Are Repubs supporting a Tax Increase?

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Tuesday March 17, 2009 · 8:39 AM PDT

2009/03/17 · 08:39

So, I just heard on the news that a bll has been introduced in the House to tax the AIG bonuses at a 100% tax rate.

This seems like a good idea to me for a start. Of course, the next step to me is to fire all the AIG execs who approved this and continued with it even though it was a monumentally stupid idea given the current climate.

But then I thought, will the Republicans actually support this idea?

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Do You support a 100% tax rate on AIG bonuses?

58 votes Vote Now!

Do You support a 100% tax rate on AIG bonuses?

Yes

53 votes

2 votes

Pie

3 votes

Action Items to help remove Joe's chairmanship

LostInTexas

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Friday November 14, 2008 · 7:32 AM PST

2008/11/14 · 07:32

Right to the point here. Joe Lieberman has been on many people minds lately and now is the time for the Senate Dems to show that they intend to be Leaders going forward. Unfortunately it seems that once again, we will need to push them into action.

I am trying very hard to follow Obama's example of forgive, but I cannot forget easily what Joe has done, and I do not feel that he deserves a committee chairmanship that many Senators wait a very long time for after his recent actions.

Please take a few minutes to call or write before the likely Nov. 18th meeting and vote.

LostInTexas

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Wednesday November 12, 2008 · 5:15 AM PST

2008/11/12 · 05:15

Please take a few minutes to call or write before the likely Nov. 18th meeting and vote.

LostInTexas

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Thursday June 19, 2008 · 8:45 AM PDT

2008/06/19 · 08:45

According to the WSJ (sub. required) (h/t TPM), the House has reached a deal in allowing spying on all of us.

Critical to sealing the deal was a compromise that would grant conditional immunity to telecommunications companies for assistance they provided from September 2001 through January 2007. If the companies can show a federal district court judge "substantial evidence" they received a written request from the attorney general or head of an intelligence agency stating the president authorized the surveillance and determined it to be lawful, the cases against them will be dismissed.

LostInTexas

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Wednesday June 18, 2008 · 5:41 PM PDT

2008/06/18 · 17:41

After reading and posting in an excellent Recommended diary by Thereisnospoon, I got a reply from marketgeek that gave me an idea on how to finally fix FISA once and for all.

It is pretty obvious that Rep. Hoyer has some powerful motivation to cave in on FISA since most people in the country oppose giving the telecoms immunity.

marketgeek made it plain to me what that motivation is.

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Will you help to buy back the errant Rep. Hoyer?

55 votes Vote Now!

Will you help to buy back the errant Rep. Hoyer?

Yes. What a bargain!!

37 votes

No. He (and FISA) are not worth it.

1 vote

I want to buy some PIE please.

17 votes

A prayer for the Rethugs and others

LostInTexas

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Saturday March 29, 2008 · 4:27 PM PDT

2008/03/29 · 16:27

I just got off the phone with my fundie sister. Yet another conversation that started off ok on technical Internet connectivity issues which turned out to be a bad router and then quickly devolved once the topic was turned (by her) to politics. Sigh. Then it went to religion and got worse.

She is depressed overall since for her the election was lost once McSame got the nomination. If Hillary is nominated my sister will vote against Hillary (for McSame, but she can't bring herself to vote for him.) She can't stand Obama and will not vote for him under any circumstances.

She is a typical Rethuglican fundie in that she would rather believe than think, totally believes anything they say on Fox News, knows all the verses in the Bible but doesn't seem to understand what the words actually mean, was on welfare at one point but now wants to pull the ladder up behind herself so no one else can "freeload".

LostInTexas

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Thursday November 08, 2007 · 6:09 PM PST

2007/11/08 · 18:09

I just saw it on MSNBC, the debate leading to the confirmation vot eis going on now! in the Senate.

LostInTexas

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Friday October 19, 2007 · 5:10 PM PDT

2007/10/19 · 17:10

Love thy enemy is what Jesus said. You never hear people say that any more either really. Not the Bush type of Christians for sure...but maybe we can hear more of it shortly.

I just read this story via Reuters and this could become a groundswell if it spreads. One Capt. Peter Brown, who has been in Iraq and graduated from West Point, has just managed to get out of the military as a conscientious objector due to his Christian beliefs.

LostInTexas

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Thursday July 12, 2007 · 6:48 AM PDT

2007/07/12 · 06:48

You have been doing well, especially Sen. Leahy in his excellent takedown of Sara Taylor here, but you have to keep it up to earn back our approval. Here is how you can start, maybe as early as today.

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Impeachment?

23 votes Vote Now!

Impeachment?

No, Bush is too useful to run against in '08.

5 votes

Yes, we must impeach Bush and Cheney

18 votes

Send the bill back up after the veto!

LostInTexas

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Tuesday April 24, 2007 · 5:00 PM PDT

2007/04/24 · 17:00

I just called Sen. Reid's and Rep. Pelosi's offices, and politely asked them to pass on a suggestion I just thought of.

Send the same Iraq bill back up.

I think that it will be very difficult to negotiate a new bill, and that if it gets changed too much we will lose votes and possibly get defeated in a vote.

LostInTexas

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Wednesday April 11, 2007 · 5:55 PM PDT

2007/04/11 · 17:55

I was just browsing, and noticed this little gem.

WASHINGTON - The White House said Wednesday it had mishandled Republican Party-sponsored e-mail accounts used by nearly two dozen presidential aides, resulting in the loss of an undetermined number of e-mails concerning official White House business.

I knew this was coming. They sure hate the sunlight Henry Waxman and Pat Leahy are shining on them, and I was frustrated after hearing about these emails initially, thinking to myself, "they are as good as gone now".

LostInTexas

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Saturday February 03, 2007 · 3:23 PM PST

2007/02/03 · 15:23

So I was sitting around today watching the news, reading some blogs, and there is this big debate on what exactly we should be calling the situation in Iraq after the release of the NIE.

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What should we call the situation in Iraq?

101 votes Vote Now!

What should we call the situation in Iraq?

Bush's Blunder

21 votes

Civil War Plus

4 votes

Civil War Minus

0 votes

A Catastrofuck

19 votes

Bin Laden's Wet Dream

15 votes

There is no word to describe how bad this has gotten

42 votes

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