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Obama Down with Independents 7 Points Since Last Month

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:32:39 PM

Obama's Approval Rating Dips to 53%

CBS)  Updated 10 a.m. ET

President Barack Obama is being greeted warmly in China, but back in the U.S. his overall approval rating has slipped to 53 percent, according to a new CBS News poll.

Approval for Mr. Obama's handling of the situation in Afghanistan has dropped as well as more Americans now disapprove than approve.
However, a majority of Americans still approve of the way Mr. Obama is handling his job as president, but this percentage is down three points. Fifty-three percent of Americans approve of how he's handling his job, down from 56 percent last month.

The president's approval rating has dropped seven points among independents. Forty-five percent of independents now approve of how the president is handling his job. Last month, a majority of 52 percent approved.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/17/opinion/polls/main5680779.shtml

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We Should Have Pulled Out of the UN a Long Time Ago

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:31:20 PM

UN nuclear chief in secret talks with Iran over deal to end sanctions

Richard Beeston, Foreign Editor and Catherine Philp, Diplomatic Correspondent

United Nations and Iranian officials have been secretly negotiating a deal to persuade world powers to lift sanctions and allow Tehran to retain the bulk of its nuclear programme in return for co-operation with UN inspectors.

According to a draft document seen by The Times, the 13-point agreement was drawn up in September by Mohamed ElBaradei, the directorgeneral of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in an effort to break the stalemate over Iran’s nuclear programme before he stands down at the end of this month.

The IAEA denied the existence of the document, which was leaked to The Times by one of the parties alarmed at the contents. Its disclosure was made as the agency warned that Iran could be hiding multiple secret nuclear sites.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6919329.ece


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Stupak Says Don't Mess with us Pro-Lifers

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:29:59 PM

Stupak: I have votes to defeat health bill

By Eric Zimmermann - 11/17/09 10:00 AM ET

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) pledged on Tuesday morning to defeat healthcare reform legislation if his abortion amendment is taken out, saying 10 to 20 anti-abortion-rights Democrats would vote against a bill with weaker language.

"They’re not going to take it out," Stupak said on "Fox and Friends," referring to Senate Democrats. "If they do, healthcare will not move forward."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/68089-stupak-i-have-votes-to-defeat-health-bill

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Former KKK Member Senator Robert Byrd to Capture Record

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:29:04 PM

Sen. Robert Byrd to capture longevity record



By JONATHAN ALLEN | 11/17/09 5:13 AM EST

When the clock strikes midnight tonight, Sen. Robert Byrd will become the longest-serving member of Congress ever — a capstone on a remarkable career in which the adopted son of a coal miner propelled himself from poverty to the pinnacle of legislative power, where he could, did and still does send billions of federal dollars back across the Blue Ridge to help build his home state of West Virginia.

Byrd’s stat sheet speaks for itself:

• Served 20,774 days — or 56 years and 10½ months — in Congress

• Attended 18,582 Senate roll call votes

• Elected to Senate nine times

• Served under 11 presidents

• Held five jobs in Democratic leadership

• At age 91, sits third in line to the presidency

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29605.html

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Back to Jail for Lynne Stewart

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:25:55 PM

Conviction of disbarred lawyer Lynne Stewart upheld for smuggling messages to jailed terrorist

BY Alison Gendar and Samuel Goldsmith
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Originally Published:Tuesday, November 17th 2009, 12:09 PM
Updated: Tuesday, November 17th 2009, 12:32 PM

Disbarred radical lawyer Lynne Stewart is going to jail - maybe for a lot longer than she thought.

A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld her conviction for smuggling messages to her jailed terrorist client, and said she deserves more than the 28 months she got because she may have lied at her trial.

Stewart, 70, is to surrender to U.S. Marshals immediately. The Brooklyn resident has been free on bail since 2006.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/11/17/2009-11-17_conviction_of_disbarred_lawyer_lynne_stewart_upheld_for_smuggling_messages_to_ja.html
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Crist Says He Would Have Voted for Stimulus Package

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 5:24:40 PM

Exclusive: Crist “Absolutely” Would Have Voted for Stimulus

11/16/09, 4:02 pm EST

Florida Senate candidate Gov. Charlie Crist has gone wobbly on his support for the Obama stimulus package, as noted sharply here by Think Progress. Most revealing, he told CNN on November 4th: “I didn’t endorse it, I didn’t even have a vote on the darn thing.”

But when I interviewed Crist this spring for my piece The GOP Jihad, here’s what he told me he’d have done had he had a darn vote:

Rolling Stone: Just a final question: Had you been in the Senate, would you have voted with the other Republicans for the stimulus package?

Crist: Absolutely.

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Now the Obama Administration is Making Up Congressional Districts

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 12:46:43 PM

Exclusive: Jobs 'Saved or Created' in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist

Human Error Blamed for Crediting New Stimulus Jobs to Nonexistent Places

By JONATHAN KARL
Nov. 16, 2009

 Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.

There's one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.

And ABC News has found many more entries for projects like this in places that are incorrectly identified.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jobs-saved-created-congressional-districts-exist/story?id=9097853

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Major Garrett to Get Interview with Obama

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:40:20 AM

Major Garrett Among White House Correspondents to Interview Pres. Obama Today

By Chris Ariens on Nov 17, 2009 07:49 AM

It's official. Fox News' Major Garrett will interview Pres. Obama at 9:20pmET tonight. He tweets:

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/major_garrett_among_white_house_correspondents_to_interview_pres_obama_today_143379.asp

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Democrats' 'Slick Fix'

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:31:07 AM

Dems' slick fix: $210 billion of fiscal restraint

By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
November 13, 2009

Something unusual and largely unnoticed happened last week as Democrats pushed the national health care bill through the House. In a complicated, late-night maneuver, on a party-line vote, the House Rules Committee used the health bill to pave the way for a $210 billion increase in Medicare payments to doctors, without any money budgeted to pay for it. Congress then combined that $210 billion with a measure that would force lawmakers to exercise fiscal discipline -- except when it came to the $210 billion.

It was a particularly slick move, even by congressional standards. With one vote, committee Democrats managed to propose spending a huge amount of money while also claiming to clamp down on spending. More importantly, they threw a very big bone to several physicians organizations, which badly want the increased doctor payments and to whom Democrats are deeply indebted for support of health care legislation. And at the same time, they gave cover to moderate Democrats, who are under pressure to support health reform but also fear the wrath of voters concerned about overspending.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Dems_-slick-fix_-_210-billion-of-fiscal-restraint-8523304-69917072.html

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Some Consequences of Liberalism

Posted by Defend America on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:29:47 AM
Five Terrible Cruelties of Liberalism
by John Hawkins

What liberalism has done to the American family: Oh, the intentions are always good...so liberalism says. They just don't want anyone to feel bad or be judged negatively. They want everyone to have a good time and they believe the government should be there to pick up the pieces if things don't go well. So, we get...

Welfare checks. Gay marriage. No fault divorce. The sexual revolution. Attacks on Christianity. Lauding hedonism and single mothers in Hollywood. "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."

But, when inevitably divorce rates skyrocket, our prisons fill up with children who never had fathers living in the home, and our society starts to fray around the edges, no one wants to admit that liberalism is at the heart of the entire problem.

What liberalism does to the poor: What mother dreams that her child will grow up to be on food stamps? What decent father wants to see his son eating free breakfast at school? How can you care about a person and want to see him living in a government housing project, collecting welfare, and nursing a grudge against the people in our society who have succeeded in life, instead of trying to become a success himself?

http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnHawkins/2009/11/17/five_terrible_cruelties_of_liberalism?page=2
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D.O.A.

Posted by Defend America on Monday, November 16, 2009 8:59:01 PM

  • Palestinian Statehood D.O.A.?

    Dem Senator says any U.N. resolution for unilateral statehood for Palestinians would be 'dead on arrival,' after Palestinians ask E.U. to back the request

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Hoffman "Unconcedes"

Posted by Defend America on Monday, November 16, 2009 7:12:19 PM

Hoffman 'unconcedes' in N.Y.-23 House race

By Jordan Fabian - 11/16/09 06:34 PM ET

Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman has "unconceded" in New York's special House election after reports that the vote margin between him and Rep. Bill Owens (D) has narrowed.

Hoffman conceded the race on Election Night after learning he trailed Owens by 5,335 votes. But the Syracuse Post-Standard reported last week that the margin had shrunk to 3,026 votes after recanvassing.

Hoffman appeared on conservative commenatator Glenn Beck's radio show this afternoon. Beck asked the him if he would "unconcede.""Yes, if I knew this information at the election night, I would not have conceded," Hoffman said. Beck asked him again if he was "uncondeding" and Hoffman replied "If that’s possible, yes."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/67997-hoffman-unconcedes-in-ny-23

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Carter Wouldn't Change a Thing

Posted by Defend America on Monday, November 16, 2009 7:09:56 PM

Carter defends his handling of Iran hostage crisis



By MICHAEL CASEY, Associated Press Writer Michael Casey, Associated Press Writer – Mon Nov 16, 2:26 pm ET

CHIANG MAI, Thailand – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Monday he was pressed by his advisers to attack Iran during the hostage crisis there more than 30 years ago but resisted because he feared 20,000 Iranians could have died.

Islamist militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, and seized its occupants. Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for 444 days.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091116/ap_on_re_as/as_thailand_jimmy_carter


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Obama Speaks about Freedom in China, While the Chinese were Censoring What He Had to Say

Posted by Defend America on Monday, November 16, 2009 4:51:28 PM

In China, Obama presses for rights


Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, November 16, 2009; 10:28 AM

SHANGHAI -- Meeting with a carefully screened group of students at the marquee event of his Asia trip, President Obama on Monday sought to advance what he called America's "core principles" during his first public appearance in China. But the event itself -- billed as an opportunity for Obama to reach beyond Chinese officialdom -- illustrated the Chinese government's tight grip.


The "freedoms of expression and worship, of access to information and political participation, we believe are universal rights," Obama said at a town hall-style meeting in Shanghai, China's most modern and outward-looking metropolis. Liberty, the president told nearly 500 students bused to a science museum decked with U.S. and Chinese flags, should be "available to all people, including ethnic and religious minorities, whether they are in the United States, China or any other nation."

Virtually every aspect of the event was staged, and it was unclear how many Chinese citizens saw the hour-long exchange, which was not broadcast on national television. One of the most provocative statements Obama made -- about the importance of opening up the Internet -- was posted on Chinese news sites at first, but then was deleted.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111600648.html?hpid=topnews

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Obama Administration Plays with Numbers

Posted by Defend America on Monday, November 16, 2009 4:47:35 PM

ABC News Exclusive: Obama Admin Slashed 60,000 Jobs From Recent Stimulus Report

Office of Management & Budget Document: 12 Stimulus Recipients Reported 'Unrealistic Job Data'

By MATTHEW JAFFE
Nov. 16, 2009

The Obama administration, under fire for inflating job growth from the $787 billion stimulus plan, slashed over 60,000 jobs from its most recent report on the program because the reporting outlets had submitted "unrealistic data," according to a document obtained by ABC News.

The Office of Management and Budget document shows that before an Oct. 30 progress report on the program the administration asked the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board to remove information from 12 stimulus recipients that contained "unrealistic data," including "unrealistic job data." (Read the document here.)

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/abc-news-exclusive-obama-administration-slashed-60000-jobs/story?id=9095621
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