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And Kevin McCarthy faces pressure to punish Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.

Caroline BrehmanGetty Images Those of you hungering for “bipartisanship” can rest easily. There’s one area of the national legislature in which folks regularly “reach across the aisle” to fashion cooperation and compromise: the feast of fat things that is the defense budget. For example, the determination to toss more money down into the money pit that is the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, aka The Flying Swiss Army Knife, is as purely bipartisan as it is purely mercenary, as the The Joint Strike Fighter Caucus is composed of 27 representatives—seven Democrats and 20 Republicans—who...

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what ben bernanke said yesterday was exactly what the market expected him to say, we know things are weak, we know europe is a severe issue. him saying it even though they knew he was going to say it makes people more worried looking for something to hold on to and a little bit of hope. most people say this is a dramatic sell-off and you might see stabilization. that isn't the same thing as saying we aren't in a real economic problem, we know we are. >> it seems the markets are underwhelmed by the feds latest move to kick start the economy. is there anything they can do? >> certainly...

what ben bernanke said yesterday was exactly what the market expected him to say, we know things are weak, we know europe is a severe issue. him saying it even though they knew he was going to say it makes people more worried looking for something to hold on to and a little bit of hope. most people say this is a dramatic sell-off and you might see stabilization. that isn't the same thing as saying we aren't in a real economic problem, we know we are. >> it seems the markets are underwhelmed by the feds latest move to kick start the economy. is there anything they can do? >> certainly...