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Pigs Fly as Washington Faces Up to Deficit Peril: Kevin Hassett
Post Date: 2010-11-15 10:15:53 by go65
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Last week in Washington, beneath a flock of pigs flying south in a majestic V formation, the co- chairmen of President Barack Obama’s deficit commission released a plan that actually could solve the nation’s pending fiscal crisis.
At once radical and sensible, the plan establishes the two chairmen, Democrat Erskine Bowles and Republican Alan Simpson, as visionaries. If Obama wants to deliver the country from the malaise it finds itself in, he should heed the advice of his appointees.
Let’s be blunt about the problem at hand: The U.S. is on a path toward the kind of debt crisis that has roiled Greece. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that, based on current policy, the debt ...
TSA Encounter At SAN DIEGO (We may have our Rosa Parks- Videos)
Post Date: 2010-11-14 09:36:20 by Murron
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TSA Encounter At SAN DIEGO (We may have our Rosa Parks) [These events took place roughly between 5:30 and 6:30 AM, November 13th in Terminal 2 of the San Diego International Airport. I'm writing this approximately 2 1/2 hours after the events transpired, and they are correct to the best of my recollection. I will admit to being particularly fuzzy on the exact order of events when dealing with the agents after getting my ticket refunded; however, all of the events described did occur. I had my phone recording audio and video of much of these events. It can be viewed below. Please spread this story as far and wide as possible. I will make no claims to copyright or otherwise.] This ...
Netanyahu Exploited His U.S. Trip To Embarrass Obama
Post Date: 2010-11-12 13:04:51 by Brian S
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trip to the United States this week damaged Israel diplomatically, undermined the country's relations with the U.S. administration and showed Netanyahu up again as a rejectionist who does nothing but look for excuses and delays to avoid making decisions. Netanyahu flew to the annual conference of the United Jewish Communities and the Jewish Federations of North America in New Orleans; from there he went on to New York. Strengthening ties with Diaspora Jewry is certainly a worthy cause, but Netanyahu took advantage of the stage he was given to embarrass the Obama administration. His public call on the Americans to create a "credible military ...
Barack Obama: The Most Anti-Israel President!
Post Date: 2010-11-12 13:03:13 by Brian S
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With his remarks in Jakarta, Indonesia, President Obama made history once again. Sadly, it's a most unenviable title. I believe he is the most anti-Israel President in U.S. history. In going to Jakarta, Indonesia, to launch his latest attack, he literally went to the ends of the earth to give voice to his displeasure. He emphasized his opposition to the policies of the elected government of Israel. He used his Jakarta platform to complain about Israel building apartments for her growing population. Where? In Jerusalem, the capital of Israel. To make matters even worse, Jakarta is a city no Israeli is allowed to enter! The symbolism of saying what he said in the country and city where ...
Department of Defense Proposed Spending Cuts
Post Date: 2010-11-12 10:57:29 by go65
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The Department of Defense will spend about $721 billion in fiscal 2011, of which $159 billion will be for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even aside from these expensive wars, the department's budget has almost doubled since fiscal 2001. The problem is that the Defense budget includes much more than just “defense” activities. The bloated spending stems from the many extraneous missions we impose on our military services aside from the basic requirement to defend Americans. The United States would be better off taking a wait-and-see approach to distant threats, while letting friendly nations bear more of the costs of their own defense. There will always be disorder in ...
Netanyahu's "Drop Dead" Is A Gift To Obama
Post Date: 2010-11-11 01:08:29 by Brian S
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By M.J. Rosenberg - November 10, 2010, 7:07AM You have to hand it to Bibi Netanyahu. It took only a week following the Congressional election for him to come to the United States and tell it to drop dead. To his way of thinking he was just telling that to President Obama but that is not how it works here. By announcing a renewed settlement drive while in this country, rejecting a US policy that is decades old, Netanyahu is disrespecting this country, even more than its President. But that is not how Netanyahu sees it. Like his friends in the GOP, he does not view Obama as a legitimate President. On top of that, he is certain that Obama is finished and he can roll him. In any case, he ...
Rep. Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk: Reject the Welfare/Warfare State
Post Date: 2010-11-08 20:35:22 by Brian S
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Last week’s midterm elections have been characterized as a victory for grassroots Americans who are fed up with Washington and the political status quo. In particular, the elections are being touted as a clear indicator that voters demand reductions in federal spending, deficits, and debt. If the new Congress hopes to live up to the expectations of Tea Party voters, however, it faces some daunting choices. For all the talk about pork and waste, the truth is that Congress cannot fix the budget and get our national debt under control by trimming fat and eliminating earmarks for “Bridges to Nowhere.” Real reductions in federal spending can be achieved only by getting to the ...
Mandate Challenge Could Prevail
Post Date: 2010-11-08 12:31:41 by go65
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When 21 states and several private groups initiated lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the Obama health care law earlier this year, critics denounced the suits as frivolous political grandstanding. But it is increasingly clear that the plaintiffs have a serious case with a real chance of victory. The suits focus primarily on challenges to the new law's "individual mandate," which requires most American citizens to purchase a government-approved health insurance plan by 2014 or pay a fine. One of the cases was filed by 20 state governments and the National Federation of Independent Business in a federal court in Florida. Another was initiated by the Commonwealth of ...
The Decline Of A Superpower
Post Date: 2010-11-07 18:35:13 by Brian S
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America’s severe economic problems and a decline in its stature as the world’s only superpower can be traced to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. You can see the influence the pro-Israeli neocon cabal exercised on President George W. Bush and his Vice President Dick Cheney behind these disastrous wars. Great Britain’s three century-old colonial empires disintegrated after its war with the Nazis. America does not have overseas colonies but it instilled fear in its enemies and respect in its friends. Both are in the process of disappearing. The trillion-dollar wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have virtually forced American economy into a state of bankruptcy. People with no ...
Would we be better off under a President Hillary Clinton?
Post Date: 2010-11-07 18:28:52 by WhiteSands
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By Dana Milbank Sunday, November 7, 2010 As I sat in the East Room last week watching a forlorn President Obama account for his shellacking, I listened with concern as he described the presidency as a "growth process" and suggested that the midterm setback was somehow inevitable. "You know, this is something that I think every president needs to go through," he said. It brought to mind Hillary Clinton's 3 a.m. phone-call ad from the 2008 campaign, and her withering criticism of Obama: "When there is a crisis . . . there's no time for speeches or on-the-job training." I wondered whether Democrats would be in the fix they're in if they had chosen a ...
Tea Party Radicalism Will Help Lay The Ground For 2012 Obama Victory
Post Date: 2010-11-07 18:16:12 by Brian S
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Will US politics be transformed by the Tea Party movement , which thrashed President Obama’s Democrats in US mid-term Congressional elections just before his India visit? Absolutely not. The radical posturing of Tea Party stalwarts is mostly hypocritical mush. The movement started with spontaneous grassroots protests by local people across the country, protesting against higher taxes to fund ballooning fiscal deficits. This was not led or even anticipated by any politician, though many (notably Sarah Palin) climbed onto the bandwagon once the movement spread like wildfire. Many activists donned 18th century costumes in memory of the Boston Tea Party of 1773, a tax revolt against ...
Halliburton's Flawed Cement May Seal Criminal Fate
Post Date: 2010-11-05 12:32:04 by Brian S
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Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Halliburton Co. probably meant no irony when it named its annual report last year, “Pushing Boundaries.” The company may be wishing it had more carefully observed certain boundaries as new evidence emerges of its role in the biggest oil spill in U.S. history. Take, for example, the line between legal conduct and crime. Halliburton may have crossed that border if it negligently sold faulty cement used in the construction of the Macondo well, which spewed 4.9 million barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico after an April 20 rig explosion that killed 11 workers. Last week a commission investigating the disaster reported that the Houston-based company had ...
You know who was a big loser in this election? George Soros.
Post Date: 2010-11-04 17:30:51 by WhiteSands
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While Democrats went out of their way to portray the Koch brothers as evil billionaires puppeteering this election, I’d venture they feel pretty good about the outcome. However, after last night I’d venture that that George Soros is one unhappy Hungarian. Where the Kochs stood accused of funding some well-known grassroots political groups, Soros has been heavily invested in some pretty shady attempts at electioneering for Democrats. And fortunately, these efforts aren’t going very well. The first notable thing is Soros’ funding of the Secretary of State Project — which is basically an attempt to elect Secretaries of State around the country willing to impose ...
The Tea Party Was Tuesday's Biggest Loser
Post Date: 2010-11-04 13:58:41 by Brian S
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The Tea Party Was Tuesday's Biggest LoserBy John TantilloPublished November 04, 2010 | FoxNews.com I’m tired of hearing how important the Tea Party, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party were in the outcome of the recent elections. This is just journalists and commentators looking for the easy storyline. Let’s be honest, it’s all about individual candidates not parties. If it wasn’t, the Senate would be Republican and O’Donnell and Angle would be senators today. The winning candidates all understood the importance of what their Target Markets, their potential constituents, needed and satisfied these needs. Marco Rubio welcomed Tea Party support but ...
What the election means for health care
Post Date: 2010-11-04 09:21:57 by go65
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People are asking us, what does the election outcome mean for health care? In short, not as much as many think. There’s a big difference between campaigning and legislating. In the campaign, Republican candidates appealed to their base, which was worked up about health reform without much understanding of what it does and how it works (this lack of understanding is broadly held, it’s not just a Republican base thing). The Republican base hates health reform because it’s a symbol of Obama. They think it’s a product of the far left, when in fact it’s chock full of Republican ideas. But that thinking is of principal relevance to the campaign, not to governing. When ...
Will Election Results Affect Israel Policy?
Post Date: 2010-11-03 19:47:58 by Brian S
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Will Election Results Affect Israel Policy? Netanyahu might be pleased with GOP House takeover, but Obama’s setback does not herald big change. by Dan EphronNovember 03, 2010 Jack Guez / AFP-Getty ImagesIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends an awards ceremony at Tel Aviv University. It wouldn’t be a huge leap to assume that Benjamin Netanyahu, the hawkish prime minister of Israel, is rejoicing at the large Republican gains in the midterm elections this week. Netanyahu considers Congress his domain in Washington, the place he goes to for protection when the White House presses him to take steps he’d rather avoid. Though plenty of Democratic members ...
Election 2010: A Disaster for Peace (But look for the silver lining…)
Post Date: 2010-11-03 14:30:00 by Brian S
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The expected Election Day Republican “wave” that broke over our heads is a disaster for the anti-interventionist cause in the immediate sense – but there may be a silver lining. The disaster is embodied in the various GOP warmongers who will be placed in key positions in Congress, and a good case could be made that among the worst of the worst will be the probable majority leader in the House: Eric Cantor. Cantor is a walking, breathing stereotype, a neocon through and through, who pays lip service to the “tea party”-ish idea of limiting government spending, but is in reality committed to lavishing tax dollars on any project as long as it can be somehow ...
Obama Post-Bloodbath: Harder To Govern, Easier To Win In 2012
Post Date: 2010-11-03 12:58:11 by Brian S
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The Democratic slaughter Tuesday will make it harder for President Obama to govern -- but might make it easier for him to win re-election in 2012. The Obama White House will shift into re-election mode in a few months, and the 2012 presidential campaign headquarters will be Chicago again, if all goes as planned. But for now, a lot of attention on the political front will have to be on dealing with a GOP-controlled House and a Senate where Republican gains will make it harder to get the 60 votes needed to get anything done. Obama will reach out to Republicans during his press conference today. The Democratic slaughter Tuesday will make it harder for President Obama to govern -- but might ...
Obama's Grand Strategic Error
Post Date: 2010-11-03 04:26:39 by WhiteSands
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So President Obama really is a socialist after all. According to Stanley Kurtz in Radical-in-Chief the young Obama went to socialist conferences in the 1980s and then became participant in the extensive socialist community in Chicago. In the aftermath of the historic midterm elections it's safe to say that, whether the president really is a socialist or not, Americans don't care. Whether or not he walks and talks like a socialist, they just don't hold with a president in the White House that governs like a socialist. You can judge the depth of their displeasure for yourself by comparing the 2010 midterm election with other notable midterms at usmidtermelections.com. Of course, ...
Will Rand Paul filibuster the debt ceiling increase pending early next year and default the United States into bankruptcy?
Post Date: 2010-11-03 01:41:23 by Ferret Mike
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His belief system calls for him to do this even though that would cause a worldwide financial collapse and an epic depression like the world has never seen. I predict that he won't, as while a Tea Party candidate like him won, all the big spending Republicans won as well. In fact, if this election had truly shown the Tea Party to have tapped extreme discontent with the Democrats, the Republican Party would of posted much larger gains than they did. The GOP will pressure Rand to toe the line and vote for a debt ceiling increase. And when President Obama wins re-election, I predict much if not all the minimal gains made by the GOP will be rolled back. Mitch McConnell will control Rand ...
Boehner 2011
Post Date: 2010-11-02 19:54:11 by A K A Stone
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John Boehner for Presidnet 2011. Make it happen.
Election Day thoughts on impermanent majorities
Post Date: 2010-11-02 11:44:15 by go65
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After Barack Obama won the presidency with large majorities in the House and Senate, some commentators proclaimed that the president-elect had permanently altered the American political landscape, creating what the writer John Judis called "the Democratic realignment of 2008." For instance, former Clinton adviser Lanny J. Davis announced that Obama and his party were "likely to create a new governing majority coalition that could dominate American politics for a generation or more." Just two years later, however, many observers are faulting Obama for failing to prevent what seems likely to be an electoral debacle for the Democrats. Conservatives have tended to claim ...
A Superpower In Decline: Is The American Dream Over?
Post Date: 2010-11-02 11:30:06 by Brian S
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America has long been a country of limitless possibility. But the dream has now become a nightmare for many. The US is now realizing just how fragile its success has become -- and how bitter its reality. Should the superpower not find a way out of crisis, it could spell trouble ahead for the global economy. By SPIEGEL Staff It was to be the kind of place where dozens of American dreams would be fulfilled -- here on Apple Blossom Drive, a cul-de-sac under the azure-blue skies of southwest Florida, where the climate is mild and therapeutic for people with arthritis and rheumatism. Everything is ready. The driveways lined with cast-iron lanterns are finished, the artificial streams and ...
U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor’s Foreign Aid ‘Gimmick’ Is Dangerous
Post Date: 2010-11-01 17:19:51 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON (JTA) -- This election season in the United States has not been a great one for the U.S.-Israel relationship. Republicans and the tainted Emergency Committee for Israel launched mendacious ads and campaigns against pro-Israel Democrats across the country threatening the historic bipartisan support for Israel that has existed in Washington. The lies in these campaigns have been called out by an array of independent journalists from The New York Times to Salon, and politicizing support for Israel in this way has been condemned by key figures such as Israeli U.S. Ambassador Michael Oren. But now U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia -- the Republican whip and a key member of the GOP ...
Military Stimulus
Post Date: 2010-11-01 13:22:05 by Brian S
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I'm pretty skeptical that a war with Iran would do much for the economy. It's not just that the inevitable spike in energy prices would grind everything to a halt (and what if Russia or Venezuela or OPEC decide to stand with Iran?), but the war itself wouldn't be large enough. It's easy to forget, but we've spent the past seven years fighting two separate wars, and the economy isn't exactly roaring. When people think of war-as-stimulus, they're usually thinking about World War II. But when you want to think about World War II, you need to really think (pdf) about World War II: The deficits were run during an all-out war when 40 percent of GDP was spent on ...
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