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[Steve]

 

 

Carney did say that "Our relationship with Israel is based on

 

...Florida's electoral votes and fundamentalist Christian's desire to see biblical prophecy fulfilled.

 

Every British PM polls higher than our President against other Americans. Blair supported the same war as Bush but polled higher. Thats a head scratcher. Actually I know why. Its the accent.

 

Fact is NO ONE in Washington is popular. If Congress had high poll numbers Obama's poll numbers would have meaning. However, the Republican congress has lower poll numbers.

 

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-08-04/politics/30100840_1_approval-rating-respondents-poll

 

 

Americans' opinion of Congress has sunk to a historic low, according to a new CNN poll. Only 14% of the poll's respondents said they approve of the way Congress is handling its job.

 

It is also only the third time since CNN started the poll in 1974 that Congress' approval rating has sunk below 20%.

[Flashermac]

Vote them all out!

[Steve]

And now just for Cav ...

 

11 shocking things you now realize to be true (but you never would have believed just three years ago)

 

 

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12. The two parties conspire to keep out any 3rd party.

 

They also routinely call America a two party system when the founders never intended to have political parties. They had already seen how the Parliament in England was ruined that way. We morphed into it but we were never intended to have them. However, its always being said by them that we are a two party country as if its by design. The organization that determines who can enter a debate was founded by the two parties. Which is why you don't see 3rd party represented. When both parties are asked why there isn't a 3rd voice, they say its not up to them, its up to the organization that they created.

 

13. Being a Congressperson was never intended to be a career.

 

The founders saw public service as a duty you did in order to pay back the country in some small way. After you were done your term you went back to your 'day job'. However today its different. So let me understand this. No one asked them to serve, they volunteered to run for Congress, then they say they aren't paid enough for something they asked to do. They then vote themselves pay rises and health benefits. Everyone else has to work 30 years for full pension but they can do it less than half that time.

 

14, Manchester United and Tottenham suck.

 

We've always known this. Nothing surprising there. The world has come to realize what all Arsenal fans already knew.

 

15. Dick Cheney is even more evil than we imagined him to be.

 

Interesting how he and his boss avoided military combat but were the two most ardent supporters of going to war.

[Flashermac]

Originally there were no pensions for the Prez and Congress. Where did that all go wrong? And what's this crap with Congress voting themselves pay hikes? Serve 6 years in Congress and you are set for the rest of your life.

 

What always happens with third parties is that the big parties steal their thunder. FDR lifted much of the New Deal from Norman Thomas of the Socialist Party. That was the end of the Socialists. My father told me that some of the things FDR did had also been pushed by Hoover, but Hoover's Congress refused to pass them. FDR's first Congress was a rubber stamp.

 

As to GWB and Darth Cheney, at least the Bushman was willing to serve inside the US. That's not much, but it is better than Cheney - who refused to wear a uniform at all and went took considerable effort to see that he didn't. I wonder what kind of a Prez GWB might have been if he'd had someone like Powell for his VP, instead of the prince of darkness.

 

 

 

 

[Bangkoktraveler]

Originally there were no pensions for the Prez and Congress. Where did that all go wrong? And what's this crap with Congress voting themselves pay hikes? Serve 6 years in Congress and you are set for the rest of your life.

 

What always happens with third parties is that the big parties steal their thunder. FDR lifted much of the New Deal from Norman Thomas of the Socialist Party. That was the end of the Socialists. My father told me that some of the things FDR did had also been pushed by Hoover, but Hoover's Congress refused to pass them. FDR's first Congress was a rubber stamp.

 

As to GWB and Darth Cheney, at least the Bushman was willing to serve inside the US. That's not much, but it is better than Cheney - who refused to wear a uniform at all and went took considerable effort to see that he didn't. I wonder what kind of a Prez GWB might have been if he'd had someone like Powell for his VP, instead of the prince of darkness.

 

Powell would have quit that job also.

[Flashermac]

Ron Paul Gets 90 Seconds To Speak In CBS Debate

 

 

Congressman Ron Paul was a victim of what later transpired to be a deliberate policy on behalf of CBS News to restrict the air time of certain candidates during last night’s Republican debate, after he was afforded just 90 seconds of speaking time during the course of the event in South Carolina last night.

 

Paul’s campaign reacted furiously to the Texan being limited to 90 seconds in what was a 90 minute-long debate, with Campaign Manager John Tate blasting out an email entitled “What a Joke,†in which he stated, “It literally made me sick watching the mainstream media once again silence the one sane voice in this election. The one dissenter to a decade of unchecked war. The one candidate who stands for true defense and actual constitutional government. Ron Paul was silenced, in perhaps the most important debate of the cycle.â€

 

A scientific study undertaken by the University of Minnesota last month confirmed that Ron Paul had been given the least speaking time out of all the Republican candidates during the debates, even less than the likes of John Huntsman and Rick Santorum, who have routinely been beaten by Paul in national polls.

 

As Marc Fortier points out, an email inadvertently sent to Michelle Bachmann’s campaign clearly indicates that certain candidates were given less air time as a result of a deliberate CBS policy.

 

When a CBS staffer referenced how Bachmann’s campaign had made representatives available for an after-debate webshow, CBS News political analyst John Dickerson responded by saying, “Okay let’s keep it loose though since she’s not going to get many questions and she’s nearly off the charts in the hopes that we can get someone else.â€

 

Dickerson’s admission that CBS had deliberately ensured Bachmann was “not going to get many questions†during the debate indicated “a planned effort to limit questions to Michele Bachmann at tonight’s CBS/National Journal Debate,†the Bachmann campaign said in a statement.

 

Obviously, that policy of limiting air time to certain candidates was also applied to Congressman Ron Paul, despite the fact that he has consistently won straw polls and proven himself as a top tier candidate in national polls.

 

As we have documented, despite his popularity the establishment media has deliberately downplayed and sidelined Paul’s campaign.

 

After Ron Paul finished a close second to Bachmann in the highly regarded Ames straw poll, and was subsequently blacklisted by the corporate press, Politico’s Roger Simon said the reason for him being ignored was that “the media doesn’t believe he has a hoot in hells chance of winning the Iowa caucuses, the Republican nomination or winning the presidency, so we’re gonna ignore him.â€

 

“We are in the business of kicking candidates out of the race,†CNN host Howard Kurtz responded.

 

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[Flashermac]

Gay TV star: I was assaulted for being associated with Ann Coulter

 

 

A cast member of the gay reality TV show “A-List Dallas†tells The Daily Caller that he was punched to the ground and bloodied Friday night by someone vandalizing his car because he’s a gay conservative associated with commentator Ann Coulter.

 

Taylor Garrett, a Republican consultant in Texas who stars in the reality series on the channel LOGO TV, said in an interview that he was attacked outside a birthday party in Dallas after finding a vandal scratching “F–k Coulter†on the side of his car.

 

Garrett said the incident reflects a troubling mindset.

 

“The Democrats want me to live on their plantation as their slave, because I’m a gay person,†he said. “And I refuse to do that.â€

 

Photos provided by Garrett to TheDC show the phrase about Coulter keyed in large letters across his car. Other photos show Garrett with a bloody ear and blood covering his white shirt.

 

“I was at a party and one of my friends arrived and I had a present for him, so I went back to my car to get the present,†he recalled. “When I walked out to my car, I saw someone squatting next to my car.â€

 

After asking the vandal what he was doing, Garrett said the large man stood up and decked him in his left eye. Garrett fell to the ground. He also scraped up his body by falling into some glass that was next to his car, Garrett said. The attacker got away.

 

Garrett, who has done work with groups run by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, says he has been subject to harassment and threats for being a gay conservative since news broke that he was having lunch with Coulter in Los Angeles for his show.

 

Garrett found a rock, with a threatening note attached that was anti-conservative, last month thrown through his living room window, he said.

 

On Friday night after the incident with the vandal, Garrett said his friends called an ambulance, but paramedics did not take him to the hospital.

 

Garrett said he begged the police not to put his name on the police report, because “I didn’t want to be in the press again about this,†but his friends convinced him otherwise.

 

The show “A-List Dallas†is a reality show following several gay men navigating life in Texas. Garrett said he wasn’t filming for the show when the Friday night incident occurred.

 

He also said he’s disgusted by those in the gay community and media who doubt him and accuse him of trying to gin up publicity for himself by going public with these stories.

 

Garrett said he decided to join the show because he wanted to show that there are gay “conservative, Republican, Christians†out there. But he said he has been “destroyed by the gay community†for his views and he’s doubtful he’ll return for another season after this.

 

“I would’ve thought people would have been a little more tolerant considering that our community advocates for tolerance, but it has been nothing but mean spirited attacks, especially after the Ann Coulter scene,†he said.

 

The point of having lunch with Coulter, he said, is to show people that “just because you don’t support gay marriage doesn’t make you a bigot, doesn’t mean you hate gay people, it just means you disagree on gay issues.â€

 

Coulter did not immediately return a request for comment.

 

“The left has turned on anyone that might not agree with gay marriage, they have demonized them,†he said.

 

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[Steve]

This statement by Romney scared the hell out of me. It sounds like campaign rhetoric but he seems like he's hungry to have another war. As far as Iran with nukes, the country that has the most to worry about is Saudi Arabia. Iran knows if it even hints at using it or giving it to someone that will use it against them, Tehran will be a parking lot.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-iran-obtain-nuclear-weapon-obama-elected-023551376.html

"If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon," Mitt Romney declared in a foreign policy debate in South Carolina sponsored by CBS News and National Journal. "If you elect me as president, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon."

 

I am very confident that the administration is using any and all covert means. I think even Gingrich knows this. Fact is we don't know what cover things the admin is doing but if Obama's record on things of that nature is any evidence, everything within our power is being done covertly.

 

Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich said the positions advocated by Cain and Romney were "superior" to the Obama administration, which he contended had "skipped all the ways to be smart" about Iran, including investment in more covert operations to block and "disrupt" their efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon.

[Flashermac]

Some Democrats refuse to back Obama

 

 

Sen. Joe Lieberman was treated like an outcast back in 2008 when he broke from the Senate Democratic Caucus and openly opposed Barack Obama’s bid for the White House.

 

Asked last week if he’d back Obama in 2012, the Connecticut independent said, “I don’t know what I’m going to do.â€

This time around, there may be more Liebermans.

 

A number of moderate Democrats like Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar and liberals like Sen. Bernie Sanders are declining to give their unqualified support for the president, saying they’re either too focused on their own races or are calling on the White House to cater to their agendas before they will offer an endorsement. Some up for reelection in red states or in swing districts fear that even showing up on stage with Obama will give their opponents an image to seize upon — much as Democrats did in 2008 when they repeatedly flashed shots of Sen. John McCain hugging President George W. Bush.

 

So as the president faces the dual challenges of energizing his base while wooing moderates, some Democrats in Congress are keeping their distance, with the president’s approval rating hovering in the mid-40s — and even lower in states like West Virginia, where moderate Sen. Joe Manchin is up for reelection.

 

“I’m supporting the state of West Virginia and the people of West Virginia,†the freshman Democrat said, when asked if he backed the president’s reelection bid.

 

Informed that West Virginia won’t be on the ballot next year, Manchin chuckled and said: “You don’t know that. You know something I don’t know?â€

 

In the House, moderate Democrats have a tough calculation to make, a product of the volatile political landscape and a still-undefined presidential race. No matter how low the president’s approval ratings get, they tend to be higher than congressional Republicans. Some Democrats in the House will wait and see whom Obama is running against before they decide whom they’ll be running against — the president or his opponent.

 

With one year until voters decide their fate, many vulnerable Democrats are dancing around the issue of supporting the president.

 

Of more than a dozen congressional offices POLITICO contacted in the moderate Blue Dog Caucus, only a handful were willing to comment on whether they supported Obama’s reelection bid.

 

Others, including Reps. Tim Holden and Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania, Ben Chandler of Kentucky, Jim Costa of California, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Jim Matheson of Utah, Mike McIntyre of North Carolina and Michael Michaud of Maine, declined repeated requests for comment on whether they will stump for the president or even support him in 2012.

 

Some are keeping their distance.

 

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[Hugh_Hoy]

Flash: About the only thing I use CBS for is sports. If it was a newspaper, I'd put it on a spool in the bathroom. Last night's "debate" was a rare exception.

 

Re Coulter: the left has historically emphasized the use of personal attacks, mud-slinging, and anarchism to justify advancement of it's dogma. The Coulter/Cain episodes are just examples. The OWS movement is another. If I were dictator, all of those protesters who felt the need to cover their faces with masks would be the first ones with targets on their chests. (I mean it; fuck em).

 

Steveo...Obama missed a Golden Opportunity to help overturn/change Iran a couple of years ago. Remember the "Green movement"? Where was Obama then? Having some fucking "beer summit" in the White House backyard? Almost every place in the ME that Obama has inserted his fucking nose has resulted in detriment of Western culture or dubious advancement of ME peace. Suggesting that Israel move back to the 1967 borders; encouraging the ousting of Mubarak so that the more radical Islamists can take over; supporting the Libyan rebels with the likely same result; calling out Assad in Syria with another likely anti-U.S. result. You can't be serious that Obama would support/take any...even "covert"...action against a Muslim country hostile to the U.S. The fucker's middle name is "Hussein", for God's sake !!! Where, now, is "The One" who was gonna sweet talk all of our adversaries in the ME and around the world...you know, the bullshit campaign talk that got him the Nobel Peace Prize?

 

Your guy is a TOTAL fucking loser !!!

 

HH