That difference is important, because because there's several months' worth of difference between the time span "two years after President's Day Weekend" (the target date for stimulus signing) and the end of FY2010 on October 1, 2010....
The White House has release to the press a letter form OMB Director Peter Orszag making these points:
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This has an odd tendency to leave health a bit out of the picture even though it's fairly uncontroversial to observe that both lifestyle issues and social issues are are more important determinants of health outcomes.
The Israel policy right-wing still has an incredibly hold over the US Congress with only a few exceptions such as Rep. Donna Edwards. But to an interesting extent that's not the case in the media. Despite the effort to anathematize John Mearsheimer and Steven Walt, for example, I saw Newsweek run Mearsheimer's take on how the US should approach the whole region and and one of the things the Washington Post Company did after buying Foreign Policy was hire Walt.
I don't really want to do an analysis of the short-term of the short term politics, spin, and ethics surrounding this issue beyond noting that back during the "nuclear option" fight I took an anti-filibuster line.
If Hamas were to recognize Israel tomorrow tomorrow , Israel would not turn around and renounce settlements;
