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October 10, 2013

Treasury Bill ‘Fret Ceiling’ Breached : ‘Mr. Speaker, Wall Street On The Line . . . Mr. Speaker?! . . . Anybody?’

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March 2, 2013

Unemployed D.C. Duck Forced Her Newly-Born Children To Protest Sequester At Department of Interior!

Huffington Post reports that on March 1st, with the sequester to begin at 12:00 a.m. on the 2nd, children are being used to protest the upcoming cut-off of funds for programs American ducks rely upon, Ducklings only a week or two old converged on the D.C. headquarters of the U.S. Department of Interior . . .

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February 18, 2013

Senator Lindsay Graham, The Sequester, Defense Cuts, And The Swaying Palmetto State Economy

Michael Matthew Bloomer, February 18, 2013 Much of the time South Carolina’s Senator Lindsey Graham reminds me of a grade school pest, someone you want to swat away. Lately his insistence on “Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi!”...

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February 17, 2013

Snapshot Series : The GOP’s Infrastructure Policy In One Picture

Michael Matthew Bloomer, Feb. 17, 2013 Until a bridge collapses on Paul Ryan, here’s the GOP’s infrastructure policy. (For background on infrastructure policy, see The Ongoing GOP Attack On America’s Infrastructure) Please follow and...

The Ongoing GOP Attack On America’s Infrastructure

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February 17, 2013

The Ongoing GOP Attack On America’s Infrastructure

“Mr. Mica said of his House colleagues, ‘They wouldn’t vote on a Mother’s Day resolution if it had extra spending on it.’“1 In August 2012, Mark Thoma, economist and Fellow at the American Century...

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December 31, 2012

Fiscal Cliff, New Year’s Eve : Democrats, Biden – ‘We Won The Election, Let’s Surrender,’ Progressive Push Needed

Michael Matthew Bloomer, December 31, 2012 Fiscal Cliff, New Year’s Eve : Democrats, Biden – ‘We Won The Election, Let’s Surrender.’ Progressive Push Needed I awakened to find this on my computer screen, courtesy...

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December 30, 2012

Fiscal Cliff Countdown : Unchain Us, Senator Reid, From Chained CPI

Fiscal Cliff Countdown : Unchain Us, Majority Leader Reid, From Chained CPI Michael Matthew Bloomer, December 30, 2012 On Friday I wrote that a fiscal cliff deal that would appeal to enough GOP House and Senate legislators...

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December 30, 2012

Fiscal Cliff Deadline Looming: Social Security & The Payroll Tax Holiday? How To Tie Republican Ideology In Knots.

December 30, 2012 . . . NOTE: This posting is a republication of a piece I wrote in December 2011. It has application to the present “fiscal cliff” negotiations that some believe will result in...

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December 28, 2012

Three Days Until Fiscal Cliff — Will A House Progressive Uprising Scuttle A Deal?

Three Days Until Fiscal Cliff — Will A House Progressive Uprising Scuttle A Deal? By Michael Matthew Bloomer, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Deadlines imminent! Tea Party cooperation missing! Economy jeopardized! Progressives restive! Obama miffed!...

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December 10, 2012

Seven Fiscal Cliff Nightmares That Haunt John Boehner’s Sleepy Time Time

by Michael Matthew Bloomer, December 10, 2012 John Boehner, the wily Speaker of the House, is trying to simultaneously outthink and outmaneuver virtually everyone during the battle over the so-called “fiscal cliff.” He knows...

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