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...next 10 years, something sacred had to go, and that's where mortgage deductions come in. Of course, not extending the recent tax cuts due to expire by 2010 (capital gains, estate, child credit) would do the same trick, economists say. But under the President's orders, that option was off-limits...
There is, of course, always the option to freak them out. You could start yelling obscenities from the bathroom. You could start a game of “Trivial Pursuit: Genius Edition.” Or, better yet, strip down naked and hope they’ll run away...
...just stand on the podium glued to your laptop. Use a digital remote with a built-in laser pointer instead so you can click through and highlight your slides as you wander the stage or out into the audience, Oprah-style. Kensington's wireless PocketPresenter ($50) is a slick option that fits in your palm and works with both Macs and PCs within a 50-ft. range...
...without lashing out and sounding shrill. Absent a number of Republican defections, the Democrats will be unable to block Alito unless they resort to a filibuster that will prolong debate and prevent a full vote. And if they go that route, many Republicans have vowed to pursue the "nuclear option"--using a simple majority to pass a rule ending filibusters for judicial nominations...
...Senate Judiciary Committee like Ted Kennedy and Joseph Biden, Alito made many of his initial courtesy calls on more moderate Democrats, some of whom are members of the Gang of 14. That coalition of Democrats and Republicans banded together to prevent an escalation to a filibuster--nuclear-option scenario during the battles over federal appeals-court nominees earlier this year, and they met last week to affirm their belief that only "extraordinary circumstances" would justify a judicial filibuster. If at least five Senators from relatively conservative so-called red states--like Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Ben Nelson of Nebraska...