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[The Global Realm] Pentagon Time « The Global Realm: when the Secretary of Defense meets privately with the nation’s top military-industrial contractors, calls for an even “closer partnership,” and pledges to further their mutual interests by working “with the White House to secure steady growth in the Pentagon’s budgets over time.” Nor does it cause a stir among the denizens of inside-the-Beltway Washington or the citizens of Massachusetts when the top ten defense contractors spend more than $27 million lobbying the federal government, as in the last quarter of 2009 (a significant increase over the previous quarter), just as plans for the president’s Afghan War surge were being prepared.

[Political Punch] Shoe-Bomber Reid Was Read His Rights 'Within 5 Minutes of Being ...: In recent history, Holder reminded the Republican Senators, only two individuals apprehended in the US were initially held under the law of war: Jose Padilla and Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri,  and in both cases such custody “raised serious statutory and constitutional questions in the courts concerning the lawfulness of the government's actions and spawned lengthy litigation.

[Nation] Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials in Newspapers ...: This is a huge victory for the powerful military establishment in the US and lobbies and special interests that President Obama promised to fight soon after walking into the White House. More important, this is a victory of Israel and its powerful friends in the U.S. When Obama took over, Palestinians and Arabs had hoped and dreamt of finally getting justice.

[RealClearPolitics - Homepage] RealClearPolitics - Obama's Deficits: Not His Fault?: Rather than recommend deficit reducing measures himself, Obama wants to turn the job over to a bipartisan commission. Republicans suspect a rat, an attempt to get them to support even larger tax increases than Obama is already proposing.

[kuro5hin.org] Obama The First Year || kuro5hin.org: Signed An Executive Order Banning Waterboarding - Not a major accomplishment except to the Left WingNut fringe that thought it would open the door for prosecution of 'war criminals'. The ultimate result is that Islamic terrorists still hate our guts and ability to gather information is less effective.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: That means Republicans will have unlimited global corporate cash to run adds exploiting the emotions of the Republican base with their usual campaign of fear and flag. They will scare the base chanting “terror, terror” and “liberal socialist,” and comfort them saying, “I am a hockey mom,” “I own a truck.” “I am a plumber,” and “I love the flag.” Obama and the Democrats have no chance to swing the swing voters with a dull promise of restoring law and order in our financial institutions and corporations, fair health care for all, ending oil dependency and creating millions of jobs with the green revolution.

[jcdurbant] Présidence Obama: Le charme est définitivement rompu (Born charmer ...: With congressional majorities, a compliant press, soaring public support, a soon-to-be President Obama was convinced, as he had been convinced by his success in the Ivy League, in Chicago, and in the Senate (surely praise in Cambridge means those in Toledo would be similarly wowed), that he had a left-wing mandate and he could hope and change his way to almost anything he wanted ”” thin record, self-contradictions, constant inconsistencies, and general confusion be damned.

[My Efficient Planet] What do you think of Obama's plans (listed here)? | My Efficient ...: Obama is not in favor of “no more bailouts for banks” and “outlawing hate crimes” and “no expansion of troops in Afghanistan” or even “ending trade policies.” Many Republicans and libertarians would agree with some of the proposals .

[Gouverneur Times News Feed] Obama team draws sharp Hill questions on budget: In the first test of the spending blueprint on Capitol Hill, Democrats took shots at the budget's proposed hits on some favored programs, including cancellation of the U.S. mission to return to the moon and a spending freeze on Army Corps of Engineers projects.

[Go Green Toolshed] Go Green Toolshed » Blog Archive » Geithner tells house panel ...: the White House goal has been to reduce the deficit to about 3 per cent of GDP, a level that most economists say is sustainable. Administration officials have said the deficit stems in large part from the recession and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that began during the administration of President George W.

[Taylor Marsh] Everybody is A Star | Taylor Marsh - TaylorMarsh.com - News ...: Noogan….That’s bull…if these so called patiots really cared about the bailouts and Tarp money…why did they wait eight years?!!!…I’m not worried I will be proven right as soon as the Tea Party (aka Republicans) candidates gain more power….Just wait and see their will be more bail outs under their watch too…First, they after to get rid of the Dems…I was right about George Bush Jr. that he was a fake Republican nobody listen to me then…So, all I can do is just sit back and watch knew suckers be taken in by this fake movement…I’m willing to wager $400 bucks that after winning elections and removal of Dems it’ll be business as usual…I need to save this page and come back to laugh at all the people who supported these fakes…Both parties Dems &

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: 3) Once in office sought to advance his party's agenda by preaching fear of what had been left behind by the previous administration (for Bush it was terrorism, for Obama it was economic collapse) and used a veto proof majority to acheive this (Bush started a war which was in no way related to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Obama pushed forward government programs and spending in no way related to the banking collapse or drop in housing values)

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » Please, No More 'Half-as-Much' Republicans: McCain voted AGAINST every Obama spending bill, denouncing Obama’s multi-trillion dollar deficit spending as “generational theft.” McCain voted AGAINST the confirmations of tax cheat Geithner, radical pro-abortion advocate Sibellius, leftist attorney Kagan and transnational advocate Koh to their respective positions in the Obama Administration.

[The American Spectator and AmSpecBlog] The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Why Obama Is an Even Bigger ...: If you do this, the average annual deficit during the Bush years (2001 through 2008) was 2 percent of GDP, or less than half the 4.04 percent average annual deficits anticipated by the Obama administration for 2012 through 2020. If you look at federal spending as a percentage of GDP (which I think is a better measure because it tells us the actual cost of the federal government to taxpayers), Obama also comes off worse - averaging 23.1 percent annually compared to 19.6 percent during the Bush years. 

[TRAIL BLAZERS] TRAIL BLAZERS Blog | The Dallas Morning News: So, best guess about what the Bushes' told Obama: "You do what we tell you to do, give the bankers trillions more, get millions more middle-easterners killed, annihilate Iran, or you will join the Kennedys." They have already shown him that their agents can reach him at will (White House "bashing" indeed), they have already shown they were even capable of targeting conservative president Reagan (Hinckley's father is one of Bush Sr.'s close associates). They can kill Obama literally, or kill him politically--by showing his real birth certificate (that's why the bankers elected Obama--he can't disobey them).

[Breaking News from The Huntsville Times] Sen. Richard Shelby: Obama's NASA budget "begins the death march ...: Senator Shelby is trying to BLAME his FAILURE to vote against the BORROW and SPEND Policies on the Obama administration, isn't he? Fiscal Conservatives believe in paying the Bills they make, in a timely manner, while Senator Shelby abetted the Bush/Cheney administration in increasing the National DEBT by more than 5 TIMES MORE than the first 39 Presidents COMBINED, and he has the audacity to cry over the "MILK" he and the Bush/Cheney administration, chose to give to their Corporate Campaign Contributors, rather than be the Fiscal Conservatives they wanted the American people to believe they were, didn't they?

[Rethink Afghanistan War Blog] Tomgram: Our Wars Are Killing Us - Rethink Afghanistan War Blog: This, in short, is Pentagon time and it’s we who fund that clock which ticks toward eternity.  If the Pentagon gets in trouble, war-fighting or otherwise, we bail it out without serious debate or any of the anger we saw in the Massachusetts election.  No one marches in the streets, or demands that Pentagon bailouts end, or votes ”˜em (or at least their supporters) out of office.

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