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Topic: Senate Democrats urge Obama
to bypass Republicans
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Senate Democrats urge Obama
to bypass Republicans
on the debt ceiling
Washington Post, by Rosalind S. Helderman
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 1/11/2013 11:28:03 PM
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| Democratic leaders in the Senate on Friday urged President Obama to consider bypassing Congress to prevent the nation from defaulting on its spending obligations if lawmakers cannot agree to raise the nation’s $16.4 trillion debt ceiling next month. In a joint letter that served as a warning to congressional Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and his leadership team encouraged Obama to “take any lawful steps” to avoid default — “without Congressional approval, if necessary.” The letter appeared to be an effort to push the White House to play hardball
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 1/11/2013 11:42:06 PM (No. 9111894)
Please Mr President, stop us from having to do our jobs. We don´t want to have to cut spending like we promised we would do.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 1/11/2013 11:42:40 PM (No. 9111895)
Valerie Jarrett will issue an executive order that removes the House from participating in any budget discussions. She will then grant Obama full authority to raise both the debt ceiling to $25 trillion and raise tax rates on all Americans. Sotomayor, Kagan, Breyer and Ginsburg will welcome Chief Justice Roberts to their "if it´s a tax, it´s legal" majority opinion.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Scribelus, 1/11/2013 11:49:16 PM (No. 9111900)
This violates the Senate´s oath of office, which commits them to Constitutional actions only. Those with honor will resign, while those without honor (that is, all of them) must be impeached.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
FormerDem, 1/12/2013 12:15:21 AM (No. 9111926)
But if he tried an end run of that kind, raising a question of whether Americans continue to believe their own government is legitimate, surely there would be a downgrade anyway, and the Donks know that.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ida Lil, 1/12/2013 1:01:59 AM (No. 9111960)
How do you refine lawful Harry?
Certainly not by the Constitution if you are promoting exe-orders and unlawful use of the 14th.
A that exists now that keeps SS ( renamed social benefits)and medicare ( not yet ) incorporated into Barry law off the reduction table.
Of course Barry you now have an IOU ( hide attempted) to replace the 5 B you lifted from medicare and the cash swiped to give to Hamas( Palestine) muslims.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
chance_232, 1/12/2013 1:22:28 AM (No. 9111976)
And this is why Obama will do whatever he wants and get away with it. There arent enough intellectually honest democrats left to hold him responsible and impeach him.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
abiner, 1/12/2013 2:08:08 AM (No. 9112000)
His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor B. Hussein Obama, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the United States in General and Congress in Particular
Apologies to Idi Amin.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
vanimal, 1/12/2013 8:39:19 AM (No. 9112243)
Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and his corrupt band of democrat thugs along with Obama could bring the downfall of America. Nevada why did you reelect this loser?
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"When Fascism Comes to America . . ."
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National Review Online, by Mona Charen
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 7:54:10 AM
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Liberals used to love to quote the (apparently apocryphal) line from a Sinclair Lewis character “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and waving a cross.” Wonder if they’re reflecting on that this week? We knew that early in the first term, the White House attempted to exclude a news agency from pool reports. Now come revelations that the Justice Department engaged in sweeping eavesdropping on AP journalists; that the IRS targeted conservative private citizens while favoring liberal ones; that the EPA charged fees to conservatives groups while waiving them for “green” activists;
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MOORE, Okla. — Spotlights bore down on massive piles of shredded cinder block, insulation and metal as crews worked through the night lifting bricks and parts of collapsed walls where a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood. At least 51 people were killed, including at least 20 children, and those numbers were expected to climb, officials said Tuesday. The storm stripped leaves off trees and left scores of blocks in Moore barren and dark. Rescuers walked through neighborhoods where Monday´s powerful twister flattened home after home
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Senate Committee Poised
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/20/2013 10:17:46 PM
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Steve wrote this morning about a hearing being held this week by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, in which Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, will testify tomorrow. The subcommittee apparently is trying to highlight supposed tax avoidance on the part of American companies, as the Associated Press reports: Apple Inc. employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found. The world’s most valuable company is holding overseas some $102 billion of its $145 billion in cash, and an Irish
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/20/2013 10:06:28 PM
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Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate election integrity org True the Vote and its associated Tea Party group, King Street Patriots, immediately before the IRS and DOJ began targeting the group in June 2010. Rep. Jackson Lee sent a letter to Holder which alleged that True the Vote was intimidating voters and their election monitors were crossing the line in unspecified “instances” of voter intimidation. The letter went on to directly assert that the “alleged events” were factual and that the True the Vote effort was behind the crimes
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Washington Times, by Tom Howell Jr.
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/20/2013 9:54:52 PM
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Gunmaker Smith & Wesson tops the list of best businesses in bright blue Massachusetts — after not making the list at all last year — a new report in the Boston Globe found. The 161-year-old company, based in a state with some of the stricter gun control laws in the nation, tried to diversify its holdings by acquiring a security company in recent years, only to do an “about-face” by focusing on its product line, the newspaper said in its explanation of the Springfield firm’s top spot. “We went back to what we do best, which is handguns,”
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Justice Department’s scrutiny of
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Washington Post, by Ann E. Marimow
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/20/2013 9:49:35 PM
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Journalists, First Amendment watchdogs and government transparency advocates reacted with outrage Monday to the revelation that the Justice Department had investigated the newsgathering activities of a Fox News reporter as a potential crime in a probe of classified leaks. Critics said the government’s suggestion that James Rosen, Fox News’s chief Washington correspondent, was a “co-conspirator” for soliciting classified information threatened to criminalize press freedoms protected by the First Amendment. Others also suggested that the Justice Department’s claim in pursuing an alleged leak
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/20/2013 9:30:25 PM
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Perhaps no other IRS official is more intimately associated with the tax agency´s growing scandal than Lois Lerner, director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division. Since admitting the IRS harassed hundreds of conservative and Tea Party groups for over two years, Lerner has been criticized for a number of untruths—including the revelation that she apparently lied about planting a question at an American Bar Association conference where she first publicly acknowledged IRS misconduct. Still, Lerner has her defenders in the government and the media. Shortly after the scandal broke, The Daily Beast published an article headlined "IRS Scandal’s Central
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White House Chief of Staff knew about
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Posted By: FlyRight- 5/20/2013 4:15:03 PM
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WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Serviced scandal today spread further within the White House and closer to President Obama. White House spokesman Jay Carney today disclosed that Obama’s chief of staff, Dennis McDonough, and other top White House officials had advance warning that the IRS was targeting conservative groups. But he insisted McDonough and the other White House officials purposely kept Obama out of the loop.McDonough “rightly chose not to take action” to inform Obama, Carney told reporters at the daily White House briefing.
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/19/2013 6:55:47 PM
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PRESIDENT OBAMA: You are the mantle of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington and Ralph Bunche and Langston Hughes and George Washington Carver and Ralph Abernathy and Thurgood Marshall and, yes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. These men were many things to many people and they knew full well the role that racism played in their life. But when it came to their own accomplishments and sense of purpose, they had no time for excuses. Every one of you has a grandma or an uncle or a parent whose told you at some point in life
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BREAKING: WashPost Reports
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Newsbusters, by Tim Graham
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The Washington Post on Monday reported that Obama’s Department of Justice was investigating journalists before they started wiretapping the Associated Press – for one, Fox News correspondent James Rosen in 2010. Their headline wasn´t "Obama Team Also Spied on Fox News." Fox wasn´t in the headline, on A-1 or on A-12, where the story continued. Newly obtained court documents “reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010.” Reporter Ann Marimow began:
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Leaks turn to deluge
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New York Post, by John Podhoretz
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/21/2013 4:49:13 AM
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The wheels came off the Obama administration yesterday. We learned of a startling assault on freedom of the press by the Department of Justice, following the revelation last week of the unprecedented information-gathering foray by that department against The Associated Press. Then, a few minutes later, the Justice Department’s inspector general released a report declaring that the US attorney in Arizona used the leak of a confidential memo to try to discredit a whistleblower in the notorious “gun-walking” scandal known as Fast and Furious (which got two federal agents killed). The leak was called “egregious.”
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WASHINGTON – A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups. Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening – or why she didn’t reveal it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor 3rd. Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight committee Wednesday.
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New York Times, by Brian Knowlton
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A senior adviser to President Obama mounted a combative defense of the administration on Sunday, saying the controversies enveloping the White House were the result of Republican lawmakers’ trying to “drag Washington into a swamp of partisan fishing expeditions, trumped-up hearings and false allegations.”The remarks came from Dan Pfeiffer, a member of the president’s inner circle, as he appeared on all five major Sunday morning talk shows in an effort to move the administration past what commentators have described as a “hell week” of controversy and missteps.
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