This Week on Capitol Hill

Congress pops back into town for a quick lame-duck session this week (with its '07-'08 members), before heading home for the holidays.

A new lease for GM: The House and Senate will wrestle over whether - and how - to toss automakers a cash life-line to keep Detroit in business. The US car industry won a $25 billion loan in September to help it transition its fleet from gas-guzzlers to green-lovers, but carmakers will only see those dollars will after certain milestones are met. Meanwhile, sputtering sales has GM, Ford and Chrysler wondering if they'll have the cash flow to make it through '09. Dems would like to extend a second loan of $25 billion, taken from the $700 billion bailout bill, to tide the Big Three over; the administration and GOP would rather change the terms of the auto-industry's September loan to make that cash available today. Whether congressional leaders can push an agreement through this week - or leave Detroit on the hook until January 20 (when a new, more rescue-friendly administration comes to town) is up in the air.

A civilized celebration of the end of the Bush era.  All Democrats, Liberals and Recovering Republicans welcome!  

Mix 'n mingle with fellow progressives as we toast the incoming Commander-in-Chief's election and bid an early good ridence to the outgoing one. Be prepared to discuss:

- Your #1 Pet Peeve of the Bush administration over the last 8 years

- Your #1 Hope for the Obama administration over the next 8 years. 

I just saw on HBO a very disturbing Documentary on Voting Fraud in America.  Black Box Voting is an organization that exposes this fraud.  In essence it claims that voting officials and elected officials can tamper with the electronic results of the final totals.  Behind all these (Diebold) voting machines are the worst.  Electronic Touch Screen Voting is a means by which Corporate Lobby can control who is in the white house. Also regular paper ballots should be counted by hand, not electronic counters that read votes (Diebold) inaccurately because of improper recalibration.

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After reading the thoughts on the new budget it seems that we're going to get stuck with an increase in taxes no matter who is elected.