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A couple reminders: I’ll be writing about the various elections throughout the night, so stick around. Also, I’ll be on Live From The Left Coast with Angie Coiro at 7pm PT/10pm ET tonight talking about the elections. You can hear it in San Francisco on Green960 AM, or stream it at Green960.com by clicking on “Listen Live.” They have a liveblog going as well.
Now, on to the non-election links:
• Not content with providing security for Afghanistan, the US appears to be writing legislation for them, a series of anti-corruption measures to help boost popular support for the central government. Karzai’s presence is certainly the wild card in the US strategy there.
• CNN’s poll shows President Obama at almost exactly the same level of support now that he achieved in the final results of the 2008 election. There’s been a lot of noise, but not so much has changed.
• Nebraska supports the public option, putting more pressure on a ConservaDem Senator, in this case Ben Nelson. And Howard Dean makes the moral case for upholding the will of the caucus and not joining with the Republicans to filibuster.
• Now that the public option appears in both health care bills, Organizing for America has started to include it in its letters to supporters asking them to pressure their members of Congress.
• I don’t see Iran being a partner with the West on much of anything after today’s outburst from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. But I’d rather watch actions than words.
• Read Scott Horton on the dismissal in the Maher Arar case. What a terrible decision by the Second Circuit Court.
• A man interrupted a hearing on same-sex marriage in DC and proposed to his male partner. A compelling story.
• I think any conservative group should probably refrain from using the phrase “turning our guns” on a member of the Obama Administration.
• Joe Wilson doesn’t know what the word “dithering” means.
• And Michele Bachmann called health care today “the Super Bowl of freedom”. I was a punter on the winning Super Bowl of Freedom team back in ’86.
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Goldman left foreign investors holding the subprime bag
“Inside the thick Goldman Sachs investment circular were the details of a secret, $2 billion deal channeled through a Caribbean tax haven. . . . Few of the potential investors knew it, but the ratings of many of the mortgage securities hid their true risks and, in some cases, Goldman’s descriptions exaggerated their quality.”
The old Cayman Islands trick, dontcha know. LINK.
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Sheila Bair continues to be a thorn (i.e., she sticks up for us), this time concerned that the Sec’y of the Treasury will have too much power (which was Timmie’s objective, n’est ce pas?). LINK.
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49% of all US children at some point will live in families receiving food stamps. LINK.
And David, this is BIG news as it shows exactly how the U.S. is being harmed (“That is, Israel says it can circumvent the President; it can circumvent the administration by going directly to Congress. And Netanyahu works the phones all the time with Congress. So, in a sense, it’s a kind of divide and rule.”) by Israel.
And if there is doubt regards what I say, see this.
AND note that the House refused to call Goldstone in to testify regards his report.
“”I think the UN report is unbalanced, and unfair, and inaccurate,” said Democratic House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.” ;so if others want to tell Hoyer what they think of his ability to ‘think’(note he doesn’t say anything about reading the report), they can write him here
Emmanuel,Hoyer,Schumer,Leiberman and many others ought to be required to register as agents of a foreign power becuase that is exactly what they are when it comes to Israel.