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Look Who´s Refusing To
Compromise To Avoid
The Fiscal Cliff
Investor´s Business Daily, by IBD Staff
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Posted By:RustMB, 11/14/2012 7:10:28 AM
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| Budget Talks: If President Obama wants to get a deficit deal done to avoid the fiscal cliff, his biggest challenge won´t be Republicans, but his own hard-core left-wing supporters. Two days after the election, Obama´s favorite economist, Paul Krugman, set the tone for the intransigent left in a column titled: "Let´s not make a deal." Boiled down, his advice to Obama was this: Don´t give in to any Republican demands, even if doing so would "inflict damage on a still-shaky economy." [snip] Krugman´s advice may be disturbingly cold and calculating, but he has plenty of company on the left
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
god of irony, 11/14/2012 7:31:03 AM (No. 9013101)
Don´t worry the GOP will lose the PR war as usual.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 11/14/2012 7:32:45 AM (No. 9013105)
The house either holds the purse strings or it does not.
Which is it, Mr. Boner ?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
49 Ford, 11/14/2012 7:32:59 AM (No. 9013107)
It´s not hard to figure. He will, with a wink & nod to his base, go through the motions of negotiating with the Republicans, scuttle any emerging deal with new demands, once again proclaim his willingness to walk McConnell´s dog and then count on the MSM to pin the blame on the GOP. The old "Nailing Jelly to the Wall" trick. Nothing new to see here.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
shamus, 11/14/2012 7:33:39 AM (No. 9013110)
If the US is going to spend excessive amounts on social welfare, then taxes must be raised to pay for it. Borrowing trillions from the Chinese is not an acceptable choice.
If Republicans allow current law to take effect, then they will be able to insist that spending gets cut to pay for any increase in the debt ceiling. Obama will (of course) ignore the law and exceed the debt ceiling, but this will form the basis for impeachment.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
fljack, 11/14/2012 7:35:55 AM (No. 9013117)
Obama wants ALL the Bush tax cuts to expire so he can point the finger at the Republican House and tell the American people that the Republicans raised taxes and lied. He also wants sequestration to fully take effect to further decimate the military and to use those funds for reparations and massive vote buying. Again, sequestration will be blamed on those nasty Republicans who won´t "come to the middle or negotiate in good faith".
Just wait ´til 2014 when the Dem ads come out.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
RosietheObserver, 11/14/2012 7:37:44 AM (No. 9013123)
They already said that whatever happens is the GOP´s fault. They got away with blaming Republicans when they had both houses of Congress and a Democratic president, so they will get away with blaming republicans no matter who is to blame. People don´t think --they just accept what the media tells them.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Wetlandz, 11/14/2012 7:39:18 AM (No. 9013130)
Would be nice if we can raise taxes on the bottom 50% as well. People need to see tax hikes are not the answer to avoid a fiscal cliff.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
provide, 11/14/2012 7:41:44 AM (No. 9013135)
Bammy´s been making references to Lyndon Johnson lately and he believes he can drag in the legislators and twist arms like the great master. Sorry Bammy, I knew Lyndon Johnson and you´re no Lyndon Johnson.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 11/14/2012 8:00:30 AM (No. 9013189)
Let the Bush tax cuts expire for everyone. Let the Payroll Tax Holiday end on schedule. Then ask the President to convince working poor and middle class that he needs even more of their money to invest for them.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
steveracer, 11/14/2012 8:04:30 AM (No. 9013198)
Exactly #1. And the Republicans will find a way to point the gun at themselves. What a bunch of chumps. They need to start pushing the Democrats around.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
SourKraut, 11/14/2012 8:04:57 AM (No. 9013199)
Why try to ´avoid´ it ?
Let the idjuts who voted him in, get hit with it
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Nimby, 11/14/2012 8:11:39 AM (No. 9013213)
Next time Pollsters should probably put the media as a third party responsible for inflation and unemployment along with publicans and drats?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 11/14/2012 8:29:15 AM (No. 9013256)
The compromise will come days AFTER the USA jumps off the cliff.
The compromise will raise taxes while providing Bohner an opportunity to say ´I did not vote to raise taxes!´
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
dwbbb, 11/14/2012 8:44:50 AM (No. 9013295)
Why would the democrats compromise? Slashed military spending and higher taxes represents utopia to them. Do you really believe they care about the middle class?
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Almost as many people signed up with the federal government´s permanent worker disability program as got jobs in March, according to two sets of government data, continuing a troubling trend throughout the Obama recovery. Last month, 81,804 workers left the workforce to join the Social Security Disability Insurance program. So far this year, nearly a quarter million workers have joined the program. Over the past four years, 4 million left the workforce to go on disability.
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A Slick Marketing Campaign
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Uninsured: The White House recently released details about how it plans to market ObamaCare to the uninsured. What it reveals is that most of them don´t want what the administration is trying to force them to buy. In a series of slides posted on the Health and Human Services´ website, the administration explains how it plans to market ObamaCare to the uninsured. Let´s leave aside for a minute the oddity of this effort. Its backers have endlessly touted ObamaCare as a miracle of modern government that will at long last bring insurance within reach of 48 million people
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Americans Are Migrating To
More Free Republican States
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Investor´s Business Daily, by John Merline
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Posted By: RustMB- 3/28/2013 8:28:19 AM
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Americans are migrating from less-free liberal states to more-free conservative states, where they are doing better economically, according to a new study published Thursday by the George Washington University´s Mercatus Center. The "Freedom in the 50 States" study measured economic and personal freedom using a wide range of criteria, including tax rates, government spending and debt, regulatory burdens, and state laws covering land use, union organizing, gun control, education choice and more.
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ObamaCare Turns Three:
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Investor´s Business Daily, by John Merline
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Posted By: RustMB- 3/22/2013 7:52:08 AM
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Just over three years ago, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously quipped about ObamaCare that "we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it." But only now, as ObamaCare´s third anniversary approaches — President Obama signed it into law on March 23, 2010 — is the country starting to find out what the sweeping health care overhaul will actually do. ObamaCare backers typically tout popular features that went into effect almost immediately. The law expanded Medicare´s drug coverage, for example, and let children stay on their parents´ plans until they turned 26. But the bulk
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Posted By: RustMB- 3/21/2013 8:14:07 AM
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Food Stamp Nation: A little town in Rhode Island shows where liberalism and all its talk of economic "security" ultimately leads — a stale economy and suffocating dependence on big government. In a surprisingly candid and lengthy expose, the Washington Post described how Woonsocket, an economically depressed town in Rhode Island, has been turned upside down by food stamps. With a third of the town enrolled, food stamps have created a huge boom-and-bust economy in Woonsocket
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Democrats Use Budget Gimmicks
To Hide Spending
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Investor´s Business Daily, by John Merline
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Posted By: RustMB- 3/15/2013 8:33:32 AM
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In their first budget in four years, Senate Democrats claim to have crafted a plan that cuts federal spending a total of $975 billion over the next decade. "This budget cuts spending responsibly," said Senate Budget Chairman Patty Murray, D-Wash., this week. "There are no sacred cows; we put everything we can on the table." But an IBD review of the budget data shows that the Senate vastly overstates the size of its spending cuts. In fact, it could be that the Senate would, if enacted, increase federal spending by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Obama´s Sequester Math:
$300 Billion In New Revenues
Called ´Spending Cuts´
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Investor´s Business Daily, by IBD Staff
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Posted By: RustMB- 3/1/2013 7:16:20 AM
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Budget: When President Obama put out his "balanced" plan to avoid the automatic sequester cuts, no one noticed. Which is probably just as well for Obama, given how embarrassingly unbalanced it is. [snip] Last week, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote about how Obama "hasn´t actually come up with a proposal to avert sequestration, let alone one that is politically plausible." Turns out, Obama did have one, although Brooks can be excused for not knowing it, since the administration hasn´t exactly been promoting this so-called plan.
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5 Reasons ObamaCare Will
Add Far More To Deficits
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Investor´s Business Daily, by John Merline
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Posted By: RustMB- 2/27/2013 7:07:04 AM
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On Tuesday, Sen. Jeff Sessions touted a government report that blew a $6.2 trillion hole in President Obama´s promise that his signature health reform wouldn´t add a dime to the deficit. According to the report by the Government Accountability Office, that promise rested entirely on several cost-control mechanisms in ObamaCare that almost no one thinks will work. [snip] Still, bad as this $6.2 trillion deficit boost is, the real figure is likely to be much higher, since the GAO is still being far too optimistic about the rest of ObamaCare. Here are five big assumptions the GAO makes...
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Debunking The Myth That
Sequester Cuts Will Cause Flight Delay
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Investor´s Business Daily, by IBD Staff
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Posted By: RustMB- 2/26/2013 8:32:03 AM
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Sequester: If you want to know how misleading the Obama administration is being about the effects of the sequester, look no further than Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood´s dark warnings about flight delays. LaHood showed up at the daily White House press briefing Friday to claim the sequester — automatic spending cuts President Obama insisted on that are now scheduled to take effect in March — will "be very painful for the flying public." [snip] But LaHood, taking his cues from Obama, is needlessly trying to panic the public.
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Will Only Suckers Buy
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Investor´s Business Daily, by John Merline
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Posted By: RustMB- 2/20/2013 8:16:01 AM
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For years, ObamaCare critics focused on its least popular feature — the mandate that everyone buy insurance — taking their fight all the way to the Supreme Court. But as ObamaCare´s official launch date approaches, even its backers are beginning to admit that the law could actually create powerful incentives for millions of people and thousands of businesses to drop their coverage, despite the mandate. There is growing concern, for example, that the law´s market reforms will cause a huge "rate shock," particularly for those young and healthy.
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Obama Vastly Exaggerates
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Investor´s Business Daily, by IBD Staff
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Posted By: RustMB- 2/12/2013 10:13:09 AM
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Big Government: We almost never agree with President Obama´s favorite economist Paul Krugman, but he recently spoke the truth about where Obama´s policies are taking the country. It should scare anyone with a pulse. Krugman, after speaking at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C., was asked about the debt crisis. After arguing it´s no big deal in the near term, Krugman admitted that "Eventually we do have a problem. The population is getting older, health care costs are rising ... . Something is going to have to give." What´s that something?
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Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister who gained worldwide renown as the Iron Lady has died aged 87. Developing a formidable partnership with President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s, Mrs. Thatcher stood up to the ´Evil Empire´ of the Soviet Union, eventually witnessing its collapse. [Snip] Responding to her death, Buckingham Palace said, ´The Queen is sad to hear the news of the death of Baroness Thatcher and Her Majesty will be sending a private message of sympathy to the family, Buckingham Palace said today.´ British Prime Minster David Cameron said on hearing of her passing, ´It was
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HARTFORD, Conn. -- With time running out on the chance to pass gun control legislation, President Barack Obama on Monday warned Congress not to use delaying tactics against tighter regulations and told families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims that he´s "determined as ever" to honor their children with tougher laws. Obama´s gun control proposals have run into resistance on Capitol Hill, leaving their fate in doubt. Efforts by Senate Democrats to reach compromise with Republicans over expanding required federal background checks have yet to yield an agreement, and conservatives were promising to try
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Kim Jong-un Wants Phone
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 6:56:50 AM
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North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for United States President Barack Obama to make a phone call to Pyongyang to discuss easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Russia’s news agency Itar-Tass. The report cited United Kingdom diplomats, saying Pyongyang was demanding the U.S. president personally call Kim Jong-un as one of the conditions to relieve the current conflict at hand. Itar-Tass also quoted the U.K.’s Sky News as saying North Korea currently has eight nuclear warheads.
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 1:18:00 PM
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Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from
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White House: Planned GOP
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/8/2013 11:08:31 PM
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Beginning a week of high pressure on gun control, the White House on Monday accused some Republican senators of cowardice for planning to filibuster gun legislation without allowing the full Senate to vote on President Obama’s initiatives. “If they oppose this legislation, have the courage to say so on the floor and vote no,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “Don’t block it. Don’t hide behind a procedural action to prevent a vote. That’s the wrong thing to do, and that’s how the president clearly feels.”
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
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The murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell largely is being ignored by the mainstream media, even in the face of grisly testimony, such as what we heard yesterday. Life News reports: ...a former employee described how she heard a baby scream during a live-birth abortion. Abortion clinic employee Sherry West described an incident which "really freaked (her) out" and related to the jury how she heard a child who was born alive following an abortion scream.
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Special ops veterans’ group
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 7:00:09 AM
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More than 700 Special Operations veterans are urging members of Congress to back a select committee to investigate last year’s Benghazi terrorist attack, according to a letter first obtained by Fox News. The letter from the group, “Special Operations Speaks,” supports the appointment of a special committee tasked with the single mission of investigating the attack that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead, and shut down the CIA operation in an annex of the Benghazi consulate, in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack. “Congress must show some leadership and provide answers to the public
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Obama flying 11 relatives of Sandy Hook
victims to D.C. on Air Force One so
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Posted By: BuckeyeRon- 4/8/2013 4:05:18 PM
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President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an
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Updated: White House, McCain
blast Cruz for threatening
filibuster over guns
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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 4:55:05 PM
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.
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North Korea´s Army Is Full of Jumping,
Leaping, High-Kicking Martial Artists
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Atlantic, by Connor Simpson
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/8/2013 5:48:23 AM
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Amid all of the very real threats of war and stuff from North Korea, you´d think American intelligence officers want as much video footage of the enemy as possible. Well, here is one video featuring North Korean exercises and Kim Jong-Un holding a gun, and we´ll say this: they certainly get points for presentation. Remember the clap-happy report from Dennis Rodman´s diplomatic basketball vacation? This video comes courtesy of the same Youtube channel that gave us that Rodman video. It appears to be the same state news channel.(Snip for video)This latest dispatch from North Korea´s state television
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Gay Connecticut couple accused
of raping adopted children
will face trial
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New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz
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Posted By: Drive- 4/8/2013 8:52:23 AM
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The case of a same-sex Connecticut couple accused of repeatedly raping and abusing two of their nine adopted boys is headed for trial. Married couple George Harasz and Douglas Wirth of Glastonbury were supposed to be sentenced Friday in Hartford Superior Court under a plea deal, but instead withdrew from their agreement with prosecutors. The men had already pleaded no contest in January to one felony count each of risk of injury to a minor — a reduction from even more serious charges related to sexual assault....
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