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Just thought I'd pass along some information I heard about just recently. For anyone who owes money to the IRS for 2011, & has been unemployed for at least 30days in 2011 or in these past few months of 2012, there is a special Extension form that will allow you to postpone paying for 6 months. It's form #1127-A, and it's called "Application for Extension of Time for Payment of Income Tax for 2011 Due to Undue Hardship". This is different from a normal extension, in that you don't have to pay anything up front. The late payment fee is...

Scarcely two years ago, the DemoCratic Party was in the driver's seat. Or so it seemed. Barack Obama had just won the biggest victory by a Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and the party had rolled up huge margins in both the House and Senate (eventually gaining the all-important 60 seats in the upper body). Who'd have thought that, 48 months later, Obama would be signing an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts that he had demonized in 2008 -- and spinning the humiliation as a win? Who could have imagined that -- despite still controlling Congress...

Domenico Montanaro writes: *** UPDATE *** NBC's Ken Strickland reports based on preliminary vote tally the Senate has cleared the 60-vote threshold to advance the tax bill. The vote is still open. These are preliminary numbers The Senate is voting on a key procedural vote on the tax cuts compromise bill; 60 was needed for passage.

If waning support from Independents wasn’t enough, Obama now has cause for concern with his liberal backing as even Keith Olbermann is becoming visibly upset. During ‘Countdown’, Olbermann stated that Obama may not only get re-elected, “he may not even get re-nominated.” Before a deal on tax cuts were made, Dan Rather predicted if there were an extension of the Bush tax cuts it would be a “political nightmare” for Obama and said he could face a tough primary challenge in the next election.