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Is ANWR Still Too Pristine? This cell phone photo was taken this morning at an undisclosed Sunoco gas station in Philadelphia. 1. At over $4/gallon, can we afford to keep voting for ‘no drill’ Democrats? 2. Where is the outrage from the Dems regarding the outsourcing our energy products? If we want our clothing to be “Made In America”, why not our energy?
Bush Signs Iraq Funding BillEven Dems realize defeat is a losing proposition! With good news continuing to flow out of Iraq (see highlights from the latest quarterly progress report here) Democrats must have realized that it wouldn’t be good politics to trash what is now widely regarded as a successful Iraq strategy so close to the November election.
President George W. Bush delivers a brief statement Monday, June 30, 2008, at the White House after signing H.R. 2642, the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008. With him from left are: Deputy U.S. Secretary of State John Negroponte, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, U.S. Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs James Peake and John Walters, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. The war supplemental spending package includes nearly $162 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, increased education benefits for veterans, and an additional 13 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits. White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian.
So much for Nancy Pelosi’s vow upon taking control of Congress in 2006: “my highest priority, immediately, is to stop the war in Iraq.” Will the anti-war left abandon Democrats who have utterly misled them in attempting to stop the war?
Obama Accepts Millions From Subprime Tied Contributors - Part I [Reader Post]As GOP attacks mount on the issue of Senator Obama's ties to Political Action Committees and Lobbyists, Obama's campaign has undergone little scrutiny on his long-standing ties to the financial and banking community. In Obama's speeches across the country he has repeatedly criticized the Bush administration for allowing "evil" subprime mortgage lenders and investment banks to lead this county into our current mortgage meltdown. Obama's rhetoric on the mortgage crisis has been pointed and blunt, as stated on his own campaign website, "Obama will crack down on fraudulent brokers and lenders…Obama has been closely monitoring the subprime mortgage situation for years, and introduced comprehensive legislation over a year ago to fight mortgage fraud and protect consumers against abusive lending practices". Throughout the campaign season Obama has attacked Wall Street's financial sector and ran a campaign based largely upon his "good judgement". The problem with Obama's rhetoric rests in the fact that tucked away in his database of 1.5 million donors are the approximately 130,000 power brokers that have funded nearly 60% of his campaign. Included in this list are the more than 350 campaign bundlers who have accounted for over $78 million in contributions. Among those campaign bundlers is Paul Roth, a partner at Schulte, Roth & Zabel, a firm that represents financial institutions including investment banks, securities firms, and hedge funds. Roth not only contributed to Obama's campaign but also helped to "bundle" more than $50,000 for the Senator. The Obama bundler rolls also include Tom Wheeler, the managing director of Core Capital Partners, a Washington based private equity fund, have helped raise more than $100,000 for the Obama Campaign. The real problem for Obama extends well beyond his campaign bundlers that include several prominent lobby–representing attorney's and executives such as Frank Clark, the CEO of Commonwealth Edison. Executives across the financial and investment industry have accounted for millions in campaign contributions. In San Antonia this past February Obama stated in a campaign speech, "To give you a sense of what that kind of lobbying gets you… the CEO of the largest subprime lender was promised a hundred-million-dollar severance package at a time when more than 2 million Americans were facing foreclosure, including nearly 14,000 right here in San Antonio…” Obama was most likely referring to an Angelo R. Mozillo, one of three CEO's that were scheduled to appear to testify in front of a senate committee concerning their compensation and firms roles in the ongoing mortgage crisis. Stanley O'Neal, who received more than $161 million when he was ousted as the Chairman of Merrill Lynch, was one of the three CEO's coming under scrutiny. In 2003, O'Neil donated to Senator Obama's Senatorial campaign, followed up by a maximum $4,600 campaign contribution by he and his wife, Nancy Garvey, to the Obama Campaign. Ironically, the O'Neals tried to originally contribute $6,900 to the campaign only to have $2,300 returned. O'Neil, Mozillo, and Charles Price have been branded the "poster-child" CEOs of the financial firms responsible for the mortgage meltdown and at least one of the three was a valuable contributor to the Obama campaign. Also contributing to Obama's cause is the more controversial Brad Morrice, the former CEO and President of the imploded subprime lender, New Century Financial. Morrice and his wife contributed the maximum $4,600 to Obama's campaign last August. Obama has also accepted campaign contributions from dozens of Lehman Brothers Executives, such as CEO Richard Fuld ($2,300), President Joseph Gregory ($4,600) and dozens of other top Lehman Executives. On June 19th, Lehman shareholders filed suit against Fuld and Gregory for the company's exposure in the subprime market. Among other subprime contributors to Obama's campaign are Steve Boland, a managing director at Countrywide, who donated the maximum last June. Andrew Beer the president of Wachovia's troubled subprime lender Evergreen Investment Partners also maxed out his contribution to the Obama campaign; and Joseph Azrack, the president of Citigroup Property Investments along with dozens of Citi Executives have heavily contributed. In 2007 Eric Schwartz, the co-head of Goldman-Sachs Global Asset Management abruptly stepped down from is position, fueling rumors that his resignation was tied to a crumbling Global Alpha Hedge Fund. The Fund's mounting losses led to a -39% performance last year as the fund assets shrunk by 60%. Shwartz, an Obama bundler and contributor, has helped to raise over $50,000 for the Senator's Campaign. In 2007 Robert Wolf, the CEO of UBS Americas, helped the Obama campaign raise more than $200,000. That amount was equaled by Louis Susman, the Chairman of a Citibank Subsidiary. Joining their efforts was Mark Gilbert, a Senior Vice President of Lehman Brothers. Additional High Profile Financial Executives Include: Richard Leweke – Vice Chairman of Washington Mutual Card Services The listing of contributions flowing in from Financial Institutions through Senator Obama's career is short of amazing. There are currently dozens upon dozens of Senior Vice Presidents, Managing Directors, and other top level executives from firms such as Lehman Brothers, Wachovia, Washington Mutual, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and other high profile Wall Street banks and funds mired in the mortgage meltdown. Obama has been relentless in his attacks upon the "evil" Wall Street executives that he has blamed for the ongoing fallout from the mortgage crisis, positioning himself on a "moral high ground". The reality is that while Obama has been slapping the mortgage companies and investment banks with one hand, he has had his other hand in their wallet. Read This Article & More From Jarid Brown @ Politically Drunk On Power. Reprinted At Flopping Aces With Author Permission.
Harry Reid - "Coal Ruining Our Country!"Only Harry Reid would say something so out of this world ignorant:
The guy is a walking billboard of hyperbole.
And so on….the man is an embarrassment to the Senate and the Democrat party. When we have an alternative to fossil fuels that is cost effective and won’t destroy our economy then I’m sure we all would be happy to switch over. But until then just friggin drill. As Thomas Pyle, President of the Institute for Energy Research, said today:
The only thing the Democrats have done over the last 30 years of denying our country to ability to drill is made us dependent on other countries for our survival. Its ludicrous to think we have all this oil under our own feet but can’t get it our because of some spotted frog or other such nonsense. And instead of talking about that Harry Reid embarrasses himself with “the world is lost” kind of crapola. Get a grip Senator.
In The Fight[See post to watch Flash video] This edition features stories on Lt. Ortiz’s Muhallah in Baghdad, flash traffic control point in Tikrit, Operation Rock Penetrator, Soldiers attending a street lamp lighting ceremony in Baghdad, a reconnaissance and surveillance patrol in Mosul, Army Engineers disabling a land bridge, Helo Ops, neighborhood guard in Sadr City, the Iron Chefs of Bagram and the latest episode of Military Heroes and photo montage.
Mugabe Sworn In After Landslide Win…Also…Pigs Fly [Reader Post] Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean thug-o-crat and faux President was sworn in for a sixth term after a reign of terror launched against all who opposed his bid for re-election. Mugabe, who has taken an economically sound nation which had a strong manufacturing base, mining industry (it is rich in natural resouces) thriving agricultural as well as tourism industies, and turned it into one of the world’s biggest economic basket cases.
Needless to say, this nightmare has not been accomplished without a corresponding downturn in the country’s’ human rights condition. Copiously documented here, the violations are a stark indictment of the human suffering taking place under Mugabe:
The current election is a well documented fraud, in which Mugabe’s main opponent, Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out before the voting, after escalating attacks on him and his supporters.
Those Zimbabweans who cannot prove that they voted for Mugabe are currently being hunted down and assaulted by his bands of traveling thugs. The vaunted “international community” has been utterly ineffectual in dealing with the situation. A number of Mugabe’s African neighbors are supporting him, thereby facilitating the atrocities. A review of those neighbor’s and their positions toward him are illustrative of their impotence and/or complicity:
President Bush has been one of the strongest world leaders in condemning Mugabe and attempting to remove him from power.
While Bush’s actions are significant, pressure must continue to be applied until Mugabe is finally pushed from powere. Robert Mugabe must go. Nocomme1 also posts at Because I’m Right
Who Will Win the Crucial Criminal Vote? [Reader Post]Following the Obama, Clinton unity party in Unity, New Hampshire the Democratic Party is still divided. Barack and Hillary said all the right things,
It seems that Hillary’s hard-core supporters are not buying it. One day after the Obama and Clinton had their little unity party a group of pro-Hillary vandals tagged 60 vehicles in Orlando, Florida with anti-Obama and anti-McCain messages. This is just more evidence that Obama is having a hard time winning over another key demographic that supported Hillary; criminals. Criminals have long been a key voting block for the Democratic Party, they have fought to restore voting rights to felons and objected in 2000 when Florida removed convicts from the voting rolls. Salon.com argued that Al Gore would be President today if these felons where allowed to vote. The question we all need to ask is, can McCain appeal to the criminal vote that was once the exclusive domain of the Clintons? Or will they eventually grit their teeth and vote for Barack? Cross posted at The Hinge of Fate
Wesley Clark Demeans McCain's Wartime ExperienceObama had the chutzpah to send his surrogate military spokesperson, Gen. Wesley Clark, to denigrate McCains military experience. Yeah, you heard me right. The man with no experience, Barack Obama, is saying McCain’s military experience is not enough:
Of course he leaves out the one term as a Congressman, and the four terms as a Senator for a total of 26 years of experience. To Obama’s year and half.
And what kind of experience does Obama have that makes him qualified to become President General? What a pathetic, weaselly attack. Not unexpected from the sort that cavorts with the enemy tho: (via In From The Cold)
Spook also makes another valid point:
This is a losing argument for the left and Obama. They have a man with no experience whatsoever telling us that McCain’s courage and bravery while a POW does not qualify him to be President…..classic. Even more classic is the fact that McCain has never said that his military service is what qualified him for the job. The culmination of his military and political career is what qualifies him.
McQ:
More here. UPDATE Who said this?
And kinda off-topic but Joe Lieberman tells us what kind of disaster Obama would have wrought if he would have got his way in Iraq:
Flight 93 Memorial Blogburst: Park Service Refuses To Say Who Broke The Circle The planned Flight 93 memorial is described as a circle “broken in two places,” with the unbroken part forming a giant Mecca-oriented crescent (originally called the Crescent of Embrace). Since last week, the Park Service has been inundated with hundreds of emails, demanding to know WHO is being depicted as breaking the circle. It can only be the terrorists. The circle is a symbol of peace, and only the terrorists can be charged with breaking the peace on 9/11. Thus the planned memorial shows the terrorists breaking our peaceful circle and turning it into a giant Mecca oriented crescent (which remains completely intact in the so-called redesign). In other words, it’s one giant: “ALLAHU AKBAR!” (heard on Flight 93’s flight recorder as the doomed flight careened towards the ground). Superintendent Hanley’s reply Our emailers are getting a lengthy response from Memorial Project Superintendent Joanne Hanley that fails to address the question of who broke the circle. She mentions the question, then heads off in another direction:
No, the topography is NOT a bowl. The upper arm of the crescent starts 100 vertical feet above the crash site while the lower arm circles 50 vertical feet below the crash site. Beyond misrepresenting the topography, all Hanley does is admit that the circle is broken at the point where the flight path crosses it, without ever addressing the simple question of WHO is being depicted as breaking the circle? This circle-breaking theme is the Park Service’s OWN explanation for the crescent design (passed on from architect Paul Murdoch), and they refuse to even THINK about what it means. Park Service Director Mary Bomar is even more oblivious Director Bomar also received our emails. The response she is sending out does not even acknowledge the question of who breaks the circle:
Actually it was in 2006 that the office of Mary Bomar herself (then a regional director of the Park Service)”took steps,” utterly fraudulent steps, “to investigate this issue.” The Park Service’s own consulting expert, a professor of Sharia law at Indiana University named Kevin Jaques, admitted that the giant Mecca-oriented crescent is similar to the Mecca-direction indicator (called a mihrab) around which every mosque is built, but he assured the Park Service that there was no need to worry because no one has ever seen a mihrab anywhere near this BIG before:
This is the information that Mary Bomar had in her hands TWO YEARS AGO: a blatantly dishonest excuse for not being concerned about what was admitted to be the geometric equivalent of the Mecca-direction indicator around which every mosque is built, only bigger than any ever seen before by a factor of a hundred. “Don’t worry. It might be recognizable as a mihrab to people on jetliners like Flight 93 flying overhead, but from the ground? Pshaw!” Every iota of the Mary Bomar’s phony “investigation” was just as blatantly fraudulent. (Extended expose here.) Daily American reporter decides to mark our emails as spam and block the senders Hundreds of people emailing the Park Service demanding to know who broke the circle is NEWS. To pass this news on to the Pennsylvania press, several reporters and press outlets were cc’ed, in hopes that they would do their jobs and ask Park Service officials what answers they are giving. When Daily American reporter Vicki Rock was asked by telephone if she was following up with the Park Service, she said:
As if the Daily American has EVER been the subject of any kind of email campaign before. These emails are NOT spam. They are from individual Americans, taking time out from their day to warn about an enemy plot that Vicki Rock should have exposed long ago. It takes literally two minutes to fact-check the Mecca orientation of the giant crescent. (Just print out a graphic of the direction to Mecca from Somerset as calculated by Islam.com, place it over the crescent site-plan on your computer screen, and VOILA.) How come this reporter has never done it? And why is she treating news (that people are demanding a simple answer to a devastating question), as a hostile action against herself? Same answer to both questions. She sees herself as a defender of the Memorial Project and the crescent design. Maintaining that defense requires willful blindness to voluminous evidence of terrorist memorializing intent. The press is as much involved in this behavior as Joanne Hanley and Mary Bomar and the other Project Partners. (Advisory Commission member Tim Baird said last year that ALL of the Project Partners know about the Mecca-orientation of the giant crescent.) Compared to this, seeing a reporter poke her own eyes out, trying to blind herself permanently to news about people confronting the Memorial Project, is hardly even strange. Another letter? We can keep on dumping emails on the Memorial Project if we want. Our petition to stop the memorial asks if signatories want to join an email list for doing things like forwarding emails to targeted individuals. Most are clicking “yes,” and the present campaign has as yet only tapped the first few thousand signatories. Perhaps it is time for another letter, pointing out that:
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