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Romney's devastating New-START critique
Post Date: 2010-07-08 14:37:58 by Badeye
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Romney's devastating New-START critique Greg Halvorson After a long weekend celebrating and reflecting on Freedom, I woke, once again, with the Obamaland Blues. Mitt Romney's exegesis of New-START, the "revamped" nuclear weapons treaty, is grave in its indictment of what, at best, is irresponsible and, at worst, is willful in its undermining of American power. According to Mitt, New-START: -impedes our missile defense shield just as rogue nations become nuclear capable -explicitly forbids the United States from converting ICBM silos into missile defense sites -allows Russia to walk away from the treaty if the United States seeks to shield itself from missiles - we ...
Poll: 70 percent of Americans reject cap-and-trade
Post Date: 2010-07-08 13:29:57 by Badeye
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Poll: 70 percent of Americans reject cap-and-trade By: Barbara Hollingsworth Local Opinion Editor 07/08/10 12:20 PM EDT Americans are on to President Obama’s attempt to use the BP oil spill as an excuse to pass his highly unpopular cap-and-trade legislation. At a recent meeting at the White House, the president told 23 senators that they must put a price tag on carbon emissions. “The president was very clear about putting a price on carbon and limiting greenhouse gas emissions,” said Senator John Kerry, co-sponsor of the Kerry-Lieberman bill that would do just that. However, several senators at the meeting, including Democrats Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and Jay Rockefeller, ...
Is Obama 'faithfully executing' the laws?
Post Date: 2010-07-08 12:43:01 by Badeye
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Is Obama 'faithfully executing' the laws? Tom Rowan Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution demands that a US President "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Hence, the President is not only the Commander in Chief he is also the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Law Enforcement Officer. Obama has failed his duty to faithfully execute the nation's laws in breathtaking cases for purely political reasons. The New Black Panther voter intimidation case was ignored despite the overwhelming evidence of criminality caught on tape. Not since Democrats wore the white sheets of the KKK have voting rights been so openly violated. The only sanction Obama's ...
Why time has run out for 2010 Democrats
Post Date: 2010-07-08 12:40:21 by Badeye
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Why time has run out for 2010 Democrats Jul 6, 2010 22:27 EDT 2010 election More and more, the political cake looks fully and thoroughly baked. Oh sure, perhaps congressional Democrats can sidestep the coming Republican wave through clever campaign tactics. Perhaps they can de-nationalize the November midterm elections by successfully waging dozens of bloody, up-close-and-personal knife fights coast to coast. Make every Republican a controversial Sharon Angle or Ron Paul with a radiation vibe. Yet for that “fight them on the beaches” approach to really work, Democrats probably need a bit of breeze at their backs. They need some some help from the economy, the dominant issue ...
Why Obama evades reporters
Post Date: 2010-07-08 11:59:00 by Badeye
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Why Obama evades reporters Ed Lasky Why does Obama avoid reporters? From the Wall Street Journal, excerpting from a piece in the Columbia Journalism Review: Message control is central to every administration . . . [b]ut the Obama White House has actually regressed in some troubling ways. For instance, Obama has been far less available for questioning by journalists than even President Bush . . . For White House reporters the absence of informal opportunities to question the president is at least as galling as the dearth of formal sessions. Richard Stevenson, who covered the Bush administration for The New York Times, says it was routine for reporters to be allowed to ask the president ...
U.S. marks 3rd-largest, single-day debt increase
Post Date: 2010-07-08 09:58:12 by Badeye
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U.S. marks 3rd-largest, single-day debt increase $166 billion jump spurs concerns over policy By Stephen Dinan 8:36 p.m., Wednesday, July 7, 2010 The nation's debt leapt $166 billion in a single day last week, the third-largest increase in U.S. history, and it comes at a time when Congress is balking over higher spending and debt has become a key policy battleground. The one-day increase for June 30 totaled $165,931,038,264.30 - bigger than the entire annual deficit for fiscal year 2007 and larger than the $140 billion in savings the new health care bill will produce over its first 10 years. The figure works out to nearly $1,500 for every U.S. household, or more than 10 times the ...
Obama Unhinged - The president fights to avoid a turnout collapse.
Post Date: 2010-07-08 09:50:38 by Badeye
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Obama Unhinged The president fights to avoid a turnout collapse. BY Gary Andres July 8, 2010 12:00 AM President Obama’s behavior over the past year, and particularly the last month, borders on bizarre. The candidate who promised to bring people together and move beyond polarization has morphed into a divisive and defensive president. His sinking approval numbers underscore the growing public disappointment in the gap between his campaign rhetoric and his governing style. The president’s thin skin at news conferences is now part of Washington press corps lore. His “ass kicking” comments about the Gulf oil spill were weird and un-presidential. Lately, he’s resorted ...
Obama visit could be mixed blessing for Reid
Post Date: 2010-07-08 09:47:12 by Badeye
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Obama visit could be mixed blessing for Reid By Alexander Bolton - 07/08/10 06:00 AM ET President Barack Obama travels to Nevada on Thursday to help Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) re-election campaign, but political experts see the visit as a mixed blessing. Obama helped the Nevada Democratic Party register tens of thousands of additional voters in 2008. He also carried the state over GOP nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) by 12 percentage points. “In this election, Obama can be helpful in making sure the Democratic base is aware of the importance of having Reid available back in Washington,” said Dan Hart, a Democratic political consultant based in Nevada. ...
How the Expiring Bush Tax Cuts Affect You
Post Date: 2010-07-08 09:42:56 by Badeye
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How the Expiring Bush Tax Cuts Affect You by Bill Bischoff Wednesday, July 7, 2010 The so-called Bush tax cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of the year. Although some of the cuts retain bipartisan support in Congress and may yet be extended, as of now, Washington has some severe changes in store for you and your family. Higher Tax Rates for All You may have been led to believe that only individuals in the top two brackets will face higher federal income taxes when the Bush cuts go bye-bye. Not true! Unless Congress takes action and President Obama goes along, rates will go up for everyone -- not just a sliver of the wealthiest Americans. The current six rate brackets of 10%, ...
6 months, 217 deaths: Chicago Homicide Data
Post Date: 2010-07-07 17:52:16 by WhiteSands
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By Tracy Swartz RedEye CeaseFire's West Humboldt Park office used to hang a sign showing the number of days since the neighborhood's most recent shooting--fatal or otherwise. In this galleryMore images | leftMore images | right Joyce Fulgium, 61, was stabbed to death Jan. 2 in Roseland. Sandra Viramontes, 30, was beaten to death Jan. 10 in Garfield Ridge. Noor Surani, 49, died in an arson fire Jan. 14 in Rogers Park. Williams Diaz, 16, was shot to death Jan. 19 in South Lawndale. Brandon McCain, 17, was shot to death Jan. 23 in Austin. Ramone Washington, 17, was shot to death Feb. 1 in Humboldt Park. Maryrosa Green, 44, was shot to death Feb. 2 in ...
DOJ lawyer’s history of defending America’s enemies
Post Date: 2010-07-07 13:55:30 by Badeye
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DOJ lawyer’s history of defending America’s enemies By: Barbara Hollingsworth 07/07/10 12:15 PM EDT Tony West, the lead attorney in the Obama administration’s lawsuit against the State of Arizona’s immigration law, is among the controversial Department of Justice appointees who made their names by defending terrorists after 9/11. West once volunteered to represent “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh. Lindh was captured in Afghanistan in November 2001 and is now serving a 20-year sentence for collaborating with al-Qaeda. West joined the San Francisco law firm of Morrison & Foerster (their website is Mofo.com) less than three months after 9/11, and ...
Obama to Fill Medicare and Medicaid Post Without Senate Approval
Post Date: 2010-07-07 12:24:33 by Badeye
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Obama to Fill Medicare and Medicaid Post Without Senate Approval Published July 07, 2010 Donald Berwick, seen in this 2006 photo at a National Institutes of Health seminar, was appointed by President Obama to head Medicare and Medicaid. WASHINGTON -- President Obama intends to bypass Congress and appoint Dr. Donald Berwick to head Medicare and Medicaid, the White House announced Tuesday -- filling the job while Congress is in recess to get around Republican opposition that threatened to derail Berwick's confirmation. Berwick's supporters say he is the right man in the right place at the right time. But his opponents have lined up against him. They say that while he may be a the ...
Top Republican says Emanuel gave him the finger
Post Date: 2010-07-07 12:20:41 by Badeye
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Top Republican says Emanuel gave him the finger By Jordan Fabian - 07/07/10 09:13 AM ET Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), a top House Republican, described a colorful chance encounter with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in an interview published Wednesday. Issa, the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has been a thorn in the side of the Obama administration on many issues, particularly on claims that that the White House offered Senate candidates jobs to get out of primaries against candidates backed by the White House. In a profile, the New York Times detailed Issa’s claim that Emanuel gave him the middle finger: As a sign of the pride ...
GOP senators launch broadside against ObamaCare
Post Date: 2010-07-07 11:27:13 by Badeye
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GOP senators launch broadside against ObamaCare By Jon Ward - The Daily Caller | Published: 12:45 AM 07/07/2010 | Updated: 7:56 AM 07/07/2010 The fight to shape perceptions of President Obama’s health care overhaul is still in the early stages, but on Wednesday two Republican senators will fire a salvo when they release a 32-page report arguing that the legislation is only exacerbating skyrocketing prices and will cause nearly 100 million Americans to lose their employer-based insurance. “The passage of the new law is a lost historic opportunity,” says the report, authored by staff for Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, and Sen. John Barrasso, Wyoming Republican. ...
Obama’s New Take on Partisanship
Post Date: 2010-07-07 10:22:45 by Badeye
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Obama’s New Take on Partisanship President Obama’s worst nightmare? A conservative Senator Obama. One of President Obama’s strangest complaints is that there are too many in Congress who act, well, like former senator Obama. In his recent speech on the question of comprehensive immigration reform, President Obama once again blasted Republican political opportunism that opposes his initiatives for partisan, rather than principled, reasons. Indeed, Obama regularly criticizes as disingenuous those conservative politicos in Congress who mindlessly thwart his every move on health care, foreign policy, cap-and-trade, illegal immigration — you name it. Consider the ...
Poll: Majority Favor Health Care Law Repeal
Post Date: 2010-07-07 09:35:06 by Badeye
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Poll: Majority Favor Health Care Law Repeal Published July 07, 2010 A majority of Americans want the health care overhaul repealed, according to a recent poll. Rasmussen Reports, which for weeks has been polling on the question, released figures Monday showing 60 percent of voters want the law reversed -- on the high side of the group's results. The survey, conducted July 1, shows a persistent and deep divide in public opinion over the law, though passions may be stronger on the side of those who want repeal. Forty-nine percent strongly favor repeal, while 24 percent strongly oppose. Nowhere near as many think there's a good chance the law actually will be repealed. Congress ...
GOP takes aim at record for gubernatorial wins
Post Date: 2010-07-07 09:32:03 by Badeye
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GOP takes aim at record for gubernatorial wins by Sean Lengell Republicans are poised to win more gubernatorial seats in 2010 than in any election during the past 90 years - a feat that would eclipse the 24 seats won during the "Republican Revolution" of 1994, a new study shows. The GOP also has a good chance to challenge the party's tally of 29 seats it won in 1920, its best showing during the 20th and 21st centuries, according to an analysis by Smart Politics, a nonpartisan blog. "We are going to see a historic or near-historic year for the GOP" in gubernatorial elections," said Eric J. Ostermeier, a University of Minnesota professor who writes and ...
The Rout of Obamanomics
Post Date: 2010-07-07 09:29:22 by Badeye
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The Rout of Obamanomics By Peter Ferrara on 7.7.10 @ 6:08AM In February 2009, I published a commentary in the Wall Street Journal entitled "Reaganomics v. Obamanomics," which pointed out that President Obama's economic policies were exactly the opposite of President Reagan's. I predicted that as a result they would produce exactly the opposite results. Art Laffer has produced a far more sophisticated argument advancing a similar analysis. But the June unemployment report released last Friday shows an economy doing much worse at this point than even I expected. More than 30 months after the official start of the recession, the economy is still losing jobs, with non-farm ...
Government jobs: Bloated pay, benefits cost us all
Post Date: 2010-07-07 09:26:36 by Badeye
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Government jobs: Bloated pay, benefits cost us all Updated 16h 14m ago By James Sherk Feel like you're not paid enough? Worry about losing your job? Wish you had better benefits? Ever think about quitting? If you answered "yes" to these questions, one thing is certain: You don't work for Uncle Sam. That's because federal workers are much better off than private-sector workers in all the major markers of job satisfaction — salary, job security, benefits and job desirability. And it's costing taxpayers a bundle. Start with the money. The average federal employee earns an annual salary almost 60% higher than the average private-sector employee — $79,000 ...
White House Successfully Puts Cap on Gusher of Unflattering Oil Spill Stories
Post Date: 2010-07-07 09:22:55 by Badeye
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White House Successfully Puts Cap on Gusher of Unflattering Oil Spill Stories July 07, 2010 7:09 AM By Jim Geraghty In today’s Jolt, there’s a roundup of Arizona immigration law, Kentucky Senate race news, but also an update on that huge story that I try to feature at least one item on in every edition… The Oil Spill Won’t Disappear, but Discussion of Obama’s Response Might You thought I was being silly with this one-item-on-oil-every-morning rule, huh? ‘Oh, Jim, the oil spill is one of the biggest news stories in years. There’s no way it will disappear from the front page.’ Well, there was nothing about the spill on the front page of the New York ...
Crucial independent voters abandoning Obama, now under 40%, lowest ever
Post Date: 2010-07-07 09:17:58 by Badeye
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Crucial independent voters abandoning Obama, now under 40%, lowest ever July 7, 2010 | 3:52 am Two new polls this morning augur ill for President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats who control Congress. The worst -- from Gallup -- finds that for the first time since Obama took the oath, his support among independents, a key voter segment in his decisive 2008 coalition election win, has fallen below 40%. The new tracking finds that Obama's support among all voter segments has declined in the past year, but nowhere more than among independents. Only 38% now support him, an 18-point drop from 52 weeks ago, when polls first began showing the nation's rapidly-growing population ...
With the US trapped in depression, this really is starting to feel like 1932
Post Date: 2010-07-06 14:16:34 by Badeye
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With the US trapped in depression, this really is starting to feel like 1932 The US workforce shrank by 652,000 in June, one of the sharpest contractions ever. The rate of hourly earnings fell 0.1pc. Wages are flirting with deflation. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Published: 9:33PM BST 04 Jul 2010 People queue for a job fair in New York. The share of the US working-age population with jobs in June fell from 58.7pc to 58.5pc. The ratio was 63pc three years ago. Photo: EPA "The economy is still in the gravitational pull of the Great Recession," said Robert Reich, former US labour secretary. "All the booster rockets for getting us beyond it are failing." "Home ...
Investors fear rising risk of US regional defaults
Post Date: 2010-07-06 14:14:35 by Badeye
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Investors fear rising risk of US regional defaults By Nicole Bullock in New York Published: July 5 2010 19:30 | Last updated: July 5 2010 20:21 Investors are worried that the risk of default for US local governments is growing, amid signs that some regions are facing the same type of difficulty in curbing pension and budget deficits as some eurozone countries. The yield attached to some forms of infrastructure municipal bonds has risen relative to US Treasury bonds because of fears that cash-strapped local governments will struggle to repay these loans. EDITOR’S CHOICE US states face hard budget choices - Jun-30In depth: US downturn - Mar-18US told to seek foreign partners - Jul-0 ...
Dow Repeats Great Depression Pattern: Charts
Post Date: 2010-07-06 14:12:55 by Badeye
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Dow Repeats Great Depression Pattern: Charts Published: Monday, 5 Jul 2010 | 5:31 AM ET By: CNBC.com The Dow Jones Industrial Average is repeating a pattern that appeared just before markets fell during the Great Depression, Daryl Guppy, CEO at Guppytraders.com, told CNBC Monday. “Those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it…there was a head and shoulders pattern that developed before the Depression in 1929, then with the recovery in 1930 we had another head and shoulders pattern that preceded a fall in the market, and in the current Dow situation we see an exact repeat of that environment,” Guppy said. The Dow retreated 457.33 points, or 4.5 percent ...
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