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Obama is AWOL on the Budget, Again
Powerline, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By:Ruhn, 3/9/2013 4:12:18 PM
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| Civil War officers used to say that you can’t lead from the rear. Thousands of them gave their lives, leading their men the only way they knew how. No one asks Barack Obama to give up more than an occasional game of golf, but he still can’t bring himself to lead. In one of his administration’s many low moments, a White House aide explained Obama’s style as “leading from behind,” as though he were proud of it. The budget is a typical case in point. After four long years, Senate Democrats have finally been shamed into obeying the law and producing a budget. Patty Murray, the new chairman
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
SteelTurman, 3/9/2013 4:51:51 PM (No. 9217113)
He is lazy in all things including his thinking.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Spidey, 3/9/2013 5:11:46 PM (No. 9217127)
Obama´s nothing more than a political operative who has the benefit of big money backers and an adoring media. We can´t crack that nut,no matter what we do. He also has the invisible shield of racial protection around him and a terrible public education that´s cranking out dysfunctional suckers. We´re throwing tons of student loan money at people who can´t read. How many sane people would do that? It´s all designed to create the culture of collectivism.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DW626, 3/9/2013 5:19:02 PM (No. 9217135)
Budget?! i don´t have a budget!!...I don´t have to show you a stinking budget!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
steveracer, 3/9/2013 5:26:31 PM (No. 9217144)
The writers at PowerLine are always clueless joes. Babes in the woods. Dupes, almost. They ask why would Obama want to be president, when it is clear he has no knack or desire to lead. You idiots, he wants the power!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston, 3/9/2013 5:39:16 PM (No. 9217161)
It´s beyond bad that Bsrry the Fraud has attained the position of pResident. The last thing I want him to do is lead.
Just submit the budget. It´s going to get voted own 98-0 anyway.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals, 3/9/2013 6:05:26 PM (No. 9217201)
Mr. Hinderaker is mistaken about the Senate. They are not shamed; they have no shame. They simply got tired of waiting for Stupid to get on the stick and get the job done.
They are still waiting... waiting... waiting...
FOUR!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
wsdiego, 3/9/2013 7:56:16 PM (No. 9217322)
A pimp take the money while others do the work!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
nonsense, 3/9/2013 9:06:36 PM (No. 9217363)
He didn´t really want the job, Soros bought it for him and expected "great things". I think Soros should ask for his money back, in fact maybe he has.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 3/10/2013 12:45:28 AM (No. 9217514)
´Civil War officers used to say that you can’t lead from the rear"
They were a smart group.
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When Hope Tramples Truth
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Posted By: Ruhn- 3/27/2013 11:08:40 AM
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Apollo granted to his Trojan priestess Cassandra the gift of prophecy. But because she resisted his advances he punished her by ensuring that nobody would ever believe what she said. Such has been the fate of pessimists down the ages. Those who interrupt the good cheer of their fellows with the thought that the things about which they are all agreed might go badly wrong are either dismissed as madmen or condemned as fools.
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Obama is AWOL on the Budget, Again
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Powerline, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: Ruhn- 3/9/2013 4:12:18 PM
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Civil War officers used to say that you can’t lead from the rear. Thousands of them gave their lives, leading their men the only way they knew how. No one asks Barack Obama to give up more than an occasional game of golf, but he still can’t bring himself to lead. In one of his administration’s many low moments, a White House aide explained Obama’s style as “leading from behind,” as though he were proud of it. The budget is a typical case in point. After four long years, Senate Democrats have finally been shamed into obeying the law and producing a budget. Patty Murray, the new chairman
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Newt Gingrich:
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Posted By: Ruhn- 3/1/2013 1:09:58 PM
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Newt Gingrich met yesterday with some Republican Congressional staffers and gave them the memo below, which I obtained from a Congressional aide. It lays out Newt’s assessment of where the Democratic and Republican parties stand today. Much of it will seem familiar to readers of this site, but Newt sets forth the facts–many of them grim–with his customary panache. This is obviously a big topic, and I have just a few comments on Newt’s memo which I will save until the end. Here it is: (snip) Key principle: Someone playing chess will always beat someone playing tic tac toe.
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National Journal, by Ron Fournier
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Posted By: Ruhn- 2/28/2013 2:15:18 PM
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The fight between the White House and journalistic legend Bob Woodward is a silly distraction to a major problem: The failure of President Obama and House Republicans to lead the country under a budget deadline. Woodward-gate is a distraction the White House welcomed, even encouraged, as part of a public-relations strategy to emasculate the GOP and anybody else who challenges Obama. It is a distraction that briefly enveloped my reporting last weekend, when I essentially broke ties with a senior White House official.
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Posted By: Ruhn- 2/27/2013 1:13:28 PM
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From William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection, we learn about the case of Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their children: The Romeikes are devout Christians from Germany who wanted to homeschool their children because of what they perceived as the secularist agenda in German public schools. In the United States, the right to homeschool ones’ own children is accepted, although frequently mocked by the left. The homeschoool movement is thriving in the United States, but in Germany it is illegal, a holdover from Nazi-era law.
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I have it on excellent authority that, with the sequester looming, House Republicans will pass a bill to provide the various federal departments and agencies with the power to prioritize where cuts go in each organization. The total amount of cuts within a department or agency would be the same, but the cuts could be made on a more rational basis. (snip) It has two virtues. From a policy standpoint, it will improve the sequester (if that’s what we end up with) by making it less of a blunt instrument. From a political standpoint, it improves the Republicans position.
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Posted By: Ruhn- 2/13/2013 5:13:59 PM
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Of course there’s State of the Union reaction and Rubio-mania in the Morning Jolt, but also an examination of the economic truths you didn’t hear last night, and probably won’t hear from an elected official for a while (snip) Okay, forget what the president said. Why has hiring been so sluggish since the Great Recession began? I’m going to look at a post from Zero Hedge, an economics-minded blog that it always interesting and sometimes understandable. Charles Hugh-Smith argues: Those who have spent their careers in government or academia have little idea what it takes to hire more people.
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National Review Online, by Daniel Foster
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Democrats Seek the Holy Grail
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Posted By: Ruhn- 12/27/2012 12:37:13 PM
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Dianne Feinstein has announced that she will introduce sweeping gun control legislation in the Senate. Under her bill, countless standard handguns apparently would now be banned, and for the first time a federal register that may include many millions of gun owners, fingerprinted and photographed, would be created. (snip) There is a great deal to be said about this, and much that is still not known, such as the identification of the 120 firearms that are to be specifically banned, or the 900 that are to be exempted.
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Posted By: Ruhn- 11/6/2012 8:52:46 AM
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Posted By: Ruhn- 11/1/2012 10:03:00 AM
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I am voting for Romney and against Obama. (Not that anyone should care, especially. But opinion-giving is part of what I do.) I thought I would list my reasons. I will not list all of them, but some of them — certainly the basics. I will first say why I will vote for Romney. And then say why I’ll vote against O. Here we go. I’m voting for Romney because he’s a good and decent man (as far as I can tell). An exceptionally good and decent man. (Though politics brings out elbows, to be sure. So does business.)
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Get ready for the last straw. First, though, I´d like to suggest that anyone reading this column in a local newspaper or news site pat the editor on the back for publishing what in our neo-medieval world of fear amounts to a forbidden column. Yup, I am about to say something about the Great Barack Obama Identity/Eligibility Scandal again. I know that this is one rich and urgent topic that doesn´t see the light of day in certain so-called news outlets -- and I say that from the experience of watching my own syndicated columns
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SANFORD - Trayvon Martin´s parents have settled a wrongful death claim for an amount believed to be more than $1 million against the homeowners association of the Sanford subdivision where their teenage son was killed. Their attorney, Benjamin Crump, filed that paperwork at the Seminole County Courthouse, a portion of which was made public today. In the five pages of the settlement that were available for public review, the settlement amount had been marked out. Lower in the agreement, the parties specified that they would keep that amount confidential. When asked during an earlier interview whether the amount was
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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Obama Budget to Cap Retirement
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would limit an individual’s total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per
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