NEW YORK -- Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York shifted their fight from the streets to the court Thursday, when dozens of people arrested while marching rejected a deal for them to avoid trial.

The first batch of 78 protesters from among hundreds arrested for disorder over the last six weeks filed into New York State court, nearly all of them telling a judge that they were innocent and demanding a jury trial to clear their names.

Prosecutors had offered a deal in which protesters would see charges dismissed provided they kept out of trouble for six months. The mass refusal raised the prospect of protesters clogging up a court system that will be obliged to provide each defendant with a trial lasting approximately a day.
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Martin Stolar, a lawyer representing about 15 protesters, said pushing the cases to trial showed that prosecutors could not intimidate the mostly young activists.

Let us direct our attention to Ben Nelson and Weepin' Joe Lieberman, one a putative Democratic senator and the other something that a putative Democratic senator might scrape off his shoe on a very hot day.

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However, these will not be taxes, per se, but an overhaul of the tax code, loopholes and deductions so as to reduce the tax rates for corporations and individuals. Boehner would like a target of 25 percent as a top rate.  

Of course, all of this is dependent on Democrats agreeing to "shore up entitlement programs."   And, taking a cue from that other tea party (theMad Hatter)  cuts are a part of the revenues--increases in Medicare premiums and increased contributions of federal employers on retirement are part of the revenues.  

So, here we are, three years into his Presidency, and by all accounts, the unemployment rate will be worse after his first full term than when he took office.

And, the architect of this disaster, Tim Geithner, remains firmly entrenched in his post.

"Mitt Romney unveiled a sweeping budget-cutting plan today that would increase the eligibility age for Social Security and cap Medicaid payments to states.

Romney's plan would also increase the eligibility age for Medicare and allow seniors to choose between the government-sponsored plan and private insurance.

The plan would cut at least $500 billion per year from the federal budget as of 2016 and dramatically shrink the government, pulling back funding from areas that Romney says the nation can no longer afford.

Those areas include Amtrak, which would lose all government subsidies. Romney would also slice $600 million from the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Legal Services Corporation Fund."

oh and just for goodies:

"Eliminate Title X Family Planning Funding -- Savings: $300 Million. Title X subsidizes family planning programs that benefit abortion groups like Planned Parenthood"