Tag: government
member name: Bill Lawrence
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September 29, 2008 03:47 PM EDT --
The House Republicans failed this afternoon to muster enough support to join Democrats in passing the rescue package that would, it is hoped, boost confidence in the viability of the financial system, . . .
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September 09, 2008 08:22 AM EDT --
In the interest of fairness (a rare commodity in our political climate!), here is a FactCheck.org take on some of the claims being made about Palin. Much as I disapprove of many of her positions, . . .
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September 20, 2008 01:57 PM EDT --
A lot of accusations are flying over who is to blame for the our financial mess, but I think you can make a good case that the root of the problem lies in the long struggle to deregulate the financial . . .
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November 05, 2008 11:48 AM EST --
The way the hard-working, dedicated McCain people were handled as they gathered to watch the results of the elections seemed eerily familiar: as the results came in they were sheltered from the "bad . . .
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May 19, 2007 02:06 PM EDT --
Have I missed it, or has no one written yet about the latest scandal to engulf the Bush White House and the Justice Department? We have learned recently that during the Ashcroft years, when he was . . .
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October 20, 2008 10:43 AM EDT --
We've heard a great deal about ACORN and Obama's connection to it lately. Republicans are outraged when they hear McCain's campaign talking about voter fraud; Democrats are outraged because . . .
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August 08, 2008 10:37 PM EDT --
I'm repeating here a summary of an analysis of McCain's recent misrepresentations of Obama's record on taxes. Note, please, that the www.factcheck.org people are strictly . . .
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October 14, 2008 05:05 PM EDT --
One of the many hoary myths that has become a part of the American political narrative is that Republicans are fiscal conservatives, hence good for your pocketbook, while Democrats are "tax and spend . . .
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September 10, 2008 04:37 PM EDT --
What follows is a letter written by a university professor in Alaska to a good friend of mine in which he gives my friend his evaluation of Ms Palin. Don't worry -- this isn't a list of . . .
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October 31, 2008 08:55 AM EDT --
Time to wrap up these campaigns and get to the voting booth. But I can't resist jotting down a few of the things that have alternately amused and irritated me about the McCain-Palin campaign, . . .
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September 12, 2008 12:38 PM EDT --
I noticed a post having to do with the Lipstick remark Obama made, which brought to mind a recent FactCheck.Org finding about a McCain ad accusing him of belittling Palin. Having heard the lipstick . . .
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August 12, 2008 03:01 PM EDT --
My favorite corrective website, FactCheck.Org, has analyzed a recent Obama ad critical of McCain and finds that he's gotten the figures wrong and has distorted McCain's tax break proposal:
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August 14, 2008 04:39 PM EDT --
In an effort to get beyond personal opinion, I've been posting FactCheck.Org summaries (full articles with sources are on the website) calling Obama and McCain to task for misrepresentations. . . .
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September 05, 2008 11:08 PM EDT --
Watching the GOP Convention last night I came away wondering if the American people would be fooled by the spectacle of enthusiastic Republicans running as much against themselves as Obama.
Let me . . .
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September 13, 2008 05:38 PM EDT --
See, I told you I'd try to be even-handed -- I don't like distortions and lies no matter where they come from. So here's one from the Obama/Biden camp. The subject is a bit more . . .
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September 19, 2008 01:06 PM EDT --
I've been trying to set the record straight on lies and distortions by posting FactCheck articles, but I have to give it up because the stream of lies coming almost exclusively from the McCain-Palin . . .
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September 26, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
It seems the more doctrinaire elements on the Right and Left are united in indignation over the prospect of the bailout. On the Right the objection is that the market created the problem and the . . .
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