WASHINGTON (CNN) – Democratic leaders in Michigan are urging supporters of John Edwards and Barack Obama, who are not on the ballot in the state, to vote "uncommitted" in the January 15 primary – a move that could create an unexpected headache for Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Intriguing.
From CNN:
President Bush signaled a willingness Saturday to spend more than what he had recommended for a popular children's health program, but provided no specifics on how much higher he would go.
The president on Wednesday vetoed legislation that would increase spending for the State Children's Health Insurance Program by $35 billion over five years. Bush has called for a $5 billion increase. Several Republicans in both chambers have sided with Democratic lawmakers on the issue.
"If putting poor children first takes a little more than the 20 percent increase I have proposed in my budget for SCHIP, I am willing to work with leaders in Congress to find the additional money," Bush said in his weekly radio address.
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I'm pissed.
I'm watching the news, reading blogs, checking out media reports, and all of them focus on one thing when it comes to Iraq.
The war.
The war is over. We won the military action a long time ago, and while insurgent attacks are great for headlines, and are deplorable for the casualties they cause, they are absolutely irrelevant.
The problem with Iraq is that the Iraqi government is not taking advantage of our troops being there to actually work on reconciliation and creating a working, permanent government to turn Iraq into a stable country.
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However, the fiscal conservatives tend to lean on this topic. For these folks, I've run across an argument that has at least gotten them to seriously consider their stance on abortion.
The argument is this: The founding fathers would have supported it.
I don't know about you all, but there are many things I'm thankful for.
The U.S. flag. Hijacked by Republicans.
That, dear readers, needs to change.
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He declined to give an estimate for how much the rebuilding would cost or suggest where the money might come from.
One again, the Bush Administration prefers to put party ideology over the welfare of the country. You think he would have learned his lesson about cutting spending to pay for something else when he cut the Army Corps of Engineers levee funding, but noooooooooo...
So where exactly do you plan to get the money to pay for this, Mr. Bush?
Bounties ranged from $3,000 to $25,000, the detainees testified during military tribunals, according to transcripts the U.S. government gave The Associated Press to comply with a Freedom of Information lawsuit.
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Over.
"It's absurd. It's an absurd allegation. The United States is a country that promotes freedom around the world," Bush said of the Amnesty International report that compared Guantanamo to a Soviet-era gulag.
Emphasis mine, more below the fold.
"For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them seriously," he said in an interview that was to air Monday night on CNN's "Larry King Live."
Like this sanctimonious partisan hack of a politician has any right to be offended.
Hell, their very ad goes against the values we espouse on this site...
Is there something that can be done so that these people aren't getting publicity from readers of this site?
The oil trade with countries such as Turkey and Jordan appears to have been an open secret inside the U.S. government and the United Nations for years.
The unclassified State Department documents sent to congressional committees with oversight of U.S. foreign policy divulge that the United States deemed such sales to be in the "national interest," even though they generated billions of dollars in unmonitored revenue for Saddam's regime.
Outrage below the fold.
However, I distinctly remember Bush saying during the debates that he wanted to INCREASE the availability of Pell Grants, not decrease them.
Well, that was a lie.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/12/23/pell.grants/index.html
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