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The day’s top political news:
Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.
Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15.
Overall, 46% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance. Fifty-three percent (53%) now disapprove. See recent demographic highlights from the tracking poll.
Deal on health bill is reached
For 48 hours, Senator Ben Nelson was seen as a highly principled figure – only to sell out to Harry Reid and prove he is just another politician with his hands out.
Nelson’s support was purchased by Reid at a ridiculous price that will certainly face SCOTUS scrutiny if it survives.
The issue now goes to negotiations with the House to reach common ground on two vastly different bills. There is noting the GOP can do to stop the Democrat conspiracy…and ALL America is watching and seeing the very worst side of politics and government on parade.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/19/AR2009121900797_pf.html
Book: Prosecutors were prepared to indict Clintons
Prosecutors investigating Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton were prepared to seek indictments of them for their roles in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky affairs, an explosive new book about the former president's scandals charges.
In "The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr," due out in February, author Ken Gormley also says that Lewinsky believed Bill Clinton lied about their affair during grand jury testimony about his relationship with the White House intern.
The Associated Press on Friday obtained a copy of the book by Gormley, a Duquesne University law professor, about the scandals that enveloped the final years of the former president's second term. Excerpts from the book were first reported Thursday on the Politico news Web site.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091219/D9CM4CKG0.html
Opinion:
Tone deaf Democrats
They just don’t get it.
Democrats are celebrating getting 60 votes for Harry Reid’s health care scam. They finally achieved that figure through what most Americans paying attention about such matters believe to be the most outrageous case of political bribery of all.
Give him credit, Senator Ben Nelson wrestled incredible commitments from a desperate Harry Reid. If Nelson’s payoff is not crass bribery, the burden is on him to prove otherwise.
Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi and her fellow travelers were dashing back to a snowed in Washington from an equally snowed in Copenhagen – and an international conference on (of all things) Global Warming.
No display could have as effectively proven the irresponsible idiocy of Al Gore’s myths and fantasies than the weather that ended the confab. Fortunately, we are informed no threat to sanity resulted from the Copenhagen huddle. It could have been far worse.
Of course Hillary promised a mass of our dollars to poor countries to underwrite their own efforts to oppose carbon emissions. I am struck by findings by many scientists (now void of credibility since it has been revealed a whole lot of cheating has been going on among them) holding cattle gas emissions are among the worst offenders.
If they use Hillary’s funding to rid themselves of cattle, what’ll these poor people do for protein? I suspect no liberal scientific has addressed that element of the problem.
Not to worry. Few of those dollars will actually go to dealing with the problem. Government officials and hangers on will sop up that money in corruption and graft as always happens in such matters.
Recall the “Food for Oil” conspiracy? That’s the way such things always work out. But Hillary feels better, got more smiles at the conference, and comes home to try selling that madness to the Senate who must ratify such deals. Given Democrat domination of the Senate, Hillary’s largess will be approved – probably with even more outrageous additions, amendments, and admissions. Until America retakes Capitol Hill, we lie vulnerable and unprotected against raids on our treasury and restrictions on our rights and freedoms.
Memo to Democrats:
Take the Tea Party movement seriously. Recognize the fact you are digging your hole deeper by the day and reform. Roll back what you can. Stop spending what we cant afford, and drop bills such as Pelosi’s Health Care, Obama’s Cap and Trade, and cut off efforts to pass amnesty before they can build up steam.
If Democrats don’t heed the warning, the poll results, and the growing anger and fury of normal Americans via the Internet, they will take a major hit next year. That defeat will grow daily and may once again make liberals irrelevant.
Buddy
The day’s top blogs:
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http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=A8304D7C-18FE-70B2-A87FAC1F3F5420D2
Stupak, working with GOP, trying to sink abortion compromise
Ben Smith
An aide to Rep. Bart Stupak (D. Mich.) coordinated opposition to a Senate compromise on the place of abortion in health care legislation this morning with the Republican Senate leadership, the Conference Catholic Bishops, and other anti-abortion groups, according to a chain of frantic emails obtained this morning by POLITICO.
The emails show that Stupak — who has so far remained silent on language accepted by Senator Ben Nelson (D. Neb.) and faces intense pressure from the White House to accept it — is already working behind the scenes to oppose the compromise.
They also demonstrate a previously unseen degree of coordination between Stupak and the office of Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
(NOTE: In 1981, outraged by Democrat fiscal outrage, Texas Democrat Congressman Phil Graham switched parties and led Blue Dog Democrats of the day, in a major uprising against liberals. Stupak is positioned to achieve similar results,)
Stupak is the leader of a group of pro-life Democrats who say they’ll oppose the sweeping legislation if it uses government money to pay for abortion, while McConnell is firmly committed to killing the legislation. The fact that the two have made common cause against the Senates health care compromise will likely further infuriate Stupak’s Democratic colleagues in the House, and demonstrates his willingness to stop any bill that doesn’t pass his test.
“Guys - when will we see your letters of opposition to the managers amendment?? We need them ASAP!” wrote Erika Smith, a Stupak aide, at 9:23 this morning, less than an hour after the amendment had become available.
The email’s recipients included key staffers for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, National Right to Life, the Family Research Council, as well as Autumn Fredericks Christensen, aide to a top pro-life Republican Joe Pitts, and Lanier Swann, a McConnell aide.
A minute after Smith sent out her plea, Lanier reiterated it to the list.
“Nelson is telling people in the building he will vote yes. If there was any time to weigh in against this deal —- THIS IS IT,” Swann wrote at 9:24 a.m.
As of early Saturday afternoon, the groups had not released statements on the compromise.
Stupak, too, has remained silent, and Stupak aides, including Smith, did not immediately respond to questions about the email chain.
The manager’s amendment, which emerged after hours of negotiations between Nelson and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, stops short of the total ban on health insurance plans that participate in a new exchange system offering abortion coverage. Instead, it includes a provision that allows states to prohibit abortion coverage in the exchanges.
The amendment also requires that health plans that provide abortion services separate, for accounting purposes, private premiums and federal funds, and ensure that the federal funds don't pay for abortion services, a maneuver derided in the past by anti-abortion groups as a shell game.
The compromise paved the way for a Senate vote on President Obamas top priority, but the frantic emails this morning suggest the House may remain an obstacle.
© 2009 Capitol News Company, LLC
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/73077-chambliss-abortion-compromise-sets-up-a-supreme-court-challenge
Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss: Abortion compromise 'sets up a Supreme Court challenge'
Michael O'Brien
The Senate healthcare bill's language on abortion "sets up a Supreme Court challenge," one senator warned Saturday.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) asserted that the compromise on abortion contained within the bill, which would seek to segregate federal funds from subsidizing health plans covering abortion, is unconstitutional.
"What this provision does that Sen. Nelson negotiated sets up a Supreme Court challenge. Roe v. Wade's pretty clear on federal funding for abortion," Chambliss said at a Capitol Hill press conference.
The compromise was set up to win the vote of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), who had previously threatened to vote against the bill unless he was satisfied the bill wouldn't provide federal support for abortion. Nelson announced on Saturday morning that he'd reached an agreement to his satisfaction, and would vote for the bill.
Pro-life groups, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, have rejected the compromise language.
"And now, you're seeing that law that was laid down years ago in Roe v. Wade thrown up in the air. It's pretty obvious that votes have been bought," said Chambliss, who didn't signal whether or not he would lead a legal challenge to the bill.
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Which stories did media bury in 2009?
WND readers' chance to weigh in on year's top 10
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Attention, WND newshounds! As it does every year, WND is inviting readers to submit their candidates for the most "spiked" stories of the year in Operation Spike!
At this time, news organizations prepare their year-end retrospective replays of what they consider to have been the top news stories of the previous 12 months. But WND's editors have always found it more newsworthy to publish a compilation of the important stories most ignored by the establishment press.
WND Editor and CEO Joseph Farah has sponsored "Operation Spike" every year since 1988, and since founding WorldNetDaily in May 1997 has continued the annual tradition. For the past 11 years, WND has invited its readers to join in and submit what they considered the most underreported stories of the past year.
Last year, WorldNetDaily's "readers' choice" picks for the 10 most underreported stories of 2008 were:
1. Charges that Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen of the U.S. and thus constitutionally ineligible to serve as president
2. U.S. Senate committee report that hundreds of top scientists have testified they believe claims of man-caused global warming are fraudulent
3. The true causes of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown, which point directly to the Democratic Party
4. Obama's ties to terrorists and extremists
5. The stunning success of the Iraq war
6. The sources of Obama's campaign contributions
7. Obama's far-left voting record
8. Bush's refusal to pardon imprisoned border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were prosecuted by the president's friend, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton
9. Suppression of Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders' film, "Fitna," which exposes the worldwide threat from Islam
(NOTE: I have removed one subject from WND's list:
<<The campaigns of third-party presidential candidates, and Ron Paul's sensationally successful grass-roots campaign >>
Third party campaigns were not viable enough to cover. They won]t be in the future either and encouraging such flights of fancy have one and only one result: electing Liberal Democrats.
For the record: Ron Paul ran as a Republican.)
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