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*Sigh*"President Obama will host a roundtable with about 20 corporate chiefs on Wednesday, according to the White House, part of an attempt to ease strained relations with business. Expected for the session at the Blair House, across the street from the White House, are executives from a range of industries, including American Express, Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical, Google, Motorola, Intel, UPS and PepsiCo, according to people involved in the planning. But the White House said...

One of the things that struck me about Barack Obama during the campaign was how so many people questioned his every move. Then, a day or so later it would all suddenly make sense. He was always three or four moves ahead. So, a seemingly stupid move ended up being brilliant. They say a good chess player plays several moves ahead of his or her current move. Something tells me that Obama would be good...

Just one small segment of Sen. Bernie Sanders' marathon speech on the floor of the Senate yesterday, dealing with the class war and the winners and losers in that war:<br />"...in the year 2007, the top 1 percent of all income earners in the United States made 23.5 percent of all income. The top 1 percent earned 23.5 percent of all income-more than the entire bottom 50 percent.""From 1980-2005, 80% of all income went to...

Forgive me while I take a momentary detour into Never-Never Land. Reality is too damn depressing."My fellow Americans, Our country stands at the crossroads. We have 15 million of our fellow citizens out of work and an equal or greater number who are working part-time because that's all that is available. Our economy is facing crushing financial deficits, and we are in the midst of fighting two foreign wars. We can do the easy and...

The latest on "The Deal":President Obama at Tuesday's press conference: [I]t's a big, diverse country, and people have a lot of complicated positions, it means that in order to get stuff done we're gonna compromise...This country was founded on compromise."Yesterday: "Vice President Biden told House Democrats on Wednesday that the tax agreement the White House struck with Republicans was essentially final, forcing the divided caucus to decide whether to press its fight for changes in...

Why is this man smiling?You would be smiling too if you'd just been named de facto President of the United States:"White House officials and Congressional Republicans said Sunday they were closing in on a deal to temporarily continue the Bush-era tax cuts at all income levels, while bitterly frustrated Democratic Congressional leaders began exploring whether they would have the votes for such a package. A day after the Senate rejected President Obama's preferred [yeah,right] tax...

The old Mammoth Cave:The new Mammoth Cave:"White House negotiators and congressional Republicans have the outlines of a deal to extend the Bush-era tax cuts and federal unemployment benefits, which would end a partisan stalemate on Capitol Hill. Under the prospective deal, all the Bush tax cuts would be extended for two years and unemployment benefits would be extended for one, according to congressional sources."  But the extension of unemployment benefits comes with a caveat:"Senior Senate...

Hello Barack Obama.Thank you for visiting The Daily Hurricane each day.Please don't give in on ending the Bush tax cuts for people earning more that $250,000 a year.We are at war in Afghanistan, we have a big budget deficit, and we are in tough economic times.People who are doing well can pay a little bit more.Have we no bottom line standards at all?Wealthy people can't help their country during hard times?The party of the  working...

Paging Dr. Mengele, Dr. Josef Mengele.Truthout has a report taken from Department of Defense documents showing that detainees at Guantanamo were given massive doses of an anti-malarial drug which was known to have serious psychological side effects before they had even been tested for malaria, and in spite of the non-existence of malaria in Cuba:"The Defense Department forced all "war on terror" detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a...

This quote by Virginia Senator Jim Webb referenced in Frank Rich's op-ed yesterday entitled, "Still the Best Congress Money Can Buy" says all we need to know about our broken, corrupt, two-party system:"Webb has pushed for a onetime windfall profits tax on Wall Street's record bonuses. He talks about the "unusual circumstances of the bailout," that the bonuses wouldn't be there without the bailout."I couldn't even get a vote," Webb says. "And it wasn't because...