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...When asked if McCain would be hurt if the bill did not win a majority, Boehner on Sunday night snapped, "That's irrelevant." Since McCain "suspended" his campaign, the polls have been swinging Obama's way. McCain tied Obama in the Gallup and Rasmussen Daily tracking polls early last week, but Obama has since opened up his widest leads of the race in both surveys, ahead by 8 and 6 percentage points, respectively. But even if most House Republicans wind up supporting the bill, the legislation is beginning to feel like the White Elephant every one is looking to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bailout Bill That Nobody Likes | 9/29/2008 | See Source »

...just keep quiet? I would much rather see young girls doing an activity that helps them learn they are something more than a sexual object. Purity balls produce the very type of girl who ends up thinking her value lies only in her appeal to men. Linda L. Rasmussen, San Diego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...doping irregularities, is the third competitor to be forced out of the race this year under a cloud of performance-enhancing suspicion. But it is the Italian's exit that definitively stains the entire competition, as happened last year with the early exit of then Tour leader Michael Rasmussen of Denmark, and in 2006 when American Floyd Landis was stripped of his crown following the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs Scandal Hits Tour de France | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...most grueling of endurance sports. French television interviewed fans in the hills above the southern French town of Lavelanet after news of Riccò's drug ouster broke. "You have to expect it by now," said one father, holding his young son in his arms. "It's sad." After Rasmussen was sent home by his Rabobank team last year for refusing to answer questions about his training regimen, daily paper France Soir declared the "death of the Tour de France on July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs Scandal Hits Tour de France | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...110th Congress represent a 30-year low, and they include the naming of 74 post offices, not to mention the nonbinding resolutions designating July National Watermelon Month and recognizing dirt as an essential natural resource. Approval of Congress has sunk to a record low: 9% of people in a Rasmussen poll think lawmakers are doing a good or excellent job. The happiest news in this for the Democrats running the place is that about 40% of voters think the Republicans are still in charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Throw the Bums Out! | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

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