out “two Americas”: one poor and abandoned, one wealthy and connected. Edwards should know, since he built himself a multimillion-dollar gargantuan mansion in which he might better contemplate upon the underprivileged outside his compound.Sen. Chris Dodd sermonizes about corporate greed and credit-card companies’ near extortion. But Dodd managed to squeeze out of the corporate world a low-interest loan, a sweetheart deal for a vacation home in Ireland, and thousands in campaign donations.Former senator and cabinet nominee Tom Daschle was a big proponent of hiking taxes to nationalize our health-care system. But the populist Daschle both hated paying taxes and loved limousines — and so he avoided the former but welcomed the latter. Pages12Next ›Last »[标签:标题]
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