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Economy
CBO: Obamacare will cost 2 million jobs by 2025
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/08/2015 17:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They'll force us all to single payer by then so don't worry about it! /sarc
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/08/2015 17:47 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Hillary Clinton on Wall Street: 'No one should be too big to jail'
[BUSINESSINSIDER] Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Foster Dulles ...
presented her plan to "rein in" Wall Street in a New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
op-ed published Monday.

Clinton, who has faced criticism for her ties to the financial industry, vowed to fight for "tough new rules" and to veto any legislation that attempts to weaken current Wall Street regulations.

The Democratic presidential front-runner presented a three-part proposal for how she'd treat Wall Street.

First, Clinton wrote, she'd create a "new risk fee" on the biggest financial institutions to discourage behavior that could jeopardize the broader economy.

"I would also ensure that the federal government has -- and is prepared to use -- the authority and tools necessary to reorganize, downsize and ultimately break up any financial institution that is too large and risky to be managed effectively," she added. "No bank or financial firm should be too big to manage."

Clinton said she would not endorse reinstating the Glass--Steagall Act, which separated commercial and investment banking. Both of Clinton's primary rivals -- Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
(I-Vermont) and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley
...former Democratic governor of Maryland and aspiring presidential candidate, known locally as The One-Man Economic Wrecking Crew. O'Malley was elected to his second term driven by union support and near-Stalinesque vote margins in Baltimore city (82%) and Prince George's County (88%). He presided over more than 40 tax or fee increases, including a rain tax and a flush tax...
(D) -- have made the case that the Glass--Steagall regulations should return, but Clinton argued that it would have done little to prevent the 2008 financial crash.
Posted by: Fred || 12/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Out of the mouths of crooks (paraphrasing)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 12/08/2015 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Not even herself?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/08/2015 4:16 Comments || Top||

#3  So... If you are a Wall Street Fat Cat the message here is "Don't Donate to Hillary!".
Posted by: 3dc || 12/08/2015 6:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Freudian projection. Deep in this one, it is.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/08/2015 8:49 Comments || Top||

#5  When she makes statements that indict her own behavior so clearly (recall her comment about believing rape accusers) you know she doesn't mean it. A more obvious example of a politician lying (and in this case a crook too) is hard to conceive.
Posted by: One Eyed Borgia8209 || 12/08/2015 11:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, except for GM or Goldman or Bill ...
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/08/2015 13:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Oh, I get it---it's her way to solicit donations.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/08/2015 14:08 Comments || Top||

#8  "No one should be too big to jail"

Starting with YOU, Toots.
Posted by: Barbara || 12/08/2015 14:18 Comments || Top||

#9  She's desperate to convince NY voters she's not crooked. I would like to see her quoted at her own trial.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/08/2015 15:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Oblivious.
Posted by: KBK || 12/08/2015 18:58 Comments || Top||

#11  As a reminder, as per Bernie Sanders ...

* LUCIANNE > BERNIE SANDERS IS SOCIALIST, AND SO ARE YOU [Mainstream America-now-Amerika].

The Circle that officially started wid Monica's dress, "PEARL HARBOR", + ARMAGEDDON [VPOTUS Gore's Vietnam M-16 + Texas-sized Asteroids] will soon be complete, Padawan.

IFF AMERIKA WAS EURO/DEMO-SOCIALIST WID "FIFTY SHADES OF GREY", IT'LL BE [Neo-Stalinist?]COMMUNIST BY THE TIME THE SEQUEL "FIFY DARKER SHADES OF GREY" COMES OUT.

GOD HELP US [literally] IFF THERE IS A PART 3 ANDOR PREQUELS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 12/08/2015 23:25 Comments || Top||


Lynch recalibrates message on hateful speech
[POLITICO] Attorney General Loretta Lynch Monday appeared to recalibrate remarks she made last week that suggested the Justice Department could investigate speech deemed hostile towards Muslims.
I can't tell the difference. They both act the same.
"Of course, we prosecute deeds and not words," she said at a press conference Monday to announce an unrelated civil rights investigation into the Chicago Police Department.

Some conservatives criticized Lynch for her comments to a Muslim civil rights group, where she lamented "the ability of people to issue hateful speech of all types from the anonymity of a screen."

Speaking to a Muslim Advocates dinner in Arlington, Va., Lynch affirmed that "this is a country that is based upon free speech." However, she went on to suggest that the Justice Department would "take action" when such speech "edges towards violence, when we see the potential to lift...that mantle of anti-Muslim rhetoric."
Posted by: Fred || 12/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now the campaign against the 'deniers' of the 'Religion of Peace'(tm).

[not that the historical fact that Buddhism and Christianity were originally spread by the word, while Islam was spread by the sword should ever be pointed out]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/08/2015 8:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Option 1: Attorney General Loretta Lynch over-spoke. Considering her profession, that's highly unlikely.

Option 2: Attorney General Loretta Lynch was pandering to Muslim interest groups.

Option 3: Attorney General Loretta Lynch was repeating the line handed to her by the White House.

Option 4: Attorney General Loretta Lynch was working under Options 2 or 3 and backtracked when her remarks made the press.
Posted by: Pappy || 12/08/2015 13:28 Comments || Top||

#3  "Of course, we prosecute deeds and not words," she said for now.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/08/2015 13:38 Comments || Top||

#4  This administration and its lackeys have been putting mooslimb rights above American citizen's right since the beginning. Little surprise they keep doing it, even in broad daylight at this point.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/08/2015 13:43 Comments || Top||

#5  She sent the chill across society that she intended to. Now for the legal backtracking just in case.

And nothing about doing anything to stop the actual target of religious hate in the US.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/08/2015 15:22 Comments || Top||


Hillary Clinton in Poll Free Fall
[BREITBART] A new CNN poll shows Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Elihu Root ...
struggling against her potential Republican rivals.

The poll of registered voters shows Clinton with slims leads over Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
and Jeb Bush. Ben Carson
... a neurosurgeon who is under the impression that being brilliant qualifies him to be president....
and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
edge Clinton in the hypothetical match-ups.

This latest CNN poll, obviously, is a snapshot of the current standings in the Presidential race. More interesting is the dramatic drop in Clinton's support over the fall. In some cases, she has lost more than 20 points relative to her Republican challengers.
Posted by: Fred || 12/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Three dozen counties.

In the end, all the Dems have to do to get Hillary in the White House is win three dozen or so select counties in Virginia, Ohio, and Florida to have enough electoral votes to win.

They have the money of pretty much the entire IT, finance, education, and entertainment industries at their beck and call. If Erich Schmidt himself has to personally deliver a check for $100,000 to every undecided voter in those counties to bribe them to vote for Hillary, count on that happening.

The only way the Repubs win is if they play a perfect game, make NO mistakes, and have the Dems make some of their own. I wish it were otherwise. But I refuse to get excited about these polls.
Posted by: no mo uro || 12/08/2015 5:48 Comments || Top||

#2  I refuse to get excited about the whole election, you know the dems will cheat.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 12/08/2015 12:26 Comments || Top||

#3  ah, yes, but consider I had dinner last night with some friends who reported their friend, a lifelong (D)[female], was NOT going to vote for Bernie, and when asked about Hilly, said, "I don't LIKE her!" She said she would vote for Kasich.

I said, "But he's a Republican!" My friends just shook their heads in disbelief.

Just an anecdote, I know.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/08/2015 13:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Best bet for the party, impeach O (you got lots of excuses), put Biden in place, run on the sympathy vote. It'll defuse some of the WTF agitation that motivates your opponents. Think strategically. Then again, stupidity isn't reserved for one party.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/08/2015 14:59 Comments || Top||


Cruz surges to the top in Iowa
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER]
Posted by: Fred || 12/08/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sorry, false, manipulated poll. Try the one with a significant number of respondents -- Trump by big numbers. Anyway Cruz wants the TPP (he voted for TPA), he wants amnesty, he want bazillion H1b visas -- he is a uniparty plant. His wife is big-time globalist.
Posted by: pyromancer76 || 12/08/2015 9:07 Comments || Top||


Government
Feds shelling out billions to public relations firms
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/08/2015 17:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The department of truth and honesty needed more propaganda to shore up the serf's flagging opinion of them.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/08/2015 17:40 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2015-12-08
  Clash among the supporters of Taliban chief and Mullah Rasool leaves 24 dead
Mon 2015-12-07
  Yemen's Aden governor killed in car bombing claimed by Islamic State
Sun 2015-12-06
  AQIM shares responsibility for Mali hotel killings
Sat 2015-12-05
  Still No Confirmation On Reports Of Mullah Mansour's Death
Fri 2015-12-04
  They're here
Thu 2015-12-03
  Syed Farook is religious, sez Dad
Wed 2015-12-02
  Dozens of Houthis killed in major offensive across border from Yemen
Tue 2015-12-01
  Russia Arms Su-34s with Air-to-Air Missiles in Syria for First Time
Mon 2015-11-30
  Suspected Jihadists Attack Cash Truck in Burkina Faso
Sun 2015-11-29
  Pakistan Airstrikes Kill 17 Militants
Sat 2015-11-28
  ISIS top dawg dies in Tal Afar
Fri 2015-11-27
  Top Pakistani extremist killed in 'shoot-out' with police
Thu 2015-11-26
  Drone strike kills Taliban shadow district governor in Nangarhar
Wed 2015-11-25
  One Russian pilot killed, other returned to Russia airbase in Syria
Tue 2015-11-24
  Tensions rise after Turkey shoots down Russian jet, says it will take the issue to the UN, NATO

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