Muslims get outraged pretty easily. The cute puppy wasn't sittimg on a Koran, or any sort of Muslim outfit. It was a British policeman's hat.
Has Feney sld out to the Dems?He excoriated a proposal McCain outlined last Wednesday to build 45 new nuclear plants in the United States by 2030 and another 55 in later years.
We should fouble it, but it is a good start."I don’t understand how it’s not compromising our environmental standards to propose a crash program to build more nuclear power plants when the industry has not complied with the federal law that requires there to be safe disposal for the radioactive waste," Feeney said.
That is because Congress is standing in the way of using Yucca Mountain.McCain responded by citing the example of nuclear technology in Europe and Navy ships powered by nuclear energy. "My friend, the technology is there. The Europeans do it. I mean it's safe. It's being done. So, to think that that is going to require some pain on the American people economically when the Europeans-- 80 percent of the French electricity is generated by nuclear power. They are doing fine," McCain said to applause from the audience.
And if we had a source of cheap electricity it would spur electric cars."It's not a technological breakthrough that needs to be taken," McCain said, "It's a not-in-my-backyard problem, we have got to have the guts and courage, to go ahead and do what other countries are doing and they are reducing the pollution to our environment rather dramatically without any huge pain to anybody," McCain said.
Precisely. No CO2 emissions from a nuclear plant."And I'd like to have you respond but the United States Navy has sailed ships around the world for 60 years with nuclear power plants on them, we have never had an accident, we have never had a problem. And I think the world is safer, the world is safer due to the presence of the United States navy with nuclear power ships on them," McCain said.
Precisely.Feeney also highlighted McCain's new-found support for U.S. off-shore oil drilling as a way to decrease domestic gas prices. "It makes me nervous to think about those who are proposing to drain America’s off-shore oil and gas reserves as quickly as possible
We are not draining them at all.in the hopes of driving down the price of gasoline," Feeney said. "Were we to open up the California coast ... it would be twelve, 15 maybe 20 years before those resources came online
Not necessarilly, and even if you are right, then in 12, 15, or 30 years we would be better off than if we do nothing.and got to full production. That’s not going to impact the price of gasoline any time soon."
It just might cause the speculators to have second thoughts.
That is reasonable as long as the ad is run that far before the election..... "The FEC compiled an exhaustive record, went through thousands of broadcast commercials and carefully crafted these regulations based on the empirical record," Toner said. "The court is essentially substituting its own view."
Really. A court would do that? Only on a day that ends in a "y".
A light bulb is supposed to represent an idea. Let's us see what sort of idea Congress had
You can't believe anything he says."Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided," Obama declared Wednesday, to rousing applause from the 7,000-plus attendees at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference.
His statement is right. How can two countries share a city as their capitol, especially since Jerusalem is never mentioned in the Koran. You can't say it has been a Palestinian capitol because there has never been a nation called Palestine. It was just a city conquered by Muslims long after the Koran was written, and they don't like to see any captured land leave Muslim control. Poor babies.But a campaign adviser clarified Thursday that Obama believes "Jerusalem is a final status issue,
He must have been upset hen Hamas withdrew its endorsement, and fears losing the muslim oil money that has been flowing in, in many many small donations over the internet to his campaign.which means it has to be negotiated between the two parties" as part of "an agreement that they both can live with."
Now what? Ann Althouse blogged I went to bed last night thinking there's no way Barack Obama should pick Hillary Clinton as his running mate. — But I woke up this morning, turned on the TV news to see a rerun of her speech from last night and thought: He must pick her!
The left wing pundits were convinced. Maureen Dowd whines She’s Still Here! Noam Scheiber screams That Outrageous, Delusional Clinton Speech. Matthew Yglesias blogged I probably shouldn't write any more about this woman and her staff. Suffice it to say that I've found her behavior over the past couple of months to be utterly unconscionable and this speech is no different. I think if I were to try to express how I really feel about the people who've been enabling her behavior, I'd say something deeply unwise.
Roger Simon observes Obama's first test: Handling Hillary and Adam Nagourney worries Next on Agenda Is Clinton’s Role. Jackie Calmes talks about Clinton's Road to Second Place.
My personal opinion is that the only reason Hillary is taking about wanting the Vice Presidency is she hopes something will come up between now and August to change the minds of enough Super Delegates to force a change between numbers one and two.
Why did it take himthis long to see he had to do that. If he is elected, will he be this indecisive running the country?... The move would give Obama a flat answer to questions about the congregation -- that he's left it. But it would also acknowledge that Trinity is in some basic way out of step with the his public figure, and beg the question of why he only left the summer before the presidential election.
And that is an indication of why he is not qualified t be president. He should have said he is willing for the FL and MI reslts to be counted completely (and not at the 1/2 level as will probably be decided today), he would have given Clinton some additional pledged delegates, but they still would not have overtaken him, and it would have made him look so good that the super delegates would have rushed to his side, and Clinton would have had no reason to take this to the Convention in August. But he is too stupid to see that.Should he? Is the best way to wrap up the nomination next week to agree to Clinton's every demand on both states? That's the argument M.S. Bellows Jr. makes in the Huffington Post this week in a piece titled "The Trap: Clinton's "Briarpatch" Strategy For The DNC Rules Committee Meeting."
Precisely. And whether FL and MI get a 100% penalty or a 50% penalty, she will have that justification."By leaning toward implementing a compromise "split the baby" decision tomorrow on how to allocate the Michigan and Florida delegates -- a compromise that nearly all observers see as a setback for Clinton -- the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee ("RBC"), the Obama campaign and other well-meaning Democrats will actually be throwing Brer Clinton into the briar patch -- giving her exactly the excuse she wants to continue her Quixotic campaign." Bellows makes an intriguing case, but is he underplaying two key factors: money and momentum?
It is not going to cost a lot of money for Hillary to whine about how the votes of FL and MI were stolen, and she can send emails on this basically for free, and include in them statements about any gaffe Obama makes between now and then. The only way to stop that is to not take away the FL and MI votes. And just hope that Obama makes no more gaffes (which he will certainly do).Bellows' argument, essentially, is that Clinton has no intention of quitting the Democratic race after primary voting ends next week. Her goal, he says, is to push the contest all the way to the August convention in Denver, aggressively courting pledged delegates and superdelegates along the way. Technically, there's nothing to stop her. All delegates are free to change their minds up to the floor vote, per DNC rules. Bellows predicts Clinton is simply looking for an excuse to keep going - and that the best one she could possibly have is to appeal the DNC's decision on Florida and Michigan (even if those states are satisfied with this weekend's ruling).
Obama responded "As I have traveled this country, I've been impressed not by what divides us, but by all that that unites us. That is why I am deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn't reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause."
Did you see that same thing during the 20 years you stayed at Trinity?
But are they consistent with what you believe?and I am deeply sorry if they offended Senator Clinton
Why would she not be offended?or anyone else who saw them."
Well this former constitutional law teacher should know that while a president can change an executive order, he cannot "overturn" a law passed by Congress and signed by a President.During a fund-raiser in Denver, Obama — a former constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago Law School — was asked what he hoped to accomplish during his first 100 days in office. “I would call my attorney general in and review every single executive order issued by George Bush and overturn those laws or executive decisions that I feel violate the constitution,” said Obama
Ao he is going to act as the Judiciary branch AND the Legislative branch.Other goals for his first 100 days: work out a plan to withdraw troops from Iraq; make progress on alternative energy plans and launch legislation to reform the health care system.
What the heck does she think she can do? Both candidates want the nomination, and there is not much she can do to change that.if necessary to make sure the presidential nomination fight between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama does not reach the Democratic National Convention - though she believes it could be resolved as early as next week.
So she wants credit for being willing to step in when she does not think it will be necessary.Pelosi predicted Wednesday that a presidential nominee will emerge in the week after the final Democratic primaries on June 3, but she said "I will step in" if there is no resolution by late June regarding the seating of delegates from Florida and Michigan, the two states that defied party rules by holding early primaries. "Because we cannot take this fight to the convention," she said.
Why hold the convention if it is not going to be any fun?"It must be over before then."
John Amato wrote on Crooks and Liars You keep saying that you’ll bring the troops home with honor. When have they not been honored? Can you please give examples?
Troops returning from http://www.soldiersangels.org/ietnam were spat upon. Even troops coming back from Iraq have not been allowed to go into the airport in uniform at some airports.C&L and many other sites fight everyday for the rights of our troops, their health care, benefits and the conditions of Walter Reed.
Do yu fight for them to have the financial support they need to be successful. How many of your readers are signed up for Soldier's Angels?And the best way I know how to fight for them is to never send them to war without a true cause
This war has a true cause. Several different causes have been suggeste, but the left rejects all of them.and bring them home now so their families can see them alive and healthy.
And so the terrorists will win, and we will have to go back and lose even more lives.You are against Sen Webb’s GI Bill not because it doesn’t give them adequate compensation for their service, but as you say, it will lead to many more troops leaving the armed forces sooner:
They are very hard to replace. Encouraging people to choose to not become noncommissioned officers would hurt the military and our country very badly.” McCain argues his bill would have a smaller impact on retention rates
Precisely. It gives them more, the longer they stay in, and it allows their families to use the education money.than the legislation that the Senate passed.Is that an honorable argument?
Absolutly
Or they just have not been paying attention the last couple of months.On Saturday, the party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee will try to solve a big problem, in order to avoid a huge problem in order to prevent a train wreck.
A train wreck would be much more fun to watch.The big problem is what to do about Michigan and Florida, two states stripped last year of their delegates to the Democratic National Convention because both broke party rules and moved their primaries up too early in the election year.
Actually the real problem is if you give in ane seat the delegates, how do you keep all the states in line in the future.The rules committee will try to work out a compromise Saturday to try to seat those states in some form or fashion. It will be difficult, and the 30 members of the committee, who come from all over the nation, have been warned to keep their hotel rooms Saturday night, because the meeting may go into Sunday.
And Monday, and Tuesday, and Wednesday, ....The huge problem is what happens if one side or another does not like the rules committee’s compromise. In that case, the controversy would go to the 186-member Credentials Committee, which will convene in July or August. And if that happens, the party will be presented with a possible train wreck:
I want to see a train wreck.Whatever the Credentials Committee decides will have to be voted on by the Convention in late August as its first order of business. And this could create what the media might love but the party dreads: a floor fight in Denver.
And this would make the convention fun to watch.
And both give Hillary a netter chance of claiming she won.
John Hinderaker blogged Barack Obama must be the most gaffe-prone politician in memory. Today, he delivered a Memorial Day speech in New Mexico. After greeting the local Democratic Party dignitaries, he began:On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong.
Obama's sense of patriotism is triggered by seeing dead people in the audience. Does he like Zombie films?Memorial Day honors those who have died in our nation's military service. Is it possible that Obama does not know this?
He may know it, but just not care. It gave him an opportunity to pander to people who might be stupid enough to vote for him. Note, the video of this clip is below the fold.Sometimes the things that come out of his mouth defy understanding.
So trained soldiers should be wasted as truck drivers or guarding dignitaries in a war zone.You know, I, in fact, actually currently have legislation that I introduced that would do a full audit on Blackwater.
Ooh, attack them with lawyers and accountants.And they need to be held accountable for some of the actions that have already been taken.
Are you going to pass an ex-post-facto law, or accept insurgent testimony against people they were inable to kill on the battlefield.
They discovered what an empty suit Obama was, and the more they saw him, the less they liked him.Rather than rally ‘round the “inevitable nominee” that message has been a consistent, loud, and clear message to the Democratic Party – DO NOT WANT.
And considering that means they would be stick with Hillary, and that they now see what conservatives knew in the 90s, that is saying something.In nearly every demographic category since February 19, Clinton percentage of the vote has risen, while Obama’s has fallen. This includes Obama’s supposed “strong” demographic categories such as voters with college degrees post-graduate degrees and voters whose income is above the national median. And Clinton beat Obama in the primaries in March, April and May in most of the major categories.
