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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 (103006)	4/16/2011 6:11:46 AM
From: tonto	5 Recommendations Respond to of 224750

MADISON — A conservative justice has weathered attempts to link him to Wisconsin's governor and a divisive union rights law to win re-election, according to county vote totals finalized Friday. Tallies from each of the state's 72 counties show Justice David Prosser defeated challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg by 7,316 votes. State election officials said they will wait to declare an official winner until the deadline for Kloppenburg to seek a recount passes. She has until Wednesday to call for one. If she does, the state would pay for it because the margin between the candidates is less than a half of a percent of the total 1,497,330 votes cast. Kloppenburg issued a statement that said her campaign would weigh whether to request a recount and she would make an announcement no later than Wednesday. Prosser's campaign had no immediate comment.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (103006)	4/16/2011 7:19:57 AM
From: JakeStraw	6 Recommendations Respond to of 224750

Pelosi, Reed & Obama truly represent the problem, not the solution...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (103006)	4/16/2011 8:56:56 AM
From: chartseer	6 Recommendations Respond to of 224750

Oh bummer! Are the stupid American people unanimously opposed to the Ryan budget? Seems to me the house of representatives should represent the demands and wishes of a majority of their constituents rather than just the demand of a radical socialist like nancy (pass it then you will find out what is in it) pelosi. Barry Soetoro's school records say he is an Indoneaian muslim. Do they not? citizen chartseer

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (103006)	4/16/2011 10:05:36 PM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224750

Democrats' Disgust With Obama Patricia Murphy Patricia Murphy – Fri Apr 15, news.yahoo.com NEW YORK – The budget deal, angrily rejected by Nancy Pelosi as it passed Thursday, was the last straw. Patricia Murphy on why some liberals are now pushing for a primary challenge to the president. As President Obama headed to Chicago Thursday afternoon to kick off the first official fundraiser of his re-election campaign, he left behind a sizable collection of dispirited Democrats. They were not relishing the chance to vote on a budget-cutting bill that had been forged without their input and that most found repugnant. The compromise that Obama struck last week with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to keep the federal government running contained steep cuts to some of the party’s most cherished programs—nutrition for poor women and children, long-stalled transportation projects, funding for community health centers—as well as language barring the District of Columbia from using its own tax dollars to finance abortions. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, warned that the $38 billion in promised cutbacks would hurt the most vulnerable Americans. “We don’t have enough time to talk about the ways it violates our values,” he told The Daily Beast. There is no more visible symbol of Democratic disgruntlement than the woman who was perhaps the president’s closest ally when she wielded the speaker’s gavel. When Nancy Pelosi voted against the budget measure Thursday, she did little to hide her anger with the White House over the fact that Obama, for the first time, had left her out of the negotiations on a major deal. Instead, he chose to work directly with Boehner and Reid to hammer out the compromise that each could take back to their caucuses for approval. “I have been very disappointed in the administration to the point where I’m embarrassed that I endorsed him,” one senior Democratic lawmaker said. “It’s so bad that some of us are thinking, is there some way we can replace him? How do you get rid of this guy?” “I feel no ownership of that or responsibility to it, except to say we don’t want to shut down the government,” the minority leader said. “As was pretty evident, House Democrats were not a part of that agreement.” Pelosi sounded miffed by the enhanced status that Obama granted Boehner and Reid. “They were the ones that had the votes, so they had the strength to negotiate and the president presided over that,” she said. (Eighty-one House Democrats voted for the measure, more than offsetting defections by 59 of Boehner’s Republicans.) For many Democrats, the budget bill was only the latest in a string of disappointments served up from the White House since 2009, when Obama swept into office on a tide of goodwill and a platform of base-pleasing promises they say he hasn’t lived up to. On the list are his pledges to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, pass comprehensive immigration reform, and end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. In 2008, for example, Obama promised Latino groups that he would pass comprehensive reform within a year of taking office. But he made no serious push to do so when the Democrats controlled the House and Senate. Latinos are further incensed over the fact that his administration is deporting a record number of illegal immigrants, more than under George W. Bush. In protest, Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez launched a cross-country tour, complete with a stop in Chicago on Saturday, to urge the administration to make its enforcement more compassionate. “I have made no secret of the fact that I think the president can do more to keep families together and that the focus of changes this year needs to be administrative and procedural because legislation is very unlikely,” Gutierrez said Thursday. Some legislative grumbling is inevitable when a party returns to power after eight years. But a number of Democrats are past protesting the president, discussing among themselves ways to recruit a primary challenger in 2012. “I have been very disappointed in the administration to the point where I’m embarrassed that I endorsed him,” one senior Democratic lawmaker said. “It’s so bad that some of us are thinking, is there some way we can replace him? How do you get rid of this guy?” The member, who would discuss the strategy only on the condition of anonymity, called the discontent with Obama among the caucus “widespread,” adding: “Nobody is saying [they want him out] publicly, but a lot of people wish it could be so. Never say never.” A serious challenge still seems unlikely. One Democrat who has repeatedly criticized Obama but won’t oppose him next year is Dennis Kucinich, the liberal Democrat from Ohio who ran for president in 2008 and reiterated Thursday that he won’t be making another run in 2012. Kucinich said he disagrees strongly with Obama’s policies on Iraq, Afghanistan, civil liberties, and the budget, but added that even Obama could not live up to the expectations House Democrats had for him when he came into office. Instead, he made clear that the president may no longer be able to take his Hill allies for granted. “Congressional Democrats are going to have to reassert themselves,” Kucinich said. “Instead of waiting for direction from the White House, we’re going to have to give direction to the White House.”

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (103006)	4/17/2011 12:08:45 PM
From: Carolyn	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

The Washington Post The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulate, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds. Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt, the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable. Oh, shoot! I neglected to mention that this report was dated November 2, 1922. As reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post - 88 years Ago

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (103006)	4/17/2011 6:30:15 PM
From: lorne	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

Ken...President Trump..has a nice American sounding ring to it don't you think? Sounds better than barrak hussein obama which sounds like a moslum name instead of American,,,makes a person wonder how someone with a name like that ever got elected President of the USA...after 9/11 and all? Sign-language interpreter says Donald Trump easier than many pols to translate By George Bennett Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Sunday, April 17, 2011 palmbeachpost.com Serious or self-promotion? Donald Trump's latest exploration of a presidential bid can be hard to interpret. But Trump's actual words are refreshingly clear, says veteran sign-language interpreter Amy Hair after standing by The Donald's side and translating his remarks for the deaf and hearing-impaired at Saturday's tea party rally in Boca Raton. "He's very easy to interpret for because he's very straightforward," Hair said. "Trump is good because he's very understandable. Most politicians speak very vaguely and he speaks matter-of-factly. He speaks in very simple terms." Hair, a Lantana resident, has shared a stage with three former presidents (Bush 41, Clinton and Bush 43) and countless other politicians at speeches and debates. She's a member of the Palm Beach County Republican Executive Committee, but says she puts her political views aside when interpreting. Regardless of party or ideology, Hair says it's tough to do her job when a politician starts hemming and hawing and dancing around an issue. "They talk in so many circles that I have to contextualize," said Hair. "That means you have to kind of explain what they mean, but it's hard to do it." Politicians who talk in a monotone, wander off on tangents or speak in sentence fragments are also a challenge, she said. Hair had no such difficulties with Trump, adding, "I can't wait to hear him again." •Former Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, who still has $1.2 million in leftover campaign money after resigning in a 2006 Internet sex scandal, tapped his political account to pay consultant and former Palm Beach Post political editor Brian E. Crowley $5,000 in February. Foley said the payment was for previous months of advice on matters that included a potential run for mayor of West Palm Beach, interview requests from Oprah Winfrey and Sean Hannity and others and the possibility of transferring his campaign money to a charitable account. •Unions are digging deep for Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw's 2012 reelection bid. Police Benevolent Association chapters from around the state contributed $8,250 to Bradshaw's campaign in the last week of March. •It's still TEDPAC, but U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, has changed the name of his federal committee that dispenses contributions to other candidates from "Together Electing Democrats" to "Together Encouraging Democracy." Deutch wanted the nonpartisan name all along, spokeswoman Ashley Mushnick said, but there was a paperwork mistake when the committee was set up last year.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (103006)	4/18/2011 8:52:37 AM
From: JakeStraw	6 Recommendations Respond to of 224750

Obama targets the middle class while pretending to tax only the rich online.wsj.com