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Sen. Tom Harkin is proposing new legislation that he said would increase the demand for American cars.

The Sell Fuel Efficient Cars Act would provide a rebate of $10,000 to buyers who trade in a car more than 10 years old for a new American car.

Officials said the reason for the act is to help create demand for American cars and preserve jobs in the weak economy.

The rebate would be limited to families with an adjusted gross income below $40,000 a year or individuals making less than $25,000.

To get the rebate, you would be required to turn in a car more than 10 years old that is still drivable.

The rebate would only apply to purchases of fuel-efficient GM, Ford or Chrysler vehicles that are assembled in the United States. The car would have to have an average fuel economy of 25 miles per gallon.

Officials said close to 15 percent of automobiles that are manufactured by the Big Three automakers would qualify for the rebate.

There would be a one-car limit per family or individual and the program would end in 2009.

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A source close to President-Elect Obama confirmed today that the Obama team is considering its legal options to “fight the scurrilous rumors and libelous claims that Obama would not play ball with Blagojevich’s pay-to-play schemes.”  Speaking on condition of anonymity, the person made it clear that the Obama camp is not pleased with the suggestion that he will not play hardball Chicago style politics.

Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was recently arrested and is facing numerous corruption charges.  According to a 76 page complaint filed by  US Attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, Blagojevich had an elaborate scheme for trading the appointment of the person of President-Elect Obama’s choosing to the senate seat vacated by his election in exchange for a cushy union job.

The potentially libelous accusations are from recorded phone conversations obtained during the Blagojevich investigation.

Blagojevich: “They’re [Obama] not willing to give me anything but appreciation. [Bleep] them!  I’ve got this thing. And it’s [bleeping] golden. I’m just not giving it up for [bleeping] nothing. I’m not going to do it. I can always use it. I can parachute me there.”

Some legal scholars believe the Obama team may have a strong case.  Wm.  Ayers, best-selling author and well-respected professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago says, “I can see that team Obama certainly has standing, the suggestion that Obama doesn’t have the stomach for Chicago politics will harm his ability to work in this system in the future.”

During the interview, the Obama confidant became visibly agitated, going so far as stabbing in the air with an imaginary knife at the mention of certain names.  The source continued with details of the harm done to Obama’s reputation.

“Listen, he [Obama] is only going to be President for 8 years – maybe a few more with the right Supreme Court appointments.    After that, he’s gonna return to Chicago where he will need the juice to survive in that atmosphere.  Seriously, ya think that he can get anything done in Illinois if people like Rezko or Daley think he’s a [bleeping] boy scout?  They’ll [bleeping] eat him alive”

“Plus, its just not [bleeping] true!  People will see right through these accusations.  The facts speak for themselves, Obama gave that [bleeping] hillbilly $20 Million and position as Secretary of State for just a [bleeping] endorsement!”

UPDATE:  IowaHawk reports:

The ongoing corruption probe into Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich took a dramatic turn this evening, as federal agents working for US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald announced that they had seized the governor’s eBay account.

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Time magazine has an interesting article on one of the various cogs in the left-wing activist machine.  The article , which doesn’t mince words, shows a well-funded, organized operation that is committed to defeating “anti-gay” candidates at every level across the nation.  Time recounts how the group of wealthy donors dumped large sums of cash into the 2005 Virginia legislative elections where four candidates seen as “critical of gays” saw defeat.

This unofficial group of wealthy benefactors has become known as the “Cabinet.”

Among gay activists, the Cabinet is revered as a kind of secret gay Super Friends, a homosexual justice league that can quietly swoop in wherever anti-gay candidates are threatening and finance victories for the good guys.

Some Cabinet members also donated tens of thousands of dollars in certain Iowa and New Hampshire races in 2006, when Democrats regained control of both states’ legislatures. Those states’ Democratic majorities now ensure that, among other things, efforts to amend the Iowa and New Hampshire constitutions to ban same-sex marriage will fail.

Those named as members of the Cabinet:

• David Bohnett of Beverly Hills, Calif., Billionaire Co-Founder of Geo-Cities.
• Timothy Gill of Denver, tech multimillionaire;
• James Hormel of San Francisco, heir to the famous meat company;
• Jon Stryker of Kalamazoo, Mich., the billionaire grandson of the founder of medical-technology giant Stryker Corp.;
• Henry van Ameringen, whose father Arnold Louis van Ameringen started a Manhattan-based import company that later became the mammoth International Flavors & Fragrances.
• Jonathan Lewis, grandson of Joseph, co-founder of Progressive Insurance
• Linda Ketner, heiress to the Food Lion fortune, who is running for Congress against GOP Representative Henry Brown Jr. of South Carolina.

The left-wing of this nation has certainly learned how to play big-league behind the scenes politics.  Where is that Vast Right Wing Conspiracy when you need it?

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