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Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 5th, 2010 5:37 am by HL
Senate blocks legislation to extend Bush-era tax cuts
The Senate on Saturday rejected two Democratic proposals to let tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire, a symbolic but bitter defeat that now forces the Democratic majority to compromise with Republicans or risk allowing tax breaks to lapse for virtually everyone at year’s end.
As Rangel demonstrates, shame no longer required after political wrongdoing
In Washington, shame isn’t what it used to be. That was the lesson of the showdown Thursday between Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) and the rest of the House of Representatives. Rangel’s colleagues voted overwhelmingly to censure him for ethics violations – a punishment that included a public sco…
Judge fights in Iowa, Illinois signal new era for retention elections
By the standards of today’s judicial elections, the $3 million that poured into one race for the Illinois Supreme Court this year was a large but not unusual sum. Judicial races regularly attract millions of dollars in contributions from trial lawyers, businesses and other special interests hoping…
For Obama, will it be Truman or Clinton?
In the weeks after his election two years ago, President Obama was often linked to two other presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Today, Democrats debate whether he should act more like Harry Truman or Bill Clinton to avoid becoming another Jimmy Carter.
