Reporting from Washington - With the healthcare battle still unfinished, the Obama administration has been laying plans to take up an issue that could prove even more divisive -- a major overhaul of the nation's immigration system.
Senior White House aides privately have assured Latino activists that the president will back legislation next year to provide a path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. No mention in article whether they would now be covered in the 'new health care plan' We already know the answer to that ...
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Should an immigration bill gain traction, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel would probably be a central player in the negotiations Our goal is not to outdo the Republicans, rather to use our achievements and proposals to prevent them from using this as a wedge issue against us."
With double-digit unemployment, Amnesty for illegal aliens isnt going anywhere. No matter. The O-Team knows that the useful tools only require the appearance of effort not accomplishment. Its really quite simple just float out a proposal that looks like a bribe. Lord knows the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been grousing about the lack of a public option in the health care bill. Not to mention, Andy Stern and SEIU are going to need a sweetener to swallow a tax on their precious Cadillac Health insurance plans. Also, amnesty is quickly becoming the favorite hot button to distract their critics from talking about whatever boondoggle they have going on.
Rahm just loves the Two-Fer.
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The attraction? "Shes a Russian Jew," he said, "who gets up earlier than I do."
Certainly wouldn't want to marry a common old American. Congratulations Peter, nice 401K catch for those jobless years, 2013 and beyond. If anyone knows they'll need it, it's got to be YOU!
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Time to move on; nothing to see here. Old news. The marriage between members of the Administration and the MSM took place a long time ago-lock, stock, and barrel.
As a fresh poll measured the political cost of Sen. Ben Nelson's health reform vote, he prepared Tuesday to take his case directly to Nebraskans during Wednesday night's Holiday Bowl game.
Nelson will air a new TV ad in which he attempts to debunk opposition claims that the Senate legislation represents a government takeover, and he makes the case for health care reform.
"With all the distortions about health care reform, I want you to hear directly from me," the Democratic senator says in the ad.
Nelson, dressed in an open-necked shirt and sweater, speaks directly into the camera during the 30-second ad.
The message will be launched during the Nebraska-Arizona football game and continue to air statewide for an undisclosed number of days.
It will take more than 30 seconds to explain away such an abdication of leadership and betrayal of supposed principles.
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Predicted talking points:
1) I didn't vote for the bill, just for the closing of 'pointless debate', to allow the democratic process to proceed.
2) I bargained for the best deal possible for Nebraskans.
3) I will vote against the bill when it comes to the floor.
What am I missing?
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"Look, no one knows what's in a damn 2,000 page bill anyway, much less how it's actually going to work. So why shouldn't I get you guys some money out of this thing?"
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Hope the Jumbotron at the stadium has a heavy covering. If this piece of garbage gets shown there at halftime (paid for, of course, with OUR money), there'll be a massive load of beer bottles (at least) thrown at the screen.
Warning to sports bars everywhere....
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Barb, I don't think they sell booze at college games (it's been a while). But I would grant that there will be a chorus of BOO's which is kind iof like booze. ;-) I would wonder if it is possible to recall a senator? That would get thier attention in a hurry.
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it's here in San Diego. There's beer (usually til the start of the 4th qtr) and cocktails in the Stadium Club. The trick is to get hammered before you go in. It also helps that Ben's paid lie will only show in Neb., I think
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And the thinks that interrupting a BOWL GAME IN NEBRASKA is gonna help is ratings?!?!?!?!
By JOHN FUND
Even in an economic recession, Americans in urban areas continue to buy second homes in rural parts of the country, frequently helping to revitalize depressed areas. Inevitably, though, political operatives have also been seizing on weekend residents as a way to change the political complexion of rural communities.
Nowhere is the battle being more fiercely fought than in New York's Columbia County, a two-hour drive up the Hudson River from New York City. Local Democrats have encouraged weekend residents to register and vote on the theory that their ballots aren't needed in New York City, where Democrats already hold an overwhelming registration edge. In a lightly-populated upstate community, however, a few transplant votes can represent the balance of power.
That was certainly the case last month in the town of Taghkanic, which has about 1,500 people. In a closely contested race for local offices, more than 20% of the ballots were cast by absentees, almost all of them by weekend residents who appeared to have delivered narrow victories to local Democrats. In response, Republicans have sued, pointing to evidence that many of the absentees were people whose jobs, drivers licenses and primary residences were in New York City and legally should have voted there. Some may even have voted in both jurisdictions. Approximately 60 absentee ballots are at issue and could sway the result of some races if disqualified.
The case will be heard by a local judge in State Supreme Court in Columbia County tomorrow. Evidence before him will include spreadsheets showing that many of the county's absentee voters had signed affidavits for property tax exemptions on homes outside of Columbia County or signed second-home riders on mortgages securing their Columbia County property. Those riders explicitly say their primary residences are elsewhere.
"We are not against weekenders," says John Faso, a former GOP state legislator from Columbia County, who is supporting the legal challenge. "They don't realize they've been encouraged to vote in a way that isn't in accordance with the law." But Democrats are arguing that legal precedents allow people to choose where they can vote -- some have even launched a Web site called CountryVote.org that urges weekenders to "vote where your heart is."
A charming sentiment, but it flies in the face of New York's election law, which includes several criteria for determining where someone can legally vote, including place of employment, location of tax payments and where a family's children go to school.
Flooding rural elections with newbie voters who really live somewhere else is a clever tactic, but it appears to violate election law and can also exacerbate often delicate relations between long-time local residents and newcomers. If weekenders want to vote where they claim their hearts are, let them give up their city tax breaks, their exemption from local jury duty and their often blissful indifference to the real problems and challenges of their adopted communities from Monday through Friday.
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Violate election law? This DOJ don't care about no steenking election laws. Holder sez, "Laws are for wusses!"
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did you prefer an empty dwelling in order to keep a political majority without revenues, or the services the that revenue create including your capacity to vote in the first place?
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I prefer a government of laws, rather than of men.
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A fair number of 'snowbirds' have always voted in Florida or NY, dependeng on the election - and sometimes both. Likely one reason the 2000 Pres election was such a mess.
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Hey, that's a good idea, Glenmore. You get up early, vote in NY, hop on a plane to FLA and vote there in the afternoon. Cool. Nobody's gonna check on it. There are all kinds of places where a scheme like that could work.
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Generally done through absentee ballots, though I suppose the rural-urban double dipping could be done by car.
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My late Grandmother routinely invited us to go down to the town hall to vote when we visited northern Wisconsin. I didn't have the heart to tell her I wouldn't vote for David Obey if they paid me.
It's worth reading (don't worry, it's short) Janet Napolitano's op-ed in USA Today. As if to confirm Dick Cheney's claim that the Obama administration doesn't understand we're at war, Napolitano never uses the word...war. Nor does she mention Islam, Yemen or Nigeria -- nor any of the details of the incident, nor the particulars of the government failures over the last few months.
Lots of op-eds ghost-written for cabinet secretaries are stupid. But this one may outdo them all in its vagueness and avoidance of substance, in its managing to be at once bureaucratic and cloying, and in speaking to the American people as if they are children. She attempts to reassure, and fails.
By the way, since this was a plot hatched overseas by people whom our intelligence agencies are listening in on and trying to bump off -- is Napolitano really the appropriate lead official? It's revealing who the White House put out Sunday -- Napolitano and press secretary Robert Gibbs. For the Obama White House, it's all spin and TSA procedures. Do we still have a CIA director? I'd heard Panetta wasn't getting along with the White House...but is he even in the loop?
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More idiotic statements uttered by incompetent idiots. By never mentioning the word the "W" [war] word, these bumblers are hoping it will go away. Naive stumbling, bumbling, ostriches.
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Oh no, he got the reference right. I'm still snickering!
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Actually the photos of her always remind me of this scene from Charlie Wilson's War:
Charlie Wilson: I stood in Harold Holt's office in Islamabad, and I offered him the keys to the safe. I said to him, "What do you need?" And I was apparently annoying him. Gust Avrakotos: Well, that's because Harold Holt is a tool. He's a cake-eater, he's a clown, he's a bad station chief, and I don't like to cast aspersions on a guy, but he's going to get us all killed.
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Its not 2012 [Nuc Iran] or 2013 yet [Nuclear Militancy-Terrorism].
IMO, when NATO Officio says that the US-NATO have ONE YEAR to turn things around in AFPAK = prove the merits of the POTUS Bammer's Afghan SUrge, methinks He = US-NATO realize the threat of 2013.
(CNSNews.com) -- President Barack Obama, in his first public comments on the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit, described the suspect as "an isolated extremist," despite reports that the 23-year-old Nigerian had been trained in Yemen, a country he visited twice.
The Associated Press, quoting a Yemeni government official, said Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab lived in Yemen for two extended periods of time -- a year, from 2004-2005 and again from August-December this year. He apparently was in Yemen a few weeks before the attempt to blow Flight 253 out of the sky over Michigan. (See timeline)
A statement posted online Monday by Al-Qaeda in Yemen (also known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) said its "manufacturing sector" had provided Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab with the explosives he took onboard the aircraft. (The United States has not yet authenticated the Web posting, but Abdulmutallab's connection to Yemen is not in doubt.)
Al Qaeda in Yemen is the same group with which Anwar al-Awlaki is affiliated. Awlaki, a U.S.-born imam, preaches a radical form of Islam that may have inspired the Fort Hood killer. As CNSNews.com reported earlier, al-Awlaki described Maj. Nidal Hasan as a "hero" after Hasan allegedly shot and killed 13 people at Fort Hood last month. Hasan reportedly had contacted al-Awlaki on numerous occasions before the rampage.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) told ABC News it looks like al-Awlaki "played a role" in the attempt to bomb Flight 253. "All roads point back to Yemen, they point back to Awlaki, I think it is a pretty deadly combination," Hoekstra told ABC's "The Blotter."
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President Barack Obama described the suspect as "an isolated extremist,"
The country discribes Barack Obama as "an isolated president and suspect"
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