"Aspirational" -- Semantically identical to, "I won't come in your mouth"... "Center/right" -- Neither "Right" nor "Left" have any coherent meaning any more, and "Center" never mean[t] anything anyway.
"Call off the dogs" is the message Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson (D) reportedly sent a coalition of Republican attorneys general examining the constitutionality of the Senate's healthcare bill. That request, made by Nelson's chief of staff to South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster on Thursday, arrives just days after 13 states' top prosecutors signaled they would examine the legality of the bill's Medicaid provisions, which in part won Democrats Nelson's vote.
"Call off the dogs" is the message Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson (D) reportedly sent a coalition of Republican attorneys general examining the constitutionality of the Senate's healthcare bill.
That request, made by Nelson's chief of staff to South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster on Thursday, arrives just days after 13 states' top prosecutors signaled they would examine the legality of the bill's Medicaid provisions, which in part won Democrats Nelson's vote.
An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens. To minimize expected losses in next fall's election, President Barack Obama's party is testing a line of attack that resurrects George W. Bush as a boogeyman and castigates Republicans as cozy with Wall Street. It's not a bad idea. But it would have been a little bit more believable if the Democrats hadn't spent the last year scrupulously "looking forward not backward" and coddling Wall Street and the banksters.
An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens. To minimize expected losses in next fall's election, President Barack Obama's party is testing a line of attack that resurrects George W. Bush as a boogeyman and castigates Republicans as cozy with Wall Street.
To minimize expected losses in next fall's election, President Barack Obama's party is testing a line of attack that resurrects George W. Bush as a boogeyman and castigates Republicans as cozy with Wall Street.
It's not a bad idea. But it would have been a little bit more believable if the Democrats hadn't spent the last year scrupulously "looking forward not backward" and coddling Wall Street and the banksters.
The year might be winding down, but United Nations member states are already looking three years ahead: On Monday, the General Assembly declared 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives. ... To most Americans, the image of a worker co-ops conjures up notions of a hippie venture. But collective business models have been embraced all over the world and have recently started gaining traction in U.S. cities like Cleveland, Ohio.
The year might be winding down, but United Nations member states are already looking three years ahead: On Monday, the General Assembly declared 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives. ...
To most Americans, the image of a worker co-ops conjures up notions of a hippie venture. But collective business models have been embraced all over the world and have recently started gaining traction in U.S. cities like Cleveland, Ohio.