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John McCain Refuses to Defend Daughter Meghan over Laura Ingraham Kiss My Fat Ass Comment
Think Progress is all over Senator John McCain today in his apparent non-defense of his daughter in the Meghan McCain vs Laura Ingraham “Kiss My Fat Ass” FLAP that I covered yesterday.
But, is it really a non-defense or simply disgust that his daughter is being USED by the LEFT as a TOOL?
Look at the Twitter interview of McCain and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos:
I am the father of three daughters and believe me that Senator McCain is disgusted with Meghan. He is not defending Laura Ingraham to curry favor with the right wing.
How stupid.
As I twittered yesterday, Meghan should smart up and stop being used as a Left-Wing tool. She might also try a REAL JOB instead of writing for Far Lefty Tina Brown’s Daily Beast.
Can’t her mom, Cindy McCain, get he some type of job in the Beer company?
The original Flap is below.
Meghan McCain on The ViewFlap loves these cat fights particularly when the left-wing fools at The View WEIGH IN with a MORON like Meghan McCain.
Here is Laura Ingraham’s response:
Both have their points about calling/ridiculing a woman as FAT. But, it is also a stretch (a very large one) to consider Meghan McCain a Republican pundit.
Technorati Tags: John McCain, Meghan McCain, George Stephanopoulos, Laura Ingraham
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Barack Obama and Statements With an Expiration Date – The Caterpillar Edition
Political Cartoon by Michael Ramirez
Jim Geraghty at National Review OWNS the Obama statements with an expiration date theme. But, this morning’s edition belongs to Bob Krumm.The Obama statement: “Yesterday, Jim, the head of Caterpillar, said that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.”
The “stimulus†passed, so here’s the latest news from Caterpillar:
Oops is right.
But as Geraghty points out, it was not quite what the head of Caterpillar was saying at the time – it was what Obama wanted to hear and spin.
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Poll Watch: Generic Congressional Ballot Now TIED Between GOP and Democrats
This is what the latest NPR poll says.
But when asked whether they’d vote for the Republican or Democratic congressional candidate if the 2010 elections were held today, the result was a tie: 42-42.
“There’s concern about the spending plans and other paths that Obama and Democrats in Congress are taking, so I think you’re seeing a little bit more move toward a balance,” Bolger said. “People still want the president to succeed. He’s got a 59 percent approval rating. He has a lot of intensity, particularly from his base. But that doesn’t mean that people want one side to have a blank check.”
Obviously, the American public is not happy with the Democrat’s dominance. But, the poll points out the dominance of the Democrats on a number of issues.
There is some hope for the GOP – but still a long way to come back.
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Conservative JournoList to Be Formed
Well, if the LEFT can do it so can the RIGHT.
This will be a PRIVATE, OFF THE RECORD discussion group, established and run by Flap.
If you are interested, e-mail and be patient: fullosseousflap at gmail dot com.
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Ben Smith of Politico Tires of Twitter – Prefers Left Wing Private JournoList Listserv
Left Wing blogger Ben Smith over at Politico is whining because George Stephanopoulos over at ABC is interviewing Senator John McCain on Twitter.
Anyone else getting a little sick of Twitter-as-intriguing-and-shiny-new-toy?
Guess Smith prefers JournoList where he obtains his “talking points.”
And, which is NOT on a public timeline.
Technorati Tags: Twitter, JournoList, Ben Smith, Politico
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White House Fountains Dyed Green for St. Patrick’s Day – Happy St. Patrick’s Day
So, reports Jake Tapper.With all of the Obama Administration’s spending it would be more aptly dyed “RED.”
Happy St. Patrick’s Day anyway…….
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The Obama Honeymoon IS NOW Officially Over – AIG Bonus Flap Depletes Obama Political Capital
It’s over for Obama, baby.The political honeymoon, that is.
President Obama’s apparent inability to block executive bonuses at insurance giant AIG has dealt a sharp blow to his young administration and is threatening to derail both public and congressional support for his ambitious political agenda.
Politicians in both parties flocked to express outrage over $165 million in bonuses paid out to executives at the company, demanding answers from the president and swamping yesterday’s rollout of his efforts to spark lending to small businesses.
The populist anger at the executives who ran their firms into the ground is increasingly blowing back on Obama, whom aides yesterday described as having little recourse in the face of legal contracts that guaranteed those bonuses.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, peppered with questions about why the president had not done more to block the bonuses at a company that has received $170 billion in taxpayer funds, struggled for an answer yesterday afternoon. He explained that government lawyers are “looking through contracts to see what can be done to wrest these bonuses from their recipients.”
And, with Obama about to seek even more $ billions to aid the financial system, political outrage is certainly not sufficient to mollify an angry public. The White House initially tried to obscure the flap by blaming President Bush but they have not answered as to why they failed to block these bonuses while they were authorizing an additional $30 Billion in new loans to AIG.
The AIG Bonus Flap has happened on Obama’s watch and he can either take responsibility and expend more of his his political capital or continue to make excuses and pass blame on the previous Bush Administration.
Which will it be, Mr. President?
Technorati Tags: AIG, Barack Obama
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Day By Day by Chris Muir March 17, 2009 – Talk to the Speedo
NO, Chris NOT the 1990 Speedo!And, NO Flap does not want to see either the current version of Robert Stacy McCain in his speedo – NOR Obama.
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links for 2009-03-17
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The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization says he is "deeply disappointed and concerned" after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases.
"It became apparent during our discussion today that the President intends to move forward with this unreasonable plan," said Commander David K. Rehbein of The American Legion. "He says he is looking to generate $540-million by this method, but refused to hear arguments about the moral and government-avowed obligations that would be compromised by it."
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The next RNC chairman will be Norm Coleman, after he loses his recount fight and big donors see Michael Steele’s March numbers.
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California state government's full-time work force continues to grow despite Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's order to freeze hiring amid a historic budget shortfall.
From June 2008 to February 2009, most state agencies either increased or kept the same number of full-time employees, according to a Bee analysis of personnel data. The state also failed to lay off as many part-time employees during the crisis as promised by the governor.
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The furor over the huge federal spending under President Obama – a $1.75 trillion deficit, 13 percent – obscures an even more basic question: Does he know what he is doing?
That is, does he know how to do anything other than spend?
His stimulus package, of course, took no special ability: He left the details to Democrats in Congress. But his two other major initiatives – his banking and mortgage-relief plans – are both flawed and unlikely to solve their respective problems.
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oday's liberalism may stand on decades of failed ideas, but it is failure in the name of American redemption. It remains competitive with — even ascendant over — conservatism because it addresses America's moral accountability to its past with moral activism. This is the left's great power, and a good part of the reason Barack Obama is now the president of the United States. No matter his failures — or the fruitlessness of his extravagant and scatter-gun governmental activism — he redeems America of an ugly past. How does conservatism compete with this?
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