The White House announced that it will not meet Friday's deadline to make public what plans it will put into place to deal with the massive defense cuts coming at the end of the year.
The announcement comes shortly after President B.O. signed into law the Sequestration Transparency Act that requires him to submit a report to Congress detailing the impact of his 'sequester' on defense and non-defense programs -- cuts that were triggered after the so-called Super Committee to come up with a debt deal last year.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said the plans for defense cuts will be submitted to Congress by President B.O. late next week. The plans should give insight to which defense bases and cities will be impacted by the defense cuts.
Carney accused Republicans of putting the nation at risk over the defense cuts "because of their insistence on preserving a trillion-dollar tax cut for millionaires and billionaires."
Posted by: Fred ||
09/08/2012 10:37 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[9 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
A perfect example to go with the preceding post.
Proven an incompetent failure that cannot/willnot obey the law.
#3
..requires him to submit a report to Congress detailing the impact of his 'sequester' on defense..
Doesn't want to show his hand at serious cuts in troop strength and pay. To do so before the election would kill his chances of reelection with the general public. Not to do so would finally have serious funding impact upon everything else which would alienate his base and probably kill his reelection. So he votes Present because there is no real penalty as a consequence since the MSM isn't going to make it an issue.
US President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... Thursday implored Americans to grant him a second term to complete his battered crusade for change, warning of the starkest election choice in a generation.
Four years after his historic election win, Obama accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for a second time, dispensing hard truths on US economic ills and warning that Republican Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. More to the point, he isn't President B.O... would endanger America abroad.
Sketching an agenda to create millions of jobs, cut $4 trillion from the deficit and bolster his nation's strength overseas, Obama refused to abandon the hope of 2008, saying: "know this, America: our problems can be solved."
"When you pick up that ballot to vote -- you will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation," Obama said, forecasting fateful choices looming on jobs and taxes and war and peace.
"The path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place and I'm asking you to choose that future," he said, warning Romney would gut the middle class and return to "blustering and blundering" abroad.
"America, I never said this journey would be easy, and I won't promise that now. Yes, our path is harder -- but it leads to a better place. Yes our road is longer -- but we travel it together. We don't turn back. We leave no one behind."
Obama also blasted Romney and his vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan ...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President B.O.'s 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies... , as neophytes that would endanger US national security, comparing their thin resume with his own "tested and proven" leadership.
Posted by: Fred ||
09/08/2012 10:35 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[4 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
"Proven" a liar and bungler, NO vote.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
09/08/2012 11:05 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Thanks. I did. I always am amazed that these conventions have become such a circus. Many of these Hollywood starlets are about one step from rehab or a nervous breakdown. And why exactly should we listen to what they have to say anymore than anyone else?
If Republicans were smart they'd pass an "Eva Longoria Repeal the Hollywood Tax Cuts & Clean Up Hollywood Accounting Act" in the House and let Congressional hilarity ensue.
Would Democrats vote against reform that would make fat cats pay their fair share?
#5
And yet Clint Eastwood and an empty chair outdid them all.
And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.
Posted by: Eric Jablow ||
09/08/2012 15:23 Comments ||
Top||
#6
Hell, let's tell the demonrats they're right, we're going to tax 99% of the gross of all hollywood productions, whether the profits are here or abroad. They should LOVE it according to the crap they spew at us.
#8
JohnQC, you're not the audience. I'm dismayed by how many people are determined to shut out the economy and find some reason to vote for him again. They simply don't want to think about it, and if it takes a starlet to make him seem cool well, that works for them. At this point I'm worried that he has an excellent chance of winning re-election.
[Al Ahram] B.O. regime officials met with a handful of oil market experts on Thursday as the White House considers the merits of another release of emergency oil reserves - potentially one much larger than the last.
The meeting, originally scheduled for August but delayed by summer vacations, did not center entirely on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), according to non-government sources who attended the meeting.
Government officials did not reveal any plans they may be making to tap the SPR, but they did voice concern about tightening U.S. fuel supply and sounded out the experts on how energy prices could behave in the coming few months under different scenarios, sources said.
The meeting was still read by some as a sign that President Barack Obama I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money... is intent on pressing ahead with an unprecedented second tapping of U.S. government oil supplies.
UK-based oil consultancy Petroleum Policy Intelligence issued a report this week saying that an injection of SPR supplies could occur "within days," but two people who attended the meeting said it would not happen that soon.
"They are still in information-collection mode," said one.
But with benchmark Brent oil futures pushing back above $110 a barrel and threatening to restrain the economies of the United States and Western Europe, it has been clear for weeks that the White House is looking to the SPR for relief.
Rooters first reported last month that the administration was "dusting off" plans that had been shelved in the spring, when prices fell. At that time a source familiar with the talks said officials would be looking closely at whether gasoline prices fell after Labor Day, which was on Monday.
For the moment they remain stubbornly high, after last week's Hurricane Isaac shut down a swath of Gulf Coast refineries and a deadly blast in Venezuela temporarily crippled production in part of the world's second-biggest refinery.
White House officials last held a meeting with outside energy experts in July to discuss the overall energy market issues including China's thirst for oil. Thursday's meeting, which included mid-level officials from the National Security Council, the Treasury and the Department of Defense, was about gathering information and was not expected to result in any immediate decisions.
The White House had no immediate comment on Thursday's meeting.
Posted by: Fred ||
09/08/2012 10:35 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[10 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
They don't have "experts". They have big commie buddies.
#3
You don't need to dip into the Strategic Reserve if you allow exploitation of existing resources. How are those Gulf licenses going? How are the boys doing over at EPA in prohibiting regulating fracking?
Won't make a lot of difference as Bernanke just devalues the currency again causing the 'dollar' to be worth less against commodities. When you export more than you import of the stuff, the price is being impacted by domestic monetary issues, not scarcity.
#5
"We have Men working on this." "What Men?" "Top Men."
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
09/08/2012 17:02 Comments ||
Top||
#6
Nice "Indiana Jones" quote there.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
09/08/2012 17:12 Comments ||
Top||
#7
Just ask the Saudis, there is no 'oil shortage'. They could pump even more if needed, but they are running out of places to store it. Tapping our stratigic reserve is insane. There is plenty of oil, now refined gasolines that meet the spiderweb of state govt requirements could be another story.
#9
The Saudis keep saying they can meet demands, so let 'em do or prove so.
Personally, iff our future OWG-NWO Govts, Perts consensus as per "Peak Oil/Resources", etc. is that there is no consensus, I rather they expand the strategic oil reserve, not tap it.
You can just hear POTUS Teddy Roosevelt going "BULLY - D *** MN THE POLITICS, THE TORPEDOES, + THE CONGRESS, MAN"! can't ya???
#3
The teachers union is rotten to the core.
That is from a Fed Employee and Union member.
These clowns will do all the digging to bury themselves, don't concern yourself with them.
#4
First time in 25 years? What slackers! Man, growing up, the teachers were always going on strike. Sure, it was illegal for public employees. But the teacher's union had so much political clout that no judge would ever sign the injunction to send 'em back to work. Not if he wanted to be re-elected.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
US President 
