Jack & Jill Politics

EVENING THREAD IS UP

That picture of Michelle makes me think of another depiction of a first lady of a nation.

Oh yeah, Serena YEEAAAHHHH!!!!!

I know it won't happen but since Rethugs voted 0, I say take out the BS put in 4 their votes. Corporate tax cuts, family planning - go back to original plan. Make Stimulus stimulize again.
Trumy - best wishes for Mom and fam.

GOP Governors Back Obama On Stimulus Plan

NEW YORK -- Most Republican governors -- including Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas -- have broken with their GOP colleagues in Congress and are pushing for passage of President Barack Obama's economic aid plan that would send billions to states for education, public works and health care.

More:
http://www.wptz.com/money/18612122/detail.html

Miranda: I was just comin' to post this because:

The 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, planned to meet in Washington this weekend with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and other senators to press for her state's share of the package.

****rollin eyes**** ***suckin' teeth****

"WHYCOME" the ALASKANS don't believe a WORD that she says??

Um! Um! Um! ***shakin' my head***

Oh so she wants some money for Alaska?? I thought Alaska was rolling in dough?? Furthermore, why didn't she press her representatives in the House to vote for it if the state was in need??

Miranda: This year- - EACH Alaskan received over $2000. She claims to have so much "OIL!"

To your?: 'CAUSE SHE HAS NO CREDIBILITY or JUICE!! ***shrug*** :>)

Face The Nation
Sunday, Feb. 1

CBS’s “Face the Nation” has Senators Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, and Charles E. Schumer, head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. NBC’s “Meet the Press” has Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, and John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts. (NBC is noting special airtimes for the program due to the Super Bowl, by the way.)

On “Fox News Sunday,” Dick Durbin of Illinois represents the Senate Democrats, facing Jon Kyl of Arizona. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California is booked on CNN’s “State of the Union” with John Ensign, chairman of the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm.

Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina is on ABC’s “This Week” with Representative Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, as well as Eric E. Schmidt, C.E.O. of Google, and Fred Smith, C.E.O. of FedEx. (Though given some of the controversy surrounding George Stephanopoulos and his daily chats with Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff, we’d almost prefer that the interrogator take questions).

Other non-Senators on the menu include Govs. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, and Michael Steele, the new G.O.P. chairman, is on “Fox News Sunday.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/31/s...

Meet the Press guest list for
February 1, 2009

***Please Note: Due to Super Bowl programming, "Meet the Press" will air at a special time this week — 11am ET — right before NBC's Super Bowl pre-game show in most markets. Check your local listings at mtp.msnbc.com.***

SEN. KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON (R-TX)
Member, Banking Committee
Ranking Member, Commerce Committee

SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA)
Member, Finance Committee

ERIN BURNETT
Anchor, CNBC's "Street Signs"
Co-Anchor, CNBC's "Squawk on the Street"

STEVE FORBES
President & CEO, Forbes
Editor-in-Chief, Forbes magazine
2000 GOP Presidential Candidate

MARK ZANDI
Chief Economist, Moody's Economy.com
Author, "Financial Shock: A 360º Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3898804/

ABC News' 'This Week'
Find Out Who and What Will Be on the Show This Sunday
Feb. 1, 2009

Guest:
*Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
Chairman, Financial Services Committee

*Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.
Member, Joint Economic Committee

*Eric Schmidt
CEO, Google

*Fred Smith
CEO, FedEx



On Sunday's "This Week," two powerhouse roundtables discuss the challenges facing the Obama administration. The first panel looks at the economic challenges: Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., and Google CEO Eric Schmidt and FedEx CEO Fred Smith, two leaders from the corporate world, join me to discuss the economic stimulus package and the role of the federal government in fixing the economy and regulating the financial sector.

Then, The New York Times' David Sanger, the Washington Post's Bob Woodward and ABC News' Martha Raddatz and George Will join me to discuss the foreign policy challenges confronting the new administration

http://abcnews.go.com/thisweek/news/story?id=466

Really great Photospread to go along with this interview with B.Smith.

http://www.nysocialdiary.com/node/2798

Wonderful article and pics.

I appreciated B. Smith's devotion to her family, especially the comments about visits with her daughter! :-))) I'm certainly enjoying being with mine this past week.

I'm with GreenLady on the chair from the Cameroons. Loved it!!

rikyrah: Great pics! My fav = the CHAIR from the CAMEROONS! Thank you. :>)

rikyrah: Sat., JANUARY 31, 2009 -DAY 11- Of His FIRST 100 DAYS! :>)

1. 3C: Cameras Continue ta Click! on President Barack Obama :>)

2.
A WH official suggests Gregg's nomination as Commerce Secretary is likely.

"He's one of the leading contenders," the official says of the New Hampshire Republican senator.

Gregg gets a bit of political breathing room back home as Joe McQuaid, publisher of the influential Union Leader, penned an editorial blessing the move, provided Gov. John Lynch appoints a Republican.
Read the full story. FROM: http://www.politico.com/politico44/

3. Obama praises Iraqis on provincial elections

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama congratulated Iraqis on Saturday's provincial elections and urged the winners to work for their people.

Obama said the elections for the provincial council seats were significant, peaceful and important steps toward Iraqis taking responsibility for their future. His statement did not address complaints from local officials that the Shiite-led government attempted to keep the minority Sunnis from full participation.

"Millions of Iraqi citizens from every ethnic and religious group went peacefully to the polls across the country to choose new provincial councils," Obama said in a statement released by the White House. "It is important that the councils get seated, select new governors and begin work on behalf of the Iraqi people who elected them."

Obama also noted that the U.S. provided technical assistance to the Iraqi electoral commission, as did the U.N. and other international groups. He didn't, however, mention the U.S. troops that patrolled the country - away from voting booths - while the new Obama administration in Washington considers a new strategy for the unpopular war in Iraq.

THERE IS MORE OF THIS ARTICLE.

THAT'S ALL FOR NOW! :>)

Could Ledbetter may be the leading example of what may be a route more frequently taken to correct the bunch of misdoins' of the prior years. Supreme Court says go home. Congress says we hear you. http://www.newsweek.com/id/182487

All the better as we know the court will still present significant challenges in its current disposition... http://bit.ly/sleepinjustice

For example, the voting rights act of 64 is still in question, particularly whether or not to "modernize" it: http://bit.ly/modernize_huh

This is the softest, most incidental way possible of saying that we don't need the protections there anymore now that we've proven a black president could be elected. What a crazy, convoluted, all-fired, compound, complex joining of apples and oranges... http://bit.ly/modernize_huh

Let's say that since we've arrested one burglar that now we don't need laws against that anymore...

h&f, we're keeping our eyes and ears open on the Voting Rights Act of 64. April 's just around the cormer.

Co-sign: "This is the softest, most incidental way possible of saying that we don't need the protections there anymore now that we've proven a black president could be elected. What a crazy, convoluted, all-fired, compound, complex joining of apples and oranges"....

most def... keeping an eye out. always. (much peace, spirit_55z)

Steele to Obama: 'How do you like me now?'

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18233...

Are you kidding me? There is no comparison with Steele & President Barack Obama. He is President of the United States of America! Steele is chair of the republican party. Need I say more? Ugh!

My favorite quote from Steele --

"As a black Roman Catholic conservative from Washington, D.C., and Maryland, I also know how to lose elections," he said.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/01/31...

Hahahahaha I just realized "How you like me know" was made famous by Kool Moe Dee (show your age ya'll)

In his feud against LL Cool J -- who do we remember ? (it ain't kool moe dee)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:How_Ya_Like_M...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LL_Cool_J_vs._Kool...

Hahahahaha ROTFLOL M.C. Steal Moe Dee knows how to pick his popular culture references!

And Obama said "Forget Oreos eat Obama cookies I'm bad."

Wow.........when you put it like that..............look at Kool Moe Dee's career and look at LL's.......LMAO!!!!!

Conserv1: Ya know - - a GENTLEMAN would have said something like this: "Congratulations on your victory as PRESIDENT of US ALL!" However, in my role, I will be giving the input of my PARTY on a variety of issues."

That little "immature/childish" statement was just that - - "IMMATURE AND CHILDISH!"

I hope he plans ta assume the ROLE of a "MAN" as he leads his PARTY!

After all, he is JUST the MAN of a CHAIR, NOT the PRESIDENT of a NATION!!

PERSPECTIVE!! MAN. PERSPECTIVE!!

Whew!! ***shakin' my head***

Speak on it GLH!

Don't worry. In a few years, his GOP "friends" will give him a "N----- Wake Up Call" and he'll come crying to Obama and the black community.

Sepia: You betta belie'! :>) :>)

There were people in the audience just STARING at him - - NO APPLAUSE!!

Probably the same ones that will be Leaving On A Jet Plane :>) :>)

We'll see! :>)

A few years?

Try a few days!

TELL IT.GreenLady. TELL.IT!

Co-sign.

M.C. Steal Moe Dee .

Piepiepie: LOL! :>) Good one! :>)

LOL -- the irony is, this is typical black street huslter pathology -- defining oneself in opposition to the dominant model.

Does Steele really want to define himself in opposition to Obama?
That seems to me to be precisely what hte republicans said was a losing strategy.

(I expect Steele to keep it up though, the man is pure coonery like watching Bobby Rush through the mirror)

Michael Steele, Chairman of the RNC.


BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, 44TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Michael Steele isn't even the most powerful or influential person in the GOP.

Until we know of other civilizations on other planets, President Obama is the most powerful/influential person in the universe.

True. Rush still running the party. I still can't believe Gingrey groveled at the feet of Rush like that. That was just disgraceful. He needs to be beat all about the head and neck.

ROFLMAO!!!!!! "beat all about the head and neck"......*choke*...ROFLMAO.....

ROTFLMBAO!!!!!

LOL!

spirit: OKAY? :>)

VIRTUAL 'DAP'

Okay!

The real question is "How much does Michael "Steal" like Obama, since it seems he is drawing MUCH inspiration from him?"

President Obama came out FIRST with the Blueprint for Change/America
Coincidentally, "Steal" has Blueprint for Tomorrow

Now Michael "Steal" calls himself a "technology geek" only after President Obama ushered in an innovative and successful way of fundraising and connecting the grassroots.

But I guess Michael "Steal" learned a valuable lesson......instead of mocking and laughing at the "community organizer" at the 2008 RNC convention, he in the end, wound up learning, and trying his damndest to emulate him.

Well stated.

Oh come on. How pathetic. You guys have an Obama complex. LOL

LOL...you ain't lyin. President Obama is so deep in their heads..LOL

Ain't that the truth.

rikyrah: The "LOCALS" KNOW:

Sarah Palin's Focus Questioned By Alaska Lawmakers

JUNEAU, Alaska — Driving home at night from her Capitol office, the leader of Alaska's House Democrats often passes the governor's white-columned mansion and wonders why more lights aren't on.

Rep. Beth Kerttula assumes Gov. Sarah Palin is out of town, though Palin's staffers say so far their boss has been there for most of the legislative session that began Jan. 20.

It's a small matter, but it's part of the buzz around the Capitol among lawmakers who are seeing less of their governor than in years past and wondering what it means in the wake of a Republican vice presidential run that brought Palin global fame and notoriety.

They're accustomed to spotting her striding past, using two BlackBerries, stopping to chat in the hallway or inviting reporters into her office while she prepares for a speech.

Palin insists her focus is still on Alaska.

Some say she appears more tense than the vice presidential candidate who delivered sly jokes and incendiary speeches to packed rallies across the Lower 48.

"Not so sparky," said Sen. Bert Stedman, R-Sitka, who wonders if the distractions of her newfound celebrity will keep Palin from devoting her full attention to Alaska's looming budget shortfall.

Others grumble that she didn't seem to reach out to the nearly 60 lawmakers assembled before her.

"I think her speech was not directed to us but right over our heads to a national audience," said Rep. David Guttenberg, D-Fairbanks, who remembers a much different Palin from just six months ago.

THERE IS MORE.

THIS INFORMATION OUGHTA resonate NEGATIVELY to the GOP. BUT. . .

At any rate, ALASKANS have gotten BOLDER as they CALL HER OUT!!

THIS "call out" coupled with her "severe lack of skills" SHOULD diminish her stature/usefulness in the GOP. Hmmmmm.

D: How would U see this? Thanks.

P.S. Gotta "bounce" for a minute. :>)

Instead of watching Russia or palling around with terr'ists she needs to keep her eye on that volcano that's about to blow up.

Town: LOL! TA-RUE DAT!! :>) :>)

Annnnnnd, that's #3 on the LIST: "IT'S THE PRESIDENT'S FAULT!" :>)

***shakin my head*** :>) :>)

P. S.: Alaska volcano may be ready to blow [Story #1]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Hardware stores and auto parts shops scored a post-holiday run of business this week as Anchorage-area residents stocked up on protective eyewear and masks ahead of a possible eruption of Mount Redoubt.

Monitoring earthquakes underneath the 10,200-foot Redoubt Volcano about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, scientists from the Alaska Volcano Observatory warned that an eruption was imminent, sending experienced Alaskans shopping for protection against a dusty shower of volcanic ash that could descend on south-central Alaska.

"Every time this happens we do get a run on dust masks and goggles," said Phil Robinson, manager of an Alaska Industrial Hardware store in Anchorage. "That's the two main things for eye and respiratory protection."

Customer Ron Cowan picked up gear at the store Thursday before heading off to an auto parts store for a spare air filter.
Story continues below

I feel SADDENED for the PEOPLE!

Annnnnnnnd, their GOV. is GALLIVANTING in the "lower 48" while her people are in peril!! She hasn't issued [to my knowledge] ONE WORD of concern!

Something about "fiddling while Rome BURNS" comes to mind! AAArrrrgggg!

UPDATE: On Alaskan Volcano:

Redoubt calmer but still restive

Published: January 31st, 2009 12:53 PM
Last Modified: January 31st, 2009 01:01 PM

The seismic activity at Mount Redoubt has calmed somewhat since the strong tremors of Friday, but the activity still is above normal, the Alaska Volcano Observatory said Saturday morning.

"The volcano is in a state of unrest," the observatory said.

Web cameras "show a steam plume rising to roughly 10,500 feet," the observatory said.

But Redoubt has not erupted. On Friday, staff of the observatory flew by the volcano and saw "significant steaming" near the vent from Redoubt's 1989-1990 eruption, but no sign that ash was emitted. They also observed more runoff along the margins of the Drift glacier, the observatory said.

THIS IS GOOD NEWS!! :>)

I'm just waiting on the SnoHo to get her reality tv deal. Alaskans should not be surprised that she would get bored with them after getting a taste of the Lower 48. She's too fabulous for them now.

parker404: LOL! :>)

I guess it's like this: "How Ya Gonna Keep Em' Down On The Farm" [After They've Seen Paris?] :>) :>)

ENJOY!! :>)

The forgotten MLK: Commentary from Mumia on MLK, could he have been elected today?

No way, MLK plagarized his thesis.

Another great post by Al over at The Field. Ya'll gotta check it out:

Hoping Against Hope? A Response to Limbaugh & Teachout by Al Giordano

Seriously guys read it, most of ya'll will love it, the Repubs on board will pooh-pooh it, but Al is speaking the truth

It's a gem piece. Al's on point as usual. Thanks for brining it lamh32.

It was excellent, like most of Al's writing. I've learned alot by reading his work.

Need Someone To Save Adopt An African Child: A look at a celebrity who feels that this is some kind of comedic routine even thought these children are suffering.

Repeat:

Serena Williams Wins Australian Open

Her 10th Major title.

Her 4th Australian Open.

Her 3rd consecutive Slam final.

Back at the No. 1 ranking.

Congratulations, Serena! Job well done.

craigHickman:

CONGRATULATIONS - - - - -MS. WILLIAMS!!

Yaaaaaa!

SHE'S NUMBER 1

God Bless HER /FAMILY!! :>)

Hey JJPers, please pray for my mother as she just is in the ER and is being admitted to the hospital. This is a real shock for us as we just lost our father earlier this year. Please keep her in your prayers.

Prayers lifted up Trumystique.

Sending prayers your way.

Will do. Blessings to you and your family.

Sending prayers your way, stay postive and blessed.

My prayers are with you.

Micheline, May The Blessings Be!

Some Buddhist prayer flags just went up.

I will focusing on your mothers love today. You will be in my thoughts as well.

My prayers are with you.

Sorry to hear this, Trumystique

sent prayers your way

you have my prayers

Trumystique: So very sorry to hear this.

Praying for "MOM"/you/family.

His Eye Is On The Sparrow

Be COMFORTED. :>)

You've got mine.

Take good care of yourself.

What Else Can We Get For Our $1.2 Trillion?

http://www.suitablyflip.com/suitably_flip/2009/...

A refund from the Bush family for invading a country on false pretenses

This story keeps changing: Grandmother "Octuplets Mom Obsessed With Having Kids"

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/N...

I cussed out MANY people on this topic at work and my family members.

The woman is a good mother and she is not on the public dole. So what if she doesnt want to get married? She can do whatever she wants and we need to stay out of it.

Back in the day 14 kids was nothing. My parents had 8 kids and my husband's parents had 7. If I could afford it . . . I would have 10 more. It is possible to raise the kids without outside support. Many women have done just that. Folks need to back off and leave the woman alone and not be so quick to judge. If it isn't your thing . . . well fine but unless she knocks on your door and asks for formula or diapers . . .

There is no logical reason for a single woman to have 14 children when she doesn't have the adequate financial and physical support to take care of them. Just the time that has to be spent alone would wear out a person. Back in the day people didn't have 14 kids unless they were a 2 parent household with certain resources or they were having the kids to turn them into resources. Also a number of children died off and never made it to adulthood. This woman went to a doctor and cooked her up some babies. She sounds mentally ill.

She is in her mother's home...a woman who quite frankly, has stated she is TIRED....per her own mother, this woman is not a good mother..she's a good breeder. There is a big difference.

And looks like she IS on the public dole:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/north...

Good grief, her poor father has to go back to his contractor's job in Iraq to help pay for this!

Her mother can always tell her to leave Miranda and she hasn't. We don't know what their relationship is like so you can't judge it based on an article from the media.

Regarding going back to his contractors job . . .nothing in the article indicates he had a problem doing this. It is none of our business.

I have been trying to figure out how I feel about this. On one hand it seems wrong to judge a womans fertility but 14 children is not the norm. I worry that these children cannot be taken care of by one person. If we had a society that put children first this would not be an issue but a family that large on one paycheck is going to be next to impossible to care for. She better hope she get a show like Jon and Kate otherwise she is in some serious trouble.

Its not wrong to judge a woman who received fertility treatments after already having 6 kids.....AS A RESULT OF FERTILITY TREATMENTS. She is not married and is living with her mother who clearly is TIRED. This is an issue regardless of whether society put children first because the parent of said children is a certifiable FOOL. She just wants to be pregnant and reproduce, not deal with the actual children that spring forth from her uterus..hence her mother's threat.

This story gets seriouser and seriouser.

I wonder whether it is 'the kick' that some women get from being pregnant. It's a very powerful hormonal change that makes them high off their own bodies. Perhaps that is part of the problem.

However, popping kids like this smacks of irresponsibility--and worse, psychological problems. I think the state may have to step in again and take them away if she cannot care for them. The state already has to foot the bill for their births. And if one of the six kids she has is autistic, imagine what will occur when they find that one or a couple of those kids newly birthed may have physical or mental problems.

You notice that none of the pro-life people are sticking up publicly for this woman. This is straight madness.

What I am saying is that if we supported things like socialized daycare and ensured that no child grew in poverty, i.e actually believed in the concept of a village her choice of reproduction would not be problematic. If we truly believed that children were something that we should all invest in. I don't want to call her choice unrealistic but I doubt she thought deeply about the consequences of her actions.
As a mother of two, I would have loved to have 2 to 3 more children but I realized that in the world we live in wherein womens choices and children are not respected this could not happen. I often wonder about what my other kids would have been like.

Well I can tell you if you didn't have everything in place financially and emotionally, they would've picked up on it and not understood what was fundamentally "wrong" with the family structure. They may have been forced to give up a part of their childhood to take care of their siblings. They would've wanted material things that other kids got that weren't in the family budget. If it was a 2-parent home that may have been a blessing but if either parent was emotional distant or just plain tired from the stress of working and raising an abundance of kids they would've felt neglected as well.

Unless the money situation was totally covered they may have had to go without a meal or eat nutritionally sustainable but unappetizing gov't food. Perhaps their own dreams for themselves would've been stifled because there were just too many mouths to feed or a never ending round of chores and they could barely have a moment for themselves. Of course they could've been like one of the Jolie-Pitt kids as well, so who knows.

I personally have none and I wonder if I should before it becomes difficult, but I am stuck on having the ideal scenario that hasn't happened yet.

I worry about her because she seems unstable.
Period.

But we have not heard directly from her. We have only heard from her parents. We cannot make a judgment until we hear her reasons directly from her.

Valid point.? However, I am being uber judgemental, but I question the sanity of any person who wishes to have 14 children under the age of ten.... 8 of them being infants.

This woman is not married and living with her mother...that's all I need to know to realize she isn't having children for noble reasons...she's having children to fill some sort of insane void.

What does her marital state have to do with her desire to procreate? Not all women need or want a man. What if she is a lesbian and has no desire for male companionship whatsoever. The idea that a man legitimizes women needs to end. We are independent autonomous beings.

When you bring a child into this world, it's no longer about what you want or need. It's about what the child needs, and a child needs TWO parents who are financially (and most of all) mentally stable. This woman has demonstrated that she is neither. Yes, we haven't heard her speak, but her actions are speaking louder than her words.

I'm all for women being equal and having the freedom to do what we want with our bodies, but feminist ideologies can't excuse all behaviors.

Your argument means that those of lower class should never reproduce,. There are many poor families that cannot afford a child especially in this day and age of financial retraction. In fact financial stress is often the reason for divorce amongst the poor. You are setting a dangerous precedent by making class location as the sole marker of the right to reproduce.

Co-sign

Co-sign, Sepia, on two parents, financially and mentally stable, who want to raise children.

repeat

A desire to procreate shouldn't be a reason to have a child.....PERIOD. Children are not toys.

Without a desire to procreate no child would be born. It is an absolute condition of reproduction in a society that allows both birth control and abortion.

How does she support these children financially?

She doesn't. Her daddy does. That's why he's going back to Iraq as a contractor to support his 14 grandchildren.

Per the article - her father wants to "help". It didn't say he was solely responsible for supporting the kids.

I saw that on the news yesterday. You know I have no problem if the woman wants to have a bunch of kids, so long as she and her family can support them. Somehow I doubt that health insurance is shouldering the majority of costs associated with the octuplets...

Ho Hum.

The AP reports:

Iraq's provincial elections have wrapped up without any reports of serious violence.
Polls closed at 6 p.m. local time (10 a.m. EST) on Saturday--an hour later than planned. Millions of voters cast ballots for influential regional councils around most of Iraq.

What does Iraq require in order for individuals to vote? What type of ID?

How will Iraqi officials prevent fraud?

*

Ballots will be tamper-proof and cannot be copied. Each voter will be required to show their ID on the day of voting. Indelible ink that takes days to come off will be put on the voters’ finger to ensure he or she doesn’t vote more than once. The color of the ink is being kept a secret until the day of the election.

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&...

Iran says Obama's offer to talk shows US failure

"This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed," Gholam Hossein Elham was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.073...

Well thanks to Bush that is the case. You should read After the Empire and you will understand why we are in this mess.

Need help:

This Week's New Yorker Magazine has a photo spread of folks who went to Inaugural Balls. I'd love to use some of them. Looking for them now. I can only find a slideshow that I canNOT copy the pics from. Any guess as to how I can get ahold of the individual pics?

http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2009...

Rikyrah - use MWSnap. It is free and you can copy ANYTHING and save as a jpg.

I use it all the time. My hubby turned me on to it.
I just copied the pic from the link above and I was able to save it and adjust the size.


http://www.snapfiles.com/get/mwsnap.html

You can make your window as big as possible, then hold Ctrl + Prnt Scrn. Open Microsoft paint and click Edit-->Paste and voila!!! You can crop the shot as needed from paint and then save it.

"Americans know that our economic recovery will take years -- not months," he said. "But they will have little patience if we allow politics to get in the way of action, and our economy continues to slide." Obama said on Saturday.

Do you think this is true? Do Americans truly 'know' this? Is Obama right to try and lower expectations regarding the effects of his massive, so-called 'stimulus' bill?

What will happen to the bill now that it has reached the Senate? Will Dems compromise and craft a leaner bill that provides pure, immediate, targeted stimulus, or will Reid continue with the Pelosi/Emmanuel strategy of "We won." ?

After all of the debate we have had thus far, what would commentors here like to see happen with the outcome of this proposal?

A bill that reflects the creation of more recent paying jobs and programs that help people have affordable mortgages.

Yes Americans who care to know and who are not naive and low information voters understand that we did not get into this mess overnight, and the financial crisis is not going to all of a sudden disappear.

Let's please give Americans some common sense credit.

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