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The day’s top political news:
Ameerica loses - big time!!!
Pelosi’s Democrat health care scheme passes the House
The focus now turns toward the Senate as Harry Reid threatens to use the Democrat domination to impose the Democrat plot to take over health care.
Pelosi lied to gullible Democrat Congressman about abortion ban – assuring her far left voters she will see the provision is dropped in negotiations with the Senate.
A single Republican voted for the measure which provides for government-run health care and a gateway to Canadian-style socialized medicine. Expect limited access, lesser quality, and high taxes.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091108/D9BR59EO0.html
New Congressman Bill Owens – winner in NY 23 special election – goes back on campaign promises. He lied.
Owens indicates in a press release released shortly after he was sworn in that he was now in favor of the Pelosi Health Care bill in direct contrast to his position during the campaign.
Vote tabulation show Owens voted for healthcare – as Obama has shown, liberal Democrats don’t take campaign promises seriously and will promise anything they think will get them votes.
According to Politico.com, Mr. Owens assured voters that he felt the public option had no place in the health care reform bill. Contrary to that position, Mr. Owens voted in favor of the bill even though it now contains a public option.
Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting
Instead of a somber chief executive offering reassuring words and expressions of sympathy and compassion, viewers saw a wildly disconnected and inappropriately light president making introductory remarks.
Argument could be made that Obama should have canceled the event, out of respect for people having been murdered at an Army post a few hours before. That would have prevented any sort of jarring emotional switch at the event.
The disconnect between what Americans at home knew had been going on -- and the initial words coming out of their president's mouth was jolting, if not disturbing. Obama has, however, been quick to ask Americans to “not jump to conclusions” about the connection of the shooter to Islam.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/A-Disconnected-President.html
Opinion:
Pelosi wins on health care, normal America loses. Big time.
Pelosi passed her health care bill – a scheme through which government-run health care – a take over of health care – will be imposed on the American people.
Pelosi spared no effort in securing the victory, including a shell game with gullible pro-life Democrats through which she included a ban on federal funding of abortion even as she assured her far left pro abortion allies that she would see the abortion provision is dropped in negotiations with the Senate.
For the record, the Democrat winner of the NY 23 special congressional election, also violated campaign promises and voted for Pelosi’s health care. Of course the bill is an open violation of many pledges by Obama that normal Americans who make less than $250,000 a year would see no increase in taxes.
Obama-led Democrats have no reluctance to lying to gain needed votes. Only one Republican voted for the bill.
Passage of health care, and its ramifications for normal America, should sound a clarion call for political action. Such action is possible, but not without planning, organizing and adequate funding through which to underwrite the costs of opposing the Democrat machine on Capitol Hill.
Roughly a million outraged American converged on Washington a few weeks back. Such a protest attendance cost each participant far more than $20 a piece. If that million people had contributed that $20 to a political operation aimed at achieving the goals of that protest, an effective political movement would have been produced. $20 million is a more than adequate budget for achieving what those of us who protest what Obama et al are doing to this country.
Imagine the possibilities.
Through independent expenditures, a major message assault could be instigated through which conservative voters would be energized and motivated. Conservative candidates could be recruited, trained, and provided assets through which to defeat Democrats who voted for the health care conspiracy.
Just raising the money would achieve a major impact on American politics.
What is needed is a movement to take control, sound the alarm, and get the effort started. What is it worth to save our health care system, our nation, and its future?
Buddy
The day’s top blogs:
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Now look what the Obama Communists want to do...outrageous!
Gore's climate myth -- The Greatest Scam on Earth
In 2000 Al Gore was a failed Presidential candidate with a paltry 2 million dollars to his name. Not a lot of money for a guy whose lavish mansion gobbles up almost a 150,000 dollars in electric utilities annually alone, and that of course is before property taxes and all the other costs of owning a home in Belle Meade, which has one of the region's highest costs of living. But besides growing a beard and lecturing college students on journalism, a hobby he had last practiced in the 70's, Al Gore didn't have much of a career plan.
But Gore didn't starve on the streets either, and eight years later, despite not having much in the way of a job, the former Vice President is worth over a hundred million dollars. Expanding your net worth by %2500 percent sounds like the Madoff investment plan, but the scam that Al Gore invested in is one that makes Madoff look like a piker... because Gore invested in The Greatest Scam on Earth.
The Greatest Scam on Earth naturally revolves around the earth itself, combining millennial apocalyptic visions with junk science to create global warming. In 1920 the American poet Robert Frost wrote, "Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice, From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire." Taking an incomplete cue from poem, the school of environmental apocalypse first tried to sell the idea of an ice age, before switching over to global warming.
In the 70's the talk was of a coming ice age.
As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.
Naturally of course mankind was to blame for the problem
Man, too, may be somewhat responsible for the cooling trend. The University of Wisconsin's Reid A. Bryson and other climatologists suggest that dust and other particles released into the atmosphere as a result of farming and fuel burning may be blocking more and more sunlight from reaching and heating the surface of the earth.
And of course the world was doomed.
University of Toronto Climatologist Kenneth Hare, a former president of the Royal Meteorological Society, believes that the continuing drought and the recent failure of the Russian harvest gave the world a grim premonition of what might happen. Warns Hare: "I don't believe that the world's present population is sustainable if there are more than three years like 1972 in a row."
Doomed I tell you. How will we ever survive 1972? And yet here we are in the year 2009, and while it is chilly outside, New York City is not enclosed by giant icebergs. Neither is any other part of the world that isn't normally enclosed by icebergs.
Today Time Magazine runs virtually the same stories, except all that stuff about the world freezing to death, has been replaced by stories about the world melting to death. A coming Ice Age was a plausible place to start the environmental apocalyptic panic. After all scientists claimed that humanity had already endured an ice age, and there was something plausible about claiming that another one was on the way. Nuclear winter had become a potent boogeyman of the Cold War, convincing most Americans that a nuclear exchange would doom the planet.
But as Frost had pointed out all the way back in 1920, the idea of the world perishing in flames had a more poetic appeal. From medieval paintings of hell as a place scorched by flame, to the modern atomic terror... fire was a more compelling villain. And by redirecting the locus of environmental impact away from inhabited areas to the North Pole and other arctic regions that most people did not have any experience with, it became possible to claim just about anything at all was going on there. Anything at all.
Today, as the case of Al Gore demonstrates, there is a great deal of money to be made from preaching from environmental apocalypse. Green Business is big business and today you can find green labels on everything from cars to paper towels. Celebrities have embraced green, the way they once embraced African babies, and have introduced timely proposals for the general public, including drinking rat's milk and breathing less.
The difference between the madman who stands on a street corner with a placard reading, "ThE WORLD IS GONG TO END!" and Al Gore is the difference between madness and big business. If Al Gore really believed in his own dogma, he wouldn't be spending more on electricity a year than the average family's income. If celebrities really believed their own sound bites, they wouldn't be flying private jets around the world. But the Greatest Scam on Earth is not about living an environmentally virtuous life, but about selling environmental virtue to others. At a price.
Cap and Trade is the final solution for American manufacturing and industry, destroying what's left and leaving the rest as government subsidized shells. Wall Street will profit, investors will flock to buy absolutely worthless bonds whose only purpose is to add overhead to American businesses, and everything else will head on a ship to China, which has been smart enough to cash in on global warming alarmism, without actually giving up any of its heavy industry.
But that really doesn't matter, because millennial panics never take into account the long term consequences. They are about the irrational panic of a minority and those orchestrating the panic who expect to profit from it. The same Al Gore who owned a zinc mine and spoke lovingly of Tobacco farming turned himself into an environmentalist prophet thanks to some ghost written books and a documentary created by PowerPoint. In the process he earned himself a Nobel Peace Prize, and more importantly a hundred million dollars, which is only the beginning if the Obama Administration pushes through the rest of the rent seeking proposals that will transform the American economy into a sharecropping venture overseen by a handful of American politicians and foreign investors.
The Greatest Scam on Earth is set to destroy America's economy. Its propaganda mills are restlessly chattering away in magazines and movies, schools and commercials offering up the same old vision of the crying Indian, the visage of the world we sinfully polluted. The hypocrisy of such lectures being delivered by magazines printed on dead trees, by celebrities who live opulently thanks to goods being transported for them around the world, by politicians who stand to benefit personally from the crisis they are manufacturing of course falls on deaf ears. The scam grinds on, and the one thing all that green is sure to accomplish, is to put us all in the red.
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Obama fails at Surrender: US offers Taliban 6 provinces -- Taliban says no
This is not only suicidal, *think of your troops dying over there) it is embarrassing.
The world needs a good cop. What would happen if the cops in your nabe shrugged?
Surrender: US offers Taliban 6 provinces -- Taliban says no
They rejected the offer; they'd prefer to have the whole thing, "thankyouverymuch."
"US Offers Taliban 6 Provinces for 8 Bases," by Aamir Latif for Islam Online,
ISLAMABAD - The emboldened Taliban movement in Afghanistan turned down an American offer of power-sharing in exchange for accepting the presence of foreign troops, Afghan government sources confirmed.
"US negotiators had offered the Taliban leadership through Mullah Wakil Ahmed Mutawakkil (former Taliban foreign minister) that if they accept the presence of NATO troops in Afghanistan, they would be given the governorship of six provinces in the south and northeast," a senior Afghan Foreign Ministry official told IslamOnline.net requesting anonymity for not being authorized to talk about the sensitive issue with the media.
He said the talks, brokered by Saudi Arabia and Turkey, continued for weeks at different locations including the Afghan capital Kabul.
Saudi Arabia, along with Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates, were the only states to recognize the Taliban regime which ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.
Turkish Prime Minister Reccap Erodgan has reportedly been active in brokering talks between the two sides.
His emissaries are in contact with Hizb-e-Islami (of former prime minister Gulbadin Hikmatyar) too because he is an important factor in northeastern Afghanistan."
A Taliban spokesman admitted indirect talks with the US.
"Yes, there were some indirect talks, but they did not work," Yousaf Ahmedi, the Taliban spokesman in southern Afghanistan, told IOL from an unknown location via satellite phone.
"There are some people who are conveying each others' (Taliban and US) messages. But there were no direct talks between us and America," he explained.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114728
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The GOP vote: Why Cao said 'yes'
Molly K. Hooper
Despite his promise to replicate his first legislative victory as whip, when all Republicans in the House opposed President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill, Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) was not able to produce unanimous GOP opposition on the healthcare measure.
Lone GOP defector Rep. Joseph Cao (La.) was among the last elevator of members to make it to the House floor for votes on Saturday night.
Word had spread that the vulnerable lawmaker informed his leadership that he was going to support the Democratic healthcare bill, and he refused to speak with reporters in the short distance from the elevator to House floor.
When the time came for the vote on final passage, Cantor slid into the seat right of Cao to continue pressuring the freshman lawmaker to oppose the vote and deny the White House any bipartisan edge to its victory.
Once the tally board lit up 218-213, however, Cao was free to put his congressional voting card in electronic key slot and cast an “aye” vote for the bill his party has dubbed “Pelosi’s healthcare bill.”
He did it quickly, and quietly, while the rest of the chamber was applauding for having cleared the vote threshold needed for passage, the vulnerable Republican was recorded as voting for the sweeping $1.2 trillion measure.
Throughout the several votes leading up to final passage, Cao was flanked by senior lawmaker Rep. Don Young (R-Ark.) and senior Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.).
At various points during the 40-minute period, GOP lawmakers approached their colleague for one final chat.
Young, who appeared to be fending off his GOP colleagues who might have twisted Cao's arms, said that Cao made the right decision to vote for the final bill.
Doing so was in the best interest of his New Orleans-based district that voted overwhelmingly for Obama in 2008.
"If the Stupak amendment hadn’t passed he would have voted 'no,' if it did pass it’d serve his main problem with the bill. He did the right thing," Young told The Hill.
As soon as the House started the final vote for the day, Cao voted and dashed out the side of the chamber, plugging his ears in jest when reporters approached to find out what happened.
According to a written statement released later that night, Cao explained that Obama had promised to help out the lawmaker’s district still devastated from Hurricane Katrina.
“Today, I obtained a commitment from President Obama that he and I will work together to address the critical health care issues of Louisiana including the FMAP crisis and community disaster loan forgiveness, as well as issues related to Charity and Methodist Hospitals,” Cao wrote.
Moments after casting the vote, several Democratic lawmakers gathered behind the lawmaker, who was sandwiched by Rep. Don Young (R-Ak.) on one side and Cantor on the other.
Sources in the vicinity tell The Hill that Transportation Committee Chairman Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.) told Cao that the powerful lawmaker would “go to his (New Orleans) district” with him.
It was unclear whether that meant Oberstar would campaign with Cao or simply visit the areas still in need of federal dollars for transportation-related projects.
Oberstar's office had yet to respond to request for comments at the time of publishing.
For weeks, Cao has been a wild card for his party on the landmark bill, but his consistent objection was over funding for abortions.
Until late last night, however, it appeared that Democrats weren’t going to give Rep. Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.) amendment a vote on the floor, which landed Cao in the “no” column.
But things changed when, late Friday night, the Speaker agreed to move the bill with Stupak’s strict language to ban federal funding for abortions included in the measure.
It was a move that prompted some confusion in the minority party on Saturday in terms of floor tactics, but primarily posed the problem of losing a Republican.
The White House launched a full-court press on Saturday to recruit GOP support for the landmark bill.
The effort paid off when Cao decided to support the bill.
Despite the efforts of his leadership, including Minority Leader John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) repeated trips to the House floor to demand that each chairman with a piece of the bill “gurarantee” that Stupak’s amendment be in the final measure that passes out of conference committee, Cao only agreed to hold off voting for the bill until Democrats reached the magic number 218.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/66857-the-gop-vote-why-cao-said-yes
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