The face of compromise as reflected in The Slatest

(Francis Bean Cobain)

Despite my moderate bent, sometimes it's not a pretty sight.

(D.C. Metro, Thanksgiving weekend)

Senate Begins Debate on Tax Cut Bill
But while the Senate looks set to pass the $858 billion package, House Democrats have protested with a raucous "Just Say No" rally.
Read original story in The Wall Street Journal | Friday, Dec. 10, 2010

DADT Repeal Dies In Senate
Harry Reid needed 60 votes to cut off debate on the defense authorization bill and get to an actual vote. He got 57.
Read original story in Talking Points Memo Talking Points Memo | Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010

Obama Administration Retreats on Pollution Rules
The EPA has decided to hold off new regulations on toxic industrial emissions fearing such environmental protections may cost jobs.
Read original story in The New York Times | Friday, Dec. 10, 2010

Senate Republicans Kill Benefits for 9/11 Rescue Workers
A fully paid-for piece of legislation providing health care coverage to 9/11 workers sickened by exposure to toxic fumes--sounds like a bipartisan fantasy, right? Wrong.
Read original story in The Washington Monthly | Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010

Senate Tables DREAM Act
The student immigration measure made it through the House on Wednesday but was tabled in the Senate Thursday because Harry Reid doesn't have enough votes to stop a Republican filibuster.
Read original story in The Hill | Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010

Obama's Tax Deal Infuriates Big Donors
Major donors are expressing "extreme disappointment" and considering withholding their donations in the 2012 election season.
Read original story in The Los Angeles Times | Friday, Dec. 10, 2010

You've got your tax cuts in my bailout! (or: Where's My Bailout?)

Comments posted to an article in The Nation about unemployment and the White House's jobs summit thing:

Joblessness? What's the big deal? Why don't we just spend 100 trillion dollars and pay everyone in America $1,000,000 per year! Problem solved!
Isn't liberal economics fun?
-Posted by pontificus at 12/02/2009 @ 09:09am

Or cut 100 trillion in taxes to Steve Forbes and Citgo...and we can all get jobs writing for a magazine or working on an oil rig?
Isn't conservative economics fun?
-Posted by Mask at 12/02/2009 @ 09:26am

look at post #2 and #3...this is essentially the nation anonymous web postings boiled down to two opposing sides...
and this is how we rant, over and over and over, forever...
it's a wonderful life!
-Posted by urmygyro at 12/02/2009 @ 09:30am