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    Privatizing public works makes government less efficient

    by  • May 5, 2012 • politics & money

    From the Chicago Sun Times, via  Eschaton (Heckuva Job): The private investors who run Chicago’s parking meters are doing better than expected, and now they’re demanding an additional $14 million they say they’re owed under obscure provisions of the wildly unpopular 2008 deal that privatized metered parking and caused rates to soar, records show....

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    Edwards was off the deep end in ’08

    by  • May 2, 2012 • politics & money

    video platform video management video solutions video player When you read some of the testimony of Cheri Young and others in the Campaign Finance Trial against John Edwards, I don’t see how you can’t come to believe Edwards was a seriously unfit for any kind of leadership role. And it’s not because of the affairs. The...

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    The Right’s New Math: No Mission Accomplished + aircraft carrier = good. Actual Mission Accomplished + White House = bad.

    by  • May 2, 2012 • politics & money

    Mission Accomplished was in 2003 before George W. Bush started the war in Iraq after already having launched a war into Afghanistan with pre-approval from the US Congress. (The Iraq war is the war President Obama wrapped up like…the other day). This happened earlier this year after the Super Bowl Karl Rove freaked out over...

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    Grenell Finds out They Really Mean it…

    by  • May 2, 2012 • politics & money

    Ric Grenell resigns because his boss is beholden to a party base that fervently embraces bigotry. Grenell served Republicans in Congress and the Bush White House’s UN delegation for years. I’m not surprised anymore when I find out a woman, person of color or LGBT person is a Republican staffer or candidate but I am surprised when...

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    Romney’s Cold War Drivel

    by  • April 27, 2012 • politics & money

    This type of work from Romney’s senior campaign foreign policy aides exposes a campaign that should be take less, not more seriously: The Obama campaign has been saying for weeks that Romney has a “Cold War mentality” when it comes to foreign policy. Instead of countering that characterization, the call only reinforced Biden’s point....

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    Romney always contradicts himself: Student Loan Rates

    by  • April 25, 2012 • politics & money

    Mitt Romney can’t support the Ryan Budget and “fully support” Obama’s student loan low interest rate extension. I see articles titled “Romney agrees with Obama on Student Loans” and “Obama, Romney Agree on Extending Student Loan Interest Rate Cut” that allow Romney to cloud the issue by seeming reasonable. Romney hasn’t reconciled his alleged support of the President’s...

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    Social Security is not running dry

    by  • April 23, 2012 • politics & money

    One more time all together, anyone saying Social Security is broken  is selling you a special kind of deficit hawk nonsense: The most important take-away points from the 2012 Trustees Report will be that Social Security has a large and growing surplus; that without any Congressional action, Social Security will continue to pay benefits to...

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    Gitmo is open because of Senate Democrats

    by  • April 18, 2012 • politics & money

    Sigh…more revisionist history about closing Gitmo… More than two years after President Barack Obama blew his self-imposed deadline to shut down the extrajudicial prison at Guantanamo Bay, close observers and defense lawyers with clients making their way through the reformed military tribunal system say the public isn’t paying attention. “I think what you’ll find is the...

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    Suspended Santorum

    by  • April 10, 2012 • politics & money

    The true believer bows out… Rick Santorum ends bid for GOP nomination – Political Hotsheet – CBS News: “We made a decision over the weekend that while this presidential race for us is over for me, and we will suspend our campaign effective today, we are not done fighting,” Santorum said at a press...

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