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Nah. He's doing a great job. It's just that we're so fuckin stupid that we don't realize how great a job he's doing. If only we'd just realize that and get with the program, everything would be just fine...
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Wehell, here comes PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM for the Bammer > US DEBT HAVENS IS AS SAFE AS PEARL HARBOR WAS A SAFE HAVEN | {CNBC] FERGUSON AND FABER: SOVEREIGN DEBTS CRISES WILL SPREAD WORLD-WIDE, US DEBT IS UNSAFE.
FABER - US, EUROPE, + ENTIRE DEVELOPED WORLD [aka broadly as LIC = LDC = FIRST WORLD NATIONS-BLOC] WILL DEFAULT ON THEIR DEBTS.
IOW, America = Amerika, Mighty USSA = Weak USRoA OWG SSR, WELCOME TO THE THIRD WORLD [or WORSE?] + COLD WAR-SOVIET STYLE GLOBAL SOCIALIST-GOVTIST REGRESSION.
Calling New Jersey's budget a "shambles," Gov. Chris Christie announced Thursday he is immediately freezing all state spending.
Saying New Jersey is on the verge of bankruptcy, Christie declared a fiscal emergency, announcing drastic cuts. Among them, aid to school districts that have excess surpluses.
"Today we are going to act swiftly to fix problems too long ignored. Today I begin to do what I promised the people of New Jersey I would do," Christie said.
The move had Democrats in an uproar, angry the governor used his executive powers instead of working with the Legislature.
"What that's going to mean is that those school districts without that money are going to be raising property taxes in the upcoming year to make up for that shortfall," said Assemblyman John Wisniewski, D-19th District.
The governor also cut state subsidies to New Jersey Transit, saying it needs to become fiscally efficient.
"Revisit its rich union contracts," Christie said. "And they may also have to consider service reductions or fare increases."
"It's really foolish. It undermines not only the environment but our economy because people need transit to get to work," said Jeff Tittel of the Sierra Club.
But one tax group applauded the governor.
"Yes it's going to be difficult to make some of these choices as were highlighted today, but education, health care and these things tend to be sacred cow and they need to be taken out of that category," said Jerry Cantrell of the Taxpayers' Association of New Jersey.
Fellow Republicans said some school districts have been abusing the money they get and it's about time a governor called them on it.
"I think the record indicates that there are a number of school districts that have been overspending, misappropriating," said Assemblyman Joe Mallone, R-30th District.
The governor said he doesn't anticipate schools cutting programs or jobs right now, but sources within the administration said there are no guarantees for the next fiscal year.
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wish I had some of that excess surplus; my surplus is just the regular ol' 'enough' type...
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The move had Democrats in an uproar, angry the governor used his executive powers instead of working with the Legislature.
Angry, seething democrats threaten to raise property taxes. What else is new, they go up every year anyway. Renting one's own property from the gov't, what's not to like.
Record snowfall has buried Washington — and along with it, buried the chances of passing global warming legislation this year. Cars are stranded in banks of snow along the streets of the federal capital, and in the corridors of Congress, climate legislation also has been put on ice.
Voters are mostly concerned with jobs and the economy. Global warming is at the bottom of their list. And now, on top of that, the paralyzing snowfalls have made the prospect of winning support for a climate bill this year even less likely.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said the blizzards that have shut down Congress have made it more difficult to argue that global warming is an imminent danger. “It makes it more challenging for folks not taking time to review the scientific arguments,' said Bingaman, who as the chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee has jurisdiction over energy and climate change issues.
Some Senate Democrats dismiss the role snow has played in the debate, but they acknowledge there is growing consensus that global warming legislation will not pass in the 111th Congress.
“I don't think that the climate change with cap-and-trade is going to pass this year,' said Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), who as Budget chairman is putting together Congress's annual estimate of how much revenue the government will collect next year and in future years.
Senior White House political adviser David Axelrod said: “If a consensus can be reached, we want to support that, but this is clearly an issue that Republicans and Democrats are going to have to do together. It is not something that one party or the other party can do.' Whoa, Dave! Cats and dogs, living together?
At the start of 2009, Obama hoped to fund a major middle-class tax cut with the income from a cap-and-trade regulatory program that would have charged companies for pollution permits. But hardly anyone in the Senate is counting on new revenue from a cap-and-trade program anytime soon.
Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, which approved a cap-and-trade proposal last year, acknowledged that there are not yet 60 votes for an energy reform and cap-and-trade proposal.
But even the most ardent proponents of curbing greenhouse gas emissions sense their backs are up against the wall. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), who is leading a bipartisan effort to put together a compromise on energy and climate change legislation, has exhorted allies to act with greater urgency.
“You know, if Tea Party folks go out there and get angry because they think their taxes are too high, for God's sakes, a lot of citizens ought to be angry about the fact that they're being killed and our planet is being injured by what is happening on a daily basis by the way we provide our power and our fuel and by the old practices we have,' Kerry told his allies.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has called moving the bill a “headache.'
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Alternative headline: Donk Congress is afraid people have caught on to GW=Bull$hit!
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Senior White House political adviser David Axelrod said: "If a consensus can be reached, we want to support that, but this is clearly an issue that Republicans and Democrats are going to have to do together. It is not something that one party or the other party can do."
Translation: boy are the voters going to be pissed when enough of 'em figure out that this has been a con from day one; our only hope is for the Republicans to give us some political cover, otherwise this issue is radioactive.
Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) on Thursday dismissed the effort by some Democrats to limit filibusters, saying that the chamber's procedures were designed to prevent the majority party from unilaterally changing the rules.
Minutes before two colleagues unveiled their proposal to weaken the tactic of delaying and blocking floor votes, Reid told reporters that he adhered to the Senate's long-standing rule that only a two-thirds majority could change the chamber's rules, including those on the filibuster. This high hurdle -- established decades ago in an effort to prevent one party from ruling the chamber with an iron fist based on a simple majority -- would require eight Republicans to join the 59 members of the Democratic caucus to alter the rules, something Reid said is not going to happen.
"I'm totally familiar with his idea," Reid said of the latest filibuster-reform resolution, from Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa). "It takes 67 votes, and that kind of answers the question."
Harkin and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) later introduced a measure that would change Senate procedure to create a four-step process that would eventually allow a majority of 51 votes, rather than 60, for cloture -- ending debate and moving to a final vote on passage of a bill.
The number of cloture motions the majority has been forced to file has skyrocketed in the past 15 years -- by about 75 percent, according to Harkin's estimate. With more than 40 cloture votes since the start of the 111th Congress in January, this Senate is on pace to record the second-largest number of filibuster roll calls.
"In the 71 years since Hollywood filmed 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,' the aim of the filibuster has been turned completely upside down," Harkin said.
Republicans, who tried to rein in filibusters when they were in the majority in 2005, have no intention of supporting any such effort this time. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) recently called that GOP effort a "dumb idea."
Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), a freshman, has introduced a more radical rule change, along the lines of the one proposed by Republicans in 2005. It would call for the Democrat presiding over the Senate at the start of the next Congress in January, presumably Vice President Biden, to declare that the Senate is not a "continuing body" and does not have to abide by rules passed decades ago -- that it can approve new rules on a simple majority vote.
In his answer to reporters' questions on this, Reid reaffirmed his position from 2005 that a rule change takes 67 votes.
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Take some advice from your Democrat friends in Masaachusetts. Don't screw with the law. Screwing with the law has a tendency to come back and bite you in the ass. Tell 'em, Senator Brown...
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--What would be the purpose for them to do this ??
Just to go 'on the record'?
I notice both of these (D) senators aren't up for re-election until '14..
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disagree - it moderates the extremism of a slight majority. If you can't get 60 votes, it prolly isn't in the best interests of most Americans
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added: can you imagine the shit this Preznit, with Majority Leader Reid, and Speaker Pelosi could've pushed through on a 50-vote Senate OK?? I shudder
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--so if it would take 67 votes to get this rule changed, why even attempt it?? It seems a waste of time..
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After thirty plus years with PCs, Americans are getting around to understanding the concept of 'wiping the hard drive and reinstalling the operating system' for a severely infected device that is suppose to work for them.
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I don't know guys, look at the way our fellow citizens answered the rest of the poll and it tells me they are still clueless, ofcourse this was a CBS/NYT Poll so prolly a lot of libs over-represented.
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The only poll that counts is the one taken every two years when all of the House and 1/3 of the Senate is voted on. The vast majority of those seem to show voters love the incumbents, which is how John Murtha stayed in until he died. Whatever those voters think of the congressmen they don't get to vote on, does seem to go into their selection of the President.
go to the link and you will see a large picture of the latest Democrat Party. Its fun (roll mouse over the heads for fun).
I won't hotlink it here. But will include the text.
h/t Curmudgeonly & Skeptical
Special thank you to my comrades at ThePeoplesCube.com who contributed to above comments, Ivan Betinov, Commissarka Pinkie, Obamugabe, and Grigori E.R..
Party guest from left to right: Tim Geithner, John Kerry, KSM, Oprah, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Axelrod, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Party Crashers #1, Rahm Emanuel, Eric Holder, Party Crashers #2, Harry Reid, John Edwards, Bluto, Andy Stern, Bill Clinton, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Barney Frank, Kevin Jennings
Statues left to right: Che Guevara, Saul Alinsky, Obama, Chairman Mao, Lenin
HT Michelle, Via H/A
A Democratic official says Rep. Patrick Kennedy has decided not to seek re-election for his seat representing periodically, counting re-hab Rhode Island in the U.S. Congress.
The official spoke to The Associated Press only on the condition that his name not be used because he was not authorized to speak ahead of the official announcement. but his name was "Matrick Fennedy"
The decision by the eight-term congressman comes less than a month after a stunning Republican upset in the race for the Massachusetts Senate seat his late father, Edward Kennedy, held for almost half a century. what's more stunning is that this tool had eight terms
Patrick Kennedy has been in and out of treatment for substance abuse since crashing his car outside the U.S Capitol in 2006. Still, he has been comfortably re-elected twice since then, after making mental health care his signature issue in Washington. and who would know better, than a frequent recipient of the care? Bottom line? Genes, like jeans, fade with time Future career advice, Patrick? Yes. Most people will want fries with that. Hey, I struggle with mental health too, but no one's elected me to the US senate. I should hope he has more to recommend himself than a Kennedy name and mental illness.
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Let's see if he gets this one:
So, a Babs Streisand, a 3 legged dog and Ted Nugent walk into a bar, and the bartender sez: "What is this, some kinda joke?"
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Thank goodness, Vice President Joe Biden went on CNN to chat with Larry King Wednesday night. So many think things are not going so well for the Democrat administration, as The Ticket chronicled here.
Many Americans recall the ex-Sen. Biden's Democratic primary plans to give in to Iraq's fractious factions and carve the country into three territories. And even more probably recall Biden's boss' plan to halt the Iraq war years ago. As long as it got started anyway without the permission of the then state senator.
Plus, of course, Obama's vehement opposition to the 2007 American troop surge of you-know-who from Texas that Obama knew for certain was only going to worsen sectarian strife there.
Well, of course, it didn't turn out that way, thanks in large measure to the brave service of hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops who served in that war-torn land and helped peace to break out despite the loud political acrimony back home over their role.
Now, the Obama-Biden pair that opposed the Iraq war and its tactics and predicted their failure is prepared to accept credit for its success. It seems that Biden, who's from Delaware when he's in Delaware and Pennsylvania when in Pennsylvania, is certain now that Iraq will turn out to be one of the Obama-Biden administration's greatest achievements.
No, really.
Here's how Biden put it to Lar:
I am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.
I spent -- I've been there 17 times now. I go about every two months -- three months. I know every one of the major players in all the segments of that society. It's impressed me. I've been impressed how they have been deciding to use the political process rather than guns to settle their differences.
Biden did not elaborate on what all the administration's other "great achievements" were so far.
No doubt, Iraqis too are very thankful for that 2008 U.S. election.
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These Marxist stumble bums, for their trying, can't even lose a war properly. So yeah, their abject failure is a great achievement for America.
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Is Biden kin too Jimmy Carter?
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You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.
Unless it all goes to shit after we're out. I think we can all guess who's gonna own it if that happens...
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.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Record snowfall has buried Washington — and along with it, buried the chances of passing global warming legislation this year. Cars are stranded in banks of snow along the streets of the federal capital, and in the corridors of Congress, climate legislation also has been put on ice.
At the start of 2009, Obama hoped to fund a major middle-class tax cut with the income from a cap-and-trade regulatory program that would have charged companies for pollution permits. But hardly anyone in the Senate is counting on new revenue from a cap-and-trade program anytime soon.
“You know, if Tea Party folks go out there and get angry because they think their taxes are too high, for God's sakes, a lot of citizens ought to be angry about the fact that they're being killed and our planet is being injured by what is happening on a daily basis by the way we provide our power and our fuel and by the old practices we have,' Kerry told his allies.
Who knew?
