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POPSObama’s $50 Billion AIDS Bill Up For Vote
However, the United Nations over the years has greatly exaggerated the number of those with HIV/AIDS and it is still difficult to get accurate estimates of the problem. Richard Darling of the FAIR Foundation told AIM on Friday that federal funding for most diseases is being cut back while spending on AIDS is continuing to rise. fairfoundation.org/ On Friday, the Senate voted 65-3 to proceed to floor action on the bill, with many members absent or not voting. Those voting to invoke cloture and proceed included Senate Republican Leader McConnell. However, this does not mean that all of those voting to bring the bill to the Senate floor will support it when a final vote on the actual legislation is taken. Some lawmakers have been intimidated by AIDS activists coming to Washington to deliver funeral wreaths to those standing in the way of the passage of the legislation. Opponents of the bill have been labeled as “Global AIDS Super villains” by the homosexual lobby.
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POPSGOP Plans to Unveil Tough New Immigration Bills Democrats also have begun embracing a tougher stance on immigration as well. Democrats have focused on offering opportunity to immigrants, but the study by two think tanks urged them to begin speaking in terms of "requiring" illegal immigrants to become legal and about what's best for the United States. Many House Democrats have gone a step further, endorsing an enforcement-only bill by freshman Democratic Rep. Heath Shuler of North Carolina that would bolster border security and require employers to verify their workers' legal status with an electronic verification system. The SAVE Act has drawn 140 co-sponsors, 48 of whom are Democrats, many of them vulnerable freshman who won seats from Republicans. The Democratic leadership dislikes Shuler's bill. Republican leaders are considering collecting signatures for a special petition that requires House leaders to bring a bill up for debate if 218 members sign.
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POPSSAVE Act Discharge Petition Filed, Gaining Momentum The Senate attached an immigration enforcement measure sponsored by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to its Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Resolution before passage on March 13. The amendment would create a deficit-neutral reserve fund that fully covers completion of the 700-mile border fence and at least 6,000 National Guard troops at the border. The fund also would cover: implementing the exit data portion of the U.S. VISIT entry/exit system at airports, seaports, and land ports of entry; training/ reimbursement for state and local immigration law enforcement under the Section 287(g) program; and expanding the zero tolerance illegal entry prosecution policy to all 20 border sectors. The principle mission of the caucus, which includes Republican Senators David Vitter (La.), James DeMint (S.C.), Jeff Sessions (Ala.), James Inhofe (Okla.), Elizabeth Dole (N.C.), Saxby Chambliss (Ga.), Johnny Isakson (Ga.), Richard Burr (N.C.), and Roger Wicker (Miss.), "promote a true, achievable alternative
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POPSTeenage mayor in training for later political life. Michael Sessions, the 19-year-old mayor of Hillsdale, Michigan has been charged with computer hacking. Is he just a young man doing the dumb things young people do, or is he a junior politician in training for more profitable crimes in the future. Who knows? The Shadow, perhaps? (Man, did I just date myself, and anyone else who understands that last reference.) :-)
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POPSFire the Prosecutor I'm curious to know how they got convicted, actually. Perhaps a pardon, rather than just a commutation is in order? Not enough info in this piece.
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POPSOpen letter to the president One of the biggest lies about the recent immigration bill is that it is a 'comprehensive' bill. Fact is, all the border enforcement provisions in the bill are already authorized under law. And in the case of the physical security, the fence bill passed last year authorizes more than the current bill does. In other words, it offers absolutely nothing when it comes to security if we would just enforce the laws already enacted. The bill offers nothing but amnesty to millions of people here illegally. And if we can't currently stem the tide of illegals entering the country, what will amnesty do to help?
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POPSA meritocracy of dunces, clusterfucks!!!! great turns of the phrase in here!!!! A nice ballsy gamble of a war. Sure, it could throw the region into chaos, bankrupt this country, and dye the fertile crescent red with the blood of civilians; yet an audacious war is like a red lollipop—who isn't powerless to resist it?Tom friedman As Judy Miller pursues freelance projects out in Sag Harbor, doggedly accompanied by the rotting corpse of her career, she likely has much time for rumination. And it's tough to imagine these sessions of thought don't sometimes include spleen toward Jeffrey Goldberg. How did she end up getting screwed by Ahmed Chalabi and the neocons— metaphorically, of course— re: Jeff Goldberg
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POPSRepublicans block pork Unfortunately it was only a small handful of republicans and it is unlikely the democrats will follow suit (they will just have their own special pork projects). The fact that they were pretty much all freshmen is the best argument I have ever heard for term limits.
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