WASHINGTON — Despite misgivings, members of Congress seem poised to back President Barack Obama's plan to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan after getting assurances the commitment isn't open-ended. The surge-and-exit strategy that Obama announced Tuesday night marks the largest expansion of the war since it began eight years ago. Critics conceded that Obama will have little trouble early...
David Obey, a representative from Wisconsin, has renewed his call for a war tax to fund any increase in expenditures to finance the war in Afghanistan. According to various reports, including this one , though he considers the war, as being presently fought, to be futile, he argues that his tax proposal would “create a sense of shared sacrifice that has been missing in the last eight years.”...
Self-proclaimed fiscal conservatives in both the Democratic and Republican parties approach healthcare reform with a high degree of skepticism. Senator Joe Lieberman, who has received $1 million from the insurance industry over the course of his Senate career, has vowed to oppose any reform package that contains a public plan option. Lieberman explains that he is voting his "conscience"...
I studied history for a number of years, but I never could figure out something that Sherrod Brown , the left-wing Democratic Senator from Ohio, expresses with great if unearned confidence: History has “sides,” for and against, and it always supports progressives against their opponents. Speaking of the four Democratic “moderates” who oppose parts of the Reid health plan on...
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on the vaccine shortage the other day. The NYT reports that representatives of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Homeland Security argued that they were right not to put immune-boosting adjuvants in the vaccine even though that could have...
WTF: President Obama Urges Congress To Halt Ft. Hood Probe From Weasel Zippers (click on the title above to see the whole thing): President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead. On an eight-day...
Rense By Jeff Gates 11-13-9 Was Fort Hood really the target of a terrorist attack? The first clue to the real culprit emerged when Senator Joe Lieberman sought to blame this mass murder on the U.S. military. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, he promised hearings on how the Pentagon protects its [...]
This week's Obama administration "Friday news dump" was the announcement that five 9/11 plotters, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be tried in a civilian court in New York. Americans will have plenty to talk about this weekend. And politicians of both parties are denouncing the move: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) issued this statement: The White House's decision today...
The U.S. Army and President Barack Obama are understandably seeking desperately to prevent U.S. public opinion from reaching any conclusion with respect to the motive of Major Nidal Malik Hasan who killed 12 soldiers and one civilian, and wounded 28 soldiers and one civilian last week at Fort Hood in Texas. In the court of public opinion, subject to change based on hearings to be conducted on the subject...
Apparently the interlude with Mayor Bloomberg's campaign didn't change Howard Wolfson, at least when it comes to his affinity for Connecticut's Ned Lamont. Chris Cillizza reported this afternoon that Wolfson's next consulting gig will be with Lamont's gubernatorial bid in the Nutmeg State, which he announced just days before the current governor, Jodi Rell, decided she won't seek re-election in 2010....
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Nidal Malik Hasan's dangerous mental state is a legitimate subject for investigation, not an excuse for fear-mongering A senseless killing spree. A suspect with a troubled and troubling past whose extreme religious views may have played a role in his homicidal outburst. Questions as to why no one intervened before he went off, and what should be done to prevent it from happening again. The foregoing...
DOWNLOADS: (51) PLAYS: (98) You just knew that when Holy Joe Lieberman started grandstanding about the Fort Hood massacre by demanding an investigation into whether or not Nidal Hasan "infiltrated" the military as a "terrorist", it was the kind of demagoguery that would bring out the worst in his fellow Islamophobes. Sure enough. Here's Pat Robertson, yesterday on The 700 Club...
After the Fort Hood Massacre Sorting the Hasans from patriotic Muslims in the U.S. military. There are two irreconcilable views of Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan's murder of 13 people last Thursday at Fort Hood, Texas. One is that Major Hasan should be seen as not much different than many other disturbed individuals, whose demons pitch them into homicidal frenzies. The other is that the Hasan murders...
An act of terror, an act of war Have we learned nothing about al Qaeda and the jihadi movement since September 11? At least one politician is facing reality - Lieberman refuses to ignore the obvious Sen. Joe Lieberman distinguishes himself from the maddening mush emanating from elected leaders and the chattering class on the Fort Hood massacre. He states what should be, and I think is to ordinary Americans,...
Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, no stranger to a fear-mongering, again showed his disrespect for the lives of American soldiers on Fox News Sunday, labeling the Fort Hood shooting “the most destructive terrorist act to be committed on American soil since 9/11.” Note that an investigation is ongoing and second the tentative conclusion of investigators is [...]
(For more like this, go to Conservative Oasis ) Franken Ain’t Joking Now You all know the story, or should. Here we go again. Dems trying to recount and recount until they “find” enough votes to get their guy in. In a very close race, incumbent Senator Norm Coleman is hanging by a thread against a Democrat party and Secretary of State in Minnesota that believes that you have to do everything you can...
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