B-Man Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 The thrill is gone........................ Senate Kills Debo Adegbile Nomination The Senate has rejected the nomination of Debo Adegbile, President Obama’s choice to head up the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. Eight Democrats (including a procedural vote from Harry Reid) voted against cloture, yielding a final tally of 47-52. Adegbile had been widely criticized for advocating for Black Panther, Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of killing a cop in 1981. That horribly undemocratic 50-vote threshold simply has to go. Hysteria on the left........from ThinkProgress Meet The 7 Democrats Who Just Voted Down A Civil Rights Nominee For Supporting Civil Rights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 To maintain the bogus Race-Card narrative on the Adegbile debacle, NPR says “A HANDFUL OF SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS” JOINED REPUBLICANS TO VOTE AGAINST HIM. On NPR’s Morning Edition a story on yesterday’s failed vote on Debo Adegbile began “a handful of southern Democrats joined Republicans yesterday to defeat president Obama’s choice to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division.” For what it’s worth the Democrats who voted no: Chris Coons (Del.) Bob Casey (Pa.) Mark Pryor (Ark.) Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) Joe Manchin (W.V.) Joe Donnolly (Ind.) John Walsh (Mont.) And of course Harry Reid (Nev.) who did it for procedural grounds. Not exactly Sons of the Confederacy. . . . .Welcome to Dixie, North Dakotans! Shaheen dodges reporters after controversial vote. “New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen fled the scene of the vote Wednesday – following her decision to support President Obama’s controversial nominee for U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.” So it was “controversial” in that stronghold of the Old South, New Hampshire. “Bipartisanship is the new racism.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCinBuffalo Posted March 6, 2014 Author Share Posted March 6, 2014 The notion of "Southern" has been cleansed from the NPR story completely. Again, I gotta wonder: does anybody in the MSM truly understand the Internet? I thought Dan Rathergate was the wake up call. I guess not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koko78 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 To maintain the bogus Race-Card narrative on the Adegbile debacle, NPR says “A HANDFUL OF SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS” JOINED REPUBLICANS TO VOTE AGAINST HIM. On NPR’s Morning Edition a story on yesterday’s failed vote on Debo Adegbile began “a handful of southern Democrats joined Republicans yesterday to defeat president Obama’s choice to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division.” For what it’s worth the Democrats who voted no: Chris Coons (Del.) Bob Casey (Pa.) Mark Pryor (Ark.) Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) Joe Manchin (W.V.) Joe Donnolly (Ind.) John Walsh (Mont.) And of course Harry Reid (Nev.) who did it for procedural grounds. Not exactly Sons of the Confederacy. . . . .Welcome to Dixie, North Dakotans! Good sir, southern Montana shall rise again against its northern Yankee oppressors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 America’s Energy Weapon. “The US’s energy power, a product of the shale revolution, is what the Kremlin fears most.” All we need is a President willing to use it..................... . How Iran’s Rulers See Obama. “Iran’s rulers are watching Obama lurch from crisis to crisis, and they’re not impressed. Indeed, if this cartoon is a window into their thinking, it’s a safe bet that Tehran is already planning to walk away from the ‘interim’ deal now that it has loosened the global sanctions that had been crimping Iran’s economy.” Charles Krauthammer: The Wages Of Weakness. Obama cares about consolidating Democratic power domestically. He’s not interested in what happens abroad, except to the extent it impacts that. And now that he’s been re-elected, he has more flexibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 This should be interesting to see how Obama reacts to this. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/crimea-votes-join-russia-obama-orders-sanctions-011008516--sector.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 This should be interesting to see how Obama reacts to this. http://finance.yahoo...16--sector.html It'll probably start with a trip to Key West and 18 holes with a yet-to-be-named celebrity while Jay Carney explains how tiring it is to be president. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 (edited) The Destroyer Cometh :A dumbed-down Democratic party runs out of ideas. by Kevin D. Williamson FTA: I do not much blame the Left for hesitating to talk about Big Ideas. The Left has been losing the Big Idea debate for a generation or more. Marxism was the Left’s Big Idea for the better part of a century, and its collapse — which was moral, economic, political, and complete — left a howling void in the Left’s intellectual universe. Nothing has quite managed to fill it: In the immediate wake of the collapse of Communism, the anticapitalists sought shelter in a variety of movements, few of which grew to be of any real consequence, with the exception of the environmentalist movement. But the lenten self-mortification implied by a consistent environmentalist ethic has limited that movement’s appeal as a governing philosophy and an individual ethic both, hence its fragmentation into a motley sprawl of mini-crusades. It is easy to be anti-fracking when that does not require you to give up anything, easy to oppose the expansion of the Keystone pipeline network when you can be confident that the gas pumps in your hometown will always be full, easy for well-off Whole Foods shoppers to abominate varieties of grain that are possessed by evil spirits or cooties or whatever it is this week. {snip} At CPAC this week, you will find students of Robert George debating students of Robert Nozick about the subject of gay marriage, and Governor Rick Perry of Texas, among others, arguing that mandatory-minimum-sentence laws are a failure, while Chuck Grassley and others support them. (How many members of Mr. Stewart’s audience know that Senator Michael Lee of Utah and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas in January introduced a bill to reduce mandatory minimums for nonviolent drug offenders and to make retroactive the 2010 reforms relating to crack-cocaine sentences?) There is no CPAC of the Left, because the Left is not interested even in its own ideas, much less those of Professor George or the late Professor Nozick. . Edited March 9, 2014 by B-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDBillzFan Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 The party of No? The obstructionists? Who knew? But the fact that House Democratic bills are sitting in the Senate gives GOP leaders political ammunition. “Democratic bills, Republican bills, bipartisan bills — the House has moved scores of legislation to help hard-working families and build an America that works,” Cantor Deputy Chief of Staff Doug Heye said. “Harry Reid's do-nothing Senate must not have gotten the memo that President Obama declared 2014 a year of action.” Reid's office did not respond to requests for comment. Only half of the stalled Democratic bills have a companion measure in the Senate. All but one are being sponsored by Democratic senators. The exception is Rep. George Miller’s (D-Calif.) Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predator’s Act, which has a companion bill crafted by Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). Three of the stalled Democratic bills deal with veterans and the military. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) has two House-passed bills awaiting action in the Senate. The Ruth Moore Act aims to improve the disability claims process for veterans with mental health problems due to sexual trauma experienced in the military. Pingree spokesman Willy Ritch said he doesn't know when, or if, the bill will come up on the other side of the Capitol. “Absolutely, it is frustrating to [Pingree] that this bill passed House and hasn’t passed the Senate,” Ritch said. The left has absolutely been taken over by the gatormans of the world. No plan. Just obstruction to everything. Even their own leader. I wonder...does the left hate black presidents. Is it...gasp...racist!?!?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 The party of No? The obstructionists? Who knew? The left has absolutely been taken over by the gatormans of the world. No plan. Just obstruction to everything. Even their own leader. I wonder...does the left hate black presidents. Is it...gasp...racist!?!?!? And then, when their pipe dreams come crashing into the strong winds of reality all they can do is ask, "Well, smarty-pants... what would YOU do now?" As if the pile of shite they've created would have been the same had their lazy guy been capable and coherently focused to begin with. The incompetency of this administration is the stuff of legend. They've had their way for six years now and have kept the country in a miasma of misery, greed, hate, and jealousy that defines Obama's Presidency and is guided by a narcissistic naive world view, punctuated by acts of petulant incompetence, and a Presidential work schedule that's built around jetting around the country to fund raisers, celebrity celebrations, and vacations filled with 18 holes of time-killing golf. Those are the hallmarks of failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Calling from Florida, Stick- a-Tiny-Umbrella-In-It Diplomacy Obama continues telephone outreach on Ukraine Associated Press, by Darlene Superville KEY LARGO, Fla. — Vacationing in Florida, President Barack Obama continued his telephone consultations with world leaders on Ukraine, speaking one on one Saturday with the leaders of three European powers and collectively with the heads of the three Baltic states, White House said. Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 The left has absolutely been taken over by the gatormans of the world. No plan. Just obstruction to everything. Even their own leader. I wonder...does the left hate black presidents. Is it...gasp...racist!?!?!? Obama doesn't need laws, just a pen and a phone. The Senate probably realizes this, and decided not to waste their time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 The midterms should be a bloodbath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Why Liberals Can’t Govern: They won’t address failures of bureaucracy. by Jim Geraghty Back in late February, a new contract document revealed that the Department of Health and Human Services would be paying $60 million for the computer cloud that supports back-end data sharing for HealthCare.gov and state Obamacare marketplaces, more than five times the amount in the original contract. This week HHS revealed that the contract has been further revised — to roughly $120 million, now more than ten times the original $11 million value of the contract when Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services first awarded it in 2011. In most professions, when you end up spending ten times what you budgeted, the consequences are swift and severe. Heads roll. Responsibilities are reassigned. Budgetary authority gets yanked. This, of course, is not how things work in the federal government. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 In most professions, when you end up spending ten times what you budgeted, the consequences are swift and severe. Heads roll. Responsibilities are reassigned. Budgetary authority gets yanked. This, of course, is not how things work in the federal government. And there's a very good reason for that: government programs in general, and the ACA in particular, are legislatively mandated. Failure not only isn't an option, it's a goddamn felony. And in most cases (and again, particularly for the ACA), the only legislative mandate - and measure of success or failure - is the legislated deadlines. Budget is a secondary consideration, because Congress makes it so. The most obvious fix to that is to pass laws that mandate schedule and budget. But that introduces its own levels of insanity (yeah, I really want Congress directly involved in my project planning). The REAL fix is realistic risk management: the government and the taxpayers need to accept the fact that there is risk in every activity, and stop the hideously expensive practice of trying to manage risk down to zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keepthefaith Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Why Liberals Can’t Govern: They won’t address failures of bureaucracy. by Jim Geraghty Back in late February, a new contract document revealed that the Department of Health and Human Services would be paying $60 million for the computer cloud that supports back-end data sharing for HealthCare.gov and state Obamacare marketplaces, more than five times the amount in the original contract. This week HHS revealed that the contract has been further revised — to roughly $120 million, now more than ten times the original $11 million value of the contract when Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services first awarded it in 2011. In most professions, when you end up spending ten times what you budgeted, the consequences are swift and severe. Heads roll. Responsibilities are reassigned. Budgetary authority gets yanked. This, of course, is not how things work in the federal government. . Maybe the scope of the project changed along the way. Maybe HHS has determined that there is a greater need for data mining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 The REAL fix is realistic risk management: the government and the taxpayers need to accept the fact that there is risk in every activity, and stop the hideously expensive practice of trying to manage risk down to zero. Sure they will. And lose 99% of campaign platforms? I don't think so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 WHY, THAT’S CRAZY TALK! Roll Call: White House, Democrats Cry Foul Over GOP Push to Enforce Immigration and Other Laws. Obama threatens vetoes of bills requiring him to follow the law It’s come to this: Obama threatens to veto Republican bills that … require him to follow the law If he had a sense of humor, he’d sign the bills and then ignore them. Just like he did with ObamaCare. Forcing him to threaten a veto was, of course, the whole point of these bills in the first place. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 WHY, THAT’S CRAZY TALK! Roll Call: White House, Democrats Cry Foul Over GOP Push to Enforce Immigration and Other Laws. Obama threatens vetoes of bills requiring him to follow the law As well he should veto it. It's a matter for the courts, not the legislature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TakeYouToTasker Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 As well he should veto it. It's a matter for the courts, not the legislature. All matters are matters of the legislature. It's only for the courts to determine if the laws passed are Constitutional, or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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