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Grayson to Cheney: Shut the Fu-k Up

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 11:27:02 PM
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Bush vs. Obama It's Getting Closer

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 11:05:18 PM

Obama's December Standing

For the second month in a row we find Barack Obama's national approval rating at 49%, with 47% of voters disapproving of him. He has the support of 83% of Democrats, 46% of independents, and 11% of Republicans. None of those numbers have really changed from our November poll.

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Perhaps the greatest measure of Obama's declining support is that just 50% of voters now say they prefer having him as President to George W. Bush, with 44% saying they'd rather have his predecessor. Given the horrendous approval ratings Bush showed during his final term that's somewhat of a surprise and an indication that voters are increasingly placing the blame on Obama for the country's difficulties instead of giving him space because of the tough situation he inherited.

http://publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com/2009/12/obamas-december-standing.html
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Gay Marriage Bill Vote in the New Jersey Senate to be Delayed

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 7:27:26 PM

N.J. Senate delays vote on gay marriage bill

By Statehouse Bureau Staff

December 09, 2009, 5:16PM

TRENTON -- A state Senate vote on legalizing same-sex marriage in New Jersey has been delayed, its two prime sponsors said today.

Sens. Ray Lesniak (D-Union) and Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen) said the bill -- which was up for passage on Thursday -- instead will likely be introduced in the Assembly Judiciary Committee in preparation for a vote by the lower house.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/12/nj_senate_to_delay_vote_on_gay.html

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Another House Democrat to Retire

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:48:55 PM

Baird to retire

By Sean J. MIller - 12/09/09 06:08 PM ET

Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.) announced his retirement early this evening.

“The time has now come to pursue other options, other ways of serving. Hence, I am announcing today that I do not intend to seek reelection to Congress in 2010,” the six-term congressman said in a statement. “This is not an easy decision to be sure, but I believe it is the right decision at the right time.”
 
Baird is the third Democrat to officially retire after Reps. John Tanner (D-Tenn.) and Dennis Moore (D-Kan.) recently announced their departures. Six Democrats are leaving their seats to run for another office.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/71515-baird-to-retire
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Only a Coincidence

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:46:43 PM

EPA chief: Timing is a coincidence



By LISA LERER | 12/9/09 8:45 AM EST

COPENHAGEN— Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson insisted Wednesday that her agency did not time the release of its global-warming endangerment finding to jump-start climate talks here.

“The endangerment finding and the work here are separate,” she told a packed room at the Bella Center. “Certainly, I was glad we were able to complete the finding and make that statement just before, but that wasn’t the impetus for our work.”

International negotiators have jumped on the ruling as a way for the Obama administration to increase its commitment to slashing greenhouse gases, regardless whether Congress goes along.

The ruling forces the EPA to begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions reductions from industrial polluters like power plants, factories and auto makers.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30390.html



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I Wish Oliver North All the Best

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:42:16 PM

Fox's Oliver North off air during treatment


By MIKE ALLEN | 12/9/09 6:04 PM EST

Oliver L. North, host of FOX News Channel’s documentary series "War Stories," is temporarily off the air while he undergoes treatment for prostate cancer, POLITICO has learned.

North’s prognosis is excellent, according to sources.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30408.html


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Stephanopoulos to Co-Host GMA, But will Still Host His Sunday Show

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 6:04:20 PM

UPDATE 1-ABC to tap Stephanopoulos as co-anchor of 'GMA'

NEW YORK, Dec 9 (Reuters) - ABC News plans to announce on Thursday that George Stephanopoulos will become an anchor of "Good Morning America" in a long-expected change that sees Diane Sawyer step up to head the U.S. network's nightly news.

Stephanopoulos, 48, is a former political adviser to the administration of President Bill Clinton. After leaving the White House, he took roles co-hosting ABC News coverage of political events and appeared regularly on ABC News shows.

He is expected to keep "This Week," his Sunday news program, "for the foreseeable future", one source said on Wednesday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0917274120091209



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Feinstein on Taxypayer Funding for Abortion: It is Morally Correct

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 5:54:53 PM
Feinstein Says It's 'Morally Correct' to Force Taxpayers to Fund Abortion
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
By Karen Schuberg

(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D.-Calif.) told CNSNews.com that using tax dollars from pro-life Americans to pay for insurance plans that cover abortion is morally correct.

The health care bill put before the Senate by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) would in fact provide tax dollars to health insurance plans that cover abortion. An amendment to the health care bill sponsored by Sen. Ben Nelson (D.-Neb.) that would have prohibited tax dollars from going to insurance plans that cover abortion was defeated yesterday.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/58256
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Sanford to Not be Impeached

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 5:49:40 PM

  • No Impeachment for Sanford

    South Carolina lawmakers vote 6-1 against move to oust governor over summertime tryst, use of state aircraft

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"It's Not a Baby"

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 3:33:14 PM
Live Action, which according to their website, they are:

We are a youth led movement dedicated to building a culture of life and ending abortion, the greatest human rights injustice of our time. We use new media to educate the public about the humanity of the unborn and investigative journalism to expose threats against the vulnerable and defenseless.

http://www.liveaction.org/index.php/about

Their recent videos that they have been posting on their website is part of their Rosa Acuna project and its goal is to expose Planned Parenthood for who they really are; a corrupt and reprehensible organization.

Here is a video of one of their undercover investigations in Appleton, Wisconsin, where Planned Parenthood officials and a doctor tells the woman that what is growing inside of her is not a baby.





EVIDENCE OF COUNSELING ABUSE AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD CONTINUES TO SURFACE IN UNDERCOVER STUDENT VIDEO

Contact: Lila Rose, media@liveaction.org, (323)454-3304

Appleton, December 9 -- New undercover footage from an Appleton, WI Planned Parenthood abortion clinic shows clinic staff, including the abortion doctor, lying to two young women about fetal development and encouraging the one who is pregnant to obtain an abortion because "women die having babies."

In the undercover video, when the two women ask a Planned Parenthood counselor if the pregnant woman's 10-week-old unborn child has a heartbeat, the counselor emphasizes "heart tones," and answers, "Heart beat is when the fetus is active in the uterus--can survive--which is about seventeen or eighteen weeks." On the contrary, embryologists agree that the heartbeat begins around 3 weeks. Wisconsin informed consent law requires that women receive medically accurate information before undergoing an abortion.

The counselor then says, "A fetus is what's in the uterus right now. That is not a baby." Dr. Prohaska, the abortion doctor, insists, "It's not a baby at this stage or anything like that." Prohaska also states that having an abortion will be "much safer than having a baby," warning, "You know, women die having babies."

http://www.liveaction.org/index.php/projects/rosaacuna
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Hillary Clinton Pollster Mark Penn's Two Firms Received Stimulus Money

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:18:37 PM

Mark Penn's two firms got $6 million from stimulus for PR campaign

By Alexander Bolton - 12/09/09 12:00 AM ET

Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008.

Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/71353-mark-penn-got-6-million-from-stimulus
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Did Obama Lie or Not Know What Geithner had Planned

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 11:43:06 AM
On Monday, he stated that he wants to end TARP, but today, Geithner reveals a different path for TARP.

Obama wants TARP funds for jobs bill

By Sam Youngman - 12/08/09 12:01 PM ET

President Barack Obama announced his support for a new jobs program funded by money left over from the Wall Street bailout.

Obama on Monday said he would press Congress to pass legislation to pay for additional infrastructure works, tax breaks for small businesses and incentives for consumers who weatherize their homes.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/71155-obama-plans-to-use-tarp-funds-for-jobs


Bailout Program Extended to October: Geithner

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the administration is extending the financial bailout program until next fall.

In a letter to House and Senate leaders, Geithner says the extension is "necessary to assist American families and stabilize financial markets."

http://www.cnbc.com/id/34344628


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It's All Bush's Fault for Hollywood's Depressing Films

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:50:19 AM

Apocalypse Now

By Ramin Setoodeh | NEWSWEEK
Published Nov 25, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Dec 7, 2009
 

There are grim movies, and then there are movies that should list the Grim Reaper in the credits. No Country for Old Men, the 2007 Oscar-winning drama, falls into the latter category, but it's as cuddly as a hamster compared with The Road, the latest adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy novel. The Road is set in a post-apocalyptic world where everything and almost everyone is dead. There are no trees, no grass, no sun, no food, and, worst of all, no booze to take the edge off. The few survivors are sometimes driven to devouring each other. Our two protagonists are tired, gaunt, and nameless: Man (Viggo Mortensen) and Boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee), who spend the movie navigating through these various hazards on their long journey to ... where? I'm tempted to say it beats the hell out of me, but that may be the answer.

The Road seems to suggest that mankind is on a dreary march to endless pain, and after sitting through this season's Oscar contenders, I can relate. This has always been the time when the studios drag out their heavy films for award "consideration." But in the last few years they've been getting uncomfortably weighty. There's even a movie called A Serious Man—I had to get up and leave in the middle, it's so depressing—and it's a comedy. 

 
You can blame Hollywood's doom and gloom on the Oscars, but I'm not going to. Instead, I think it's George W. Bush's fault.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/224357
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What a Say Day When the Media will Not be Able to Have Their Pictures Taken with the Messiah

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:43:41 AM

W.H.  Nixes Receiving Lines?

By AMIE PARNES | 12/7/09 8:01 PM EST

For reporters covering President Obama, there’s only one party in town that matters: The White House Holiday Party. It’s a rare opportunity to walk around parts of the White House and meet the president and first lady. In the past, the highlight of the event has been the chance to get your picture taken with the president in the receiving line.

This year, however, the White House seems to be doing things a little differently. The invites went out late – and didn’t include journalists who have been invited in the past. And those who have been invited seem likely to be denied the traditional receiving-line photo.

http://www.politico.com/click/stories/0912/w_h_nixes_receiving_lines.html
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'Misusing Knowledge to Expand Government Power'

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:40:36 AM

Misusing knowledge to expand government power

By: Michael Barone
Senior Political Analyst
December 9, 2009

"Knowledge is becoming more specialized and more dispersed, while government power is becoming more concentrated," writes economist Arnold Kling in his new book "Unchecked and Unbalanced." "This discrepancy creates the potential for government to become increasingly erratic and, as a result, less satisfying to individuals."

"Less satisfying to individuals" is a mild way to put it. In a recent Annenberg focus group, pollster Peter Hart asked Philadelphia suburbanites to write the name that came to mind when they thought of Congress. A retired auto executive and 2008 Obama voter wrote, "Satan." When asked why, he said, "Because I wasn't sure of the correct spelling of 'Beelzebub.' "

Kling's point is that such disenchantment is inevitable when government officeholders make sweeping decisions about matters on which they lack, and only a few specialists have, detailed knowledge. Which is what Congress and the Obama administration have been busy doing these past 11 months.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Misusing-knowledge-to-expand-government-power-8641333-78813172.html

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