…know if she is wrestling desperately or Grassling* brilliantly. thoughts after the jump. OK first the Snowe job. Snowe has two objections to the Baucus proposal (via Steve Benen) ….

…the Senate into 2 bills one to be passed as budget reconciliation (the 50 votes bill) and one not about the budget (the 60 votes bill). The problem is that…

…case). There is no particular logic to this proposal, it is just a compromise. It is generally viewed as similar to creating no new options at all as cooperatives will…

…state employees and Medicaid reimbursements to hospitals. See, e.g., Hamill, Proposal to Raise Income tax in Pennsylvania, NY Times (June 16, 2009) (noting proposal for a 16% increase for 3…

…share in my proposal) or reduce the risk that private managers have to bear (the Treasury bears 99% of it under my proposal). I don’t think it is designed to…

…mortgages. To a skeptic, Paulson’s proposal looks like another of those shell games that Wall Street has honed to a fine art. Wall Street has always made money by slicing,…

…Senator Obama’s proposals assuming all of the provisions are fully effective immediately, that the seniors’ exemption would phase out over a $10,000 income range, and that the Social Security proposal…

…credit card companies to report the income of all merchants to the Internal Revenue Service. The proposal, raised in President Bush’s FY2009 budget, would require credit card companies to report…

…and/or gasoline might be seen as price-increasing whereas the Bush-Cheney proposal was all about subsidizing oil suppliers. OK, the proposal only used the term subsidy once but talked about tax…

…happy about the result, at least in CA. But not me. The argument made by many Democrats is that the CA redistricting proposal would almost certainly result in fewer Democratic…