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Investigation of Emanuel, Not Going to Happen

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, December 24, 2009 9:04:48 PM

  • Calls to Investigate Emanuel

    Odd couple asks attorney general to probe Obama's chief of staff for potential role in near collapse of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

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Coburn on Voting Against Senate Health Care Bill

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, December 24, 2009 4:22:39 PM

Voting Against Government-Run Health Care

By Senator Tom Coburn

This vote is indeed historic. This Congress will be remembered for its arrogance, corruption and stupidity. In the year of 2009, a Congress ignored the coming economic storm and impending bankruptcy of our entitlement programs and embarked on an ideological crusade to bring our nation as close to single-payer, government-run health care as possible. If this bill becomes law, future generations will rue this day and I will do everything in my power to work toward its repeal. This bill will ration care, cut Medicare, increase premiums, fund abortion and bury our children in debt.

This process was not compromise. This process was corruption. This bill passed because votes were bought and sold using the issue of abortion as a bargaining chip. The abortion provision alone makes this bill the most arrogant piece of legislation I have seen in Congress. Only the most condescending politician can believe it is appropriate to force Americans to pay for other people's abortions and to coerce medical professional to take the lives of unborn children.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/24/voting_against_government-run_health_care_99671.html

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'Legislating Discrimination'

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, December 24, 2009 4:02:42 PM
Legislating Discrimination
One more reason to oppose Obamacare.

By Hans A. von Spakovsky

What’s the worst bill ever seriously considered for passage by the U.S. Congress? Certainly both the House health-reform bill and Sen. Harry Reid’s health bill are leading contenders.

Both proposals are obscenely expensive. Both limit our freedom to choose our families’ health care. And both would legislate racial and other forms of discrimination — making them not only unconstitutional, but immoral, counterproductive, and dangerous.

Within the last three months, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has twice sent letters to the president and the leaders of the House and Senate warning them of discriminatory provisions in both bills. But those warnings have been ignored, and the problems remain.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmM2YTFmOGQ1MzVhODNjNGRiM2JlYzc1YmY1NjA0M2Y=
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It's All the Newest Members Fault, You Know All those Democrats

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, December 24, 2009 1:11:06 PM

Dodd chastises Senate's 'newest members' for their behavior

By Bob Cusack - 12/24/09 12:33 PM ET
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Wednesday ripped the Senate's "newest members" for the lack of comity in the upper chamber.

In a floor speech Wednesday night, Dodd said there is "nothing wrong" with partisanship, but added he has "been deeply disturbed by some of the [healthcare] debate I have heard, usually from newer members, usually those who have been here one, two, three years, who do not have an appreciation of what this chamber means and how we work together."

Dodd did not name names and spokespersons for the Connecticut senator did not respond to requests for comment.

Most of the newest members of the Senate are Democrats, having been swept into office in the blue waves of the 2006 and 2008 elections.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/73573-dodd-chastises-senates-newest-members-for-their-behavior
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They will be Worried in 2010 Election

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, December 24, 2009 1:09:33 PM

Dems not worried about post-vote backlash at home

Democrats today have repeatedly expressed a confidence that they won't face a backlash for their votes when they return home for the holidays, which would stand in marked contrast to the August recess.

"This is a happy day. (Senate Republican Leader) Mitch McConnell said on the floor that we're going to go home and hear our constituents rail against this bill. I don't believe that. I believe that the negativity that Leader McConnell and others have continually displayed on the floor has peaked, and now when people learn what's actually in the bill—and all the good it does—it is going to become more and more popular because it is good for America, good for the American people, and a true symbol of what we can do if we all pull together," said Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer.
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Obama Has had Enough of the Filibuster

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, December 24, 2009 12:54:51 PM
Obama vents frustration at Senate delays
Dec 23 09:48 PM US/Eastern

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday expressed frustration with the way the Senate does business, saying the use of delaying tactics there harms the nation's ability to "deal with big problems in a very competitive world."

"Other countries are going to start running circles around us," Obama said in a White House interview with PBS. "We're going to have to return to some sense that governance is more important than politics inside the Senate."

...

Obama said the use of that vote-stalling tactic, which requires 60 votes to cut off debate, has been imposed in an "unheard of" routine fashion. He said it's problematic regardless of which party controls the White House and Congress, but conceded that, as president, he doesn't have much power to do anything about it.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9CPDCOG0&show_article=1
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Top Two Leaders of Al-Qaeda's Regional Branch Believed to be Dead

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:11:14 AM

Yemen says Fort Hood-linked imam may be dead


SANAA (Reuters) - A Yemeni air raid may have killed the top two leaders of al Qaeda's regional branch on Thursday, and an American Muslim preacher linked to the man who shot dead 13 people at a U.S. army base may also have died, a Yemeni security official said.

Nasser al-Wahayshi, the Yemeni leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and his Saudi deputy, Saeed al-Shehri, were believed to be among 30 militants killed in the dawn operation in the eastern province of Shabwa, said the official, who asked not to be identified.

U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki may also have died in the air strike which targeted a meeting of militants planning attacks on Yemeni and foreign oil and economic targets, he said.

If all the deaths are confirmed, the air strike would appear to have struck a severe blow against AQAP, seen as the most dangerous regional offshoot of Osama bin Laden's network.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BN0S220091224
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Senate Votes to Raise Debt Ceiling

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, December 24, 2009 7:38:42 AM
The Senate just voted to raise the debt ceiling by a vote of 60-39. The only Senator who did not vote was Senator Bunning from Kentucky.

Senate Votes to Raise Debt Ceiling to $12.4 Trillion

FOXNews.com

The Senate's rare Christmas Eve vote allows the Treasury Department to issue enough bonds to fund the government's operations and programs until mid-February.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate has voted to raise the ceiling on the government debt to $12.4 trillion, a $290 billion increase over the current ceiling.

The House approved the increase last week. The Senate's rare Christmas Eve vote, 60-39, permits the Treasury Department to issue enough bonds to fund the government's operations and programs until mid-February. The Senate will vote again on the politically tricky issue on Jan. 20.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/24/senate-votes-raise-debt-ceiling-trillion/


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Senate Health Care Bill Passes

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, December 24, 2009 7:17:13 AM
The Senate Health Care Bill passes by a vote of 60-39. The only Senator who did not vote was Senator Bunning from Kentucky.
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Media Research Center's Quotes of the Year

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 10:07:49 PM

Welcome to the Media Research Center’s annual awards issue, a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from 2009 (December 2008 through November 2009).

To determine this year’s winners, a panel of 48 radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers, and media observers each selected their choices for the first, second and third best quote from a slate of five to eight quotes in each category. First place selections were awarded three points, second place choices two points, with one point for the third place selections. Point totals are listed in the brackets at the end of the attribution for each quote. Each judge was also asked to choose a “Quote of the Year” denoting the most outrageous quote of 2009.

Quote of the Year

Melissa Lafsky

“Mary Jo wasn’t a right-wing talking point or a negative campaign slogan....We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history....[One wonders what] Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted’s death, and what she’d have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded. Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.”
— Discover magazine deputy web editor Melissa Lafsky, who formerly worked on the New York Times’s Freakonomics blog, writing at the Huffington Post, August 27.

There's more crazy and disturbing quotes:

http://mrc.org/notablequotables/bestof/2009/
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McCain Not able to Convince Democrat Carney to Switch Swides

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 10:03:13 PM

Carney Rebuffs McCain Overtures, Will Remain a Democrat

By Shira Toeplitz
Roll Call Staff
Dec. 23, 2009, 9:12 p.m.

Rep. Christopher Carney (D-Pa.) said Wednesday night he will not switch parties despite appeals from the GOP and a phone plea from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

http://www.rollcall.com/news/41866-1.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

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That is What You Said about Charlie Crist and Now Look at Marco Rubio's Comeback in the Polls

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 9:03:40 PM

Cornyn: Conservatives 'have to yield' to reality in upcoming Senate races

By Michael O'Brien - 12/23/09 09:34 AM ET
Conservative primary voters "have to yield" to reality, Senate Republicans' campaign chairman said Wednesday.

Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), suggested that conservatives need to have a more realistic sense of which races are winnable and with which candidates.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/73445-cornyn-conservatives-have-to-yield-to-reality-in-senate-races
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Another Democrat to Switch to the Other Side of the Aisle?

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 5:55:56 PM

McCain, GOP secretly courting another Dem to switch



By JONATHAN MARTIN & JOSH KRAUSHAAR & PATRICK O'CONNOR | 12/23/09 5:45 PM EST

Republicans are stepping up their efforts to persuade more House Democrats to switch parties and are zeroing in on a second-term Pennsylvanian who is not ruling out such a move.

Democratic Rep. Chris Carney received a phone call Wednesday from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) asking him to consider becoming a Republican, a top GOP official told POLITICO.

A spokesman for Carney declined to say if the congressman was considering such a switch.

“No further comment at this time,” said Carney spokesman Josh Drobnyk, who would only confirm that the call took place.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30942.html



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Not So Easy to Close Guantanamo?

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 5:38:30 PM
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Nebraska Governor Has a Message for Senator Nelson of Nebraska: We Don't Want Any Special Deal

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 5:02:10 PM
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