By GottaLaff
Mmmm, tasty. Of course, the wingers are already screeching.
President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders Friday morning - but he also left no doubt about who's in charge of these negotiations. "I won," Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation.
The exchange arose as top House and Senate Republicans expressed concern to the president about the amount of spending in the package. They also raised red flags about a refundable tax credit that returns money to those who don’t pay income taxes, the sources said.
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After Friday's meeting, Democratic and Republican leaders publicly wrangled over the developing stimulus plan.
But perhaps taking a cue from Obama’s “I won” line when Democrats were asked if they were concerned about Republicans blocking the package, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had a swift one-word answer: “No.”
By GottaLaff
Court halts Utah oil and gas leasesEnvironmental groups win a temporary restraining order, potentially leaving the fate of the 110,000 acres to the Obama administration.
A federal judge late Saturday halted the Bush administration’s efforts to open 110,000 acres of federal land in Utah to oil and gas exploration, ruling that the danger of damaging the pristine land required further study before leases were awarded. [...]
A coalition of seven groups sued for a temporary restraining order, and the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Ricardo M. Urbina means the checks written by energy companies for the land cannot be cashed.
[This] will potentially place the fate of the land into the hands of the incoming Obama administration. Obama aides have objected to the sale.
By GottaLaff
UPDATE: Anderson Cooper is reporting that a recount is "likely".
It took awhile to find it in print, but here it is:
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term. The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by 3,724 votes after Tuesday's count. That's an insurmountable lead with only about 2,500 overseas ballots left to be counted.
By GottaLaff
Could euphoric Obama fans be sparking a baby boom? Change you can conceive in.So much for electile dysfunction.
In the hours and days since Obama's victory, many of his exhilarated supporters have been, shall we say, in the mood for love. And though it's too soon to know for sure, experts aren't ruling out the possibility of an Obama baby boom...
Hope and euphoria, says University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz, are a serious aphrodisiac. And voters under 30 went for Obama by a margin of 2 to 1. When you combine those two elements—randy people of child-bearing age—the likely result is what the online Urban Dictionary has already dubbed "Obama Babies" : children "conceived after Obama was proclaimed President, by way of celebratory sex."If this is how Dems celebrate winning the election, I don't even want to begin to think about what the losing party is doing. Less celebration and more celibat-tion, maybe? Let's just say there are probably a lot fewer elephants in the (bed)room these days.
During one round of election-fueled romance, says Eric Davis, 37, of Minneapolis, "my wife accidentally said, 'Oh, Obama!'"It could have been worse. She could have screamed, "Todd!" Speaking of which, I wonder what Pitiful Palin's been screaming lately.
And from the too-much-information department, sex shop Babeland, which has stores in Seattle, New York and Los Angeles, reports a 26 percent sales increase since Election Day.Who says Obama won't be good for the economy? Spread the wealth.
By GottaLaff
A federal appeals court has agreed with a lower court and ordered the state of Michigan to add the names of 5,500 voters back onto the voters rolls.The names were purged when mail sent to the voters by local election officials was returned as undeliverable. Purging the names was permitted under Michigan law but violated the federal National Voter Registration Act which limits the circumstances under which a state may remove a voter from the rolls.
The appeals court explained that Michigan’s practice caused affected voters to “face wrongful disenfranchisement.”
Click here to read the appeals court's opinion
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