Been there done that......... How did breaking the ice work out for Neville?
Children celebrate the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Iran
AP THE HAGUE, Netherlands – In a cautious first step toward unlocking 30 years of tenserelations, senior U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke had a brief but cordial meeting with Iran's deputy foreign minister Tuesday at an international conference on Afghanistan. The rare diplomatic approach was the first official face-to-face interplay between the Obama administration and the Iranian regime. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton cautioned that the talks between Holbrooke and Iranian diplomat Mehdi Akhundzadeh were promising but not "substantive." "They agreed to stay in touch,"
How exactly are they gonna fear any U.S. retaliation on making nuclear weapons when our leaders cozy up to them?
More than half of Americans want President Barack Obama's administration to pull the plug on troubled banks without extendingany more bailout money, a poll said Tuesday. Signaling opposition to Obama's one-trillion-dollar plan to buy up banks' toxic assets, 51 percent of respondents in the Zogby poll said there should be no more federal funds even if that means banks going out of business. Just six percent said bailout money should continue while the administration buys up the banks' problem assets, while 32 percent said the government should temporarily nationalize banks on the verge of collapse.
Why voter keep sending this clown back to congress is anyone's guess, however this is Massachusetts, which gave us Barney Frank, John Kerry(served in Vietnam if you didn't know) Ed Markey and Ted Kennedy("Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam") Notice that Democrats have never called for an investigation of Fannie and Freddie. When Liberals say "there's plenty of blame to go around" means they are the guilty party...
A lawyer involved with legal action against Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) told a House Judiciary subcommittee on March 19 The New York Times had killed a story in October that would have shown a close link between ACORN, Project Vote and the Obama campaign because it would have been a “a game changer.”
The New York Times hid Obama connection to ACORN, feared could tip election--testimony "A lawyer involved with legal action against Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) told a House Judiciary subcommittee on March 19 . Heather Heidelbaugh, who represented the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee in the lawsuit against the group, recounted for the committee what she had been told by a former ACORN worker who had worked in the group’s Washington, D.C. office. The former worker, Anita Moncrief, told Ms. Heidelbaugh last October, during the state committee’s litigation against ACORN, she had been a “confidential informant for several months to The New York Times reporter, Stephanie Strom.”
This should give everyone that didn't vote for this guy hope, Barack Obama could never get close to becoming President without the Liberal Media in his back pocket. His ties to Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers should have sent him into the political history books...
Cult like worship of a community organizer who has accomplished nothing. Our side kept asking what kind of "change" would he bring, well now we know, the problem is their side doesn't care... Wake up America
This video is no longer on the WINK website for some reason...
WINKNEWS CAPE CORAL, Fla. - A tea party to protest government spending and taxing is canceled. Canceled by the government. Why? They feel too many people could show-up. Lynn Rosko planned to hold a tax payer tea party at Jaycee Park in Cape Coral on April 1st. The idea was announced at a Cape Coral City Council meeting, then an e-mail blast by the Republican Party and it was mentioned in the local media. With all of that attention, the City of Cape Coral felt there could be more than 500 people attending the tea party. Therefore Rosko needed to get a permit and insurance for the event. Rosko says she's not willing to get insurance and accept liability for something that a stranger could do. Rosko told WINK News, "I have rescinded any organizing or supervision or what ever you want to call it over this tea party on April 1st." For now Rosko's event is canceled, she's encouraging people to attend the April 15th Tax Payer Tea Party in Centennial Park in Fort Myers.
**UPDATE** CAPE CORAL TEA PARTY IS ON From: FREEDOMWORKS "Despite the efforts of the local government in Cape Coral, FL, to prevent people from showing up, the tea party is on! FreedomWorks activist Mary Rakovich is taking over the planning of the April 1st Tea Party and wants to send a message to the city that the people of Cape Coral will be heard. If you are in the area, please join her for the tea party on April 1st! I will be on Andrea Shea King’s radio show Monday night around 9:45pm to discuss the Cape Coral situation. "
April Fool’s Tea at the Park When: Wednesday, April 1, 2009
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Where: Jaycee Park 4125 SE 20th Place (at the end of Beach Parkway off Del Prado) Cape Coral, FL 33904
"It is my hope that the steps I am announcing today will go a long way towards answering many of the questions people may have about the future of GM and Chrysler. But just in case there are still nagging doubts, let me say it as plainly as I can -- if you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired, just like always. Your warrantee will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than it's ever been. Because starting today, the United States government will stand behind your warrantee."
SEOUL – The United States plans to deploy two missile-interceptor ships from South Korea on Monday, a military spokesman said, days ahead of a North Korean rocket launch seen by many as a test of its longest-range missile. The launch presents the first significant challenge by the prickly state to U.S. President Barack Obama, who makes his first major international appearance this week at the G-20 summit where he will discuss Pyongyang's intentions with global leaders including Chinese President Hu Jintao. The United States, however, has no plans to shootdown the rocket in a test seen by Washington as part of Pyongyang's goal to eventually develop an intercontinental ballistic missile, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Sunday. "I would say we're not prepared to do anything about it," Gates said on "Fox News Sunday." "If we had an aberrant missile, one that looked like it was headed for Hawaii, we might consider it," he said, adding the Pentagon does not believe North Korea can put a warhead on the missile or reach the U.S. West Coast.
Does North Korea have anything to fear here, with Defense Secretary Robert Gates saying today "the U.S. has no plans to shoot down the rocket?" Barack Obama reaches out to Iran and wishes them a Happy New Year, wanted to talk to "moderate" Taliban, reaches out to Syria and Hamas, and then we give a reset button to Russia, whose leaders are former KGB?
They have nothing to fear, Barack Obama might talk tough, but every world leader knows he has zero intention of backing it up....
NYDAILYNEWS The White House forced the head of GM to step down Sunday as President Obama warned Detroit automakers to clean up their act if they want more government cash. General Motors Chief Executive Rick Wagoner didn't make the grade amid government demands that he retool the automaker and nudge the embattled car company towards profitability. "We asked him to step down and he agreed," a senior administration official told the Daily News. Obama intends to reveal new plans today for bailing out Chrysler and GM, which already have been handed $17.4 billion in federal government loans. GM is asking for another $16.6 billion, while Chrysler wants an additional $5 billion. So far Ford has not asked for handouts from Washington.
John McCain on Meet The Press, gives the answer of yeah she's great, but there are alot of candidates out there.. You will probably never hear him say Mitt Romney is one of those great candidates, just sayin...
McCain had a level 5 on a scale of 1-10 of Crossover Syndrome, he was hard on Obama on a few things, yet had "some confidence" in TurboTax Tim Geithner.
After using the "worse crisis since the great depression" to help get him elected, Obama is now making the turn that with "the economy is not so bad now." In September Obama critized McCain for "the fundamentals of our economy are strong" comment and used the image of McCain will continue the "failed" policies of the Bush Adm.
The willing accomplices in the Press helped Barack Obama every step of the way led by Chris Matthews every night slamming McCain on the fundamentals comment.
This clip is from today's Meet The Press, and the ad is from Barack Obama mid september.
President Barack Obama listens to a question from teacher Bonnee Breese, right, of Philadelphia, as he takes part in an Internet town hall meeting, Thursday, March 26, 2009, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)The AP forgot to mention that Bonnee is a member of the 11,626-person Pennsylvania for Obama page on Facebook. She was invited to the meeting through the American Federation of Teachers union.
President Obama has promised to change the way the government does business, but in at least one respect he is taking a page from the Bush playbook, stocking his town hall Thursday with supporters whose soft -- though far from planted -- questions provided openings to discuss his preferred message of the day.Obama has said, "I think it's important to engage your critics ... because not only will you occasionally change their mind but, more importantly, sometimes they will change your mind,"
But while the online question portion of the White House town hall was open to any member of the public with an Internet connection, the five fully identified questioners called on randomly by the president in the East Room were anything but a diverse lot. They included: a member of the pro-Obama Service Employees International Union, a member of the Democratic National Committee who campaigned for Obama among Hispanics during the primary; a former Democratic candidate for Virginia state delegate who endorsed Obama last fall in an op-ed in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star; and a Virginia businessman who was a donor to Obama's campaign in 200
Barack Obama continues adding troops to afghanistan.
In 2007, Democrats with a fever pitch condemned Bush's additional troops in Iraq, and passed a non binding resolution 246-182 against him, they condemned General Petraeus with the "General Betray Us' ad.
After the vote, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called it a historic day: "Congress gave the American people an opportunity to hear, in a bipartisan way, why the president's escalation is not the way to go, and heard in a strong, strong voice that we all support our troops."
CNN is poised to finish March third in the prime-time weeknight ratings behind Fox News Channel and MSNBC, the first time this has ever happened for the channel that pioneered the cable news genre nearly three decades ago.
CNN says its overall business is healthy and it is not straying from its straight news path. But it is suffering more audience erosion than its rivals since the peak days of the presidential election, further proof that the opinionated prime-time shows on Fox and MSNBC have greater audience loyalty.
Drudge MARCH 26, 2009 FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,420,000 FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,987,000 FOXNEWS BECK 2,374,000 FOXNEWS GRETA 2,160,000 FOXNEWS BAIER 1,940,000 FOXNEWS SHEP 1,888,000 MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,322,000 CNNHN GRACE 1,300,000 MSNBC MADDOW 1,208,000 CNN KING 1,144,000 CNN COOPER 1,118,000
Chris Matthews, not enough audience to make the list, there are more people watching colorbars than Hardball.....
Who does Chris Matthews hate worse, Michelle Bachmann or Sarah Palin? What exactly is a guy from Rolling Stone doing on a political show doing commentary? Matthews, Michelle Bernard, and Mike Taibi all make a mockery of Michelle Bachmann and her questions of Bernanke and Geithner
What Could Go Wrong?.... Hundreds of kids bused to site of 1979 takover of U.S. Embassy
AP U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that Iran has a role to play in the region that includes neighboring Afghanistan and she hopes it will be constructive. Clinton told reporters in Monterrey, Mexico, that the United States will continue to reach out to Iran, even though earlier efforts were unsuccessful. President Barack Obama's outreach to Iran in a video message recently was rebuffed by Iranian leaders But Clinton reaffirmed U.S. hopes that Iran will help in stabilizing Afghanistan."Iran borders Afghanistan," she said. "It has a role to play in the region and we hope it will be a constructive role."
Just exactly who is an enemy to this Administration besides Rush Limbaugh and Talk Radio?
Sarah Palin speech at the Anchorage Republican Dinner talks about the situation the night of the V.P. Debate with Joe Biden. This coming of the same day John McCain speaks at the Heritage Foundation talking about voters pulling the lever for Sarah Palin.
Actually John it was 59,934,814 votes, coming from one of my favorite election sites US ELECTION ATLAS. That's alot of votes against Obama, McCain also being outspent nearly 2-1.
The Liberal Mainstream News Media also being in the tank for Barack Obama from day 1
Foxnews The Obama administration has ordered an end to use of the phrase "Global War on Terror," a label adopted by the Bush administration shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. In a memo sent this week from the Defense Department's office of security to Pentagon staffers, members were told, "this administration prefers to avoid using the term 'Long War' or 'Global War on Terror'.
We sure wouldn't want to offend those other countries that hate us anyway by calling people who fly planes into buildings "terrorists" Everyone on our side kept asking during the campaign, what kinda of "Change" is he talking about? Never has the American electorate gotten something more wrong....
WashingtonTimes "Forget about Republican objections. The biggest obstacle to President Obama's progressive budget comes from Democrats from states with a lot of conservative voters, a lot of farms or a lot of old-time industry. "I think most Democrats have the approach that we are not here to represent the president. We're here to represent the states that sent us here," said Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas. "That means that even though we're Democrats, our first priority is to do what's right and what's best for our states." With Mr. Obama largely relegated to the sidelines now, work by Senate and House committees Wednesday reflected the majority party's competing regional and economic interests, some of which are at odds with the president's $3.6 trillion plan."
Maybe the Democrats know that Obama's radical agenda might cost them.
In 1994, 2 years after Bill Clinton was elected, Slick Willie lost 54 House seats and 8 Senate seats after doing his best to swing an entire nation to the left. It can happen again......
Reuters Poland said on Sunday it hoped the new U.S. administration would not abandon plans to station a missile defence system on its territory. President Barack Obama's administration is reviewing U.S. security policy, including the missile shield plan. This has prompted speculation he might shelve a project that has angered Moscow, with which Washington wants to mend ties. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Poland had taken "something of a political risk" in signing an agreement with the Bush administration to host the system. "When we started discussing this with the United States, the U.S. assured us they would persuade the Russians that it was purely defensive and it would be a non-controversial decision," he told the annual Brussels Forum conference. "We signed with the old administration; we patiently wait for the new administration, and we hope we don't regret our trust in the United States,"
Obama Press Secretary Chris Matthews gushing at anything Barack says and any plan he puts forth. But the reaction to the Bush clip is angry and you can see the contempt on his face. Hey Chris, no conservative cares one bit if you're a liberal, and that you worked for Jimmy Carter and Tip O'Neal, it's just the fact you look in that camera and act like you're objective and shoot it right down the middle...
By the way, Mondays's cable news Nielsen ratings had Glenn Beck quadruple Matthews audience in the demo, you can see that here
WCBSTV Charles Schumer said it's time.New York's senior U.S. senator now supports same sex marriage and plans to take a leading role in gay rights issues.Having reversed his position on the issue of same-sex marriage, the senator said his opinion has evolved."I've thought about it long and hard. I think it's the right thing to do. So, I called in the leadership and said, 'I'm going to support it'," Schumer said.
Hopefully this will never be brought up for a vote with this Democrats controlling the House, Senate and The White House.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
1st Amendment Freedom Of Speech, is talking about freedom of political speech more than anything else..
More broken promises from Our Dear Leader Candidate Obama at the 2nd Presidential Debate, the first Townhall with McCain after promising to debate "anytime, anwhere" Obama bashing deficits under Bush, bashing deficit spending, saying "I'm cutting more than I'm spending" and saying "I will give a net spending "cut."
Jarred by a cool reception from the White House and fears of unintended consequences across the financial world, Senate leaders are likely to delay until late next month legislation to punitively tax bonuses at banks and investment firms that receive federal aid.
With just two weeks to go until Congress departs for a spring recess, action on the tax measure would be unlikely before late April.
POLITICO Three days after Barack Obama became president, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made a prediction: Democrats would make big mistakes that would play into the Republicans’ hands going into the 2010 midterm elections.“With all due respect to the new president and the enhanced majorities in the House and the Senate, governing is tough business,” McConnell said at the time. “It’s hard. It’s very difficult to govern and not create issues, make mistakes, and I’m optimistic that the landscape in 2010 for my party will be very different than it was in ’06 and ’08.”
I wonder if all those people who had their retirement in GM, Ford and Chrysler and seen their life savings evaporate were watching President Obama joking about putting money in the auto industry?
What's next an appearance on Comedy Central's The Daily Show?
WASHINGTON (AP) ― Vice President Joe Biden's economic adviser warned Sunday that a congressional plan to tax American International Group Inc. executives' bonuses may go too far in using the tax code as a tool for retribution.
President Barack Obama has not said whether he would veto some version of a House-backed plan to heavily tax the $165 million in bonuses. Biden economist Jared Bernstein said it's important to look at what version of the proposal comes out of the Senate
Barack responds to Cheney charge that "Obama Policies have made America less Safe"
CBS 60 Minutes Interview Obama fires back at former Vice President Dick Cheney's charge that his plan to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay and end the torture of terrorism suspects has made the U.S. less safe: "How many terrorists have actually been brought to justice under the philosophy that is being promoted by Vice President Cheney? It hasn't made us safer. What it has been is a great advertisement for anti-American sentiment."
Pressed by Kroft that some of the released prisoners have returned to terrorist groups, the president said, "There is no doubt that we have not done a particularly effective job in sorting through who are truly dangerous individuals … to make sure [they] are not a threat to us," he says. But he called the Bush administration's policy on detainees at Guantanamo -including long incarcerations with no trials - "unsustainable."
We wouldn't want to hurt the feelings of other countries by treating terrorists as terrorists would we Barry?
What's next a reset button for Al Queda like we gave Russia?
Foxnews The tourists went to the International Zone in the heart of Baghdad, where U.S.-led forces and embassies are headquartered, and had their picture taken at the famous Crossed Swords landmark. The arches, depicting two hands holding swords, lead into parade grounds that Saddam Hussein had built after the Iran-Iraq war.
The trip was organized by a British adventure travel agency in the latest indication of security improvements.
WASHINGTON – "President Barack Obama's budget would produce $9.3 trillion in deficits over the next decade, more than four times the deficits of Republican George W. Bush's presidency, congressional auditors said Friday. The new Congressional Budget Office figures offered a far more dire outlook for Obama's budget than the new administration predicted just last month — a deficit $2.3 trillion worse. It's a prospect even the president's own budget director called unsustainable.
By CBO's calculation, Obama's budget would generate deficits averaging almost $1 trillion a year of red ink over 2010-2019"
A picture has emerged apparently showing Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in his former days as a KGB officer. The 20-year old photo depicts two world leaders – U.S. President Ronald Reagan and the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev — in Moscow. But, according to the man who took the photo, it also captures Putin disguised as a tourist. Pete Souza, now President Obama's official photographer, captured the moment when he worked for President Reagan during the political thaw that soon ended the Cold War.
"The Obama administration dropped a proposal to require some disabled veterans to pay for medical treatments through their private insurance companies, heeding a chorus of outrage from veterans groups and Capitol Hill lawmakers who said the idea was immoral, unconscionable and un-American. The White House decided to scrap the plan after meeting with a contingent of veterans and military advocacy groups on Wednesday for the second time this week."
CNN: "Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd told CNN today that he added language to the federal stimulus bill to make sure contracts for bonuses at companies receiving federal bailout money stayed in place. Dodd said that Obama administration officials wanted the language added to an amendment limiting bonuses that could be paid by those companies."
President Barack Obama on Tuesday accused critics of his $3.6 trillion budget proposal of taking a "just say no" approach to his plan and offering few ideas of their own. Obama spoke after meeting with two key lawmakers who will play a key role as Capitol Hill begins to debate the fiscal 2010 budget plan. "If there are members of Congress who object to specific policies and proposals in this budget then I ask them to be ready and willing to propose constructive alternative solutions," Obama said. "'Just say no' is the right advice to give your teenagers about drugs. It is not an acceptable response to whatever economic policies are proposed by the other party."
FLASHBACK: Post debate poll on the economy After the economic crisis of Mid September, Barack Obama never again trailed McCain 69 Million Voters, Ye Suckers.....
The RasmussenReports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 36% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-two percent (32%) now Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +4, his lowest rating to date.
