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Wrong Time for Obama to Jump into Stimulus
Maybe everyone should step back and calm down. Obama has made no major mistake on the stimulus package. He is letting the process play out. The Republicans are right that some of the provisions, though only 1% of the bill, don't qualify as appropriate stimulus measures. It's better for the Senate to vote those out of the bill than, like Maureen ...
Posted to Today's Papers by Squeek on February 4, 2009
Bi-Partisanship Won't Fall from the Sky-Still Hope for Media
Your article distinguishes itself from a lot of other reporting in the last two and half weeks that has tried to find Rovian partisanship in every move by Democrats or Republicans around the stimulus package. (Politico: ''Hardball Politics Stay in Oval Office'' - huh? - nobody promised an end to politics: Obama promised to advance bi-partisanship ...
Posted to Politics by Squeek on January 30, 2009
Democrats Are Taking Office -- Time to Party!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M65zI9LH-as Democrats Are Taking Office -- Time to Party! http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M65zI9LH-as
Posted to Chatterbox by MichaelBernard3 on January 8, 2009
The Big Bailout...Ha!
There is no need for a bailout of the bank when we can bail them out through tax payer spending...heres how: America has fought hard to become an independent nation and a leader in innovation, so how can we fix our current economic downtrend efficiently? Some seem to think that throwing money at the corporations who failed us is the answer…we all ...
Posted to Trailhead by Mejamz on September 29, 2008
Dahlia Lithwick Uses Recipes to Write a Legal Column About..
... ABORTION. Lithwick's very idea that women do not have reproductive choice, if they cannot extinquish the life growing in their own wombs, is in and of itself faulty. I mean, my God, did the female have sex with the guy, or did she not? As to being ''for change'' in everything but pro-Abort American policies at home and abroad, not everyone ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard2 on August 21, 2008
Great Review of Some Important Books . . .
. . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008
Democrats in Congress Failed Us All 8 Years
The Democrats and Democratic Party failed to stand up for what is right for the entire eight years of the Bush / Cheney White House misrule. They gave away our American two-party system; they gave away majority rule; they gave away our civil rights and bill of rights and civil liberties; they gave away the constitutional authority of the ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on January 30, 2008
Why I'm an American in Exile...
On June 13th, 2007, I received a death threat from someone claiming to be a member of the US Intelligence community. What was my ''crime''? I blew the whistle on the election fraud of 2004. Why did the CIA feel threatened by this? Because I revealed how they smuggled cocaine into the US using a front company called ''Skyway Communications''. ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by amerigobard on November 24, 2007
The undiscussed key to Iraq
While answering one of the questions from the press, the President said: '' . . . and I appreciate their desire to work with the White House to be in a position where we can sustain a presence in Iraq.'' What sustained presence? Why a sustained presence? Wouldn't mandating a sustained US presence deny the sovereignty of Iraq? Congress ...
Posted to Today's Papers by CitizenLarry on July 13, 2007