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Feb 16
2011

F-35 Engine Cut Passed

National Security

Following up on my earlier post, Speaker Boehner was just handed another defeat: In a sign that some freshman Republicans were willing to cut military spending, the House voted 233-198 on Wednesday to cancel an alternate fighter jet engine that the Bush and Obama administrations had tried to kill for the last five years. The […]

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Apr 27
2009

Why Republicans Can’t Lead #100,291

Misc

From The Nation: When House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey, the Wisconsin Democrat who has long championed investment in pandemic preparation, included roughly $900 million for that purpose in this year’s emergency stimulus bill, he was ridiculed by conservative operatives and congressional Republicans. Obey and other advocates for the spending argued, correctly, that a pandemic […]

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Apr 13
2009

The Government Doesn’t Create Jobs – Except When It Does

Misc

When we were talking about the stimulus bill the GOP’s biggest talking point was that “the government doesn’t create jobs”. As a little refresher, here’s Michael Steele saying just that in February: My how time changes things, even if its only two months. Now that there is a new military budget out there, one that’s […]

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Mar 15
2009

Bonuses For Failing?

Misc

So even though we have given AIG $165 billion of our own money, they can still make massive payouts in the form of bonuses: American International Group is giving its executives tens of millions of dollars in new bonuses even though it received a taxpayer bailout of more than $170 billion dollars. AIG is paying […]

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Feb 13
2008

Spielberg Pulls His Support Of The Olympics

Misc

Good for him: Steven Spielberg said Tuesday that he was withdrawing as an artistic adviser to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after almost a year of trying unsuccessfully to prod President Hu Jintao of China to do more to try to end Sudan’s attacks in the Darfur region. Mr. Spielberg’s decision, and the public […]

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Apr 2
2006

When Generals Speak The Truth

Misc

The former head of US Central Command had some great things to tell Tim Russert this morning. Now if anyone will listen it will be a first: (Video and transcript available at Think Progress) Zinni, who headed the US Central Command from 1997 to 2000, was asked if anyone should lose their job over how […]

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