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...Wall Street is lobbying furiously to try to block the CFPA, and Republican congressional leaders have denounced the idea as big-government overreach that would harm consumers by stifling innovation - especially if bank basher (and TARP watchdog) Elizabeth Warren, the intellectual godmother of the agency, gets to run it. Some finance-friendly Democrats have been resistant as well. The new agency was included in the financial reforms the House of Representatives passed along party lines in December, but it has been a stumbling block as the Senate has struggled to put together a bipartisan bill, and even the House version...
...that open-minded, independent spirit has been in short supply this fall. The McCain campaign brought its red-meat attack strategy to the peninsula - featuring his running mate, conservative Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who suggested at a rally in Clearwater that Obama was an America basher who "worked with terrorists." It has also started contacting voters with automated, so-called robo-calls identifying Obama along with former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Nor did it help last week when McCain, complaining about the admittedly boneheaded voter-registration tactics of left-leaning activist groups like ACORN, somewhat petulantly suggested that Democrat-engineered...
...gods have trumped Rosie O'Donnell: she's announced her resignation from The View, citing a contract dispute with ABC. Vocal O'Donnell basher Donald Trump, with whom the outspoken comedian has conducted a colorful public feud, shared a different theory with FOX NEWS: "Barbara [Walters] is the happiest person in the world that Rosie's been fired." SCORE...
...true maverick, and not just a liberal Republican or a Bush-basher. Despite all polls to the contrary, he calls for ever more troops in Iraq. He has joined Bush to fight hard-line conservatives and the bulk of the GOP on immigration reform. He is one of the only GOP’ers to say America should be worried about global warming. And he always arouses the ire of fundraising Republicans and Democrats alike by his campaign finance crusade, which produced not only real legislation but also, through his aggressive chairmanship of the Indian Affairs Committee, help bring...
...they may not endorse his views on social issues, Coburn's allies on his efforts to cut spending are perhaps the two most popular men in the Senate: Illinois Democrat Barack Obama and Arizona Republican John McCain. Before Coburn arrived in 2005, McCain was the chamber's most vocal basher of wasteful spending, but he has eagerly ceded that to Coburn, while working with the Oklahoma Senator to strategize on how to cut earmarks from this month's war spending bill. Obama, much to the left of Coburn, is an unlikely friend, but the Senate's most famous freshman said...