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Will General James Jones Be Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor?
Retired Marine General James Jones on Meet The Press, September 10, 2007 discussing the Iraq WarA pretty good sign for hawks, a pretty bad sign for doves — word is that Retired Marine Gen. James Jones, who made an appearance with John McCain during the campaign, appears to be Obama’s pick for National Security Adviser. It was never clear about whether the appearance represented an actual or merely de facto endorsement, it did quash buzz that Jones was a potential running mate for Obama.
With Hillary Clinton’s appointment at State, Robert Gates apparently staying on at Defense, Eric Holder as the Attorney General and some of the other Clinton Administration retreads, the LEFT must be going NUTS today.
President-elect Barack Obama has moved to the center in appointing his cabinet.
Is this change?
Plus Ca Change……
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Hillary Clinton to Accept Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton will accept President Obama’s appointment as the next Secretary of State, according to the New York Times.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has decided to give up her Senate seat and accept the position of secretary of state, making her the public face around the world for the administration of the man who beat her for the Democratic presidential nomination, two confidants said Friday.
Mrs. Clinton came to her decision after additional discussion with President-elect Barack Obama about the nature of her role and his plans for foreign policy, said one of the confidants, who insisted on anonymity to discuss the situation. Mr. Obama’s office told reporters Thursday that the nomination is “on track†but Clinton associates only confirmed Friday afternoon that she has decided.
“She’s ready,†said the confidant. Mrs. Clinton was reassured after talking again with Mr. Obama because their first meeting in Chicago last week “was so general,†the confidant said. The purpose of the follow-up talk, he added, was not to extract particular concessions but “just getting comfortable†with the idea of working together.
A second Clinton associate confirmed that her camp believes they have a done deal. Senior Obama advisers said Friday morning that the offer had not been formally accepted and no announcement will be made until after Thanksgiving. But they said they were convinced that the nascent alliance was now ready to be sealed.
The Obama Adminsitration plus the Clintons. Now, the next four years will be REAL interesting.
The next Clinton scandal will be in 3…….2……..1.
Hillary’s replacement/appointee in the Senate will be either Andrew Cuomo or Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who will have to stand in a special election in 2009. This leaves Rudy Giuliani to go one on one against David Patterson for New York Governor in 2010.
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OUTED: A California Democrat Assemblywoman Who SUPPORTED Proposition 8 – Wilmer Amina Carter
And, the Democrat Assemblywoman from the Inland Empire of California did not sign a friend of the court brief urging the California Supreme Court to overturn Proposition 8 either.Carter, in a recent interview, said she voted for Prop. 8 and disagrees with her colleagues’ actions.
Assemblywoman Wilmer Amina Carter, D-Rialto
Many of her constituents also supported the initiative, she said.
“It primarily stems from my constituents but also from deep religious convictions,” Carter said. “Since I represent my district, I didn’t sign on to it.”
Flap wonders if the Rialto Democrat Assemblywoman will be the subject of protests by the opponents of Proposition 8 – supporters of gay marriage?
Will homosexual activists target Carter in the Democrat primary election in two years?
Stay tuned….
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Obama NOT Rushing to Repeal Gay’s in Military – Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Policy
President Obama is not apt to repeat Bill Clinton’s mistakes, now is he?
President-elect Barack Obama will not move for months, and perhaps not until 2010, to ask Congress to end the military’s decades-old ban on open homosexuals in the ranks, two people who have advised the Obama transition team on this issue say.
Repealing the ban was an Obama campaign promise. However, Mr. Obama first wants to confer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his new political appointees at the Pentagon to reach a consensus and then present legislation to Congress, the advisers said.
Let’s see the advantages:
1. He keeps his homosexual constituency on hold while he collects campaign contributions from them.
2. Obama attaches his new pro-homosexual military policy to an appropriations bill so the Democrats in Congress do not have to vote separately on this issue exposing them to electoral scrutiny.
3. Did Flap mention the campaign contribution part and the “MILKING?”
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California GOP Legislators to Vote To Triple Motor Vehicle Tax?
This supposed “DEAL” is NOT going to happen.
Reporting from Sacramento — State lawmakers began moving toward a deal this week to close California’s deficit with the help of steeper car fees that would cost many drivers hundreds of dollars annually, according to people involved in budget talks.
Under the plan, GOP lawmakers — most of whom have signed anti-tax pledges — would vote to triple the vehicle license fee that owners pay when they register their cars every year in exchange for a ballot measure that would impose rigid limits on future state spending. Motorists’ annual license fees would rise from 0.65% of the value of their vehicles to 2%. For a car or truck valued at $25,000, the increase would be $336.
Flap has heard from a California Republican Legislator who blasts this deal as a “liberal/L.A. Times rumor.”
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California Gay Marriage Proponents Organize Boycott Against San Diego Storage Company Over Proposition 8 Donations
Californians Against Hate Web Ad: Terry Caster and his family gave $693,000 to take away the rights of same sex couples to get married.Californians Against Hate have launched yet another boycott against a California business whose owners donated to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign.
A San Diego nonprofit known for organizing protests against Proposition 8 supporters is calling for a boycott against a San Diego-based storage company.
Californians Against Hate has launched a statewide “virtual boycott” of A-1 Self Storage, owned by Terry Caster, who gave nearly $700,000 to support the gay-marriage ban that prevailed at the polls Nov. 4.
Fred Karger, head of Californians Against Hate, said the boycott is virtual because it will be promoted through blogs and social and business networking sites. His group organized a boycott against the downtown Manchester Grand Hyatt, owned by Proposition 8 supporter Doug Manchester, and a phone campaign against A-1 Self Storage.
More harassment and intimidation from the homosexual community as they prepare for a repeat election to overturn the gay marriage ban voted into law on November 4th.
It is likely that California Proposition 8 will not be overturned on state constituional grounds and gay marriage supporters wish to discourage donors to the 2010 effort to reinstitute gay marriage.
What better way then to publicly shame and financially hurt the businesses?
Polling is unclear whether Proposition 8 protests are effective in helping their cause. These types of boycotts also risk a voter backlash and portray gay marriage supporters as “sore loser” bullies.
Stay tuned…..
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Day By Day by Chris Muir November 21, 2008 – A Matter of Perspective for The One
Barack Obama since the election has been AWOL on the dire economic conditions confronting America. But, then again, he did not have a prescription for a turn around before the election either. And, the media did not press him on it.President-elect Obama has to remember that he won the election and that on January 20th he no longer can spin, evade issues and blame Bush.
Is this why Barry is appointing so many Bill Clinton Administration retreads who actually know how to govern?
Answer: Very likely.
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links for 2008-11-21
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There's been a lot of outrage from the No on Proposition 8 camp since California voters approved a ban on gay marriage. But until now, there has been less soul searching about what went wrong. But Terry Leftgoff, founder of the Gay and Lesbian Business Assn. of Santa Barbara, has a thoughtful piece on WeHo News looking at how the opposition to Proposition 8 fell short. It did, he says, on several levels: A mixed message, failing to respond to attacks from Yes on 8 forces, little black and Latino outreach.
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Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama's national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views on other important foreign policy issues.
The activists are uneasy not only about signs that both Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates could be in the Obama Cabinet, but at reports suggesting that several other short-list candidates for top security posts backed the decision to go to war.
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The Associated Press plans to cut up to 10 percent of its workforce in 2009, according to sources at the news service, as it copes with tough financial times and ailing member newspapers.
The AP has one of the world's largest news-gathering teams, employing about 3,000 journalists, and a total of about 4,100 people worldwide. The cuts could amount to about 400 employees.
AP Chief Executive Tom Curley delivered the news as part of a "town hall" meeting with employees.
"All areas and ways of doing business are being reviewed," said an AP statement provided to Reuters. "The AP, which recently instituted a strategic hiring freeze, may need to reduce staff over the next year. If so, it hopes to achieve much of the reduction through attrition."
The job cuts come as the AP restructures its operations in the United States in a bid to provide what it said would be deeper, more relevant coverage for its member newspapers.
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Even as President-elect Barack Obama continues to rapidly fill out his White House staff and Cabinet picks, the buzz around whether he will spend some of his prized political capital on behalf of former state Rep. Jim Martin (D) in Georgia continues to grow.
Martin is taking on Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R) in a Dec. 2 runoff occasioned by the fact that the GOP incumbent was unable to win 50 plus one percent of the vote on Nov. 4.
Martin clearly benefited from Obama's presence at the top of the ticket — particularly in the black community — and Democrats eyeing a 60-seat filibuster proof majority believe an Obama appearance may be the only way Martin can come close to re-creating the sort of base turnout he needs to beat Chambliss next month.
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The Democrats have lost their best candidate in Arizona. Napolitano was a canny politician who knew how to outflank the GOP. I think going to Washington and taking up Homeland security will not be a boon to her future political career. Several Republicans were lining up to run for governor in 2010. With Jan Brewer as an incumbent, they may modify their plans.
The top of the Arizona GOP ticket in 2010 (Brewer and McCain) should help down ticket.
In the meantime, I just glad we are getting her out of the state. Who said that the Obama Presidency would be all bad?
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How NOT to win hearts and minds about gay marriage
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The interesting political question is why she'd take this job. She's been considering running for McCain's seat in 2010 or Kyl's in 2012 — I can't see how she could go to Washington and start running for Senate in less than two years, so maybe she has 2012 in mind instead. But even so, as DHS secretary, she is now going to be answerable for every illegal alien crossing the border and every snafu at ICE or USCIS — like the revelations from Houston that immigration authorities allowed back into the community violent criminals who admitted they were illegal aliens.
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So, this is “progress?†eHarmony, a Christian-targeted dating website, gets sued by a gay man demanding that the business match him up with a same-sex partner. The New Jersey Attorney General intervenes on behalf of the gay plaintiff and forces eHarmony to change its entire business model. To be clear: The company never refused to do business with anyone. Their great “sin†was not providing a specialized service that litigious gay people demanded they provide. This case is akin to a meat-eater suing a vegetarian restaurant for not offering him a ribeye or a female patient suing a vasectomy doctor for not providing her hysterectomy services. Sadly, eHarmony has settled . I wish they hadn’t, but I understand the decision given the chilling antics of the anti-Prop. 8 mob. The company agreed not only to offer same-sex dating services on a new site, but also to offer six-month subscriptions for free to 10,000 gay users.
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As Dan reported a few days ago, Log Cabin Republican President Patrick Sammon has announced he is leaving his post at the national gay Republican organization after two years.
It seems there is more going on behind the scenes as well. One of my very reliable LCR Board insiders tells me a shocking fact: “Log Cabin is over $150,000 in debt.â€
And nearly the only source of income to Log Cabin lately is from none other than the Gay Left’s version of George Soros: the infamous Tim Gill. We have tracked Gill’s ties to Soros and Log Cabin extensively over the years here at GayPatriot.
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The Legislative Analyst's Office will release a new report today analyzing the woeful state of California's finances. It will flesh out last week's estimate that the state faces a $27.8 billion deficit over the next 19 months.
But a new report from Beacon Economics predicts things will look even glummer in the future:
* Labor markets are showing increased signs of stress.
* There is little sign of a recovery in housing, and foreclosure rates are growing worse by the day.
* Consumer markets have fallen off a cliff.
* Corporate profits are taking a serious beating.The report commissioned by California Forward, the nonpartisan government reform group, describes itself as "decidedly more pessimistic" than the LAO or Schwarzenegger administration projections, largely due to lower projections for corporate taxes.
The report also predicts the first year-over-year decline in statewide property taxes "since the Great Depression," according to Fred Silva
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Video: Sarah Palin and Thanksgiving Turkeygate
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin pardons a turkey and more…..Sarah Palin has a cute time pardoning a tom turkey for Thanksgiving but later is interviewed while Turkeys are slaughtered in the background. Of course, MSNBC makes the snide comments.
NBC News could have had a laugh with this but have turned it into something gross because they love the ‘cuda sooo much. Catch Shuster’s condescending tone/remarks around 6:15.
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Does California Supreme Court Justice Joyce Kennard’s Vote Yesterday a Good Sign for Proposition 8?
California Supreme Court Justices, from top left, Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, Carlos R. Moreno, Joyce L. Kennard, Marvin Baxter and from lower left, Ming Chin, Chief Justice Ronald M. George and Carol Corrigan
In yesterday’s post about the California Supreme Court accepting California’s Proposition 8 that restored the traditional definition of marriage (one man and one woman) to the California Constitution for review, Flap briefly mentioned the fact that Justice Kennard did NOT sign the order.Justice Kennard would deny these petitions without prejudice to the filing in this court of an appropriate action to determine Proposition 8’s effect, if any, on the marriages of same-sex couples performed before Proposition 8’s adoption.
Justice Kennard, in fact, voted against reviewing the constitutionality of Proposition 8.
Why?While both sides cheered the court’s decision to take up the cases, Kennard’s lone vote to deny review could spell trouble for opponents of Prop. 8.
Kennard is the court’s longest-serving justice, having been appointed in 1989, and has been one of its foremost supporters of same-sex couples’ rights. Without her vote, the May 15 ruling would have gone the other way. But she wrote Wednesday that she would favor hearing arguments only about whether Prop. 8 would invalidate the pre-election marriages, an issue that would arise only if the initiative were upheld.
“It’s always hard to read tea leaves, but I think Justice Kennard is saying that she thinks the constitutionality of Prop. 8 is so clear that it doesn’t warrant review,” said Stephen Barnett, a retired UC Berkeley law professor and longtime observer of the court.
For those seeking to overturn Prop. 8, “I would not think it would be encouraging,” said Dennis Maio, a San Francisco lawyer and former staff attorney at the court.
Flap thinks the court ultimately will support California’s voters and uphold the constitutionality of Proposition 8. Flap predicts a 6-1 vote with Justice Moreno dissenting.
Justice Kennard has sent a message to her fellow Justices yesterday that she plans to uphold Prop. 8.
Or did she?
Stay tuned……
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