Impeach the guys already

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Saturday February 24, 2007 · 6:44 AM PST

2007/02/24 · 06:44

I am not home, but overseas. Yet it seems to me, that the public would really appreciate at least SOME discussion of Articles of Impeachment. Remember where the standard was set . . .

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Impeach Bush?

58 votes Vote Now!

Impeach Bush?

Yes, why hasn't it been done already?

49 votes

Explore the possibility.

4 votes

No.

3 votes

No, too big a political fracas.

1 vote

No, we have to "stand behind the Commander in Chief in a time of War"

1 vote

Student Loan Debt relief farce, part 2

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Friday February 23, 2007 · 2:48 AM PST

2007/02/23 · 02:48

While it looks like a number of interested groups have at least modest praise for the Student Debt Relief Act (S.359), sponsored by Senators Durbin and Kennedy, I still regret that they backed off their 2006 bill.

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Tuesday January 30, 2007 · 2:45 AM PST

2007/01/30 · 02:45

Playing like they still rely on whites in the Deep South for a majority . . .

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Which new loan is your favorite / most appropriate?

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Which new loan is your favorite / most appropriate?

Surtax on Energy below the 37th parallel

4 votes

The Earned Income Credit Loan

0 votes

The Redundant Military Base Loan Program

1 vote

The Tennessee Valley Authority Loan Program

2 votes

The Interstate Highway System Loan Program

1 vote

The Houston Tranquility Base Loan Program

1 vote

The Hurricane Rebuilding Loan Program

2 votes

The Civil War Reparations Loan Program

11 votes

My taxes tripled !

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Sunday January 28, 2007 · 2:14 AM PST

2007/01/28 · 02:14

I am an American living overseas.

Last year, as I had put in an earlier diary, Congress passed something called the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 (yes, it was May 2006, but they made it look like it had already happened in 2005!)

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The biggest hypocrisy in Republican tax policy.

They talk tax cuts, but never deliver for the middle class.

They really would just have the non-wealthy pay all the taxes.

They really would rather just have anyone outside the South or square states pay taxes.

If they can shift the burden to people who are living outside the U.S., what the hell??

They are liars when it comes to taxes.

They are cheats when it comes to taxes.

They are liars and cheats when it comes to taxes.

Stop taxing the Northeast to pay for bennies for the rest of the country.

They preach tax reduction while they have their hands in both of your pockets.

They steal your money and then criticize you for wanting government services.

They are the South's Sugar Daddy.

Their tax policies are like a giant ATM for Mississippi, Wyoming and Alabama (and Iowa!)

39 votes Vote Now!

The biggest hypocrisy in Republican tax policy.

They talk tax cuts, but never deliver for the middle class.

1 vote

They really would just have the non-wealthy pay all the taxes.

11 votes

They really would rather just have anyone outside the South or square states pay taxes.

2 votes

If they can shift the burden to people who are living outside the U.S., what the hell??

0 votes

They are liars when it comes to taxes.

0 votes

They are cheats when it comes to taxes.

1 vote

They are liars and cheats when it comes to taxes.

5 votes

Stop taxing the Northeast to pay for bennies for the rest of the country.

1 vote

They preach tax reduction while they have their hands in both of your pockets.

7 votes

They steal your money and then criticize you for wanting government services.

7 votes

They are the South's Sugar Daddy.

1 vote

Their tax policies are like a giant ATM for Mississippi, Wyoming and Alabama (and Iowa!)

3 votes

Student Debt Relief --- what a joke!

Hoofin

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Friday January 26, 2007 · 2:54 AM PST

2007/01/26 · 02:54

Has anybody else seen what the Kennedy committee put out for "student debt relief"?? What a joke! Unfortunately, we are (in) the punch line.

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PAYGO is:

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PAYGO is:

the Democrats' latest excuse to break campaign promises

3 votes

a way for Democrats to shoot themselves in the foot, which they are good at.

7 votes

a way to the so-called "right thing", rather than the real right thing, which is DELIVER

2 votes

setting us up for a Republican 111th Congress that will have plenty of "saved" money to extend Bush tax breaks.

3 votes

U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty: Is it worth it?

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Wednesday November 15, 2006 · 5:49 PM PST

2006/11/15 · 17:49

Twentieth Century Conceit: The U>S.-Japan miliary alliance. Does it make sense today?

As an expat who has lived in Japan for about 18 months, here is topic that is seldom discussed in our mainstream press.

While the mutual security treaty works fairly well for the two countries, it is hard to believe that it will always be the only possible relationship in a changing Pacific.

With the pressure on for America finally to start pulling out of the civil war we opened the box on in Iraq, maybe it is also time to consider what exactly WOULD happen if the U.S. wound down some other of its extensive commitments in the world.

I am not saying this should be donw. It's just interesting that it is seldom discussed. Read More

GOP Tax Hike in 49 days

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Sunday November 12, 2006 · 12:51 PM PST

2006/11/12 · 12:51

Seven weeks from Monday, the Alternative Minimum Tax comes back with its lower thresholds: $33,750 for singles and $45,000 for families. Read More

Democratic tax issues for the 110th

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Thursday November 09, 2006 · 3:53 AM PST

2006/11/09 · 03:53

What relief! Charles Grassley will no longer be sitting as head of the Senate Finance Committee.

And the Republicans overall are OUT of running our country into the ground! The good House and Senate will not be these scandal-and-corruption-plagued dens that seemed more like state houses of the Deep south in the 1920s than the greatest legislative chamber of any nation in world, representative of ALL the country.

But the Republicans apparently left one last booby trap. Read More

Overseas Americans, did you vote Democrat?

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Sunday November 05, 2006 · 8:04 AM PST

2006/11/05 · 08:04

The Republican Congress, in particular under IOWA Republican Senator Charles Grassley, RAISED YOUR TAXES one night last May when they were looking to patch up the Alternative Minimum Tax for a year. Read More

Tom Kean's anti Italian campaign ad

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Thursday October 26, 2006 · 6:23 AM PDT

2006/10/26 · 06:23

Well, it looks like the "ethical" Kean family is reaching for new lows, just like their buddies the Bushes. Read More

Don't vote for your Republican Senator if you live OVERSEAS!!!

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Tuesday September 12, 2006 · 11:24 AM PDT

2006/09/12 · 11:24

Whatever you do! Don't vote for the Republican. If you DO, we will get Iowa Senator CHARLES GRASSLEY as the head of the Senate Finance Committee.

And what a continuing disaster that would be!!! Read More

NJ-7, Mike Ferguson is MIKE FORGETS-US on senior issues, social issues.

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