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

To: TideGlider who wrote (132837)	5/16/2012 4:37:14 PM
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Obama budget defeated 99-0 in Senate By Stephen Dinan May 16, 2012, 04:27PM washingtontimes.com President Obama's budget suffered a second embarrassing defeat Wednesday, when senators voted 99-0 to reject it. Coupled with the House's rejection in March, 414-0, that means Mr. Obama's budget has failed to win a single vote in support this year. Republicans forced the vote by offering the president's plan on the Senate floor. Democrats disputed that it was actually the president's plan, arguing that the slim amendment didn't actually match Mr. Obama's budget document, which ran thousands of pages. But Republicans said they used all of the president's numbers in the proposal, so it faithfully represented his plan. Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, even challenged Democrats to point out any errors in the numbers and he would correct them — a challenge no Democrats took up. "A stunning development for the president of the United States in his fourth year in office," Mr. Sessions said of the unanimous opposition. The White House has held its proposal out as a "balanced approach" to beginning to rein in deficits. It calls for tax increases to begin to offset higher spending, and would begin to level off debt as a percentage of the economy by 2022. It would produce $6.4 trillion in new deficits over that time. By contrast the chief Republican alternative from the House GOP would notch just $3.1 trillion in deficits, and three Senate Republican alternatives would all come in below $2 trillion. The Senate is holding votes Wednesday on Mr. Obama's budget, the House GOP's budget and the three Senate Republican alternatives. None was expected to gain the 50 votes needed to pass the chamber.

To: TideGlider who wrote (132837)	5/17/2012 12:10:08 AM
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Obscure Ark. candidate optimistic after poll shows him in competitive race with Obama by ALEX PAPPAS MAY 16, 2012 posted by mistermj You haven’t heard of John Wolfe because the obscure Democratic candidate for president has raised less than $500, can’t afford radio or TV ads and hasn’t gotten much press. Yet miraculously, a poll released this week shows Wolfe trailing President Barack Obama in the Arkansas Democratic primary — occurring next week — by just seven points. In an interview with The Daily Caller on Wednesday, Wolfe described his barebones campaign, saying he thinks the shocking poll numbers in Arkansas are the result of an anybody-but-Obama attitude. He’s optimistic he could pull of an upset. “I think there’s a chance,” said Wolfe, who is the only person appearing on the Democratic ballot for president with Obama in Arkansas. “I spent a lot of time in Little Rock,” he told TheDC. “It was very easy to do. Little Rock is a fun city to be in. You can park all day right in front of the Capitol for $2. You can eat a big lunch downstairs at the Capitol basement and visit with politicians for $5.” Wolfe said he’s campaigned mostly by handing out fliers, which he emails to supporters who copy and distribute them. The fliers have his office and cell phone number on them. “If people want to talk about issues, I’m right there,” said the lawyer from Chattanooga, Tenn. One of his supporters in Arkansas is the sibling of an ex-lover. “I have a would-have-been brother-in-law — in other words, my ex-finance’s brother — who is an emergency room doctor in northeast Arkansas. He’s canvassed a lot of support up in that area. He’s pretty well-known.” One of Wolfe’s problems with Obama is that those who have served as White House chief of staff in the Obama administration — Rahm Emanuel, Bill Daley and Jack Lew — all got rich working on Wall Street. Wolfe also isn’t a fan of Obamacare. He supports a single-payer health care system. “Healthcare has taken up more and more of our GDP and he comes in and comes up with Obamacare, which is very unpopular in Arkansas and forces people to basically deal with monopolies,” he said. He also has another theory why Arkansas voters have flirted with him over Obama. “He hasn’t visited the South much either,” Wolfe said. “He hasn’t shown a lot of concern for the issues here.” dailycaller.com