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...According to the Financial Times, "Hopes that GM can follow a similarly rapid path through court are being dimmed by a building backlash from lawmakers, some of whom are claiming that creditors' rights are being given short shrift, while others complain about job cuts and the closure of dealerships...
...Communists before they get better. Their defeats stem in part from a record of poor governance in the states where they draw most of their support; in West Bengal, a move by the ruling Communists to take land from peasants for private industrial projects led to a voter backlash in May's elections. Party insiders expect the outcome of state assembly elections in 2011 will end their already thin grip on power, and a growing schism between CPI-M politicians pushing for capitalist reforms and the more orthodox intellectual elite in New Delhi have led many anti-Communist critics...
...claims for their housing. Tory grandee Douglas Hogg announced today that he will stand down at the next election, after billing the public purse for maintenance of his moated Lincolnshire mansion. And there's evidence that all three main parties - Labour, Conservatives (Tory) and Liberal Democrats - could feel the backlash against Westminster's culture of venality at the European and local elections scheduled for June 4. One poll found that 27% of voters were considering switching their support to a small party, with the biggest winners being the Greens, the Eurosceptic UK Independence Party and the far-right British National...
Obama's opposition to Bush's nominations may earn him some backlash from Senate Republicans. Souter (who received a relatively easy confirmation in 1990) is viewed as a liberal judge, so an Obama replacement may not upset the court's balance. Time will tell if that's enough to avoid getting borked...
...started it in November 2003, just two years after 9/11. We wanted to share something that defined us accurately and didn't have to do with terrorism. My life changed because of 9/11 and the backlash against it. A lot of us had thought we were basically white people; we realized we were really a minority and didn't know...