by Greg LeRoy, TomPaine.com

The so-called free enterprise success story depends heavily on U.S. taxpayers.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051109/walmarts_tax_on_us.php

by David Corn, TomPaine.com

With their own problems piling up, Republicans want to discredit the Dems who are pushing for investigating the use of Iraq intelligence.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051109/smearanddistract_time.php

Next week, Robert Greenwald's latest documentary film WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price will premiere at 6,000+ homes, churches, family businesses, schools, living rooms, community centers and parking lots across the country -- a true people's premiere.

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In the most significant test of the political environment since 2004, Americans yesterday resoundingly supported the new priorities of Democratic candidates over the status quo policies of President Bush and Republican leadership. With just less than a year until congressional elections in 2006, Democrats have gained momentum with a clear vision for progress and a national mood firmly united against the leadership of national Republicans.

Even the conservative newspaper Washington Times wrote

"The unexpected closeness of the Virginia race -- in a conservative state that President Bush carried by nearly 54 percent of the vote last year -- is a result in part to the GOP's eroding position in public opinion polls." -- Washington Times, 11/8/05

Thank you for all your help, and congratulations again to our Democratic governors-elect in New Jersey and Virginia.

Sincerely,

Rahm Emanuel Chairman, DCCC

Former Sen. Bob Graham of Florida said Friday that he thinks Vice President Dick Cheney was a "conspirator" in a Bush administration campaign to discredit former ambassador Joe Wilson and expose Wilson's wife, CIA operative Valerie Plame.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110905O.shtml

For the nation's top oilmen, it is a new and uncomfortable reality. They were summoned by the Republican leadership of the Senate and appeared this morning before two congressional panels to explain why prices climbed as high as they did and what they intend to do with their companies' soaring profits. The executives hope to persuade legislators not to take tough punitive action.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110905I.shtml

Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Thorsten Polleit

11/08/05

For governments in general and the US government in particular, Ludwig von Mises had a policy recommendation: do not increase the stock of money any further. He made this point in 'Monetary Reconstruction' (written in 1952 and published in 1953): 'The first step must be a radical and unconditional abandonment of any further inflation. The total amount of dollar bills, whatever their name or legal characteristic may be, must not be increased by further issuance.' Why did Mises take such a position, one which would presumably provoke outright opposition from many of today's mainstream economists?

http://www.mises.org/story/1956


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Boston Globe
by Thomas Oliphant

11/08/05

Only in a country governed by the triumvirate of George Bush, Bill Frist and Dennis Hastert could the following set of events unfold with absurd smoothness. The Senate narrowly approves a 'deficit reduction' bill as part of a larger package that will increase the deficit. That was last week. The House narrowly approves its own Draconian 'deficit reduction' bill as part of a larger package that will increase the deficit. That is likely to be this week, barring a last-minute revolt of moderate congressmen. The final version of the legislation ... jettisons the sensible portions of the Senate bill and adds the worst of the House measure. ... President Bush then approves the result, and the country is again another day older and deeper in debt. This kind of government -- you might call it the institutionalization of irresponsibility -- is what the vast majority of Americans, who tell pollsters by large margins that the country is headed in the wrong direction and that both the president and Congress are not doing their jobs well, reject. But they are getting it anyway...

http://tinyurl.com/bekyr


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Washington Times
by Bruce Fein

11/08/05

Judge Samuel A. Alito's confirmation as an associate justice to replace Sandra Day O'Connor would mark a genuine turning point in U.S. Supreme Court decisions. With Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, Judge Alito would make the fourth of a band of philosophical brothers schooled to interpret the Constitution and statutes in accord with their original meaning, as the Founding Fathers intended. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and other architects of the Constitution described the judiciary as the least dangerous branch, partly because the court's interpretive power was meant to be circumscribed by the text and manifest purposes. As Lord Acton might have predicted, the court's absolute power to interpret corrupted its intended limits absolutely...

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20051107-100012-1331r.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Slate
by John Dickerson

11/08/05

For weeks, the city's permanent class has speculated about whether Patrick Fitzgerald would indict Karl Rove. If he does, then Rove will resign as Scooter Libby did. But as each day passes with no action from the special prosecutor, Rove is looking safer and safer. So, the lunchtime conversation has shifted. The question now is: What should President Bush do if his top political adviser is not indicted? Fifty-nine percent of Americans think Rove should resign from the White House. (The most amazing aspect of this: that 59 percent of Americans know who Rove is.) Only 36 percent of Americans 'now believe that Bush has lived up to his campaign pledge to restore integrity to the White House.' So, will Bush fire Rove to try to improve public perceptions about his administration? Or will he continue to rely on Rove's advice and ignore his critics?

http://www.slate.com/id/2129655/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp