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...from future episodes, last night’s will do no more to put voters on the path toward making the right choice. The problem remains the same: a contest in which the rules are designed to save face will give us, the voters, nothing. The worse candidate cannot lose, and the best one will...
...trying to woo wavering Republicans with a revised version of the bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Senate counterparts risked souring the moderate Democrats she can't afford to lose. The bill the Senate passed included a $100 billion extension of unrelated tax benefits - provisions like tax breaks for business R&D and alternative energy and money to prevent more Americans from being hit by the Alternative Minimum Tax - that the Blue Dogs have fought for years. This increasingly powerful bunch of Democrats isn't opposed to tax cuts, but they are against passing them without offsetting the costs...
...member of Congress, reminding fence sitters like the Blue Dogs of provisions in the bill help their parts of the country. "Some of them are from states that are affected by the state sales tax deduction [a measure that makes sure the seven states without income taxes do not lose money under the federal code], others come from Midwestern states affected by floods and need the disaster relief in the package. Still others live in areas affected by Hurricane Ike," says Bruce Josten, a senior vice president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which represents three million U.S. businesses...
...they lose 10-15 seats, they will certainly be looking for new leadership, and that will create an internal battle within the party for the soul of the party," says James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies. But with an unpopular lame-duck President, an even more unpopular Republican Party in Congress and a leadership vacuum at the top of the House, that soul search could be a very painful experience...
Paid particular attention when responding to challenges to Obama's record on taxes. Often jumped in to correct or clarify a point (although his familiar use of the moderator's first name may have raised the hackles of some observers - and the moderator herself). Was careful not to lose the upper hand when confronted with Palin's confident charisma...