Word: pulled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Called Senator Grassley to tell him to stop speading [sic] myths about health care reform and imaginary "death panels."' SENATOR ARLEN SPECTER, Democrat, in a Twitter post about Republican Senator Charles Grassley's fear that President Obama's health-care plan would enable the government to decide "when to pull the plug on grandma...
...firm's mortgage portfolio. Goldman had already underwritten and sold billions of dollars' worth of mortgage-backed securities, much of it labeled investment grade by ratings agencies. It was, in fact, junk. But Goldman realized earlier than most that rot was setting in and famously decided to pull back from the mortgage market. The firm then shorted various mortgage-securities indexes - betting that prices would fall - at the very moment that other firms were still making big long bets on the securities. Goldman avoided losses while other firms infected themselves with the cancerous securities...
...continues to fan the flames of anti-government protests between the coasts. In a Washington Post interview, Senator Grassley said he would govern “upon the views of whichever group among his constituents yells the loudest” and engenders fear that reform will “pull the plug on grandma.” Senator Enzi has told roaring Wyoming town halls he has no plans to compromise...
...jettison the gang talks, the Democratic Party can pull back together. Despite all the abuse of lawyers, guns, and money, the right wing of the Republican Party will have a rough time stopping universal healthcare legislation. Centrist Democrats will be more willing to follow the president’s lead if the gang fails than if it succeeds. They can tell their interests they tried their best. Furthermore, the price of friendly fire for centrist Democrats—being voted out of office a la 1994—is just too high...
...Still, even the specter of Vietnam is unlikely to dissuade Obama if he agrees with McChrystal's request for more troops, Michael O'Hanlon, a defense expert at Brookings, told the same gathering. "The idea that a Democratic Congress would pull out the rug from underneath a President of their own party on what he has declared to be his top national-security priority before the midterm elections, to me, is unthinkable," O'Hanlon said. He added that such an outcome won't occur "until there is much more evidence that the strategy is failing...