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Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Sunday, December 23, 2012

The Republican caucus is in chaos....

Incapable of governing, incapable of leading......

Today's news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.):

Obama Presses for Stripped Down Fiscal Plan: President Obama sharply curtailed his ambitions for legislation to avert the year-end “fiscal cliff” on Friday, urging Congress to adopt a stopgap measure to keep benefits flowing to unemployed workers and prevent taxes from rising on income under $250,000 a year, The Washington Post reported. The plan should also “lay the groundwork” for action next year to spur economic growth and rein in the national debt, Obama said at a White House news conference.

House Caucus in Chaos: “The Republican caucus is in chaos,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said Friday after a humiliating setback for House Speaker John Boehner. Facing a conservative revolt within his caucus, the speaker on Thursday night cancelled a vote on his own plan to extend Bush-era tax cuts for all incomes up to $1 million. Sanders commented during his weekly national radio and Internet appearance on The... Thom Hartmann Program.

Social Security: The reaction of liberal lawmakers to President Obama’s plan to squeeze savings from Social Security benefits was swift and strong: Sen. Tom Harkin called it “a bad deal,” Sen. Sherrod Brown said, “I don’t like it,” and Sen. Sanders declared it “a significant benefit cut,” Congressional Quarterly reported.

Continue reading here: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=e2c3096f-d810-4625-acad-62cab3817f8e

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