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

To: RMF who wrote (72323)	9/19/2009 8:55:26 AM
From: chartseer	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224729

Oh bummer! Why are you still talking about earmarks? Didn't bamah say if he was elected that would be the end of earmarks? Wasn't bamah elected? Earmarks have ended! It is just plain silly to keep on talking about something that has been ended? Isn't it? comrade chartseer

To: RMF who wrote (72323)	9/19/2009 9:09:10 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224729

washingtonpost.com

To: RMF who wrote (72323)	9/19/2009 9:11:51 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

Lack of Progress in Mideast Defies Obama’s Hopes o By MARK LANDLER and ETHAN BRONNER Published: September 18, 2009 WASHINGTON — Obama had hoped to go to his first United Nations meeting next week with at least one diplomatic coup: a plan to restart the long-stalled Middle East peace talks, to be announced in a three-way meeting with the leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority.But after a fruitless week of shuttle diplomacy, his special envoy, George J. Mitchell, returned to the United States on Friday night without an agreement on freezing construction of Jewish settlements and amid fresh signs of differences on the basis for peace negotiations. Mr. Obama now faces the prospect of a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, that some say will be little more than a photo opportunity, one that will only underscore how elusive an Arab-Israeli peace agreement is. The failure of Mr. Mitchell to nail down an agreement with Israel on freezing settlements, which the administration views as vital for successful talks, does not mean that Mr. Obama will not ultimately succeed. Some experts predict that Mr. Netanyahu, a shrewd negotiator, will strike a deal directly with the president, though that seems unlikely to happen before world leaders gather Wednesday for the United Nations General Assembly. But Mr. Mitchell’s travails — he also faces resistance from Arab countries in making diplomatic gestures toward Israel — show that on yet another front Mr. Obama’s policy of engagement is proving to be a hard sell. If an agreement just to start talking is out of reach, hammering out the details of a comprehensive peace deal seems all the more daunting. During his weeklong visit to the Middle East, people briefed on the talks said, Mr. Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader, found substantial differences between the sides, even on issues that had been agreed upon in previous negotiations, like the basic configuration of Israel’s borders and whether the status of Jerusalem should be included in peace talks. The State Department declined to comment on the details of Mr. Mitchell’s discussions, though a spokesman, Ian C. Kelly, acknowledged that the trip had failed to produce a breakthrough.

To: RMF who wrote (72323)	9/19/2009 11:51:34 AM
From: d[-_-]b	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

So if all this is so obvious to concerned D's why are they leading the race to deeper deficits and new bigger more costly programs now that have been debunked as not being funded?