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Obama's Poll Numbers Decline Again

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:58:58 PM
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 30% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of –8. The President’s Approval Index rating has fallen six points since release of a disappointing jobs report last week (see trends).

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
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After the NY State Senate was Deadlocked for Many Weeks, the Democrats Have Regained Control Once Again

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:43:20 PM

NY Democrats win back control of state senate

Thu Jul 9, 2009 7:10pm EDT

By Joan Gralla

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Democrats on Thursday said they regained control of the state Senate after the second of two party members who had defected to the Republicans rejoined the Democrats, ending a nearly five-week impasse that had frozen all legislation.

Democrats, who had won control of the Senate for the first time in 40 years in November only to see the GOP oust them from the leadership on June 8, vowed to reform the upper chamber.

Senator Pedro Espada, of the Bronx, rejoined the Democrats on Thursday, breaking a 31-31 split between the two parties in the Senate. He becomes majority leader and the state's first Hispanic to hold the post. The GOP had named Espada as Senate president, which put him third in line to succeed the governor.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5687WO20090709


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Ricci Firefighters to Testify at Sotomayor Hearing

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:41:27 PM

Firefighters to testify about Sotomayor

Republicans will call two New Haven firefighters to testify in the confirmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor next week, making clear the GOP's intent to place affirmative action at the center of the Senate battle over Sotomayor's nomination.
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State Department Under Cyberattack Once Again

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:39:47 PM
US State Department under cyberattack for fourth day
Jul 9 04:32 PM US/Eastern

The US State Department said Thursday its website came under cyberattack for a fourth day running as it tried to prevent further attacks.

"I'm just going to speak about our website, the state.gov website. There's not a high volume of attacks. But we're still concerned about it. They are continuing," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.a6c27e3843e8f645f9e395649a3a85e5.c51&show_article=1


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Watch Out Pelosi! The Congressional Black Caucus will be After You Now

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:24:08 PM

Pelosi shuts down resolution on Michael Jackson



By SUZANNE GAMBOA, Associated Press Writers Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press Writers – Thu Jul 9, 2:20 pm ET

WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shut the door Thursday to a resolution honoring Michael Jackson because debate on the symbolic measure could raise "contrary views" about the pop star's life.

Lawmakers are free to use House speeches "to express their sympathy or their praise any time that they wish," said Pelosi, D-Calif. "I don't think it's necessary for us to have a resolution."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090709/ap_en_ce/us_pelosi_michael_jackson


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House Rebukes Obama

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:21:12 PM
House overwhelmingly rejects signing statement
By Walter Alarkon
Posted: 07/09/09 06:48 PM [ET]
The House rebuked President Obama for trying to ignore restrictions to international aid payments, voting overwhelmingly for an amendment forcing the administration to abide by its constraints.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/house-overwhelming-rebukes-obama-signing-statement-2009-07-09.html
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Senator Burris will Not Seek Reelection

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:11:46 PM
Sen. Burris will not seek reelection
By Aaron Blake
Posted: 07/09/09 06:21 PM [ET]

Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) is expected to announce Friday that he will not seek the seat he was appointed to early this year, according to sources familiar with his intentions.
 
Burris’s office announced Thursday that he will make a “major announcement” at a press conference in Chicago on Friday at 3 p.m. EST.

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/sen.-burris-will-not-seek-reelection-2009-07-09.html
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Violence Does Not Stop in Iran

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 09, 2009 4:21:46 PM

Defiance in Iran

Tear gas fired into crowds in latest clash between pro-reform demonstrators, authorities
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John Coleman, Founder of the Weather Channel, Speaks About the Myth of Global Warming

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 09, 2009 1:58:39 PM
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Firm Who Gave Money to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer Receives a Big Contract

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 09, 2009 1:43:00 PM

Updated: Hoyer-linked firm wins $18M Recovery.gov contract

By: David Freddoso
Commentary Staff Writer
07/09/09 8:28 AM EDT

ABC reports this morning that the Maryland firm Smartronix has won what seems like an enormous $18 million contract to re-design the Recovery.gov website. Approximately $9.5 million would be spent by January in order to make "Recovery 2.0" out of the site that is at least supposed track the spending of federal stimulus funds in detail.

Smartronix, a medium-sized Maryland-based firm (over 500 employees) founded in 1995, boasts a large number of government clients, mostly military. The company appears to have just one important political connection: according to FEC records, Smartronix president, Mohammed Javaid, vice president Alan Parris, and partner John Parris have together given $19,000 to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D) since 1999. There is no record of a Smartronix employee contributing to any other federal politician.

UPDATE: Smartronix got $260 million in other federal contracts

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Hoyer-linked-firm-will-do-Recoveryorg-redesign-50353982.html

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Biggest Tax Increase in American History Vote to be Delayed Until September

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 09, 2009 1:38:55 PM
Obama's drive for climate change bill delayed

By Richard Cowan
Reuters
Thursday, July 9, 2009 1:02 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's push for quick action by Congress on climate change legislation suffered a setback on Thursday when the U.S. Senate committee leading the drive delayed work on the bill until September.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR2009070901998_pf.html

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Maybe This will Stop the Iranians from Trying to Acquire a Nuclear Bomb

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 09, 2009 1:36:46 PM

US releases five Iranians in Iraq

Five Iranian officials held by the US military in Iraq since January 2007 have been freed.

A spokesperson for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki confirmed the five, said by Iran to be diplomats, had been handed over to Iraqi officials.

US forces seized the five in the northern city of Irbil on suspicion of arming and funding Shia militias

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8141974.stm
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What a Bombshell!

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:38:57 PM

Report: Dems' Health Care Bill Full of Pork

Deep inside the massive health care takeover being planned by Democratic politicians is "a provision that could provide billions of dollars for walking paths, streetlights, jungle gyms, and even farmers' markets" – pork-barrel spending by another name. The Boston Globe reports:

"Tucked within is a provision that could provide billions of dollars for walking paths, streetlights, jungle gyms, and even farmers' markets. ...

"Critics argue the provision is a thinly disguised effort to insert pork-barrel spending into a bill that has been widely portrayed to the public as dealing with expanding health coverage and cutting medical costs."

http://www.freedomproject.org/Blog/Read.aspx?GUID=d86b4754-bb8f-47af-81b3-e0b3e93daef1
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The Situation Keeps Getting Stranger

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 09, 2009 10:35:21 AM

House Democrats Say CIA Lied Over Waterboarding

Dems say CIA Director Leon Panetta admitted officials misled lawmakers repeatedly in what the GOP argues is an effort to protect House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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AmeriCorps Refuses to Answers Questions Regarding WalpinGate

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, July 09, 2009 9:56:25 AM

AmeriCorps stonewalls questions of White House involvement in IG firing

By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
07/09/09 8:50 AM EDT

A top official of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the government agency that oversees AmeriCorps, has refused to answer questions from congressional investigators about the White House's role in events surrounding the abrupt firing of inspector general Gerald Walpin.

Frank Trinity, general counsel for the Corporation, met with a bipartisan group of congressional investigators on Monday.  When the investigators asked Trinity for details of the role the White House played in the firing, Trinity refused to answer, according to two aides with knowledge of the situation.


http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/AmeriCorps-stonewalls-questions-of-White-House-involvement-in-IG-firing-50354822.html
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