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POPSHarry Reid Exposed; Democrats Filibuster Their Own Debt-Ceiling Bill! VIDEO 
. . it’s those crazy Tea Party extremists! — that Harry had to whine, whine, whine about a “filibuster” in order to attempt to maintain the charade. This is one of those things you can’t actually believe unless you see it, so here’s the video: Reid- GOP putting lipstick on debt filibuster . . http://bit.ly/poX2kJ http://www.youtube.com BTW, the plan had been to bring the bill to a vote at 1 a.m. ET Sunday– an hour past midnight – but about 10 p.m. Democrats announced an adjournment until noon, with a planned vote at 1 p.m. ET Sunday. UPDATE: You may have noticed during that video that McConnell said he’d interrupted a conversation with Vice President Joe Biden in order to meet Reid’s call for a live quorum. Now there are unconfirmed reports that a deal has been reached between the White House and GOP leaders . So this leaves Harry Reid — who had previously said his bill was “the only game in town” — playing with himself. What a complete chump!
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POPSDarrell Issa is Holding Another Hearing to Pressure Team Obama for The Whole Truth The document shows that both Melson and Hoover were “keenly interested in case updates.” * A second e-mail from March 12, 2010, shows that Deputy Assistant Director for Field Operations William McMahon was so excited about Fast and Furious that he received a special briefing on the program in Phoenix – scheduled for a mere 45 minutes after his plane landed. * A third – and perhaps the most disturbing – e-mail from April 12, 2010, indicates that Acting Director Melson was very much in the weeds with Operation Fast and Furious. After a detailed briefing of the program by the ATF Phoenix Field Division, Acting Director Melson had a plethora of follow-up questions that required additional research to answer. As the document indicates, Mr. Melson was interested in the IP Address for hidden cameras located inside cooperating gun shops. With this information, Acting Director Melson was able to sit at his desk in Washington and – himself – watch a live feed of the straw buyers . . .
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POPSHouse Republicans Vote Amnesty For Illegal Asteroid From the source, continued: "We believe that the decisions of how to deal with the massive asteroid are best left to the individual," King added. Repealing the act, which opponents have branded 'Obamastroid,' has been the cornerstone of the GOP agenda since the law's passage last August. Throughout the 2010 elections, Republican candidates claimed that the Democrats' plan to smash the space rock and shield citizens from its fragments was "a classic example of the federal government needlessly interfering in the lives of everyday Americans." "This law is a job killer," said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), who argued the tax increases required to save the human species from annihilation would impose unbearably high costs on businesses. "If we sit back and do nothing, Obamastroid will result in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs, which we simply can't afford in this economy. Is this the legacy we want to leave our children?"
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POPSPsychology in the Age of Obama (for chestnut) Here's a blog from the online edition of Psychology Today by psychotherapist Michael Bader: "Those tea-party folks seem to most liberals -- well, to most of us who live in the "reality community," or, as I like to call it, "reality" __ like crazy f__kers. ... I hate these folks but I also understand them. ... They share the same psychology as the paranoid patients I treat every day. The only difference is that the paranoid beliefs of the tea-party movement are political. ..." Or behold this article from NCSPP, a psychoanalytic organization: Primitive anxieties lead to splitting, presenting fertile ground for demagoguery. The Republican Party, whose stated priority is to ensure Obama's failure, has exploited these fault lines through obstructionism, right-wing media, and the Tea Party.
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POPSObstructionism Reaps it's Rewards In 1966, the nation was reacting viscerally to the stalemate in Vietnam, rising casualties, campus disorders, soaring crime and riots in Harlem and Watts, all seen as the legacy of LBJ's Great Society. In 1994, it was gays in the military, Hillarycare and the public perception that Bill Clinton was more liberal than he had let on that cost Democrats both houses. The post-election spin that the nation had rallied to Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" was pure propaganda. Tuesday's election, too, will be no embrace of the GOP, but rather a repudiation of what Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have come to represent. All are seen as power-hungry politicians of an out-of-touch regime that is seizing control of private wealth and private lives as it fails in its duty to win our wars, balance our budgets and secure our borders. On Tuesday, the nation, including millions of Obama voters, will come out to empower the Party of No, even as the nation voted in 2006 and 2008 ...
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POPSGOP Uses SECRET HOLD To Obstruct Record Number of Nominees Over 96 nominees of the President's have been blocked or stalled by the Republicans abuse of secret holds. Hold-laundering or flat out obstruction—neither says country first, governing first, or part of the solution. The Republicans underhanded tactics are bringing the government to a standstill at a time when we desperately need all hands on deck. After a year and a half of Republican obstructionism and misinformation,the modern day Republican party has doubled down on their plan to win back America by making it ungovernable under a Democratic president.
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POPSObama care is Back!! begin nullification with a bang instead of a whimper and bring us back to constitutional governance where the states hold the power as opposed to a centralized federal government.What many do not realize is that the Supreme Court is not the final arbiter of the constitution – it is the states. What fun!
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POPSDems Near Deal On ObamaCare Before Sham "STealth-Care Summit"? with Republicans, as expected. “People want to get rid of health care. They want it off the agenda. The simplest answer is that reconciliation may be the most expedient way to do it.” In other words, instead of bargaining with the GOP from scratch " as Boehner and Cantor initially insisted and as 57 percent of the public wants, per yesterday’s Zogby poll " The One’s going to do the opposite by walking in, pushing a fake deal in front of the GOP, and declaring before the cameras that America’s health-care problems can now be solved unless the “party of no” insists on further obstructionism. And if they do, of course, he’ll have no choice but to save America by ramming the bill through in reconciliation. It’s not a negotiation, in other words, it’s an opportunity to frame a blame-placing narrative in which evil conservatives unite to block some sort of phony legislative deus ex machina. Which makes me wonder: Were Ed and I wrong that the GOP should attend no matter what? ...
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POPSobstruction report so they say they plan to do something about all the foot dragging- road blocking tactics etc. that are being thrown at the health care bill- hmmmm..........we shall see- looks to me like health care is just turning into a serious issue that most people are tuning out because they are tired of seeing nothing but a bunch of congressmen act at best....?......like a bunch of children...........
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POPS Democrats Applauding Their Own Obstructionism
{From Page} At President Bush's State of the Union address, Congressional Democrats wildly cheer their own intransigence, obstruction, and reverence for the broken status quo. Showing their love for America's biggest government boondoggle, Democrats prove, once again, why they cannot be trusted with power. Just think while this was going on Our own Complacency kept us blind to the socialist Take over of this country. The libturdcrats main goal has always been to break Social security. JFK Broke into it for the Race to space expenses and the Stealing from the Social security fund hasn't stopped since. Oh and Clinton turned around and renamed it the General Fund any-way which in essence it ceased to exist and un-savable then.. The real kicker is that we have allowed the social Marxists to Teach our children and strip the public School systems with all Morality for the last 40 years and now this is what we get, "A generation of Social Entitlement Drones.'
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POPSThe Dutch Say: Yes We Do... Why is it that New Orleans - a strategically critical US port - is portrayed as doomed and beyond saving when proven solutions to the flooding problem there are readily available? Some New Orleanians recently took a trip to Holland to see the flood control systems they have there. Why does the US look like a broken down Third World nation in comparison?
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POPSDealing with an annoying pest If only it was that easy to deal with Republican obstructionism. Those misguided pests will keep fighting for their corporate masters to the bitter end.
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POPSSo We Finally Get A French President Who’s More Or Less Onside* * Sarkozy brings France back into NATO’s military command, pissing off large parts of France. Doesn’t look like Sark’s keen to pitch in more in Afghanistan, though. Washington Times iNo Pasaran! blog Jacques Chirac: A "Very Sympathique" Letter From Monsieur Obama Barack Obama and those who voted for him would be horrified if he (and they) had to cozy up to people (but can we only be sure they are in fact human?!) such as George W Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Sarah Palin, but the president has no compunction about writing to principled foreigners who opposed the United States such as Jacques Chirac (merci à RV).
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POPSRepublican Gov. Calls GOP Leadership 'Inconsequential' Kind of a follow-up to my last post . How's that strategy of constant obstructionism working for you, guys? " has also sparked a civil war within the party between practical, give-me-the-money governors (such as Charlie Crist and Arnold Schwarzenegger) and ideological conservatives who are talking about eschewing some of the stimulus funds (notably, Bobby Jindal, Mark Sanford and Haley Barbour) and a clash between those pragmatic governors and the GOP's leaders on Capitol Hill," writes David Corn. "Good work, everyone. Obama's stimulus has become a wedge issue within the Republican Party."
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POPSTentative Senate Deal on Stimulus The piece goes on: said the package now includes $45.5 billion for infrastructure projects, $6 billion for special education, $4.4 billion to improve electricity transmission and $87 billion in "targeted temporary increases" in the federal Medicaid matching rate to help states avoid deep cutbacks in health care coverage. Among the expenditures that the negotiators deleted was $870 million for pandemic flu preparedness, which Collins said was an example of a needed program but one that "doesn't belong in a stimulus package." See, that's one of the things I don't get about GOP objections -- if things are needed, why don't they belong in the stimulus? Why trim out things that you later expect to pass anyway? It's not like the senate gets paid by the hour. It's all been a rationalization for obstructionism. A cheap political stunt to score points with the wingnut crowd.
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POPSReid Says Stimulus Has Enough Votes to Pass Good news. Republican obstructionism takes a hit -- assuming Reid's right. One note, don't you love how Reuters refers to "a Republican procedural roadblock?" It's called a "filibuster," people. Use the word, people know what it means. The media has refused to report that Senate GOP have been filibustering everything . You need 60 votes to break for freakin' lunch these days.
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POPSPassive-Aggressive Personality Traits There is a note at top of page on site expressing uncertainty about whether the list applies only to men. I think the clip shows how difficult it is to separate 'normal' characteristics from 'pathological' ones. I don't know anything about this 'disorder', prevalence etc.
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