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Genealogist: Obama, Mass. Sen.-elect Brown related
It was bad enough that President Barack Obama lost his filibuster-proof margin in the U.S. Senate to a Republican. Now it turns out he also lost it to a relative. Genealogists said Friday that the Democratic president and the newly elected senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown, are 10th cousins. The New England Historic Genealogical Society said Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and Brown’s mother, Judith Ann Rugg, both descend from Richard Singletary of Haverhill, Mass. [Somehow all of Obama’s supporters will twist this little nugget to say that the election of Republican Scott Brown was indeed a vote by the citizens of Massachusetts for him and his policies…ed]
Obama Faces New Pressure to Try Terror Suspects in Military Tribunal
As the Justice Department searches for a new venue to hold the trial of confessed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, critics are pouncing on the Obama administration’s steadfast refusal to consider a military tribunal to bring the terror suspect and his four alleged accomplices to justice. The administration’s critics say moving the trial to a different venue isn’t the solution. They maintain that the terror suspects, who were captured on foreign soil and are being held at the military prison in Guantanamo, shouldn’t be brought to the U.S. at all. “They belong in a military installation — Guantanamo would be an ideal location,” Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. said of Mohammed and his four alleged accomplices. “… there is no community in the country that should have this foisted upon them,” King told Fox News. “I said then, I say now, the president’s decision, the attorney general’s decision to hold these trials in New York … was the most irresponsible decision any president has ever made.” [Obama’s challenge will be to order the moving of this trial to a military installation like Gitmo where it should have taken place anyway, then try and convince everyone it was his brilliant idea to do so while leaving his AG Holder hanging in the wind…ed]
White House Panic Week Yields No Change in Direction
Barack Obama’s Panic Week has come and gone, but did his White House learn anything from the historic repudiation of his leftist agenda? Putting the question another way, has Obama made the necessary course corrections or is he still refusing to hear the message that America is sending him so loudly and clearly? Given the Democratic Party’s stunning defeat in Massachusetts, its November losses in New Jersey and Virginia and its increasingly bleak 2010 electoral prospects, one would think Obama has no choice but to follow the route Bill Clinton took to the right sixteen years ago when he stared down similar circumstances. With the exception of passing his so-called economic stimulus bill, Obama has been unable to get any major legislation through the U.S. Congress – this despite the presence of a sizeable Democratic majority in the House and (until recently) a filibuster-proof Democratic super-majority in the Senate. [The real danger to this country is not Barack Obama but a voting citizenry willing to trust someone like him with the most powerful position in America if not the world. As a country we CAN survive this arrogant marxist and his merry band of like mined whackjobs. What does threaten America’s survival is this insane group of people willing to enthusiastically vote others just like him into office…ed]
Where Clinton Turned Right, Obama Plowed Ahead
When President Bill Clinton faced a Republican uprising and a nation that turned deeply skeptical about his agenda, he used the 1996 State of the Union address to declare that “the era of big government is over.” That move to the middle — arguably more rhetoric than reality — stopped Newt Gingrich’s Republican Revolution in its tracks. So why did President Barack Obama go a different route on Wednesday night, giving little ground and declaring that the problem was not his agenda but a deficit of trust in government and of pragmatism? If there was a defining line in Mr. Obama’s speech, it might have been “Let’s try common sense,” to which he ad-libbed, “a novel concept.” [He not only plowed ahead but showed up as a guest at the Baltimore area Republican retreat and chewed their asses for not going with the program!…ed]
President Obama rumbles with House GOP
President Barack Obama on Friday accused Republicans of portraying health care reform as a “Bolshevik plot” and telling their constituents that he’s “doing all kinds of crazy stuff that’s going to destroy America.” Speaking to House Republicans at their annual policy retreat here, Obama said that over-the-top GOP attacks on him and his agenda have made it virtually impossible for Republicans to address the nation’s problems in a bipartisan way. “What happens is that you guys don’t have a lot of room to negotiate with me,” Obama said. “The fact of the matter is, many of you, if you voted with the administration on something, are politically vulnerable with your own base, with your own party because what you’ve been telling your constituents is, ‘This guy’s doing all kinds of crazy stuff that’s going to destroy America.’ ” [The Republicans handed Obama a stack of proposals that they have tried to introduce in Congress only to have the Democrat leaders ignore them. Naturally this arrogant narcissist will take the suggestions and do the same very thing. He could care less what those who oppose his agenda have to say and if you aren’t on board with the program you are merely the enemy in his eyes…ed]
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