To extrapolate a bill, more Charlie Crists and fewer Bobby Jindals....
If I had a more serious job, I would prefer Excel despite its ugly charts, but for the blogger in your life get Numbers[.]
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Well, he says that's not a big problem (
But nevertheless, the most serious analysis out there consistent found Shays['] position to the right of every single member of the House Democratic caucus, even though many Democrats represented more GOP-friendly seats than Shays'....
What makes congress polarized is when even the most-liberal Republican is more conservative than the most-conservative Democrat. And you can't blame that on polarization.
You also get innovative proposals like James Capretta['s] vision of recycling
John McCain's substantively unsound and wildly unpopular health care plans.
The Decemberists "The Bagman's Gambit" is a noteworthy recent DC-located song....
So the House of Representatives including Mall refurbishment funds in their stimulus bill. But know-nothing conservatives decided that fixing up important national landmarks sounds funny, so they've spent a week mocking the idea. And instead of punching bask and asking if the right-wing intends to just let the whole country fall apart for the sake of a sound byte, the Obama administration is backing down and getting the provision removed.
I'd forgotten about the Bush administration's idiosyncratic take on states's rights and air pollution until I read about how we're going to start heading in a non-insane direction:
Mitch McConnel warns that passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, permitting workers to form unions through a majority sign-up process rather than an election rigged by employers, would "Europeanize America[.]"...
Beyond that, though, there's some nice places in Europe.
It puts one in a mind of the time when it was impossible with Israel to negotiate with the Palestinian Authority because it was run by a corrupt and incompetent Fatah.
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Taken in isolation, each of these positions has a patina of reasonableness but the overall pattern is of a government that's much more interested in finding reasons to forever-forestall negotiations--expanding settlements all the while--than in finding a route to peace.
Prosecutors have a lot of discretion, so I believe AG Holder would be within his rights to simply decline to investigate the former Vice President of the United States public admission that he's committed what Holder claims to believe are serious crimes.
They might want to ask some of the people working for the firm on the bottom rungs -- the janitors and so forth -- if they really appreciate these kind of "charitable" efforts to deny poor people any better commuting options than the bus?
