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To: i-node who wrote (640020)	12/23/2011 2:08:08 AM
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Psychological Study of Newt: Quite fascinating. With some shifts, it has similarity to early life of J. Edgar Hoover thedailybeast.com

To: i-node who wrote (640020)	12/23/2011 12:30:08 PM
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GOP Fell Into Democrats' 'Trap' on Payroll Tax LOOKED 'HEARTLESS' AS OBAMA SEIZED ADVANTAGE: CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff newser.com Posted Dec 23, 2011 10:23 AM CST (NEWSER) – Republicans really blew it in the payroll tax debate—both in terms of policy and politics, writes Charles Krauthammer. For one thing, the two-month extension simply doesn't make sense: It requires businesses to plan for "two-thirds of a one-quarter tax-holiday extension." More importantly, for Democrats, it was "the perfect campaign ploy: an election-year bribe that has the additional virtue of seizing the tax issue for the Democrats," Krauthammer writes in the Washington Post. "The Democrats set a trap and the Republicans walked right into it," he asserts. They looked like "heartless" obstructionists by rejecting the Senate compromise—"this was absolutely the wrong place, the wrong time, to plant the flag"—and ultimately had no choice but to capitulate. In the end, Republicans looked like the Animal House marching band—marching straight into a wall. (The measure formally cleared the House this morning.)