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Posts tagged "debt"

Optics and Policy with Mike Huckabee

Optics and Policy with Mike Huckabee
In the wake of the downgrade of America’s credit rating by Standard and Poor’s, former presidential candidate and Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is out with a solution to America’s fiscal mess: hire Donald Trump! No, Huckabee does not want to start a movement to draft the birther-businessman to run for the presidency. Instead, Huckabee wants... Read more »
By thelowedown,
August 6, 2011 at 7:52 pm
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Illinois Lawmakers Blow Through Self-Imposed Budget Deadline

Bleeding Red Ink Get ready for more threats, demands, and gimmicks. Tonight, Illinois legislators scurried out of Springfield without passing a budget for the state. While Illinois law requires the lawmakers to have a budget by May 31st or risk a state shutdown and/or overtime legislative session, party leadership set today’s date as their deadline. Will... Read more »
By thelowedown,
May 8, 2010 at 1:01 am
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Sarah Palin's Oil Spill Advice

Sarah Palin, the former Governor of Alaska who quit on the citizens of her state to make money on national politics, offered some advice on energy policy that related to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.   She tweeted: “Gulf: learn from Alaska’s lesson w/foreign oil co’s: don’t naively trust- VERIFY. Livelihood... Read more »
By thelowedown,
May 6, 2010 at 3:49 pm
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ComEd Tries To Bribe Illinois With Promise of Cash Donation

Commonwealth Edison Company, the northern Illinois electric company, and Exelon Corporation, its parent company and and major energy company, offered the state of Illinois a cash infusion of $500 million to help plug the Illinois budget hole. Sounds great, right? Not so much. It would have given up the money on the condition that it... Read more »
By thelowedown,
May 5, 2010 at 8:29 pm
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