• Barack Obama,  John Boehner,  John McCain

    Boehner: Obama’s Economic Stimulus Plan – “A Lot of Wasteful Washington Spending”

    House Republican Leader John Boehner on today’s Meet The Press

    The GOP has drawn a line in the sand regarding President Obama’s latest economic stimulus proposal.

    Republicans plan to test President Barack Obama’s commitment to bipartisanship as his $825 billion stimulus package heads to the floor of the House of Representatives this week, with the House Republican leader saying Sunday morning that many in his party will vote no unless there are significant changes to the plan.

    “Right now, given the concerns that we have over the size of this package and all of the spending in this package, we don’t think it’s going to work,” the House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Republican of Ohio, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And so if it’s the plan that I see today, put me down in the no column.”

    While the plan can potentially pass the Democrat-dominated House without Republican support, it will continue to face opposition when it comes before the Senate, said Senator John McCain of Arizona, speaking on “Fox News Sunday.” At least two Republicans will need to approve the bill for a filibuster-proof majority vote of 60.

    Senator McCain, who lost the presidential election to Mr. Obama in November, said that he planned to vote no unless the bill were changed.

    “We need to make tax cuts permanent, and we need to make a commitment that there’ll be no new taxes,” Mr. McCain said. “We need to cut payroll taxes. We need to cut business taxes.”

    “We need to have a commitment that after a couple of quarters of G.D.P. growth that we will embark on a path,” he said about the gross domestic product, “to reduce spending to get our budget in balance.”

    Both Boehner and McCain are RIGHT. The American economy needs a recovery plan but one that works, stimulates business activity and one that leads to MORE American jobs – and quickly.

    Since the government will be running massive short term deficits anyway, why not suspend the payroll tax for workers and create an immediate tax credit to be applied to an employer’s share of the paytoll tax to business if they hire employees?

    Sounds to simple, doesn’t it?

    But, it is immediate and is what the economy needs.

    Massive government spending without direction (Obama’s plan) is throwing money down a rat hole.


    Technorati Tags: , ,

  • Afghanistan,  Barack Obama,  Day By Day,  Hamid Karzai

    Day By Day by Chris Muir January 25, 2009 – Big Red Dream

    Day By Day 012509

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Flap wonders how th OBOTS will handle the latest Flap, President Obama has already created in Afghanistan?

    Obama’s spokesman will not acknowledge there is a “War on Terror” yet the President authorized an air strike that involved the killing of Afghan civilians and which has been highly criticized by the Afghan President.

    President Hamid Karzai condemned a U.S. operation he said killed 16 Afghan civilians, while hundreds of villagers denounced the American military during an angry demonstration Sunday.

    Karzai said the killing of innocent Afghans during U.S. military operations “is strengthening the terrorists.”

    He also announced that his Ministry of Defense sent Washington a draft technical agreement that seeks to give Afghanistan more oversight over U.S. military operations. The same letter has also been sent to NATO headquarters.

    Remember when the MSM was all over Bush’s ASS, when the killing of civilians happened on his watch?

    And, what do you hear now?

    Crickets………


    Technorati Tags: , , ,

  • Del.icio.us Links

    links for 2009-01-25

    • Hundreds of gay-rights activists gathered today at the Los Angeles Convention Center to make plans for repealing Proposition 8, the November ballot measure that banned gay marriage in California.

      The Equality Summit began with invocations from a rabbi and a minister, followed by strategy sessions about how to reach out to different ethnic groups, including Asian and Pacific islander Americans, and religious communities.

      In the afternoon, attendees were invited to a session about religion and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement. Finally, there were sessions broken out by regions around the state.

      (tags: gaymarriage)
    • King said he's "seriously considering a run" and has planned trips to Brooklyn and Rockland County.

      He also said he expected to Gillibrand to quickly alter her positions to diffuse anger from liberals.

      "I don't know what she is," he said when asked to describe her political philosophy. "But I do know that Chuck Schumer is telling everybody she's gonna do a 180 on gun control."
      ++++++++
      Gillibrand is vulnerable in 2010 and the campaign has started.

    • Vatican officials said Saturday they were disappointed by President Barack Obama's decision to end a ban on federal funding for international groups that perform abortions or provide information on them.

      Monsignor Rino Fisichella, who heads the Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life, urged Obama to listen to all voices in America without "the arrogance of those who, being in power, believe they can decide of life and death."

      Fisichella said in an interview published Saturday in Corriere della Sera that "if this is one of President Obama's first acts, I have to say, in all due respect, that we're heading quickly toward disappointment."
      ++++++
      Obama's firsts acts: Giving terrorists rights and promoting abortion = FAIL

      (tags: barack_obama)
    • Two men released from the US "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have appeared in a video posted on a jihadist website, the SITE monitoring service reported.

      One of the two former inmates, a Saudi man identified as Abu Sufyan al-Azdi al-Shahri, or prisoner number 372, has been elevated to the senior ranks of Al-Qaeda in Yemen, a US counter-terrorism official told AFP.

      Three other men appear in the video, including Abu al-Hareth Muhammad al-Oufi, identified as an Al-Qaeda field commander. SITE later said he was prisoner No. 333.

      A Pentagon spokesman, Commander Jeffrey Gordon, on Saturday declined to confirm the SITE information.

      "We remain concerned about ex-Guantanamo detainees who have re-affiliated with terrorist organizations after their departure," said Gordon.
      ++++++
      Yet Obama wants to close Gitmo. Well, we will see.