Politics Archive

Gross: Strong Economy Could Help Dems In Midterm Elections

March 29, 2010  ·  Category: Politics
Many republicans are looking forward to November as a repeat of 1994, when popular anger against an overreaching, reformist Democratic Party enabled the GOP to pick up 56 seats in the House of Representatives.  But ...
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Top Gun FP Client Note: The Health Care Bill

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NYT: Redistribution Of Wealth At Heart Of Health Care Bill

March 24, 2010  ·  Category: Macro Economics, Obama, Politics
The bill is the most sweeping piece of federal legislation since Medicare was passed in 1965.  It aims to smooth out one of the roughest edges in American society — the inability of many people to ...
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March Madness - Not The One You Are Thinking

March 19, 2010  ·  Category: Market Commentary, Obama, Politics
There is a mad rush going on in Congress right now by the Democrats to assemble the 216 House votes necessary to pass the health care bill on which a vote could come as soon ...
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Top Gun FP Client Note: Out Here In California

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Grotesque Front Page New York Times Hack Job On Tea Party Movement

February 16, 2010  ·  Category: Politics
When people start wearing guns to rallies, what's the next thing that happens? - Tony Stewart, a leading civil rights activist (according to the article), quoted in "Tea Party Movement Lights Fuse For Rebellion on Right", David ...
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The 1934 Midterm Elections

February 16, 2010  ·  Category: History, Politics
Expected to pick up a few score seats, the Republicans lost thirteen instead.  The voters elected a new House of 322 Democrats, 103 Republicans, and ten Progressives or Farmer-Laborites.  Never in the history of the ...
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Senator Bayh (D-Indiana) Will Not Seek Re-Election

February 16, 2010  ·  Category: Politics
There is too much partisianship and... too much narrow ideology [in Washington].  Even at a time of enormous national challenge, the people's business is not getting done. All of this and much more has led me ...
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Krugman: Learning From Europe

January 11, 2010  ·  Category: Macro Economics, Politics
The real lesson from Europe is actually the opposite of what conservatives claim: Europe is an economic success, and that success shows that social democracy works. ..... So why do we get such a different picture from ...
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