That’s how the political party of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels jubilantly celebrated the results of the 2012 presidential election in the United States, which will put Barack Obama in the White House for another four years.
The comment was in a report to the Communist Party USA national committee from the party’s chairman, Sam Webb. http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/communist-party-usa-celebrates-obama-win/
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The French politician who said Indian steel company ArcelorMittal should leave the country has told CNBC that his government is only acting like U.S. President Barack Obama.
Montebourg told CNBC after a meeting with trade unions in Paris: “Barack Obama's nationalized. The Germans are nationalizing. All countries are nationalizing. I've also noticed the British nationalized 6 banks.” http://www.cnbc.com/id/50022833
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It would no doubt be controversial, but the idea of dissolving the fiscally struggling city of Detroit and absorbing it into Wayne County is being tossed around in Lansing.
“If we have to, that is one idea we have to look at. We really have to look at everything that is on the table,” Jones said. “Again, if this goes to federal bankruptcy, every employee down there will suffer, the city will suffer and the vultures will come in and take the jewels of Detroit and they will be gone.” http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/11/28/state-senator-proposes-dissolving-city-of-detroit/
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“Those of us who strongly believe in the rule of law believe that in our country, if you don’t like the law, change it, or seek to change it -- don’t violate it,” he said. “For a civilian, that’s called civil disobedience, for the president, it’s called violating your oath of office.” Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas). (AP) http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gop-senators-offer-calm-and-reasonable-pathway-citizenship-illegal-aliens------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------President Obama hasn’t even begun his second term yet, but his administration is already struggling with a huge credibility problem on the Benghazi front. Journal correspondent Major Garrett that Obama “is not particularly concerned” whether Susan Rice misled the American people in a series of talk show interviews following the killing of US Ambassador Christopher Stephens and three other US personnel in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100191964/the-white-houses-benghazi-bungling-is-proving-a-disaster/----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Speaking with Secure Freedom Radio host Frank Gaffney this week, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) alleged that the Obama administration has actively aided al Qaeda and follows the advice of the Muslim Brotherhood. Gohmert told Gaffney that anti-Muslim investigations are necessary because President Barack Obama made “horrendous decisions” in backing the “revolutions in Northern Africa and across the Middle East and to the Far East.” He chalked such decisions up to the administration listening closely to the advice of Muslim Brotherhood members http://www.mediaite.com/online/gop-rep-gohmert-obama-admin-has-a-bunch-of-muslim-brotherhood-members-giving-them-advice/-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, says he “burst into
laughter” Thursday when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner outlined the
administration proposal for averting the fiscal cliff. He wasn’t trying
to embarrass Geithner, McConnell says, only responding candidly to his
one-sided plan, explicit on tax increases, vague on spending cuts.
Geithner suggested $1.6 trillion in tax increases, McConnell says, but showed “minimal or no interest” in spending cuts. When congressional leaders went to the White House three days after the election, Obama talked of possible curbs on the explosive growth of food stamps and Social Security disability payments. But since Geithner didn’t mention them, those reductions appear to be off the table now, McConnell says. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/mcconnell-burst-laughter-geithner-outlined-obamas-plan_664210.html
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sen. Mary Landrieu and President Barack Obama can link arms on many pieces of the White House's proposed budget package, including raising taxes on higher-income Americans and spending more on infrastructure.
But Ms. Landrieu, along with a notable handful of Democratic colleagues, parts ways with the White House on one increasingly thorny issue: the president's call to raise the estate tax as part of Washington's bid to strike a deficit-cutting deal before year's end.
"This particular tax is inherently unfair," Ms. Landrieu said, adding that she would oppose any year-end deficit-reduction package that raises the estate tax. "That's a make-or-break for me." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324020804578151430887301890.html?mod=ITP_pageone_1
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Short on good options, here's one play GOP leaders might be able to make to regain some of the high ground and throw the White House back on its heels: Embrace Simpson/Bowles. President Obama established a bipartisan debt commission with great fanfare in 2010. Its leaders were Alan Simpson, a former Republican Senator, and Erskine Bowles, President Clinton's former Chief of Staff. The panel was tasked with engineering a solution to right America's fiscal ship. In the end, they produced a set of recommendations that received the blessing of a majority of its members. The commission's blueprint drew a fair amount of criticism from conservatives, but was roundly blasted by liberals. Liberal malcontents like Paul Krugman torched the plan with noteworthy ferocity. The president shelved the recommendations, and they've been collecting dust ever since. What did the proposal actually look like? Read more at http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/11/30/simpson_bowles
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insulting deal. What Geithner offered, what you showed on the screen,
Robert E. Lee was offered easier terms at Appomattox, and he lost the
Civil War. The Democrats won by 3% of the vote and they did not hold the
House, Republicans won the house. So this is not exactly unconditional
surrender, but that is what the administration is asking of the
Republicans.
This idea -- there are not only no cuts in this, there's an increase in spending with a new stimulus. I mean, this is almost unheard of. What do they expect? They obviously expect the Republicans will cave on everything. I think the Republicans ought to simply walk away. The president is the president. He's the leader. They are demanding that the Republicans explain all the cuts that they want to make. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/11/29/krauthammer_on_fiscal_cliff_negotiations_republicans_ought_to_simply_walk_away.html - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- The administration also sought at least $50 billion in new economic stimulus spending.
Obama's negotiators also sought the ability to raise the nation's borrowing limit unilaterally. Currently, Congress must approve an increase in the debt ceiling, and it was an impasse over that issue that brought the country perilously close to default in 2011. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/30/us-usa-fiscal-offer-idUSBRE8AT02C20121130
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choose. But these poor schlubs are being led down a primrose path to
unemployment if they think that a burger or pizza joint can stay in
business long if the workers are earning $15 an hour.
New York Times:
Fast-food workers at several restaurants in New York walked off the job on Thursday, firing the first salvo in what workplace experts say is the biggest effort to unionize fast-food workers ever undertaken in the United States. http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/11/29/burger-flippers-of-the-world-unite-the-seiu-drive-to-unionize-fast-food-workers/
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This week the United Nations begins two weeks of climate talks in Doha, Qatar. The primary goal of these meetings is to draw President Obama into accepting a redistribution plan designed extract money from the U.S. economy in the form of a global warming tax and doling out the cash to Third World nations.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/obamas_next_move_the_global_warming_tax.html#ixzz2DbCr3DpJ-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Eight cities and counties announced a new commitment to protecting their communities from unavoidable climate change impacts, by being the first to participate in Climate Resilient Communities™ (CRC), the nation’s first comprehensive climate adaptation program for local governments, developed by ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA and launched this week.
The following cities and counties (plus one development district) will receive cutting-edge online tools, technical support, and other resources from ICLEI to accelerate their efforts to prepare for climate impacts that already affect their regions: - Boston, Massachusetts
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Flagstaff, Arizona
- Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Lee County, Florida
- Miami-Dade County, Florida
- San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)
- Tucson, Arizona http://lid.okstate.edu/news-1/other-water-topics/icleiusa-org-8-leading-cities-and-counties-commit-to-prepare-for-climate-change-impacts-by-participating-in-nation2019s-first-adaptation-program/
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- U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said on Oct. 2, 2012, that under President Barack Obama's directive, the federal Department of Justice will purchase the long-unused Thomson prison in northwestern Illinois, cutting a check and bypassing the objections of a veteran Republican U.S. House member who had blocked the sale. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-091115-guantanamo-terror-illinois-pictures,0,3130130.photogallery
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- The Senate late Thursday night approved a Republican amendment that
would prohibit the transfer of terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay
(Gitmo) to U.S. prisons.
Ayotte said Thursday that she feared that those presumed terrorists would seek legal rights in U.S. courts. She added that the Gitmo facility is far more secure since it’s protected by the military.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she opposed the amendment, which passed on a 54-41 vote, because there are already more than 100 terrorists being securely held in federal prisons today.
“This is what our federal prisons do and they do it well,” Feinstein said before the vote.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) questioned why Feinstein and others opposing the amendment would want to bring suspected terrorists to the United States during a time of war.
“We don’t want these crazy bastards brought here to the United States,” Graham said. “They want to steal your way of life, not steal your car." “Have you lost your mind?”
Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) called the amendment “veto bait” because President Obama said he’d veto the defense bill if it included this provision. http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/270239-senate-votes-to-prohibit-gitmo-detainee-transfers-to-us
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