tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35488546728554737762011-12-09T16:48:28.523-06:00Curry Kenworthynoreply@blogger.comBlogger1341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-16397634493299535582010-10-14T06:52:00.000-05:002010-10-14T06:52:55.983-05:00

From the WA Times. This is what happens when a policy wonk doesn't get the cooperation he thinks he deserves. "Obama administration officials say in all seriousness that the economy is better than it seems, if only people were smart enough to get it. The same condescending attitude pervades portrayals of the midterm election as a "revolt of the masses," as if peasants wielding torches and

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From the NY Times opinion page. "Summers, who, according to insiders, was the dominant voice in the administration’s economic policies, announced on Tuesday that he’s returning in January to Harvard (a place that, for him, may not be any less stressful than the White House); Axelrod, the man at the nexus of the Obama campaign in 2008, will leave Washington to start planning the president’s

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From CBS News. "...David Axelrod, the president's closest advisor, will move to Chicago next spring. Axelrod is expected to reassume his role as campaign manager in Mr. Obama's 2012 reelection bid. A potential, if not likely, replacement for Axelrod is current White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. The dominoes don't stop there. Rahm Emanuel, the president's Chief of Staff, may leave the

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From the Washington Post. One more rat leaving a sinking ship. The damage has been done, so there's no need for ANY of the economic team to hang around. "President Obama's top economic adviser, Lawrence H. Summers, will step down as director of the National Economic Council after the November elections and return to a teaching post at Harvard University, the White House announced Tuesday. The

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From Fox News. "Finally, we know what President Obama’s initials stand for! He’s the Boo –HooO president! OK, that’s a little cheesy, but seriously, have we ever had a whinier leader of the free world? Most recently, and quite ungrammatically (it was not scripted into the First Teleprompter), he whined that his opponents “talk about me like a dog”. This doesn’t even make much sense, but is

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From Daily Finance. "Corporate profits are booming again but President Obama's popularity is sinking fast. The list of financial and business titans claiming that Democratic policies are impeding the economic recovery and hurting US competitiveness, meanwhile, gets longer by the day. Of course, much of the business sector has always harped about government interference. But now even high

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From the Christian Science Monitor. "If it requires government subsidies to get built, more subsidies to buy, and doesn't actually reduce pollution, what's the benefit of an electric car?" Good question. One so-called "benefit" is that it would boost demand for a car that ordinarily people wouldn't (or couldn't) buy, feeding into the buy-me-a-cure crowd (his typical constituency) who have more

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From Politico. "Despite the president’s endless number of appearances at new energy technology facilities, constant references to creating “green jobs,” countless hours being photographed behind the wheels of battery-powered and other “new age” vehicles and a somewhat shameless effort to argue that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill should be used to justify passage of his energy agenda, we are

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From the UK Telegraph. "The RealClearPolitics average of polls now has President Obama at over 50 per cent disapproval, a remarkably high figure for a president just 18 months into his first term. Strikingly, the latest USA Today/Gallup survey has the President on just 41 per cent approval, with 53 per cent disapproving." ... "Growing disillusionment with the Obama administration’s handling of

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From the Wall St. Journal. The magic of 2008 can't be recreated, and good riddance to it. "Mr. Obama could protest that his swift and sudden fall from grace is no fault of his. He had been a blank slate, and the devotees had projected onto him their hopes and dreams. His victory had not been the triumph of policies he had enunciated in great detail. He had never run anything in his entire life.

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From Bloomberg News. She wants to return to teaching in Berkeley--what makes her think there'll be a JOB for her? "Romer, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, is returning to a post at the University of California at Berkeley, the White House said yesterday. She is interested in heading the Federal Reserve’s regional bank in San Francisco, according to a person familiar with her plans who

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From the Wall St. Journal. "A president's most valuable asset—with voters, Congress, allies and enemies—is credibility. So it is unfortunate when extreme exaggeration emanates from the White House." ... "So, as I and others warned in 2008, the permanent government expansion and higher tax rate agenda is a classic example of what not to do during bad economic times. Worse yet, all the subsidies

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From CNN Money. "The two (the President and the Chamber of Commerce) are at odds over the best way to keep the recovery from slipping into a double-dip recession. The Chamber believes tax cuts are key to job creation. The Obama administration, however, has focused on stimulus and spending to create jobs." ... "Donohue also said lawmakers were "spending at astronomical levels -- we're setting

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From the L.A. Times. "The moment has been long in coming, but it may finally have arrived. For the last year and a half, on issues including healthcare, financial regulation and climate change, Democrats in Congress have bent for President Obama. Liberals swallowed hard to accept compromises that fell short of their long-sought goals, and moderates cast tough votes that now threaten their

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From the Daily Beast. Rats leaving a sinking ship--how many of his staff have already left, or are planning to leave when midterm elections arrive? Even Gen McChrystal did what he did to escape Obama. "Even the Aspen Ideas Festival, an annual gathering of the country's brightest lights, isn't Obama country anymore. Lloyd Grove on the president's waning support among the intelligentsia." ...

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From the National Review Online. "Barack Obama was supposed to be the best, the very best, and yet he is always, reliably, consistently mediocre. His speech on oil was no better or worse than his speech on race. Yet the Obammyboppers who once squealed with delight are weary of last year’s boy band. At the end of the big Oval Office address, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and the rest of the

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From Optoons. It's a cartoon--you have to go there to see it.

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From me. The relevant bit: "Go ahead, Obama, try to tax me and inflate me into oblivion. You may get the money, but you can't tax the garden, or my labors in it! The pantry has already been taxed (at much lower rates), and you can't tax it again. Everything's paid for but the house, and soon, it too will be paid for, leaving only Hubby's income vulnerable to you. I'll just have to look for

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Currently, the government definition of "poor" is what you own relative to what you make. Obama wants to change that to "what you own relative to what your neighbors own." Pure-D socialism. Spread the electronic wealth. I have to laugh, though--around here, I'm the "rich guy" because I'm surrounded by retirees. Does this mean Obama's going to even out their playing field by funding an extra

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From CNN/Fortune. "Obama noted that Ryan had "made a serious proposal" to rein in the deficit and then praised him for at least addressing entitlement spending. Following those apparently peaceful words, Democrats launched a withering assault over the next three days as budget director Peter Orszag, Democratic Congressional Campaign chairman Chris Van Hollen, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi all

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From National Review Online. "The president launched a last-ditch effort to pass a government takeover of American health care yesterday. To hear him tell it, his plan would let every American keep the health insurance he has today if he wants to. And it would reduce premiums, cut taxes for the middle class, slow the pace of rising costs, reduce the federal budget deficit, and keep bureaucrats

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From the L.A. Times. "If reports are to be believed, Emanuel wanted Obama to be less ambitious ideologically but more aggressive politically. Emanuel likes winning, and so he thinks the president should pick battles he can win. Emanuel opposed the idea of shutting down Guantanamo Bay within a year. He argued that Obama should have gone for a smaller, more digestible healthcare bill that expanded

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From CNN Money.This "debt panel" is also known in TV pundit circles as the VAT tax panel--don't be surprised if they find for instilling the Fair Tax plan as a means to pay off this debt. Fair Tax is a fancy term for VAT tax."After trillions in new and proposed spending, Americans know our problem is not that we tax too little, but that Washington spends too much - that should be the focus of

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From Bloomberg.com"The president and Congress “pay lip service to the fact that small business generates half of private-sector GDP and employs 60 percent or more of private-sector workers,” Dunkelberg says. As far as Washington’s efforts to help this sector of the economy, “instead of stimulus, give consumers a tax cut,” he says."..."Small-business owners list “poor sales” as the numero uno

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From National Review Online."The palpable whiff given off by the White House inner circle is that they’re the last people on the planet still besotted by Barack Obama, and that they’re having such a cool time starring in their own reality-show remake of The West Wing they can only conceive of the public — and, indeed, the world — as crowd-scene extras in The Barack Obama Show: They expect you to

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From Yahoo News re: the State of the Union address.The state of WHICH union? AFL/CIO or SEIU?"Facing a divided Congress and a dissatisfied nation, President Barack Obama will unveil a jobs-heavy agenda in his State of the Union address Wednesday, retooling his message more than his mission.His goal: Get the economy, the confidence of voters and his own presidency on surer footing."..."Change is

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From CNN Money."The officials would not reveal the details of which domestic programs would be cut, as they prepare to face major pushback from liberals in the president's own party because popular education and health spending could be on the chopping block. The details will be officially unveiled February 1, when the president publicly releases his next budget blueprint for fiscal year 2011 --

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From the Washington Post.Here we go again--Stimulus Round #3, or Bailout #3 if you prefer. He's throwing money around to people with kids, parents living with them, students, or retirement savers."The proposals to be unveiled by Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at the White House, and which the president will push in his Wednesday night speech, include a doubling of the child care tax credit

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From the National Review Online."Who’s panting for Obama speech number 412? Exactly no one."A humorous look at Obama's activities surrounding the Scott Brown barnstorming in Massachusetts. A must-read article.

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From Financial Times. He wants money, so he's going to where the money is."Barack Obama set out broad new measures on financial regulation. The most significant of them is banning deposit-taking banks from proprietary trading that is “unrelated to serving customers”. This activity has generated politically incendiary profits for banks and bonuses for bankers.The timing was political: the

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From Business Week."With Republican Scott Brown’s victory in a special election to fill the Senate seat that had been long held by the late Edward M. Kennedy, a Democrat, the president may have to scale back his second-year agenda, which includes overhauling immigration laws and financial regulations, analysts said.Brown’s defeat of Democrat Martha Coakley is “a body blow to Obama and other

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From the National Review."If “the educated class” is for it — “health” “care” “reform,” cap-&-trade, Miranda rights for terrorists — Joe Six-Pack and his fellow knuckledragging morons are reflexively opposed to it.This almost exactly inverts what really happened over this last year. “The educated class” turned out to be not that educated — if, by “educated,” you mean knowing stuff. They were

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From Yahoo news."A senior administration official said the tax, which officials are calling a "financial crisis responsibility fee," would apply only to financial companies with assets of more than $50 billion. Those firms — estimated to amount to about 50 institutions — would have to pay the fee even though many did not accept any taxpayer assistance and most others already paid back their

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From Yahoo news."He says "the buck stops with me," but nearly a year into office, President Barack Obama is still blaming a lot of the nation's troubles — the economy, terrorism, health care — on George W. Bush."..."Obama needs to show that he gets results. And so he describes a year of overlooked achievement since his predecessor left town, addressing a range of problems: hate crimes, tobacco

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From Yahoo Opinion."Mr. Obama’s persuasive style will be required to convince a dozen or so senators from coal-dependent states who are reluctant to tackle global warming. In two weeks, the Senate is expected to vote on a measure that would block the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from imposing strict limits on carbon dioxide emissions."..."Obama now needs to justify a climate-change law

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From the Wall St. Journal."Ambitious Republicans should resolve to run next year. There will be a wave of voter support for GOP positions, but authenticity, passion and conviction matter. Voters can smell them, so bone up on the issues and say what you believe, not what someone tells you to say."..."As for me, I resolve to speak well of Mr. Obama more frequently, curry favor with liberals by

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From the Wall St. Journal."America's primary race problem today is our new "sophistication" around racial matters. Political correctness is a compendium of sophistications in which we join ourselves to obvious falsehoods ("diversity") and refuse to see obvious realities (the irrelevance of diversity to minority development). I would argue further that Barack Obama's election to the presidency of

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From Yahoo Politics. Is it any wonder why the "underwear bomber" got into this country in the first place?"Two federal agencies charged with keeping potential terrorists off airplanes and out of the country have been without their top leaders for nearly a year.It took the Obama administration more than eight months to nominate anyone to lead the Transportation Security Administration and the

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From Yahoo news."The U.N. climate conference narrowly escaped collapse Saturday as bitterly divided delegates agreed after all-night talks to recognize a political compromise that President Barack Obama brokered with China and other emerging powers."..."Obama's day of hectic diplomacy produced a document promising $30 billion in emergency climate aid to poor nations in the next three years and a

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From Yahoo Opinion."On display is an exhibit of New Deal-era paintings that show men building roads, laying pipe, and shoveling snow. The artists were paid by the New Deal to paint these portraits; and the people in them were paid by the New Deal to construct public-works projects and the nation’s infrastructure.Almost every community in the United States has a park, bridge, or school constructed

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From Yahoo News. How original--more of the same!"President Barack Obama outlined new multibillion-dollar stimulus and jobs proposals Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to "spend our way out of this recession" until more Americans are back at work.Without giving a price tag, Obama proposed a package of new spending for highway, bridge and other infrastructure projects, deeper tax breaks for

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From the Wall St. Journal."The agency is expected to officially declare greenhouse gases a danger to public health and welfare, according to people close to the matter and as reported by Dow Jones Newswires on Friday.The controversial decision is necessary for the administration to move ahead with new light-duty vehicle emission standards and is the precursor to economy-wide regulations on

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From Yahoo Politics. "The Obama administration is conducting a workshop on government openness for federal employees behind closed doors Monday, a private training session for freedom-of-information officials to learn about a new U.S. office that settle disputes between the bureaucracy and the public.The decision to preclude the public and the media from attending Monday's openness workshop left

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From the Washington Post."At the opening of his presidency, there was hardly a problem that Obama wasn't prepared to confront aggressively. The economy? Bailouts for banks and automakers, and a huge stimulus package to short-circuit the recession. Iraq? Set a date for withdrawing promptly. Health care? Go for it immediately, and with primary colors, not pastels. Energy and climate change? Ditto.

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From the Examiner."Attending were Joe Biden, Democrat politicians, a bunch of academic eggheads and economists, a gaggle of nonprofit execs, a whole flock of union flacks including Obama’s SEIU allies, ACORN thugs and … oh yes, a handful of corporate CEOs who have shown support for Obama in every aspect of his presidency. In other words, he has invited to the summit a pack of his own yes men."The

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From the Wall St. Journal."He talks too much," a Saudi academic in Jeddah, who had once been smitten with Barack Obama, recently observed to me of America's 44th president. He has wearied of Mr. Obama and now does not bother with the Obama oratory.He is hardly alone, this academic. In the endless chatter of this region, and in the commentaries offered by the press, the theme is one of

Wenchypoonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-11877493608844695312009-12-02T07:44:00.001-06:002009-12-02T07:47:59.036-06:00

From Yahoo News.And here's how they plan to pay for it: Taxing Stock Trades to Pay for Jobs (from CNN Money).More wealth redistribution in action! Eliminating Medicare fraud would've covered half of it, but I digress. Whatever happened to the unused portion of the LAST stimulus package, or the unused bank bailout money?

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From Yahoo News."The pro-Obama narrative featured an almost mystically talented young idealist who stood for change in a disciplined and thoughtful way. This easily outpowered the anti-Obama narrative, featuring an opportunistic Chicago pol with dubious relationships who was more liberal than he was letting on.A year into his presidency, however, Obama’s gift for controlling his image shows signs

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From Yahoo News. Our taxpayer dollars at work AGAIN!"Under the $75 billion Treasury program, companies that agree to lower payments for troubled borrowers collect $1,000 initially from the government for each loan, followed by $1,000 annually for up to three years.The government support, which is provided from the $700 billion financial bailout program, is aimed at providing cash incentives for

Wenchypoonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-70014808869832786942009-11-28T08:57:00.002-06:002009-11-28T09:01:54.407-06:00

From the Wall St. Journal."Why has the president's publicly expressed vision of a kinder, gentler Washington failed to materialize? I think Mr. Obama—while hardly the only person at fault—is chiefly responsible.He might have spawned a different Washington, a less divided town with Democrats firmly in charge but Republicans actively involved. The bonus for Mr. Obama and Democrats would be higher

Wenchypoonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-43290312492213643002009-11-26T08:40:00.002-06:002009-11-26T08:50:19.679-06:00

From the U.K. Guardian. I'd like to help him."Sankey says his fascination began with the realisation "that this man wasn't what he said he was. He wasn't an ordinary Democrat — he was far more extreme than that." So about a year ago he began reading blogs and websites that claimed to expose Obama's foreign roots, his spurious Hawaiian birth certificate and the $2m White House cover-up that has

Wenchypoonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-44405052474067598702009-11-26T07:43:00.001-06:002009-11-26T07:45:22.191-06:00

From CNN Politics. So where was the security? Next, we'll have the Taliban showing up at the annual Easter Egg Roll.

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From Yahoo Opinion."The dirty little secret on both sides of the Pacific is that both America and China are capable of producing far more than their own consumers are capable of buying. In the US, the root of the problem is a growing share of total income going to the richest Americans, leaving the middle class with relatively less purchasing power unless they go deep into debt.Inequality is also

Wenchypoonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-48771774008668023122009-11-18T05:03:00.001-06:002009-11-18T05:06:51.231-06:00

From Yahoo News."More than $98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted, much of it on questionable claims for tax credits and Medicare benefits, representing an increase of $26 billion from the previous year."How many people could've gotten health care coverage with that money? Perhaps the 12 million who really NEED it?

Wenchypoonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-73376371890830202102009-11-17T08:18:00.003-06:002009-11-17T08:24:28.831-06:00

From Yahoo news."Stung by new U.S. levies on imports of Chinese-made tires and steel pipes, Hu said he told Obama that given a still struggling global economy both countries "need to oppose and reject protectionism in all its manifestations in an even stronger stand."Obama later called on China to relax controls that keep the Chinese currency relatively weak and thus help fuel exports — something

Wenchypoonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-86008395934657246992009-11-07T08:41:00.002-06:002009-11-07T08:44:37.905-06:00

From the Washington Post."The White House thinks the stimulus is working, and it doesn't want you on its payroll."You have to be tied to him politically, be from Harvard, Chicago, a Socialist/Communist at large, or tied to a union."Since taking office, the Obama administration has studiously avoided paying people to go to work, which could be accomplished by subsidizing workers' private-sector

Wenchypoonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-38894140207196608492009-11-07T08:04:00.002-06:002009-11-07T08:47:04.873-06:00

From CNN Money. Oh boy, do I have problems with THIS!"Fannie Mae implements deed-for-lease program that allows troubled borrowers who don't qualify for loan modifications to stay in their homes."My questions:1. Who gets the equity when the housing market comes back?2. What if the new owners want to sell the property while the "home owner" is still living there?3. While the home is in

Wenchypoonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-77710816211939979302009-11-07T07:31:00.003-06:002009-11-07T07:45:32.174-06:00

From Yahoo Health. What is this--a frikkin' GOLF tournament or something? People are dying!Imagine this coming to OUR country--and it will if the Public Option is passed. Obama's world will have you clamoring for invitations."Here, and across most of Europe, vaccine to protect against the pandemic flu is mostly given by invitation only to those at highest risk for flu complications."That is

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From Yahoo Politics."For months he had warned it was coming but that didn't ease the political shockwaves for President Barack Obama when unemployment topped 10 percent.A year after his election Obama finds it increasingly difficult to blame the sour economy on George W. Bush or offer reassurances that jobless Americans will soon find work."..."Many economists predict the jobless rate will rise

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From Yahoo news.I did MY part and voted against every Dem and incumbent on the ballot! :)"Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading into an important midterm election year."Hehehehe...I helped take this

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From City Journal."One out of every five Americans is either a Californian or a Texan. California became the nation’s most populous state in 1962; Texas climbed into second place in 1994. They are broadly similar: populous Sunbelt states with large metropolitan areas, diverse economies, and borders with Mexico producing comparable demographic mixes. Both are “majority-minority” states, where

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(This is the second carnival edition prepared by our fill-in editor, Wenchy!)I just saw the last scheduled contractor for today, so now it's time for blogging and laundry.Our latest (and I'll consider foremost) entry is from Scott Spiegel--got it hot off the inbox today: All Roads Lead to a Dead End."Every choice point they encounter from this stage on leads to an internal contradiction or a

Wenchypoonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-72447900041026670882009-10-23T07:09:00.000-05:002009-10-23T07:14:40.971-05:00

The Carnival will be coming TODAY--this is the problem of contractors...when they say they'll come out RIGHT NOW, you have to drop everything and go meet them.I sat for 4 hours yesterday waiting on a fence guy, and he never showed or called. Oh well--I got to watch Glenn Beck on my new satellite system Dish installed a couple of days ago (they INSISTED a TV be at the house, and so I lugged).So

Wenchypoonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-58877890206259600282009-10-22T22:13:00.003-05:002009-10-25T01:17:20.683-05:00

I really appreciate the help here from Wenchy (of WenchyPoo's Metal Wastebasket) for helping me to maintain the Nobama Carnival for a couple of issues when life got too busy for me. Not only that, but also above and beyond it with daily posts that have made it a much livelier place!I don't think the fire has really gone out--it's just that regular, real people like us in this economy have so much

Curry Kenworthynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-59341072267517766442009-10-21T13:35:00.002-05:002009-10-21T13:42:48.335-05:00

We just bought a house, and I have discovered I can't run two households at once--I end up dropping everything to meet with a contractor or repair tech, and I haven't even had time to keep up MY OWN blog!I have a gap in tomorrow morning's schedule between two contractors, so I'll post the Carnival as I promised, but it will be my last.Submissions have been few and far between, and the timeliness

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From the Missouri News-Leader.In the Letters section:"Enough Bush-bashing. When I turn on the news or pick up a newspaper, all I see is people running down previous president George Bush. I am not much into politics, but I am on certain things. The people on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC just run down what Bush did as a president. He did make some mistakes, but from what I have seen in every president

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From the Kansas City Star.In the Unfettered Letters section:"Charles Krauthammer reports that Vice President Joe Biden and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel are cautioning President Obama that if he supports the recommendations of his commander in Afghanistan with additional troops, he risks being compared to President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Vietnam War (10/13, Opinion, “Afghan war forces Obama to

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From Chron.com and the Washington Post."At least we are not George Bush, so there."They may not be George Bush, but they aren't going to be able to borrow from China--China became a net SELLER of our bonds back in June. Saudi Arabia and Japan together have moved into the #1 spot, and their buying amounts haven't been as big as China's was.The #1 bond buyer will be US if Obama gets his Universal

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From the Los Angeles Times."Weakness in American foreign policy in one region often invites challenges elsewhere, because our adversaries carefully follow diminished American resolve. Similarly, presidential indecisiveness, whether because of uncertainty or internal political struggles, signals that the United States may not respond to international challenges in clear and coherent ways."

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From Christian Science Monitor."...although he seems to be everywhere, popping up daily on television – on five different networks in separate interviews in one day recently – his elegant phraseology and soaring words of hope leave behind a formidable list of problems to be solved."

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From the Los Angeles Times."If Hollywood were to give out grades for how President Obama is doing on issues that matter most to liberal activists here, he would get -- at best -- an incomplete."

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From the Washington Post. Let's hope!"Economists universally agree that the nation cannot run such massive deficits indefinitely. The question now facing Obama, budget experts said, is how to bring spending and revenue more closely into balance in the years ahead, after the economy fully recovers. "

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From North Star National."Despite zero inflation, President Obama still wants to send seniors $250 just before the mid-term elections next year, costing an estimated $13 billion dollars. Republicans are also in favor of the idea if Congress will cut an equal amount elsewhere."

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From Reuters."But like his predecessor, who was resented in much of the world, Obama is running into foreign policy problems as resistant to humility and the collective action the president often conjures as they were resistant to Bush's unilateral approach. Does Obama's rock star-like celebrity help?So far, not really. In Germany, for example, 93 percent of those polled in a survey by the Pew

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From NY Daily News."The Secretary of State is sitting at an enviable 62% favorable rating, compared to the President’s not-too-shabby 56%."

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From the Wall St. Journal."The problem for Mr. Obama is that the Baucus bill is being sold on the strength of accounting tricks that make it appear that it won't add to the deficit. (This is true for the other health-reform bills, too). If fiscally conservative Democrats sign on to the bill now after publicly saying they are doing so because it doesn't add to the deficit, they may end up bailing

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From Reuters."Obama was awarded the prestigious prize on October 9 for efforts to "strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people."So they award EFFORTS, huh? I'd like to nominate Jesse Jackson for all his hostage negotiations. How come Bill Richardson never received one for HIS work?"VG said one of the newly elected members, Aagot Valle from the Socialist Left Party, had

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From the Asia Times online."Amidst the great challenges to America's security and prosperity, the current administration too often seems uncertain, wishful, irresolute, and unwilling to stand up for America, our allies and our interests," according to the mission statement of the new group, whose third founder-director, Debra Burlingame, is also co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong

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From the Washington Post."The Obama administration really needs to get over itself.First, the president and his aides go to war with Fox News because the network maintains a generally anti-Obama slant. Then, an anonymous administration aide attacks bloggers for failing to maintain a sufficiently pro-Obama slant. These are not disconnected developments.An administration that won the White House

Wenchypoonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-55808707187636873482009-10-13T08:30:00.000-05:002009-10-13T08:34:20.362-05:00

From AP Impact. Apparently this guy is SO desperate, he's "campaigning" in the same blue states that handed him election success."The same states that Obama targeted to win the White House are seeing an awful lot of the president, Vice President Joe Biden and top Cabinet officials. Only this year, the taxpayers are footing the multimillion-dollar tab for the trips, and Obama officials are

Wenchypoonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-71252987853223633802009-10-13T08:21:00.000-05:002009-10-13T08:23:32.900-05:00

From the Brisbane Times.Just 13,000? What's THAT for--setting up daycare centers in Afghanistan? General McCrystal wanted 40,000!

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From Yahoo Travel."If you're interested in the history of Eastern Europe under communism, a number of places around the region offer glimpses of life before the Berlin Wall fell. Here are a few of them, ranging from somber museums to historic sites to themed attractions that are downright kitschy or bizarre."It's basically a Magical Mystery Tour with a Bolshevic theme--perfect for Michael Moore

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From Yahoo News.Okay...BE clear, but what about the TRANSPARENCY you promised?

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From Weiss Research. The Dynamic Duo of the money supply are in for some dangerous unintended consequences:1. Fed Rewarding High-Roller Gamblers While Punishing Prudent U.S. Savers.2. Treasury Gobbling Up Available Credit, Crowding Out Nearly All U.S. Businesses.3. Wall St. Traders Reap Gigantic Rewards; Average Workers Face Worst U.S. JobMarket Ever Recorded.4. The Debt Crisis of 2008 Has

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From the L.A. Times."First, he saved Illinois and federal taxpayers countless millions of rescue dollars by helping to lose Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics in the very first round of voting.Then, even as he slept on the 289th day of his first term's 1,461 days, Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Democrat president said he was humbled by his selection and millions agreed the

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From Chattabox.com"Fox Business is allegedly courting CNN’s Lou Dobbs, who had lunch with Fox’s chairman, Roger Ailes, last month, according to The New York Times. Should he jump over to Fox, Dobbs who has faced an advertisement boycott like his potential colleague Glenn Beck, might find himself in the Obama administration’s sights, like the rest of Fox, which would probably be just fine with

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From the Orlando Sentinel. Go there and vote...don't ask, and don't tell!

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From the New York Post."All the leading proposals involve massive redistribution from people with healthy lifestyles to those who take more risks. As the Congressional Budget Office explained, "Premiums in the new insurance exchanges would tend to be higher than the average premiums in the current-law individual market . . . because the new policies would have to cover pre-existing medical

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From In These Times."Just over a year after the financial meltdown spurred government bailouts, loans and guarantees worth a staggering $17.5 trillion to the financial industry, as author Nomi Prins reports, leaders in the field are finally paying consumers back. How? They're fighting hard against a Consumer Financial Protection Agency and gutting what reform advocates say is any meaningful

Wenchypoonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-83009959707509133562009-10-11T07:04:00.002-05:002009-10-11T07:13:47.034-05:00

From the L.A. Times.He had to go trolling for GOP-ish support from FORMER senators and governors: Bob Dole (the whore of lobbyists), Tommy Thompson, and the soon-to-be-departing Ahhhnold. Current NY mayor Bloomberg also signed on, but New Hampshire's governor said no.It's THAT bad--he had to go to has-beens. I'm surprised he didn't go to Trent Lott or Mike Huckabee. Maybe Mike's holding out

Wenchypoonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-19666255025147225862009-10-11T06:57:00.002-05:002009-10-11T07:04:37.406-05:00

From the AP. At first read, it sounds like he wants to repeal it--meaning to put gays and lesbians back in the closet.This doesn't surprise me--as a culture, black people frown on homosexuality.When it come to military service, I say if they can pull a trigger and are willing to fight and die for our country, open the door wide and let 'em in. We've already lost a buttload of Farsi translators

Wenchypoonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3548854672855473776.post-51460946919321852602009-10-10T08:33:00.004-05:002009-10-10T08:44:57.040-05:00

From Fox News. The general pundit consensus is "yes"--my opinion is he got awarded for creating government dependence...just the way the Norwegians like it.His politics were acceptable, his intentions were right, and he's seen as helping bring down the global Big Dog through his dollar policies. What's not for European Liberals to like?His only two accomplishments, BTW, were getting elected,

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From Yahoo news."The prize seems to be more for Obama's promise than for his performance. Work on the president's ambitious agenda, both at home and abroad, is barely underway, much less finished. He has no standout moment of victory that would seem to warrant a verdict as sweeping as that issued by the Nobel committee."

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From Common Dreams."In the annals of American excess, there often arrives a moment when those with too much money, too much clout and too much hubris just can’t stop themselves from tempting the fates. They throw an over-the-top party in public, or parade their wealth and power before the press, and the next thing you know their world, and sometimes ours, has crashed."..."Barack Obama promised a

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The clever (so he thinks) ways he can come up with redistribution schemes:1. Health Care Reform--specifically, the public option. We don't need it, but he wants to take $1000-$1500/year out of MY pay and yours to fund the frails. That's a 12.5%-18% tax on the coverage I already have.2. Cap-and-Trade--he wants to double or triple what we all pay for energy just to fund his "green initiatives."

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From the Wall St. Journal."Why is Barack Obama having trouble getting a health care plan through a Congress dominated by his own party? Partly because the coalition that elected him is an unwieldy blend of the rich and the poor. The two groups view the need for radical surgery on the nation's health delivery system quite differently."The Democrat supporters come in two flavors: super rich and

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From The Hill Briefing Room."Glenn Beck is open to a "beer summit" with President Barack Obama -- though Beck's not sure the president would get anything out of it."

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From ABC News."The controversy over appointed officials within the Obama administration who have not undergone Senate confirmation—so called “czars”—is not only being discussed by conservative pundits anymore. Senators dedicated a hearing to the topic of “czars” on Capitol Hill today."...“They are unelected, un-vetted, and unaccountable,” Sessions said in response to the hearing today. “They

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From the Emory Wheel (Emory University Student News)."Political parties should seek to foster debate and political participation. Elections give Americans the chance to engage in these crucial activities. But Democrats and Republicans alike subvert our democratic-republican institutions for their own perceived gain. It is especially disheartening for Obama, who ran partly on a platform of civic

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From the Huffington Post."We have a huge problem here in America. A great many of us think that you make something happen by... just making it happen. Literally by force of will (or, for some, prayer). Because we don't know any better, this leads to a situation in which our society -- especially the civic side -- uses the only model of organized effort we've ever experienced: the Autocracy that

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