Family feud: Nancy Pelosi at odds with President Obama
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s increasingly public disagreements with President Barack Obama are a reflection of something deeper: the seething resentment some Democrats feel over what they see as cavalier treatment from a wounded White House.
For months, the California lawmaker has been pushing Obama hard in private while praising him in public. But now she’s being more open in her criticism, in part because she feels the White House was wrong — in the wake of the Democrats’ loss in Massachusetts — to push the Senate health care bill on the House when she knew there was no way it would pass. Read more.
Obama Poised to Use Executive Power to Muscle Through Domestic Agenda
Faced with a resurgent GOP and a largely stalled legislative agenda, President Obama is planning to use his executive powers to forge ahead with his domestic initiatives, including on energy, the environment and the economy, The New York Times reported.
“We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues,” White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told the newspaper.
But aides told the newspaper that Obama is still hopeful that progress can be made on Capitol Hill, citing the bipartisan summit on health care scheduled later this month. Yet the GOP’s stunning capture last month of the Senate seat previously held by Ted Kennedy has prompted the White House to prepare to go solo to break any partisan gridlock heading into the midterm elections. Read more.
Democrat Evan Bayh of Ind. to retire from Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) – Sen. Evan Bayh, a centrist Democrat from Indiana, announced Monday that he won’t seek a third term in Congress, giving Republicans a chance to pick up a Senate seat.
“To put it in words I think most people can understand: I love working for the people of Indiana, I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress,” Bayh said at a news conference Indianapolis, where he was joined by his wife and two sons.
The departure of Bayh, who was on Barack Obama’s short list of vice presidential candidate prospects in 2008, continues a recent exodus from Congress among both Democrats and Republicans, including veteran Democrats Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island. Read more.
N.C. is home of hot races
North Carolina begins a new election season as one of the four most politically competitive states in the country.
During the first decade of the 21st Century, only three states had closer elections than North Carolina. They were Missouri, Florida (the state of the hanging chads) and Minnesota, where it took months before former comedian Al Franken was declared senator after the 2008 election.
The way I measure competitiveness is to look at the margin of victories in the three most high profile races – for president, governor and U.S. Senate. Read more.
Republicans mine coal-country anxieties
Republicans believe there are three words so powerful that they might reshape the political order in an economically beleaguered corner of the country: War on coal.
With Democrats holding total control of the federal government and a cap-and-trade bill still looming, the GOP is fanning widespread coal country fears that the national Democratic Party is hostile to the coal mining industry, if not outright committed to its demise.
Those efforts are putting a group of coal state Democrats at risk as Republicans leverage the tremendous economic anxieties surrounding the future of an industry that is a vital part of their states’ economies. Read more.
Hillary Clinton: Iran is becoming a military dictatorship
Iran is becoming a military dictatorship, Hillary Clinton declared today as the US prepared fresh sanctions against the Islamic Republic that would specifically target the Revolutionary Guard.
“We see that the government in Iran, the Supreme Leader, the president, the parliament is being supplanted and that Iran is moving towards a military dictatorship,” the US Secretary of State told students in Qatar during a tour of the Middle East designed to increase pressure on the Islamic Republic to end its nuclear program.
“The civilian leadership is either preoccupied with its internal domestic political situation or ceding ground to the Revolutionary Guard and that’s a deeply concerning development.” Read more.
World May Not Be Warming, Say Scientists
The United Nations climate panel faces a new challenge with scientists casting doubt on its claim that global temperatures are rising inexorably because of human pollution.
In its last assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the evidence that the world was warming was “unequivocal.” It warned that greenhouse gases had already heated the world by 0.7C and that there could be 5C-6C more warming by 2100, with devastating impacts on humanity and wildlife.
New research casts doubt on such claims, however. Some even suggest the world may not be warming much at all. Read more.
NBC17: Analysts Predict Tough Year For State Democrats
Clint Maynard: Obama is a mediocre, one-term president
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Back during the ‘08 presidential campaign, I drove around with a sign on my van: “Remember Jimmy Carter.” Oh, what a prophet I was, and how clueless the young voters were who drank the hope and change Kool-Aid.
Older Americans who supported “my party” and voted for Obama were just as bad. How’s the unemployment going for you (17.5 percent when you count the people who have given up)? And how about those looming taxes? How’s that looking to you now? The problem is that John McCain was almost as bad.
We didn’t have a good choice last election. They’re all bad. Why? Because no one cares about our freedom and liberties, and the Constitution has been ripped to shreds by both parties over the past 100 years. Right now, liberal progressive socialists are controlling the White House and congressional leadership. I am more scared of that than any terrorist attack, short of a nuclear explosion. Why? Because our very republic is at stake! Read more.
Climate Threat: Elevated?
Forget saving the polar bears; if Congress doesn’t pass comprehensive climate change legislation, our national security could be in jeopardy.
With action in Congress stalled, that’s the line coming from climate bill supporters — increasingly so in the last six months. The administration has recently taken substantial steps connecting climate change to national security, while advocacy groups pushing for comprehensive climate legislation are beginning to view the security angle as a more effective argument than the “save the planet for our grandkids” motto. Read more.
The President without a Country
“We’re no longer a Christian nation.” – President Barack Obama, June 2007
” America has been arrogant.” – President Barack Obama
“After 9/11, America didn’t always live up to her ideals.”- President Barack Obama
“You might say that America is a Muslim nation.”- President Barack Obama, Egypt 2009
Thinking about these and other statements made by the man who wears the title of president. I keep wondering what country he believes he’s president of. Read more.
Elections board investigating Perdue
The State Board of Elections has opened an investigation of Gov. Bev Perdue’s campaign finances in response to complaints from the N.C. Republican Party.
Last year, party Chairman Tom Fetzer filed complaints over undisclosed campaign flights. Perdue’s campaign has since disclosed 31 flights and said the omissions were mistakes.
Fetzer received a letter today from Kim Strach, a deputy director at the elections board who is responsible for investigations. In her letter, which Fetzer released to the news media Wednesday, Strach wrote that the board is investigating Perdue. Read more.
On anniversary, Obama defends economic stimulus
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama vigorously defended his $787 billion stimulus on Wednesday, insisting it rescued Americans from the worst of the economic calamity and ripping Republican critics who called it a waste.
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden launched a sweeping effort to convince skeptical Americans that the stimulus has been beneficial on the one-year anniversary of a plan that was pushed through the U.S. Congress by Democratic majorities.
Obama, in a White House speech, said he believed the stimulus will save or create 1.5 million jobs in 2010 after saving or creating as many as 2 million jobs thus far. Read more.
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20 Changes For 2010: Health Care in NC
Recommendations 3 and 4 from the Civitas Institute Agenda “20 Changes for 2010: A Primer for State Reform,” focus on how North Carolina can make health care more affordable and protect state residents from predatory federal mandates.
Health Care:
The Problem: Rapidly Rising Health Care Costs and Overreaching Federal Mandate
Proposals
This year health care reform emerged as a forefront national issue. Our nation’s health care spending continues to rise and is projected to reach $3.1 trillion in 2010, amounting to 17.7 percent of GDP. Congress is considering legislation that would effectively overhaul our nation’s health care system at a staggering cost to states already struggling in the midst of a prolonged economic recession. Read more.
Obama Writing Health Bill to Skirt GOP Filibuster
President Obama is working on health care legislation intended to reconcile differences between House and Senate Democrats that could be attached to a budget bill and avoid a Republican filibuster, according to a published report.
The president’s proposal, which is still being written, will be posted on the Internet by Monday morning, senior administration officials and Congressional aides told the New York Times.
By piggybacking the legislation onto a budget bill, Democrats would be able to advance the bill with a simple majority of just 51 votes, averting a Republican filibuster in the Senate. Read more.
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