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Tom Steyer has had it up to here. Not with us Republicans, it seems, but with his own Democrats, and he now plans to cut off their nose to spite their faces. The leftwing billionaire hedge fund speculator has announced he won't be bankrolling the Democratic National Committee as he has in the past, based on his dissatisfaction with congressional Democrats' refusal to continue the government shutdown and go down with it. He wanted them to just keep it shut, never mind that the public wasn't with him. Get a load of his reasoning as reported by the Washington...

Former early Google employee Doug Edwards had a message for President Obama today: Raise my taxes, please. Edwards, who was employee #59 at Google and is now not working, asked the question in Mountain View, Calif. at the Town Hall event today Obama held with LinkedIn to discuss job creation. “My question is would you please raise my taxes?” Edwards said from the audience during the question and answer period. “I would like very much for our country to continue to invest in things like Pell grants, infrastructure, job training–programs that made it possible for me to get to where...

Wealthy Man Asks Obama ‘Please Raise My Taxes’ President Obama took a break from his three-day campaign fundraising tour today to pitch his $447 billion jobs plan and defend his proposal to raise taxes on the wealthy to reduce the deficit, arguing that everyone is going to have to do their “fair share.” At the “Putting America Back to Work” LinkedIn town hall in Mountain View, Calif., Obama came face-to-face with his deficit-reduction proposal. “Would you please raise my taxes?” asked Doug Edwards a former director of consumer marketing and branding at Google, who described himself as “unemployed by choice.”...

Wow, what a shock. Doug Edwards, formerly an executive with Google. And now, as he says, retired, by choice. Guy seems to be willing to pay a lot of money to get his taxes raised. $10k to the Ohio Demo Partry in 2010 $7.5k to John Kerry in 2004 $500 to the DNC Services Corp in 2004 $2.3k to Michael Arcuri in 2007 $2.1k to Bob Casey in 2006 $250 to Hillary Clinton in 2007 $1k to John Courage in 2006 $5k to the DCCC in 2006 $700 to Kay Hagan in 2008 $1k to Ron Klein in 2006 $2,300...

IMHO....Totally planted and staged Question.

“Would you please raise my taxes?” said the man, who said he had “worked for a small startup down the street here” and had chosen to be unemployed. Techies on Twitter said that balding man with glasses is Doug Edwards, Google’s former marketing executive and author of “I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59.” Obama called on Edwards almost serendipitously — the president was prompted by the moderator, who had been choosing the questioners, to pick someone in the audience. After he said he was put “on the spot,” Obama called on “the man in the glasses.”

Just a headline, presently.

Hutchison Whampoa Teams With U.S. Defense Firm for Port Security Li Ka-Shing Seeks U.S. Contract Hutchison Whampoa Teams With U.S. Defense Firm for Port Security Hutchison Whampoa, the firm that currently runs both ends of the Panama Canal, is teaming up with an American technology company in a bid to win tens of millions of dollars in U.S. port security funding. Three companies - Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., PSA Corp. Ltd. of Singapore, and London-based P&O Ports - will test an advanced electronic system manufactured by California-based Savi Technology to ensure the security of cargo entering U.S. ports. Hutchison Whampoa's effort...