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U.S. President George W. Bush waves upon his arrival on the snow-covered South Lawn of the White House in Washington, January 22, 2007. Bush returned from a weekend at the Camp David Presidential retreat where he worked on his annual State of the Union address that he is scheduled to deliver on January 23.

Reuters: Millions could see taxes up in Bush health plan

About 30 million Americans could face a tax hike under President George W. Bush’s plan to expand health insurance coverage and address rising health care costs, the White House said on Monday.

“There are always going to be some winners and some losers, but the people who might initially be losers have options,” Kate Baicker, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, told reporters.

There are about 47 million people with no health insurance in a country of 300 million. Baicker said Bush’s tax proposal would result in “upwards of 3 million or more newly insured people.”

Bush plans to highlight the plan in Tuesday’s State of the Union speech to the U.S. Congress.

Wow, socialism/tax redistribution and a massive middle class TAX INCREASE.

Remember “READ MY LIPS?”

This plan is a LOSER and almost as bad as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s radical health care proposal. And the WORD in California is that the Governator’s health care reform proposal is DEAD ON ARRIVAL.

But don’t forget the 150,000 medical doctors. Forget about managed care, imposing medical decisions on doctors by high school graduates, and forget about huge mal-practice premiums….the docs are organizing and are in an ugly mood. Nothing in 35 years have galvanized doctors since the mal-practice crisis. And, they are all furious with the Governor.

But, the Democrat’s plan is even WORSE - UNIVERSAL SINGLE PAYOR GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE.

The President’s health care plan is DOD - DEAD ON DELIVERY.

Stay tuned……..

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BBC: View of US’s global role ‘worse’

The view of the US’s role in the world has deteriorated both internationally and domestically, a BBC poll suggests.

The World Service survey, conducted in 25 nations including the US, found that three in four respondents disapproved of how Washington has dealt with Iraq.

The majority of the 26,381 respondents also disapproved of the way five other foreign policy areas have been handled.

The poll, released ahead of President Bush’s State of the Union speech, was conducted between November and January.

Read the rest of this CRAP story and absurd poll.

The poll can be accessed here.

Flap has never seen as BIASED a piece of “NEWS” in a MSM publication. The BBC makes NO pretense in its anti-American LEFT-WING Agenda.

There is so much wrong with the polling methods and construction of the questions. And what about the sampling methods? How about providing the poll internals?

The reader does not have to be a statistician to see what a POS this piece is.

And lookie lookie who is involved - the Left-Wing Brookings Institute and Steve Kull of PIPA and LEFTY Collaborator I.M. Destler.

Old Clinton and LBJ Democrat Hacks providing disinformation to the BBC.

What a surprise?

NOT 

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Houston Chronicle: Climate scientists feeling the heat

As public debate deals in absolutes, some experts fear predictions ‘have created a monster’

Scientists long have issued the warnings: The modern world’s appetite for cars, air conditioning and cheap, fossil-fuel energy spews billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, unnaturally warming the world.

Yet, it took the dramatic images of a hurricane overtaking New Orleans and searing heat last summer to finally trigger widespread public concern on the issue of global warming.

Climate scientists might be expected to bask in the spotlight after their decades of toil. The general public now cares about greenhouse gases, and with a new Democratic-led Congress, federal action on climate change may be at hand.

Problem is, global warming may not have caused Hurricane Katrina, and last summer’s heat waves were equaled and, in many cases, surpassed by heat in the 1930s.

In their efforts to capture the public’s attention, then, have climate scientists oversold global warming? It’s probably not a majority view, but a few climate scientists are beginning to question whether some dire predictions push the science too far.

“Some of us are wondering if we have created a monster,” says Kevin Vranes, a climate scientist at the University of Colorado.

But, Al Gore was already a MONSTER…….

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AP: Iran bars 38 IAEA nuclear inspectors

Iran has barred 38 nuclear inspectors on a United Nations list from entering the country, the foreign minister said Monday in what appeared to be retaliation for the U.N. sanctions imposed last month.

The rejected officials are on a list of potential inspectors drawn up by the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit and monitor Iran’s nuclear facilities.

“The act of rejecting some inspectors is legal and in accordance with the agency’s regulations,” Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told the official Islamic Republic News Agency. He said others on the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s list remain eligible, but did not explain how Iran decided which inspectors to bar.

The IAEA “submits a long list of inspectors to member countries and the countries have the right to oppose the visit by some inspectors,” Mottaki said.

The United States rebuked Iran for the move. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said it was “another example of the Iranians trying to dictate the terms to the international community — in this case, the IAEA.”

Who cares?

Everyone knows that Iran has a secret nuclear weapons program. What is there to inspect?

Nothing but what the Iranian Mullahs want the IAEA to see.

And from Flap’s view there may not be much infrastructure of a nuclear program left - and soon.

Stay tuned………

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.

When Flap first saw this skit on Saturday night, I thought Oh God! here we go with the Clinton media machine.

I suppose Hillary is in trouble with the Hollywood Left.

But, you would never know it by watching today’s Today Show - gag me.

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Washington Post: Giuliani Hires E-Campaign Expert

As Dan Balz and I wrote in today’s Post, presidential candidates on both sides are focused heavily on bolstering their Internet presence through a variety of new tools, including video, podcasts and even online video chats.

To brainstorm and implement these new innovations, the campaigns are chasing after a small group of people in their 20s and early 30s versed in the language of the new media.

One of the real “gets” on the GOP side of that world is Patrick Ruffini, who served as the Web master of President Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign and then served in a similar role at the Republican National Committee. Ruffini gained recognition in national Republican circles for his blog, which was one of the first serious attempts on the Republican side at building an online community.

Ruffini has signed on with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign as an e-campaign adviser. The hiring is only the latest sign that Giuliani is serious about a run for national office in 2008.

As Flap said the first time - the Giuliani campaign is the REAL DEAL.

Stay tuned as web efforts become more readily apparent…….

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