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'Challenges of the Two Bill Strategy'

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:46:35 AM
Keith Hennessey analyzes the challenges of the two bill strategy:

Speaker Pelosi, Leader Reid, and their Administration allies face seven challenges in implementing the two bill strategy:

  1. Yes/no political question
  2. Yes/no reconciliation question
  3. Sequencing
  4. Money
  5. Procedural
  6. Substance & vote counting, especially in the House
  7. Timing

I have a companion post which describes the mechanics of the two bill strategy.  Warning:  the mechanics post is intended as a technical reference and gets into more detail than you may want.

Last August I posted a primer on reconciliation which may be helpful.

http://keithhennessey.com/2010/03/01/two-bill-challenges/

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Venezuela Doing What it Does Best

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:20:41 AM

Venezuela 'helped Eta and Farc plot against Uribe'


A Spanish judge has accused the Venezuelan government of assisting two rebel groups which plotted to kill Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe.

Judge Eloy Velasco charged six members of Basque separatist group Eta and seven members of Colombian rebel group Farc with various offences.

He said he believed Farc had asked for Eta's help in a plot to kill Colombian officials in Spain, including Mr Uribe.

He said the two groups benefited from "Venezuelan government co-operation".

In a 26-page indictment Mr Velasco said an investigation launched in 2008 has turned up evidence "that demonstrates Venezuelan governmental co-operation in the illicit collaboration between Farc and Eta".

Both groups are listed as terrorist organisations by the US and EU.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8543349.stm


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Two More House Democrats Demand Rangel Step Down as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:16:02 AM

Two more House Dems demand Rangel step down as panel head

By Susan Crabtree - 03/01/10 08:12 PM ET

Two politically vulnerable Democrats on Monday called for Rep. Charles Rangel to step down as Ways and Means Committee chairman.

Reps. Betty Sutton (Ohio) and Harry Mitchell (Ariz.) have joined the ranks of Democrats calling for the New York Democrat to relinquish his gavel in the wake of the ethics committee finding that Rangel violated House rules.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/84377-two-more-house-dems-demand-rangel-step-down-as-panel-head
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ACORN Workers Clearned in NYC

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:14:40 AM
ACORN workers cleared in NYC prostitute video

(AP) – 14 hours ago

NEW YORK — A New York prosecutor's office says it has found no criminal wrongdoing on the part of three ACORN employees caught on video advising a couple posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend.

The Brooklyn district attorney's office said Monday that its five-month inquiry is over and that no criminal activity was found.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gGAuocA-mRDscWwH701sQ_IWj56AD9E6432G0

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Obama Now has Negative Approval Ratings in Every State that He Flipped from Bush Column to His in 2008

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:12:44 AM

Obama's Drop

Barack Obama now has a negative approval rating in every state he flipped from the Bush column to his in 2008. In each of those places his level of support is now in the 44-46% range. It's probably a good thing he doesn't have to run for reelection this year. He can only hope things start turning around for him once the midterms are in the rear view mirror, much as they did for Bill Clinton.

Here's the state by state rundown:

-In Colorado a recent Rasmussen poll found his approval at 45/53. Research 2000 found his favorability at 46/47 in January.

-In Florida Rasmussen found his approval at 45/54 and Quinnipiac's latest found it at 45/49.

-In Indiana Rasmussen has his approval at 44/54 and Research 2000 finds his favorability at 46/49.

-In Iowa Rasmussen has him at 45/54, and the latest Des Moines Register poll put his approval at 46%, though I can't find the disapproval number anywhere.

-In Nevada Rasmussen finds his approval at 46/54. We found 44/52 in in January.

-In New Mexico we found his approval last week at 45/48.

-In North Carolina our last poll put him at 45/51.

-In Ohio Quinnipiac's last poll put him at 44/52.

-In Virginia Rasmussen's latest has him a 48/51. SurveyUSA last had him at 44/54, and we put him at 42/52.

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2010/03/obamas-drop.html
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