That beeping sound you hear is your microwave telling you the popcorn is ready.
Healthcare for Christmas: Reid under pressure to slow down
-Turns out moderate Dems will not approve healthcare in Senate if there’s a public option
Whip count shows Democrats lack votes on ‘robust’ public option for healthcare
-Hmph…House Democrats don’t like the far left wingers public option either. Something about it being too expensive to give 300million people a min of $1mil in coverage ($30TRILLION). Who does math in Congress anymore anyways?
Abortion divides House Dems in health care debate
-Geesh, is there anything Democrats can agree on re healthcare? Oh yeah…it’s the Republicans fault somehow. That much they can agree on.
Two Democrats buck Rep. Towns, call for Countrywide probe
-Ask a Dem what caused the Great Recession, and they’ll tell you the DNC talking points (presented by NYT, DailyKOS, and MSNBC): Bush tax cuts for the wealthy investors and business leaders who create jobs, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They’ll ignore the entire Countrywide, homeloans, AIG mess, but….not all Dems will. They all know the reality, and some want it fixed.
Obama hints Afghan decision may wait
-At least on foreign policy the world loves us, right? Um, not so much. Seems the new strategy Obama started in March…in ain’t working. It’s been a few months since his generals in the field asked for more troops and equipment, and despite his promise to the VFW that he’d always provide…Obama’s still clueless on what to do/how to respond to the simplest question ever. Your general tells you he needs more troops and material or the war is lost. What do you do? You send the guy more troops and matl or you lose. Simple
Iran fails to accept UN uranium enrichment plan
-Damn, that open-hand opens a clenched fist thing sounded so cool too. Yeah, no one believed it for a second, but it sounded great….as great as all the other sizzle sans steak. Now what-just let Israel bomb Iran and start a regional or even world war? How will Keith Olbermann respond to a call for war in Iran based on alleged WMD threats and ties to terror? Will we get a countdown every night saying how many days it’s been since Obama threatened harsh sanctions? Please, stop laughing now people as even the Dems are frustrated w Obama’s incompetence here.
Dems face uphill climb on immigration reform
-Guess changing the subject from healthcare to foreign policy to immigration’s probably not a good idea 😉
White House attacks worry moderate Democrats
-Man, you know you’re having a bad week when Democrats give you grief for complaining about FOX News!
The Dem eats Dem list goes on and on. Yeah, they’ll fill 24hrs on MSNBC w White House ordered distraction about how Republicans are to blame, but anyone who knows that the Dems have a supermajority and the WH and the House…those independent minds ain’t buying it. Dems are running the show, and Dems are fouling it up.
Have a GREAT weekend!
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Much like roaches, they eat their own.
@Davey:
I was thinking that much like my dog, they eat their own poo. But hey, I think only dems can make jokes like that. Hopefully they don’t track me down, arrest me, and force me to listen to their party’s music over and over again. Some would call it torture, some would consider it great and give them trophies at MTV award shows.
I love the smell of popcorn in the morning. It smells like…victory.
Bush and the Russians offered to enrich uranium in 2002 or 03 I think, for Iran, and they were turned down. Remember it was one of Kerry’s bright ideas during the campaign. I remember that the media made a big deal of it because it was one of Kerry’s ideas. Maybe Obama thought that a second offering and his charm would work this time. Will Obama learn that the Iranians really want a bomb? Probably not.
@Liam:
How about we all just sing for ya? Mmmmmm -mmmmmmm- mmmmmmmm 🙂
Sarge
Kathie is correct in the offer for out of Iran enrichment has always been there by the Bush regime. In fact, Threatswatch reports yet another media moment INRE Condi’s similar offer in 2006.
You know… that satanic US regime that did nothing and never tried, according to the left talking points?
The fact that junior Iranian negotiators showed up in Vienna, demanding at least 5% enrichment rights in the country, for the chit chat was a show. And El Baradei’s construction of that agreement… which, as Scott mentioned, was rejected out of hand by the true Iranian authority… would not have been a victory for the west. It would, however have been a victory for Iran in buying more time. As Wired’s Joshua Pollack reported two days ago: (BTW, H/T to Curt on this one…)
Israel’s Haaretz has a more accurate perspective… it’s a victory for Iran to buy time as it removes all justification for an Israeli intervention for 18 months.
That was yesterday, and as we know, today brings the predictable rejection from Iran’s leaders.
Haaretz did suggest that even the presence of junior Iranian negotiators signaled that Iran was vunerable to int’l pressures. Ahmadinejad has pretty much run the Iranian economy into the toilet. Thus the protests in the street as his bogus re’election. They know that every time he opened his mouth, the Bush admin slapped tighter and tighter financial sanctions on them. 2008 was a particularly harsh year for Iran, with Bush’s financial net getting wider and wider. That trigged Iran’s loss of contracts with Total, the French oil/gas conglomerate.
Yes… Iran will likely find itself more pliable over time if Obama keeps the Bush implemented financial noose around their neck. In the meantime, they made a play to buy some time… watch my right hand and ignore that man behind the curtain, please.
INRE any decision on Af/PAK… I heard Gates say a decision is still two to three weeks out in the past 24 hours. Coincidently very close to Thanksgiving… Pelosi and Obama’s target date for slamming health care thru in the dark of night. Perhaps the CiC doesn’t want to be CiC until he’s “remade” America’s health care. He is, IMHO, quite willing to spend every bit of political capital in order to get what he wants on the health care front.