Grayson With Ratigan: Best Interview Ever. Barack Obama may grant amnesty to illegals using an executive or. According to this article several senators have learned that Barack Obama may grant amnesty to illegal aliens using an executive order if he is not able to get 60 votes in the senate to pass amnesty.
Eight senators have sent a letter to Barack Obama asking him to clarify whether this is an option the president is considering. Barack Obama has already shown the American people that he does not give a damn what they want in the debate over healthcare reform. Barack Obama and congress bent the rules in order to pass the unpopular healthcare reform bill against the will of the American people and there is no reason to believe that he will not use shady tactics in order to pass another unpopular bill– amnesty for illegals. Regardless of which side of the amnesty debate you are on, consider for a moment the precedent that this move would set.
This is anti-constitutional to say the least. God save King Hussein! U.S. Health Care Ranks Low Among Developed Nations: Report. Health-care reform getting more, not less, popular. I got an e-mail from the House minority leader's office this morning linking me to their new report, "Obamacare: Three Months of Broken Promises.
" "Three things are abundantly clear about President Obama’s new health care law three months after it became law," explained Michael Steel, a spokesperson for John Boehner. "First, the American people remain squarely opposed to it. Second, it is off to a rocky start, having failed to live up to specific promises made by President Obama and Washington Democrats. Third, Republicans have listened to the American people, heard the rising public backlash against the new law, and offered better solutions. " McChrystal out, Petraeus in as top US commander in Afghanistan -
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- President Obama has accepted the resignation of his Afghanistan war commander for making disparaging comments about top political leaders, replacing him with the highly respected officer who oversaw the successful surge strategy in Iraq in 2007.
Speaking at the White House, Obama said he is replacing Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal with Gen. David H. "It is the right thing for our mission in Afghanistan, for our military, for our country," Obama said, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Scarborough: Gen. McChrystal Sacrificing Himself for Soldiers To. Today I tuned in to listen to the radio program hosted by Vision America's Rick Scarborough because the scheduled guest was to be Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council.
The title of Scarbrough's show is "Mixing Church and State, God's Way. " Three military commanders before General McChrystal who got the. Gen.
Stanley McChrystal might be fired Wednesday because he made contemptuous remarks about senior US officials to Rolling Stone magazine. If he does lose his job, it will represent a rare – but not unprecedented – dismissal of a wartime military commander by civilian leaders. Rolling Stone Politics. Obama's Afghan strategy remains plagued by problems. WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's decision to accept Gen.
Stanley McChrystal's resignation and draft his superior, Gen. David Petraeus, to lead the war in Afghanistan eliminates a source of friction, but it doesn't address the problems plaguing U.S. policy there. The change in command, Obama made clear Wednesday, is a change in personnel, not in a policy that's hampered by, among other things, the absence of a political strategy, rising U.S. casualties, growing ethnic tensions, endemic political corruption, the administration's July 2011 deadline for beginning a troop withdrawal and a stalled offensive in the country's second-largest city. Obama: Change in Afghan command isn't change in policy. WASHINGTON — In what may prove to be a defining moment of his presidency, Barack Obama on Wednesday accepted the resignation of Army Gen.
Stanley McChrystal as the commander of the war in Afghanistan, saying it was necessary to preserve the principle of military deference to civilian leadership. The president said that McChrystal's and his staff's derogatory comments to a magazine about U.S. civilian leadership forced the move, but he stressed that the personnel shift doesn't signal any change in American war policy. The president nominated Army Gen. David Petraeus, 57, who led the Iraq war in 2007 and 2008, to move to Kabul and take over McChrystal's responsibilities. Petraeus currently heads the Pentagon's Central Command, which oversees U.S. military interests throughout the Middle East and central Asia, including Afghanistan, and is technically a higher position than Afghan war commander is.
TomDispatch. Problem With Cap Causes More Oil to Gush in Gulf. Judge who nixed drilling ban has oil investments - Washington Ti. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration’s six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry, according to financial disclosure reports.
He’s also a new member of a secret national security court. U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman, a 1983 appointee of President Reagan, reported owning less than $15,000 in stock in 2008 in Transocean Ltd., the company that owned the sunken Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. Judge Feldman overturned the ban Tuesday, saying the government simply assumed that because one rig exploded, the others pose an imminent danger, too. The White House promised an immediate appeal.
BP oil leak setback: 'Top hat' removed, oil flow unhindered. War crimes suit filed against Barak, Livni in Belgium - Israel N. Belgian lawyers to charge Barak and Livni for war crimes - Haare. War crimes suit filed against Barak, Livni in. Bethlehem - Ma'an/Agencies - Two Belgian lawyers working on behalf of Palestinian filed suit against 14 Israeli leaders on allegations of war crimes committed during Operation Cast Lead, news agencies reported.
The respondents include Israeli opposition chairwoman Tzipi Livni for her role as foreign minister during the Gaza offensive between December 2008 and January 2009, former Israeli premier Ehud Olmert, Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai, and other Israeli army officials and Israel's intelligence services, Israeli news site Yedioth Ahronoth wrote.
Much of the 70-page complaint is based on the Goldstone report, Agence France-Presse reported. Claimants include a Palestinian-Belgian national and 13 Gaza Strip residents. All sides pressing Frank on finance bill. WASHINGTON — Representative Barney Frank, trying to complete intense negotiations between the House and Senate over a massive revision of financial regulations, is coming under significant lobbying pressure from across the political spectrum as he tries this week to come up with a compromise that can win final approval.
On one side, a liberal group is circulating an online petition that admonishes the Newton Democrat “not to give in to Wall Street.’’ On the other, a group of conservative House Democrats has written to Frank saying some of the financial regulations already go too far. Out-of-mainstream Bork attempts to paint Kagan as outside the ma. Robert Bork -- Reagan's failed 1987 Supreme Court nominee -- announced his opposition to current nominee Elena Kagan using the discredited argument that Kagan's praise of Israeli Justice Aharon Barak puts her outside of the mainstream. In fact, it is Bork himself who is outside the mainstream.
Bork pushes discredited attack on Kagan Bork attacked Kagan for praising Israeli Supreme Court Justice Aharon Barak. The Washington Post's David Weigel reported on June 23: Former judge and unsuccessful 1987 Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork officially opposed the nomination of Elena Kagan today, joining a conference call sponsored by Americans United for Life to argue that her admiration for former Israeli Supreme Court justice Aharon Barak disqualified her for the job. Limbaugh falsely claimed McChrystal "didn't get the rules of eng. Right-wing self-delusion - Glenn Greenwald. National Review‘s Jay Nordlinger cites a truly repellent (and false) comment made this week by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to Defense Secretary Robert Gates: “A million and a half people are living in Gaza, but only one of them is really in need of humanitarian aid,” Barak said. Gonzalo Lira: Is the U.S. a Fascist Police-State? « naked capita.
Is the EU too big to be democratic? Al Franken takes apart right wing Supreme Court [VIDEO] - Minnea. The U.S. Will BP be Fox News' tipping point? Settlers threaten to use force to kick out East Jerusalem Palest. Countdown with Keith Olbermann Countdown with Keith Olbermann.