Geithner says GOP wrong, ending tax cuts for wealthy won’t hurt small business
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 5th, 2010 4:39 am by HL
Geithner says GOP wrong, ending tax cuts for wealthy won’t hurt small business
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner pushed back hard Wednesday against GOP criticism that allowing tax cuts to expire for the wealthiest Americans could harm small businesses.
Birther-ism, alive and well
The new CNN poll confirms what we all suspected — that efforts by traditional news orgs to debunk the “birther” nonsense have done little or nothing to counter the right wing narrative about the Manchurian Muslim who has infiltrated the White House:
Barack Obama – United States – Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories – Republican – CNN
Missouri vote cited as proofthat public dislikes health-care overhaul
A day after Missouri voters rejected a key component of the nation’s new health-care overhaul, Republicans seized on the result as conclusive evidence that Americans don’t like the law.
United States – Missouri – Health care – Health – Barack Obama
Obama travels to Illinois to help Alexi Giannoulias in Senate race
CHICAGO — One evening last week, presidential adviser David Axelrod spoke at a small fundraiser for 34-year-old Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, a basketball buddy of Barack Obama’s and the Democratic candidate for the president’s old Senate seat.
alexigiannoulias – Illinois – Politics – United States – Republican