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...Numerous sites are taking advantage of CRP's open spigot, including Maplight.org. Last week Maplight merged CRP info with voting data from GovTrack.us to assess the 94 House Democrats who had originally opposed immunity for wiretapping telecoms but then shifted positions to vote in support of the Bush Administration. Maplight's analysis demonstrated that those who flip-flopped on immunity had received nearly double the amount in PAC contributions from AT&T, Sprint and Verizon as those who remained opposed to the legislation...
...this point, the Saudis would also like the price of oil to moderate. But that doesn't mean their interests and ours are now aligned. The way to squeeze as much money as possible out of the power to control the spigot is not to raise prices indefinitely. It is to figure out the point at which the extra money you get from the higher price is no longer more than the amount you give up in lost sales. Making this calculation regarding oil is especially tricky because of the differing calculations for the short run vs. the long...
...harsh winter months set in. After two decades of war, there are over 1 million Afghan refugees currently living in Iran. Afghanistan doesn't have the resources to reintegrate them in large numbers. After Karzai made a direct appeal to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran shut off the spigot. But it is unclear what price Iran might have extracted for its largesse. The repatriation, said the U.S. official, was "clearly designed to send a message to Afghans of displeasure of their relationship with...
...military in Iraq has been extolling the achievements of its cooperation with civilians in the fight against extremists and insurgents. The mechanism of that cooperation, however, is greased by cash - and the budgetary spigot for it has been tightening in recent months...
...caused, but no doubt this was an Iranian reminder to the United States that the Gulf is called the Persian Gulf for a reason. And the Iranians chose Hormuz, the only real egress for Gulf oil, to remind us that they have their hand on the world's oil spigot...