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Obama signs sequester
order, blames Republicans
over budget impasse

Washington Times, by Dave Boyer

Original Article

Posted By:Dreadnought, 3/1/2013 11:33:55 PM

President Obama signed an order Friday night to begin automatic budget cuts across most federal departments. The White House released a copy of the order at 8:31 p.m. Friday, directing federal agencies to reduce spending in various accounts by percentages calculated by the Office on Management and Budget. After failing to reach a deal with congressional leaders to avoid $85 billion in automatic “sequester” budget cuts, President Obama on Friday blamed the crisis squarely on Republican lawmakers.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: dragon, 3/1/2013 11:45:15 PM     (No. 9203910)

Obviously the devil made him sign it.


Reply 2 - Posted by: lylacat, 3/1/2013 11:49:15 PM     (No. 9203915)

I am so tired of this man; and we still have four more years of him and his "Oh-Look-At-Me" wife. Pathetic.


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: smcchk, 3/1/2013 11:49:17 PM     (No. 9203916)

It takes two to argue, Obama. Didn´t your daddy ever teach you that, whomever he might have been?


Reply 4 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623, 3/2/2013 12:22:27 AM     (No. 9203931)

Does it include parking AF1 and AF2 ?


Reply 5 - Posted by: bubby, 3/2/2013 12:33:50 AM     (No. 9203939)

Will someone me tell which Republican leader made a strong defiante rebuttal to the msm about all his lies? The sequester was his idea, he didn´t want to cut any spending (except the military of course), the "loopholes" are the current tax code written mostly by Democrats, the Democrats are more for the rich than the Republicans on and on. Everything he said was a lie and because of the Republicans silence the lofo voter presumes what he said must be true. Good grief we are so screwed when Obama can say anything he wants any lie without any response from the opposition.


Reply 6 - Posted by: flatwater, 3/2/2013 2:06:19 AM     (No. 9203975)

Wise King Barky is a pathological liar and a malignant narcissist, and desperately needs to consult a psychiatrist for his many mental illnesses....


Reply 7 - Posted by: PoliticalJunky, 3/2/2013 2:43:07 AM     (No. 9203988)

Low information people would not be caught dead reading a conservative newspaper or listening to Fox. My local paper publishes only pro Obama Letters to the Editor. Where would these low info people hear the Republican side, the Washington Times? Not likely. @


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: cincinnati whig, 3/2/2013 2:48:22 AM     (No. 9203991)

In Games People Play, this one´s called Now Look What You Made Me Do.


Reply 9 - Posted by: SpencersMom, 3/2/2013 4:31:24 AM     (No. 9204017)

Why does EVERYTHING go this horrid little man´s way?


Reply 10 - Posted by: bugger, 3/2/2013 5:59:27 AM     (No. 9204059)

I don´t understand why the republicans can´t rebut his lies either. An average second grader, raised by a conservative, certainly could. The "news" on my car radio yesterday was playing a clip of Obama saying that the republicans refused to cut even one corporate loophole. I´m silently screaming "has anyone heard of GE for Pete´s sake"??!! There are many more "favored" companies who pay little to no taxes because they support him. Every day it seems more and more like we´re living in the twilight zone.


Reply 11 - Posted by: provide, 3/2/2013 7:00:59 AM     (No. 9204110)

This is how he will close GITMO. "Republican greed made me do it."


Reply 12 - Posted by: floridagator, 3/2/2013 7:03:10 AM     (No. 9204112)

LOL #5!!! After reading your post, I immediately thought to myself that you probably shouldn´t say that here because you´re supposed to just fall in line like the rest of the Stupid Party followers. Two posts below yours, someone who´s always there to tell people to tow the line had already responded with a pathetic response/excuse that because her paper only publishes pro-Obama letters, there´s nothing the Republicans in Washington could do!!! The Democrats own the lo-fo´s and the Republicans own the stoopid who seem to think they´re experts on everything. Even a lo-fo knows that if you want to get your message out, repeat it ad nauseam everywhere you go. Every Republican in DC needs to repeat the truth about Obama and the sequester to the point of almost being hostile about it. Remember Carville constantly saying, "It´s the economy, stupid!" until he was blue in the face? It worked! What color is the sky, Senator McConnell? Obama is responsible for the sequester. Are you going to play some golf today, Speaker Boehner? Obama is responsible for the sequester. The story in the media that Republicans won´t talk about anything else other than Obama and the sequester would be a major story and would reach the lo-fo. It may even make the letters to the editor in your local newspaper (shaking head). /s


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: TakeBackAmerica, 3/2/2013 7:07:38 AM     (No. 9204116)

On Hannity yesterday, Dr. Carson basically called Zippy a joke.

Yes, election have consequences, but so does impeachment. But do any of our pols in either party have the cojones to label Obama a dictator and Take Back America (to borrow a phrase) while we still can?


Reply 14 - Posted by: baldguy, 3/2/2013 7:26:27 AM     (No. 9204139)

I´d like to see someone like Ted Cruz actually call out the evening news anchors, "Hey Diane Sawyer, what about Facebook paying no taxes?" Hey Brian Williams, where was Obama for twelve hours during Benghazi? Hey George Stephie, is Woodward telling the truth? If so, why no reporting??


Reply 15 - Posted by: udanja99, 3/2/2013 7:40:43 AM     (No. 9204163)

Along with GE, how about zippy´s buddies in Hollywood? Didn´t they just get a huge tax break as part of the "fiscal cliff" deal?


Reply 16 - Posted by: sagman, 3/2/2013 7:42:42 AM     (No. 9204165)

Change of pace: a takeoff of the Dylan Thomas poem, ´´Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night´´ --

Do not march docile to Obama’s beat.
God help us break and thwart the God King’s goal;
Rail, rail against the gall of his conceit.

My friends, all is not lost, though time is fleet;
We must take back from him that which he stole.
Do not march docile to Obama’s beat.

Wise men who stood their ground and bore the heat,
And tried to steer the country ‘round the shoal,
Rail, rail against the gall of his conceit.

Indifferent men who took their pleasures neat
And never dreamed they’d pay the devil’s toll,
Do not march docile to Obama’s beat.

Misguided men who worshipped at his feet,
Those drunk on rule or cozened by the dole:
Rail, rail against the gall of his conceit.

To keep this land, we must together meet
And dedicate ourselves to save its soul
Do not march docile to Obama’s beat;
Rail, rail against the gall of his conceit.

Here are the first three stanzas, then the last of the original:

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.


Reply 17 - Posted by: PoliticalJunky, 3/2/2013 7:43:00 AM     (No. 9204166)

That´s "toe" the line No. 11. It is impossibole to "tow" a line in the sand.

Courtesy of the stupid one.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: PoliticalJunky, 3/2/2013 7:44:55 AM     (No. 9204169)

Sorry. not 11, 12


Reply 19 - Posted by: JAN, 3/2/2013 8:06:26 AM     (No. 9204201)

Lie after lie after lie after lie.

The janitor lie topped them all.

What a pathetic little man he is, our president.

Pity him, for he knows exactly what he is doing and enjoys being the evil doer.


Reply 20 - Posted by: Dodge Boy, 3/2/2013 8:16:28 AM     (No. 9204226)

Obie needs to stew in his own fat for a while on this one. It was his idea from the beginning. Given any combination of reasons that makes us happy, Boehner et al stood their ground.

While I don´t think there is any hope for the LoFos right now to peel the onion and understand what is happening and why it is happening with the federal budget, perhaps others from the left who are willing to open their brain will seek to understand.

While this year´s sequester is peanuts compared to future years, we can only hope that the current event may cause a few folks to wake up. It will also be interesting to see whose pork and wasteful spending gets sequestered.


Reply 21 - Posted by: beca, 3/2/2013 8:42:45 AM     (No. 9204286)

obamas leadership or lack thereof...is a cruel joke...........i cant imagine 4 more of this man....he is evil to the core


Reply 22 - Posted by: stryker714, 3/2/2013 8:47:32 AM     (No. 9204297)

They are going to end the military jet flyovers for sporting events as one of the cuts. That´s a shame as it´s such a rush when those awesome fighters scream by. It reminds of the support Willam Holden had on the ground for a while in "The Bridges of Toko Ri".

´ bet he doesn´t gut military jet flyovers in missing man formation for deceased president funerals, democrat presidents that is.

Surely the NFL would be willing to pick up the gas tab for jets for at least the Superbowl.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: strike3, 3/2/2013 8:53:00 AM     (No. 9204304)

Apparently some posters find it easier to take shots at other posters rather than focus on the heart of the problem, which is exactly how congress has been conducting itself during this sham obama administration. Throwing blame and criticism at the wrong target accomplishes nothing.

Who is to blame for America´s current crisis? We all are. We have been watching the liberals advance their agenda since the sixties. Every time we allowed a town to ban a Christmas display, we have allowed America to slide a little further down the slope. Every time we gave up a few more rights to the EPA or watched the NEA turn our schools into indoctrination camps, or allowed trusted judges, politicians or cops avoid prison for betraying that trust, we were complicit because we did not protest loudly. There is only one way out of this mess and that´s by working together. We don´t have to put up with gun grabs, vote buying, legal theft from our treasury, abusive government or reckless, wasteful spending because we hold the power, not obama and not his puppet masters. How far do we need to be pushed?


Reply 24 - Posted by: LZK, 3/2/2013 8:54:03 AM     (No. 9204307)

Awwwwwww -- what´s the matter? You have to "cut back" like all the rest of US -- as WE try and fill our tanks and buy food....

Awwwwwww -- poor baby....

LZK


Reply 25 - Posted by: Tianne, 3/2/2013 8:54:55 AM     (No. 9204308)

The President´s dishonest handling of this situation is disgusting but apparently effective. Have already heard from a female relative that, "health costs and health insurance costs are going to go sky high because those Republicans won´t meet President Obama half way on the sequester". I asked her if she´s maybe confusing the sequester situation with Obamacare. She said, "you´re just like those Republicans - always changing the subject to get away with being only for the rich".

My gosh! What are people drinking in the water out there??


Reply 26 - Posted by: bifgroovey, 3/2/2013 9:00:41 AM     (No. 9204316)

As Krauthahamer points out, "In 2011 Government Accountability Office report gave a sampling of the vastness of what could be cut, consolidated and rationalized in Washington: 44 overlapping job training programs, 18 for nutrition assistance, 82 (!) on teacher quality, 56 dealing with financial literacy, more than 20 for homelessness, etc. Total annual cost: $100 billion-$200 billion, about two to five times the entire domestic sequester."


Reply 27 - Posted by: fembot, 3/2/2013 9:11:10 AM     (No. 9204329)

Actions speak louder than words (even words trumpeted in the LoFo media). I know of one federal agency, which shall remain nameless, which released a list of job classifications whose salaries are to be cut. All but one of those jobs are currently paid at the GS-4 to GS-9 ($24,518 to $41,563 per year) level. I guess these are the "rich" O wants to soak. Those paid more are to be left untouched.

Tell me again that O stands for the little guy? Two words: Bravo Sierra.


Reply 28 - Posted by: pineledger, 3/2/2013 9:15:58 AM     (No. 9204341)

Blamer-in-Chief in action.


Reply 29 - Posted by: owl, 3/2/2013 9:24:40 AM     (No. 9204353)

King NotMe has a plan and it´s working . He´s taken his agenda ´ to the people ´ , avoided congress and has already assured the Sheep his last four years of failure ( the sequester ´ cuts´ ) were the GOP´s fault . He has LoFo´s eating it up . His real target is the house in 2014 . If that is accomplished , our trip to serfdom may be irreversible .


Reply 30 - Posted by: Rinktum, 3/2/2013 9:30:53 AM     (No. 9204357)

Where is the Republican rebuttal to all of Obama´s lies? I keep waiting to see ads on TV that will tell us the truth. Do we have no strategists? Is the RNC broke? Or are the Republicans content to take the blame like an abused woman? This is truly pathetic. We send you to Washington and this is what we get as representation? Get off your duffs and make some noise. Obama will not stop with the blame game. It is part of his strategy and it will work if he is not confronted. He is waging war against the Republican Party and winning. We have no warriors on our side who have the courage to stand up and speak the truth.

Obama will do and say anything to achieve his goals. We know the media will support and protect him. That leaves one option. Go on the offense straight to the people. Put some ads on TV. Go on a media blitz. Quit saving the money for re-election because if Obama is not challenged and is able to put the blame on Republicans, he wins and the country is lost. How´s that for a Republican legacy?


Reply 31 - Posted by: chicodon, 3/2/2013 9:44:34 AM     (No. 9204384)

If Republicans EVER intend to get their message out they will have to take a cue from Rush Limbaugh. "For the first time in my life I´m ashamed of my country." It takes an inflammatory statement like that for a conservative to get the media´s attention.

In Rush´s case they all ran to his website to read the transcript of his show. In it they learned about baseline budgeting and how we would still be spending billions over last year AFTER the sequester. The next day many in the media were changing their tune.

Boehner tried it with telling the Senate to get off of their !@#. He got print but he didn´t followup. If I were them, I´d hire Sarah Palin as a consultant. She´s a master at getting the media´s attention.


Reply 32 - Posted by: Dragonslayer2, 3/2/2013 9:45:07 AM     (No. 9204386)

I feel trapped here. Haven´t tried my front door this morning to see if the paper is out there. Prolly not.


Reply 33 - Posted by: bigken2, 3/2/2013 9:53:56 AM     (No. 9204405)

i see this pres as my 3 year old grandson throwing a fit when he does not get what he wants


Reply 34 - Posted by: oh-heck, 3/2/2013 10:12:06 AM     (No. 9204442)

The sequester was signed into law almost 2 years ago. So what really was signed last night? Did anyone in the press actually look to see? What got posted onto the White House site?


Reply 35 - Posted by: Zumkopf, 3/2/2013 10:18:03 AM     (No. 9204452)

A petty point, but illustrative of the man, I think: Obama, FTA: “We will get through this. This is not going to be an apocalypse, I think, as some people have said."

"[A]s SOME people have said"? Uh, wasn´t OBAMA the one railing over and over how this was going to be an apocalypse?


Reply 36 - Posted by: 4freedom, 3/2/2013 10:25:35 AM     (No. 9204465)

The lowfo´s must be eating this up this total nonsense, the dictator´s approval rating is at 55%.


Reply 37 - Posted by: Chuzzles, 3/2/2013 10:28:30 AM     (No. 9204469)

Thank you sagman. That was wonderful. That poem reminds me of that scene in the movie Back to School where when the teacher finishes reading the poem, she then asks Rodney Dangerfield what it all means and he shouts, Don´t take cr*p from anybody!

Anyway, this is one of your best posts. Thanks.


Reply 38 - Posted by: starboard, 3/2/2013 10:30:34 AM     (No. 9204472)

Let´s face it, he´s a bad apple. However, I believe he´s already in the process of self destructing and starting to fall off his high (Styrofoam pedestal) horse.

We know how he reacts to unfavorable criticism and this is why we need to keep him off balance and on the defensive, not only will he create an everlasting ugly impression into the American consciousness, but also, at some point will make a blunder that will become the last straw and finally stick and forever identify him as the worse president in the history of this country.

Have faith folks remember, and let´s not give up the ship for this rotten apple.


Reply 39 - Posted by: rplat, 3/2/2013 10:32:47 AM     (No. 9204476)

Let´s get a few things straight. The "sequester" was Obama´s brainchild, it was his idea and it was set as a condition for continuation of the Bush tax cuts. Furthermore, because it was the only means of keeping taxes lower, the Republicans acquiesced. Then, Obama signed it into law. Attempting to blame it on the Republicans is the pinnacle of hypocrisy and deceit. Only those with limited intellect or a distorted sense of reasoning could possibly believe the nonsense being peddled by Obama and his minions.


Reply 40 - Posted by: BuckeyeRon, 3/2/2013 10:44:46 AM     (No. 9204506)

#5, 12 and others are getting at the core of the GOP problem…We are not taking advantage of the media focus on budget cuts to shine a light on the overall budget, budget waste, and lies associated with Obama’s cuts...232 congressmen and 45 senators are Republican, with each sitting on one or more committees having so-called oversight of some government operation, means 277 spokespersons, 45 with statewide a statewide media megaphone and 232 with as megaphone in the media markets encompassing their districts...hold budget cut oversight hearing each day, calling in department/agency heads to testify and make them state publicly what they are sequestering and why and highlight other wasteful programs in their units…take the millions the RNC and congressional and senatorial committees have and do adds to highlight waste documented in these hearings...let this continue through the next manufactured crisis, the Continuing Resolution due for debate at the end of March...


Reply 41 - Posted by: Arby, 3/2/2013 10:45:00 AM     (No. 9204507)

His tombstone will read:

"It was someone else´s fault."


Reply 42 - Posted by: Butch59, 3/2/2013 10:55:36 AM     (No. 9204528)

Since those of us here at LCom know darn well that there is NO cuts in the budget but simply a reduction of the planed INCREASE in spending due to baseline budgeting, I wonder what Obozo and his cohorts in the WH are going to say when it turns out that nobody looses his/her job, that people are going to starve, etc. And when they do make drastic cuts in high visible areas, how are they going to explain where the extra money in the Treasury came from? Should be an interesting next few weeks.


Reply 43 - Posted by: roger h. cook,MD, 3/2/2013 10:58:36 AM     (No. 9204535)

isn´t this blame game getting old? Next he and the commie dems will attack the oppisitions character and denegrate them SOP of the commes.


Reply 44 - Posted by: globalwarmer, 3/2/2013 11:11:29 AM     (No. 9204558)

Budget cuts "blamed" on Republicans? I´ll gladly accept that and proudly proclaim my culpability!


Reply 45 - Posted by: shrugger, 3/2/2013 11:38:58 AM     (No. 9204612)

To #13...
I saw Dr Carlson w/ Hannity as well.Everything he said was positive, but I also got a feeling...
The feeling that the Doctor doesn´t recognise evil...in men.
Something along the lines of Mitt.

I DO so much want that feeling to go away.


Reply 46 - Posted by: broken01, 3/2/2013 11:46:55 AM     (No. 9204625)

I´m surprised the idiot didn´t blame President Bush.


Reply 47 - Posted by: geoman, 3/2/2013 12:24:19 PM     (No. 9204711)

Re: #23 - This is the real bottom line. Too many conservative citizens still believe the MSM would dutifully report republican rebuttals as if they were "the Press" of the late 1700s. With the MSM being nothing more than an organ of the progressive regime, citizens really have no idea who is saying what in DC. One thing is certain and that is the majority of legal US citizens appear content to grouse about the growing illegality of the regime but are in no way taking to the streets or otherwise putting their lives on the line as did the Founders. The same folks declaring the 2012 election to be stolen still believe the political process is otherwise intact and their elected republican congressmen should be seen on the nightly news fighting for what is good and proper. If the election were stolen and the MSM is fully in the tank, then you have no true "political" recourse. The only option is seemingly unthinkable since no one within the conservative majority of legal US citizens appears up for open rebellion.


Reply 48 - Posted by: LC Hoghead, 3/2/2013 12:45:05 PM     (No. 9204748)

OBAMA
He so Loved the poor,
he created MILLIONS More


Reply 49 - Posted by: maryc, 3/2/2013 1:03:13 PM     (No. 9204783)

Obama is a facade. A Nothing. Who does nothing good and will leave us all with nothing. Not even our good health. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing .


Reply 50 - Posted by: Lonestar Jack, 3/2/2013 5:08:04 PM     (No. 9205066)

Is a LOINFO voter the same as a LOW INTELLIGENCE VOTER and are they both democrates?


Reply 51 - Posted by: philemon1967, 3/2/2013 8:06:55 PM     (No. 9205243)

Henceforth, we dub thee O´blamo.

pResident O´blamo is not unlike the abusive husband who says, after beating up his wife, "Now look what you made me do". He is nothing but a narcissistic bully who is really a coward down inside.

Despite his bluster, he will make no decision that he cannot lay blame elsewhere when that decision turns out to be wrong. Therefore, his subordinates resort to bullying tactics in order to carry out his wishes because they know he won´t hesitate to throw them under the bus if they fail him in any way.


Reply 52 - Posted by: migtex2, 3/2/2013 8:12:02 PM     (No. 9205255)

ALWAYS = someone else at fault...
Poor, poor man, NEVER accepts responsiblilty...


Reply 53 - Posted by: get er done, 3/2/2013 9:13:17 PM     (No. 9205303)

I usually hit the mute button when I see Oblamo´s face on Fox, however, I forced myself to listen to his crapola on the sequester, and it amounted to an undignified
"boo hoo" and "the Wepublicans made me do it."

I do not know how 0 holds his head up in public -- any respectable person would be filled with shame.



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Today’s Benghazi hearing had many dramatic moments and added significantly to our knowledge of that disaster. For example, we now know that there were multiple instances when special ops would-be rescuers were told to stand down, leading Lt. Col. Gibson to tell Greg Hicks, “This is the first time in my career that a diplomat has more balls than somebody in the military.” Obvious questions remain to be answered: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton hide behind the military, saying or implying that doing nothing to try to save the besieged Americans in Benghazi

Hillary Hasn’t Heard
the End of Benghazi
Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/8/2013 10:49:47 PM     Post Reply
Democrats arrived at the House Oversight Committee’s hearing on the Benghazi terror attack determined to defend the reputation of the person that most believe will be their presidential candidate in 2016. Ranking member Elijah Cummings and his colleagues thundered at Chair Darrel Issa and any other Republican who dared to raise questions about the way the State Department responded not only to the attack but also to questions about the aftermath, determined to cast the entire event as a partisan ambush. But the testimony of the three whistleblowers overshadowed their complaints

Benghazi Hearing Aims to Reveal
High Level Decision-Makers
Breitbart´s Big Peace, by Kerry Picket    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/8/2013 8:28:16 AM     Post Reply
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee say there will be “explosive” revelations that will come forth during the Committee’s hearing on Wednesday when three State Department witnesses reveal what they knew the night the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya were attacked by terrorists. Committee members will be hearing the testimonies of State Department employees Greg Hicks, Mark Thompson, and Eric Nordstrom. The Committee appears to be interested in finding out who ultimately made the decision to tell military assets not to send help



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Republican probe of Benghazi
attacks turns to Hillary Clinton

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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 6:52:16 AM     Post Reply
Republican lawmakers, who have spent months seeking to tie President Obama to last year’s deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, are increasingly focusing their probe on a new target: former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton. The GOP-led investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, assaults that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others now centers heavily on the State Department and whether officials there deliberately misled the public about the nature of the assault. Three State Department officials are scheduled to testify before a House committee on Wednesday about the Benghazi attack and its aftermath.

White House struggles to respond
to new Benghazi revelations

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Washington Times, by Susan Crabtree    Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/8/2013 11:24:14 PM     Post Reply
The White House on Wednesday stood by its story that the Obama administration remained unsure exactly who was responsible for the attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi nearly five days after it occurred even though new revelations show Ansar al-Sharia’s direct involvement. Gregory Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya and a self-described whistleblower, testified before a Congressional committee Wednesday that the body of Ambassador J. Christpher Stevens was missing for hours during the attack after being dragged out of the diplomatic post in Benghazi.

A new ‘Dawn’ at ABC:
Newsman becomes newswoman

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New York Post, by Tara Palmeri    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:26:11 AM     Post Reply
Top ABC News editor Don Ennis walked into his Manhattan office on Friday in a “little black dress” and a brunette bobbed wig and announced to colleagues that from now on, he would like to be known as Dawn. The 49-year-old father of three said he’s splitting from his wife of 17 years to become a woman, or Dawn Stacey Ennis, as she is now known on her governmental records. “Today I begin anew,” she wrote on her Facebook timeline, where she debuted a flirty new profile picture. “Please understand: This is not a game of

Dem Congressman At Benghazi
Hearing: "Death Is A Part Of Life"

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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/8/2013 2:27:15 PM     Post Reply
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, tells Benghazi witnesses that "death is a part of life." CUMMINGS: And, as I listen to your testimony I could not help but think of something that I said very recently -- two years ago now -- in a eulogy for a relative. I said that death is a part of life, so often we have to find a way to make life a part of death. And, I guess the reason why I´m saying that, going back to something Mr. Nordstrom said, he wanted,

Latino student group says eating
tacos is offensive to Mexicans

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Daily Caller [Washington DC], by Robby Soave    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/9/2013 6:12:54 PM     Post Reply
Northwestern University continued to stumble over diversity issues this week as Mexican students voiced disagreement with a campuswide letter that advised students not to celebrate Cinco de Mayo by engaging in racially-offensive activities, such as eating tacos and drinking tequila. The letter was sent to students via e-mail, and published in The Daily Northwestern last week. Leaders of Alianza, a Latino student group, and the Associated Student Government called on students to remember that Cinco de Mayo commemorates Mexico’s victory over France in the Battle of Puebla. It is not a day to throw a sombrero-themed party, they said.

Benghazi: Incompetence,
but no cover-up

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National Journal, by Michael Hirsh    Original Article
Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/8/2013 6:04:54 PM     Post Reply
There was tragic incompetence, plainly, in the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks, and even possibly some political calculation. It is a record that may well come to haunt Hillary Clinton, the first Secretary of State to lose an ambassador in the field in more than three decades, if she runs for president in 2016. But the obvious Republican effort to turn this inquiry into the Democratic (Obama) version of the Iraq intelligence scandal that has tarred the GOP since the George W. Bush years -- led by that least-credible of champions, the almost-always-wrong Darrell Issa --

Stephen Hawking backs
boycott of Israeli academics

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Associated Press, by Gregory Katz and Aron Heller    Original Article
Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/8/2013 12:08:27 PM     Post Reply
British physicist Stephen Hawking has dropped plans to attend a major international conference in Israel in June, citing his belief that he should respect a Palestinian call to boycott contacts with Israeli academics. The University of Cambridge released a statement Wednesday indicating that Hawking had told the Israelis last week that he would not be attending "based on advice from Palestinian academics that he should respect the boycott." University officials said they had "previously understood" that Hawking´s decision was based solely on health concerns — he is 71 and has severe disabilities — but had now been told otherwise by Hawking´s office.

The High Cost of Rush: Talker
Bleeds Millions From His Carriers
as Toxic Talk Slumps, Cumulus Seems
Set to Part Ways With Rush Limbaugh

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Daily Beast, by John Avlon    Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/8/2013 5:41:29 AM     Post Reply
“We´ve had a tough go of it this last year,” Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey said Tuesday morning. “The facts are indisputable regarding the impact certain things have had on ad dollars." Dickey told analysts on the earnings call that his radio empire’s revenue was down $5.6 million in the first quarter of 2013 on top of a boatload of debt. Why? Parse the weasel words (“the impact of certain things”) and you’ll see that Dickey is blaming one man for the precipitous decline of right-wing talk radio’s profitability: Rush Limbaugh. El Rushbo is still a giant in the industry,

Fox Analyst Shreds ‘Cowardly,
Duplicitous’ Admin Over Benghazi:
‘Sacrificed American Lives For Politics’

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Mediaite, by Meenal Vamburkar    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:47:07 AM     Post Reply
Ahead of the Benghazi hearings in which three witnesses are set to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade invited Fox News analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters to discuss the issue. Peters was unflinching in his criticism of the “cowardly” Obama administration — and the “establishment media” that aids it. “Is this a national security coverup?” Kilmeade asking, explaining that the witness testimony is expected to say the administration was deceitful in its handling of the situation. “The administration, facing the election, went into panic mode, wanted to contain it,”

Did Beck Cross the Line? Yes.
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Commentary, by Jeffrey S. Tobin    Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/9/2013 6:28:23 AM     Post Reply
Fans of Glenn Beck are complaining about what I wrote yesterday about his speech at the National Rifle Association convention, where he used a giant image of Michael Bloomberg photoshopped into what appeared to be an image of Hitler with his arm raised in a Nazi salute and wearing an armband. The Beck crowd now tells me that it wasn’t Hitler’s picture into which the New York mayor was transposed but that of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin. They say that means I owe Beck an apology along with the Anti-Defamation League and others who were also outraged by it.

John McCain Wants to
Blow Up The Cable Industry
As We Know It

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Business Insider, by Jay Yarow    Original Article
Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/9/2013 1:19:00 PM     Post Reply
John McCain is going to release a bill that would dismantle cable as it´s currently constructed, Brenden Sasso at The Hill reports. The legislation would force cable companies and satellite TV providers to give consumers an option to pick and choose which channels they get. This is called "à la carte programming," and it´s long been a dream of consumers who only want a handful of channels. McCain tried to introduce similar legislation in 2006 and it went nowhere.

Benghazi Eight Months Later
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National Review Online, by Ted Cruz    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 5/8/2013 8:09:28 PM     Post Reply
On September 11, 2012, terrorists attacked our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and murdered four Americans, including our ambassador. Eight months later, we have learned some of what happened, but many questions remain.(Snip)What we do know leads to the inescapable impression that before, during, and after the Benghazi attacks, there was confusion and paralysis at the Department of Defense, the Department of State, and the White House.


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