Posts Tagged ‘no’
White House, Holder responds to Rand Paul after #RandStand: ‘The answer is no’
White House, Holder responds to Rand Paul after #RandStand: ‘The answer is no’ Attorney General Eric Holder wrote Sen. Rand Paul,R-Ky., to confirm that President Obama does not have the authority to kill an American on U.S. soil in a non-combat situation, Obama’s spokesman announced today. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney quoted from the letter that Holder sent to Paul today. “Does the president have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on an American soil?” Holder wrote, per Carney. “The answer is no.” via WashingtonExaminer.com.
Now that’s Bipartisan! Obama Budget gets ZERO Votes in Senate
OBAMA'S BUDGET AGAIN REJECTED BY EVERY DEMOCRAT, REPUBLICAN AND INDEPENDENT IN THE SENATE 0-99: Obama's FY2013 Budget Gets ZERO Votes In The Senate Today, The Senate Unanimously Rejected President Obama's Budget. (S.Con.Res.41, Roll Call Vote #97, Motion To Proceed Rejected 0-99, 5/16/12) For The Second Year In A Row, Obama's Budget Has Failed To Receive A Single Vote In The Senate. "In a 99-0 vote, all of the senators rejected the president's blueprint. It's the second year in a row the Senate has voted down Obama's budget. Obama's 2012 budget failed 97 to 0 last May after Obama himself last April said he wanted deeper deficit cuts." (Erik Wasson and Daniel Strauss, "Senate Rejects Obama Budget In 99-0 Vote," The Hill , 5/16/12) " President Obama's Budget Suffered A Second [...]
No Martyr Funeral for Bin Laden, He was Buried at Sea
No Martyr Funeral for Bin Laden, He was Buried at Sea Osama bin Laden Is Buried at Sea American officials said that Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a firefight with United States forces in Pakistan on Sunday, was taken to Afghanistan, and later buried at sea. Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/asia/osama-bin-laden-is-killed.html?hp&emc=na
Speaker Boehner says Government Shutdown Averted, Budget deal reached 78 Billion in Cuts
House and Senate negotiators have reached a deal on $39 billion in spending cuts to avert a government shutdown. “We fought to keep government spending down because it really will create a better environment for job creation,” said Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) at a press conference announcing the deal late Friday night. Boehner said a short-term spending bill will keep the government open until the final legislation is drafted next week. The short-term spending bill containing $2 billion in cuts would keep the government open through Friday, said a senior Senate Democratic aide. The deal on a longer term spending bill would cut $78 billion to $79 billion in spending, the aide said. In a joint statement, Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) said: “We have agreed [...]
Polling house says no GOP intervention in Dem SC Senate race
A polling information center has concluded the surprise primary victory for Alvin Greene was not a GOP plot, but a completely random outcome based on an election in which both candidates were unknown. "I don't see any evidence of GOP chicanery," said Tom Jensen, the director of Public Policy Polling. Rep. Jim Clyburn has called for an investigation into Greene's win, saying he has seen evidence of tampering in a number of races across the state. Jensen disagrees. "Ultimately, what we're concluding is it was pretty much completely random who was going to win given that no voters had heard of either of the candidates," he said. The group had assumed Vic Rawl would win the primary, Jensen said, because he was expected to campaign much harder and he had the political bonus of [...]
Boycott Arizona over its immigration law? 82% of Americans say NO
Despite President Obama's claim that he sees no congressional appetite to address immigration reform this midterm election year, there's more convincing evidence this week that Americans want it. No White House administration wants to admit that it governs by polls. And this one hasn't. For more than a year now polls have shown the top concerns on American minds are.... ...jobs and the economy. As a result, this Obama White House and the whopping Democratic congressional majorities lead by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi invested those many months in rancorous intra-party debate to obtain broad healthcare legislation. But pollsters keep asking the other questions: Out Wednesday is a new CNN/Public Opinion poll indicating that even more Americans want: -- The number of illegal [...]
Twitter Down- It’s the end of The World as we know it?
By Albert N. Milliron, Editor, Politisite & Iron Mill News Service Many of us in the micro-blogging world have come to a standstill. I got my cup of coffee, lit up a cigarette, and went to my favorite rss feeds to see what the released political news of the day would be. Finding some excellent potential posts for my twitter account @politisite and @ironmillns, I fired up my Tweet Deck to begin my daily routine of posting. WHAT!!! twitter is down. How am I to communicate with the world at large? How can the politicos of the world live with out my posts? (I am a bit grandiose until the third cup of coffee.) So I checked around and I am not the only micro-blogger in turmoil. I thought of Obama for a moment that this is a crisis that could lead to catastrophe and what is [...]
