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Now that many of the Republicans in Congress are uniting with the Democrats to stop the war and bring the troops back, you'd certainly think that if any party was enjoying the sea change of power, it would be the Dems. Sadly there's trouble in paradise between several members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, particularly between two Democratic reps from Southern California. Rep. Loretta Sanchez of Anaheim / Santa Ana is stepping down from......

There's no bigger piece of news than XXXXX Drudge's XXXXX report that the House Republicans are set to try to eliminate the IRS and switch the nation over to some kind of national sales tax. This is, essentially, a declaration of war on both the poor and the American way of government that's been practiced since FDR. A sales tax is an incredibly regressive way to collect revenue. The details are very fuzzy. Drudge's source......