The only real good news from all of this is that the pols are still talking.
Instead, the state pols would have to act if they want to follow the federal lead.
Everyone was meaner, both the pols and the press, because they were all young.
But after accountants, lawyers and families howled, the chastened pols repealed the repeal retroactively.
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In some ways, Rahm has a hotter flame at his feet than Springfield pols.
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Such are the envious thoughts that run through the heads of pols and bureaucrats.
But for the current crop of pols, simple resignation does not even occur to them.
Outspoken opponent of Bush tax cuts, courted as adviser to pols Arnold Schwarzenegger and John Kerry.
The pols did temporarily, through 2004, raise the AMT exemption, which phases out anyway as income rises.
And come October, there will be a new fiscal year budget for the pols to fight over.
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Investors will probably take this move by the pols as evidence that a deal will eventually come.
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The Gangsters and the Pols The century-old muckraking tradition in American journalism gets carried, at times, to excess.
When pols talk about cutting rates by getting rid of loopholes, this is what they are talking about.
That's an open invitation for fishing expeditions for greedy trial lawyers, publicity-hungry pols, ambitious prosecutors and envious bureaucrats.
Contrary to the whines of tax-loving pols, the Cox-Wyden legislation does not give special status to Internet commerce.
When state pols fiddle with the exemption amounts, it means trouble for taxpayers and more work for lawyers.
Maybe the mental image of golfing pols, like the prospect of a hanging, has a special power to focus the mind.
To hear the pols tell it, they fully intend to repent for their financial sins and reign in spending.
The surcharges are particularly galling to pols and consumer groups because they seem to amount to blatant double dipping.
He and his scruples didn't sit well with plenty of pols and contractors.
Greece would be a better place too if its pols would stop spending more than the people can afford.
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Be careful: The pols could decide to raise the standard for taxpayers instead.
Lesson for the pols: You thought federal college aid was helping out families.
But since when is it our job solely to take dictation from pols?
Hassett says the MSM and pols lose power when ordinary folk, all on their own, find contentment in their work.
Thanks to the Electoral College, national pols must make genuine alliances with independent state and local political figures and organizations.
You know the Giants are The Thing when the pols start demanding the name change again, to the New Jersey Giants.
Unless Internet and catalog purchases are taxed, the states and localities will have to raise income and property taxes, pols moan.
Pols like to say government needs to learn to spend money smarter, especially as we face an era of fiscal constraint.
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