[iWatch News reports](http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/06/15/4880/obama-rewards-big-bundlers-jobs-commissions-stimulus-money-government-contracts-and) that the Obama campaign’s high-dollar bundlers had a good shot at getting a job in the Obama administration: > Nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts…Half of $200,000 bundlers were picked for some post; 80 percent of the $500,000 bundlers were appointed. When asked about […]
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Businesses Need Customers, Not Tax Cuts
According to a new report from the National Federation of Independent Business, small businesses are still struggling under the weight of a poor economy: In May, the share of companies that planned to shrink their work forces was one percentage point higher than the share of companies that planned to expand them, the first time […]
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Drug War Fact Of The Day
From the New York Times: More people are arrested in New York City on charges of possessing small amounts of marijuana than on any other crime on the books. Nearly all are black or Latino males under the age of 25, most with no previous convictions. Many have never been arrested before. Two New York […]
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Bachmannia Spreads Across the Land
(Flickr/Gage Skidmore) Michele Bachmann is on fire. And all it took was a CNN debate in which she didn’t say anything particularly stupid, pandered to the crowd effectively, and announced that she is, in fact, running. So today she’s got an article in the New York Times, an article in the Washington Post (on the […]
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Everyone’s A Realist When The Other Guy’s In Charge
Michael Cohen has an interesting piece on the newfound Republican realism of the GOP presidential contenders: Libya gave the Republican wannabes a chance to go even further in a realist direction. When asked whether the war there was in the “vital national interest of the United States,” Michele Bachmann said, “No, I don’t believe so.” […]
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One-Handed Hardball
How is it that Republicans get to stymie government based on their control of just one-half of one branch of government, the House of Representatives? They threaten to block nominations of all but the most conservative presidential appointees. In cases where they don’t like the agency in question, they refuse to confirm anyone. This includes […]
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Republicans Raise Taxes
GOP may finally have realized what must be done to reduce the deficit.
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The “Gun Runner” Hearing
I’ll be at Rep. Peter King‘s new hearings on Muslim radicalization focused on prisons today, but the big story right now is the first showdown between Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa and the administration over an ATF program through which Issa alleges several gun traffickers were allowed to walk on the presumption that they […]
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House Republicans: See, We Do Support Renewable Energy!
House Republicans might hate climate change but apparently they support renewable energy projects, as long as they’re being built on public lands. The House Committee on Natural Resources, the same group of people that led the charge against the Obama administration’s wild lands policy, this afternoon [put forward a different vision](http://naturalresources.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=246361) for what those lands […]
