[Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
- Destroying Retirement In Order To Save It – NYTimes.com
- [Paul Krugman]
- Daily Kos: State of the Nation
- About the best that can be hoped now is that the Democratic leadership will find a way to finagle another short-term renewal of three to six months by cobbling together a compromise that requires extending the Bush era tax cuts. Otherwise, Democrats run the risk of nothing being done to extend benefits until January when the Republicans take over the House of Representatives and make everything that matters a no-go for 24 months.
As for the tax-cut extension, you have to give Republicans credit. No matter how ridiculous a stance they take, they stick with it. Sen. Brown argued today that the cuts have nothing to do with the extension of unemployment benefits. And that might be true if so many Republicans weren't arguing that extending tax cuts for the wealthy don't need to be paid for but the jobless benefits extension does.
- BREAKING: Senate Republicans refuse to vote on DADT repeal before tax cuts
- [Prop 8 Trial Tracker - couragecampaign]
- Desperate GOP Now Attacks DADT Report
- [People For the American Way - Brian]
With top leaders of the military and the majority of Americans all calling for the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the Right is desperately trying to find ways to maintain the ban on gays from serving openly.
After months of emphasizing the need to wait for the Pentagon’s comprehensive report on the impact of allowing gay and lesbian soldiers to serve openly in the armed forces, now conservative opponents of repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) have dismissed the report altogether [because it suggests that repealing DADT would be no big deal.]
- Top Ten Middle East Wikileaks Revelations so Far
- [Informed Comment - Juan]
1. The British government’s official inquiry into how it got involved in the Iraq War was deeply compromised by the government’s pledge to protect the Bush administration in the course of it.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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