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No Offshore Drilling: Yes, I mean Obama, too

By Karoli August 3, 2008 Bush Administration, Congress, Domestic Policy, Election 2008 No Comments

Last Friday’s hot news of the day, spun for your listening and viewing pleasure, was the rather breathless report that Barack Obama had reversed his stance on offshore drilling, which…

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FISA: Democrats Capitulate to the GOP – Where’s Obama?

By Karoli June 20, 2008 Bush Administration, Domestic Policy, Election 2008 No Comments

Silent, that’s where. On a day where he announces (wisely) that he will decline public funding, the Democrats in Congress bow backwards to the GOP and say ‘put it right…

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Organizing for Obama: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Resolve

By Karoli June 18, 2008 Barack Obama, Election 2008 No Comments

Four years ago I was sure there wasn’t another Democrat living in this city. It wasn’t an unreasonable thing to believe, given that our representative is a 5-term Republican who…

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McCain-Obama Tax Proposals, Crunched

By Karoli June 13, 2008 Domestic Policy, Election 2008 No Comments

Here’s a screen capture of the bottom line numbers, as crunched by CNN. The entire video is available on Mother Jones blog. This further illustrates the point I was making…

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Obama and McCain’s Tax Policies Compared

By Karoli June 13, 2008 Domestic Policy, Election 2008 No Comments

The Tax Policy Center has done an analysis of the tax plans put forth by Barack Obama and John McCain. The conclusions are interesting. From the abstract: On “corporate welfare”:…

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Obama Resigns from Trinity – Are we happy now?

By Karoli May 31, 2008 Election 2008 No Comments

He was left with little choice, but it makes me sad. Churches should not become political footballs.

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