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by WashingtonsBlog
Liberal congressman Sherrod Brown and conservative congressman David Vitter are pushing to break up the big banks:
Huffington Post reports:
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), along with unlikely ally Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), is launching an effort to break up the taxpayer-funded party on Wall Street. “The best example is that 18 years ago, the largest six banks’ combined assets were 16 percent of GDP. Today they’re 64-65 percent of GDP,” Brown said. “So the [...] PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Mitt Romney on Monday will accuse the Obama administration of fundamentally misunderstanding the threat of radical Islam, using a major foreign-policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute to say President Obama is rejecting six decades of bipartisan consensus by not flexing more U.S. muscle on the world stage. And after delaying for nearly a month, the Republican presidential nominee will sharpen his attack about the way Mr. Obama [...] From A Lightning War for Liberty: Great article here from Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com, one of the guys that has been leading the charge on the “left” to call out Obama and the two party system for the sham it is. Please pass this along to any brain dead Obama sheep that you may know… Key quotes: Miller devotes himself to debunking one of the worst myths in Washington, propagated out of self-interest [...] http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio…y.html?hpid=z2 By E.J. Dionne Jr., Published: May 24 To secure his standing as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney has disowned every sliver of moderation in his record. He’s moved to the right on tax cuts and twisted himself into a pretzel over the health-care plan he championed in Massachusetts — because conservatives are no longer allowed to acknowledge that government can improve citizens’ lives. Romney is simply following the lead of [...] Two of the Democratic Party’s core institutions are challenging a bipartisan consensus onIsrael and Palestine that has dominated American foreign policy for more than a decade. The Center for American Progress, the party’s key hub of ideas and strategy, and Media Matters, a central messaging organization, have emerged as vocal critics of their party’s staunchly pro-Israel congressional leadership and have been at odds, at times, with Barack Obama’s White House, which has acted as a reluctant [...] Washington Times: It’s a scenario all too familiar to retailers: A customer walks in, asks to see a product, discusses it at length with the sales staff, and then pulls out his cellphone. Jason Brewer, vice president of communications and advocacy for theRetail Industry Leaders Association, explains what happens next: “He uses his smartphone to take a picture of the bar code on the back of the item, and then, right in [...] It’s a scenario all too familiar to retailers: A customer walks in, asks to see a product, discusses it at length with the sales staff, and then pulls out his cellphone. Jason Brewer, vice president of communications and advocacy for the Retail Industry Leaders Association, explains what happens next: “He uses his smartphone to take a picture of the bar code on the back of the item, and then, right in [...] US public debt at most levels(from Federal to municipal) , the US dollar and US “official statistics” are among the 3 biggest economic lies in the world. The US Regime that is the father of these lies is now the greatest source of business and investment risk in the world and ,by far, the greatest economic and financial threat to the American middle class. People who, by now, do not realize [...] |
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