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POPSThe Clintonites were wrong First: The source of the boom was not a bubble associated with tech stocks, but rather a permanent increase in U.S. productivity growth produced by the information technology (I.T.) revolution. Second: Foreign money was pouring into the U.S. as a result of well-informed expectations that the U.S. would lead the world in economic growth for a long period to come. Third: Increased inequality in the U.S. was a result of the global market rewarding skilled Americans at the expense of unskilled Americans, and could be cured by more higher education. Something like this was the cheerful and optimistic New Democrat party line in 2000, the last year of the Clinton administration. How do things look from the perspective of 2010? It is now clear that the boom of the second Clinton term was driven by the temporary tech stock bubble. It did not mark the beginning of a "new economy" fundamentally different from the old.
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POPSHealth Care Bill Could Face String of Legal Challenges Third, auto insurance regulation occurs at the state level. When the Congressional Budget Office considered the idea of a health insurance mandate back in 1994 under the Clinton administration, it concluded that the mandate would be "an unprecedented form of federal action." The only congressional mandate close to that was the draft, the CBO concluded. Other legal objections are emerging in the wake of a concession that Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., won for his state as a condition for his support of the health care bill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid agreed to provide for full and permanent federal aid for Nebraska's expanded Medicaid population. It was only one of a slew of hand-crafted sweetheart deals for those senators who agreed to support the bill. Graham said his state could file an equal rights suit under the Constitution. The Constitution calls for "equal protection" of all citizens.
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POPSSpy agencies foil Obama plan for transparency
But now Obama finds himself in the awkward position of extending the secrecy, despite his repeated pledges of greater transparency, because his administration has been unable to prod spy agencies into conformance. Some of the agencies have thrown up roadblocks to disclosure, engaged in turf battles over how documents should be evaluated, and have reviewed only a fraction of the material to determine whether releasing them would jeopardize national security. In the face of these complications, the White House has given the agencies a commitment that they will get an extension beyond Dec. 31 of an undetermined length - possibly years, said the administration officials, who spoke on the condition they not be identified discussing internal deliberations. It will be the third such extension: Clinton granted one in 2000 and Bush granted one in 2003. The documents, dating from World War II to the early 1980s, cover the gamut of foreign relations, intelligence activities, and military..
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POPSThe LID of SECRECY The documents in question – all more than 25 years old – were scheduled to be declassified on Dec. 31 under an order originally signed by President Bill Clinton and amended by President George W. Bush. But now Obama finds himself in the awkward position of extending the secrecy, despite his repeated pledges of greater transparency, because his administration has been unable to prod spy agencies into conformance.
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POPSDemocrats on Iraq What did the Hypocritical Dummycrats have to say in 1998. You Know during the Administration of Wild blowjob Bill Clinton. The same Administration that was Handed Bin Laden on four different occasions and Clinton said that we didn't want him.!!!!!
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POPSPaul Krugman: The politics of spite More: How did one of our great political parties become so ruthless, so willing to embrace scorched-earth tactics even if so doing undermines the ability of any future administration to govern? The key point is that ever since the Reagan years, the Republican Party has been dominated by radicals — ideologues and/or apparatchiks who, at a fundamental level, do not accept anyone else’s right to govern. Anyone surprised by the venomous, over-the-top opposition to Mr. Obama must have forgotten the Clinton years. Remember when Rush Limbaugh suggested that Hillary Clinton was a party to murder? When Newt Gingrich shut down the federal government in an attempt to bully Bill Clinton into accepting those Medicare cuts? And let’s not even talk about the impeachment saga.… It’s an ugly picture. But it’s the truth. And it’s a truth anyone trying to find solutions to America’s real problems has to understand.
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POPSSurprise winner of Obama stimulus spending: gun industry Gun culture magazines in the ‘90s named President Clinton ‘gun salesman of the year’, but Obama has become the gun salesman of the century. As police departments order new firearms using stimulus funds, there's more than a little irony in the fact that a president whom the gun industry looked upon with suspicion has put forward a federal program from which gunmakers are benefiting. It seems the Democrats have realized they have become victims of their own antigun propaganda. Among the general public, a record 1 million guns were sold across the U. S. in August alone, rebuffing expectations that, after 10 months, the post-Obama election gun-buying spree would abate. Gunmaker Smith & Wesson on Wednesday reported a 30% rise in sales in the first quarter, leading to unexpected profits and a rising stock price. For those of you who are for gun control, how do you like your president now?
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POPSObama Readies Reform Specifics It's going to be a long hard ride for this President but I have seen him in action, he's tough and determined. He will get a good bill through to help the American people and bring down health-care costs. The insurance companies were unable or unwilling to do so. Now, they will be made to do it. I believe if the institutions of this country are unable or unwilling to change for the betterment of the nation, then they ought to be made to do so.
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POPSHey, (Cowering-In-The-)Barracks Forshame Obummer: If You Would Lead, Maybe We Would Follow Does this guy who seems to want, more than anything, for everyone just to be happy and sing along in the same key, still really believe in bipartisanship, at the very moment when the very people with whom he is negotiating are reinforcing the most absurd and inflammatory lies asserting the elder-cide intentions of his health-care bill? Sorry. Did I say "his health-care bill"? Problem number one here is that there's no such thing. As in just about everything else of consequence this administration has been involved in, he seems quite content to simply defer to Congress and allow the sausage-making process on the Hill to generate precisely the policy abomination one might expect, with all the political liabilities we've come to know and love from such a dispiriting collection of 535 (minus two or three) moral midgets.
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POPSRahm Emmanuel Runs the White House; But Who’s Running Rahm?
But President Obama’s campaign veterans still blamed him* for spreading harsh attacks against their candidate in the primary showdown with Mrs. Clinton last year. So Mr. Emanuel talked with Mrs. Clinton. *Mr. Blumenthal was out. Perhaps nothing illustrates how far Mr. Emanuel has come than that conversation last month. Sixteen years ago, it was Mrs. Clinton, then first lady, who helped have Mr. Emanuel demoted as a senior official in Bill Clinton’s White House after he ruffled feathers with his aggressive style. Now all these years later, it is Mr. Emanuel telling Mrs. Clinton what she cannot do as a member of the cabinet. Seven months after moving into his office in the West Wing, Emanuel is emerging as perhaps the most influential White House chief of staff in a generation. But with his prominence in almost everything important going on in Washington comes a high degree of risk. As the principal author of Mr. Obama’s do-everything-at-once strategy, he stands to
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POPSBill Made Her Do It * No cruel remarks about how the Chicago native who spent most of her adult life in Arkansas got elected to the Senate from New York, please.
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POPSSome Things Are More Important Than Money I suspect there are responsible loggers that play by the rules and practice environmentally safe business practices. I also know that there are large logging companies that stretch restrictions to the breaking point to earn a profit. That's why this legislation is important.
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POPSThe Clintons Are Back? Seriously, all reports indicate that Bill conducted no negotiations. Whatever backdoor communications occurred, there again is no evidence of their involving more than working out the details of the release. As for HRC's public statements, I see nothing at all remarkable skillful or crafty about them. In the future, I do agree that Bill Clinton should be kept on tap for further celebrity appearances since he obviously has found his metier. The true tests for a still awkward Secretary of State await her, and the administration, in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Palestine, Moscow. To date, we have witnessed little more than non-stop travel -- seemingly based on the Lamborghini motto that if you drive fast enough all accidents happen behind you. Moreover, she has put her foot in her mouth with dismaying frequency.
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POPSI Smell a rat!!! - Editing of the mainstream media Fraud Over Obamas birthplace EXPOSED. I know what the original article said and thought i was going mad then I stumbled across this whilst looking for another article. Note the comparison as these are two versions of the same article. The second is the edit with it now stating it to be "the continent of his fathers birth" instead of the original sentence (see pic) of "continent of his birth." He needs to be removed from office as I do not believe he could be impeach as his claim to the presidency was never legitiment in the firtst place. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this particular point that is to follow, If he was removed it would take his corrupt administration with him wouldn't it? We need to make more noise on this subject. It does however it does raise the frightening prospect of having a psychopath like Hilary Clinton in power. You really think she just sat back and let Bill do, well anything at all really?
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POPSLosing Democrats: Blaming Republicans: Independents Bolting And they are loath to trust the man who sold them on the stimulus package when he says that their care will be protected. More and more, they are asking the very simple question that Obama cannot answer: How is he going to cover 50 million new people without more doctors? The elderly are coming to understand that his plan effectively repeals the bedrock guarantee in Medicare that seniors can get whatever care they want for free. The opposition to healthcare changes is building so fast that Obama was forced to retreat from his August deadline. And it’s unlikely that he will be able to make a successful stand in September or October, when his ratings will likely be 10 points lower than they are today. 0bama’s dwindling power Morris, a former adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton
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POPSObama Too Obsessed With Bush-Bashing To Do Anything Worthwhile Despite his reluctance to “look backward,” Obama made clear in April that he was deferring to Holder on whether to prosecute Bush administration lawyers who drafted the legal justification for the interrogation techniques employed by the CIA on terror detainees. Three months later, Holder is leaning toward appointing a prosecutor, and he could name one in a matter of weeks, a decision apparently made after reading a classified version of the CIA inspector general’s report on enhanced interrogation techniques and other material. But if a prosecutor is appointed, it could be virtually impossible to limit the scope of the investigation, Rivkin said, noting that once a special prosecutor is appointed, he or she is given “unrestrained resources” and expected to find wrongdoing. As a result, a special prosecutor’s investigation broadens and shifts course, distracting the attention of Washington " as in the cases of former President Bill Clinton’s real estate dealings . . . .
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POPSObama Justice Department Defends Defense Of Marriage Act – That Candidate Obama Opposed
Obama is the Alpha and he is the Omega. Gay organizations won't abandon a prominent Democrat who doesn’t help them on a key issue, even one who backs a law they strongly oppose. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) refused to rescind its endorsement of Bill Clinton when he signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 1996. They didn’t abandon President Clinton then. And they won’t abandon President Obama now. Funny because President Bush signed the Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 (WRERA) two days before Christmas. The new law makes it mandatory for businesses to roll over retirement benefits to a same-sex partner in the event of the employee’s death. How interesting that this hasn’t been well-reported because by signing this into law, George W. Bush had, by law, done more for the gay community than any other President in history. President William Jefferson Clinton, on the other hand, signed two laws (DOMA and DADT) that put gay rights progress into full revers
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POPSTotal Hypocrisy! MoveOn.org Needs to Move On The place for this to end is in the current White House, and it's interesting that the Barack Obama administration is "now open to theoretical torture investigations," precisely when a majority of Americans backs Tea Party protests against Democratic big-goverment taxing and spending policies. MoveOn.org was formed in 1998 as a lobbying group to support President Bill Clinton against GOP investigations into his personal conduct and corruption. The organization "started by passing around a petition asking Congress to 'censure President Clinton and move on', as opposed to impeaching him." Justice, fairness, and human rights are not at issue here. A rank power grab by one of America's greatest domestic enablers of terror is. MoveOn.org needs to move on, for the sake of the country, if not for its own credibility, since it has very little of that worth preseriving.
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POPSSteeped In Insanity "So, if you'll excuse the mixed metaphor, what's the beef behind today's protests? The Obama administration is cutting taxes for all except the very richest of Americans. Reduced withholding is already showing up in millions of paychecks. Then again, this rash of tea parties is being organized not only by the pseudo-journalists at Fox News (with Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto and Sean Hannity actively stoking the flames) but also by FreedomWorks, a conservative lobbying outfit headed by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey."
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POPSLAT’s Rosa Brooks to Advise Pentagon Undersecretary 'Finish the job' in Afghanistan? Where do we begin? Obama faces a complex, perilous situation in which it's no longer clear what the 'job' is, or what it will take to 'finish' it. Rosa Brooks February 5, 2009 Is it finally time to "finish the job" in Afghanistan?
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POPSRahm Emanuel, "Former Investment (cough*scoundrel*cough) Banker" and in less than three years earned nearly twenty million dollars. So which numbers about Emanuel's income are correct? The New York Times wrote last November that " n his two-and-a-half-year stint as a banker , Mr. Emanuel ... made $16.2 million, according to Congressional disclosures." But Nina Easton, writing in Fortune back in September 2006, said that Emanuel's stint at Wasserstein Perella "netted him more than $18 million in just over two years." Whether it was $16.2 million, "more than" $18 million, or "nearly" $20 million, and whether it was in three years or less, and whether the reports of his earnings do or don't include his salary, fees, stock options, and other compensation as a member of the board of Freddie Mac, I have a more fundamental question about Emanuel:
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POPSThe Plan to Use Tribunals on McVeigh and the Militias: How That Doctrine is Now in Place They asserted that “citizenship of the accused poses no obstacle” to the application of the laws of war to such Americans, with the Bill of Rights providing no protection: It is legally and intellectually disingenuous to provide terrorists the same rights as persons accused of ordinary crimes against society. Our Bill of Rights was designed to protect individuals in society against the arbitrary exercise of government power. It is not meant to protect commando groups warring on society through arbitrary acts of mass violence. We recognize that our proposal may have an adverse impact on the Bill of Rights. Regrettable as this may be, the demonstrable risk of harm to innocent persons posed by terrorism ... comparatively outweighs the speculative risk of such an adverse impact. The “commando groups” Crona and Richardson had most in mind were the domestic militias formed throughout the United States in the 1990s in response to Ruby Ridge and the Waco Siege
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