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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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'The Depths of Demcare Demagoguery'

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:38:52 AM
The Depths of Demcare Demagoguery
by Michelle Malkin

How low can they go? The desperate Democratic peddlers of a government health care takeover have proclaimed an insurance "holocaust in America" (Fla. Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson), lambasted conservative health care town hall protesters as "political terrorists" (Indiana Democratic Rep. Baron Hill), sent SEIU thugs to demonstrate outside Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman's private residence, and derided senior citizens questioning President Obama's fuzzy math savings claims (California Democratic Rep. Pete Stark: "I wouldn't dignify you by peeing on your leg. It wouldn't be worth wasting the urine.") Now, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is leading them deeper into demagogic mire.

This week, Reid pummeled opponents with the worn-out race card. Following in the mucky footsteps of former President Jimmy Carter (who blamed GOP Rep. Joe Wilson's objections to Obama's policy deceptions on a "racism inclination") and Jesse Jackson ("You can't vote against health care and call yourself a black man"), Reid likened Republicans who object to socialized medicine to slave masters, enemies of women's suffrage and Bull Connor.

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/12/09/the_depths_of_demcare_demagoguery


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American People are Just Not Smart Enough to Understand Global Warming

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:36:02 AM
Climate Skeptics Need Mental Help?
by Brent Bozell

Talk about an inconvenient truth. In ever-increasing numbers, Americans are becoming skeptical about the scientific argument that there's a man-made global-warming crisis that requires immediate and drastic government action. The media's enablers of the radical environmental left have a response: Maybe America just isn't smart or curious enough to save the planet. In fact, they say our growing denial is making us nationally irrational.

On Monday, National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" ran a story by science correspondent Richard Harris. He worried aloud about a new Harris Poll showing that 51 percent of the American public believes that the carbon dioxide building up in the atmosphere could warm up our planet. That's down from 71 percent just two years ago. That's a free-fall.

Harris found an expert from Yale to explain this decline is based on our poor economy. People are too worried about their jobs to care about the fate of the entire globe. In a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, that's why climate came in dead last of 20 issues of concern.

But that's a dodge. It doesn't explain why a number of recent polls show that people are less and less likely to accept the "science" of global warming. Another possibility was lurking out there.

NPR brought on sociologist Kari Marie Norgaard of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., to explain why, as scientists grow ever more confident of global warming, public opinion is moving the other way. "This seems irrational," she said. "And in that sense, it's challenging the basic premise that we have of an enlightened, democratic, modern society."

http://townhall.com/columnists/BrentBozell/2009/12/09/climate_skeptics_need_mental_help


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Now It's Turkey

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:21:06 AM

Fumbling Human Rights Again   [Michael Rubin]

First Obama fumbled the human-rights agenda with Russia. Then China. Then Burma. Then Iran. Then Syria. Then Iran again. Now it's Turkey. President Obama yesterday showered Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with praise: "I'm pleased that I'm able to call Prime Minister Erdogan personally a friend. I'm grateful for his trip here and look forward to many years of collaboration with him to observe both the prosperity of the American people and the Turkish people."

Not a word on Erdogan's embrace of Sudan's president and Erdogan's dismissal of any Sudanese responsibility for mass murder in Darfur. Not a word on Erdogan's personal embrace not only of Hamas, but of the most militant and rejectionist leaders in that movement. And not a word on Erdogan's personal war on the free press in Turkey. On Nov. 30, 2009, the World Association of Newspapers passed a resolution on Turkey. It is worth reading:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDBlYjM1ZGI0ODZhODFjYTVlM2RjMDUwMTIwMjllZWQ=

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