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A major distortion on McCain’s policy

By Angie Drobnic Holan
October 15, 2008
Under John McCain's health care plan, people get a $5,000 tax credit to buy a $12,000 health care policy, and "that's a loss for you."
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Small businesses are exempt

By Angie Drobnic Holan
October 15, 2008
If you're a small business and don't "adopt the health care plan that Senator Obama mandates, he's going to fine you."
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Beating a retreat on a lavish retreat

By Adriel Bettelheim
October 14, 2008
"AIG executives ... (took) a junket for over $400,000. Twice."
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Report finds Palin violated ethics laws

October 14, 2008
"The truth was revealed there in that report that showed there was no unlawful or unethical activity on my part."
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2007 was too late to head off the crisis

By Angie Drobnic Holan
October 13, 2008
"I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke [in March 2007], and told them this is something we have to deal…
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Lax regulation contributed, among other things

By Angie Drobnic Holan
October 13, 2008
On the economic crisis, "the biggest problem in this whole process was the deregulation of the financial system."
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There’s plenty of bipartisan blame for crisis

By Angie Drobnic Holan
October 13, 2008
"The Democrats in the Senate and some members of Congress defended what Fannie and Freddie were doing. They resisted any change."
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Fannie and Freddie contributed to wider problem

By Angie Drobnic Holan
October 13, 2008
On the economic troubles of 2008, "really the match that lit this fire was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."
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Not a radical group, and Ayers didn’t run it

By Alexander Lane
October 10, 2008
"(Bill) Ayers and Obama ran a radical education foundation together."
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Obama sought the money, but it’s no mere projector

By David DeCamp
October 10, 2008
Obama "voted for ... $3-million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago."
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$5,000 for couples, but half that for “every American”

By Angie Drobnic Holan
October 9, 2008
"I want to give every American a $5,000 refundable tax credit."
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