World Affairs
Politics & OpinionsBy Eddie
2 weeks ago
Some liberal observers, noticing President Barack Obama’s lack of success in advancing his signature agenda items, “health care reform” and cap and trade, are theorizing (or concluding) that America has become ungovernable.
Newsweek takes up this matter, blaming “obstructionist Republicans, spineless Democrats and an increasingly incoherent electorate” for America’s supposed ungovernability. [1]
The fact that “health care reform” is not yet a done deal is supposed to illustrate the problem. All liberals agree that Obamacare is sorely needed and would greatly relieve a lot of suffering. Yet the Republicans won’t get on board with it, and a majority of Americans, having been informed about it (since the Democrat’s initial dead-of-night, unread-bill effort to pass it didn’t quite work) selfishly don’t want to lose their current coverage, with which they are moderately satisfied, and pay substantially more in taxes.
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy Eddie
3 months ago
As I write this, there remains the slenderest possibility that the “health care reform” bill may not pass the Senate. I keep reading that Democratic Party leaders are looking toward a Christmas Eve vote on the measure. The health care bill has less than 40 percent support among the American public (see video in my previous post). President Obama himself has a 41 percent “strong disapproval” rating among likely voters according to Rasmussen (12/20/2009).
But if Sen. Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the President have their way, we’re going to get it come hell or high water. Merry Christmas. Enjoy your “gift.”
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy Eddie
3 months ago
The ol’ U.S. National Debt clock keeps ticking. It’s now up to $12,139,146,898,976.64 or an estimated $39,479.46 per person as of 12/16/2009, 5:57 PM CST. [1]
The Treasury Department says the debt was $12.079 trillion as of Tuesday 12/15/2009 and should reach its current limit of $12.1 trillion by month-end. The House voted 218 to 214 to raise the debt limit to $12.394 trillion, which should finance the government for about two months. [2]
Reuters quoted Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) as saying, “When will it stop? When will Washington get the message that we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing America.” [3]
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy Eddie
3 months ago
Looking for control
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, is scheduled for December 7-18 and is supposed to bring together 85 world leaders to discuss the issue. “The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged world leaders to "seal a deal" on climate change when they meet in Copenhagen next month.” He seems optimistic that a deal can be reached. However, there are growing doubts concerning the scientific validity of global warming claims, and whether the conference will result in a significant agreement. [1]
I’ve been writing quite a lot about the costs and loss of liberty associated with Obamacare, but its (also) evil twin, cap and trade (along with the potential EPA regulations) threatens to seriously undercut the U.S. economy and make these double-digit unemployment rates seem permanent. If that’s not bad enough, the Copenhagen conference and events to follow could very well result in a further surrender of U.S. sovereignty, with serious foreign entanglements through bad treaties, etc.
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy Robehren
3 months ago
Obama’s “Gang of 39” has gone Too Far!
Obama Regime “Blackmails” Congress
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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Remember a few weeks ago, I wrote of Obama’s Chicago style politics? Well then, you were not blind-sided by the EPA’s move to declare their regulation of so-called greenhouse gases.
When you peel away the BS spewed by the EPA you will clearly see the ploy being used by the Obama Regime to say to the Congress, either YOU pass the Cap and Trade bill, or MY EPA will pass regulations that will regulate practically every aspect of American life from the home, to factory, to the office, to the church, to the automobile, -- you name it -- and the Obama Regime will be riding herd over every living American exhaling CO-2 today!
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World AffairsPolitics & OpinionsBy jmalmberg
3 months ago
 The effort to stop global warming came full force to the United States with the election of Barack Obama. Both as a presidential candidate, and later as the new President, Obama has led the charge to pass a bill commonly referred to as Cap and Trade. Simply put, the bill would significantly increase taxes on all forms of energy produced using fossil fuels. In addition, companies would be given strict emissions limits, known as a "cap". And they would be able to sell a portion of those limits on an exchange - known as a "trade". The policy would place significant taxes on individuals and industry and is widely recognized as a job killer. But over the past week, it was revealed that much of the data being used in the scientific community to back up the claims of global warming was actually fabricated. And that could be enough to permanently stop Cap and Trade.
This week, the headlines in Europe have been filled with articles on what is now being referred to as "ClimateGate"; the publication of hacked e-mail messages between some climate scientists. The mail messages in question resided on computer servers at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at University of East Anglia in England. CRU is widely regarded as the premier repository of climate science data. And that data has been used by the UN and governments around the world to show that the temperature of the Earth is rising. |
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