Is the Jewish love affair with the Democratic Party about to end? (Still find it hard to believe a Jewish can be Liberal)
For all of my looooong life, the Jews have been so deep in the pocket of the Democratic Party it would make Chris Matthews blush. Maybe… just maybe… (I know old habits die hard)…. thanks to Barack Obama, that is about to end. The well-put lede from this morning’s WSJ opinion piece details the situation:
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State legislatures openly defying Obama
Lawmakers in 34 states, from both major parties, have now either proposed, passed or are in the process of enacting laws that draw a line in the sand on states rights, preemptively nullifying at least parts of ObamaCare.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com …
Shocking News:American Soldier Gets Spit On by two protesters in Santa Barbara, CA.
American Soldier (Vet.) gets spit on by two protesters in Santa Barbara, CA.
Read the whole story at:Wolking’s World
Hussein Obama threatens to withdraw support from wavering Democrats
The president will refuse to make fund-raising visits during November elections to any district whose representative has not backed the bill.
A one-night presidential appearance can bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds which would otherwise take months to accumulate through cold-calling by campaign volunteers.
Mr Obama’s threat came as the year-long debate over his signature domestic policy entered its final week.
Mr Obama is personally telephoning congressmen who are still on the fence this week, in between several personal appearances devoted toward swinging public opinion.
Yesterday he visited Strongsville, Ohio, home of cancer patient Natoma Canfield, who wrote to the president she gave up her health insurance after it rose to $8,500 (£5,600) a year. Mr Obama repeatedly has cited the letter he received from the self-employed cleaning worker to illustrate the urgency of reform.
Though Congress has already ignored several deadlines set by the president, March 21 is being treated by all sides the final target date, at which time all options would have been exhausted. The president has postponed an overseas trip by three days to see reform through.
Apart from arm-twisting by the White House, an advertising blitz that could cost £20 million by the end of the week, about the same level of a presidential campaign, has been aimed at about 40 undecided Democrats in the House of Representatives.
Most are conservatives who are worried that their support would cost them their seat in November, as the bill has become unpopular with a majority of Americans.
Others are anti-abortion advocates concerned that the proposals would not do enough to prevent government funding of abortions.
The US Chamber of Commerce has led a coalition of organisations opposed to reform, while pharmaceutical companies and Left-wing groups have joined forces to support reform and are urging
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk …
Robert Gibbs: By Next Week Obamacare Will Be ‘Law of the Land’ (Even When American People Hate It)
On Fox News Sunday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs predicted the Democratic health-care reform plan will be passed and signed into law by next weekend.”We’ll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week,” Gibbs said, and by next Sunday claimed we “will be talking about healthcare not as a presidential proposal but, I think, as the law of the land.”
Gibbs also said that Democrats look forward to campaigning on the passage of the health-care bill in the 2010 midterm elections.
“[O]nce it passes, we’re happy to have the 2010 elections be about the achievement of health care reform. That’s a debate I think we’re obviously comfortable having.”
The Democrats’ 2,309-page reconciliation bill was released for public viewing Sunday and will begin the mark-up process in the Budget Committee Monday at 3pm. Contrary to the Democratic pledge to post the reconciliation measure 72 hours before consideration, the bill posted is a dummy — or a “shell” as Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wisc.) put it — an early version of the House bill that cleared key committees in 2009, thus making it eligible for the reconciliation process under budget rules. Once that bill clears the the committee it will be gutted and replaced with the closed-door “fixes” agreed upon by Congressional Democrats, and appended with an unrelated student loan bill.
Read more at:National Review
Obama: The American People Don’t Want Us to Consider Polls of the American People
President Obama made another stop on his health care road show in Strongsville, Ohio this afternoon, making the rather odd case that the American people don’t want their representatives to look at polls measuring what people want.
Wrapping up his speech, Obama said:
“The American people want to know if it’s still possible for Washington to look out for their interests. For their future. So what they’re looking for is some courage. They’re waiting for us to act. They’re waiting for us to lead. They don’t want us putting our finger out to the wind. They don’t want us reading polls. They want us to look and see what is the best thing for America and then, do what’s right.”
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Greedy Bankers:Ex-NY bank president first accused of TARP fraud
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The former president of New York’s privately held Park Avenue Bank was arrested and charged on Monday with being the first person to attempt to steal from U.S. government bailout funds in the financial crisis.
A 10-count criminal complaint accused Charles Antonucci of devising “an elaborate round-trip loan transaction” that he told others was his own $6.5 million investment in the bank, misleading state bank regulators and the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
The charges filed in Manhattan federal court said Charles Antonucci made false statements in the bank’s application for $11.2 million from TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
“Antonucci is the first person ever to be charged with attempting to defraud the TARP and we expect he will not be the last,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said at a news conference.
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Liberal ‘60 Minutes’ Silent on Government Role in Financial Crisis
“He dug into the idiocy and negligence that produced the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression,” Steve Kroft opened a segment of the March 14 CBS “60 Minutes,” featuring author Michael Lewis’ latest work - “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine.”
If Lewis “dug into the idiocy and negligence,” he did so selectively - or that’s what viewers could conclude from the long “60 Minutes” report, which concerned itself with how “some of Wall Street’s smartest minds managed to destroy $1.75 trillion of wealth in the sub-prime mortgage markets.” Somehow, in a 24-minute report about the sub-prime mortgage meltdown, nobody ever said where all the bad loans originated.
Lewis told Kroft that the financial crisis was “a story of mass delusion.”
“How can they not look at the numbers?” Kroft asked. “How can Wall Street be selling all these, buying all of these mortgages and repackaging them and not realizing they are not very good mortgages?”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org …
Obama Gaffe At Rally: “Your Employer Would See Premiums Fall By As Much As 3000 Percent” (Video)
Obamacare Rally in Strongville, Oh. This is at the end of the speech, Obama tells they that their employer could see premiums fall by as much as “3000 percent” (Video)
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Bauer Condemns “the Most Anti-Israeli Government in U.S. History”
WASHINGTON, March 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Former presidential candidate Gary Bauer on Monday condemned the Obama administration’s continuous mishandling of the U.S.-Israeli relationship and for its “outrageous hostility toward the only reliable democratic friend we have in the Middle East.”
Bauer, an influential Christian conservative known for his work on behalf of Israel, had an itinerary very similar to Vice President Biden’s last week. Bauer’s itinerary included meeting with Israel’s leadership, as he has many times before. He was in Israel as the current escalation in flawed U.S.-Israeli relations began with the announcement of a new building project in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital.
The president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families made the following statement: “It is obvious that in recent days the Obama administration has manufactured a crisis with Israel and is doing everything it can to humiliate our ally and weaken the Israeli government on the eve of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
“We shouldn’t lose sight of what set off the administration’s tirade. It was the on-going process of authorizing homes to be built in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel for its people. No other nation in the world runs its housing decisions by the Obama administration, but Israel is expected to do so, leading to numerous Obama officials denouncing our ally and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling Israel’s behavior ‘insulting.’
“But it is an insult to Israeli sovereignty to suggest that it must get the Obama administration’s permission to build homes for Israeli Jews. The homes are not the reason peace has been elusive in the Middle East. There is no peace because Israel’s enemies refuse its right to exist at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com …