k*****e
发帖数: 22013 | 1 网上放出了Romney 2002年为gay pride做的宣传画
不过Romney矢口否认，说不知道这画从哪来的。
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/08/republican-debate-mitt
CONCORD, NH -- Mitt Romney's presidential campaign on Sunday disavowed a
flyer that claimed he supported "equal rights" for gay citizens and has long
been reported to have been distributed by the Massachusetts Republican
during his 2002 campaign for governor.
Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney's chief spokesman, told The Huffington Post that the
flyers were not official literature from ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24887 | 2 http://www.chron.com/news/article/NJ-gov-fires-a-zinger-in-feud
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The verbal feud over gay marriage in New Jersey got
more personal Monday with Gov. Chris Christie firing a slang term at a
lawmaker, and a hero of the Civil Rights movement chastising the governor
for a separate remark.
Christie called openly gay Assemblyman Reed Gusciora "numb nuts" during a
Statehouse news conference — his response to the lawmaker comparing him to
former segregationist governors in the South.
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发帖数: 4174 | 3 Posted on Advocate.com February 07, 2012 06:00:00 PM ET
New Jersey Lawmakers to Vote on Gay Marriage Next Week
By Julie Bolcer
CHRIS CHRISTIE STATE HOUSE NEW JERSEY X390 (GETTY FAIR) | ADVOCATE.COM
Legislative leaders in New Jersey expect to pass the marriage equality bill
next week, although Governor Chris Christie has vowed to veto the measure
and a new poll shows that a majority of voters support his call for a
referendum.
Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver issued a statement late Monday after
su... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 4 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is backing a push by the pro-
LGBT rights organization Freedom to Marry to include marriage equality in
the 2012 Democratic Party platform, Chris Geidner of Metro Weekly reported
on Wednesday.
This week, Freedom to Marry launched the "Democrats: Say I Do" campaign to
promote the drive to get Democrats to include a pro-gay marriage segment in
their platform, which will officially be ratified at the party's national
convention in September. The languag... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 5 http://metroweekly.com/poliglot/2012/02/house-minority-leader-n
The change to the Democratic Party platform would be a significant
advancement for marriage equality advocates.
In 2008, the platform stated that the party "oppose[d] the Defense of
Marriage Act and that it "supported ... equal responsibilities, benefits and
protections." It took no position on marriage equality.
In 2004, the platform opposed the Federal Marriage Amendment backed by then-
President George W. Bush but, as to marriage... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 6 Posted on Advocate.com February 29, 2012 11:02:40 AM ET
Poll: Record Support for Marriage in California
By Andrew Harmon
PROP 8 SIGNS (COURTESY) | ADVOCATE.COM
Support for marriage equality in the nation’s most populous state has a
reached a record high, according to a Field Poll released Wednesday.
The poll of about 1,000 California voters finds 59% in favor of marriage
rights for same-sex couples, with 34% opposed.
Field notes:
This division of sentiment is nearly a complete reversal of the fi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 7 Poll Shows Record New Jersey Support for Gay Marriage
By Julie Bolcer
CHRIS CHRISTIE 201110 X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
A new poll indicates a record high of support for same-sex marriage among
New Jersey voters in the days after Governor Chris Christie vetoed the bill,
although a solid majority of voters also approves of his proposal to put
the issue on the ballot this fall.
Bloomberg reports on the findings of the Quinnipiac University poll released
Thursday, almost two weeks after the governo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 8 WASHINGTON -- The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is the leading
group fighting the legalization of same-sex marriage around the country. It
has raised and spent millions, opposing not only marriage equality but also
civil unions.
Yet NOM is now backing legislation in New Hampshire that would repeal same-
sex marriage but legalize civil unions, signaling a shift in its tactics as
more states move toward recognizing marriage equality.
The New Hampshire House is expected to vote Wednesday... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 9 A new Gallup poll finds that half of Americans believe same-sex marriages
should be legally recognized, the second time a majority has supported the
issue in a Gallup poll.
CNN reports on the poll, which found that 50% of respondents said same-sex
marriages should be recognized as legal, while 48% said the unions should
not be legal. This compares with last year’s Gallup poll that found 53% of
Americans in support, the first time that a majority favored the issue since
polling began in 1996. The... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 10 Below is a remarkable document. It's a memo circulated by Jan van Lohuizen,
a highly respected Republican pollster, (he polled for George W. Bush in
2004), to various leading Republican operatives, candidates and insiders.
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n view of this week’s news on the same sex marriage issue, here is a
summary of recent survey findings on same sex marriage:
1. Support for same sex marriage has been growing and in the last few years
support has grown at an acce... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 11 The man considered one of our greatest living gay authors, and a leading
proponent of liberation not assimilation for LGBT folks, says he's had a
change of heart about same-sex marriage. "Just like Barack Obama, my views
on gay marriage have evolved," he wrote in The Guardian."And now I am a
reluctant groom."
White says that Obama's decision is historic, but not isolated, and as
American's have increasingly come out in support of marriage equality the
pioneering author has "evolved" in his affir... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 12 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/18/zach-wahls-lobbies-con
WASHINGTON -- You may not recognize him by name, but Zach Wahls is known by
millions as the teenager who gave powerful testimony to an Iowa House
committee in January 2011 in support of his two moms. The video of his
speech became the top viral political video of 2011 and landed him TV
appearances with Ellen DeGeneres and David Letterman, among others.
Now 20 years old, Wahls has written a book, traveled the country talking
about th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2153 | 13 Around 150 Mormons have quit in a mass resignation ceremony over the church
’s opposition to gay marriage and polygamy.
Saturday’s ceremony in Salt Lake City drew Mormons from Utah, Arizona and
Idaho. Participants gathered to sign a ‘Declaration of Independence from
Mormonism’.
Those who resigned cited equal marriage, ‘racist’ or ‘sexist’ teachings
and inconsistencies in doctrine on polygamy as reasons for leaving the faith
. The mass ceremony is unusual, as Mormonism encourages a culture of
obe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 14 Campaigners that hope to reverse Iowa’s status as a Midwestern outpost for
marriage equality appear to be losing their opportunity to win a public vote
because of increasing acceptance for same-sex marriage and lack of interest
even among conservative Republican voters and lawmakers.
The Associated Press reports on the changes since 2009, when Iowa became the
first state in its region to allow same-sex couples to marry after a
unanimous state supreme court decision. Conservative activists includ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 15 LOS ANGELES — Bill Delaney’s two little girls spend three nights a week
with their fathers, at the home Mr. Delaney shares with his husband in San
Francisco. The other nights, they stay with their mothers, a lesbian couple
who live nearby.
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Sean Kane of Portland, Ore., adopted his wife’s children from her first
marriage but did not want their biological father’s legal relationship to
be severed. So he pursued a third-parent adoption.
National Twitter Logo.
Connect With Us on Tw... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 16 还是谈正事吧，看来会３赢１输，如果是真的，就太TMD的牛了。
http://blog.outtakeonline.com/2012/09/gay-marriage-november-bal
This is a crucial election year for gay marriage with it appearing on the
November ballot in 4 states. Support for gay marriage continues to soar in
Washington State with Referendum 74 advancing 56-38 percent in the latest
SurveyUSA poll of Washington voters. Washington United for Marriage (WUM),
the coalition working to defend the state's marriage law announced that more
than 5,000 new donors helped r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 17 Rhode Island moved one big step closer to marriage equality today with the
House of Representatives approving the bill.
On Tuesday it had moved out of committee for the first time in all of the
previous attempts made during the last 11 years and went to the floor of the
state House, where it passed 51-19 today, led by out House speaker Gordon
Fox and the bill's author, Arthur Handy. But next up is what is still
considered by many to be the legislation's greatest hurdle — the Senate.
Senate presi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 18 Poll: Marriage Equality Is Imminent
Bipartisan support for legal recognition of couples is growing, and 83% say
marriage equality will happen within the next 10 years.
Three-quarters of voters say that the right to marriage is a constitutional
right, and 83% say they believe marriage equality will become legal in the U
.S. within the next decade.
According to a poll of 800 participants by the Anzalone Liszt Grove Research
, the support for marriage equality, or at least relationship recognition,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 19 Obama Asks Supreme Court to Invalidate Prop. 8
The Obama administration filed a friend of the court brief asking the
Supreme Court to overturn California's Proposition 8.
BY SUNNIVIE BRYDUM FEBRUARY 28 2013 3:08 PM ET UPDATED: MARCH 01 2013 12:06
PM ET
President Obama met Thursday's deadline and filed a "friend of the court"
brief with the Supreme Court as it considers whether to overturn Proposition
8. The administration already filed a brief opposing the so-called Defense
of Marriage Act, but ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 20 Queen Elizabeth 'Stands Up' for Gay Rights Without Mentioning Them
While Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is being hailed as a progressive leader
for signing a new Commonwealth charter that opposes discrimination based on
gender, LGBT activists note that the monarch has never actually uttered the
words 'gay' or 'lesbian.'
Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday backed a new commonwealth charter for the
United Kingdom, which some are saying indicated the monarch's support for
LGBT equality. But as Zack Ford at ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 21 3 to Go: Another Senate Democrat Says He Favors Marriage Equality
Sen. Tim Johnson was one of the last remaining holdouts in the Senate among
Democrats on marriage equality but announced today that he's "evolved."
Johnson is retiring at the end of this term as South Dakota's senator, and
his son Brendan is considered a possible candidate to replace him in 2014.
"After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support
marriage equality legislation," he said in a statement relea... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24887 | 22 http://nyti.ms/LKYVce
Mark R. Herring, the Virginia attorney general, center, said that Virginia
had been on the wrong side of other civil rights fights, including
segregation. Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch, via Associated Press
Asserting that Virginia had too often been on the “wrong side” of justice
on civil rights matters, the state attorney general asked a federal court on
Thursday to invalidate the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, calling the
law unconstitutional and oppressive.
The mo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 22013 | 23 Emory教授预测，Utah的上诉案已经宣判，如果最高法院接受上诉，明年即可宣判。判
决结果很可能是全国各州均必须接受同婚。
全文在此：
http://news.emory.edu/stories/2014/06/er_emory_expert_predicts_
Same-sex marriage will be legal nationwide as early as next year, Emory
expert predicts
By Laura Douglas-Brown | Emory Report | June 25, 2014
Story image
June 26 marks the first anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic
decision in United States v. Windsor, which required the federal government
to recognize legal same-sex marriages.
The U.S. Supreme Court wi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2136 | 24 【 以下文字转载自 WorldNews 讨论区 】
发信人: whiteclouds (/ 参考消息 /), 信区: WorldNews
标 题: 诺贝尔奖背后的政治
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Oct 13 23:20:19 2010, 美东)
Nobel Politics
10/13/10, Stephen Lendman
Since first awarded in 1901, Nobel Peace recognition went to 98 individuals
and 23 organizations. Last year, another war criminal won, Barack Obama, one
among many previous ones. A earlier article on the Nobel Committee's long
and inglorious tradition may be accessed through THIS link.
Nearly always, politics, not merit, deter... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3620 | 25 (CNN) -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi fired back Sunday at a CBS News'
"60 Minutes" report that highlighted several instances of what it suggested
could be "soft corruption."
The show looked at the investments of various lawmakers -- including Pelosi,
House Speaker John Boehner and Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama --
who reportedly bought stocks around the same time legislation involving
those investments was being discussed.
Pelosi and her husband participated in an initial publi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1055 | 26
And you seriously believe what NPR said? It has been on the front end since
the day Obama started running for presidency.
I just saw a poll that out of over 1000 physicians surveyed, over 60%
opposed this plan, and 40% actually said they'd consider leaving their
practice if it passed.
BTW, today's rasmussen poll just reached a new high: 55% of people oppose it
now! as people read through this bill, more people will get turned off.
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发帖数: 29846 | 28 http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N05210230.htm
Most Californians oppose legalizing marijuana-poll
05 Oct 2010 22:42:28 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Poll shows most Democrats support legalization
* Republicans strongly against, independents divided
* Prop. 19 would let local governments regulate sales
By Peter Henderson
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Hopes that California will become the first
state in the nation to legalize marijuana appear to be turning into a pipe
dream.
Voters plan to oppo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 Our nation is being strangled with inconceivable, unconscionable, and
massive amounts of debt. Unrestrained political correctness runs amok among
us. Our Congressmen and women are buying and bribing reelection through out
of control “earmark” spending only to satisfy the pleasure and greed of
their local supporters. At the same time they are crafting for themselves
retirement plans that make them instant lifetime millionaires and exempting
themselves from a health care plan they are force feedin... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 30 http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/democrats-are-losing-women/
Ever since the abortion debate burst on the American political scene in the
wake of the Roe v Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, women have voted
more Democratic than men. Particularly unmarried women have since typically
backed Democratic candidates – attracted by their pro-choice positions –
by
between ten and twenty points in each election.
But now the trend has stopped! In one of the most important findings in the
post-election... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 Published on TheHill.com on January 4, 2011
The pas-de-deux between the Republican House and the Democratic president
and Senate can get old pretty quickly. The Republican House passes repeal of
ObamaCare. The Senate either kills it or Obama vetoes it. The Republican
House passes spending cuts. The Senate ... you get the drift.
The only way to break the deadlock and proceed with the urgent task of
rolling back the Obama agenda is to use three key confrontations: 1. The
debt limit extension 2. Th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 By Marvin Folkertsma
Americans looking for entertainment need only to observe controversies
surrounding the fiscal follies of February, which have metastasized from the
budget proposals of the nation's capital to a dozen or so state capitals.
At the center of the most interesting fracas stands Wisconsin's newly
elected Republican governor, whose position is depicted by his opponents as
comparable to the stance taken by the Bastille's luckless commander in 1789.
More sober heads might rather sear... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 巴基斯坦少数社群事务部长Shahbaz Bhatti遇刺身亡，他是天主教徒，正着手修改巴基
斯坦的“渎神法”
Pakistan’s religious minorities minister, Shahbaz Bhatti, was killed by
gunmen Wednesday in the capital, Islamabad. A Christian, Bhatti had received
threats from Islamist militants for his efforts to reform the country's
blasphemy laws.
By News Wires (text)
AP - Gunmen shot and killed Pakistan’s government minister for religious
minorities on Wednesday, the latest attack on a high-profile Pakistani
figure who had urged reforming harsh blasph... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 http://articles.boston.com/2011-04-27/news/29479557_1_unions-ob
House votes to restrict unions
Measure would curb bargaining on health care
April 27, 2011|By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff
House lawmakers voted overwhelmingly last night to strip police officers,
teachers, and other municipal employees of most of their rights to bargain
over health care, saying the change would save millions of dollars for
financially strapped cities and towns.
The 111-to-42 vote followed tougher measures to broad... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 35 美国众议院拒绝奥巴马提升借债额度要求，318票反对，包括82个民主党议员，97票支持
U.S. House Defeats Debt Ceiling Measure Democrats Call ‘Charade’
Tuesday, 31 May 2011 07:38 PM
Legislation to raise the U.S. debt limit by $2.4 trillion failed to win
House approval today in a vote Democrats said was rigged to ensure its
defeat.
Republicans who control the House last week announced the vote as a way to
demonstrate that lawmakers don’t support extending the $14.3 trillion debt
limit without an agreement with President Barack Obama’s admi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 36 【 以下文字转载自 QueerNews 讨论区 】
发信人: globalized (球球), 信区: QueerNews
标 题: Major Breakthroughs on Marriage Equality in New York
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jun 13 20:02:39 2011, 美东)
Posted on Advocate.com June 13, 2011 07:10:00 PM ET
Major Breakthroughs on Marriage Equality in New York
By Julie Bolcer
James Alesi x390 (pub) | ADVOCATE.COM
James Alesi
A statement of support from James Alesi, the first Republican state senator
to publicly announce he would vote yes on the marriage equality bill in New
York, capp... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 37 At the end of a Washington Post op-ed criticizing John McCain for labeling
Republicans who oppose intervention in the Libyan war “isolationists,”
George Will writes (emphasis added):
Regarding Libya, McCain on Sunday said, “I wonder what Ronald Reagan
would be saying today.” Wondering is speculation; we know this:
When a terrorist attack that killed 241 Marines and other troops taught
Reagan the folly of deploying them at Beirut airport with a vague mission
and dangerous rules of engagem... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 897 | 38 WASHINGTON (AP) — Having to buy a squiggly fluorescent light bulb is an
affront to personal freedom, some lawmakers are saying as the House decides
whether to overturn a law setting new energy-efficiency standards for the
bulbs.
House Republicans are pushing legislation that would overturn measures in a
2007 energy act requiring efficiency upgrades in the old-fashioned
incandescent light bulb, little changed since it was invented by Thomas
Edison in 1879.
Republicans say the new standards, signe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 By Richard Baehr
The Obama administration wants to "pivot" to jobs. A bit late, I would say.
They wasted a year pushing health care reform. That passed with zero
Republican votes in the House and Senate, and about the same number of
Republican ideas. When the Democrats controlled both branches of Congress
and the White House, they shoved their approach down the throats of
Republican in Congress, and an American public that opposed it then, and
still opposes the legislation by a 3-to-2 margi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 40 Washington (CNN) -- A federal appeals court has tossed out key provisions of
the sweeping health care reform bill championed by President Obama, setting
up a likely election-year showdown at the Supreme Court over the landmark
legislation.
A 2-1 panel of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta on Friday
found that the law's "individual mandate" section -- requiring nearly all
Americans to purchase health insurance by 2014 or face financial penalties -
- was an improper exercise of fede... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 41 By Chad Stafko
The City of Columbus, Ohio was greeted by a number of Ohio State University
medical students and individuals from the Investing in Tobacco-Free Youth
Coalition in March of this year. The group touted a poll which found that
more than 60% of Ohio voters favored a tax increase of $0.75 per pack of
cigarettes and nearly the same percent favored a larger tax of $1.25/pack.
A similar poll was conducted in North Carolina earlier this year. It found
that about two out of every three li... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 42 September 20, 2011
By Robert Gelinas
The decision of who will become the next president of the United States will
be made long before November of 2012. After the current president's most
recent tour de farce before a joint session of Congress, it is rapidly
becoming a foregone conclusion who it's not going to be.
The Obama-adoring New York Times concedes that their manufactured politician
may be in deep trouble as his own base begins to abandon him. Independents
have already done so. The righ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 43 尽管支持加税的公立教师工会有20：1的经费优势
Colorado voters make a stand (mostly)
In the only state-wide tax increase on any state’s ballot this year,
Colorado voters yesterday offered a resounding “No!".
Proposition 103 would have raised the state income tax rate from 4.63
percent to 5 percent, and the state sales tax from 2.9 percent to 3 percent,
expecting to extract about $3 billion from Coloradoans over five years with
the money earmarked for public education. The measure’s supporters –
primarily teachers’ uni... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 44 Obama Putting Election Concerns Ahead of Jobs by Deferring Keystone XL
Pipeline Decision, Critics Say
By Susan Jones
November 11, 2011
Pipeline Lawsuit
On Thursday, Obama dodged a politically sensitive situation by deferring a
long-awaited decision on extending TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline
further into the United States.
Labor unions -- a key Obama constituency -- support the pipeline extension
because of the union jobs it would create, but environmental activists and
anti-'Big Oil' groups... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 White House opposes GOP-led balanced budget amendment
By Erik Wasson - 11/15/11 03:57 PM ET
The White House on Tuesday announced it opposes a balanced budget amendment
to the Constitution that is coming to a vote in the House later this week.
President Obama does not need to sign a proposed Constitutional amendment,
which is sent directly to the states for ratification if two-thirds of the
House and Senate approve of it. Because of this, the statement of
administration policy does not include a ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 865 | 46 不知倒是谁在混淆事实。
in 2011, democrats have proposed their own version of the bill to extend the
payroll tax cut, but Republicans oppose its plan to pay for it with higher
taxes on people making more than $1 million a year.
Democrats also oppose a number of other parts of the bill that republic
passed, including a provision that would force a quick decision on a
controversial oil pipeline.
In 2010, "Obama announced last night he’ll accept a deal that would extend
current tax rates for high- income taxpa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 47 WASHINGTON — Their poll numbers sinking, their constituents badly bruised
by economic hardship and with millions of American workers about to get a
sudden and unexpected tax increase, what are members of Congress discussing?
Shutting down the government. Again.
For the third time in a year, the divided 112th Congress is dancing on the
edge of catastrophe, locked in a bitter partisan battle over fiscal measures
, with unrelated policy debates clinging to the side.
Republicans and Democrats do not... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 48 Washington (CNN) -- Senate negotiators were unable to work out a
comprehensive deal on extending the payroll tax cut and instead are
proposing a two-month extension, two sources said Friday.
The possible deal was being discussed with the caucuses of both parties in
separate meetings Friday evening. To move forward, it would have to be
approved by the full Senate in a vote that could come as soon as Saturday,
and then voted on by the House.
According to a top Senate Republican source and a Democr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 49 Washington (CNN) -- Congress showed little sign Tuesday of resolving its
partisan standoff over the payroll tax-cut extension as the Republican-
controlled House of Representatives refused to hold a vote on a Senate
proposal, and leaders in the Democratic-controlled Senate insisted they won'
t go along with a new House plan.
As the clock ticked down, nobody appeared willing to bend and neither side
seemed to know how to break the logjam.
The Senate voted 89-10 in favor of a two-month tax-cut ext... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2273 | 50 It's only fitting that House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) would close
the year with one more act of brinksmanship. Boehner announced Sunday that
he opposed the bipartisan deal in the Senate on a stopgap extension of soon-
to-expire payroll tax cuts, unemployment benefits and Medicare payment rates
for physicians — a deal that he reportedly urged his caucus to accept,
only to have other members of his leadership team oppose it. The Senate
proposal was far from perfect, but it gave the House G... 阅读全帖 |
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