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You know, I bet her demands for royal entitlement would diminish if those Gulfstreams Vs and Boeings become suddenly grounded and only C-130s (the old E model) became the only available. Oh, and make her and her entourage wear a parachutes the entire flight.
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01/29/2010 15:50 Comments ||
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Can they wear old T-10s packed by students in their first week at rigger's school ?
Posted by: Butthole Africa Billy (the artist formerly known as Bangkok Billy) ||
01/29/2010 16:55 Comments ||
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Oh, and make her and her entourage wear a parachutes the entire flight.
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While this politician was spending all of this money that is not hers, they reduced the rate in which you, a business person, can deduct per mile on you income tax from .55 cents per mile in 2009 to .50 cents per mile in 2010. these people need to do time in a federal penitentiary.
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She should be traveling in an aircraft contracted out from private industry, that has stood the test of time. May I suggest a Curtiss C-46 Commando. In this case, "Maid in Japan" would be an available one to charter. Fully IFR, and is older than her, but prettier, to wit:
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
01/29/2010 20:33 Comments ||
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Nice "Whale", AP. Not surprised it's still in service (and looking good!).
Posted by: Mullah Richard ||
01/29/2010 20:58 Comments ||
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To fly commercial would mean this "representative" would have to interact with American voters. Can't have that!
Posted by: Boss Snomotle8280 ||
01/29/2010 21:36 Comments ||
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Amber Lee Ettinger, the woman who became famous for her viral video "I Got A Crush...on Obama," made it quite clear Thursday she's lost that loving feeling for the former junior senator from Illinois.
"If I had this crush on him the same way as I did in the beginning, I'd be the fool," she told Fox News's Sean Hannity. . . . But maybe her best comment of the evening was, "Well, at least I wasn't the Edwards Girl"
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Because he's a DemoncRat and the rules don't apply to them....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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His vote was needed to lift the debt ceiling. I think the Pubs left him and his vote in place so that no Pub vote would be needed for that -- remember, 59 D + 1R = 'bipartisan'.
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I guess the 'Pubs didn't mind the debt ceiling be increased by $1.9 Trillion. If they thought it was important, they would have fought to get Brown seated by now and have the increase stopped..
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Maybe they are just handing the Dems more rope.
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama's health care appeal failed to break the congressional gridlock Thursday, dimming hopes for millions of uninsured Americans. Democrats stared down a political nightmare getting clobbered for voting last year for ambitious, politically risky bills, yet having nothing to show for it in November.
The grim reality opened a divide between the rank and file and congressional leaders, who insisted health care would get done, even though last week's special election in Massachusetts denied Democrats the 60-vote majority they need to deliver in the Senate. Many Democrats saw a problem with no clear solution.
"It's very possible that health care is just a stalemate and you can't solve it this year," said Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark.
If Obama and Democrats fail to pass any legislation this election year, Washington would still face the problem of millions of uninsured, rising medical costs and a dwindling Medicare trust fund forecast to run out of money in 2017.
Obama's health care overhaul is "on life support," said Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., "but it still has a pulse."
Obama urged lawmakers in Wednesday night's State of the Union address not to abandon the effort on what was once his top domestic priority. But his enthusiastic words provided no specific prescription for moving forward, leaving lawmakers little better off than before.
Senate Democratic leaders huddled Thursday afternoon to try to determine how to proceed, emerging to report progress, and the White House remained engaged in the negotiations. A Senate aide said lawmakers were hoping to decide on a legislative strategy by the end of next week.
Republican senators said senior White House officials had reached out to several in their ranks, including some conservatives, despite the unanimous GOP opposition to the far-reaching bill.
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who last year said stopping Obama on health care could be his Waterloo, said Thursday, "What I was saying was if he continued to push this massive takeover that it could be his Waterloo, and now it very well could be."
In a sign of how far health care had fallen since Obama campaigned on it, Senate Democrats devoted a weekly policy lunch Thursday to discussing jobs, not health care. In a letter to supporters outlining Democrats' 2010 agenda, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer didn't even mention health care, although a spokeswoman said the e-mail was sent by Hoyer's campaign team and was not meant to be an exhaustive list of priorities. House and Senate leaders insisted success on health care was still in reach.
"We're going to move forward on health reform. We're going to do health care reform this year," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acknowledged in her weekly news conference that plenty of work remained if the House was to agree to changes to the Senate bill.
"We will go through the gate. If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we will parachute in," Pelosi said. "But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people."
Just two weeks ago House and Senate leaders were working round the clock at the White House, with Obama personally involved, to merge legislation passed separately by each chamber and finalize a bill for Obama to sign in time for his State of the Union speech. That effort was upended when Republican Scott Brown claimed the Senate seat long held by the late Edward M. Kennedy.
Since then Democrats have struggled to find a way forward. The leading strategy is for the House to pass the Senate bill along with a package of changes approved by both chambers, but that idea is fraught with difficulties both political and substantive. Some Democrats favor retreating from a comprehensive overhaul and taking a less ambitious approach with a series of individual initiatives or a smaller bill.
"Is there a gate someplace to get through and try to save some common areas of health care reform in both the House and the Senate bill? We'll see," said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.
The powerful seniors' lobby AARP weighed in Thursday, urging lawmakers in a letter to "continue to work together to enact comprehensive health care reform legislation this year."
As Democratic leaders sought a way through the health care logjam, they reminded the rank and file that there are no easy solutions, politically or otherwise.
Two unpleasant choices face Democratic lawmakers who voted for the health care changes last year and who now worry about their re-election prospects this fall.
If a bill becomes law, they will have to convince a doubting public of its benefits, and conservatives are bound to keep up the attacks. If no bill passes, it's possible that public anger over the health care issue will subside a bit. But many Democratic strategists say GOP challengers will constantly remind people of the incumbents' votes, and Democrats will seek re-election with nothing to show on health care despite controlling the House, Senate and White House and with hefty majorities.
Compounding the problems was growing distrust between the House and the Senate.
While lawmakers struggle, Wall Street is celebrating the sinking prospects for a sweeping overhaul that would put new taxes and requirements on insurance companies. Insurers have opposed the overhaul even though it aims to insure more than 30 million people over the next decade with a new requirement for nearly everyone to be covered.
An analysis distributed by UBS Investment Bank after the State of the Union speech stated: "Investors should proceed as if the health care effort is dead."
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One solution might be for the congress to draft a series of phony dispatches telling Barry that the Health Care Bill has actually passed and only awaits his signature. Fox News could broadcast a staged segment showing tens of thousands of happy voters with Gov't Option payment checks in hand lining up to sign on. Perhaps a follow-up of footage from previously unknown tunnels under Fort Knox discovered holding trillions of dollars in gold bullion seized from former slaves?
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"We will go through the gate. If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we will parachute in," Pelosi said. "But we are going to get health care reform passed for the American people."em>
Just remember, they (Congress, Reid and Pelosi) knows what is best for us despite our own intelligence.
The Obama administration stunned New York's delegation Thursday, dropping the bombshell news that it does not support funding the 9/11 health bill.
Bambi really, really wants to be a one-term president ...
The state's two senators and 14 House members met with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius just hours before President Obama implored in his speech to the nation for Congress to come together and deliver a government that delivers on its promises to the American people. So the legislators were floored to learn the Democratic administration does not want to deliver for the tens of thousands of people who sacrificed after 9/11, and the untold numbers now getting sick.
"I was stunned and very disappointed," said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who like most of the other legislators had expected more of a discussion on how to more forward.
"To say the least, I was flabbergasted," said Staten Island Rep. Mike McMahon.
The 9/11 bill would spend about $11 billion over 30 years to care for the growing numbers of people getting sick from their service at Ground Zero, and to compensate families for their losses.
11 billion divided by 30 is about $370 million a year. That's walking around money in the Senate. What was the Cornhusker buyoff again?
Geez, maybe if he leaves Air Force One in the hanger for maybe, like, two consecutive days every month, he could maybe make that up in no time? Nah...
The legislators were shocked the idea was falling lower on the administration priority list than other parts of the war on terror and financial bailouts.
"She made it clear that the administration does not support any kind of funding mechanism that goes into the bill," said Bronx Rep. Eliot Engel. "I think it's fiscal restraint... but you know what? They find money for everything else, they need to find money for this," Engel said.
For example, we have the money to try KSM in New York ...
"We were attacked because we're a symbol of our country." McMahon was furious that caring for the heroes of Sept. 11 would take a back seat to anything but military funding. "I thought there was a complete lack of understanding of the issue by the secretary and quite frankly, I did not expect that lack of compassion and failure to understand the urgency of the issue."
Victims and advocates of 9/11 families are similarly stunned. Lorie Van Auken, whose husband died on 9/11 and who supports the White House in its push to try the terrorists in New York, was crestfallen at the news.
"I thought that these people would be taken care of. I would have expected better from this administration," Van Auken said, adding that she thought it sends the wrong message to all of America's would-be heroes that the government won't be there for them.
"These people put their lives on the line to help people who live here and who were in danger, and now the government doesn't want to support them," Van Auken said. "What happens in the future when something else happens? Are people going to say, 'No, sorry, I'm not going to help?'"
The legislators did hold out hope, though. McMahon and others said they would appeal to the President to consider adding 9/11 money to the list of mandatory items, rather than discretionary measures subject to the White House planned budget freeze.
Health and Human Servicices officials and the White House did not have an immediate response.
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President Obama is trying to saddle New York with civilian trials for 9/11-linked terrorists and crushing new taxes for our lifeblood banking industry. He supported a health care bill which would have been devastating to this state and now he pisses on our heroes. And all of this because he assumes that an ultra-blue state will always be in his party's pocket come election time. Did the man learn nothing from Scott Brown's resounding victory?
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Shhh, Jinens, don't give teh Won Buraq any ideas!
Not that I don't think he's sociopathic enough to be so thick he would get it. But just in case...
#3
This is a disgrace, but considering how tone deaf they have been towards NYC (KSM trial, the fly-by photo shoot featuring Air Farce One), I'm not really shocked by this one bit.
The United States on Thursday formally notified the United Nations that it has embraced the Copenhagen Accord setting nonbinding goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that was negotiated last month.
Todd Stern, the top U.S. climate negotiator for the Obama administration, also gave notice that, as expected, it will aim for a 17 percent reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming by 2020, with 2005 as the base year.
A final emissions reduction target will be submitted, the U.S. said, once the U.S. Congress enacts domestic legislation requiring carbon pollution cuts. But such legislation has an uncertain fate in the Senate.
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If Democrat lemmings try to ram it through, jobs-destroying cap-and-trade legislation will be an even greater fiasco than the health care bill - a true Waterloo for the Obama administration.
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An end run will put the dhimcrats in minority status for 20 years. People are already pissed enough at both parties for pulling that crap and taxing the hell out of the voters.
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The United States on Thursday formally notified the United Nations
No, the United States did no such thing. The Obama administrations climate negotiator gave notice. Are the people that craft headlines for Rooters simply fools or do they have an agenda? You make the call.
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Gave notice that they are embracing nonbinding goals?
While they're at it, they could also give notice that they're embracing rainbow colored unicorns to fly across the sky. Or closing Gitmo...
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WASHINGTON President Barack Obama's health care appeal failed to break the congressional gridlock Thursday, dimming hopes for millions of uninsured Americans. Democrats stared down a political nightmare getting clobbered for voting last year for ambitious, politically risky bills, yet having nothing to show for it in November.
The Obama administration stunned New York's delegation Thursday, dropping the bombshell news that it does not support funding the 9/11 health bill.
