AP Article about Murkowski trying to head of EPA regulation of greenhouse gas.The resolution, which has 40 co-sponsors, is scheduled for 10 hours of debate Thursday on the Senate floor. Murkowski spokesman said the resolution is not about debating the alleged science behind climate change; rather, it's about stopping an "out of control" government agency. Three Democrats has signed on a co-sponsors of the resolution. Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, is not one of them.
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Begich is just a good little dem dawg.
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Just ahead of the President's trip to Florida to check out the oil spill, Quinnipiac is out with a poll today showing Obama's job approval taking a dramatic turn for the worse in the Sunshine State.
Six weeks ago, 50% of Floridians approved of the job Obama was doing as President, while 45% disapproved. Today, however, Quinnipiac finds a 54% majority disapproves of how Obama is handling his job as President while just 40% approve - a net swing of 19 points against the President in the last month and a half.
Not surprisingly, those numbers are nearly identical to Floridians' view of Obama's handling of the Gulf oil spill. Just 37% approve of the job he's done on the oil spill, while 54% disapprove of the way he's handled the disaster.
It's ladies night in Cali, as Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina won the Republican nominations for governor and Senate, respectively. Carly Fiorina owes it all to . . . Demonsheep!
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Carly should say "Tha-a-a-a-nks" to demonsheep.
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The alternative was a slam dunk six more years for Boxer. Years ago when B-1 Bob crashed and burned in Orange County it became obvious a true Conservative could not get elected Dog Catcher in any of the metro areas. Here in the SF Bay Area we do not have a Trunk serving for 50 miles in any direction. What we have is:
Senator Barbara Boxer
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey
Congressman George Miller
Congresswoman Barbara Lee
Congressman John Garamendi
Congressman Jerry McNerney
Congresswoman Jackie Speier
Congressman Pete Stark
Congresswoman Anna Eshoo
Congressman Mike Honda
We have an outside chance of dumping Boxer and McNerney.
The real sheep are the people that keep electing liberal hacks. Obama still enjoys a comfortable positive approval rating in California. The only thing that brings his numbers down is when the left is unhappy with him.
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I must be on the side of crazy because I liked both Meg and Carly over their GOP establishment opponents. The biggest hits these two are taking is that they are:
1) Women
2) Not politicians
3) Rich (by their own merit)
4) Willing to spend their own money to win
President Barack Obama said Tuesday he wanted to know "whose ass to kick" over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, set to devastate the coast's fragile economy and environment for years.
Talk is cheap ...
Although Obama has traveled to the Gulf three times since the April 20 rig explosion, some critics charge he has been slow to lead and not tough enough.
But the president insisted that on his first visit a month ago, he warned "about what a potential crisis this could be."
"I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answer so I know whose ass to kick," Obama told NBC television's "Today" show as he bared a spot of raw emotion over the disaster.
"What is clear is that the economic impact of this disaster is going to be substantial, and it is going to be ongoing," Obama said Monday after meeting with top officials in the latest attempt to show his administration is on top of the crisis.
Environment woes: His assessment was echoed by his point man on the spill, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, who said that while cleanup would take months, it would take years to restore environments and habitats.
Meanwhile, more and more sea birds have turned up at rescue centers coated in oily goop as the slick breaks into thousands of ribbons threatening shores from Louisiana to Florida.
Allen said BP had succeeded in capturing 11,000 barrels (462,000 gallons) of oil from the containment cap, a mile (1,600 meters) below the surface in a 24-hour period that ended early Monday, and planned to soon boost production to 20,000 barrels.
A top company official said BP has collected a total of 28,000 barrels of oil from the ruptured well. "This is an encouraging step," BP senior vice president Kent Wells told a press briefing.
But Allen said it remained unclear just how much oil was escaping from the ruptured wellhead, and what proportion of the escaping crude was being captured since the blast that ripped through the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil drilling platform.
Government models estimate the oil's flow rate at between 12,000 and 25,000 barrels a day, meaning that only a portion of the crude is likely being captured so far.
Political fallout: A new poll showed that the spill could be turning into a major political liability for the president, with more Americans taking a negative view of the US response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill than to US relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
A month and a half after the BP spill began, the poll by ABC news and the Washington Post found that 69 percent of respondents gave a negative rating to the federal government response, compared to 62 percent who negatively rated the government's handling of Katrina two weeks after that devastating August 2005 hurricane.
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Obama asks 'whose ass to kick' over oil spill
Your own, asshole.
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They key to keeping Dear Leader status, is never accept blame. Always, always, go after others. A form of terrorism. The fear of getting one's "ass kicked" usually prevents everyone from pointing a finger at Dear Leader himself, the one who really needs an ass kicking.
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....how about the Luddites of your party who've pushed exploration to the edge of technology and safety rather than closer into shore with proven and established processes? /just asking
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Our Founders would be so impressed w/this inspiring statesman and orator...
This guy's "oration" is hesitant and stumbling. If it weren't for his teleprompter, he would still be a community organizer based on his oratory skills alone. AFAIAC, the media was pi$$ing on our heads and telling us that it was raining when they hailed his oratory skills. I didn't buy it, but apparently enough did only because they so desperately wanted to.
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Bet he wouldn't dare kick Cheney's ass.
Why Cheney?
Well Cheney used to be Chairman of Haliburton, who just happened to buy Boots & Coots, one of the world's premier well control and cleanup companies , founded by Red Adair. Paid $3 a share and all this happened on 10th of April, ten days before the blowout on the BP oil rig.
This blowout is sinking Obama faster than a glob of oil.
Is there anything Cheney can't do?
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My back-of-the-envelope calculation, by no means definitive, showed that once the shutdown of deepwater drilling in the gulf cascades through the economies of Louisiana and Texas, it means about 810,000 additional unemployed.
So yeah, he has kicked lots of asses, and he should have thought about that beforehand.
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RENSE > [NYT] SCIENTIST(s?) AWED BY SIZE, DENISTY OF UNDERSEA OIL FLUME IN GULF | UNDERWATER OIL.
* SAME > [Discovery]SECOND GULF SPILL CONFIRMED [SO WHAT?].
* WMF > OBAMA USING DEEPWATER OIL SPILL CRISIS TO ENFORCE US DOMINANCE OF CENTRAL-SOUTH AMERICA AND REGIONAL OIL FIELDS. THREAT OF SOVEREIGN US TAKEOVER OF BP + GULF OIL RIGS.
IOW, ARTIC = US/BAMMER-LED AMERIZONE "CONTINENT IMPERIALISM", when simply extending the "Cintinental Shelf" just isn't enuff???
The latest accusations leveled against the congressman are enough to make one question not just his qualifications to serve in the United States Congress, but whether he would be fit to lead a Boy Scout troop.
Hare has repeatedly called himself a veteran.' In fact, he joined the reserves during the Vietnam era and was never called to active service. By most legal definitions of the word, and most importantly to most real veterans themselves, a former reservist is not entitled to call himself a veteran. When a former reservist uses their honored word, real veterans get touchy, and understandably so. If such a deception doesn't qualify as a case of full-blown stolen honor, it's certainly matter of taking out an extended, zero-interest loan against the honor of those men and women who earned the title.
Ken Moffett, a constituent of Hare's from Moline, Illinois and an actual veteran, asked the congressman to stop describing himself using the term to which in Moffett's and many a veteran's view Hare is not entitled. The congressman's reaction was so offensive that Moffett was moved to pen a letter to Blake Chisam, committee staff director and chief counsel of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics). The following excerpt from that letter, dated June 2, 2010, describes what Moffett says happened during his encounter with Hare:
After I pointed out that according to the law he is not a veteran, he became very upset and demanded to know my name. I refused to tell him my name, saying that this was about his claim of being a veteran and not about me.
Mr. Hare then told one of his aides who was with him, to follow me to my car and get my license plate number so he could find out who I was. I have since been told that Mr. Hare's daughter works for the DMV.
I then asked Mr. Hare if he was going to stop telling people that he was a veteran. Mr. Hare again demanded to know my name, and again told his aide to get my name or to follow me to get me license number so he could find out who I was, so he could tell the former reservists what I said.
I asked Mr. Hare if he as a public official was going to use his official office to run name checks on private citizens, in order to intimidate them into not asking questions he did not want to answer.
As Mr. Hare was turning to walk away from me he paused, and turning back to my direction, he glared at me intently, and while leaning forward pointed his finger at me, and in a threatening and intimidating manner said, I'll find out who you are!'
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What a LOSER.....why do these asshats think they have to this? it's wrong and makes them look oh so stupid. I tried to get to his website but no luck to leave him a note.
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Sounds to me like a clear case of voter intimidation. We really should bring back dueling, and make sure congress critters are not only not immune, but can't weasel out without automatically being disbarred from office and paying huge fines for the rest of their lives.
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Lest we forget, Mr. Hare is the one who exclaimed at a town hall mean that he doesn't care about the Constitution.
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This thing with definitions of service is getting a little extreme. I served 4 years in the Navy. Vietnam era volunteer. A true volunteer, I would never have been drafted. Never deployed to VN as I worked with ASW. Never fired a shot except on the range. My big overseas deployment was Canada LOL!
I consider myself a veteran. I never call myself a combat vet but I am a veteran and as things turned out, it was as safe as serving in a reserve unit that was never activated. As far as I am concerned, you take the oath, you do your time honorably, reserve or active, then you are a vet. In this day and age, with call ups effecting reserve units left and right, the distinction being made here is pernicious. Do we really want to reserve the term Vet to combat veterans? To exclude reservists? To exclude the guy who obays orders and ends up pushing paper in some office.
To paraphrise Patton on duty in war, "Somebody ends up shoveling shit in Louisiana".
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Dogsbody,
Notice what it says: "In fact, he joined the reserves during the Vietnam era and was never called to active service."
In other words, he probably never served on active duty, other than his annual two weeks for training (what we used to call ACDUTRA).
I, too, was a Naval Reservist. I enlisted in 1969, and served three years active duty between 1970 and 1973. I was lucky - I was on an East coast ship and we never got sent to 'Nam.
I am a veteran. But I served three years active duty. I never claim that I was a combat veteran, but I am a Viet Nam era veteran.
The congress critter apparently never served on active duty. There is a difference.
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I'd be inclined to cut him a little teeny tiny bit of slack if he weren't such an arrogant asshole. He's the one who said about Obamacare's unconstitutionality: "I don't care about the constitution"
see this youtube
f*ck him. I just lost my slack-giving-ability
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Do we really want to reserve the term Vet to combat veterans?
My answer is: depends. If you're a politician, using the words "I served during Vietnam" (when your total military experience was at 'Toy Dri Ve')is puffery at the very least.
Don't forget the field-day certain parties had over G.W. Bush's service.
A retired U.S. Marine who runs a high school ROTC program in Worcester says he faces the boot for refusing to pay local union dues, leaving the 58-year-old father of two crying foul and school administrators bewildered. "It just seems crazy that they're gonna fire me over $500," said Maj. Stephen L. Godin, senior naval science instructor at the Naval Junior ROTC Unit of North High School. "Everyone's talking about finding good teachers - I haven't missed a day in 14 years."
Indeed, North High School Principal Matthew Morse praised Godin yesterday as an "excellent" instructor who has turned his program into a top junior ROTC academy.
Godin, a 20-year Marine veteran until 1994, who flew F-4 Phantoms and was deployed five times, said he refuses to join the union because he receives all his benefits, including health insurance and half his salary, from the military. Unlike other teachers, he doesn't earn a stipend for after-school activities, such as the hours he spends coaching the high school's regional champion drill team. His salary is dictated by the U.S. Military, not labor negotiators, Godin said.
Officials from the Education Association of Worcester did not return repeated calls, and the Massachusetts Teachers Association declined comment.
State law requires certain public employees to join unions as a condition of employment or pay a so-called agency fee, which goes toward the cost of collective bargaining. But Godin said he shouldn't have to pay the $500 fee because he receives no benefit from the local union. He provided a letter from the local union demanding he join or pay the fee by the school year's end. Godin said in 14 years of teaching in Worcester public schools, he's never been asked to pony up for the union.
"I've always worked hard," he said. "I'm a loyal Marine. Now they're chasing me away."
Worcester schools superintendent Melinda J. Boone said she has asked the district school attorney to investigate a way to keep Godin on board, but added, "this is really a union matter." "State Law"...gotta love it (sarc)
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Fundamental principle is that the state can not trump or tax federal law and operations [finalized in 1865]. The ROTC instructor is an agent of the federal government performing federal duties under Title X USC.
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President Barack Obama said Tuesday he wanted to know "whose ass to kick" over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, set to devastate the coast's fragile economy and environment for years.
A retired U.S. Marine who runs a high school ROTC program in Worcester says he faces the boot for refusing to pay local union dues, leaving the 58-year-old father of two crying foul and school administrators bewildered. "It just seems crazy that they're gonna fire me over $500," said Maj. Stephen L. Godin, senior naval science instructor at the Naval Junior ROTC Unit of North High School. "Everyone's talking about finding good teachers - I haven't missed a day in 14 years."
