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POPSIt ain't over Doctor shares how and why he is fighting for his patients by opposing government forced healthcare.
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POPS7 stories Barack Obama doesn't want told Obama’s best hope of nipping bad storylines is to replace them with good ones rooted in public perceptions of his effectiveness. Hence the desperate mad rush to pass a healthcare bill ANY healtcare bill.
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POPSThe New Facebook Privacy Settings: A How-To Details that Facebook has deemed public, and any items you make available to everyone, are also available to the makers of any Facebook applications you use or that your friends use. But you do have some controls over applications. On the Applications Settings page, you can change permissions for specific apps (it’s easiest to select “Granted Additional Permissions” from the drop-down menu) and delete apps from your profile altogether.
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POPSGradeGov.com Site allows you to send email directly to Senate Staff and allows you to grade your Representatives or Non-representing representatives as the case may be.
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POPSKeep your eyes on the right BALL
If the Senate fails to garner the needed 60 votes during next weeks procedural vote, watch and see if the Senate Finance comm. and HELP comm. swiftly send versions of the Health reform bill to the Senate Budget comm. This would be the last step needed to enable the Majority Leader to move the Health Care bill under reconciliation, thereby bypassing a motion to proceed and the 6+ additional procedural, cloture votes that would be required if the bill would be considered under the regular order. In addition to the numerous cloture votes needed at various stages to pass the Health care bill in the Senate, with each cloture vote, comes an unavoidable 1 intervening day that must pass between initiating the procedure and the actual vote itself.The Reconciliation process saves time, valuable session days and only requires 50 votes to pass. The Majority Leader could lose 10 of his democratic members and still pass the bill with the Vice President voting to break the tie. In addition, sending t
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POPSGeithner Says Credit-Default Swaps Weren't the Problem, After All.
But if Mr. Geithner now says the AIG bailout wasn't driven by a need to rescue CDS counterparties, then what was the point? Why pay Goldman and even foreign banks like Societe Generale billions of tax dollars to make them whole? Regulators say that having taxpayers buy out the counterparties improved AIG's liquidity position, but why was it important to keep AIG liquid if not to protect some class of creditors? Yesterday, Mr. Geithner introduced a new explanation, which is that AIG might not have been able to pay claims to its insurance policy holders: "AIG was providing a range of insurance products to households across the country. Yet, if there is one thing that all observers seemed to agree on last year, it was that AIG's money to pay policyholders was segregated and safe inside the regulated insurance subsidiaries. If the real systemic danger was the condition of these highly regulated subsidiaries"where there was no CDS trading"then the Beltway narrative implodes.
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POPSHolder stonewalled on potential conflicts of interest "Yes, I will certainly consider that request," he said. "But I asked you for information," Grassley responded. "Will you provide it?" "I will consider that request," Holder repeated, adding that the lawyers involved are "fine public servants" and "patriots" who have "national security uppermost in their minds." Grassley still wanted an answer. "The very least you can give me is a list of the recusals," he said. "I will consider that," Holder said again.
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POPSHolder's former law firm representing 17 detainees - Conflict of Interest? The Senate shrugged at the glaring conflict of interest Attorney General Holder presents in handling Gitmo legal issues. Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Cucullu, author of Inside Gitmo: The True Story Behind the Myths of Guantanamo Bay, makes the ethical problem plain: As a senior partner, he undoubtedly had significant input on what kind of charity cases his firm picked up. Even now, his Covington colleagues continue to allege rampant torture at Gitmo. They’re fighting hard to have detainees tried through the US court system—essentially given the same rights as US citizens. And their arguments and plans hinge largely on having Holder issue a bad report card. Recent polls indicate that at least half of Americans disagree with affording the detainees legal rights on US soil. Will they have the same access to Holder’s ears as his former colleagues do?
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POPSABC News: NYC Prison Guard attacked by Al Qaeda in Prison break attempt Salim had marked an escape route from the prison to the United Nations and written a hostage demand note, as part of a wider plot to negotiate the release of other prisoners. To complete his escape, Salim had to get the cell block keys away from Pepe, his intended victim. Salim would later testify in court that he launched his attack after another guard announced he was going to lunch, leaving Pepe alone. " was regarded as one of the only guards that actually treated these people, in their view, with respect, and so immediately he emerges as a soft target. That's the reason they went after Officer Pepe," Cloonan said. "I was very nice," Pepe said. "I always would whatever they want. I used to help them give them, of course you would never give money, but if you want help, you need something, whatever you need."
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POPSBlinded Prison Guard: Don't House Terror Suspects in NYC Billingsley said she could not discuss whether security measures have changed since Pepe was nearly killed in 2000, nor could she discuss whether any new steps would be taken if more Al Qaeda suspects are sent to the MCC. But those reassurances were little consolation for Pepe and his sister, who said the government was quick to forget the terrible lesson of his attack. "We're such a lax country — we don't learn from our mistakes," Trotta told FoxNews.com. "We have to protect our own, and at this point we're not doing it.
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POPSWhy Won't Obama Won't Call Fort Hood Suspect a Terrorist? Maybe it was because this would be the first Terrorist Attack on US soil in eight years and it was on his watch. Bush kept us safe at home from Islamic Extremists for the years after 9/11 and Obama did not... So, we get denial and stories about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder... that newly contagious disease.
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