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For 17 months, anger at President Obama and congressional Democrats has been pooling on the left. On Tuesday morning, it spilled onto the floor of an Omni Shoreham ballroom and splashed all over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The celebrated San Francisco liberal took the stage to greet what should have been a friendly audience: the annual [...] After steering the landmark health-care reform bill through Congress, the Democratic Party’s leaders have emerged mostly unscathed, according to a new Washington Post poll, but they have not received a notable boost in approval ratings. via Health-care overhaul leaves Democrats in stable condition – washingtonpost.com. Classic headline spin from the WaPo. Read the entire article and you find [...] A new element of tension has emerged between the Obama White House and Democratic leaders in Congress. It is not the president’s continued demand for a health care overhaul, a priority the leaders share. Nor is it Mr. Obama’s decision to call out liberals on the need for spending restraint in his State of the Union [...] With all the ruckus about health care “reform”, let’s take a brief moment to remember the issue of national security. You all recall national security, don’t you? It’s what the Bush White House managed to do so well in the years following 9/11 that most of us could take it for granted. Occasionally there would be [...] Speaker Nancy Pelosi now admits (after repeatedly denying it) that she was aware that the CIA was water-boarding important terrorist detainees. A senior member of her staff was briefed in 2002. Yet, she still accuses the CIA of “misleading” her on the details. The only practical value of this admission is to further establish Pelosi as [...] Beset by trouble whenever he tries to actually be President, Obama decides to pretend he’s still campaigning for President. Beset by criticism of an alleged ethical double standard over some of his Cabinet choices and an intensifying partisan debate over his economic recovery plan, Obama is attempting a return to the campaign-style approach and aggressiveness that [...] Nancy Pelosi clarifies her position on the Armenian genocide resolution… Pelosi says: “Genocide still exists, and we saw it in Rwanda; we see it now in Darfur.” O.K., so what is the Democrat controlled Congress doing about Darfur? As far as I can tell: nothing. So why not try to pass a resolution condemning the current [...] |
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