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Ten Questions Rush Would Have Asked Obama at Thursday's Press Conference
Post Date: 2010-05-28 13:13:13 by Badeye
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Ten Questions Rush Would Have Asked Obama at Thursday's Press Conference By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive) Fri, 05/28/2010 - 12:22 ET Barack Obama finally gave a press conference on Thursday, and many on the right immediately noted some tough questions that were sorely absent. Anticipating this eventuality, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh penned ten questions of his own that he would have asked the Commander-in-Chief if he had been invited to yesterday's festivities. As you listen and/or read his queries, try to imagine any Obama-loving media member having the nerve to ask such things as well as the look on the President's face if they were actually posed (video ...
President Obama's Jimmy Carter Moment?
Post Date: 2010-05-28 12:37:33 by Badeye
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President Obama's Jimmy Carter Moment? May 28, 2010 9:47 AM ABC News' Tom Shine reports: In 1980, President Jimmy Carter was debating Ronald Reagan when he said, "I think to close out this discussion, it would be better to put into perspective what we're talking about. I had a discussion with my daughter Amy the other day, before I came down here, to ask her what the most important issue was." "She said she thought nuclear weaponry and the control of nuclear weapons." Similarly seeking to illustrate how important an issue is to the next generation, yesterday President Obama introduced one of his daughters into the oil mess debate. He told a news ...
Slick, Real Slick
Post Date: 2010-05-28 12:34:50 by Badeye
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Slick, Real Slick Posted 05/27/2010 06:57 PM ET Accountability: Democrats have finally gotten around to blaming the Bush administration for the Gulf oil disaster. We wonder when this administration will take responsibility for anything. Asked on the "Imus in the Morning" program Tuesday on Fox Business Network if the Obama administration is to blame for the damaging fallout of the spill, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., actually said, "Well, you know, they come into office a year ago with all of this. And so, after the last eight years ... " before being interrupted by a perplexed Imus. We too are perplexed. George W. Bush was blamed for the federal response to Katrina, ...
Can a president make it legal?
Post Date: 2010-05-28 12:33:10 by Badeye
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Can a president make it legal? .By REP. DARRELL ISSA | 5/28/10 11:22 AM EDT In an opinion piece, Rep. Darrell Issa (left) argues that the White House’s refusal to deny Rep. Joe Sestak’s account of whether he was offered a job to drop out of the Pennsylvania senate primary race equates to a betrayal of the standards set by President Obama. President Richard Nixon uttered one of the most infamous quotes in U.S. political history on April 6, 1977, defiantly declaring, “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.” This sentiment embodies all that is wrong with politics. It explains why, more than 30 years later, the political establishment struggles ...
GOP: White House Sestak story not believable
Post Date: 2010-05-28 12:30:54 by Badeye
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GOP: White House Sestak story not believable By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent 05/28/10 12:06 PM EDT Republicans are expressing deep skepticism about the just-released statement from the White House on Rep. Joe Sestak’s allegation that the White House offered Sestak a big government job if he would not challenge Sen. Arlen Specter, the White House’s favored candidate in the Pennsylvania Senate primary. The big question: The White House got Bill Clinton involved for this? In the statement, White House counsel Robert Bauer admits that the White House was trying to clear the political field for Specter. But Bauer says Sestak was never offered the job of Secretary of the ...
Obama, the ‘Juvenile in Chief"
Post Date: 2010-05-28 12:28:54 by Badeye
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Obama, the ‘Juvenile in Chief" by John Gizzi 05/28/2010 My colleagues in the White House press corps had the usual grousing after the President’s news conference Thursday: that Barack Obama’s answers were too long, that he took questions from only ten reporters (and only one, Jackie Calmes of the New York Times, got to ask a follow up question), and that, as he did at his televised news conferences last year, the President chose his questioners from the correspondents in the front two rows with one exception (that being my friend Macarena Vidal of the Spanish news agency EFE, who asked about the President’s deployment of National Guardsmen to the Southwest border ...
White House Asked Bill Clinton to Urge Sestak to Drop Out of Senate Race
Post Date: 2010-05-28 11:12:01 by Badeye
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White House Asked Bill Clinton to Urge Sestak to Drop Out of Senate Race Published May 28, 2010 | FOXNews.com The White House asked former President Bill Clinton to talk to Rep. Joe Sestak about the possibility of obtaining a senior position in the Obama administration if he would drop out of the Democratic primary race against establishment-backed Sen. Arlen Specter, the Obama administration will say in a report to be released Friday morning, Fox News has confirmed. The report, by the White House Counsel's office, will describe the Clinton conversations as informal and unhinged from any precise job offer since, as a former president, Clinton could not guarantee Sestak anything. ...
Obama, the Thin-Skinned President
Post Date: 2010-05-28 11:09:40 by Badeye
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In their book "The Battle for America 2008," Haynes Johnson and Dan Balz wrote this: [Chief political aide David] Axelrod also warned that Obama's confessions of youthful drug use, described in his memoir, Dreams From My Father, would be used against him. "This is more than an unpleasant inconvenience," he wrote. "It goes to your willingness and ability to put up with something you have never experienced on a sustained basis: criticism. At the risk of triggering the very reaction that concerns me, I don't know if you are Muhammad Ali or Floyd Patterson when it comes to taking a punch. You care far too much what is written and said about you. You don't ...
Obama Returns to Gulf Amid Escalating Anger
Post Date: 2010-05-28 09:28:48 by Badeye
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Obama Returns to Gulf Amid Escalating Anger Published May 28, 2010 | Associated Press May 27: A sign protesting the oil spill and BP is shown in Grand Isle, La. CHICAGO -- A day after saying "I take responsibility" for the biggest oil spill in U.S. history, President Barack Obama was heading to coastal Louisiana for an update on the effort to stop the damaging flow of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. Obama, who is spending Memorial Day weekend at his Chicago home, was scheduled to attend a briefing Friday at the U.S. Coast Guard Station in Grand Isle, La., by Adm. Thad Allen, who is overseeing the response to the spill. An oil rig leased by BP PLC exploded April 20 and later ...
Conservative Dems Balk at Jobless Benefits Package
Post Date: 2010-05-28 09:26:51 by Badeye
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Conservative Dems Balk at Jobless Benefits Package Published May 27, 2010 | Associated Press WASHINGTON — Democrats struggled Thursday to extend jobless benefits for people who have been out of work for long stretches as lawmakers worried about the growing budget deficit balked at a scaled down package. House leaders had scheduled a vote Thursday on a bill that would extend the benefits through November, but they ran into opposition from Republicans and some Democrats concerned about the cost of the overall bill. "They need to go back to the drawing board," said Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, a member of the conservative Blue Dog coalition. Coalition members are unhappy ...
Dunkirk Conservatism
Post Date: 2010-05-28 09:21:49 by Badeye
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Dunkirk Conservatism By Quin Hillyer on 5.27.10 @ 6:09AM The greatest rescue operation in history began in full 70 years ago today. In nine days beginning May 27, 1940, the British Navy and hundreds upon hundreds of private vessels rescued an astonishing 338,266 men from the harbor and beaches of Dunkirk, France, all while under constant bombardment from German air and land forces that killed 68,111 Brits and captured as many as another 80,000. Instead of Great Britain being left at the mercy of the German death machine, the island nation had saved an army big enough to repel a Nazi invasion. As Winston Churchill rightly noted: "We must be very careful not to assign to this ...
Small Donors Give Big Cash to Republicans
Post Date: 2010-05-28 09:16:33 by Badeye
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Small Donors Give Big Cash to Republicans Washington Post: For 1st Time in a Decade, Republicans Raising More than Dems from Small Donors For the first time in a decade, Republican candidates for Congress are raising more than Democrats from small donors. GOP candidates for the House and Senate this year have raised $70 million from small donors, compared with $44 million brought in by Democratic candidates, according to a Washington Post analysis of campaign finance data. The trend is another sign that Republicans have turned their political momentum into money. Reports covering the first quarter had shown that GOP candidates were closing the gap or exceeding Democrats in key races and ...
Owning the spill
Post Date: 2010-05-28 09:12:14 by Badeye
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Owning the spill Last Updated: 3:59 AM, May 28, 2010 Posted: May 28, 2010 If President Obama's press conference yesterday was designed to calm grow ing public concerns over his adminis tration's mishandling of the Gulf oil spill, it didn't work. BP's deep-water oil rig exploded and oil began gushing into the Gulf on April 20. Within days, over-eager critics began describing the response to the spill as "Obama's Katrina." That was partisan overstatement. But, 38 days later, the spill has become the worst in US history -- and ham-handed administration incompetence has now reached such levels that the "Obama's Katrina" trope has begun to ...
Obama Knew Birnbaum Was Fired
Post Date: 2010-05-28 09:09:36 by Badeye
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Obama Knew Birnbaum Was Fired [Daniel Foster] How could he not have? At his presser today, the president claimed that he did not know whether the head of the Minerals Management Service, Elizabeth Birnbaum, had resigned or was fired. Obama said he didn't know because he was engaged all morning and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was busy giving testimony on Capitol Hill. But the president also said that he received multiple daily updates on the Gulf situation and described it as his "top priority." Now the NYT reports this: S. Elizabeth Birnbaum, who took over as director of the Minerals Management Service last July, announced her resignation Thursday morning after being ...
'Press Wouldn't Cover Sestak Story If Rahm Announced It On Pennsylvania Ave. In A Speedo'
Post Date: 2010-05-28 09:07:55 by Badeye
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'Press Wouldn't Cover Sestak Story If Rahm Announced It On Pennsylvania Ave. In A Speedo' By Mark Finkelstein (Bio | Archive) Fri, 05/28/2010 - 07:35 ET Just how desperately does the MSM want to bury the Sestak job-bribe story? Yesterday we reported Time editor Rick Stengel's risibly feigned ignorance of the matter. On Morning Joe today, Joe Scarborough broke off a colorful metaphor to describe the liberal media's see-no-evil approach to the subject, saying the MSM wouldn't cover the story "if Rahm Emanuel announced it in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue wearing nothing but a Speedo." Mika Brzezinski broached the subject by mentioning that she had ...
COVER UP? Sestak's Brother/Political Adviser Talked To White House About Scandal
Post Date: 2010-05-28 09:04:55 by Badeye
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COVER UP? Sestak's Brother/Political Adviser Talked To White House About Scandal At today's presser, President Obama refused to say Thursday whether his White House offered a job to Representative Joe Sestak: “There will be an official response shortly on the Sestak issue, which I hope will answer your questions,” Mr. Obama told reporters at a White House news conference. “I can assure the public that nothing improper took place.” If nothing improper happened why do they need time to formulate a response? Well according to a report by the Washington Post, it may be because everybody needs to get their story straight. Tonight Joe Sestak said his brother, who is ...
Obama Revises History
Post Date: 2010-05-28 09:02:56 by Badeye
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Obama Revises History Share Post PrintMay 27, 2010 Posted by John at 9:54 PM President Obama gave his first press conference in a long time today, and the questions were almost all about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Obama's answers were disingenuous in several ways. First, he couldn't resist the temptation to blame the Bush administration for the spill. Is this getting a little old, or what? Obama said: [I]n this instance, the oil industry's cozy and sometimes corrupt relationship with government regulators meant little or no regulation at all. When Secretary Salazar took office, he found a Minerals and Management Service that had been plagued by corruption for years. ...
Chris Matthews Blasts Obama: “The Gulf Of Mexico Is More Important Than A Presidency”
Post Date: 2010-05-28 09:01:16 by Badeye
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Chris Matthews Blasts Obama: “The Gulf Of Mexico Is More Important Than A Presidency” » 12 commentsby Glynnis MacNicol | 5:25 pm, May 27th, 2010 video Perhaps Chris Matthews started worrying he was being out-shined in the tirade department by James Carville. Just ahead of President Obama’s press conference earlier today Matthews went on his own rant about how the Louisiana coast line is “part of our birthright, with the Grand Canyon, with Niagara Falls, with Yosemite.” And then he directed this zinger at Obama: The Gulf of Mexico is more important than a Presidency, and the president has not acted that way, he has not acted like this is more important than a ...
Obama: Oil spill has been 'highest priority' of administration
Post Date: 2010-05-27 14:55:07 by Badeye
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Obama: Oil spill has been 'highest priority' of administration By: JENNIFER LOVEN and TOM RAUM Associated Press 05/27/10 2:20 PM EDT President Barack Obama answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP) WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama defensively and sometimes testily insisted on Thursday that his administration, not oil giant BP, was calling the shots in responding to the worst oil spill in the nation's history. "I take responsibility. It is my job to make sure this thing is shut down," Obama declared at a news conference in the East Room of the White ...
Obama: oil spill is a ‘wake up call’ for climate legislation
Post Date: 2010-05-27 14:19:06 by Badeye
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Obama: oil spill is a ‘wake up call’ for climate legislation By Ben Geman - 05/27/10 01:18 PM ET President Barack Obama used a White House press conference on Thursday on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to pressure Congress to approve a sweeping climate change and energy bill this year. “This disaster should serve as a wake up call that it is time to move forward on this legislation,” Obama said, citing a need to develop “clean” energy sources. “I call on Democrats and Republicans in Congress, working with my administration, to answer this challenge once and for all,” he added. Obama spoke amid encouraging signs that BP's latest effort to plug ...
Obama Gets a Pass From the Press On Spill Response
Post Date: 2010-05-27 13:10:54 by Badeye
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Obama Gets a Pass From the Press On Spill Response By Dan Gainor Published May 27, 2010 | FOXNews.com Print Email Share Comments (1) Text Size For 20 years, America has been fighting wars that involve oil and the Gulf. The first two were in the Mideast. Gulf War III is close to home and threatening the entire southern coast of the U.S. with an oil slick that is an ecological disaster. It was only five years ago when the last environmental disaster swept through the Gulf of Mexico. It was one of the deadliest storms to hit the U.S. The region still hasn’t recovered and probably wouldn’t have for years, even without the latest crisis. Given that, it’s only logical that some ...
When duty calls, President Obama has to put his holidays on hold (Waaaaaaa!)
Post Date: 2010-05-27 12:28:21 by Badeye
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When duty calls, President Obama has to put his holidays on hold SLIDESHOW Previous Next HOME, FINALLY President Obama and his wife, Michelle, greeted soldiers before Christmas dinner in December after getting a late start to their vacation in Hawaii because of the health-care debate. (Alex Brandon/associated Press) HEALTH-CARE HOLDUP Nancy Pelosi guided the health-care bill through Congress, but not before it caused President Obama to cancel a trip to Indonesia. (Melina Mara/the Washington Post) Buy Photo NEW CHALLENGES With economic unrest building in Europe, where this man protested in front of the Bucharest parliament, the Dow closed below 10,000. (Daniel Mihailescu/afp/getty Images) ...
Buy Socialism Now, Pay for It Later
Post Date: 2010-05-27 11:59:01 by Badeye
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Buy Socialism Now, Pay for It Later By Daniel Greenfield Thursday, May 27, 2010 One of the more stunning bits of insanity to come out of 2008 is that during an economic crisis caused by “Buy Now, Pay Later” fiscal planning, a candidate whose entire economic philosophy was built on “Buy Now, Pay Later” was voted in. The difference is that Obama’s “Buy Now, Pay Later” plans weren’t there for capitalism, but to fund socialism. And now with the national debt tripled, and his approval rating lower than a skunk’s at an aromatherapy session, he’s pushing out ObamaCare’s “benefits” ahead of schedule. Still Buy Now, Pay Later. Buy ...
We’re too broke to be this stupid
Post Date: 2010-05-27 11:57:08 by Badeye
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We’re too broke to be this stupid STEYN: Beleaguered taxpayers may finally put a stop to the sheer waste of government spending by Mark Steyn on Thursday, May 27, 2010 6:58am - 54 Comments Benoit Tessier / REUTERS Back in 2008, when I was fulminating against multiculturalism on a more or less weekly basis, a reader wrote to advise me to lighten up, on the grounds that “we’re rich enough to afford to be stupid.” Two years later, we’re a lot less rich. In fact, many Western nations are, in any objective sense, insolvent. Hence last week’s column, on the EU’s decision to toss a trillion dollars into the great sucking maw of Greece’s public-sector ...
Brazil’s Iran Deal Alibi: Obama Said It Was Okay
Post Date: 2010-05-27 11:53:48 by Badeye
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Brazil’s Iran Deal Alibi: Obama Said It Was Okay Jonathan Tobin - 05.27.2010 - 11:11 AM There has been no shortage of foreign-policy disasters in the first year and a half of Barack Obama’s presidency, but nothing has illustrated the administration’s appalling lack of skill in diplomacy more than its amateurish efforts to halt Iran’s nuclear program. The latest indication of incompetence was illustrated when the government of Brazil released the full text of a three-page letter sent by Obama to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in April, in which the American commander in chief gave the Brazilian leader the green light to pursue an agreement in which Iran would ...
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