Taxing

Tucked down at the bottom of this AP article, about how Bush hates the children, we find that he wants to increase your payroll taxes — by taxing you the portion of your health insurance premiums your employer pays.
Fratto also called on the Senate Finance Committee to consider the president’s recommendation to tax employees on [...]

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Support Progressive Dems

It’s no surprise that Senate democrats are leading in raising money. But Zeleny misses the chance to tell the public exactly which party is actually polling lower than the other.
Their Congressional approval ratings may be sagging, but Democrats in the House and Senate have overwhelmingly outraised their Republican counterparts in the past three months.
I went [...]

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Put off Candidacy to Get FCC Unrestricted Exposure

Chris Cillizza gives us a possible reason why Fred “lawn order” Thompson is putting off announcing his candidacy until fall. Actually, this is quite interesting.
But, this summer, the rerun season carries with it some political intrigue. Why? Because NBC is preparing to air a series of “Law & Order” repeats featuring — you guessed it [...]

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Moore v CNN: The Dark Side of Health Care

Michael Moore isn’t gonna let up on CNN. Thankfully.
That’s why I was so stunned when you let a doctor who knows a lot about brain surgery — but apparently very little about public policy — do a “fact check” story, not on the medical issues in “Sicko,” but rather on the economic and political information [...]

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That was the week that was — and that we wish wasn’t

Hello, seekers! Jill here, from Brilliant at Breakfast. The Crone has asked me to contribute a weekly roundup of the litany of horrors, incompetents, hypocrites, and ephemera that we’ve survived in another week of the Era of Ignorance known as the Bush years. We take our name from the British and American TV shows of [...]

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