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Can the senate rush a vote for less then 60 votes, I have heard some things about that tactic but not sure. They say the majority can do somethig where they only need like 50 votes instead of 60 but they do not use it often? I am not sure If anyone can enlighten me, would be appreciative.

Good article but I wish they would publish these things on better sounding blogs or news media. The WONKROOM just sounds wrong:)

The only unfortunate thing about this tax is that it has been around for a while, but not gained enough steam until now. We will not be able to say this is dead for some time. We will have defecits for the forseeable future, along with committments to healthcare and global warming. This puts us...

I do not like seeing it on drudge for all to see. But anyways the article is old news. It states what we knew last week, her press conference from last thursday where she said it had merit and she had spoken to Geithner about it. The after that a day later when Geithner was being interviewed by...

its .02% look for the bill online and you can see

Its great that we have Germany along as against the tax, but Seaside is right. You never know how stupid our dem legislators could be , stranger things have happened. We all know it would be detrimental, but they could do it or try hard for it. Even if they see it is not working, its the...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gC27peq0XTopAHP1C9ktzL9pbNZw Finally Germany speaks out on its stance on the tax since the g20 in september. The minister stressed that such a tax was not part of an agreement between his party and Merkel's conservatives when they...

Regardless of what we think we know that will not happen. They will be exempt, and in the off chance they are not they will make up the difference by passing huge cost increases to us.

Ugh that would be horrible

Enough said, I will trust anyone the white house doesnt trust :)

And the treasury secretary has more responsabilities then I thought he is also 5th in the line of presidential sucession. "The Secretary of the Treasury is the principal economic advisor to the President and plays a critical role in policy-making by bringing an economic and government...

Good thing about what was said in the video is the fact when they were mentioning the tax and different fees, he siad he has been working with the administration on them, so we can safley safe Obama is not for the tax per see but for a fee on the insitutions that cuase a crisis!

It would be nice to get her ass out of the house altogether, she is rich anyways, I think she is one of the richest in the house, so she doesnt care about our tax:) She is a witch!! Anyways, I do not think it as merit in the senate either. Those dipshits are introducing it next week, hoepfully...

Yeah but Politco besides today is usally been very good with this stuff. Anyways I dont trust Pelosi and since she is the legislator its not very comforting anymore, I had my brief few mintues of comfort after Geithner, but now reading a lot of the articles today, she will not let this die. We...

Now I know another reason I hate Nazi Pelosi, it seems she was basically rebuffed this week. So now she is trying to gain steam with this tax despite geither and trying to bring it the president. She is also mor then likely gonna start pushing for the g20 to agree. She has already mentioned the...

http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/12/04/senate-version-of-wall-street-transportation-tax-coming-next-week/ DeFazio said earlier this month that White House economic advisers are critical of the transactions tax plan, but Politico reported today that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is...

Geithner is not the president but he has gone on about this tax for 2 months now in opposition. The persident knows this tax is out there and Geithner still goes on tv in opposition we can feel comfort in knowing he must have the presidents approval. Atleast I take comfort in that now!

Very good idea, I will do that, I will also see if I can find the producers emails or something to that effect as well. I think you would do dam good! Let them get Defazio and Dean Baker on with you!

I know, you got the high school looking economist on one end, and then the guy against the tax looks like he was frozen, and only his mouth moved!

The guy agains the tax didnt do shit, he sat there very still and said the same thing over and over again. And the little douche came prepared with statistics. Atleast the Politico guy told how it could harm things.