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...Specter, Sen. Arlen • labor vote is forfeited...
...redoubled ferocity of brain-dead partisans. But a majority of Americans out in America are dialing back or turning off their ideological autopilots, thanks to the economic crises, Obama's approach and the post-Cold War realities. With the Soviet Union gone and China socialist in name only, the specter of communism is no longer haunting us, and charges of socialism have lost the political power they had for most of the past century. Rather, it's suddenly capitalist piggishness that provokes genuine rage. When nearly half the House Republicans vote for a confiscatory 90% tax on Wall Street executives...
...support it, said Representative Eric Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the House. Almost all Republicans in both chambers oppose the budget, though there are a few moderates still making up their minds. "I intend to listen, and I intend to be willing to think about things," Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, told reporters on Wednesday...
...reduced demand and financial flows explain the immediate cause of the downturn in trade, a different - and potentially more damaging - specter looms: the return of protectionism. In a recent report, the World Bank found that although the G-20 nations pledged themselves to avoid protectionist measures when they met in Washington last November, no fewer than 17 of them have, since then, "implemented measures whose effect is to restrict trade at the expense of other countries...
...nationwide regulation of CO2 emissions - just as the EPA is require to regulate pollutants like smog-causing sulfur dioxide. But regulating CO2 will be immensely more complicated - the U.S. emitted over 6 billion metric tons of CO2 in 2007 from countless sources - and business groups have raised the specter of a meddlesome EPA using greenhouse gases as an excuse to regulate projects large and small...