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-Short Attention Span Theater-
The Greatest Sequester Lie of All: We’ve Already Saved $84 Billion!
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/01/2013 08:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Next greatest lie as presented today to the White House Press Corpse:

This sequester [miniscule reduction in gov't spending] will negatively effect the economy.
- Our Champ
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/01/2013 12:24 Comments || Top||

#2  This is the Greatest Sequester lie of all. I was pondering: "What was the greatest lie of all?"
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/01/2013 12:33 Comments || Top||

#3  Maxine Waters claiming the sequester will eliminate 170 million jobs when there are only 134 million people employed?
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/01/2013 12:39 Comments || Top||

#4  If one of the 170 million includes her job, it might be worthy of the loss.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/01/2013 12:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Maxine Waters claiming the sequester will eliminate 170 million jobs when there are only 134 million people employed?

"See? That's how awful this sequester will be! You lose 1.5 jobs for every 1 employed!"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/01/2013 13:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Obviously Maxine counts Welfare moochers as 'employed'. I guess they are employed as 'voters'....
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/01/2013 14:07 Comments || Top||

#7  I missed this one; admittedly my Mayan headdress does slip over my eyes every time I duck.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/01/2013 15:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Dispatches from Sequesteria

Posted by: Beavis || 03/01/2013 15:58 Comments || Top||

#9  LUCIANNE > [BBC] OBAMA SIGNS SWEEPING US BUDGET CUTS INTO EFFECT.

versus

* SAME > [Daily Mail.UK]PRESIDENT OBAMA SAYS US$85.0BILYUHN IN SPENDING CUTS WILL KICK IN FRIDAY AS [US GOP-DEM] LEADERS FAIL TO TO COMPROMISE ON REPLACEMENT PLAN.

* STARS-N-STRIPES > MILITARY SAYS CONGRESS MUST END SEQUESTER.

* SAME > [Panetta] "SEQUESTER IMPACT NOT IMMEDIATE". [USDOD] SERVICES SAY TRAINING WILL BE REDUCED , MAINTENANCE DELAYED.

* SAME > PACIFIC GIRDS FOR SEQUESTRATION IMPACT, LEADERS IN JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA WARN OF CHANGES IFF CUTS GO THROUGH.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US BUDGET CUTS COULD HURT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S "PIVOT" TO ASIA [Asia-Pacific] - THE ECONOMIC TIMES [IndIa Times].

versus

* WAFF > AMERICANS FEAR US WILL END UP LIKE GREECE | [Time.com] ASK THE EXPERT; WHEN WILL FEDERAL DEBT CRISIS CAUSE A GREECE-LIKE CRISIS IN THE US!?

ADVANTAGE = Rising China [vs Japan in NE Asia], + Nuke-wannabe Rising Iran + Hard/Burqua Boyz.

JAPAN + other US Allies in East Asia must be twiddling their thumbs over whether the US = POTUS Bammer + USDOD will be there to back them up.

US Govt. Spending Authority will suppos end in late March 2013 - I could be wrong, BUT I DON'T FORESEE ANY GOP-DEM COMPROMISE ON
"SEQUESTRATION" THEN EITHER???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/01/2013 22:52 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Michigan Governor clears way for Detroit takover
Posted by: mom || 03/01/2013 16:02 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  [Michigan Governor Rick] Snyder would not identify the top candidate to run Detroit or say whether the person was from Michigan. Some residents and restructuring experts have said he should name an African-American to manage the city, which is 83 percent black.

There's a former Congressman (D-IL) who became available recently...
Posted by: Pappy || 03/01/2013 17:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Put the whole mess up for sale on craigslist and eBay. Bulldoze the rest.

"It don't take a genius to know what this is all about," said Lewis, who is black. "They want our money and our land. No one cares about us. And we're the ones who stuck around. Not the white folks."

Dude, you guys don't have any money and your land is 'invested' in vacant lots, abandoned houses and derelict factories. The operative word here is 'bankrupt'.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/01/2013 18:24 Comments || Top||

#3  "They want our money and our land. No one cares about us. And we're the ones who stuck around. Not the white folks."

Must be of the same stock of white folk who didn't stick around Europe before it decided to implode and burn in the human carnage of WWI and WWII.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/01/2013 19:38 Comments || Top||

#4  The emergency manager will eventually have strong powers to develop a financial plan, revise or reject city budgets, consolidate departments, reduce or eliminate the salaries of elected officials, sell eligible assets, lay off workers and renegotiate labor contracts.

Sounds like a job for this guy... Well maybe not.

Posted by: junkiron || 03/01/2013 20:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Must be of the same stock of white folk who didn't stick around Europe before it decided to implode and burn

Wasn't just the (raciss!) white folks, although they left when the gittin' was good. They were followed by a large cohort of middle class blacks who were accused of "not giving back to the community" (because black folks can't be racist. and don't ask me to explain this. the answer will make your head hurt)
Posted by: SteveS || 03/01/2013 23:20 Comments || Top||


Government
Dig deeper for smokes in Cook County
[Chicago Tribune] On the eve of a $1-per-pack Cook County cigarette tax increase, County Board President Toni Preckwinkle stood in the glow of X-rays showing damaged lungs, surrounded by some of Stroger Hospital's top pulmonary specialists as she discussed how smoking shortens people's lives.

The setting and talking points made clear the message Preckwinkle wanted to convey Thursday: This is a public health problem, one she plans to fight by giving smokers an incentive to quit and teens a reason not to start.

But the county's tax increase is more than just a campaign to protect people from emphysema and lung cancer. Preckwinkle is counting on $25.6 million this year from the move to help balance the budget. The history of cigarette tax increases suggests the county will be lucky to get that much in 2013 and should expect diminishing returns in the years ahead.

Smokes are a financial well that public officials have gone to repeatedly to shore up shaky finances at the local and state level. When the county tax increase takes effect Friday, a pack of cigarettes purchased in Chicago will come with $6.67 tacked on by the city, county and state. That's just behind New York City's nation-leading $6.86 in taxes per pack. It will also push the cost of a pack of cigarettes in Chicago to as much as $11.

Recent cigarette tax increases have had only a short-term benefit to the government bottom line. Some people quit, while others buy cigarettes online or outside the county or state.

When the county last raised the cigarette tax -- by $1 per pack in 2006 -- collections initially shot up by $46.5 million, hitting $203.7 million, county records show. But by 2009, the county collected $20.4 million less than it had in 2005.

Mayor Richard M. Daley bumped up the city of Chicago's share of the cigarette tax by 32 cents in 2005 and another 20 cents in 2006, to 68 cents per pack. He saw collections rise from $15.6 million in 2004 to $32.9 million in 2006, according to a city report. But city cigarette tax revenue fell to $28.4 million in 2007, and continued dropping to $18.7 million by 2011, records show.
(Disclaimer: I smoked like a leaky furnace for 45 years, cigarettes and later a pipe. And I enjoyed it. I quit when my Doc told me I had emphysema and the pulmonary lab proved it to me. That was 6 1/2 years ago.)

This is where it all started. Smoking has bad effects on your health. This is not a new discovery. When I was a little kid, back in the Upper Pleistocene, my grandmother used to take me to the zoo to get me out of my poor old mother's hair. I had to ask her about the meaning of one of the signs: "Please do not throw cancer sticks to the monkeys."

Back in those days everybody smoked. Rich folks used cigarette holders, tough guys smoked filterless Camels or Lucky Strikes, manly men smoked Marlboros or Winstons. Ladies smoked skinny Eves. Blacks, for some reason I've never fathomed, smoked Salems or Kools. As far as I know, people weren't dropping like flies from lung cancer, though I admit that the rate of deaths from lung cancer has gone down--according to published reports--since the smoking Nazis got their jackboot in the door.

But the death rate's beside the point. Did the government have any right to kill off the tobacco industry? If you concede that they did, then you have to concede that they do for all the subsequent campaigns against whatever some Puritan doesn't like or thinks is bad for you. Permissible blood alcohol levels have been lower, so you can be convicted of DUI after three drinks. You're too fat, so the government can tell you what not to put in your mouth. Nanny Bloomberg can tell the entire city of New York what they can have with a pizza delivery, and is looking closely at the very idea of pizza.

It comes back to that idea of free speech and defending to the death someone else's right to say something you don't agree with. Included among the penumbrae and emanations is the idea of being left the hell alone.

Not that many people smoke anymore. More and more taxes are heaped upon those who do, the idea being to tax the habit out of existence. The individual states have sued the tobacco companies and split that boodle among themselves, the money going to "treat smoking related disease." The combination of taxes, indoctrination, ostracization, and pictures of tarry lungs has reduced the smoking population dramatically. Who says social engineering doesn't work?

The people who're still smoking tend to be the people who can't afford to spend anywhere from $5 to $10 a pack for gaspers. So there goes the grocery money, or the money for shoes for the kids.
Posted by: Fred || 03/01/2013 11:26 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you concede that they did, then you have to concede that they do for all the subsequent campaigns against whatever some Puritan doesn't like or thinks is bad for you.

Like crippling taxes on ammo or requiring unbelievable amounts of liability insurance to own a gun.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/01/2013 12:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Did the government have any right to kill off the tobacco industry?

Interesting question really. Does the government have the right to outlaw cocaine, heroin and marijuana? How about crystal meth? Oh, here's a new one: Oxycontin. Can you tell young men under the age of 21 they can't have a beer but they can fight, kill and die in places like Afghanistan? Where do you draw the line? My own personal opinion is this country is toast if we all start smoking pot. But then, if we as a nation decide to do that, it's a matter of personal choice that should not be denied to us, right?

As far as health consequences are concerned, I don't see much difference between tobacco, marijuana, heroin or cocaine. If you're going to outlaw one the logical thing to do would be to outlaw all of them. Tobacco just got kind of grandfathered in there is all.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/01/2013 12:28 Comments || Top||

#3  But don't you dare touch my whiskey.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/01/2013 12:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Dig deeper for legal smokes. Somehow I'm thinking there will be lower priced smokes available from a car trunk near you.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 03/01/2013 13:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Smoking rates are just under 20% now for our country, down from about 33% twenty years ago.

I'm a lung doc -- you can guess what I think of smoking.

Raise the tax to $20 a pack. You get less of what you tax.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/01/2013 13:43 Comments || Top||

#6  Steve White

How very arrogant to decide what's in the best interests of your patients against their wishes. You're just an adviser to your customers, not their ruler. Don't forget your place.

It would be better to attach a healthcare voucher to ciggies. Buy smokes keep the voucher, buy insurance.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/01/2013 14:00 Comments || Top||

#7  As usual, higher taxes simply creates black markets. Death by smoking, death by drugs, death by alcohol, death by diet, etc. It's a zero sum game, one big pie chart. Move the divide from one casual factor simply expands another casual factor tagged as the culprit which results in more 'taxes' for more prevention programs.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/01/2013 14:09 Comments || Top||

#8  BP, if you want to smoke, smoke -- I have a daughter to put through college.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/01/2013 14:10 Comments || Top||

#9  Advice is better than coercion, and financially better for you too.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/01/2013 15:03 Comments || Top||

#10  60 years ago, not everybody smoked. It just seemed that way. It was very difficult to avoid cigarette smoke, and those who smoked lit up everywhere, even around gasoline pumps. "And I enjoyed it" - what other reason could there have been for smoking?
One real advantage for promoting cigarette use is to decrease the demographic that lives long enough to collect Social Security and Medicare. Dead men collect no entitlements.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 03/01/2013 15:06 Comments || Top||

#11  People in Indiana just ordered a shit-load of smokes...
Posted by: Muggsy Mussolini1226 || 03/01/2013 15:13 Comments || Top||

#12  All you gotta do is find an Indian reservation.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/01/2013 15:39 Comments || Top||

#13  Help! We’re Being Repressed!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/01/2013 16:12 Comments || Top||

#14  what other reason could there have been for smoking?

A cigarette is the world's best delivery system for nicotine. Nicotine hits the brain faster and with more sustained effect via inhalation than via gum or patch.
Posted by: Steve White || 03/01/2013 16:55 Comments || Top||

#15  Grom: thanks for that laugh. I could use it today!
Posted by: Steve White || 03/01/2013 16:59 Comments || Top||

#16  A cigarette is the world's best delivery system for nicotine. Nicotine hits the brain faster and with more sustained effect via inhalation than via gum or patch.
A scientific description of the term "And I enjoyed it" 8-)
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 03/01/2013 17:09 Comments || Top||

#17  A county taxing through the nose for cigarettes will get little tax revenue. It is not that far to get cheaper smokes by a bit of a drive or internet.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/01/2013 17:24 Comments || Top||

#18  I miss it.
I can say no more.
It was fun while it lasted.
Posted by: Shipman || 03/01/2013 18:24 Comments || Top||

#19  The only reason government cares about smoking is they decided to pay for your health care. Why should they care? They do not care about children dying from abortion, poor behavior that leads to aids, and many other poor decisions that lead to hospital stays. Tax the hell out of sports equipment, mountain climbing gear, stripper poles...... it is a slippery slope we are sliding on.
Posted by: airandee || 03/01/2013 19:22 Comments || Top||

#20  Steve: I agree with your assessment completely. Much of the reason isn't actual health-risks, it's the social and financial costs that have reduced smoking to the level it is now. Another 5 years and Smokers will be worth less than a crack-addicted hooker in societies eyes.
Posted by: Charles || 03/01/2013 19:35 Comments || Top||

#21  "Another 5 years and Smokers will be worth less than a crack-addicted hooker in societies eyes."

Gawd, I hope not, Charles.

I've got tobacco stock in my retirement account.

No, I never smoked. Couldn't figure out why anyone did, and couldn't figure out how they afforded it. Still can't.
Posted by: Barbara || 03/01/2013 20:04 Comments || Top||

#22  Bottle of Johnnie Walker Red, fresh pack of Marlboro Reds and a clean ash tray. The Best. Left it behind ten years ago. Still have that urge.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 03/01/2013 21:13 Comments || Top||

#23  Lots of hand-wringing and oh-noes over the evils of smoking, but if everyone stopped the states would be out 17 billion in tax revenue.

tax revenue by state slightly old, but you get the picture.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/01/2013 23:27 Comments || Top||


Hell freezes over as MSM Turns Against Obama's Sequester Narrative
Over the past weeks, POTUS has been running around the country like Chicken Little an ass spreading horse hockey about the sequester, all in the hopes of blaming a 2% budget cut (which he proposed and signed into law) for an anemic economy that might be headed into a double-dip recession. Simply put, the White House and its media are pushing this fabricated Narrative in the hopes of shifting blame away from Champ's failed economic policies and onto the GOP and a lack of government largess.

If our economy crashes, Champ wants to blame sequester on Joe Shit the Ragman, hell...anybody; he wants to argue that our economic woes are caused by a government that isn't big enough, and that he needs a Democrat-controlled House to correct that. It's an audaciously dishonest plot, and it almost worked. The monkeys in the wrench, though, have been little things called facts, a Republican Party refusing to blink, and one brave and honest reporter.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/01/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Despite the Woodward thing, the leftist press will now be unrelenting in their attempts to aid Obama in blaming conservatives of all stripes for this, even though he proposed it and signed it into law. Every iota of perceived suffering and deprivation that happens in the U.S. for any reason will, for the foreseeable future, be blamed on the sequester and believers in limited government, by the usual goon squad at NPR, PBS, the alphabet networks, NYT, etc. They will go full court press with this from now until forever.

The administration has always known that a double dip recession followed by high inflation, and an ultimate need to cut the size of the federal workforce, was in the cards and now they think they have something they can use to blame all of that entirely on the Republicans. Every LIV and pseudointellectual in the country will swallow that notion whole because they tune in to information streams run by reporters and editors who will carve out the facts before they go to copy. Every public sector employee and rent-seeker and grant recipient will now experience the one thing they thought they could avoid by taking a public functionary or NGO job - anxiety - and because of the personality type they predominantly represent by being in those industries in the first place they will freak out, and be pushed into voting Dem (if they don't already) despite whatever other ideas they have on issues.

This has, therefore, been a gamble by the Repubs, too. If that number of individuals is large enough they will lose the House in 2014. It may be that the fear machine this administration is running, abetted by a sycophant (outside of a few brave souls) press, will unlimately work in the Dems favor for the 2014 elections. The fearmongering ultimately ran out of steam in the '90's when the Clinton administration lied and continuously ran on the idea that the center/right would kill children and starve old people and bring back Jim Crow if they got their way. That propaganda strategy ultimately didn't work because times were good economically and a Republican house eventually was able to get things like welfare reform and international labor market reform and a more reasonable, almost balanced budget. Times are tough now, though, and vast swaths of people will vote on one issue and one issue only; keep the magic government checks coming no matter the ultimate collateral damage to the country, to avoid the anxiety of the dreaded private sector. This applies also to foundations and "charities" and the like who subsist on government grant largess. The private donations are drying up and the bolt-hole of the public sector monies is now threatened, and the howling has only just begun.

The truth is that America will recover and be on the right path again when the wealthy suburbs around D.C., filled with people making high five-figure and six-figure salaries as functionaries, bureaucrats, regulators, lawyers, and lobbyists, gotten by stealing tax money from productive private businesses, are reduced to impoverished ghost towns, and that money is back out circulating in private industry. The administration and their backers aren't really interested in the nation as a whole doing better, they are merely interested in making sure the fantasy of perfect income stream security backed by the power of the state continues for their constituent base of public workers, private unions, NGO's, and welfare recipients.
Posted by: no mo uro || 03/01/2013 5:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Spot on NMU. The irony appears to be, we have the pen of our very own master of obfuscation, the unfailingly odious Barack Hussein Obama to soon thank for a miniscule reduction in the rate of government spending.

The first question I now ask when any of these beltway scandals beset someone like Mr. Woodward; is he by chance writing a book ?

“One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.”
¯ Ben Carson, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/01/2013 7:35 Comments || Top||

#3  This is an excellent analysis of Obama and his motives.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/01/2013 7:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Thanks Deacon! Excellent indeed.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/01/2013 7:47 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe this is the beginning of a media rebellion. Obama or his proxies have given veiled threats to Lanny Davis, Bob Woodward, and Ron Fournier. The few times Obama has had a press conference, they are saccharine affairs, which are a complete waste of time. If a reporter does have the audacity to ask a real question of substance, Obama flashes anger and dismisses and puts down the questioner.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/01/2013 8:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Good article Deacon. However I think the center of the ObamaUniverse is none other than the lightbringer - Obama himself. Public Spending is simply the live-giving sunlight which the shining one blesses us with - and the Evil Republicans are the clouds which threaten to block that sunlight and starve children and force the elderly to eat dried catfood.
As for the media - the vast majority will back the president, echo his outright lies as the one truth forever and ever, and never report anything 'bad' - except to blame it on the evil repubicans.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/01/2013 8:31 Comments || Top||

#7  Obama looked constipated when he was speaking this last week and the press has just had a major bowel movement over Woodward's commentary on the President's performance as President and on the economy.

Anyone with 1/8,1/4,1/2 of a functioning brain sees that this administration runs on lies, fabrications, misinformation, in short horse shit.

Very few thinking people are buying the administrations latest brand of hallucinations regarding the economy after sequestration goes in effect.

A definition: A hallucination is a perception in the absence of a stimulus which has qualities of real perception.

Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented.

Unfortunately, the administration still has 46 months to go, and more narratives to invent.
Posted by: Your Name Here || 03/01/2013 8:52 Comments || Top||

#8  The truth is that America will recover...

..when it finally comes to rest in the Big Crash. The ruling class is unable if not just unwilling to acknowledge that the engine of the American economy is the middle class. No amount of 'pumping', 'priming', or manipulation can move it. Those actions by government can guide it or hinder it, but never make it run. As long as the middle class perceives that any effort it makes will just be wasted away, stolen, or rendered useless, it sees no value in altering the current economic stasis situation. This is a class of Americans who can plan a future beyond the immediacies of the next welfare or government check or issue of food stamps, that other 49 percent. They're going to hold on to their assets as long as possible. That means they're only going to buy, spend, or invest what is necessary. The ruling class problem is that they can convince the takers to vote for them, but they can't force the makers to produce. Remember, a slave only works hard enough to avoid punishment. And the masters up in the plantation house can complain, moan, and curse as much as they want. It's not going to change the situation other than drive the lot of us deeper into the hole from which we have to climb back out of.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/01/2013 9:27 Comments || Top||

#9  Look at it this way, Oblahblah IS NOT getting it HIS WAY so he's pissed.

Well good, about time he's pissed and can't do squat.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 03/01/2013 9:34 Comments || Top||

#10  Very true P2k. Another hopeful sign is the continued growth and successes now taking place among American firms in the global market. Berkshire-Hathaway's recent $ 72.50 per share offer for Heinz (HNZ) is a good example. Warren doesn't chase dogs. I can only imagine the economic recovery we could be realizing if it were not for current regime.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/01/2013 9:40 Comments || Top||

#11  Media won't rebel. They made Champ. They own him. Till death do they part.

But if Champ catches enough headwind he might be dead in the water. The sooner he becomes a lame duck the better. How about right now?
Posted by: Iblis || 03/01/2013 10:26 Comments || Top||

#12  There is very little real growth in the country. Unemployment is still about what it was during the past four years ~ 8%. The real (uncooked) unemployment rate is much higher. I still see many companies that are stagnant and a number of others that are still laying off. The stock market is propped up by the Fed, hedge funders, institutional investors, and speculators. The average person (the middle class as P2K says) is staying away from the market after the 2007-2008 crash. There is no trust by the average person for the stock market. Maybe, I'm a doom-merchant, but it seems like the stock market is just another bubble to break. It is a bubble to break just as was the real-estate sub-prime loan fiasco that robbed so many middle class people of their wealth.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/01/2013 10:26 Comments || Top||

#13  6 years of Obama and it's still the republicans fault...

Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/01/2013 12:20 Comments || Top||

#14  ..well at least they can pin a name on the 'devil'. The old Marxists blame 'counter revolutionary saboteurs' for the failures of the regime.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/01/2013 12:31 Comments || Top||

#15  The attacks on Woodward have started. Andrew Sullivan (spit) called him a liar.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/01/2013 12:45 Comments || Top||

#16  Obama's turn in the barrel ? Prolly not yet.

Posted by: junkiron || 03/01/2013 13:25 Comments || Top||

#17  6 years of Obama and it's still the republicans fault...

I think in 2014 it will be the fault of the House Republicans. It will be interesting to see how many of them survive that onslaught.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/01/2013 14:04 Comments || Top||

#18  We could actually have a really good 2014. Off year election usually goes against the party in power. Throw in growing Obama fatigue. Finally, we won't have a RINO at the top of the ticket suppressing turnout.
Posted by: Iblis || 03/01/2013 15:30 Comments || Top||

#19  If we have a good 2014, but Boehner stays Speaker, there will be real, not imagined, threats of "Civil War" in the GOP. I'll also be shocked if he doesn't face a primary challenge.

Note McConnell is getting threatened, but Boehner? Well useful idiots need to be kept.
Posted by: Charles || 03/01/2013 19:39 Comments || Top||

#20  The MSM is historically on the side of the DemoLeft - as a general rule, however imperfectly the GOP-Right will always be held or deemed at fault no matter the issue.

The GOP-Right will be blamed for the deficits + sequester, just as it will be blamed iff Israel attacks Iran or a China-Japan shooting war breaks out in NE Asia, just as it will be blamed iff the Bammer decides at the last moment NOT to militarily back Israel or intervene on the side of Iran.

A STRONG AMERICA IS NOT IMPORTANT TO THE DEMOLEFT AS EXPANDING THE DEBT + PROTECTING THE US WELFARE-NANNY STATE [read, free $$$], SOON TO BE THE US GLOBAL WELFARE-NANNY STATE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/01/2013 20:58 Comments || Top||

#21  As per LUCIANNE, the Bammer is repor asking the White House Press Corps for tips on how to communicate + deal effectively wid the Republicans.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/01/2013 22:36 Comments || Top||



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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2013-03-01
  Al-Qaeda commander Abu Zeid killed in Mali
Thu 2013-02-28
  Syrian Rebels Say They Killed Hezbollah Deputy Chief
Wed 2013-02-27
  Syria Rebels Push into Police Academy as Jets Strike
Tue 2013-02-26
  Over 50 killed in battle for Syria police academy
Mon 2013-02-25
  Taliban suicide bombers hit Afghan cities, Kabul attack foiled
Sun 2013-02-24
  Karzai orders US special forces out of Afghan province
Sat 2013-02-23
  Syrian Rebels Claim To Seize Nuclear Facility
Fri 2013-02-22
  Boko Haram Denies Ceasefire, Pastes Threat Posters In Borno
Thu 2013-02-21
  Bombing in Indian Hyderabad, at least 11 killed
Wed 2013-02-20
  French nationals kidnapped in northern Cameroon
Tue 2013-02-19
  Mortars land near Syrian presidential palace
Mon 2013-02-18
  Five killed in attack at government office in Peshawar
Sun 2013-02-17
  Egyptian police publicly beat to death man suspected of killing officer
Sat 2013-02-16
  Bomb kills at least 20 in Pakistani city
Fri 2013-02-15
  Meteorite Hits Urals, Up to 500 Injured

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