[IJReview] After Obama finished speaking at the Department of Energy, a reporter asked the president if there had been any 'progress' on the 'Iran talks.'
Obama quickly undercut the question, proclaiming, 'I'm sorry, we're talking about energy. It's a great story. So, hopefully you'll focus on it.'
'We gotta try, sir,' Smith then replied.
'This is a really important story,' Obama shot back.
'And there are often more than one at a time, sir,' the reporter rebutted.
[WASHINGTONPOST] Former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley ...Democratic governor of Maryland and aspiring presidential candidate, known locally as The One-Man Economic Wrecking Crew. O'Malley was elected to his second term driven by union support and near-Stalinesque vote margins in Baltimore city (82%) and Prince George's County (88%)... stepped up his critique of Wall Street excesses here Friday as he began his first swing through Iowa this year with a populist speech to an enthusiastic crowd of close to 300 people attending a Democratic dinner.
O'Malley, who is aggressively positioning himself as an alternative to presumed Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Marshall ... , said that his party "must not allow another Wall Street meltdown to bring down hard-working families." In a speech broadcast live on C-SPAN, he called for tougher sanctions on banks that break the law and for reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act, the Depression-era measure that separated commercial and investment banking.
Many left-leaning Democrats, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), argue that the act's repeal in 1999 under President Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... contributed to the 2008 global credit crisis. If O'Malley is to gain traction against Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Henry Clay ... , one key will be successfully courting Democrats who have been pining for Warren to run for president -- something she has insisted she has no plans to do in 2016.
During O'Malley's appearance at the Scott County Democrats' "Red, White and Blue Dinner," he offered a prescription for "making the dream true again" that includes raising the minimum wage, expanding Social Security benefits, making pre-kindergarten universally available and ensuring equal pay for women. "Sing it with me people," O'Malley said. "When women succeed, America succeeds."
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I like his idea of reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act.
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BTW, how many have been indicted and convicted for market fraud and manipulation that resulted in the 2008 market collapse? Whose DoJ has been on duty since then (hint - it ain't been a Trunk)? Where's the action (other than campaign fund dinners and bag men)?
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Iowa is about as good a State as possible for a guy like O'Malley. Because it is a caucus state only really motivated Dems vote and such Dems are pretty far left. Hillary actually finished 3rd in Iowa in 2008 behind Obama and John Edwards.
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[WASHINGTONPOST] The Maryland Senate voted unanimously Friday to no longer require that the state's largest jurisdictions charge a storm water remediation fee, which Republicans dubbed the "rain tax" on the campaign trail last year. Martin O'Malley's legacy. Or part of it.
The legislation now moves to the House of Delegates, where there has been stronger opposition to changing the fee because Democratic leaders say they do not want to do anything that could impede the reduction of pollution reaching the Chesapeake Bay.
One of the loudest critics of the fee has been Gov. Larry Hogan (R), whose vow to kill it became his campaign rallying cry. Hogan introduced his own legislation to repeal the mandate that the state's nine most-populous counties and Baltimore City charge a fee -- while acknowledging that he did not have the power to actually eliminate this jurisdiction-level tax. But the governor's bill died in both chambers.
Just like Hogan's bill, the version introduced by Maryland Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr. (D-Calvert) version gets rid of the requirement that major jurisdictions charge a fee to at least partially fund anti-pollution efforts that are mandated by the federal government. But Miller's measure requires these counties to document how much their anti-pollution programs will cost and where they will find that money.
For counties that decide to continue charging this fee -- as many plan to do -- Miller's bill would exempt some veterans organizations from having to pay. A similar exemption already exists for volunteer fire departments.
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Well, they are still going to have maintain the systems aren't they? Seriously unless this is being used as a cash source for other uses it is IMO rather short sighted
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