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...John Conyers, now head of the Judiciary Committee, he still speaks dreamily about impeaching President George W. Bush but takes no action. He has studiously avoided putting anything radioactive on the agenda, including gun control, abortion and same-sex marriage. One of his subcommittees has issued subpoenas, but those are on the firings of the U.S. Attorneys by Bush's Justice Department and that is exactly the kind of congressional oversight that people voted for in the past election...
With Sicko, a movie that does not take aim at the gun lobby or the Republican party, but America's healthcare system, Moore believes he's chosen less hostile territory. It's a topic that "both conservatives and liberals" can identify with, Moore said. But he says that he will be denounced no matter what he does: "Those few remaining voices in support of the war and in support of Mr. bush would criticize me if I opened up a factory making American flags. If I gave away 1,000 American flags every day they would find some...
...Most people assumed that for a long time now. Bloomberg has often been described as a RINO, a Republican In Name Only, and that was true until yesterday, too. He supports gay marriage, abortion rights and gun control, but not the death penalty; he raised property taxes 18% to deal with a deficit, the ultimate G.O.P. sin. He did trim spending as well, an activity formerly associated with Republicans, and he's tilted towards conservative approaches on welfare, homelessness, and "social promotion" in education; he's a capitalist at heart, revered in the business community. But his citywide bans...
...Most of the obvious attacks on a Presidential candidate Bloomberg would come from the right. Conservative activists would assail his views on gay marriage, the death penalty, gun control and taxes as typical New York City liberalism. Both sides would say he lacked national security experience and explore his background, looking for business and personal vulnerabilities. Bloomberg would try to fight off the efforts to define him with hundreds of millions of dollars of television commercials, and would likely spend a similar amount trying to define the other candidates as out of touch and extreme...
...floods since the city-whose tax base has fallen off precipitously since the disaster-couldn't afford it and FEMA couldn't guarantee that it could reimburse the city to replace the waterlogged vests. It's not exactly what an officer in one of the nation's most gun-ridden cities wants to hear. "You just cannot ask officers to worry about whether FEMA's going to buy them new vests sometime in the future," he said. The call went out to local donors and the NOPD was eventually able to buy over $400,000 worth of bulletproof vests...