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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (71210)	8/27/2009 3:21:28 PM
From: Little Joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224720

Why isnt the government evil for refusing her health care, just like the evil insurance companies. lj

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (71210)	8/27/2009 3:26:12 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224720

I know of a Senior who recently had heart surgery while on Medicare Advantage and discovered that it would not pay for all of her Rehab treatment after she got out of the Hospital. Why didn't you volunteer to pay for it yourself? easier to give other people's money away than it is to give your own?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (71210)	8/27/2009 3:36:55 PM
From: TideGlider	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224720

Dollar down a full cent to 1.44 Euro Kenneth. I remember when Bush was President you were concerned about the devalued dollar. ;^)

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (71210)	8/27/2009 9:45:17 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	6 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224720

Kit Bond: Obama Mounting 'Witch Hunt' on CIA for Political Gain Thursday, August 27, 2009 12:21 PM By: Ashley Martella Article Font Size Before Attorney General Eric Holder announced he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate CIA interrogations of suspected terrorists, Sen. Kit Bond and eight other GOP senators wrote a letter imploring him not to go down this road. Holder ignored their plea, and announced his decision Monday. Bond tells Newsmax.TV that Holder made a big mistake. ?We expected to get a response from him because he told me personally that he didn?t intend to go back and open up a criminal witch hunt on the CIA,? the Missouri Republican says. ?What he has done now is one more step to put the CIA operatives in a CYA [cover your a**] mode where they are worried about whether somebody is going to watch their backs or stab them in the back.? See Video: Sen. Kit Bond talks about the damage an investigation of the CIA will do to national security - Click Here Now Does Bond feel as though Holder lied to him? ?I can?t say he lied to me, but I specifically asked him about the suggestions from the extreme left wing at the time that they go back and open criminal investigations and he assured me that it didn?t make sense to go back and look at people who were operating under lawful opinions at the time,? Bond recalls. The ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee notes that Justice Department attorneys have examined the few cases of possible CIA abuse and dismissed them as meritless. ?This operation that he has announced really goes back and plows ground that has already been covered by the Department of Justice,? Bond says. The CIA inspector general's report "was turned over to the Department of Justice. They brought one criminal prosecution. The rest of the actions they figured did not have enough basis for criminal prosecution and the agency itself took disciplinary action. ?So I don?t know what he hopes to prove other than to satisfy the president?s left-wing agenda. He?s going to do everything he can to tar the reputation of the people who protected us after 9/11,? Bond tells Newsmax. Former Vice President Dick Cheney said the CIA interrogators deserve the American people's gratitude and not to be targets of political prosecutions. Bond agrees. ?That?s pretty much what I?m hearing from my people in Missouri. They say the CIA working with all the law enforcement agencies like the FBI and the military overseas did the best they could piecing together the information that led to collection of enough information to disrupt an attack at Heathrow Airport in London and the Liberty Towers in Los Angeles.? People who live in those locations should be particularly grateful to the CIA, Bond says. Does it bother Bond that, except for Sen. Joe Lieberman, no Democrat spoke out against what Holder did? ?Unfortunately I gather they?re in a circle-the-wagons mode and they recognize the political gain that I suppose the administration hopes to gain from opening up this closed chapter even though it was something that President Obama promised he would not do. He said he?s going to look forward. This is looking backward and he told the CIA he had their back; looks to me like they?re stabbing them in the back.? The four-term Missouri Republican, who is retiring from the Senate at the end of this term, tells Newsmax.TV that Holder?s action not only hurts the CIA and U.S. partners overseas who depend on the United States to keep secrets on intelligence matters but also helps al-Qaida and other enemies. It gives them ?all kinds of new ammunition to say that even the administration thinks it was a bunch of criminals who kept our country safe from attacks after 9/11,? he says. How he feel about Obama's taking future interrogations out of the hands of the CIA and running them out of the White House through the National Security Council? ?That one is really bizarre. My first reaction was what does the White House have against Leon Panetta? It?s a vote of no confidence not only in the terror fighters who kept us safe since 9/11, but their very own CIA director. Apparently taking over Chrysler and Citigroup were not enough, and the White House now wants to take over from the CIA how we interrogate Osama bin Laden. Even the Democrats? favorite boogeyman, Dick Cheney, did not try to take over intelligence functions from the CIA."

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (71210)	8/27/2009 10:43:50 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224720

An Israeli doctor says 'medicine in my country is so advanced that we can take a kidney out of one man, put it in another, and have him looking for work in six weeks.' A German doctor says 'That is nothing; we can take a lung out of one person, put it in another, and have him looking for work in four weeks.' A Russian doctor says 'In my country, medicine is so advanced that we can take half a heart out of one person, put it in another, and have them both looking for work in two weeks.' An ILLINOIS doctor, not to be outdone, says, 'You guys are way behind, we recently took a man with no brains out of ILLINOIS, put him in the White House for THREE MONTHS, and now half the WORLD is looking for work.