At Ace of Spades, you can see videos of Kathleen Sebelius and the Senate’s newest Democrat Arlen Specter getting shouted down at a Townhall meeting and Lloyd Doggett getting a dose of Tea Partiers at his own town hall meeting.
Well, Think Progress thinks they’ve found a “talking points memo” from Freedom Works that outlines ways to disrupt these townhall meetings. And they’re not happy about it. One commenter at Think Progress complained;
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Dingy Harry Reid apparently sees a way to lower Republican approval ratings – he brought up the birther controversy on the Senate floor for no good reason today according to The Hill;
“Let’s be clear, it’s a phony issue and does not deserve even a minute of our attention on the floor of the United States Senate,” Reid said. “It’s absurd, irresponsible, baseless, and the false claims of long ago have been refuted … The American people should know that rather than helping them get ahead, some of my colleagues would rather spew ludicrous conspiracy theories.”
Reid accused Republican lobbyists of orchestrating an attempt to discredit Obama by sending out fake letters purporting to be from minority groups. He did not name the groups specifically but called the acts “sick, dishonest and really undemocratic.”
From the Washington Times on the President and the GI Bill;
Before a crowd of roughly 350 people, Mr. Obama recalled how President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the original GI Bill in 1944, which led to an education for 8 million service members, including the president’s grandfather who helped raise him.
“I wouldn’t be standing here today if it was not for the GI Bill,” he said, while flanked by Virginia Sen. Jim Webb and retired Sen. John Warner, who worked on the legislation. “By 1947, half of the people enrolled in college were veterans.”
I don’t understand. Can someone explain that to me?
The Washington Times‘ Nicholas Kralev writes this morning that “Clinton goes goes off-script, ‘clarifications follow’” – basically, he compares HRC’s gaffes to Joe Biden’s;
Compared with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former first lady and senator from New York has committed only minor diplomatic gaffes. Still, twice during her trip to Asia last month, Mrs. Clinton made comments in which the accuracy was questioned by specialists and later had to be “clarified” by the State Department.
So are you enjoying your $16/week tax cut from the Obama Administration? Better start laying that away somewhere because according to Reuters, Obama Administration officials are talking tax hikes;
Geithner left unclear whether Obama would be willing to set aside his campaign pledge not to raise taxes on Americans making less than $250,000 a year. “We can’t make these judgments yet about exactly what it’s going to take and how we’re going to get there,” he said.
Summers later said Geithner was not laying the groundwork for tax increases, and added that none of the White House proposals would burden the middle class.
“It’s never a good idea to absolutely rule things out no matter what, but what the president has been completely clear on is this: That he is not going to pursue any of his priorities, not health care, not energy — nothing — in ways that are primarily burdening middle-class families,” Summers told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
Joe the Plumber ain’t lookin’ so dumb right about now, is he?
The GOP is “gaining traction” against Obama according to the US News and World Report, but I think they read it wrong. Obama is loosing traction, the Republicans are doing the same old wheel-spinning they engage in. Obama is slipping back.
Oh, you folks in LA, did you know that the City bounced $6 million in checks?
The Colombian government has recovered weapons from their encounters with the terrorist organization FARC that it turns out were purchased by Hugo Chavez’ Venezuelan government from European countries (El Universal);
“In several operations in which we have recovered weapons from the FARC, we have found powerful ammunition (and) powerful equipment, including anti-tank weapons which a European country sold to Venezuela and which turned up in the hands of the FARC,” Santos told Colombia’s Caracol radio, without giving the name of the European nation.
The Swedish government asked Venezuela for an explanation about the seizure from the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) of Swedish weapons sold to Caracas, a Swedish government officer told AFP on Monday.
“We have it confirmed that a smaller amount of (defense) material made in Sweden has been found in a FARC camp. We have asked the officials of the government of Venezuela to give us information on how they believe this material was found in Colombia,” said Jens Eriksson, a political advisor to the Swedish ministry of commerce.
But, since Chavez called Obama an ignoramus for suggesting that Chavez exports terrorism and obstructs progress, we can expect that Obama wil do nothing in regards to this latest evidence that Chavez is exporting terrorism. I suppose it will only influence Obama to reinstall Zelaya in Honduras.
Last night at Busboys and Poets bookstore in trendy Northwest DC, Congressman John Conyers told assembled activists on the occasion of Progressive Democrats of America’s fifth birthday that “There is no one more disappointed than I am in Barack Obama.”
On the impending healthcare bill, Conyers said, “suppose we happen to pass it? Big deal. That’s what Rahm Emanuel wants — pass anything just to say we did.” A weak plan, Conyers said, would not help things: “It’s going to fail.”
In either case, Conyers concluded, whether we get no bill or a weak bill, “they’ll blame Barack Obama. Heads he loses, tails he loses.” So, Conyers said, “we’ve got to tell Obama now, or he’ll be a one term president.”
Of course, radical John Conyers wants the most extreme and intrusive brand of healthcare. Americans seem to oppose that.
A Gallup poll today says that seniors are more concerned about the Obama Healthcare plan;
Seniors are the least likely of all age groups in the U.S. to say that healthcare reform will benefit their personal healthcare situation. By a margin of three to one, 36% to 12%, adults 65 and older are more likely to believe healthcare reform will reduce rather than expand their access to healthcare.
Fox News this morning featured a retired Navy veteran who dropped his AARP membership and insurance in protest of AARP’s support of the Obama health care plan.
Yeah, well, AARP is nothing more than an insurance brokerage. They like Obama health care because every one will have to buy a new policy to fill the gaps of the government plan.
The Washington Times follows up their article yesterday about the Philly Black Panthers with a story about Republican lawmakers questioning the Obama Justice Department’s decision to not pursue charges against members of the New Black Panther Party who appear to be intimidating voters;
Congressional Republicans on Thursday escalated their criticism of the Justice Department for dismissing a controversial voter-intimidation case, demanding that civil charges against the New Black Panther Party be restored. They also renewed their request to interview career attorneys who disagreed with the administration’s decision to dismiss the charges.
Rep. Frank R. Wolf of Virginia, a senior Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, obtained an opinion Thursday from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) affirming that charges could legally be refiled without violating the double-jeopardy clause of the U.S. Constitution and said he thought Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was obligated to refile the case.
1stCavRVN11B sent us a link to a Free Republic post by my buddy Kristinn who points to yet another Washington Times story about Philly Black Panther Jerry Jackson;
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