|
Latest Articles: The Water Cooler
Rep. Peter King: Obama Needs To Put His Foot Down On Muslim Brotherhood
Post Date: 2011-02-13 14:47:11 by Brian S
1 Comments
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Friday that it's essential that the U.S. try to prevent the Muslim Brotherhood from having a part in Egypt's new government. Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said on Fox's "Hannity" that Washington has six months to work with the military leaders guiding the democratic transition in Egypt. "As Americans we have a strategic interest in the Middle East. We cannot just sit back and say that the Muslim Brotherhood can work itself in," King said. He said that the group, which was banned under the Mubarak regime, says they are not violent yet "talk violence." "We as Americans cannot take the risk ...
Right Fractures Over Islam At CPAC
Post Date: 2011-02-13 12:57:00 by Brian S
2 Comments
While a gay rights controversy drew headlines at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, another — and even more bitter — dispute rippled as views varied widely on how to reconcile the conservative movement with Islam in the United States. At the 38th annual conservative gathering, there was no shortage of accusations of Islamist sympathies, Muslim Brotherhood infiltration and charges of fear-mongering. Republican presidential hopefuls, including Newt Gingrich and John Thune, also drew applause with suggestions that the Obama administration has taken a politically correct blind eye to the connection between radical Islam and terrorism. Continue Reading Text ...
Tea Party My Ass, Yet Again
Post Date: 2011-02-11 13:32:41 by Brian S
0 Comments
You were lied to America. I told you this before the election. That you were snookered, lied to, and bamboozled. That you would not get either real fiscal accountability or liberty and The Rule of Law out of The Tea Party. Many said I was full of crap. Really? I challenge any and all who said I was wrong to explain this: Cross-referencing the list at MSNBC and the outcome of the vote, the following is a list of Tea Party-backed candidates voting for the bill (Patriot Act reauthorization): Tim Griffin (AR-2), Paul Gosar (AZ-1), Steve Southerland (FL-2), Allen West (FL-22), Sandy Adams (FL-24), Bob Dold (IL-10), Adam Kinzinger (IL-11), Marlin Stutzman (IN-3), Todd Young (IN-9), ...
Reagan DOJ Official Slams Scalia’s Tea Party Gathering
Post Date: 2011-02-11 13:01:41 by Brian S
0 Comments
Bruce Fein, Ronald Reagan’s former Associate Deputy Attorney General, published a letter in today’s New York Times castigating Justice Antonin Scalia for speaking to a backroom meeting organized by the House Tea Party Caucus: Justice Antonin Scalia galloped beyond the farthest boundaries of judicial propriety in secretly meeting on Capitol Hill to discuss the Constitution with Tea Party members of Congress saddled with a co-equal duty to assess the constitutionality of legislative action. If there are better ways to destroy public confidence in judicial impartiality, they do not readily come to mind. … Associate Justice Abe Fortas was forced to resign for, among other things, ...
The Jewish Republicans' Paul Problem: Ron and Rand
Post Date: 2011-02-11 12:58:25 by Brian S
1 Comments
If I were running the Republican Jewish Coalition, I'd be getting a little nervous about the battle going on in their party. On one hand, the GOP stands to benefit with Jewish voters in 2012, at least a bit, from the perception President Obama has been either too tough on Israel or too inept in Middle East policy. We know a majority of Jews don't vote based mostly on the Israel issue, but under normal circumstances this administration's uneven performance on Middle East matters – and the relentless campaign to portray it as anti-Israel -- could be expected to add a few points to the GOP's traditional Jewish vote count. Even a 5 percent rise in Jewish GOP voting in ...
Paul Supporters Hijack Cheney-Rumsfeld Reunion (Video)
Post Date: 2011-02-10 17:39:01 by Brian S
6 Comments
Dick Cheney just popped up here at CPAC to introduce his old pal and Bush administration colleague Donald Rumsfeld. Fans of Ron Paul turned what should have been a friendly moment before an audience of fellow conservatives into a screaming match and protest action that resembled what a Cheney-Rumsfeld hug at the Netroots Nation convention might look like. Rumsfeld is being given CPAC's "Defender Of The Constitution" award, a concept that apparently rankled Paul supporters in the crowd. Many of them got up and walked out en masse at the mention of Rumsfeld, though some stayed behind in the conference hall to heckle the architects of the invasion of Iraq. TPM SLIDESHOW: ...
Right-Wingers Claim Muslim Brotherhood Has Infiltrated CPAC
Post Date: 2011-02-10 14:40:00 by Brian S
0 Comments
The right-wing site World Net Daily and conservative columnist Frank Gaffney came up with a new reason this week to hate the Conservative Political Action Conference, arguing that it has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood thanks to Grover Norquist, the Republican group Muslims For America, and Ex-Bush staffer Suhail Khan. In an interview with TPM today, Khan described how "every few months there's a different iteration of [Gaffney] and his cohorts' wild accusations," but it is simply untrue, and a part of Gaffney's "tempter tantrum" that he has been marginalized by the conservative movement. As we reported, several social conservative groups have ...
Anti-Stimulus Republican Allen West Endorses Stimulus-Funded Projects
Post Date: 2011-02-09 20:22:29 by Brian S
0 Comments
WASHINGTON – Freshman Rep. Allen West (R-FL), who won his House seat partly by bashing the stimulus and government spending, this week hailed stimulus-funded projects for creating jobs and boosting economic growth. "It's time for incumbent Ron Klein to admit his ideas just don't work. The stimulus failed to produce jobs," West said in a campaign ad last fall. But in a recent interview with attorney Ed Pozzuoli, the video of which was clipped by Think Progress, West praised two stimulus-funded projects in his Florida district for their potential to "turn around" the economy. "Just had a great opportunity sitting over and talking to the Ft. Lauderdale ...
House GOP Looks At Tough Health Insurance Realities
Post Date: 2011-02-09 12:40:36 by Brian S
3 Comments
Ask any House Republican about repealing President Barack Obama’s health care law, and you’ll get the same fiery, self-assured talking points about tearing down what Speaker John Boehner has called a “monstrosity.” But talk to some of the 16 freshman lawmakers who have declined their government health benefits, and you’ll hear a different side of the story — about tough out-of-pocket expenses, pre-existing conditions and support for health reforms that would help those who struggle with their coverage. As they venture into the free market for health insurance, these lawmakers — many of whom swept into office fueled by tea party anger over the health care ...
Would Ronald Reagan Support the Tea Party? His Children Disagree
Post Date: 2011-02-08 13:11:29 by Brian S
6 Comments
Channeling Ronald Reagan has become an obsession of the nation's leading conservative political figures, including many who are likely candidates for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012. Former Alaksa Gov. Sarah Palin considers herself a "western conservative in the spirit of Ronald Reagan." Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, compares his Pennsylvania roots to Reagan's in Tampico, Ill. And, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, among others, credits Reagan as an inspiration to "fight for conservative causes." But ask the 40th president's three surviving children -- Michael and Ron Reagan and Patti Davis -- whether any of their father's ...
Marco Rubio Dismisses Rand Paul’s Tea Party Caucus As A ‘Little Club’ Run By Washington Politicians
Post Date: 2011-02-07 18:32:57 by Brian S
0 Comments
Last month, the newly formed Senate Tea Party Caucus held its first meeting, but conspicuously absent were some high-profile senators who got elected last year with the strong backing of the tea party, including Marco Rubio (R-FL). Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) founded the caucus soon after arriving in Washington, but Rubio has long questioned the need for a formal caucus, saying he prefered the movement be left to grass roots activists, not Washington politicians. But in a radio interview Friday, Rubio leveled even harsher words at the caucus, dismissing it as a “little club[]” run by politicians that could cause the real movement “to lose its energy”: HOST: When Michele ...
Donald Rumsfeld to Diane Sawyer: 'It's Possible' Troop Decisions Were a Mistake in Iraq
Post Date: 2011-02-07 11:04:38 by Brian S
1 Comments
More than four years after leaving public life, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld continues to believe the war in Iraq was worth the effort, and has no apologies for his decision-making in leading the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. In an exclusive interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, Rumsfeld concedes that "it's possible" that decisions on how many troops to send into Iraq marked the biggest mistake of the war. "In a war, many things cost lives," Rumsfeld told Sawyer. Pressed on the fact that President Bush has written that cutting troop levels in Iraq was "the most important failure in the execution of the war," Rumsfeld called that ...
Israeli Fears Over Regime Change In Egypt
Post Date: 2011-02-04 19:03:46 by Brian S
2 Comments
Many Israelis have been gripped by TV footage of the unfolding democratic revolution in Cairo - they fear, quite simply, a change of regime in Egypt could endanger the Jewish state. But few will say so publicly. The last thing that Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak needs is a ringing endorsement from "the Zionist entity" - on Cairo's streets, he is accused of being an American puppet in the service of Israel. But a poll this week by Yediot Aharonot, Israel's biggest selling daily, revealed that 65% of Israelis believed an end to Mr Mubarak's rule would be "negative". Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu weakly endorsed the Egyptian pro-democracy ...
Mubarak May Be Offered Asylum In Montenegro: Reports
Post Date: 2011-02-04 16:36:05 by Brian S
1 Comments
If Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak bows to pressure from demonstrators and leaves office immediately he may have a place to go. Mubarak can be granted asylum in Montenegro because his son has business ties there, news reports in the country said Friday. "Orascom Holding, a multinational Egyptian corporation which singed a contract last year for the construction of tourist complexes with the Montenegrin government" is owned by the president's son Gamal Mubarak, according to Novite.com. Montenegro is already home to former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup d'etat. The New York Times reported that US and Egyptian officials were ...
Rand Paul Says Republicans 'Aren't Maybe Brave Enough' to Tackle Deficit
Post Date: 2011-02-04 12:10:31 by Brian S
1 Comments
'True Believer' Paul Wants All Foreign Aid Eliminated -- Including Aid to Israel Feb. 4, 2011 In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., took aim at the newly released House GOP budget, saying it falls far short of what needs to be done to deal with the federal deficit. "It's really not going to touch the problem," Paul said. "There's a disconnect between Republicans who want a balanced budget but aren't maybe yet brave enough to talk about the cuts to come." The plan by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., released on Thursday, would cut non-security discretionary spending by $58 billion by the end of fiscal ...
The Right-Wing Nut's Guide to Egypt
Post Date: 2011-02-04 11:58:33 by Brian S
2 Comments
Egypt! It's so complicated. Is it a popular democratic uprising? Or is it a collusion between the Muslim Brotherhood and Bill Ayers in the hopes of instating global Sharia law? Or is it just a sign of the Muslim antichrist? Here's a list of our favorite bizarro right-wing conspiracy theories, predictions, ideas and accusations. They are... pretty amazing! Not in the good way, though. Egypt and the rest of the Mediterranean countries are all on fire, creating a snowball that is Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Iran 1979 Players: Egypt, Tunisia, Israel, Spain, Greece, Italy, England, Ireland, Russia, the Mediterranean, Franz FerdinandAdvanced by: Glenn Beck (see video above)Sample quote: ...
$5 Million Lawsuit Targets Jimmy Carter For ‘Attacking Israel’
Post Date: 2011-02-04 11:49:30 by Brian S
2 Comments
WASHINGTON – Former President Jimmy Carter has become the target of a class action lawsuit over ostensibly mean things he said about Israel in his best-selling 2006 book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. The lawsuit, filed in New York by an Israeli firm, alleges that the book "contained numerous false and knowingly misleading statements intended to promote the author's agenda of anti-Israel propaganda and to deceive the reading public instead of presenting accurate information as advertised." The five American plaintiffs, two of whom are dual citizens of the US and Israel, seek $5 million in damages over the book (which is being sold for less than $10 on Amazon) on the ...
Sen. Rand Paul lone senator to vote against ‘laser pointer’ amendment to FAA bill
Post Date: 2011-02-04 00:11:04 by Brian S
3 Comments
Like father, like son. Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul cast the sole vote in the Senate against an amendment to the FAA re-authorization bill which would make it a federal crime to flash a “laser pointer” at airplanes. The Senate approved the measure, 96-1. Paul, who is a member of the Senate Tea Party Caucus, said he thought it best to leave it up to the states to determine their own laws about the issue. “I think that it is a bad idea to point lasers at pilots,” Paul told The Daily Caller. “There are a lot of states that already have laws, and I think the states ought to take care of it.” Paul’s father, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, is notorious for ...
Evangelicals Blast Rand Paul On Israel
Post Date: 2011-02-03 12:39:57 by Brian S
8 Comments
Pastor John Hagee, the pro-Israel megachurch leader whose eschatological views on Israel got John McCain in a bit of trouble in 2008, took aim at Senator Rand Paul this morning, for Paul's plan to cut aid to Israel -- and said his group has flooded Paul's office with appeals o the topic. “I do not believe that the Senator’s comments are representative of the Tea Party or the wider American public. [Christians United for Israel's] members and leaders have met on several occasions with Tea Party leaders and elected officials; throughout our meetings, Tea Party leaders consistently expressed their commitment to supporting Israel’s qualitative military edge in the ...
GOP Scales Back Budget Cut Goals
Post Date: 2011-02-03 12:31:08 by Brian S
4 Comments
By DAVID ROGERS | 2/3/11 11:49 AM EST Updating their budget estimates, House Republicans conceded Thursday that their best hope is to cut current appropriations by $32 billion for the remainder of this fiscal year, once new spending for defense and other security needs are added to the equation. The impact on domestic spending and foreign aid programs would still be very severe, with the GOP seeking an immediate $58 billion cut from President Barack Obama’s once expansive 2011 budget. But with the Congressional Budget Office predicting a nearly $1.5 trillion deficit for the current year, the scaled-back estimates reflect the limits of a budget strategy so focused narrowly on one ...
Mossad in Egypt?
Post Date: 2011-02-02 16:38:01 by Brian S
4 Comments
The Jerusalem Post reports: “Two Swedish reporters were held for hours on Wednesday by Egyptian soldiers accusing them of being Mossad spies, the reporters’ employer, daily newspaper Aftonbladet, reported. The soldiers reportedly attacked the reporters, spitting in their faces and threatening to kill them. Four Israeli journalists were arrested by Egyptian military police in Cairo on Wednesday. Three of those arrested work for Channel 2 and the fourth is from Nazareth.” The article is headlined: “Pro-Mubarak demonstrators are targeting the press,” and conflates the roughing up of CNN’s Anderson Cooper with the arrest of the Israeli “journalists” ...
Uprising in Egypt Splits U.S Conservatives
Post Date: 2011-02-02 16:30:19 by Brian S
1 Comments
Store food and prepare for the coming global insurrection: That's the warning Glenn Beck issued Monday. The Muslim Brotherhood and American radicals, he informed us, are operating in tandem to bring about "the destruction of the Western world." On his Fox show, Beck presented a clip of Mohamed ElBaradei calling for a "New Egypt that is democratic, that is based on social justice." The phrase "social justice" flashed on the screen, because in Beck's world, it's a code word for a totalitarian leftist agenda, just as the Egyptian protesters' use of the phrase "day of rage" signals their kinship with Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground. ...
The Egyptian Revolution, As Told By Fox News
Post Date: 2011-02-02 16:26:35 by Brian S
3 Comments
It's all "Islamists" and "Muslim Brotherhood" on Rupert Murdoch's channel By Salon Staff The tone for Fox News' coverage -- or lack thereof -- of the protests that are sweeping Egypt was set last Friday, when the demonstrations escalated to such a level that even Western media outlets couldn't justify ignoring them any longer. As the Guardian's Richard Adams described it on his liveblog: The main US cable news networks had given Egypt minimal coverage so far this week, partly because of the time difference but also because of the president's state of the union address on Tuesday night absorbing so much energy. That has all changed today, ...
Too Big To Stop? Obama's Overhaul Lumbers On
Post Date: 2011-02-02 11:54:29 by Brian S
1 Comments
(02-02) 04:45 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- It has too much momentum for one judge to stop it. Most insurers, hospital executives and state officials expect they'll keep carrying out President Barack Obama's health care overhaul even after a federal judge cast its fate in doubt by declaring all of it unconstitutional. "It's still the law of the land," said William Hoagland, vice president for public policy at health insurer Cigna. "We'll continue to proceed with its requirements, and (the ruling) will not slow that down. We have no other choice until this thing is resolved one way or the other." Insurers spent millions to block passage of the law. Health ...
Obama: Egyptian Protesters 'An Inspiration' [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-02-01 19:58:07 by Brian S
57 Comments
President Barack Obama says the passion and dignity demonstrated by the people of Egypt has been an inspiration. He says young protesters will reach their destiny. In brief remarks at the White House Tuesday evening, the president said, "We hear your voices." Obama's remarks came after besieged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (HAHS'-nee moo-BAH'-rahk) announced he would not seek re-election after 30 years in power. Thousands of protesters in Cairo and other Egyptian cities are demanding that Mubarak step down immediately. Obama ignored a reporter's question about whether Mubarak should leave now instead of waiting for elections in September. The White House ...
Latest [Newer] 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 [Older]
|
