Results of “The Fall”
Posted by Michelle Moquin on January 2nd, 2013
Good morning!
How are you feeling after that “fiscal fall?” Not bad? There is so much to be said and you all are saying it. My mind is mud this morning. Not something you usually hear from the editor of a daily blog – Not feeling very BABE this morning. But hey, it is what it is.
Fiscal Cliff Deal Passed By Congress After Republicans Cave
WASHINGTON — A day late and trillions of dollars short, Congress passed a hard-won deal to ease large portions of the “fiscal cliff.”
The nation started sliding down that cliff on New Year’s Day, after lawmakers dithered for more than a year over solving the combination of across-the-board spending cuts and tax hikes that began taking effect with the start of the year.
The Senate passed a compromise at 2 a.m. Tuesday. The House threatened to blow up the deal, but reluctantly followed suit 20 hours later, ultimately passing a permanent extension of many Bush-era tax cuts by an overwhelming vote of 257 to 167.
The weeks-long debacle of tax negotiations brought into stark relief how focused the nation’s Capitol remained on the deficit and debt, while focus on the jobs crisis nearly vanished, along with talk of economic devastation from climate change.
The Senate-crafted compromise, agreed to only the day before in lengthy negotiations between Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, was far smaller than the $4 trillion “grand bargain” that many lawmakers have sought since 2010, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressed disappointment with a deal that angered both the left and right.
Republicans were upset the deal did not have cuts.
“We not only need to grow the economy but we also have to address the fundamental causes of our debts and deficits, and that’s out-of-control spending, obligations that we have not got the financial wherewithal to meet,” said Rep. Dave Camp, (R-Mich.) the top Republicans on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.
“So this is a first step — permanent tax policy that then sets the stage for comprehensive and fundamental tax reform and then addressing out- of-control spending. So this will be several steps. This is an important one.”
Liberals were unhappy Democrats left out a number of their goals for the bill, and that they did not push for setting the upper limit for retaining the old tax rates at $250,000 — a promise Obama campaigned and won on. Obama had hoped to raise $1.6 trillion in revenue over 10 years. The bill only raises $620 billion, suggesting to many Democrats that future deficit reduction could come from cutting cherished programs.
“We’re going to look back on this night and regret it,” said Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.).
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) said passing the legislation was as if, “someone stopped hitting you in the head with a hammer, and you’re supposed to say ‘Thanks so much!’”
Yet most Democrats were willing to back the measure.
“Yes, to all of those who say all the other things that don’t happen in the bill — I don’t know any piece of legislation I’ve ever voted for that did everything that I thought it should do,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said. “While this bill doesn’t accomplish all that we need to do … it is a good way for us to have a happy start to a new year by taking this first step.”
Democrats also were pleased that for the first time in decades Republicans signed onto a measure that leaves taxes higher this year than the year before.
“This legislation breaks the iron barrier that for far too long has prevented additional tax revenues from the very wealthiest,” said Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich.) “It raises $620 billion in revenue by achieving the president’s goal of asking the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans to pay more while protecting 98 percent of families. That’s right — that’s what it does. I want to emphasize this contrary to propaganda coming from the other side — it prevents 98 percent of businesses from another tax increase.”
Despite the general unhappiness with the measure, which President Barack Obama has said he’ll sign, it does achieve some major policy changes, chief among them making permanent the Bush-era tax cuts for couples earning under $450,000 and individuals earning under $400,000.
The bill also keeps the estate tax threshold at $5 million, extends emergency federal unemployment benefits for one more year, and delays for two months the “sequester” that made up the spending cut portion of the cliff. It also extends the stimulus-boosted child tax credit and the college tuition credit for five years, individual and business tax breaks for two years, and the Medicare “doc fix” for one year, preventing a 27 percent payment cut for physicians. The Alternative Minimum Tax will be permanently fixed, and the the farm bill will be extended for one year.
Though it has received little attention from the press, the White House and congressional leaders, the decision not to include an extension of the payroll tax holiday is among the most consequential, and will lead to lower take-home pay for workers. A person earning $50,000 will see roughly $1,000 less. Economists have warned that allowing the tax holiday to expire saps spending power from consumers while demand in the economy is still fragile.
Meanwhile, the deal contains a major giveaway to Wall Street, which won a 20 percent rate on dividends above $400,000, a rate that otherwise would’ve risen to the Clinton-era rate of 39.6. (That doesn’t include an additional 3.8 percent that will be implemented to pay for health care reform, another tax hike that received little attention.)
The deal is also chock full of goodies for corporate America, including millions for NASCAR and Hollywood, and billions to extend overseas corporate tax breaks and other loopholes.
Republicans in the House spent much of Tuesday threatening to blow up the bill over the the lack of spending cuts. They went so far as to propose amending the measure with a $328 billion package of budget reductions, but facing the likelihood that a revised measure would fail muster with Democrats, caved in after two lengthy meetings behind closed doors.
Having lost a battle that many of them fought for years, the GOP was looking forward to future chances to extract cuts, likely setting up more last-second showdowns in March. That’s because the two-month delay of the sequester ends March 3, right around the time the nation is expected to reach its borrowing limit — which Congress has to extend to pay the bills. Funding for the federal government also runs out on March 27.
The GOP sees each of those as leverage points.
“We still have more opportunities. We’ve got the debt ceiling coming, sequestration,” said John Fleming (R-La.) among the first in his party to acknowledge that with the Bush tax cuts having expired at midnight, there was little else the GOP could do beyond take the senate deal.
“So we’re going to get taxes off the table,” Fleming said. “The president can’t say, ‘We’ve go to raise taxes first before we get to spending cuts.’ We will have already done that. Now the topic will be spending cuts, from this point out.”
The disarray on the Republican side had many wondering if House Speaker John Boehner’s job was in danger, but most members said it was not, and that Boehner ably managed the eruption of discontent in his ranks.
“I think he showed he’s trying to listen to the conference in regards to giving everybody an equal shot at moving something forward,” said Rep. Richard Nugent (R-Fla.), who opposed the bill. “But you also have to be pragmatic about what’s going to pass.”
UPDATE: 11:57 p.m. — Obama hailed the deal as evidence that bipartisanship can happen even in the polarized Congress, but he also signaled that he was keenly aware that many Republicans intend to seize on the next three crisis moments, especially the debt ceiling. He vowed he would not let them.
“I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills they’ve already racked up through the laws that they passed,” Obama said in brief speech from the White House. “Let me repeat. We can’t not pay bills that we’ve already incurred. If Congress refuses to give the United States government the ability to pay these bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy would be catastrophic, far worse than the impact of a fiscal cliff.”
And he appealed for lawmakers to face the approaching deadlines with greater calm and the sense of bipartisanship they managed to achieve on New Year’s Day.
“The one thing I think hopefully in the new year we’ll focus on is seeing if we can put a package like this together with a little bit less drama, a little less brinksmanship, not scare the heck out of folks quite as much,” Obama said.
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Readers: Speaking of the talk of how the CBO scores this – saying that this bill adds 4 trill to the deficit, Maddows’ blog has a good write about that price tag.
Before I end I just have to say again, Obama doesn’t write legislation he just signs it. If you don’t like what’s happening get the repubs out in 2014, and vote in those who will support what you do want. Simple and not so. Speaking of not liking what’s happening…The fact that Boehner is not wanting to give relief to Sandy victims says it all. This guy has got to go.
Anywho…I realize that lately I have been posting late. What can I say, the holidays gave me some time off and I’ve been staying up late and sleeping in late. I don’t suspect this will go on much longer but I am sure loving it. I expect to be back into my routine by Monday.
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January 2nd, 2013 at 11:25 am
If Your Dog or Cat Gets a Cut
Sooner or later, just about every dog or cat gets a wicked-looking cut—or, more often, a bite from another dog or cat. In many cases, you can tend the wound yourself, but if the bleeding doesn’t slow or stop within 10 minutes, see your veterinarian right away.
SAFETY FIRST
Dogs and cats may bite humans when they’re frightened or in pain. If you can’t restrain your pet while doing first aid—this generally requires having a helper so that you have two sets of hands—let your veterinarian handle it.
For dogs, use a muzzle. You can fashion one at home by wrapping a strip of gauze around the dog’s snout and tying it behind the ears. You can try this with cats, but it’s less likely to stay in place because of their shorter snouts—and because they’ll do their best to paw it off.
Restraining a cat may even be a three-person job. One person grips the loose skin on the back of the neck, another grips the hind legs and spreads the cat out lengthwise and the third person administers treatment. Unless you have an unusually docile cat, it’s probably safer to let your vet do the work.
FIRST-AID BASICS
Clean the wound well. While your pet is restrained, moisten the wound and the surrounding area with warm water…add a dollop of liquid soap (antibiotic soap is best, but any liquid soap, even shampoo, is fine)…work up a lather…and rinse it off.
You’ll get the area cleaner if you first trim the fur that surrounds the wound. You have to be careful. I have treated dogs and cats whose well-meaning owners added scissor cuts to the original wound. Use electric clippers if you have them.
Stop the bleeding.
Minor wounds usually will quit bleeding—either on their own or when you apply pressure—within just a few minutes. If the bleeding is profuse, apply PetClot, which is available online and at many pet stores. It’s a mesh pad that is saturated with a clotting agent. I advise pet owners to keep it in their medicine chests. It can stop bleeding very quickly.
An alternative is to apply pressure to the area—using a clean cloth or even your hand in an emergency—until the bleeding slows.
Apply antibiotic ointment. You can use a triple antibiotic made for people. It will help prevent infection and also keep the area moist, which will allow the wound to heal more quickly.
Important: Bites often cause infection. After you’ve treated your pet’s wound, call your veterinarian. He/she will probably prescribe oral antibiotics for your pet.
Bandage the wound. After you’ve applied the antibiotic ointment, wrap a few layers of gauze around the area. Then wrap first-aid tape around the gauze overlapping the tape. Don’t make the bandage too tight.
Watch the paws: If the animal’s paws start to swell after you’ve applied the bandage, you’ve made it too tight.
If the bandage is kept clean and dry, it can stay on for three or four days. But I like to change it every other day. If the bandage gets wet, it needs to be changed as soon as possible to avoid an infection.
Use an Elizabethan collar. Dogs and cats often will try to remove a bandage. You can prevent this with a cone-shaped Elizabethan collar, available at pet stores. It fits over the head and prevents the animal from licking or biting the area.
Source: Robert Ridgway, DVM, a veterinarian who completed a residency in small animal internal medicine at University of California, Davis.
He works with Orange County Animal Services in Orlando, Florida, and is author of How to Treat Your Dogs and Cats with Over-the-Counter Drugs (iUniverse.com). http://GoodDayForPets.com
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:28 am
okay, democrats are good and republicans are evil. this is therefore a war of good and evil. the problem with this line of thinking is that it casts people into a negative role and does not give them credit for the ability to contribute something constructive.
so let’s say we get rid of republicans. democrats believe in a welfare state and the next thing we know we are looking at the demise of the country based upon “bread & circus.”
it is quite strange that the fundamental ideology of the democratic party is good sometimes and bad other times, same can be said for the republican ideology. if i came up with a political party, the ideology would be good round the clock. we therefore need both parties over time. admittedly the republicans have not grown in their way of applyin their agenda to the current world.
but there is room for them to contribute. when you polarize both parties the way it is done in this article, you contribute to the same irresponsible infighting you want to end…
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:29 am
I agree, very strongly, with the analysis. It all really does hinge on what happens with the “debt ceiling,” meaning what Obama does in respect to what he has said he would do, and that is not negotiate on that issue.
This was not a bad first step, and if followed by a dollar of increased revenue for dollar of spending cuts, we will have a very nice balanced solution for the debt, the economy, and for a functioning government.
All of the latter I can easily see happening, but as for the President living up to his statement on the debt ceiling, I do not see that as a slam dunk, unless he is just going to go ahead and pay the bills, which, in my judgment, he should have done last time.
If he was afraid to go over the cliff, he certainly will be afraid to go to default. If it was me, I would not expect the Republicans to be rational about it, so I would have something up my sleeve.
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:30 am
I wish to address Dr. Krugman’s critique of Obama. It was a particular kind of liberal who kept drawing lines in the sand, not the President.
What Dr Krugman and others do not seem to perceive is that in the context of a certain proposal, President Obama could agree to CPI and raising the Medicare eligibility age secure in the knowledge that Republican would reject it for other reasons. He continually came across as the adult in the room, which is politically desirable no matter how much so-called progressives want him to channel Huey Long.
Otherwise, Dr Krugman is right: This is a win on principle at no real cost.
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:31 am
This is the essence of compromise. A situation that satisfies no one, but leaves each side with the feeling that the other side was done in.
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:31 am
As for how to handle a `starve the beast’ syndrome.
First, its mostly between the military and the medical, as thats where all the money is. So which gives more safety for the buck? Clearly the medical.
So first, make anyone who wants to cut medical go negotiate with the hospital administrators (as was done for ObamaCare) to make sure cutting the medical will not harm anyone very much. If they fail, then take all the cuts out of the military.
It would be good if people started pointing out that medical dollars trump millitary dollars anyday.
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:33 am
Please tell us what you think of President Obama’s statement late Tuesday night after the bill passed the House.
In that statement, he said he would not tolerate any attempt to negotiate over the debt ceiling… saying, essentially, that the House must pay the bills it has already enabled America to incur.
My take: He’s talking like the “only adult in the room” I feel he believes he is. Perhaps not a good negotiating strategy (acting like everyone else is a child), but I’m wondering if he will hold his ground based on those late Tuesday night remarks. I certainly hope he does. I think Congress needs the tough love lesson that would come if it actually let America default on its bills.
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:34 am
What is funny about most comments on here criticizing Mr. Obama about this deal is that the same people would also turn around and call him names when the economy start going down the toilet because the White House and Congress failed to reach a deal which by all accounts would be catastrophic not only to USA economy but that of the whole world.
I read an article on NY Times where Warren Buffet advocated that the tax rate threshold be kept by Pres. Obama at $500,000.00 and Mr.
Obama was able to get a deal below that and the Progressives are still mad? Wow! I wonder what the reaction would have been if there were unreanable spending cuts on safety nets in this deal as well. This deal could not be any better for Democrats. If you do not believe me, tune in to FOX News
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:35 am
There was a fairly large split in the House republican vote. That’s an achievement.
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:36 am
With all due respect, gimme a break. Obama did fine on this. The possibility of raising the Medicare age to 67 and “cutting” social security benefits by changing the formula it is tied to are not sell-out moves, as you would have readers believe.
As usual, Obama acted rationally and pragmatically. The Left’s disappointment in this deal tells me they live in a fantasy world (albeit smaller) just like the Right.
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:37 am
PK, stop being so unreasonable. I know you’re trying to be hard on Obama as a way of pushing him to accomplish even more, but at times like this you should just say “nice job”.
He has utterly owned the GOP – this time, at least. He got virtually 100% of what he wanted, while they got nothing. The Republican party is in shambles. They have no platform, no viable positions on anything, and no leadership.
After 40 years of darkness the fight is finally over, and America will likely never have to worry about the GOP or the neo-cons ever again.
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:38 am
Honestly, is the left so hung up on winning its way that it doesn’t recognize a total rout of the Republicans when it happens in plain view?
Obama just got 89 Senators, including, according to the pigeon-hole principle, at least 37 Republicans, to vote for a very large tax increase that affects mostly the wealthy.
And it looks like he’s about to split the House Republicans down the middle as well, grabbing enough of their votes for this very same tax increase to win the vote in the House.
By doing so, Obama will have established a new governing majority of Democrats combined with a few relatively sane Republicans, at a time when Boehner couldn’t get his own caucus to vote for his plan B.
If the tables were turned, and a Republican president got 80% of what he wanted based on a number of Democrats abandoning their party, while keeping nearly 100% of his own party in line, we’d be talking about fearsome the Republicans were, compared with the cowering Democrats.
Wake up and smell the coffee — Obama’s mopping the floor with these clowns. Enjoy the spectacle!
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:41 am
I hate the fact that our Prez that I like so much always gives this impression of weak in the negotiations dept. However, the 400k as a California progressive is not unrealistic.
250K aint all that much these days…not in these parts. I think 400K keeps some upper middle class Dems happy. Yes, 400K is upper middle in expensiv-o states like here. The rest remains to be seen…….
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:51 am
“Hey Republicans “You Built This”.
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:52 am
When 92% of the Senate goes for a deal,it kind of indicates where the country is in general terms. If Conservatives actually conserved anything as of late, and became more inclusive, and moderate, perhaps they will survive. However, many can’t read the writing on the wall.
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:52 am
Why can’t these special interest serving, self pleasing politicians shut up for once and support a democratically chosen measure to help the vast majority of the American people.
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:54 am
I’m a Republican that would like to challenge Trump and the other outside chronic complainers to come up with specifics on where they would have made the spending cuts.
Let me give them a hint: don’t look at getting it from the seniors and those amongst the long term unemployed.
January 2nd, 2013 at 11:59 am
if the laws in this country would allow for a more open environment when it comes to these devices. As some already know, if you go to Asia and Europe you’ll be amazed by the variety in devices and plans that are available to users as opposed to what is available in the US.
Let’s not even talk about “fast” broadband or lack of it in the US. Compared to other insdustrialized countries, it’s as if we’re still on dialup.
Vampire squid telcos indeed.
January 2nd, 2013 at 1:33 pm
The following is a copy of an article written by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez and published in a Spanish newspaper on Jan. 15, 2008. It doesn’t take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe — and possibly to the rest of the world.
REMEMBER AS YOU READ — IT WAS IN A SPANISH PAPER Date: Tue. 15 January 2008 14:30
ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez
I walked down the street in Barcelona , and suddenly discovered a terrible truth — Europe died in Auschwitz -
We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.
The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.
And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.
They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.
Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.
And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.
We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.
What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe ..
The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world’s population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1988 – Najib Mahfooz
Peace:
1978 – Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1990 – Elias James Corey
1994 – Yaser Arafat:
1999 – Ahmed Zewai
Economics:
(zero)
Physics:
(zero)
Medicine:
1960 – Peter Brian Medawar
1998 – Ferid Mourad
TOTAL: 7 SEVEN
The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world’s population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1910 – Paul Heyse
1927 – Henri Bergson
1958 – Boris Pasternak
1966 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 – Nelly Sachs
1976 – Saul Bellow
1978 – Isaac Bashevis Singer
1981 – Elias Canetti
1987 – Joseph Brodsky
1991 – Nadine Gordimer World
Peace:
1911 – Alfred Fried
1911 – Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 – Rene Cassin
1973 – Henry Kissinger
1978 – Menachem Begin
1986 – Elie Wiesel
1994 – Shimon Peres
1994 – Yitzhak Rabin
Physics:
1905 – Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 – Henri Moissan
1907 – Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 – Gabriel Lippmann
1910 – Otto Wallach
1915 – Richard Willstaetter
1918 – Fritz Haber
1921 – Albert Einstein
1922 – Niels Bohr
1925 – James Franck
1925 – Gustav Hertz
1943 – Gustav Stern
1943 – George Charles de Hevesy
1944 – Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 – Felix Bloch
1954 – Max Born
1958 – Igor Tamm
1959 – Emilio Segre
1960 – Donald A. Glaser
1961 – Robert Hofstadter
1961 – Melvin Calvin
1962 – Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 – Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 – Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 – Julian Schwinger
1969 – Murray Gell-Mann
1971 – Dennis Gabor
1972 – William Howard Stein
1973 – Brian David Josephson
1975 – Benjamin Mottleson
1976 – Burton Richter
1977 – Ilya Prigogine
1978 – Arno Allan Penzias
1978 – Peter L Kapitza
1979 – Stephen Weinberg
1979 – Sheldon Glashow
1979 – Herbert Charles Brown
1980 – Paul Berg
1980 – Walter Gilbert
1981 – Roald Hoffmann
1982 – Aaron Klug
1985 – Albert A. Hauptman
1985 – Jerome Karle
1986 – Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 – Robert Huber
1988 – Leon Lederman
1988 – Melvin Schwartz
1988 – Jack Steinberger
1989 – Sidney Altman
1990 – Jerome Friedman
1992 – Rudolph Marcus
1995 – Martin Perl
2000 – Alan J. Heeger
Economics:
1970 – Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 – Simon Kuznets
1972 – Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 – Leonid Kantorovich
1976 – Milton Friedman
1978 – Herbert A. Simon
1980 – Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 – Franco Modigliani
1987 – Robert M. Solow
1990 – Harry Markowitz
1990 – Merton Miller
1992 – Gary Becker
1993 – Robert Fogel
Medicine:
1908 – Elie Metchnikoff
1908 – Paul Erlich
1914 – Robert Barany
1922 – Otto Meyerhof
1930 – Karl Landsteiner
1931 – Otto Warburg
1936 – Otto Loewi
1944 – Joseph Erlanger
1944 – Herbert Spencer Gasser
1945 – Ernst Boris Chain
1946 – Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 – Tadeus Reichstein
1952 – Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 – Hans Krebs
1953 – Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 – Joshua Lederberg
1959 – Arthur Kornberg
1964 – Konrad Bloch
1965 – Francois Jacob
1965 – Andre Lwoff
1967 – George Wald
1968 – Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 – Salvador Luria
1970 – Julius Axelrod
1970 – Sir Bernard Katz
1972 – Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 – Howard Martin Temin
1976 – Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 – Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 – Daniel Nathans
1980 – Baruj Benacerraf
1984 – Cesar Milstein
1985 – Michael Stuart Brown
1985 – Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 – Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 – Gertrude Elion
1989 – Harold Varmus
1991 – Erwin Neher
1991 – Bert Sakmann
1993 – Richard J. Roberts
1993 – Phillip Sharp
1994 – Alfred Gilman
1995 – Edward B. Lewis
1996- Lu RoseIacovino
TOTAL: 129!
The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims. The Jews don’t hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants. There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church. There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people.
The Jews don’t traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.
Perhaps the world’s Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.
Muslims must ask ‘what can they do for humankind’ before they demand that humankind respects them.
Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel ‘s part, the following two sentences really say it all:
‘If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel — Benjamin Netanyahu
General Eisenhower Warned Us It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.
He did this because he said in words to this effect:
“Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses – because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it ‘offends’ the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening omen of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.. This is written as a memorial, in memory of the, 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated while many people looked the other way.
Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be ‘a myth,’ it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.
How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center ‘NEVER HAPPENED’ because it offends some Muslim in the United States ? — Just something to think about.
January 2nd, 2013 at 9:12 pm
The thing that fries me is that they’re still – still! – using my surplus Social Security money to run the government, instead of making the wealthy and corporations pay enough to keep the government running.
My SS money has been, paying for those tax cuts Bush gave to the wealthy – and still is.
And so they raise my SS tax by 44%, while people making over $400K have their taxes (on income over $440 thou) raised by, what, 13.1%? And they don’t pay any SS tax at all on their income above $110?
Why didn’t Obama fight to extend the cut in the SS Tax? Why didn’t he fight to get the rich to start paying their fair share of taxes, so they don’t have to use my SS taxes to run the country?
Pathetic.
January 2nd, 2013 at 9:20 pm
“Obama has to be aware just how much is now riding on his willingness to finally stand up for his side,” Krugman wrote. “If he doesn’t, nobody will ever trust him again, and he will go down in history as the wimp who threw it all away.”
Krugman
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Me, I’m starting to thing that the white part of Obama is his tiny balls.
January 2nd, 2013 at 9:24 pm
You people can jump on Obama all you want with your refusal to accept what he has to work with, i.e. those racist, ignorant teabaggers.
It did not matter what kind of leverage everyone thought Obama had…the tea baggers are stupid enough to let the country fall on its face rather than come to an agreement.
There is no way to deal with zombies like that.
January 2nd, 2013 at 9:27 pm
Obama’s first term gave critics on the left good reason to be apprehensive. After all, Obama does not have a track record for being a savvy and tough negotiator. The real test is immediately ahead during the next couple of months.
If Obama has learned anything (has he?) it should be that Republicans in congress are utterly unscrupulous and unprincipled in both agenda and tactics.
An adversarial approach by the White House (no doubt to be condemned by all wistful idealists) is nevertheless the only realistic approach in view of how deeply corrupted by cynicism the GOP has become.
January 2nd, 2013 at 9:29 pm
James#21;
Being the president of the United States of America is probably the toughest job on the planet. Being an editorial writer is a luxury, whether, like Krugman, you have some good ideas or not.
Krugman seems to have zero understanding of how government works, of how compromise works, of how difficult it is to govern during these divided times, with anger and relentless attacks directed toward our president 24/7 on television, radio, the internet, newspapers, books, magazines, etc.
Shame on him for suggesting that President Obama, a man who literally puts his life on the line every single day, is a wimp because he did not fulfill all of Krugman’s editorialized perfections.
January 2nd, 2013 at 9:31 pm
Obama will go down in history as the man who gave the order to kill America’s #1 enemy and the #1 terrorist in the world. He will go down in history as a President that achieved things that others have been trying to achieve for decades. He will go down in history as one of the most accomplished Presidents in history.
Paul Krugman? All talk, no real responsibility.
January 2nd, 2013 at 9:33 pm
Obama is like a black, modern day version of “The Fonze”. Krugman looks like he still gets daily wedgies. Which one will be remembered as a wimp? Neither. Obama will be remembered as the black Fonzy president and Krugman won’t be remembered at all.
January 2nd, 2013 at 9:51 pm
Another example of republican hypocrisy.
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A newsletter from Fox News’ Laura Ingraham blasted President Obama’s recent meeting with MSNBC hosts — but seems to have forgotten one crucial element.
On Tuesday, Obama met with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Al Sharpton, Lawrence O’Donnell and other “influential progressives” at the White House. Fox News hosts, including Ingraham, were up in arms about the invitation.
Ingraham’s newsletter on Wednesday criticized the meeting, asking, “Can anyone even imagine how the press would have reacted if Fox News hosts and conservative personalities had stopped by the Bush White House to discuss policy? They would have been rightly outraged.”
As other organizations have pointed out, however, Ingraham and other conservative media personalities did in fact stop by the Bush White House. In October 2006, Ingraham and Sean Hannity among others met with President Bush. They sat down for an hour and a half, during which time they discussed the war in Iraq and immigration reform.
One of Ingraham’s producers later defended the newsletter in an email to Media Matters. The producer said that the newsletter had been written by staffers, not Ingraham herself, and claimed that she met with President Bush under circumstances “quite different” than those of Obama’s meeting on Monday.
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January 2nd, 2013 at 10:07 pm
Those of you up set about the President being told by the courts that he can continue to kill americans with drones and not have to tell anyone need to see the Rachel Maddow show tomorrow.
She will have the architect of that policy and more, Jeh Johnson, the retiring attorney for General Counsel of the Department of Defense.
May 6th, 2013 at 6:56 am
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