Tweet Three weeks of effort after effort to stop the oil “leak” have finally borne some results. Now we see those Gulf of Mexico BP workers, doing the victory dance sort of thing, because they successfully captured some of the leaking oil, by driving a mile long pipe beneath the surface. Success, however, didn’t come in easy because those engineers... 

Tweet Senate Democrats have begun to create a small plan (based on next 5 years) which is going to cap appropriations below President Barack Obama’s 2011 request. This will give the financial committee an upper hand towards breaking the impasse over the estate tax on wealthy. Max Baucus (Senate Finance Committee Chairman) says that he is expected Conrad...