge Arthur Gonzalez issued an [...]
keithhennessey Over the weekend a draft of Senator Kennedy’s (D-MA) health care bill leaked. After playing with Adobe Acrobat, here is the text of the draft Kennedy bill as a text file (173 K), and as a single Acrobat file (3.4 MB). Calling it the “Kennedy†bill is something of an overstatement. Senator Kennedy chairs [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – An advocacy group for online poker said Tuesday that the federal government has frozen more than $30 million in the accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of thousands of online poker players. The Justice Department has long maintained that Internet gambling is illegal, a view that the poker group challenges. [...]
In the above image, Sonia Sotomayor was witnessed growling wildly while threatening to eat the kin of all who oppose her. POLITICO: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy has forged ahead with a July 13 start date for confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, pushing past Republicans who want more time to dig [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged Congress to force itself to pay for new spending as it goes rather than sink the nation deeper into a debt, calling it a matter of public responsibility. Republicans lashed back that Obama is no voice of fiscal restraint as the deficit soars. The president’s plan [...]
RECIFE, Brazil (AP) – Air France and other airlines moved Tuesday to replace speed monitors suspected of feeding false information to the computers of Flight 447 and leading to a series of failures that broke the plane apart over the Atlantic Ocean. Four more bodies were pulled from the sea, and helicopters began ferrying other [...]
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Bloomberg: June 9 — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said President Barack Obama’s plan to fix the economy through stimulus spending and government intervention to boost companies like General Motors Corp. has “already failed.†“Bureaucrats managing companies does not work, politicians dominating the economy does not work,†Gingrich told about 2,000 Republicans who attended a [...]
Jweishworld . . A new video posted on the Internet featuring inebriated American Jewish youth in a Jerusalem bar spouting hate-filled sentiments has garnered massive exposure and caused a firestorm in the media and the Jewish world. In the video, filmed on June 3 and titled “Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem on the Eve of [...]
Politico House Minority Leader John Boehner isn’t mincing words at news that a Gitmo detainee is set to face a criminal trial after being transferred to Manhattan this morning. “This is the first step in the Democrats’ plan to import terrorists into America,” Boehner said. “Without a plan to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, [...]
Bloomberg Commentary by Kevin Hassett June 8 (Bloomberg) — I’ve finally figured out the Obama economic strategy. President Barack Obama and his team have been having so much fun wielding dictatorial power while rescuing “failed†firms, that they have developed a scheme to gain the same power over every business. The plan is to enact [...]
