Articles Archive for April 2009
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You have to give him credit for trying. It can’t be easy defending the gaffetastic Sheriff Joe.
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Oddly enough, it isn’t a lost vote fore the Republican party anyway. Switching parties for yourself to get elected. Talk about principles and values.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/28/source-specter-intends-switch-political-parties/:
Veteran GOP Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania intends to announce Tuesday he will switch political parties and run in the Democratic primary in 2010.
Republican voters had sent him to the Senate five times. But faced with the prospect of a strong challenge from conservative Pat Toomey in the GOP primary and the state trending Democratic, Specter jumped ship.
“I deeply regret that I will be disappointing many friends …
Politics »
Yet still went ahead with it anyway… without notifying New York authorities no less.
Via WCBSTV:
Federal officials knew that sending two fighter jets and Air Force One to buzz ground zero and Lady Liberty might set off nightmarish fears of a 9/11 replay, but they still ordered the photo-op kept secret from the public.
In a memo obtained by CBS 2 HD the Federal Aviation Administration’s James Johnston said the agency was aware of “the possibility of public concern regarding DOD (Department of Defense) aircraft flying at low altitudes” in an around …
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This is really pathetic… Wonder if he has talked this over with the American people. Are people getting what they were sold in the election? Did Americans really vote for the elimination of the values that made this the greatest country in history last November? I think not.
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Is anything that comes out of this guys mouth even taken seriously anymore? Seriously, he is good for at least a gaffe a day.
Aides to former President George W. Bush are challenging the veracity of Vice President Joe Biden’s claim this week of having privately castigated Bush, who does not remember the incident or an earlier episode in which Biden claims to have similarly rebuked Bush…
“I remember President Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office,” Biden told CNN, “‘Well, Joe,’ he said, …
National Security »
Nice. Go Governor.
“I am deeply concerned with North Korea’s development and testing program which has clear potential of impacting Alaska, a sovereign state of the United States, with a potentially nuclear armed warhead,” Governor Palin said. “I can’t emphasize enough how important it is that we continue to develop and perfect the global missile defense network. Alaska’s strategic location and the system in place here have proven invaluable in defending the nation.”
Governor Palin stressed the importance of Fort Greely and the need for continued funding …
Economy »
Coming from the Adminstration that was going to listen to the experts.
The administration’s original proposal, you recall, left a persistent budget deficit of roughly 3 per cent of gross domestic product. This has nothing to do with stimulus: the gap is there 10 years out and beyond, long after the economy is assumed to have experienced a prompt, strong, and sustained recovery. Taking account of newer data, and using slightly less optimistic near-term assumptions, the Congressional Budget Office has already upped that projected deficit to 4 per cent of GDP.
Even …
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The Democrats latest attempt to cover their tracks after insuring the AIG bonuses would be paid is a measure to impose pay restrictions. Cavuto asks the obvious question, where does it stop?



