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  • Republicans are recklessly holding our country's economy hostage

    On the surface, the current debt limit debate appears to be a traditional argument between Republicans and Democrats over spending and tax priorities and two seemingly incompatible visions about the role of government - a discussion that Americans have been having for more than a century.
  • Der Fuhrer's thoughts on 405 closure in L.A........

    07/13/2011 10:44:38 AM PDT · by AngelesCrestHighway · 42 replies
    Don't know what's going to happen this weekend for people trying to get to and from LAX and points beyond. Good luck to all!....Personally, I'm out of town. (Fishing in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains.)
  • Gridlock: Better for budgets (A Divided Government Keeps Spending in Check)

    01/28/2011 6:58:43 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 2 replies
    Washington Times ^ | 01/28/2011 | J.T. Young
    Gridlock is better; at least that’s what history shows for the budget. In contrast to all the handwringing that a divided government is bad for getting things done, it has a far better record for balancing the federal budget than does one-party control in Washington. This, in turn, points to an inescapable fact: Washington’s budget problem is spending, and spending does not happen on its own. Over the last 81 years, there have been just 13 federal budget surpluses. Of those 13, only three have come with single-party control of the White House and Congress. And one of those three,...
  • GOP agenda may mean more in 2012 than now (Not acceptable, DEFUND NOW!)

    01/03/2011 9:01:54 AM PST · by tobyhill · 7 replies
    msnbc ^ | 1/3/2011 | By LARRY MARGASAK/AP
    Even if the next two years end in congressional gridlock, Republicans hope to build a record that demonstrates to voters in 2012 that they can get it right. The GOP is promising to use the new Congress that convenes Wednesday to cut spending, roll back President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and prevent unelected bureaucrats from expanding the government's role in society through regulations that tell people what they must or can't do. Passing their top priorities may be easier in the House, where Republicans hold a 241-194 majority. It will be harder in the Senate where Democrats still hold...
  • Impact of midterm elections? Most Americans bet on gridlock

    11/23/2010 6:45:39 AM PST · by toma29 · 7 replies
    Yahoo! News ^ | 11/23/2010 | JANE SASSEEN
    If there was one thing American voters made abundantly clear on Nov. 2, it's how unhappy they are with politicians and the way things work — or more often don't work — in Washington. Survey after survey has shown that the majority of voters want their elected representatives to do a much better job of coming together to solve the country's problems. So will things improve after the "shellacking" that voters gave to Democrats in handing control of the House over to the Republicans? Few Americans appear to be counting on it. In a new ABC News/Yahoo! News poll, most...
  • Democrats Face Headwinds in Spending-Plan Initiative (Dems still trying to vote in $1trn budget)

    As a lame-duck Congress convenes Monday, Democrats are still hoping to pass a $1 trillion year-end budget bill in spite of the anti-spending fervor that dealt a blow to their party in the midterm elections. The backlog of unfinished business facing the lawmakers includes Congress's most basic job: keeping the government running after Dec. 2, when a stopgap appropriations bill expires. Republicans, fresh from an election victory they see as a mandate to rein in government spending, have set a goal of cutting appropriations to 2008 levels, which would reduce domestic programs by $100 billion. View Full Image Associated Press...
  • President Obama: 'Campaigning is different than governing'

    11/15/2010 8:09:53 AM PST · by kingattax · 33 replies
    Politico ^ | 11/14/10 | CAROL E. LEE
    President Obama offered a lesson for Republicans that he learned the hard way during his first two years in office. "Campaigning is different than governing," Obama told reporters Sunday when asked about his meeting with GOP leaders later this week. "They are flush with victory after a campaign of just saying 'No,'" he added. "But I'm sure the American people did not vote for more gridlock."
  • Obama: U.S. can't afford two years of gridlock

    11/06/2010 12:05:10 PM PDT · by Texas Eagle · 46 replies
    Reuters.com ^ | 11-5-10 | Matt Spetalnick
    (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, still smarting from his Democrats' big losses in congressional elections, said on Friday the United States cannot afford to get mired in legislative gridlock for the next two years while countries like China forge ahead.
  • Tough Times Ahead: Gridlock and Quantitative Easing Are Not Enough

    11/05/2010 3:15:56 PM PDT · by WebFocus · 5 replies
    Newsblaze ^ | 11/05/2010 | Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson
    Now that the elections are over, attention is turning to the economy. The stock market rose steadily from the end of August up to the elections. Since the stock market tends to be forward-looking, its recent strong and steady rise suggests that investors have been optimistic. In my opinion, two factors have generated that optimism: 1) The expectation that significant Republican gains in Congress would produce political gridlock, thereby putting the brakes on the Obama/Pelosi/Reid/progressive spending binge. 2) The Federal Reserve's promise of "QE2," a second round of "quantitative easing," the currently fashionable euphemism for creating mind-boggling sums of new...
  • Bipartisian 'consensus': Overrated pie in the sky

    11/05/2010 2:59:04 PM PDT · by chickadee · 10 replies
    World Net Daily ^ | Oct. 5, 2010 | David Limbaugh
    I take no great pleasure in having been correct in predicting Barack Obama's reaction to his Tuesday "shellacking." To borrow his terminology, he is wired not to hear the American people's opposition to his radical agenda, as painfully demonstrated in his post-election news conference. Unhappily, Obama's answers showed even deeper intransigence than I had thought he would be willing to reveal. He is every bit as committed to his destructive agenda as he was Nov. 1 and, despite his claims, is not looking for "common ground." He said that every election "is a reminder that in our democracy, power rests...
  • Obama: US can't afford two years of gridlock

    11/05/2010 2:24:13 PM PDT · by Justaham · 76 replies
    Reuters ^ | 11-5-10 | Matt Spetalnick
    U.S. President Barack Obama, still smarting from his Democrats' big losses in congressional elections, said on Friday the United States cannot afford to get mired in legislative gridlock for the next two years while countries like China forge ahead. Three days after voters punished Obama's party for the weak economy, he called for "putting politics aside" as he struck a conciliatory tone with victorious Republicans, saying he was open to hearing their ideas for tackling stubbornly high unemployment. Obama now faces a threat by Republican leaders to try to roll back his signature policies, including a healthcare overhaul and Wall...
  • Gridlock We Can Believe In

    11/05/2010 8:30:26 AM PDT · by redstateone · 8 replies
    Human Events ^ | November 5, 2010 | Wynton Hall
    Tuesday was just the opening salvo in a two-front battle. Voters are content to stay in a holding pattern until the next flank opens up in 2012. Until then, gridlock will suit us just fine. The GOP-led House will give us gridlock we can believe in...
  • U.S. Midterm Elections, Obama and Iran

    10/26/2010 7:34:49 PM PDT · by arthurus · 7 replies
    Stratfor ^ | October 25,2010 | By George Friedman
    ...Should the Republicans win an overwhelming victory in both houses next week, they will still not have the votes to override presidential vetoes. Therefore they will not be able to legislate unilaterally, and if any legislation is to be passed it will have to be the result of negotiations between the president and the Republican Congressional leadership. Thus, whether the Democrats do better than expected or the Republicans win a massive victory, the practical result will be the same. ...
  • Tea Party Is Mixed Bag For Wall Street

    09/29/2010 12:38:29 PM PDT · by Steely Tom · 6 replies
    Wall Street Journal NewsHub ^ | September 29, 2010 | Kelly Evans et al
    Main Points: 71% of Republicans describe themselves as Tea Party supporters (recent WSJ/NBC poll) WSJ talking head Kelly Evans characterizes this as demonstrating that "the Tea Party movement has moved to the core of, at least, the Republican base." Pundit Jerry Seib says "this is good for the Republican Party." Tea Party has "fired up the Republicann party." There is no "cleavage" between Tea Party and the Republican party. Tea Party looks like the "conservative core base" of the Republican party; people who "would have been Republcians anyway, but now are fired up to do something about it." There's a...
  • China's Massive Traffic Jam Could Last for Weeks (10 Days And 60 Miles Long)

    08/24/2010 10:56:34 AM PDT · by Dallas59 · 28 replies
    Asian Correspondent ^ | 8/24/2010 | Asian Correspondent
    A massive traffic jam in north China that stretches for dozens of miles and hit its 10-day mark on Tuesday stems from road construction in Beijing that won't be finished until the middle of next month, an official said. Bumper-to-bumper gridlock spanning for 60 miles (100 kilometers) with cars moving little more than a half-mile (one kilometer) a day at one point has improved since this weekend, said Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau general office. But he said he wasn't sure when the situation along the Beijing-Zhangjiakou highway would return to normal. The traffic jam...
  • Friday Interview: Fighting Traffic Gridlock in North Carolina

    08/06/2010 11:20:02 AM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 8 replies · 1+ views
    Carolina Journal ^ | August 6, 2010 | CJ Staff
    RALEIGH — North Carolina’s traffic congestion could double in the next couple of decades, with Charlotte drivers facing the same types of delays Chicago drivers face now. That was the conclusion of a 2007 John Locke Foundation report. It recommended $12 billion of spending to clear North Carolina’s congested urban roads and prepare for future traffic growth. Many traffic problems outlined three years ago continue to cause concerns today. Randal O’Toole, senior fellow with the Cato Institute, recently tackled the issue from a national perspective in the book Gridlock: Why We’re Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It....
  • GOP, Democrats at an impasse before key vote on financial overhaul (GOOD! Keep it this way)

    04/26/2010 6:34:41 AM PDT · by tobyhill · 7 replies · 321+ views
    washington post ^ | 4/26/2010 | Brady Dennis
    Senators will face a crucial test vote Monday that could clear the way for debate on far-reaching legislation to overhaul the nation's financial regulatory system -- or end in a partisan standoff -- as Wall Street once again takes center stage on Capitol Hill. Elsewhere, lawmakers will be preparing to condemn the alleged sins of Wall Street's past and also wrestling over how to prevent such excesses in the future. Top executives from Goldman Sachs, beset by charges that the bank misled its clients by selling them mortgage investments secretly designed to fail, will face questions Tuesday about how the...
  • Sen. Specter and Sec. Clinton: Congressional Debate ‘Weakening’ America Abroad

    02/25/2010 5:00:52 AM PST · by IbJensen · 30 replies · 582+ views
    CNS News ^ | February 24, 2010 | Matt Cover
    CNSNews.com) – Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton both said that partisan debate in Congress has hamstrung President Barack Obama’s foreign policy efforts, and weakened America abroad. Speaking before the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee on Wednesday, Specter lamented that partisan debates and squabbles were keeping Obama from reaching his foreign policy potential. “I have been concerned about the gridlock in Congress for many reasons,” said Specter. “It has had an impact on our stature internationally. The president came on with a great promise and, I think, did materially change the world’s...
  • Blaming ‘Gridlock’ For U.S. Budget Woes

    02/17/2010 7:28:11 AM PST · by Slyscribe · 15 replies · 494+ views
    IBD's Capital Hill ^ | 2/17/2010 | Ed Carson
    Less than a month after Scott Brown whittled Democrats’ Senate majority to a mere 59-41, the Old Gray Lady is already blaming “gridlock” for America’s budget woes. After decades of warnings that budgetary profligacy, escalating health care costs and an aging population would lead to a day of fiscal reckoning, economists and the nation’s foreign creditors say that moment is approaching faster than expected, hastened by a deep recession that cost trillions of dollars in
  • SoCal ports fee collection causes truck gridlock (new Clean Trucks Program)

    02/18/2009 4:37:06 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 23 replies · 661+ views
    AP on SFGate.com ^ | 2/18/09 | AP
    LOS ANGELES, (AP) -- Traffic has backed up for miles on routes into the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach as a new automated container fee system has turned away hundreds of trucks not equipped with required electronic passes. The ports began on Wednesday to collect fees to help finance the Clean Trucks Program, which aims to reduce pollution from cargo-hauling trucks. The trucks must carry an electronic pass to get through terminal gates. The system charges fees up to $70 to cargo owners who use older trucks servicing the ports. The money will help pay for newer, cleaner-running...