Question - is it something this administration specifically changed/did or is it just due to tax breaks scheduled to end actually ending as stated in the original legislation? 
OMG! I really earn more than $250K?.....
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Question - is it something this administration specifically changed/did or is it just due to tax breaks scheduled to end actually ending as stated in the original legislation?
No, but sound bites are so much easier to follow than logic.
racist and someone who drags his secessionist state another notch lower. perhaps he can become a lobbyist with the current governor one day.
George Bush Sr. totally called out Wilson in a recent Parade cover story as being everything that is wrong w/ modern politics.
May I suggest you look around a little. Joe Wilson isn't the only one of his kind in the House and Senate. Witness Alan Grayson (D) from our own wonderful state. There are enough ignorant Congressional leaders on both sides to more than go around. If the American electorate was smart, they would vote them all out and start over but, unfortunately, that won't happen.
ignorant congressional leader?
[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_GraysonAlan[/ame] Grayson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Florida's 8th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2009
Preceded by Ric Keller
Political party Democratic Party
Spouse(s) Lolita Grayson
Residence Orlando, Florida
Alma mater Harvard College (A.B.)
John F. Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P.)
Harvard Law School (J.D.)
Profession Attorney
Religion Jewish[1][2]
Website Congressman Alan Grayson, Representing the 8th District of Florida
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Florida's 8th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2009
Preceded by Ric Keller
Political party Democratic Party
Spouse(s) Lolita Grayson
Residence Orlando, Florida
Alma mater Harvard College (A.B.)
John F. Kennedy School of Government (M.P.P.)
Harvard Law School (J.D.)
Profession Attorney
Religion Jewish[1][2]
Website Congressman Alan Grayson, Representing the 8th District of Florida
Early life and education
Grayson was born in the Bronx, New York and grew up in the tenements. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science and worked his way through Harvard University graduating summa cum laude in three years. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He worked as an economist for two years and returned to Harvard for graduate studies. Within four years, he earned a law degree with honors from Harvard Law School, a masters in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and completed the course work and passed the general exams for a Ph.D. in government.[3][4]
[edit] Career
Grayson was employed as a law clerk at the Colorado Supreme Court in 1983, and at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals from 1984 to 1985, where he worked with such judges as Abner Mikva, Robert Bork, and two judges who later joined the U.S. Supreme Court: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia. He was an associate at the Washington D.C. firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson for five years, where he specialized in contract law.
Grayson wrote his masters thesis on gerontology and in 1986 founded the Alliance for Aging Research (AAR), and served as an officer of the organization for more than twenty years.[5] AAR is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. that was founded to promote medical research to improve the human experience of aging.
In 1991 he founded the law firm Grayson, Kubli which concentrated on government contract law. He was a lecturer at the George Washington University government contracts program and a frequent speaker on the topic.[4] Grayson also was the first President of IDT Corporation, a publicly traded billion-dollar telecommunications company.[5][6] Grayson was ranked as the 12th-wealthiest member of Congress based on financial disclosure forms with a minimum net worth of $31.12 million, according to Roll Call.[7]
In the 2000s he worked as a plaintiffs' attorney specializing in whistleblower fraud cases aimed at Iraq war contractors. One contractor, Custer Battles, employed individuals who were found guilty of making fraudulent statements and submitting fraudulent invoices on two contracts in 2003 the company had with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.[8][9] On behalf of his clients, Grayson filed suit under the False Claims Act and its qui tam provisions.[8] Grayson disclosed his attorney fees and costs for the case exceeded $4 million.[9][10]
While pursuing the whistleblower cases, Grayson worked from a home office in Orlando where he lived with his wife and five children. In 2006, a Wall Street Journal reporter described Grayson as "waging a one-man war against contractor fraud in Iraq" and as a "fierce critic of the war in Iraq" whose car was "emblazoned" with bumper stickers such as "Bush lied, people died".[10]
Grayson was born in the Bronx, New York and grew up in the tenements. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science and worked his way through Harvard University graduating summa cum laude in three years. He was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He worked as an economist for two years and returned to Harvard for graduate studies. Within four years, he earned a law degree with honors from Harvard Law School, a masters in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and completed the course work and passed the general exams for a Ph.D. in government.[3][4]
[edit] Career
Grayson was employed as a law clerk at the Colorado Supreme Court in 1983, and at the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals from 1984 to 1985, where he worked with such judges as Abner Mikva, Robert Bork, and two judges who later joined the U.S. Supreme Court: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia. He was an associate at the Washington D.C. firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson for five years, where he specialized in contract law.
Grayson wrote his masters thesis on gerontology and in 1986 founded the Alliance for Aging Research (AAR), and served as an officer of the organization for more than twenty years.[5] AAR is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. that was founded to promote medical research to improve the human experience of aging.
In 1991 he founded the law firm Grayson, Kubli which concentrated on government contract law. He was a lecturer at the George Washington University government contracts program and a frequent speaker on the topic.[4] Grayson also was the first President of IDT Corporation, a publicly traded billion-dollar telecommunications company.[5][6] Grayson was ranked as the 12th-wealthiest member of Congress based on financial disclosure forms with a minimum net worth of $31.12 million, according to Roll Call.[7]
In the 2000s he worked as a plaintiffs' attorney specializing in whistleblower fraud cases aimed at Iraq war contractors. One contractor, Custer Battles, employed individuals who were found guilty of making fraudulent statements and submitting fraudulent invoices on two contracts in 2003 the company had with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.[8][9] On behalf of his clients, Grayson filed suit under the False Claims Act and its qui tam provisions.[8] Grayson disclosed his attorney fees and costs for the case exceeded $4 million.[9][10]
While pursuing the whistleblower cases, Grayson worked from a home office in Orlando where he lived with his wife and five children. In 2006, a Wall Street Journal reporter described Grayson as "waging a one-man war against contractor fraud in Iraq" and as a "fierce critic of the war in Iraq" whose car was "emblazoned" with bumper stickers such as "Bush lied, people died".[10]
Bush Sr. and I were referring to the lack of manners/respect shown.
Agree that (as the bumper sticker says) both politicians and diapers need to be changed frequently - for the same reason!
