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In Pa., Obama pushes for his
debt-reduction approach
Washington Post, by David Nakamura and Zachary A. Goldfarb
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 12/1/2012 12:12:19 AM
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| HATFIELD, Pa. — President Obama traveled to this Philadelphia suburb Friday to deliver the same sharp message he gave directly to House Speaker John A. Boehner earlier in the week: Get on board with the White House’s tax proposal, or get out of the way. The relationship between the two most powerful men in Washington, who together will effectively decide the fate of negotiations over the feared “fiscal cliff,” has broken down badly since the heady days 17 months ago when they shared a golf course. Obama’s 14-minute speech at a toy manufacturing company here amounted to a verbal poke
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
smcchk, 12/1/2012 12:49:02 AM (No. 9042396)
More like, make me dictator or get out of the way, Congress! That´s Obama´s "approach."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 12/1/2012 12:54:11 AM (No. 9042401)
What did this 14 minute harangue cost taxpayers?
Marine 1 helicopter flights to/from Andrews AFB; AF1 to /from Philly at $180,000 per hour; 12 to 15 Secret Service teams in SUVs; a Secret Service advance teams; medical team; communications team; AF C17 jumbo transport to transport armored limo; and more. All to provide a photo op for an attack on Repubs over massive federal deficit. And Obama didn´t raise one person from the dead or cure a leper during this wasteful event.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
geoman, 12/1/2012 1:03:23 AM (No. 9042405)
Yep, the president gets to tell the speaker of the house to step aside on matters of taxation. It is right there in Article II, Section - never mind. Gridlock is also unconstitutional. It´s in Article whatever. That old crumbling paper in the National Archives also allows the Executive Branch to originate appropriations so long as the president declares the house majority to be scrooges. After all, Obama is a constitutional scholar. The MSM says so, so it must be. Just like a stolen election is really a mandate.
It´s time for us all to hold hands as we go over the cliff together. A cliff is preferable to outright socialism and national insolvency.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bob913, 12/1/2012 1:04:15 AM (No. 9042406)
obama can save at least $4,000,000 if he does not go on a 21 day vacation to Hawaii
The republicans can say that OUTLOUD again and again to prove obama is the cause of all the problems.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
a man over thirty, 12/1/2012 1:10:32 AM (No. 9042409)
The Chicago Way - - thug politics.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bugger, 12/1/2012 5:56:38 AM (No. 9042506)
Gosh, I wish George Bush had thought of that. Do what I want or get out of the way. Those are your two options and don´t give me that crap about what the people elected you to do, or about separation of powers.
And then there are no details about his "debt-reduction approach". He never gives details, it´s just amazing they never call him on any of it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
franq, 12/1/2012 6:55:54 AM (No. 9042534)
Hudda, hudda, hugh. Inflate your tires as we roll forward, comrades.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
GringoinQuito, 12/1/2012 7:15:21 AM (No. 9042548)
A despicable, vile, hateful, disgusting person. I have never felt this way about any other president, not even wild bill.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Muguy, 12/1/2012 7:39:44 AM (No. 9042564)
This is the most simple plan of debt reduction ever--don´t spend more than we take in, and cut loose of all the "goodies" given to secure a dictatorship!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Bur Oak, 12/1/2012 8:20:02 AM (No. 9042621)
There has been no proposal from Obama to reduce the country´s debt by as much as a penny. The Washington Post headline is a blatant lie. The only thing that has ever been proposed is reducing the estimated future debt increases.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
nonsense, 12/1/2012 9:12:32 AM (No. 9042704)
WaPo spins it and the children aged 18-29 swallow the lies. So predictable. Tax and spend Demonrats, wishing they were taxing to spend the children´s money, just to make it fair.
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Short of 60, senators hunt for
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Gun control supporters scrambled Tuesday to find 60 votes to pass expanded background checks on firearms purchases, hoping to sway reluctant senators ahead of a showdown vote. After spinning its wheels for most of the day Tuesday, the Senate set up a series of gun votes for Wednesday, including what has become the critical fight — a proposal to expand background checks to include all sales at gun shows and over the Internet, though it would exclude person-to-person private sales.
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Boston bombs used nail-packed
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The deadly bombs that struck the Boston Marathon on Monday were fashioned from large pressure cookers packed with nails and ball bearings and hidden in black bags on the ground, said FBI investigators and a U.S. official briefed on the investigation. The construction of the devices, which killed at least three and injured more than 170, many of them gravely, showed signs of “training or knowledge,” the official said. A task force of federal, state and local law enforcement authorities ramped up a huge investigation Tuesday, but officials said they had no suspects or motive.
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The bombs that tore through a crowd of spectators at the Boston Marathon could have cost as little as $100 to build and were made of the most ordinary ingredients — so ordinary, in fact, that investigators could face a gargantuan challenge in attempting to use bomb forensics to find the culprit. Investigators revealed Tuesday that fragments recovered at the blast scene suggest a simple design: a common pressure cooker of the kind found at most discount stores, packed with an explosive and armed with a simple detonator. A final ingredient — a few handfuls of BBs, nails and pellets
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Many Boston Marathon bomb
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BOSTON — Andrew Ulrich has not been to war, but he now has seen its toll on human flesh, the damage that bits of metal can wreak when packed tightly in bombs and aimed low at unprotected civilians nearby. The physician saw it Monday, not in Baghdad or Kabul, but in the emergency room at Boston Medical Center, where he and his colleagues frantically treated injury after horrific injury to the legs and feet of 23 of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. Scores treated at Boston Medical and many of the 12 other
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Commentary Magazine, by Seth Mandel
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In December, I wrote about the habits that keep the Democratic Party’s bench noticeably shallow. In contrast to the GOP, which is currently hooked on primary competition, the Democrats have relied on their own ruling class, going so far as to replace Barney Frank–who finally gave up his seat after two decades and helping to induce the disastrous housing crisis at the end of his controversial career–with a Kennedy. This was after Democrats had a few years earlier tried to replace Hillary Clinton with a Kennedy. Now Democrats seem ready to anoint Clinton
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Chinese national killed in
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NEW YORK – The Chinese Consulate in New York says a Chinese national is the third person killed in the Boston marathon blasts. An official at the consulate´s press section, who was not authorized to give his name, said that one Chinese student was injured and another died in the blast. The official said a work group from the consulate was in Boston to investigate the situation and assist relatives of the victims. The official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that relatives have requested that the deceased not be identified.
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Senate Finally Passes
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On Tuesday, the US Senate finally passed a resolution to honor recently deceased former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) had been holding up the resolution over the resolution’s word choice. Fighting him on that was Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Menendez was reportedly offended by McConnell’s language, which Menendez thought insulted other countries. McConnell, meanwhile, reportedly felt that Menendez wanted to water down the resolution to a very basic play-by-play of Thatcher’s life,
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One Word on the Boston Massacre
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It is too early to say much about today’s terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon, but one thing struck me when I watched this video, which Steve posted earlier today, as well as other videos and photos of the aftermath of the explosions: The response to the bombs by the crowd at the finish line was, I think, exemplary. Sure, many people fled from the explosions, and reasonably so. But a remarkable number ran, as they say, to the sound of the guns, even though when two bombs go off, one might well expect more. Many of these were professionals. The finish line of a marathon is a fortuitous spot to bomb,
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Protocol: President Obama declined to send a high-level delegation to Wednesday´s funeral of Britain´s Margaret Thatcher. It´s a measure of how little he values the special relationship — and a sign of his own smallness. Back in more gracious times, vice presidents routinely attended funerals of foreign dignitaries. As such, the presence of Vice President Joe Biden — if not Obama himself — would seem fitting for as significant a U.S. ally as the late Prime Minister Thatcher, if not out of warmth of feeling, then simply to represent the U.S.´ gratitude. Thatcher´s uncompromising friendship
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In light of the explosions that have rocked Boston on Patriots’ Day, during the city’s annual marathon, NBC reporter Luke Russert took to Twitter to speculate that today’s horrific events could possibly be related to the 1993 government siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas — an incident often attached to conversations about “right-wing terrorism” and anti-government violence. “I was at Fenway Park w my dad and @mikebarnicle during Waco which was on Patriots Day in 1993. Speculating on possible link,” Russert tweeted following the explosions.
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President Obama pledged that the United States would punish anyone responsible for the explosions at the Boston Marathon today, but he said that “people shouldn’t jump to conclusions” about the tragedy. “We still do not know who did this or why and people shouldn’t jump to conclusions before they have all the facts,” Obama told reporters during a statement from the White House. “Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice,” he added. Two explosions occurred today near the finish line of the Boston Marathon,
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Mark Kelly, the husband of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), is threatening to back an election challenge against Sen. Jeff Flake if the Arizona Republican votes against legislation to expand background checks. At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast on Tuesday, Kelly said he would back an opponent to Flake if the "right candidate" was available and if the senator failed to support a background check bill, according to reports. Flake, who is not up for reelection until 2018, has been close to Kelly and Giffords. But Kelly said the issue of control trumped their ties.
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/16/2013 5:59:35 PM
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"I think we’ve got a good chance of seeing it pass if members of Congress are listening to the American people," President Obama said in an interview on NBC´s "Today Show" that aired on Tuesday. "The notion that Congress would defy the overwhelming instinct of the American people after what we saw happen in Newtown, I think, is unimaginable." Obama was then asked by Savannah Guthrie how he could expect Democrats in red states to vote on this bill when he, as a Senator, didn´t have to himself.
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Let’s hope the Boston Marathon
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SALON, by David Sirota
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Posted By: STLstudent- 4/17/2013 7:38:32 AM
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As we now move into the official Political Aftermath period of the Boston bombing — the period that will determine the long-term legislative fallout of the atrocity — the dynamics of privilege will undoubtedly influence the nation’s collective reaction to the attacks. That’s because privilege tends to determine: 1) which groups are — and are not — collectively denigrated or targeted for the unlawful actions of individuals; and 2) how big and politically game-changing the overall reaction ends up being.
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CNN: Pressure Cooker Bomb
´Right Wing´ Signature
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Breitbart´s Big Journalism, by Lee Stranahan
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/17/2013 8:56:39 AM
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An article published on CNN´s website makes an unproven claim that pressure cooker bombs like the ones used at the Boston Marathon terror attack are a ´signature´ of ´right-wing extremists.´ The article was co-written by Jennifer Roland and Peter Bergen. Bergen is the CNN ananlyst made the claim that right-wing extremists could be behind the bombing less than two hours after it took place. The article says (emphasis added) :A senior U.S. counterterrorism investigator told CNN that pressure cooker bombs have also been a signature of extreme right-wing individuals in the
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