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Thursday night 13 conservative House Republicans defeated the
Rule for the vote on Speaker Boehner’s highly controversial “Plan
B.”
Let’s not forget here that in terms of pressure, a great deal of
it was coming from the GOP House Leadership. Congressmen Amash,
Huelskamp, and Jones were removed from their committee assignments
for not cooperating with the Leadership.
Then there was the great Brent Bozell from For America (as
reported at Breitbart) pounding away just Wednesday at a
Capitol Hill presser saying:
http://spectator.org/blog/2012/12/21/reagans-house-heroes-stop-plan
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Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, made his "fiscal
cliff" position clear in a press conference today. "We are not going to
do anything," said Reid.
Reid added, "We are not taking up anything they are working on over there."
The top Democrat in the Senate was explaining his inaction on the
House plan, the proposal put forward by Republican John Boehner, the
speaker of the House of Representatives. Boehner's plan is being
referred to as 'Plan B.'
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/harry-reid-we-are-not-going-do-anything_690795.html
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I’m going to make a prediction, right here and now, and write it
down – and call me on it. If the Republicans support this tax
increase, they will lose control of the House in the 2014
elections,” Bozell said.
Richard Stengel, the TIME Magazine guy, the editor. You know,
yesterday he was on Today show,
announced Obama as the Person of the Year. He said the reason why they
named Obama Person of the of Year is because the no-information voters
love the guy. They're transforming America. They actually said this.
TIME magazine said it's remarkable he's worth being Person of the Year,
'cause he's the guy that ended up being able, the first politician to
get votes from people who don't care about anything and who aren't
paying attention. That is worth honoring in 2012, almost 2013 America.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/19/ForAmerica-other-groups-to-Republicans-who-support-Boehner-s-tax-increasing-plan-B-We-re-coming-for-you
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Any hope that Jon Hammar, the Marine imprisoned in Mexico on a
disputed gun charge, might be freed in time for Christmas has apparently
been dashed by a terse letter a top Mexican diplomat sent to Hammar’s
congresswoman.
The two-page missive from Mexican Ambassador to
the United States Arturo Sarukhan to Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.),
who has been aggressively advocating for Hammar's release, leaves little
hope of a diplomatic solution. In it, Sarukhan takes a thinly veiled
swipe at the U.S., blaming it for gun proliferation south of the border.
"As you know well, Mexico has had very stringent gun-control laws in
place for many years, and have reinforced their application as a result
of the flow of weapons illicitly purchased in the U.S. and then
trafficked into Mexico and into the hands of transnational criminal
organizations," Sarukhan wrote.
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Even
more damning, in its absence, was the [Benghazi] report’s failure to step back and
question whether the Obama administration, at its highest levels
(starting with the president), created the conditions for Benghazi by
overstating the decimation of al-Qaida and playing down the significance
of the extremist elements, possibly al-Qaida-linked, that have
reemerged in the aftermath of the Arab Spring in Libya and elsewhere.
Unless this reckoning is made, it is easy to imagine a similar disaster
happening in post-Assad Syria, or elsewhere in the region. This has been
a chief Republican talking point against Obama since the Benghazi
attacks occurred on Sept. 11.
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The
chairman and the vice chairman of the State Department Accountability
Review Board (ARB) that investigated the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on
U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, made dramatically different
statements on Wednesday about the duration of those attacks that
resulted in the deaths of four Americans.
The
relevant duration of the event shrunk from "almost eight hours" to
"only about 20 or 30 minutes" when a reporter asked this
"accountability" team why the U.S. military had not been sent to
Benghazi to help that night.
During
his opening statement at a State Department briefing, Ambassador Thomas
Pickering, who chaired the ARB, said the terrorist attacks occurred
over a span of almost eight hours.
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What you will witness today during the Democratic-led Senate Intelligence Committee investigating
the Benghazi terrorist attack, spearheaded by Hillary Clinton’s
expected replacement, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass), will be nothing more
than a dog and pony show. Sen. Kerry will toe-the-line. This is the same
John Kerry, who after he left Vietnam, accused his
military brothers of war crimes without evidence, wants Hillary’s job, and to keep his future boss President Obama very happy.
We
were warned these times would come: when men called evil good, and good
evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Take heed. Those with eyes to
see and ears to hear are mourning America today.
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If
the 2nd Amendment is responsible for Newtown, Conn. then let's have a
look at what really kills Americans. Guilty and innocents alike. Let's
legislatively ban the obviously responsible parties in each category of
unnecessary death. (using Left-think)Smoking related deaths - 434,000+
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In
the 21st century, are we returning to the racial labyrinth of
the19th-century Old Confederacy, where we measure our supposed racial
DNA to the nth degree? Apparently yes. ESPN sports commentator Rob
Parker blasted Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III last
week for admirably stating that he did not wish to be defined by his
race rather than by his character: "He's black, he does his thing, but
he's not really down with the cause." Parker added: "He's not one of us.
He's kind of black, but he's not really like the kind of guy you really
want to hang out with." (ESPN suspended Parker for his remarks.)
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Many forms of violence and hardship have befallen Syria’s people as the country’s civil war has escalated this year. But the Syrian government’s attack here on Dec. 12 pointed to one of the war’s irrefutable patterns: the deliberate targeting of civilians by President Bashar al-Assad’s military, in this case with a weapon that is impossible to use precisely.
Syrians
on both sides in this fight have suffered from the bloodshed and
sectarian furies given dark license by the war. The victims of the cluster bomb attacks describe the tactic as collective punishment, a mass reprisal against populations that are with the rebels.
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In August 2011, five months after Syria erupted into violence over government repression, President Obama declared that
Bashar Assad should resign from office. Though Obama didn’t use the
words “regime change,” he was effectively making that the goal of U.S.
policy.
Sixteen
months have passed since the president issued his statement. Over that
period, the United States did very little to strengthen the relatively
moderate, pro-Western Syrian rebels who are competing for arms and
influence with extremist, anti-Western rebels tied to al-Qaeda. Instead,
the Obama administration relied on the United Nations to broker a
diplomatic solution. This strategy was always destined to fail, and it
did, with Russia and China vetoing three
separate Security Council resolutions. As a result, the situation in
Syria is far worse and far more dangerous in December 2012 than it was
in August 2011.
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“There
were giants in the earth in those days.” The death on December 19 of
Robert Bork—superb legal scholar, preeminent constitutional thinker,
principled public servant—calls to mind the other giants of American
conservatism who have left us in the last decade: Bill Buckley and
Irving Kristol, Milton Friedman and James Q. Wilson, Richard John
Neuhaus and Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp. They were
the greatest conservative generation. They rode into the valley of
liberal orthodoxies and emerged sometimes triumphant, always unbowed.
When can their glory fade? They left our nation stronger and better for
their efforts.
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Could the release of “Zero Dark Thirty” provoke violent protests against
the U.S. in response to the film’s searing depictions of “enhanced
interrogation” — the coercive, super-secret and bitterly debated methods
used by the CIA against al Qaeda terrorism suspects?
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