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F U G O P : Homeland Security Through Obscurity

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Not So Good Blogs. Homeland Security Through Obscurity. From over the weekend. The administration is contemplating removing security placards from train cars that warn about dangerous chemical contents, ostensibly to make it harder for terrorists to identify targets. In effect, it will make it harder for first responders to deal with accidents and put people in the vicinity at risk. Gary Bass of OMB Watch. Posted by David at 2:03 PM. GOP Senate Extends Bankruptcy Protection to Terror.

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F U G O P : Lugar on Bolton

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Not So Good Blogs. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Dick Lugar is. Going to reserve any comments about the appropriateness or not of the president's choice [of John Bolton for UN Ambassador]." "Lugar wants to meet with Bolton 'before discussing his support,' Lugar spokesman Andy Fisher" told the Los Angeles Times. Mr Fisher told the Washington Post. John Bolton will have to be voted out of Lugar's Committee on Foreign Relations. And one next Tuesday. Posted by David at 11:44 PM. Homeland Secur...

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F U G O P : GOP Senate Extends Bankruptcy Protection to Terrorists

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Not So Good Blogs. GOP Senate Extends Bankruptcy Protection to Terrorists. In the first abortion-related test of the new Congress, the Republican-controlled Senate turned back a Democratic effort Tuesday to bar violent protesters from using bankruptcy to avoid payment of court judgments. The 53-46 vote cleared one of the few remaining obstacles to passage of major bankruptcy legislation that is high on the GOP legislative agenda. Posted by David at 2:00 PM. Wall Street and Privatization.

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F U G O P : Democracy Corp Offers Bad Advice

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Not So Good Blogs. Democracy Corp Offers Bad Advice. I agree with Josh Marshall. Particularly Max) : Carville and Greenberg. Need to shut the fuck up. The only Social Security reform agenda I would support is one that would seek to make the bonds held by the trust fund legally enforceable. Either the trustees or individual retirees need to be able to sue to ensure that the money borrowed from American workers is repaid by the general fund. Update, 2:56 PM EST. Posted by David at 1:40 PM.

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F U G O P : New Cases of Private Information Theft

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Not So Good Blogs. New Cases of Private Information Theft. Lexis Nexis's Seisint unit was breached. With 32,000 names, addresses, social security numbers, and driver license numbers captured. An indeterminate but "sizable" number of customers at DSW Shoe Warehouse had their credit card information captured. From a corporate database. Posted by David at 12:14 PM. Boltons Last Confirmation Hearing. Bottom Dropping Out of Privatization. Republican Assault on AARP. Moderate Republicans Squishy on Tax Cuts.

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F U G O P : Social Security's Safety Net for Women

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Not So Good Blogs. Social Security's Safety Net for Women. Dr Bitch has a great post. About how women’s choices early in their careers have major long-term effects on everything from the ability to compete in the job market and earn a competitive salary, to the size of their retirement plans and Social Security checks. She raises a host of extremely important issues. But what about women who might want to get an advanced degree. Have children, all without (god help them) wanting to get married?

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F U G O P : Rhetoric

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Not So Good Blogs. Digby highlights a rhetorical trick. The Roberts Committee Report almost exclusively quotes material to criticize Joe Wilson, using paraphrases to present counter positions. The effect is to subtly highlight the authority of the critics, while giving much bolder statements for quotation down the line. Very clever (must remember). Posted by David at 8:04 AM. National Sales Tax: Flat Out Bad Idea. Social Securitys Safety Net for Women. New Cases of Private Information Theft.

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F U G O P : Social Security Testimony

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Not So Good Blogs. The opening Congressional hearings in the Social Security debate. Walker's testimony will eventually be available here. And the highlights here. Posted by David at 2:03 PM. New Cases of Private Information Theft. Boltons Last Confirmation Hearing. Bottom Dropping Out of Privatization. Republican Assault on AARP. Moderate Republicans Squishy on Tax Cuts. Homeland Security Through Obscurity. GOP Senate Extends Bankruptcy Protection to Terror. Wall Street and Privatization.

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F U G O P : Comptroller General David Walker Dislikes GWB

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Not So Good Blogs. Comptroller General David Walker Dislikes GWB. Just received in my inbox, a press advisory from the GAO:. The US. Government Accountability Office today is releasing a report from a forum of experts that sought to address ways to improve public understanding of the nation's growing fiscal imbalance. The report is available on the GAO website at www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt? Continuing on our present path will gradually erode, if not suddenly damage, our economy, our standard of living, a...