The final vote was 234-188. Three Republicans and 20 Democrats crossed over.
The House is voting on the middle class tax cut now … more soon.
The vote is still going and it’s not a final tally, but there are enough yes votes for it now — 228 — to pass.
If we want people to work and keep up their work ethic, why are we keeping them on unemployment insurance to not work?
That seems to be Juan Williams take on the current situation. In this clip from Fox News today Juan Williams explains how continuing unemployment insurance is hurting the unemployed by keeping them from working and thus losing their work ethic, losing their values and also not dressing well or getting up from bed in the morning and thus not able to get a job. Watch.
After finishing up the middle class tax cut vote, the House is expected to turn to the sanctioning of Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) for ethics violations. That could come within the hour.
The House is voting on an extension of the Bush middle class tax only shortly. We’ll have result of the vote as soon as it’s final.
Colbert: The estate tax is an injustice to the children of the obscenely wealthy. Watch.
Along with the general issue of fair weather regard for constitutional liberties, I’m perhaps even more troubled by the generally dismal state of literacy and diction. Rasmussen polled Americans to see if they believed that Julian Assange and Wikileaks are guilty of “treason” and 51% of respondents said yes.
Of course, Assange is Australian. So he can’t commit treason since he’s not an American citizen. Not even if he’s super-double evil.
Even if he’s triple-double evil.
Meet John E. “Jack” Owsley, former football coach for Yale and the Naval Academy at the beginning of the last century who became vice president of Connecticut-based High Standard Manufacturing Company, Inc., during World War II when the company made a fortune as a weapons manufacturer.
We believe he is the mystery man in the Times‘ list yesterday of the top salaries of 1941. Thanks again to all the readers who helped to solve the case.
I think I just heard Juan Williams say we’re probably doing these unemployed people a disservice by not allowing their unemployment insurance to expire. Keeps them out of work, personal habits decay, no one wants to hire them, etc.