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...polity is astute and wise enough to know the implications of using the army against their own people." Likewise, the chief of the Indian air force, Air Marshal P V Naik, expressed an unwillingness to use the air force and its unmanned drones in ongoing anti-Maoist operations. "Unless we are 120% sure that the Naxals are the country's enemies, it will not be fair to use the air force within our borders...
...split for the Easter holiday, Kaufman lingered on the Senate floor, waiting for his chance to address rows of empty chairs, a few pimple-faced pages and the C-SPAN cameras in his latest well-sourced broadside against the conventional wisdom on Wall Street and in the White House. "Unless Congress breaks up the megabanks that are 'too big to fail,' " he declared to an empty chamber, "the American taxpayer will remain the ultimate guarantor in an almost-certain-to-repeat-itself cycle of boom, bust and bailout." (See the top 10 unfortunate political one-liners...
...develop new nuclear weapons - maybe Last December, Senate Republicans sent a letter to Obama saying they would fight the ratification of arms-control treaties unless the President guaranteed the longevity of aging U.S. nuclear weapons - code for building new nukes. In interviews this week, Administration officials said they would not develop new weapons. But, says Stephen I. Schwartz, a nonproliferation expert at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, that depends on how you define new. The document states that a warhead introduced into the stockpile will not be considered new if it is based on a previously tested - but never...
...compromise, even criticizing his own party's intransigence, but he also told me many provisions in the House bill were "crazy left," and said Obama's proposal for a modest tax on big banks reminded him of Venezuela. Really, it's hard to imagine many Republicans saying yes unless they thought they'd get hammered for saying no. (See pictures of Republican memorabilia...
...point is that reform won't pass unless every one of those issues gets resolved in the Senate, and then re-resolved to get through the House and Senate again. It could happen. But don't be surprised if in a few months you see Gregg shaking his head sadly: If only the Democrats weren't so intransigent about proprietary trading, or 15-1 leverage restrictions or something else you've never thought about, we could've had a deal. And don't be surprised if the Beltway consensus then concludes that failure was inevitable...