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I have a suggestion. Next time, Obama, let's get an Attorney General who favors the U.S. over it avowed foreign enemies. I do not understand volunteering to help an agent of an evil foreign enemy of the U.S.
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The brief filed by Holder, then a private attorney, former Attorney General Janet Reno and two other Clinton-era officials argued that the President lacks authority to hold Jose Padilla, a U.S citizen declared an enemy combatant, indefinitely without charge.
(Supreme Court, 2004, Amicus Brief - (ed))
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 22% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President (see trends).
Forty-two percent (42%) of Democrats Strongly Approve while 72% of Republicans Strongly Disapprove. Among those not affiliated with either major political party, 17% Strongly Approve and 45% Strongly Disapprove.
Fifty-seven percent (57%) believe that passage of the proposed health care legislation will hurt the economy. Just 25% believe it will help.
Sixty percent (60%) of parents believe that textbooks used by their students are more concerned about political correctness than accuracy.
Republicans hold a seven-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot.
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VA legislature just passed a bill that will make it illegal to require state residents to have healthcare. Our new gov. says he's going to sign it. This is the first of what I predict will be many States telling big brother where he can stick the healthcare bill.
Gov. Pat Quinn on Tuesday unveiled a caustic budget plan that would borrow billions of dollars to stay afloat and push even more debt down the road, hoping to persuade leery lawmakers to instead raise taxes in an election year.
Quinn aides warned the plan would cost some 13,000 teachers and staff their jobs, cut off poor seniors from help in paying for costly prescriptions and shut down some health care programs for the indigent. But even after about $2 billion in cuts, the state would still be $11 billion in the hole. Note that he isn't eliminating any state earmarks, consulting contracts for friends of the legislators, and various grants for graft, nor is he trimming union pension plans and state hiring. In other words, it's the usual "scare the rubes" tactic.
The administration's warnings served as the precursor for the Democratic governor's Wednesday budget address before a joint session of lawmakers who want to wrap up their business in two months so they can focus on their re-election.
Quinn is expected to restate the unsuccessful call he made last year for higher taxes. But the political dynamics for a tax increase have grown only worse as the election-seeking Democratic governor confronts campaigning legislators who fear a voter backlash in the Nov. 2 general election.
"He's not included a tax increase in this budget, and that's a conversation that has to happen," Jerry Stermer, Quinn's chief of staff, said of the governor's plan. "The General Assembly has not acted on a tax increase and have given signals they don't want to act on a tax increase."
Quinn's gambit, to propose cuts in education and social services, represents the latest step in the increasing divergence between the state's very real deteriorating fiscal situation and the rhetoric of politicians who believe the public doesn't want or trust Springfield to get any more money from their wallets.
Similar cries about slashing services last year ended up being papered over by increased borrowing. Many lawmakers privately expect that fears among rank-and-file lawmakers about a voter revolt will lead to a repeat of last spring's session.
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Maybe more states should go bankrupt. California's first, then Illinois? What happens then to earmarks, friends' follies, graft grants, pension plans, and state supervisors?
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He's also calling for a 33% increase in the state income tax rate - supposedly tied to education. They tried the same trick when the state lottery came in. That link lasted, what 2 days maybe? Sorry rubes!
Of course, as Doc Steve notes, the parts of the budget to be affected most are always kids, the poor, and the elderly. God forbid some porker should have to move away from the trough.
Though the Pubs here, having been shut out of all discussions the last couple years since they're in the minority in both houses (and the Dem leaders have been particularly rude) aren't going to give Quinn so much as a single vote.
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This same fan dance is starting to take stage across the country. The backdrop begins with real deficits and depleted state revenues. State aid to cities is shrinking with local councils confronting unsustainable budgets. Enter the state governor singing the narrative of more budget cuts, tax increases, and borrowing. A dire gloom blankets the countryside. But hark yonder comes a figure in the distant. Could it be our hero? Why its the Federal government here to save main-street. The clouds open slightly and the birds begin to sing.
*Mark your calendar folks. The next stimulus jobs bill will be sold as bypassing the state and going directly to the municipalities. You know, the local government workers that have union contracts anyway.
A blog post but take a look as it serves up the original documents. As the author says, "But ACORN appears to have lost interest in the case since filing it, confirming my suspicion that it was little more than a press release on pleading paper."
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From the comments: "ACORN will always back off their threats of lawsuits. There is a little process called "discovery", and that would force ACORN to open up their books to the other side... and that is something they can never afford to do"
Heh. Discovery is a bitch if you've got something to hide. And boy, does ACORN have something to hide....
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Which is why their opponents should always counter-sue and never agree to settle prior to discovery.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 22% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President (see trends).
