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Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Party Poopers Take Washington

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Neil Cavuto, Managing Editor & Anchor

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Democrats won't seat Roland Burris and it creates a circus.

They won't invite comedian Al Franken and it creates a stir.

And Caroline Kennedy's poll numbers are crashing in New York and now Democrats suspect it's creating a revolt.

Barack Obama, welcome to Washington.

And who knew "Swearing-In Day" could create so much swearing?

Here's the deal.

The President-elect has just met his party poopers.

And they're all from his party.

So suddenly from the gang that could never veer right...

We have the gang that couldn't shoot straight.

...jeopardizing an agenda where they tell us time is of the essence.

To an agenda that might take some time to get hopping on at all.

Since we're talking at least 800 billion smackers here, who am I to begrudge a little more thought and examination here?

Republicans have long been arguing that....

Who knew it would be the Democrats and their respective Senate circuses that would now...Guarantee that?

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Word of the Day

Specialist

A specialist is a member of a stock exchange who works as an auctioneer for a specific stock and/or stocks. It can be an individual, partnership, corporation or group of firms.

The specialist works to maintain a "fair and orderly market" for respective stocks, matching up buyers and sellers by displaying the best "bid" and "ask" prices at its trading post. If buys are not equal to sells, the specialist evens the scale by buying or selling shares, accordingly. However, they cannot make their own transactions until all investor orders have been placed.

Gauging supply and demand, the specialist sets an opening price for the stocks in its domain. If a price has not been set by the time the market opens, the specialist can delay that particular stock's opening.

Specialists make money off the "spread," which is the difference between bid and ask prices on orders.