Monday, May 31, 2010
Gaza Flotilla
This mess with the Gaza Flotilla is not going to go well for either side. Of course everyone is mad at Israel, but what other country, besides maybe the US would let a bunch of ships come into their territory without being inspected. The Israeli government offered to have the humanitarian cargo be delivered to a port and inspected and then delivered to Gaza, but that was not good enough for these people. They had to make a statement and now they have learned that when you attack the Israeli military they do not like it and they actually fight back.
I would like to see what would happen if a group of ships tried to bring supplies to the rebels in Chiapas Mexico or Columbia or even to the Basque Separatists without the government inspecting it. Those governments would probably not play as nice as the Israelis did and the world wouldn't even bat an eye.
I would like to see what would happen if a group of ships tried to bring supplies to the rebels in Chiapas Mexico or Columbia or even to the Basque Separatists without the government inspecting it. Those governments would probably not play as nice as the Israelis did and the world wouldn't even bat an eye.
Labels: double standard, Gaza, Israel
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Obama is such a bitch
President Obama's schedule 'doesn't allow for a meeting' with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer as she requests to speak with him as tensions mount over immigration law.
President Obama has turned down Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's request to meet while she's in Washington next week as tensions mount between his administration and Arizona over the state's new law cracking down on illegal immigrants.
Brewer will be in Washington to meet with other governors. She said Friday that she had asked to meet with Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to discuss border security and immigration but Obama's schedule "doesn't allow for a meeting" with her, White House spokesman Adam Abrams said, adding that the president "does intend to sit down with the governor in the future."
So the President has time to fly out to San Francisco last week to attend a fund raiser for Barbara Boxer, and he can go on vacation instead of going to Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day, but he doesn't have time to meet with a governor on the front lines of the southern invasion while she is in D.C. How lame is that?
Labels: immigration reform, Obama
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Obama breaks another pledge
Yet again when it comes to actually being President instead of just running for the office, Obama changes his tune again. If a sentence starts with “Obama said”’ it likely is going to be about something that is not true.
From not closing Gitmo to not ending Don't Ask Don't Tell, to changing timelines for withdrawing from Iraq to appointing lobbyists to his administration, pretty much anything Obama said during the campaign has changed dramatically now that he is President and gets to actually make the decisions that he derided the previous President for.
From Fox News:
A year after President Obama pledged to end the practice of funding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with "emergency" spending bills, the Senate is taking up a $60 billion request that would do exactly that.
The spending bill, which includes $33 billion for the two wars in addition to disaster relief funds and aid for Haiti, is running headlong into concern from war-weary Democrats and deficit-conscious Republicans.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has called the bill a "heavy lift" in her chamber. But the Senate, which is taking up the request first, could be the scene of a spending stand-off between Democrats and Republicans.
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., plans to offer an amendment requiring Congress to offset the cost of the package with spending cuts elsewhere. He slammed the administration for continuing to use the "emergency" supplemental to fund the wars -- by designating the spending bill as "emergency," Congress avoids having to find a way to pay for it.
"The last day war funding was unforeseen was September 10, 2001," the first-term senator said in a written statement. "This legislation is designed to bail out career politicians who want to avoid the hard work of prioritizing spending."
The Bush administration routinely used supplemental spending bills to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama criticized the practice as a candidate and when he came into office pledged to keep war funding within the traditional budget request.
"For seven years, we have been a nation at war. No longer will we hide its price," he said in his February 2009 address to a joint session of Congress.
When Obama requested $83 billion in additional funding last spring for the wars, he said he would draw the line there.
"This is the last planned war supplemental," he wrote in April 2009 to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, calling for "an honest, more accurate and fiscally responsible estimate of federal spending" after years of "budget gimmicks and wasteful spending."
But while Congress provided $130 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan at the end of last year as part of the traditional budget process, Obama this year came back to Capitol Hill for the additional $33 billion -- mostly to cover the cost of sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
"The irony certainly isn't lost on us," a Senate GOP aide told FoxNews.com. "Obviously they stuck with that pledge about as well as they stuck with most the other pledges they made."
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