If Bush Had Done That

The Obama administration appears to have abandoned plans to put Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and four co-conspirators on trial in Lower Manhattan, according to administration sources.

“It seems less and less likely” that the trial will take place in New York, according to a senior administration official.

The administration was facing a surge of political opposition to hosting the trial in New York. That opposition crystallized in recent days when New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, an early supporter of holding the trial in the city, said the security and financial costs were too great.

In a letter to the president Friday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said a New York trial heightens the risk of a terrorist attack.

“Without getting into classified details, I believe we should view the attempted Christmas Day plot as a continuation, not an end, of plots to strike the United States by al-Qaeda and its affiliates,” Feinstein said. “Moreover, New York City has been a high-priority target since at least the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. The trial of the most significant terrorist in custody would add to the threat.”
She told the president in the letter that he has “the flexibility to move this trial to a less prominent, less costly, and equally secure location.”

Administration officials said they remain committed to putting Mohammed and the other defendants (who are currently held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba) on trial in federal court, not in a military commission as some in Congress have been demanding.

That commitment was welcomed by proponents of using the federal courts to try terrorist suspects.
“As long as these trials occur in federal criminal courts with proper due-process protections, the actual venue doesn’t matter very much,” said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. “All of our federal courts are equipped and able to handle such cases. That’s where they belong and that’s where they should stay.”

Oh well,
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TAKEAWAYS – Here are some of the most important points from President Obama’s must-watch speech before the House GOP’s conference in Baltimore Friday:

- Obama began his remarks on a conciliatory note, telling Republicans he expects them to “challenge my ideas,” and: “Having differences of opinion, having a real debate about matters of domestic policy and national security, that’s something that’s not only good for our country, it’s absolutely essential.”

- He urged Republicans to come to the table and work with him on policy compromises, saying Americans “didn’t send us to Washington to fight each other in some political steel cage match.” What voters don’t want, he said, is “for Washington to continue being so Washington-like.”

- But the president also challenged the House GOP. “We have seen some party-line votes that have been disappointing,” he said, recalling the stimulus fight. “I didn’t understand then, and I still don’t understand, why we got opposition in this caucus for almost $300 billion in badly needed tax cuts for the American people” and other assistance and infrastructure projects. Obama jabbed: “Let’s face it, some of you have been at the ribbon-cuttings for some of these important projects in your communities.”

- Continuing on a confrontational tack, Obama defended key components of his agenda, including the proposed fee on bailed-out banks – telling Minority Leader John Boehner: “If you listen to the American people, John, they’ll tell you they want their money back.” And while he conceded that the health care debate had become “bitter and contentious,” Obama stuck to his basic position: “If anyone here truly believes our health insurance system is working well for people, I respect your right to say so, but I don’t agree.”

- At the end of his remarks – before taking questions – Obama told Republicans it’s time to make a choice between aiming for “success at the polls” or “lasting success” for the country. “Just think about it for a while,” he said. “We don’t have to put it up for a vote today.”

Same B.S. different day.
Shon Jimenez

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Did you know Pelosi Suggested Maneuver to Pass Health Care Overhaul?”  These people, folks, do not trust them, and do not believe anything about this being dead.  They are still scheming behind the scenes.  “The speaker says the House should pass the Senate’s version of the plan and then use ‘budget reconciliation’ to make changes that some lawmakers want. The procedure could circumvent a GOP filibuster.  Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday the House should pass the Senate’s version and then use a process known as ‘budget reconciliation,’” and make it worse down the road, like adding $300 billion to the price tag.  Because that’s what they’re going to do, the Democrats have demanded elimination of a new tax on high-end Cadillac insurance plans. 

They want more subsidies to help low and moderate income Americans buy health coverage, and altogether these changes could increase the cost of the health care overhaul by $300 billion over the next ten years — another lie — bringing it to a total of $1.2 trillion, according to a Senate Democratic aide.  It would actually be $2.8 trillion if you factor this without any accounting gimmicks.  So, folks, I’m telling you, they’re working on this behind closed doors in the House, they’re trying to scheme. I guarantee you this is what happens in Cuba, this is what happens in Venezuela, this is what dictators do.  And he told us last night, “I’m not a quitter, I’m not quitting.”  He’s going to do whatever he can to get this stuff done, to hell with what we think, or want.

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We found out what it’s like last night to sit through a speech by Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro. And if you didn’t see it, and if you want to know what sitting through a speech by Castro or Chavez is like find a way to watch a little bit of it and you’ll get a grand idea. It was disjointed. I thought it was pathetic. It’s striking to me, and it’s utterly predictable, you listen to the pro-Obama people in the media and they talk about, “Oh, it was great, it was the most wonderful speech.” It was a horrible speech. It was disjointed; it was contradictory; it was all over the place. Heritage Foundation today says it’s like it had numerous authors. And did you hear what Chris Matthews said? It was a lecture last night, it wasn’t a speech.

Chris Matthews said while he was watching the lecture he forgot Obama was black for an hour. He forgot Obama was black for an hour. I forgot he was president for an hour. I watched a community agitator and not a very good one. I saw a guy that’s angry. I saw a guy that’s defiant. And Nancy Pelosi, she missed her calling. She’s up and down, a Jack in the Box. She should have been a trained seal at Sea World the way she was behaving last night. She and Biden and everybody color coordinated in purple. I don’t know, folks, be serious here for a second.

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Specifically, it was wrong on three major counts: Obama and his team believed that the 2008 election represented something seismic — in other words, something fundamental and long-lasting,” just like the Republicans made the same mistake in 1994 when they won the House.  The second thing that went wrong: “Obama believed that early success would be self-reinforcing, building a powerful momentum for bold government action. This belief was the essence of the White House’s theory of the ‘big bang’…” You get the Porkulus slush fund passed, and that provides the impetus and the momentum for everything else to follow.  So this tells us they were in a panic for much of this year, particularly when we got to August when the tea parties started. Well, the tea parties started before August.  

It was the town meetings. They started hustling trying to get health care done before the August recess.  The third: “Most devoutly of all, the Obama team believed that there was something singular about the president’s appeal and ability to inspire.”  Now, this is in The Politico, and these are the first three things that went wrong.  So they believed he was The Messiah, that the Porkulus bill was gonna presage the passage of everything else, and that America had undergone a seismic change.  But there’s actually a fourth, ladies and gentlemen.  Now, you know that I have manners. I was raised properly with a great set of core values, and one of those is to not brag.  And, of course, it ain’t bragging if you’ve done it. It ain’t bragging if you can do it.  I think it was Babe Ruth who said that.  But as you know, I do not like talking about myself. I’m very uncomfortable with that.

From the Rush Limbaugh Radio Program

Shon Jimenez

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And how about this spending freeze? What a trick this is. What’s it going to do, by 2019, it’s going to save $250 billion? All this is doing is locking in place massive, over the top spending increases last year. It’s just locking them in place. Freezing discretionary spending, the entitlement spending, it’s all but defense. This is like Jennifer Granholm saying that the green industry in Michigan is going to create 40,000 jobs in the next ten years, 40,000, when they’re losing 600,000, a million jobs a year.  This is the populist Obama, the left doesn’t like this, Obama going triangulation.  James Carville’s out there urging Obama, you gotta bash Bush more, you gotta bash Bush more.  I think that’s sabotage.  I think that’s setting Hillary up.  And make no mistake, ladies and gentlemen, Mrs. Clinton is out there eyeing this.

As said by Rush Limbaugh

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A United Nations climate expert is admitting that there could be more errors in his report. Mistakes were made, but can’t we all just move on? Everything that the left is involved in is being exposed here for what it is: one hundred percent lies and a hoax. “The Indian head of the UN climate change panel defended his position yesterday even as further errors were identified in the panel’s assessment of Himalayan glaciers.” This is Rajendra Pachauri. Now, he may be Indian, but he went to school and taught, I believe in North Carolina, and he’s not a climate scientist.

He’s an economist. All of this is about money.
“Dr Rajendra Pachauri dismissed calls for him to resign over the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s retraction of a prediction that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035. But he admitted that there may have been other errors in the same section of the report, and said that he was considering whether to take action against those responsible. ‘I know a lot of climate skeptics are after my blood, but I’m in no mood to oblige them,’ he told The Times in an interview. ‘It was a collective failure by a number of people,’ he said. ‘I need to consider what action to take, but that will take several weeks. It’s best to think with a cool head, rather than shoot from the hip.’” This sounds like the people in the Obama administration on the Sunday shows after getting hammered with bad news last week, how they respond to any crisis when they screw up like Fort Hood and the Christmas bomber, the Fruit of Kaboom Bomber (and soon Haiti).

Now, don’t forget, the IPCC’s 2007 report won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Algore. “But it emerged last week that the forecast was based not on a consensus among climate change experts, but on a media interview with a single Indian glaciologist in 1999.” A single interview with a single Indian glaciologist! This is almost like these e-mails that we have now learned used tree rings from one tree in a Siberian forest to show that the hockey stick warming curve was accurate. These people are frauds from the get-go. Now the Himalayan glaciers are not going to melt by 2035. There are five glaring errors in the relevant section, and this is just more icing on the cake for this program here, this whole movement, which has been around in intense focus since the early 1980s. I, frankly, couldn’t be happier about how it’s being exposed. Fudging the data, making up the data because they want their statist, big-government-control-over-everybody agenda implemented, and they can’t do it with genuine science, so they’re trying to scare everybody into doing it.

As said by Rush Limbaugh

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Here is yet another example of Obama’s obsession blaming everything on everyone else but him.
It proved to be a striking State of the Union moment: With six justices seated in their black robes directly in front of him in the House chamber, Obama said: “With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that, I believe, will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.”

As Democrats applauded, cameras showed the justices sitting expressionless. Except Alito.
“Not true, not true,” he appeared to say, as he shook his head.

The president’s swipe at the Supreme Court was a breach of decorum, and represents the worst of Washington politics — scapegoating ’special interest’ boogeyman for all that ails Washington in attempt to silence the diverse range of speakers in our democracy.

And guess what? It only took Obama a minute into his speech to blame Bush for something. How can we move forward when Obama lives in the past.

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Time after time Obama stated the healthcare reform would be worked out in plain view on C-Span. I don’t know about you but I must have missed those sessions on C-Span. Did any of you see them on C-Span? I don’t think so. Where is the transparent president we were supposed to be getting? Even with all those back room payoffs going on for certain senators and their states, they still can’t get it passed. Do you want to know why? I will tell you why! We don’t want it. Let the free market run our healthcare, not the Gestapo. The only healthcare reform we need is tort reform, get the lawyers out of the doctors’ way and institute a loser pays system. If a bum brings in a lawsuit for a get quick rich payday and he loses, he pays all the attorney fees for both sides. That will keep all the frivolous lawsuits out of our courts.

But that would be to logical, to easy. Obama can’t do that; he’d be cutting the throats of all his big shot lawyer friends. Where would he get his campaign money from? In 9 months Obama has had 12, count them, 12 fundraisers. Bush had 6 in 12 months. Of course, Robert Gibbs comes to the rescue and says that’s because Obama won’t take Pac money. Hey Obama, quit fundraising and do your job. Our economy sucks and I need a job.

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