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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 (124013)	2/13/2012 11:34:17 PM
From: Follies	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224748

I'm not sure , is that a yes or a no? Do you think increased dependence on the federal government, no matter how you measure it, is a good thing? In response to your non response, do you think social security is an entitlement?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (124013)	2/14/2012 12:45:39 AM
From: MJ	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

Kenneth There are other entitlements and you know it. Of course people 65 and older are going to be receiving their social security. That was part of the deal when the employers took money out of their salaries for Social Security. --------Social Security is part of their retirement------they, the employee, paid for it. The other bells and whistles such as medicare and medicaid can be dispensed with--------as the money they pay for medicare can be given to them to buy the insurance they want or need for the future. The other programs that you did not describe are the 'entitlements'----------the illegals who come and qualify for government programs, have their anchor babies and live off of the government. A lot like Barrack Obama---------his father, a Kenyan, created an anchor baby with Stanley Ann-----if his father was Barrack Hussein Obama. Some speculate that his adopted father Soetoro may have been his father while others speculate Frank Marshall Davis, a known communist may have been his father. Who cares-----just do DNA testing on him and the truth will be known. Don't crap on our military people who are disabled and serve and likewise the disabled people who absolutely can not work out of the home------who are disabled for legitimate reasons. What a waste of time to even respond to you--------which of course is part of your strategy and the Democrat's strategy to take time away from productive endeavors. mj

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (124013)	2/14/2012 9:21:02 AM
From: locogringo	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

The stock market and Wall St do NOT like Obama's phony budget and voodoo calculations. The numbers do not lie.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (124013)	2/14/2012 9:41:14 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224748

kenny...."Contrary to "Entitlement Society" Rhetoric, Over Nine-Tenths of Entitlement Benefits Go to Elderly, Disabled, or Working Households".... cbpp.org Ken, whenever you make a statement here IMO. you are either lying, mistaken or promoting democratic/socislist party agenda. Here ken from your posted web site..soros funded..course you knew that when you posted article? •Henry J. Aaron, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution •Kenneth Apfel In Late 1990s, Former Clinton SSA Commissioner Kenneth Apfel Thought Financial Challenges Facing Social Security Were Real. freerepublic.com •Jano Cabrera, WASHINGTON — The director of religious outreach...Jano Cabrera.... for the Democratic Party says she resigned this week because of criticism over her support for removing the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance •Henry A. Coleman, Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy •James O. Gibson, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Social Policy •Antonia Hernández, President, California Community Foundation •Wayne Jordan, CEO, Jordan Real Estate Investments, LLC •Frank Mankiewicz, Vice Chairman, Hill and Knowlton •Lynn McNair, Vice President, Philanthropic Partnerships, Salzburg Global Seminar •Marion Pines, Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies •Robert D. Reischauer, President, Urban Institute •Paul Rudd, Adaptive Analytics, LLC •Susan Sechler, Managing Director, TransFarm America •William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor and Director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program, Harvard University Emeritus Board Members •Barbara Blum, Senior Fellow, National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University •Beatrix Hamburg, Visiting Scholar, Cornell Medical College, Department of Psychiatry •Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children's Defense Fund ------------------------------------------------------------------ Soros Funding: Soros provides substantial general support. sorosfiles.com Board of Directors: David de Ferranti, Board Chair, President, Results for Development Institute Henry J. Aaron, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution Kenneth Apfel, Professor of the Practice, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland Jano Cabrera, Managing Director, Burson-Marsteller Henry A. Coleman, Rutgers University, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy James O. Gibson, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Social Policy Beatrix Hamburg, Visiting Scholar, Cornell Medical College, Department of Psychiatry Antonia HernÃ¡ndez, President, California Community Foundation Wayne Jordan, CEO, Jordan Real Estate Investments, LLC Frank Mankiewicz, Vice Chairman, Hill and Knowlton Lynn McNair, Vice President, Philanthropic Partnerships, Salzburg Global Seminar Richard P. Nathan, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Director, Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government Marion Pines, Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies Robert D. Reischauer, President, Urban Institute Paul Rudd, Adaptive Analytics, LLC Susan Sechler, Managing Director, TransFarm America William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor and Director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program, Harvard University, served on the advisory board of Social Democrats, USA (formerly Socialist Party of America). Emeritus Board Members: Barbara Blum, Senior Fellow, National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia UniversityMarian Wright Edelman, President, Children’s Defense Fund sorosfiles.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (124013)	2/14/2012 9:41:28 AM
From: Sedohr Nod	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

When we finally hit the 'we are Greece' tipping point, I highly doubt that it will be the elderly out in the street throwing fire bombs at the police & private property. Out of curiosity, do you know what the proper response is for rioters about to set your house on fire? At some point it's not going to be an academic question.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (124013)	2/14/2012 11:05:12 AM
From: JakeStraw	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

The Obama vision for America - Almost one-in-two American households receive some form of government assistance 46 million people on food stamps Real personal incomes flat The underemployment rate—“U6”—still at 15.1%

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (124013)	2/14/2012 11:07:23 AM
From: TideGlider	5 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

59% of Catholics Disapprove of Obama’s Job Performance Related Articles 50% Oppose Gov't Mandate for Religious Organizations to Provide Contraceptives Team Obama Fumbles Ruling, Offends Catholics By Scott Rasmussen 54% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law, 43% Say It Will Be Bad For U.S. Politicians Created Budget Crisis By Pursuing Own Agenda, Ignoring Voters Obama’s Budget Shows $928 Billion Increase in Spending Over Five Years Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Catholics strongly disapprove of the job President Obama is doing as the debate continues over his administration’s new policy forcing Catholic institutions to pay for contraception they morally oppose. While the president’s overall job approval ratings have improved over the past couple of months, they have remained steady among Catholics. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of likely Catholic voters nationwide at least somewhat disapprove of the president’s job performance, while 40% at least somewhat approve. But the passion’s on the side of those who don’t like the job he’s doing: 44% Strongly Disapprove versus 19% who Strongly Approve. The survey of 3,500 Likely Voters was conducted February 6-12, 2012 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 2 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (124013)	2/14/2012 2:47:07 PM
From: JakeStraw	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

Obama’s ‘rosy’ budget scenario doubles down on class warfare blog.american.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like the gov't needs more money to flush down the rat hole...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (124013)	2/14/2012 3:16:28 PM
From: locogringo	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

kenny, will you be sending a single check, or the family check to Obama The Crazy Spender? You support this out of control nutjob, doncha? "...if you take our deficit spending under Obama and divide it evenly among the roughly 300 million American citizens, that works out to just over $17,000 per person — or about $70,000 for a family of four." The Cost of Obama weeklystandard.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (124013)	2/14/2012 9:14:16 PM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (124013)	2/15/2012 8:20:05 AM
From: lorne	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

Good morning kenny..Just want to start your day with pleasant thoughts. What do you figure your idol is thinking about here.? Maybe tossing allies under the bus?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (124013)	2/15/2012 9:00:48 AM
From: locogringo	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

The stock market and Wall St is thrilled that Darrell Issa will finally hold the crooked DOJ Eric Holder in contempt. It long overdue, and the number do not lie. dailycaller.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (124013)	2/15/2012 10:20:07 AM
From: JakeStraw	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224748

Obama Advisor Dreams of a Global Minimum Tax There must be no escape from the State. humanevents.com President Obama’s wildly irresponsible budget proposal is remarkably punishing to economic growth, at a time when an economy weakened by years of Obamanomics is about to tumble into a shallow grave of 1.1 percent GDP growth. The President raises taxes on virtually every aspect of investment, from capital gains and dividends, to corporate taxes, and the personal income taxes of investors and business owners. If an enemy of America had been asked to design a weapon of economic sabotage to push the tottering U.S. economy into recession, they might have come up with something like the Obama budget. One of the predictable consequences of slapping nervous businessmen with confiscatory tax increases is that more operations will be moved overseas. There are plenty of places for a corporation to escape the grasp of a tax-hungry Obama Administration, since America already has among the highest corporate taxes in the developed world, and Obama wants to make them even higher. Some people criticize capital flight as unpatriotic, but there comes a point at which keeping investments within our borders is illogical. Well, the geniuses who brought you Solyndra and Cash for Clunkers have a solution to that problem: a global minimum tax that would cripple the rest of the industrialized world by raising their tax rates to Obama levels. Then nobody would have a reason to outsource or move their investments overseas. It’s so incredibly obvious! Why didn’t someone think of this sooner? It would be hard to get a quote that more perfectly encapsulates the economic lunacy of Barack the Mad and his court, without bringing Jon Corzine back to the White House as an economic guru. He even says, verbatim, that the point of the Global Minimum Tax is to create “the assurance that nobody is escaping doing their fair share,” and compares it to Obama’s ridiculous class-war “Buffett Rule.” When the socialists are openly talking about using force to block off the routes of escape, things are getting serious. It seems unlikely that the entire industrialized world could be induced to sign on to a Global Minimum Tax, especially since some of them have already junked Obama-style confiscatory tax regimes and enjoyed the resulting growth. The likely result of a partially-successful attempt to impose a global tax would be a smaller number of disobedient, business-friendly nations eating more of everyone else’s lunch. The next logical step would be laws against investing overseas, backed up with physical force. There’s an old saying that you can find the freest nations by observing where all the refugees are fleeing to. You can spot the oppressive regimes by looking for the walls covered with barbed wire, and machine guns facing inward. It looks like the Obama team is itching to get started on its economic Berlin Wall. While we await those “gory details” about this exciting new tax proposal, savor the low comedy of an Administration that wants to run up $11 trillion more in debt boasting that it has made “tough choices.”

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (124013)	2/15/2012 11:32:28 AM
From: lorne	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

hussein obama is not going to like this kenny..No sir not one little bit! Do you think he will go after Virgina as he did Arizona where they where trying to protect citizens by arresting illegal aliens? This messed up some of his voter base. Virginia House vote states life starts at conception Delegates set up high-stakes battle with Senate By David Sherfinski -The Washington Times Tuesday, February 14, 2012 washingtontimes.com RICHMOND — The Virginia House of Delegates approved legislation Tuesday that would define life as beginning at conception, setting up a potential clash in the state Senate and another high-stakes battle over a measure that has been beaten back elsewhere in the country in recent years. Lawmakers tackled several contentious social issues on Tuesday, in addition to passing perhaps the most high-profile bill thus far this session. Delegate Robert G. Marshall’s “personhood” measure easily cleared the House on a 66-32 vote. Mr. Marshall, Prince William Republican, said opponents have long searched for a “bogeyman in the closet on this legislation.” “They have failed,” he said. Opponents say that the bill moves a step closer to outlawing abortion outright, should the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision be overturned and that it would make some forms of birth control illegal. Delegate Vivian E. Watts, Fairfax Democrat, proposed an amendment Monday to ensure that contraception would remain legal, but it was rejected. Tarina Keene, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia, said the bill has potentially far-reaching consequences. “With the word ‘person’ appearing more than 25,000 times in the Virginia code, single-minded legislators are about to run this commonwealth off a cliff as well as eradicating women’s health and rights,” she said. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it likely will be sent to the Education and Health Committee. That committee last year killed the same bill, when Democrats enjoyed a 10-5 advantage. Republicans now hold an 8-7 edge there, and all eyes will be on Sen. Harry B. Blevins, Virginia Beach Republican, who sometimes bucks his party on abortion issues. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican and a Catholic, said Tuesday that he believes life begins at conception but that he had not looked at the bill in detail. “Anytime you get into these areas, there are legal and constitutional issues,” he told WNIS Radio in Norfolk. “If the bill passes, we’ll have a full review done by the attorney general’s office to see whether or not it’s appropriate. But … obviously my personal views versus what the proper legal and constitutional views are is something we need to sort out to make sure we’re enacting good law.” Mississippi voters rejected a “personhood” ballot initiative last fall, and Colorado voters did the same in 2008 and 2010. The debate over the measure erupted soon after the White House backed off a mandate that employers, including religious institutions, cover birth control and other reproductive items in their health care plans amid outcry from religious leaders across the country. Reproductive rights have been a particularly hot-button issue in Virginia this year, after Republicans won an effective majority of the state Senate in November to control the governor’s mansion and both chambers of the General Assembly. The House of Delegates on Tuesday also approved a mandate that women undergo invasive ultrasound imaging before having an abortion, advancing another major item on the Republicans’ pro-life agenda. The Senate has passed its own version of the bill after quashing it last year. Delegate Charniele L. Herring, Alexandria Democrat, called such a requirement “the ultimate government intrusion.” “We are talking about a vaginal probe,” she said. “We are talking about inside a woman’s body.” But Delegate C. Todd Gilbert, Shenandoah Republican, said those on the other side of the issue never talk about the notion of invasiveness to the unborn. “In the vast majority of these cases, these are matters of lifestyle convenience,” he said, a comment for which he was pilloried by Democrats. He later said he regretted making the remark. In the state Senate, lawmakers on Tuesday approved a contentious measure that would require drug testing for welfare recipients. The bill would required an initial screening, with a follow-up test if there was reason to believe a person was using illegal drugs. Applicants who refuse a test or test positive could lose benefits for one year. The Senate deadlocked 20-20, with Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, a Republican, breaking the tie. The bill’s patron, Sen. Stephen H. Martin, Chesterfield Republican, said it’s meant to ensure that state tax dollars are sufficiently protected, that they go to children and families and that the bill is not intended to target any single group. The bill contains a clause that would ensure it would not take effect without an accompanying amendment in the state budget. The proposal would cost the state about $2.8 million over the next two years. “There are some people in this chamber that need to find another website other than ALEC’s,” quipped Senate Democratic Leader Richard L. Saslaw of Fairfax, referring to the American Legislative Exchange Council, a national conservative legislative group that prepares and drafts many bills for statehouses across the country. “I would hope that we would not want to set ourselves up to be ridiculed by Jon Stewart, or Colbert or Leno or Letterman,” he said, referring to the hosts of several television comedy shows. “The Daily Show” recently mocked Florida’s version of the law, which a federal judge blocked last fall. The House Appropriations Committee put off consideration of that chamber’s version of the bill to next year, so the prospects for Mr. Martin’s bill in the House of Delegates is uncertain.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (124013)	2/15/2012 6:32:17 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	5 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

Nor did she want to thwart his intentions. "I wouldn't describe what happened that night as making love," she writes. "But I wouldn't call it nonconsensual, either." Addressing people who have questioned the encounter, she said: "I don't consider it was rape. I have never considered it rape because I was willing." The relationship continued, even after Alford had become engaged while attending college in suburban Boston, until Kennedy's 1963 assassination, she wrote. The two raced rubber ducks in the bathtub; they had multiple sexual encounters, though he never kissed her; when he called her at her college dorm, he would use the code name Michael Carter, she wrote. Her account seems "quite credible," said Robert Dallek, whose Kennedy biography made a passing reference to a college sophomore who was a favorite of the president's. "This is how he operated," Dallek said. "He was a compulsive womanizer." A lawyer for the Kennedy family did not respond to requests for comment over the weekend. Writing the book was liberating, Alford said in an interview last week in her publisher's midtown Manhattan offices. Now 68, Alford was slim and elegant in a gray knit dress, gray pageboy hairstyle and pearl earrings. She was Marion "Mimi" Beardsley when she arrived at the White House press office the summer after her freshman year at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, then an all-girls school. The affair began during her summer internship and continued when she returned to Wheaton in the fall, she wrote. It continued while she dated and until a few months after her engagement to Tony Fahnestock, a senior at Williams. She was deep into wedding preparations when Kennedy was shot. Overcome with grief, she confessed the affair to her fiancé. He told her never to breathe a word of it. She promised, fearful that the only alternative was to break off the engagement, and she largely kept the promise, telling only a trusted few. It took years for her to see the connection between her silence about the relationship and "the emotional shutting down" that had blighted much of her life. "I needed to look at the secret and then look at the impact of having kept the secret for so long," she said. Mimi and Tony Fahnestock divorced in 1991 and he died in 1993. Alford married again in 2005, to Dick Alford. Her two daughters from her marriage to Fahnestock are in their 40s, are mothers themselves and have supported her decision to write of her experience, she said. The book took several years and multiple drafts. Alford supplemented her memory with research at the Kennedy Library, where she found her name on passenger logs from plane trips with Kennedy's entourage. The story she tells is not always flattering to Kennedy or to Alford herself. She felt no guilt, she wrote, with regard to the first lady, whom she never met. "I do now," she said. But at the time, "it wasn't as if I was trying to replace her or that the president was trying to replace her. I think I just went along. And so I didn't feel guilty. It's kind of embarrassing to say that." Alford knows that readers may judge her harshly; "it doesn't frighten me," she said. She describes Kennedy as "a kind and thoughtful man." And then, she tells stories of what she calls his darker side. She says Kennedy once asked her to "take care of" his aide Dave Powers, who had served as the go-between facilitating the affair; she performed oral sex on Powers while Kennedy watched. The president later apologized to both of them. On another occasion, she wrote, he asked her to do the same for his brother Teddy. She refused. Then there was a party with a "fast Hollywood crowd" at Bing Crosby's house in Palm Springs, Calif., that she attended with the president. A guest offered yellow pills that she believed were poppers, or amyl nitrate, a drug often used to enhance sexual pleasure. Kennedy asked her if she wanted to try one and she said no, but she said he popped the capsule and held it under her nose anyway. "Within minutes of inhaling the powder, my heart started racing and my hands began to tremble," she writes. "This was a new sensation, and it frightened me. I panicked and ran crying from the room, praying that it would end soon." Alford debated whether to share episodes like this, taking them out of the book and putting them back in. If she had excluded them, she said, "it would have felt like I was not telling the whole story." When the affair with Kennedy was revealed in 2003 — the Daily News of New York published her name — Alford spent a few days holed up in her apartment with the media camped outside. Then they left and she started going to work and going grocery shopping again. After interviews to promote "Once Upon a Secret," she expects to return to her quiet life once more. "It's sort of like closing a chapter on that 18 months," she said, "and closing a chapter on keeping secrets."