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    Day By Day by Chris Muir December 7, 2008 – Progressive Success

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Yes, Chris, the Progressive choir of Moveon.org and Code Pinkos have been remarkably quiet since “The One” was elected. And, all is quiet on the Iraqi War front since Bush won the war a year ago.

    Guess President Bush, General Petraeus and “The Surge” were too successful to garner any credit this election cycle. But, what will the LIBERALS Progressives run on in two years when they cannot blame Bush for everything?

    Oh, Flap knows: Sarah Palin’s clothes and hairstylists.

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    • As far as Gov. Sarah Palin is concerned, Troopergate is behind her and she won't release to the public testimony she gave in an investigation into whether she violated ethics laws in firing her public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan.
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      Troopergate is over.
      (tags: sarah_palin)
    • Just 31 percent of respondents supported "full marriage rights for same-sex couples," a new Newsweek poll has found.

      The Newsweek survey finds across-the-board support for full civil equality for gay Americans, but on the key question of definining marriage as between one man and one women, the country is a long way from overturning what is seen by a majority as a divine union of spouses.

      Here's the key question item:

      Thinking again about legal rights for gay and lesbian couples, which of the following comes CLOSEST to your position on this issue? Do you support FULL marriage rights for same-sex couples, OR support civil unions or partnerships for same-sex couples, BUT NOT full marriage rights, OR do you oppose ANY legal recognition for same-sex couples?

      For all Americans, 31 percent support gay marriage, 32 percent civil unions, and 30 percent want no legal protection for gay marriage or civil unions.

    • Americans continue to find civil unions for gays and lesbians more palatable than full-fledged marriage. Fifty-five percent of respondents favored legally sanctioned unions or partnerships, while only 39 percent supported marriage rights. Both figures are notably higher than in 2004, when 40 percent backed the former and 33 percent approved of the latter.
    • A message to the 36 freshman lawmakers who were sworn in this week at the state Capitol: Don't get too comfortable.

      Once the euphoria of being elected to state office and moving into Sacramento wears off, reality will set in: a terrible economy, a massive budget deficit and new rules to redraw district boundaries and make elections more competitive, even for incumbents.

      "What I would tell the freshmen is, 'Hold your breath; you're in for a pretty steep ride,'" said Jaime Regalado, director of the Pat Brown Institute at California State University, Los Angeles. "They will have this exhilarating feeling coming in, but then they will all be deflated by the reality of what they're facing."

    • Somewhat paradoxically, however, both Dodd and ranking Republican member Sen. Richard Shelby seemed intent on making clear that the Fed and Treasury could give the automakers money without Congress taking action. If that happened, Congress would surely surrender some power to the executive branch.

      All three automakers promised that they would not be back in front of Congress next year if they got the funds — assuming the economy doesn’t go completely down the tubes in the next few months.

      Moody’s Economy.com chief economist, Mark Zandi, questioned that prediction. He said the $34 billion wouldn’t be nearly enough and put the total price tag at between $75 billion to $125 billion.
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      the car makers will be back for more money in the Spring

    • Okay, one Senator was on the ball at the Big Three hearing: “Senator Corker says G.M. can’t survive with its current capital structure, and complains that G.M. is not seeking a big enough haircut from bondholders. He also says the U.A.W. concessions did not amount to much. In a bankruptcy, he says, the obligations to the post-retirement beneift fund known as VEBA ‘are toast.’ He demands promises of big concessions from the U.A.W., and does not get them. Instead, he hears about a poor old lady who needs her pension.” (Others liked what Corker had to say as well.)

      And is Sen. Corker the only to notice that “Chrysler” is really owned by a private equity fund, Cerberus? You remember them? The same gang that stripped Mervyn’s retail chain store bare and left the employees without so much as their accrued vacation pay. These are the people Democrats want to give money to?
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      the American people do not approve of bailing out the Big 3 and we wonder why Congress does.

    • "It was the largest, most complex test we have ever done," Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, chief of the Missile Defense Agency, said at a Pentagon news conference after the test.

      "The key to our protection . . . is to be able to have all of these different sensors simultaneously tracking" and recognizing the same object, which they did for the first time in yesterday's test, he said. "The kill vehicle was sent to a very accurate spot in space," he said, adding that the result "does give us great confidence."

      However, he said the 40-year-old target missile failed to deploy its countermeasures — such as decoys or chaff — which were supposed to add realism to the test.
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      But, did the interceptor hit the target?

      YES it did.

    • But critics of the program, which the Pentagon says has cost about $100 billion since 1999, said it was unrealistic to expect the United States would face any missile threat that did not include counter-measures.

      "Any country with the technical capability and the motivation to fire a long-range missile at the U.S. would also have the technical capability and the motivation to add decoys to it that are designed to defeat the defense," David Wright, a physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said by email.

      According to the Pentagon, this was the eighth successful test of the ground-based interceptor system in 13 attempts since 1999.
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      What doubts?
      Retest the system with countermeasures. The interceptor missile hit the target didn't it?
      The LEFT is looking for any excuse along with their friends in Russia.