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Can This Book Deliver ‘Fanniegate’ To The GOP In 2012?

Fanniegate: Gamechanger For The GOP? WALTER RUSSELL MEAD – June 7, 2011 Democrats, watch out. The Republican Party and especially its Tea Party wing have just acquired a new weapon of mass destruction — and it has nothing to do with any of Congressman Wiener’s rogue body parts.  If they deploy this weapon effectively in [...]

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The Propaganda Of Incompetents

INVESTORS.COM Economy: As the “recovery summer” turns into a nightmare, one thing has become painfully clear: This is the most economically incompetent administration since the Great Depression. Two years into the Obama era, when the U.S. should be enjoying a booming recovery from the 2007-08 meltdown, with millions of new jobs and higher incomes for [...]

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Obama’s Latest Monstrosity

By:  John Berlau  The American Spectator  The 2,315 page Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill that President Obama will sign today should not be called “financial reform.” Instead the bill, which passed the Senate 60-39 last week when Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown joined Maine Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins to grant cloture, should be called what [...]

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The Real Party of Wall Street

Photo credit: media.photobucket.com By: Michael G. Franc NRO Online The Democrats’ populist assault on all things Wall Street, we are told, helps them politically regardless of the legislative outcome. Democrats, NBC Nightly News reported, “actually scheduled [Monday’s] vote knowing they would lose and they did because they see it as a political win — better [...]

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Light At the End of the Bailout Tunnel

  By DEBORAH SOLOMON WASHINGTON—The U.S. government’s rescue of wobbly companies and financial markets is starting to look far less expensive or long-lasting than once feared. As momentum grows at companies that looked like zombies just a few months ago to repay taxpayers for lifelines they got during the financial crisis, the projected cost of [...]

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