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| | Sujet: 2002- 7/3/2010, 14:23 | |
| CBO: $10 trillion jump in debt under Obama budgetBy Jeanne Sahadi, senior writerMarch 5, 2010: 6:13 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- If President Obama's 2011 budget were put into effect as proposed, the U.S. federal government would add an estimated $9.8 trillion to the country's accrued debt over the next decade, according to a preliminary analysis from the Congressional Budget Office.Of that amount, an estimated $5.6 trillion will be in interest alone.- Spoiler:
By 2020, the agency estimates debt held by the public would reach $20.3 trillion, or 90% of GDP. That's up from 53% of GDP in 2009.Research done by economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart has shown that such high levels of debt can cause a drag on economic growth.The CBO cited two big contributors to the jump in debt. One is the president's proposal to extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for the majority of Americans. The other is the proposal to protect middle- and upper-middle-income families from having to pay the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). Together those proposals would cost $3 trillion between 2011 and 2020."It points out the unwillingness of the administration to raise the revenues to pay for the size of government being proposed," said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a deficit watchdog group.If Congress doesn't act, all of the Bush tax cuts are slated to expire at the end of this year and there will be no protection from the AMT.But current law is not politically realistic, many say. That's why the administration prefers to compare the cost of its proposals to what lawmakers are likely to do -- namely, extend tax cuts and fix the AMT. Hence, the White House Budget Office estimates that under the president's proposals, $8.5 trillion would be added to the country's accrued debt over the next decade, or $1.3 trillion less than the CBO estimate.Either scenario is unsustainable, Bixby said.The administration has also called the budget trajectory unsustainable and the president has created a fiscal advisory commission to recommend ways lawmakers can get annual deficits down to 3% of GDP by 2015. That's well below where it would be under the president's budget, according to estimates from both the CBO and the White House. And while his proposals would chip away at deficits in the next few years, they start to climb again thereafter. By 2020, the annual deficit as a percentage of GDP will be 5.6%, according to the CBO. The White House estimates it will be 4.2%.0:00 /5:34Debt chairmen: 'Everything's on the table'
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But there is no guarantee the fiscal commission's recommendations will be adopted by lawmakers.The CBO notes that its estimates incorporate the Administration's revenue and spending assumptions for policies such as health reform and climate change, because the agency didn't have sufficient details from the White House about those policies to do its own analysis.A full analysis of the president's budget will be published later in the month, the CBO said.  C'est al qaida qui doit etre content! 
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Localisation : Longueuil, Québec, Canada, Amérique du nord, planète Terre, du système solaire Galarneau de la voie lactée
Date d'inscription : 13/11/2008
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- CBO: $10 trillion jump in debt under Obama budget
By Jeanne Sahadi, senior writerMarch 5, 2010: 6:13 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- If President Obama's 2011 budget were put into effect as proposed, the U.S. federal government would add an estimated $9.8 trillion to the country's accrued debt over the next decade, according to a preliminary analysis from the Congressional Budget Office.
Of that amount, an estimated $5.6 trillion will be in interest alone.
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By 2020, the agency estimates debt held by the public would reach $20.3 trillion, or 90% of GDP. That's up from 53% of GDP in 2009. Research done by economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart has shown that such high levels of debt can cause a drag on economic growth. The CBO cited two big contributors to the jump in debt. One is the president's proposal to extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for the majority of Americans. The other is the proposal to protect middle- and upper-middle-income families from having to pay the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). Together those proposals would cost $3 trillion between 2011 and 2020. "It points out the unwillingness of the administration to raise the revenues to pay for the size of government being proposed," said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a deficit watchdog group. If Congress doesn't act, all of the Bush tax cuts are slated to expire at the end of this year and there will be no protection from the AMT. But current law is not politically realistic, many say. That's why the administration prefers to compare the cost of its proposals to what lawmakers are likely to do -- namely, extend tax cuts and fix the AMT. Hence, the White House Budget Office estimates that under the president's proposals, $8.5 trillion would be added to the country's accrued debt over the next decade, or $1.3 trillion less than the CBO estimate. Either scenario is unsustainable, Bixby said. The administration has also called the budget trajectory unsustainable and the president has created a fiscal advisory commission to recommend ways lawmakers can get annual deficits down to 3% of GDP by 2015. That's well below where it would be under the president's budget, according to estimates from both the CBO and the White House. And while his proposals would chip away at deficits in the next few years, they start to climb again thereafter. By 2020, the annual deficit as a percentage of GDP will be 5.6%, according to the CBO. The White House estimates it will be 4.2%. 0:00 /5:34Debt chairmen: 'Everything's on the table'
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But there is no guarantee the fiscal commission's recommendations will be adopted by lawmakers.The CBO notes that its estimates incorporate the Administration's revenue and spending assumptions for policies such as health reform and climate change, because the agency didn't have sufficient details from the White House about those policies to do its own analysis. A full analysis of the president's budget will be published later in the month, the CBO said. C'est al qaida qui doit etre content!
Mais il va sauver beaucoup d'argent en ne fesant aucun prisonniers, kill'em all  | |
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| Bonjour Zed
S'il a pris des decisions un peu plus realistes en poursuivant au moins partiellement la politique de guerre de Bush 43, il semble qu'il soit en train, en politique interieure, de pousser l'Obamacare que seule une minorite d'Americains souhaite, comprenant presqu'uniquement des Democrates tres a gauche. S'il n'y parvient pas, ce ne sera pas de sa faute, seulement qu'il n'aura pas eu le nombre de voix necessaires. Mais il fait tout pour, des lors, il est difficile d'ecrire qu'il flechisse vers la droite. |
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| (Bon d'accord, je ris jaune, car des accords risquent d'avoir ete passes pour en etre arrives la) ACLU Likens Obama to Bush in Ad Slamming Possible Reversal on KSM TrialBy Caroline Shively- FOXNews.com The possibility that President Obama could send the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks to a military tribunal has earned him the highest insult from the left -- that he's another George W. Bush. - Spoiler:
 Shown here is the ACLU ad that ran March 7 in The New York Times. (ACLU)Ca CHANGE de l'ancienne metamorphose de la periode de transition nov 2008/jan 2009! 
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- Ca CHANGE de l'ancienne metamorphose de la periode de transition nov 2008/jan 2009!
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| Low-tax Texas beats big-government CaliforniaMichael BaroneSenior Political Analyst
March 7, 2010
"Stop messing with Texas!" That was the message Gov. Rick Perry bellowed on election night as he celebrated his victory over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican primary for governor. In his reference to Texas' anti-littering slogan, Perry was making a point applicable to national as well as Texas politics and addressed to Democratic politicians as well as Republicans.
His point was that the big-government policies of the Obama administration and Democratic congressional leaders are resented and fiercely opposed not just because of their dire fiscal effects but also as an intrusion on voters' independence and ability to make decisions for themselves. - Spoiler:
No one would include Perry on a list of serious presidential candidates, including himself, even in the flush of victory. But in his 10 years as governor, the longest in the state's history, Texas has been teaching some lessons to which the rest of the nation should pay heed.
They are lessons that are particularly vivid when you contrast Texas, the nation's second most populous state, with the most populous, California. Both were once Mexican territory, secured for the United States in the 1840s. Both have grown prodigiously over the past half-century. Both have populations that today are about one-third Hispanic.
But they differ vividly in public policy and in their economic progress -- or lack of it -- over the last decade. California has gone in for big government in a big way. Democrats hold big margins in the legislature largely because affluent voters in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area favor their liberal positions on cultural issues.
Those Democratic majorities have obediently done the bidding of public employee unions to the point that state government faces huge budget deficits. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's attempt to reduce the power of the Democratic-union combine with referenda was defeated in 2005 when public employee unions poured $100 million -- all originally extracted from taxpayers -- into effective TV ads.
Californians have responded by leaving the state. From 2000 to 2009, the Census Bureau estimates, there has been a domestic outflow of 1,509,000 people from California -- almost as many as the number of immigrants coming in. Population growth has not been above the national average and, for the first time in history, it appears that California will gain no House seats or electoral votes from the reapportionment following the 2010 census.
Texas is a different story. Texas has low taxes -- and no state income taxes -- and a much smaller government. Its legislature meets for only 90 days every two years, compared with California's year-round legislature. Its fiscal condition is sound. Public employee unions are weak or nonexistent.
But Texas seems to be delivering superior services. Its teachers are paid less than California's. But its test scores -- and with a demographically similar school population -- are higher. California's once fabled freeways are crumbling and crowded. Texas has built gleaming new highways in metro Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth.
In the meantime, Texas' economy has been booming. Unemployment rates have been below the national average for more than a decade, as companies small and large generate new jobs.
And Americans have been voting for Texas with their feet. From 2000 to 2009, some 848,000 people moved from other parts of the United States to Texas, about the same number as moved in from abroad. That inflow has continued in 2008-09, in which 143,000 Americans moved into Texas, more than double the number in any other state, at the same time as 98,000 were moving out of California. Texas is on the way to gain four additional House seats and electoral votes in the 2010 reapportionment.
This was not always so. In the two decades after World War II California, with its pleasant weather, was the Golden State, a promised land, for most Americans, while Texas seemed a provincial rural backwater. Many saw postwar California's expansion of universities, freeways and water systems a model for the nation. Few experts praised Texas' low-tax, low-services government.
Now it is California's ruinously expensive and increasingly incompetent government that seems dysfunctional, while Texas' approach has generated more creativity and opportunity. So it's not surprising that Texas voters preferred Perry over an opponent who has spent 16 years in Washington. What's surprising is that Democrats in Washington are still trying to impose policies like those that have ravaged California rather than those that have proved so successful in Texas
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| Sans doute pourquoi les Bush sortaient si peu en ville lorsqu'ils etaient a la Maison Blanche. Date night with the secret service in tow.By KIKI RYAN & AMIE PARNES | 3/8/10 4:35 AM EST  President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk along the South Lawn after returning from dinner in May 2009. | Photo by APClose- Spoiler:
It’s all part of the intricate logistics of a night on the town — when the West Wing is involved. And while the Secret Service knows exactly what to expect, the visit can be anything but typical for restaurant employees and guests.
When President Barack Obama lunched recently at Mrs. Wilkes’ Dining Room, a quaint family-style restaurant in Savannah, Ga., fellow guests at the restaurant were forced to have an extended lunch. “Everything shut down,” said waiter Ryan Thompson. “The only people that saw [Obama] were the ones who were already there. ... No one could come in, no one could go out.”
Citronelle didn’t get much notice when Obama and the first lady were on their way over for a date night last year. “We did not know they were coming until one hour before,” Mel Davis, spokeswoman for Michel Richard said, adding that luckily the right “semi-private” table was available for the evening.
The Secret Service did its customary sweep of the restaurant and was advised on the best tables from which to watch the first couple. Davis said that a Secret Service agent watched the chef prepare the food — and that the president does not have an official taster: “He watched, but he didn’t taste,” she joked.
As for the Bidens, they got to their table in near secrecy: They walked up a side stairwell, connected to a neighboring store, to the second floor of 2 Amys. A Secret Service agent was stationed in the kitchen to watch the cooks.
When it was time to go home, the Bidens left so smoothly that most diners didn’t even know they were there, according to a manager. “We have an upstairs exit for fire purposes, which is always open. So we had them walk through there,” one waitress said.
White House officials declined to comment on the logistics of dining out, citing security reasons. But Max Milien, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said: “We leave no stone unturned. We do have people that are pretty much everywhere.”
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| Apres un an de (presque-)treve, voyant ses espoirs de CHANGEment s'amenuiser, recrudescence de l'attitude agressive et haineuse des media americains: O'Reilly |
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| Alors... il y avait longtemps qu'il n'avait pas ete question de Nancy  , remedions a cette lacune...  Elle est marrante sur cette photo, on dirait qu'elle porte un chapeau, mais non, c'est un drapeau.  Pelosi faces inside challengesBy JONATHAN ALLEN | 3/9/10 5:12 AM EST
Nancy Pelosi is increasingly facing uphill battles within the Democratic party. | AP Photo Close
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not accustomed to the word she’s been hearing far more frequently in recent days: “no.” - Spoiler:
Over the past two weeks, Pelosi has faced a series of subtle but significant challenges to her authority — revolts from Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Blue Dog Coalition and politically vulnerable first- and second-term members.
The dynamic stems from an “every man for himself” attitude developing in the Democratic Caucus rather than a loss of respect for Pelosi, according to a senior Democratic aide. But it’s making Pelosi’s life — and efforts to maintain Democratic unity — harder.
And it’s noteworthy, in part, because Pelosi’s signature strength has been a firmer hand than past Democratic leaders — an aptitude for wielding raw power in a consensus-minded caucus.
But her inability — or unwillingness — to dictate when Rep. Charles Rangel would resign his Ways and Means Committee chairmanship and who would replace him is one sign that she is commanding the caucus with less authority.
Although he would give up his gavel the next day, Rangel defiantly pronounced he was still chairman after leaving a come-to-Jesus meeting last Tuesday night in Pelosi’s ceremonial office next to the House floor. Her first choice to succeed him, Pete Stark of California, was rejected by the Ways and Means Committee members, as was her plan to split power on the committee between Stark and Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan. Pelosi’s backers said that what she really wanted was to avoid a fight for the gavel — and that she succeeded by refusing to apply a heavy hand.
But a veteran Democratic lawmaker told POLITICO the denouement was “an indication that things aren’t all hunky-dory.”
That episode came immediately on the heels of Pelosi’s 180-degree turn on Rangel. After the ethics committee admonished him for breaking House gift rules, Pelosi issued a public message that she would stand by Rangel until the committee completed its look at other allegations against him.
“We’ll just see what happens next and what comes out of the ethics committee,” she said then.
But politically vulnerable Democrats sent a message right back: They would dump him if she didn’t.
Before leaders could gather last Tuesday to plan their week, politically imperiled Democratic lawmakers from around the country were making clear that they would vote with Republicans to strip Rangel of his chairmanship if Pelosi didn’t avert a floor vote by getting him to step down.
Even on legislative matters, Pelosi has been subject to low-grade insurrections. She was unable to send a $15 billion Senate-passed jobs bill directly to the president because members of the Congressional Black Caucus, the conservative Blue Dog Coalition and the Transportation Committee objected to some items that were in the bill and some that were absent.
CBC members said the measure shouldn’t even be called a “jobs bill” because, in their view, it would do little to create jobs.
Pelosi satisfied enough recalcitrant Democrats to amend the bill and send it back to the Senate last week — but not before 38 defections from the ranks of conservatives and CBC members put the measure in jeopardy on a procedural vote.
“Nancy Pelosi is a little bit like a Forest Service warden during a particularly dry summer in which there are little blazes springing up all over the place. Some of them can be easily contained, and others could grow into pretty serious forest fires,” said Ross Baker, a political science professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Baker said Pelosi is not weaker than before but that the dynamics have shifted for her in short order.
“Her grasp is somewhat more tentative,” Baker said. “The obstacles that face her are just much more imposing than they were as recently as two years ago.”
Those obstacles include a tough election cycle and House Democrats’ desire to retaliate against the Senate for moving too slowly or too far to the middle. But when they vote no — whether they’re angry at Pelosi, the Democratic-controlled Senate or President Barack Obama — it is Pelosi’s tally that suffers.
There’s little room for the speaker to brook challenges on the controversial overhaul of the nation’s health care system, but her spokesman, Brendan Daly, said he’s not worried about residual effects of the Ways and Means Committee shake-up.
“I don’t think any of this was a challenge. As [Pelosi] said, now that’s behind us, and we’re going to move ahead,” Daly said. “We’re on the cusp of historic health reform, and she’s going to work very hard in the next few weeks to make sure that happens.”
Thomas Mann, a congressional scholar at the left-leaning Brookings Institution, said it’s hard to say Pelosi’s grip is slipping, because she never ruled with an iron fist.
Pelosi’s strength has always been her ability to understand the diversity within her caucus and to figure out a way to bring [people] together when the tough votes come down,” Mann said. “I don’t see any change in her standing. She never had the capacity to issue orders.”
To be sure, Pelosi has pooled an immense reservoir of goodwill over the years, first as a talented rank-and-file Democrat and later as the leader who positioned Democrats to win, and then expand, a majority. Even in tough times, most of her fellow Democrats believe Pelosi is on their side.
“People know that her heart is right,” said Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.).
But that hasn’t stopped even some of Pelosi’s allies from bucking her in recent weeks.
In insisting that his resignation of the Ways and Means Committee chairmanship was only temporary — even though there is no such provision in House rules — Rangel said, “I wrote the letter and I wrote what I meant, and I said what I meant. If there’s anyone that needs clarification, it’s the speaker, not you.”
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| Pennsylvania Woman Charged With Recruiting Violent Jihadist FightersTuesday, March 09, 2010  A photo from a Web site authorities say was maintained by terror suspect Colleen R. LaRose.- Spoiler:
A Pennsylvania woman known to authorities as "JihadJane" has been charged in federal court with using the Internet to recruit jihadist fighters to carry out murders and violent attacks overseas.The woman, Colleen R. LaRose, was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, making false statements to a government official and attempted identity theft, according to the indictment, unsealed Monday.Sources tell Fox News the "Swedish citizen" who "JihadJane" was allegedly looking to kill is Lars Vilks, who drew one of the controversial Prophet Muhammad cartoons. There was a series of arrests in Ireland earlier Tuesday that are reportedly connected to LaRose's case. In September of 2007 Al Qaeda offered a bounty for the murder of Viks. LaRose and five unindicted co-conspirators are accused of recruiting men to wage violent jihad in South Asia and Europe and of recruiting women who had passports and the ability to travel to and around Europe for similar missions.The accused co-conspirators are located in South Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the United States."Today's indictment ... underscores the evolving nature of the threat we face," said David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.In June 2008, LaRose posted a comment on YouTube under the username "JihadJane," stating that she is "desperate to do something somehow to help" the suffering Muslim people, according to the indictment.She was also know to authorities as "Fatima LaRose." The indictment describes LaRose as in her 40s.Court documents show LaRose was first arrested by federal authorities on Oct. 16, 2009, for allegedly trying to "transfer" a stolen passport.The indictment accuses the American-born LaRose and her unindicted co-conspirators of using the Internet to establish relationships with one another and to communicate their plans, which included martyring themselves, soliciting funds for terrorists, soliciting passports and avoiding travel restrictions, through the collection of passports and through marriage, according to a government release.LaRose, who lives in Montgomery County, Pa., received a direct order to kill someone in Sweden, and to do so in a way that would frighten "the whole Kufar [non-believer] world," according to the indictment.It states that LaRose agreed to carry out her murder assignment, and that she and her co-conspirators discussed that her appearance and American citizenship would help her blend.According to the indictment, LaRose traveled to Europe and tracked her intended target online, but it isn't clear whether she carried out the mission."This case shows the use terrorists can and do make of the Internet," U.S. Attorney Michael L. Levy said. "Colleen LaRose and five other individuals scattered across the globe are alleged to have used the Internet to form a conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism, culminating in a direct order to LaRose to commit murder overseas."LaRose is one of the first American females to be charged with a terrorism offense in the U.S.The only other one a Department of Justice official could recall was Lynne Stewart, a New York attorney and American citizen who was convicted of terrorism violations in 2005 for passing prison messages from the "Blind Sheikh" to his followers on the outside urging violent attacks.Last month, Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman who lived in Boston for some time but was not a U.S. citizen, was convicted in federal court in New York in connection with her attempt to kill U.S. military and law enforcement personnel in Afghanistan.Fox News' Mike Levine contributed to this report.
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| McQueen's Angels and Demons Late Designer's Collection Includes Medieval Imagery, Dark Torments, White DovesBy CHRISTINA BINKLEY Paris At the time of his suicide last month, Lee Alexander McQueen was working on clothing covered with ornate images of death and afterlife. - Spoiler:
His collection, one of the most anticipated of the fall 2010 season, was shown Tuesday to small groups of viewers in Paris. One gathering of nine people, including Vogue creative director Grace Coddington, watched in reverential silence but for one woman who wept copiously. Even more striking than the small, somber presentations were the otherworldly motifs, such as angels and doves, woven throughout the collection.  Alexander McQueen
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| Quel suspens mes amis!! Les Senateurs Democrates vont sans doute, si Nancy recupere suffisamment de voix chez les Democrates de la Chambre des Representants pour faire passer le projet de loi vote par le Senat (donc si tout va bien pour le POTUS), utiliser la "r econciliation". Beaucoup le feront en se pincant le nez (Obamacare deviendra loi avec seulement 51 votes au lieu des 60 normalement obligatoires pour passer toute legislation; on imagine alors le malaise eprouve par des Democrates d'avoir a utiliser un tel systeme qui aura comme consequences pour les Etats Unis, pays capitaliste tout-de-meme, de voir 1/6 de leur economie sous la surveillance pour ne pas dire la gerance du gouvernement federal!) et certains, (j'ai honte, mais j'ai honte ), en serrant les fesses jusqu'en novembre si leur candidature est en jeu aux prochaines elections! Alors que le POTUS (par l'intermediaire de ses gros bras) les presse en plus dans l'escalier, c'est un peu trop pour des dirigeants de la branche legislative qui souhaitent.... de l'espace. Il faut reconnaitre que depuis maintenant un an, on ait le droit de se demander ou se trouve exactement la separation entre le Congres et l'Executif! Mais bon, puisque le POTUS a dit qu'une fois passee, les Americains apprecieraient la nouvelle loi, tout doit etre acceptable. What's in a Deadline? For Health Care, EverythingBy Major Garrett, Chad Pergram and Trish TurnerBy Major Garrett, Chad Pergram and Trish TurnerWhat's in a deadline?Nothing and everything where health care is involved.- Spoiler:
Nothing because deadlines have been slipping since last summer when the House missed its deadline to pass a bill by the end of July - setting up the memorable August of health care discontent.
But this time, the deadline of March 18 for House action on the Senate-passed health care bill could mean everything.
"This is a one-shot deal," said a senior White House official about the health care endgame. "And if it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. I guarantee you, we will not be having this discussion in May."
When asked if the health care debate ends
for good if the House can't move the Senate bill, the senior official said without hesitation: "Yes."
The stakes, in other words, could not be higher for President Obama's signature domestic policy initiative.
It appears no exaggeration to say the fate of the bill, not to mention Obama's political standing and legislative clout until the mid-term elections, will be determined in the next two weeks.
This doesn't seem, then, the best time for a public feud over legislative timing.
But that's exactly what's playing out.
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel met privately late today with top House and Senate Democrats on policy and procedures for the final health care bill. But those discussions had to wait so lawmakers could unload about the White House insistence on a March 18 deadline for House action on the Senate bill.
"I was just in a meeting with Rahm Emanuel," Rep. Henry Waxman, California Democrat and key health care negotiator, told reporters after the 90-minute session. "He was certainly informed that we don't feel that we want any deadline assigned to us. We want to pass the bill. We want to make sure it's the way it should be. But we don't feel that we have to have any particular deadline."
When reporters asked if that message was "heard" by the White House, Waxman said: "Rahm said he would pass it on."
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, D-ND, told reporters: "I've said for years, any talk of deadlines is an absolute waste of time. Deadlines just don't work, because you have so much that is out of your control."
Earlier in the day, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer dismissed the March 18 deadline. "None of us has mentioned the 18th other than Mr. Gibbs," said Hoyer, referring to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. "We are trying to do this as soon as possible."
When asked about a "disconnect" with Hoyer, Gibbs offered this at today's briefing:
"There seems to be a disconnect (but) this was information that I was given based on conversations that people had in this building with Capitol Hill."
Democrats said publicly what had already been conveyed privately. Numerous Democratic leadership sources tell Fox the White House was told over the weekend to back off all deadlines and give them room to navigate the political, policy and procedural obstacles in their path.
"Congressional Democrats have come to see such markers as more of a problem than a motivator, but the White House hasn't seemed to digest that," said one senior Democratic strategist with knowledge of the health care talks.
Said another top Democrat involved in the process: "The message to Rahm was clear and simple: Stop."
Will the White House stand down?
Probably not.
Why?
Because it doesn't see delay solving anything anymore.
"Does anyone on Capitol Hill expect the political environment to get better two weeks from now," a senior administration official asked.
Here's why the White House is so invested in March 18. House action by then would give the Senate a full week, starting March 22, to move a so-called "fixes" bill (incorporating Obama's changes to the Senate bill) through the chamber under reconciliation procedures requiring only a 51-vote majority.
Privately, Senate Republicans admit if the "fixes" bill comes to the Senate after the House passes the underling Senate bill, it can't stop reconciliation.
"We could take up a few days, spring a few amendments but I don't think we can stop it," said one GOP leadership source.
Obama is scheduled to leave Washington March 18 for a six-day trip to Guam, Indonesia and Australia. The White House doesn't believe Obama needs to be around to lobby Senate Democrats, only House Democrats. That means the president's face-to-face lobbying window expires March 17 (the White House promised more meetings on health care with lawmakers this week).
Congress is due to start a two-week Passover and Easter recess on March 27. No one in the White House believes prospects for passing health care -- either in the House or the Senate - will improve during a two-week recess where the public and opposition groups will have a chance to pounce. And it's unclear if lawmakers are eager to devote townhalls to more debate about health care -- not in the face of consistent polling that voters rate job-creation well above health care on the national priority list.
Asked if health care could be done by the Passover-Easter recess, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said only:
"That would be my hope."
But time is running out.
One of the biggest obstacles to meeting deadlines since the health care debate started has been the time consumed by cost projections tabulated by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The budget office is due to report to Democratic leaders Wednesday preliminary estimates on pieces of the "fixes" bill. But that deadline-within-a-deadline could slip until Thursday, a Senate Democratic leadership aide told Fox.
Two Democratic leadership sources said CBO must produce a formal cost projection after receiving final legislative language on the "fixes" bill. No one knows how long that process will take, but most Democrats are assuming several days - possibly a week. After that, House Democratic leaders assume they will need at least two days, maybe more, to come up with a formal vote count before they can proceed to a the cliffhanger vote of the young Obama presidency.
"You know the rule," one House Democratic leadership source said, "When you have the votes, you vote. We aren't voting yet."
Conrad discussed the slow-motion process at the heart of CBO health care cost projections.
"It's an iterative process. They come back and give you initial scores, and then you see there's a gap or you see something needs to be addressed, or you see something new needs to go to them."
Pelosi, noting the difficulties in crafting "fixes" to the Senate bill, told reporters "We also have more questions. Hopefully we'll have CBO figures soon."
No one knows better how health care deadlines can slip than Sen. Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Montana. He led closed-door, bipartisan compromise talks for weeks last year that yielded no compromise. When he finally produced a bill that garnered only one Republican vote he saw that vote, Olympia Snowe of Maine, rebel in protest over "arbitrary deadlines" to compete action on the Baucus-drafted bill.
"We all agreed, all of us in the room agreed we have to move as expeditiously as we can, but there are a lot of hoops, a lot of hurdles, a lot of matters we have to deal with," Baucus told reporters after the meeting with Emanuel broke up.
Speaking of Emanuel, the hard-edged Obama operative was stopped by reporters after the Capitol Hill meeting and was asked for his assessment.
"We're making progress," Emanuel said.
When informed that's exactly what Hoyer, the majority leader, had said moments before, Emanuel said simply.
"Well, at least we're consistent then."
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| Oups! What's wrong with that picture? ReutersVice President Biden sits under the smiling photo of late PLO chairman Yasser Arafat while waiting to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas — just one part of a Mideast trip that's not to remember. |
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| Aie aie aie aie aie Sharp Elbows, Cold Shoulders Mark Biden Trip to IsraelFOXNews.com Vice President Biden's trip to the Middle East -- meant to pave the way for a new round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks -- is coming to a close, leaving in its wake a trail of stinging snubs, cringe-worthy blunders and one-word headlines in Israelis newspapers: "Embarrassment."  Vice President Biden speaks at Tel Aviv University March 11. (Reuters Photo)- Spoiler:
It didn't take long to see the trip was not going well.The U.S. vice president's most daring snub may have come when he arrived 90 minutes late to a dinner Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But that was after a day of mishaps on the Israeli end and before the prospect of restarting peace talks began to sputter. Perhaps the first sign was when the administration agreed to bring along MSNBC's "Hardball" host Chris Matthews, whose penchant for gaffery rivals Biden's. The media guest of honor used his Monday programming to suggest, along with another reporter, that Israelis dislike President Obama because they're racist.  "Who's more popular over here? Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden. Put them in order," Matthews asked New York Times reporter Ethan Bronner Monday on air. When Bronner put Obama at the bottom, Matthews inquired: "Okay, that tells you a lot. So tell me why the president of the United States is so far at the bottom? Is it his middle name? Hussein?" Bronner said "prejudice" about Obama's Islamic background was a factor, and then Matthews took it a step further, saying, "Yeah, because they see him as a black man." Not the best way to kick off America's presence in the Holy Land. It got worse from there. During a meeting Tuesday between Biden and Israeli President Shimon Peres at the president's residence, Peres subjected Biden to a 25-minute speech before he got to say a word. The perceived snub had the Israeli press raging. "This is one visit Joe Biden will not quickly forget," wrote a columnist in Haaretz, saying Peres thinks visitors "drink in his musings and are intoxicated by his vision." Cringe-inducer No. 2 came shortly afterward when Netanyahu gave Biden a gift -- a framed certificate describing trees planted in Jerusalem in honor of his late mother. Only Netanyahu broke the glass and, according to one account, "shards flew all over." "Thank you, Joe. I have one thing to offer you right now, and it's broken glass," Netanyahu said. "Don't cut yourself," Biden responded. All this might have been forgotten, but then Israel's government announced plans for 1,600 new homes in disputed east Jerusalem. The announcement allegedly blind-sided Netanyahu, who reportedly apologized later to Biden. But the construction plans sent Biden on a tear. He released a written statement Tuesday condemning the decision and said the "substance and timing" of it "is precisely the kind of step that undermines the trust we need right now and runs counter to the constructive discussions I've had here in Israel." This was followed by more criticism Wednesday during a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Biden again said Israeli had "undermined" the trust between the U.S. and Israel and declared the United States "will hold both sides accountable for any statements or actions that inflame tensions or prejudice the outcome of talks, as this decision did." Though the visit started with U.S. envoy George Mitchell announcing that indirect talks would resume between Israelis and Palestinians, in the wake of the chaotic week the Arab League recommended withdrawing its critical support for new negotiations. Abbas reportedly has threatened to walk away. Biden, trying to bring things back from the edge Thursday, used a speech at Tel Aviv University to declare the United States has "no better friend" than Israel. But before Biden, the highest-level Obama administration official to visit Israel yet, even embarked on this tour, one Israeli official signaled Biden never could have fixed their problems anyway. Danny Danon, the deputy speaker of Israel's parliament, was quoted in The Washington Post saying, "We see it as nothing short of an insult that President Obama himself is not coming."So much for racism.
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| VIDEO: O'Reilly: Did The New York Times Fabricate A Front Page Story
Bill O'Reilly: There are legitimate questions being raised about why Eric Holder has hired nine lawyers who were involved with terror suspects.
Ca s'appelle de la redirection, le stratageme utilise par le New York Times, et ca marche generalement tres bien avec les enfants. On n'a donc pas grand mal a imaginer ce que pense les dirigeants du journal des facultes intellectuelles de ses lecteurs. |
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| Comme le New York Times en 2019, Nancy non plus doit avoir un pietre jugement de ceux qui l'ecoutent. Pelosi: House Has Votes To Pass Health Bill
VIDEOSpeaker Pelosi says if the House took up health care today they would have the votes to pass it.Ah quelle chance pour elle (et le POTUS) dites-donc! Une seule question: si c'est vraiment le cas, pourquoi ne pas faire voter AUJOURD'HUI justement. Ils nous prennent tous vraiment pour des buses. 
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| Wrong Bill At The Wrong Time ObamaCare and the downfall of the Democratic Party.Shikha Dalmia, 03.10.10, 12:01 AM EST Even if Democrats extract the votes to put ObamaCare over the top, it will at best be a Pyrrhic victory for them. Regardless of the outcome, this monstrosity might cost the Democrats the Congress this November, ruin the party for a long time and prematurely render Barack Obama a lame duck president for the rest of his term.
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So why didn't the Democrats pull back when they still had the chance? The reason is that both the Democratic Party and President Obama have mutually reinforcing blind spots that have rendered them incapable of seeing what's crystal clear to every other sentient being in the country: This was the wrong bill at the wrong time.
The only comic relief in the otherwise grim, yearlong ObamaCare saga has been the spectacle of progressive pundits scratching their heads to explain the bill's nose-diving popularity: Betsy McCaughey is a lying bitch whose chatter about death panels has spooked Americans; the bill is too tame for Americans who really want a public option; Democrats are just too damn nice to engage in the gutter partisan politics necessary to push their agenda through; Republicans are nay-saying obstructionists; and, my personal favorite, President Obama, arguably the most gifted orator alive, does not have the communication skills necessary to sell this bill (of goods).
In fact, the real reason why ObamaCare is so unpopular is that it is proposing a giant expansion of the entitlement state precisely when this state everywhere is coming apart: here and abroad; at the federal level and the state; in the public sector and the private. Suggesting a giant government takeover of a sixth of the economy can't be a popular selling point in a country whose DNA has a programmed hostility to Big Government.
Even before President Obama rammed through his trillion-dollar-plus stimulus/bailout packages last year, there was a growing sentiment that the country's top priority ought to be tackling the entitlement programs whose liabilities are like a swelling aneurysm in the brain of the body politic waiting to rupture. The combined unfunded liabilities of Medicare and Social Security--the federal health care and the pension programs for the elderly--are $107 trillion, seven times the current GDP.
Meanwhile, Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program, is consuming on average 21% of state budgets, their single biggest ticket item even before ObamaCare dumps another 16 million people into the program, expanding the Medicaid population by 25%. Beyond that, state and local government have promised their employees a trillion dollars more in pension and other benefits than they have funds to deliver.
There are not enough taxpayers in the country or creditors in China capable of financing all these promises. Expanding this massive, multifarious entitlement state even more strikes most normal people as sheer lunacy--especially now that it is visibly coming apart at the seams.
General Motors and Chrysler--the corporate version of the public welfare state in which unions had negotiated the best wage and pension deals in the free world--have already been forced into a taxpayer-financed bankruptcy. California, America's most European state, is technically bankrupt, thanks to the ubiquitous influence on the state budget of its public unions and its entitlement spending. Meanwhile, the deficits and debt of the so-called European PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain)--the social democracies whose cradle-to-grave welfare policies are the inspiration behind ObamaCare--are on the brink of bankruptcy. Greece, the most vulnerable of the lot, has a deficit of 12.7% of the GDP--not that much higher than America's 10.6 %.
Pushing ObamaCare was an astonishing misjudgment, the domestic policy equivalent of President Bush launching a full-scale preemptive strike against Iran after embroiling the country in Iraq and Afghanistan. But why don't progressives get that this is terrible economic timing? Because this is the moment they have been waiting for since Lyndon Johnson enacted Medicare. Never mind that the economy then, unlike now, was booming. What matters is they have in the White House as sympathetic a president as they can ever hope to get--combined with sizable margins of Democrats in both chambers. Republicans, moreover, have been thoroughly discredited on both foreign and domestic policy having presided over two unpopular wars and a financial meltdown of epic proportions. In short, the political stars have never been--and likely never will be--aligned more auspiciously in the progressives' lifetime, and they will be damned if they'll allow quotidian worries about the economy or anything else to stop them. It is now or never.
There is no tactic too low to deploy--and no cause too sacred to abandon. If Americans are unenthused about universal coverage, screw 'em. If it is necessary to use reconciliation--meant strictly for budgetary matters--to ram the bill through Congress on a strictly partisan vote, then so be it. If filibuster rules that Democrats themselves restored in 1975 are now coming in the way, get rid of them.
The prize for the most bizzaro accusation, however, goes to Katha Pollitt of The Nation who blamed ObamaCare's woes on the two-senators-per-state rule that she alleged the Founding Fathers had enshrined in the Constitution as a sop to slave states, thereby diluting the voice of populous multiethnic powerhouses such as New York and California. But this fundamental principle of our bicameral constitution had nothing to do with slavery, a fact she was forced to finally admit. It was meant to give the underdogs of the day--rural, relatively powerless states--constitutional parity, a concern that one would have thought progressives would applaud.
But egged on by the progressive punditocracy, Democrats are behaving as if, once they jam ObamaCare through, nothing else matters. It's like they'll never have to worry about being the minority party in need of constitutional checks and balances.
A sensible president would of course step in and provide some adult supervision to a wayward party hell-bent on jumping off this cliff. But the problem is that President Obama believes in his own messianism too deeply for that. His goal is not to remake his party as it could be but "remake this world as it should be." In his book Dreams From My Father Obama gives the distinct impression that his gifts are too great for the smallness of our political stage. He regrets not having been born during the civil rights era when the grandness of the cause would have measured up to the grandness of his ambition. He is in search of something big that will allow him to make his mark on the world as Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King did.
Hence, the defeat of ObamaCare would not just be par for the course in the rough-and-tumble world of politics for him. It would be sign of his ordinariness, his mortality, and that, to him, is unendurable.
But the rub is that even if ObamaCare passes, Democrats and President Obama will lose.
Republicans have already vowed to make November a referendum on this bill and, by all auguries, Democrats are going to lose big time. The loss of one election if the larger cause succeeds wouldn't be a big deal.
But this bill has little legitimacy and for years might be tied up in constitutional challenges against its individual mandate provision--not to mention the provisions that turn insurance companies into public utilities without due process. ObamaCare could well become President Obama's Iraq. Worst of all from the standpoint of his personal life story, it will exacerbate the crisis of the entitlement state, requiring someone else to step forward and clean up the fiscal mess he is creating.
Ironically, Obama is not only sowing the seeds for the destruction of his own legacy--but also for the creation of someone else's. Far from being the savior--he's the one who will be in need of saving.
Shikha Dalmia is a senior analyst at Reason Foundation and a biweekly Forbes columnist.
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| Un ancien (et bref) editeur du NYTimes, Howell Raines, qui avait perdu son emploi apres que le scandale Jayson Blair ait eclate (action positive et plagiat) declare FOX News responsable du refus d'Obamacare par les Americains. O'Reilly repond: Blaming Fox News for the health care mess |
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| ... et ca continue For the love of Islam By VANESSA O'CONNELL in New York, STEPHANIE SIMON in Colorado and EVAN PEREZ in WashingtonLast Easter, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, a 31-year-old mom with a $30,000-a-year job as a medical assistant, announced to her family that she had converted to Islam. A few months later, she began posting to Facebook forums whose headings included "STOP caLLing MUSLIMS TERRORISTS!" - Spoiler:
On Sept. 11, she suddenly left Leadville, Colo., a small town in the Rocky Mountains, for Denver, then for New York, to meet and marry a Muslim man she connected with online, her family says. Ms. Paulin-Ramirez, who is 5-foot-11 and blonde, phoned her mother and stepfather in Leadville, providing them with an address in Waterford, Ireland, they say.View Slideshow Toni Axelrod for The Wall Street Journal/Courtesy of the Holcomb Family Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, a 31-year-old mom, is in the custody of the Irish police, along with six other individuals, arrested as part of an investigation into a conspiracy to commit murder. Now, she is in the custody of the Irish police, along with six other individuals, arrested as part of an investigation into a conspiracy to commit murder, according to officials familiar with the case. The nature of the authorities' suspicions about Ms. Paulin-Ramirez couldn't be determined on Friday. Ms. Paulin-Ramirez's interest in Islam "came out of left field," said her mother, Christine Holcomb-Mott, in an interview at her home Friday, wearing a blue sweatsuit with a silver cross around her neck. "I'm angry with her right now," Ms. Holcomb-Mott said. "I'd like to just choke her. But I'm worried about her, too. I love my daughter." Nearby was a stack of photos of Ms. Paulin-Ramirez, with a sparkling smile, and her son, who has brown hair and eyes. Her mother looked at the images over and over, as college basketball played on the TV. Ms. Paulin-Ramirez had been in contact by phone and email with her mother, stepfather and an aunt, her relatives said. But none of them has heard from Ms. Paulin-Ramirez in recent days, they said. Ms. Paulin-Ramirez is the second American woman to be linked to an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who made fun of the Prophet Mohammed. An indictment was unsealed this week against Colleen R. LaRose, 46, a suburban Philadelphia woman who authorities said used the Web alias "JihadJane." Ms. LaRose was accused of plotting to kill the cartoonist and attempting to recruit jihadis via the Internet. She was arrested in October and later charged with providing material support to terrorists. The Justice Department kept its case under wraps until this week while investigators in the U.S. and Europe pursued their investigation against other potential suspects in the U.S. and abroad. The main contact for Ms. LaRose is believed to be one of the men in Irish custody, an Algerian, who has a relationship with Ms. Paulin-Ramirez, according to a person close to matter. A person close to the Irish police couldn't confirm whether Ms. Paulin-Ramirez and the Algerian are married. Ms. LaRose spent roughly two weeks in Ireland last fall, a person familiar with the matter said.The Irish police are holding four men and three women, including three Algerians, a Croatian, a Palestinian, a Libyan and a U.S. national, according to a person close to the police. They are being questioned and haven't been charged. A U.S. official familiar with the matter confirmed that Ms. Paulin-Ramirez is the U.S. national. The Justice Department declined to comment. The seven people in custody, whose ages range from the mid-20s to the late 40s, can be held for seven days without charges, under Irish law. They are being held in four different police stations, Waterford, Tramore, Dungarvan and Thomastown, and are being questioned, according to the source. A spokesman for the Irish police said the arrests took place in Waterford and Cork, but he declined to provide further details. The seven were arrested as part of an investigation into "a conspiracy to commit a serious offense (namely, conspiracy to murder an individual in another jurisdiction)," according to a police news release on Tuesday. "We are very concerned about what she's into, and concerned about her well-being," said Cindy Holcomb Jones, an aunt of Ms. Paulin-Ramirez, who lives in Independence, Mo. Another of Jamie's aunts, Sheena Holcomb McCarty, of Overland Park, Kansas, said she had been in contact with Ms. Paulin-Ramirez by email as recently as earlier this month. "When I saw pictures of that woman [Ms. LaRose], I thought—that's what Jamie is doing. Jamie is wearing the same outfit that woman is wearing," Ms. Jones added. In the months before Ms. Paulin-Ramirez left Leadville, taking her 6-year-old son but little clothing or other belongings, she began "wearing the black garb so you can only see her eyes," her aunt said. "We knew that she was dabbling in the Muslim religion. But for her to disappear like this was from left field—we weren't expecting it at all," said Ms. Jones, who until last fall would speak to her niece on the phone almost every day. Ms. Paulin-Ramirez had begun spending more time on the computer, her mother complained to the aunt. "All of a sudden, she stopped talking to me and she disappeared," Ms. Jones said. Relatives of Ms. Paulin-Ramirez said they're distressed because her son was with her in Ireland. The boy's father is Mexican and hasn't seen the child in about 5 years, said George Mott, Ms. Paulin-Ramirez's stepfather, who lives in Leadville with her mother. Ms. Paulin-Ramirez and her new husband had recently changed the child's name to Wahid. Mr. Mott said he believed the boy is in the care of the Irish authorities, but would like him returned to Leadville. Born in Kansas City, Mo., and raised in nearby Blue Springs, Ms. Paulin-Ramirez had relocated with her mother to Colorado. She was working as a medical assistant at the Eagle Valley Medical Clinic in Edwards, Colo., before she left, Mr. Mott said. Ms. Paulin-Ramirez had married several times over the years—some of her relatives estimated she was married four times. Her aunt Ms. Jones said she had expressed an interest in Christianity, and had asked to borrow or have her grandmother's bible. In 2008 or 2009, Mr. Mott said, Ms. Paulin-Ramirez enrolled in an online course about Islam.By Easter 2009, she had informed her mother that she was a Muslim. At her father's May 2009 funeral in Kansas, her aunts had to plead with her not to cover her head and hair with a hijab.Over the summer, her family says, she was spending increasing time on the computer and had begun to dress in the traditional garb, covering not only her hair and face but also her hands. Her current Facebook page lists her as Jamie Paulin, with a photo in which all that is visible are her eyes peering from slits in her full-face veil. Last year, Ms. Paulin-Ramirez had told her aunt she wanted to study to become a doctor, and she signed up for nurse-practitioner courses. She took out new student loans of roughly $3,000 last fall, according to her mother and stepfather. Her mother now believes she used that money to get to Ireland. On Sept. 14, Ms. Paulin-Ramirez's mother called Leadville police. She informed an officer that her daughter was missing and that she had switched the code on their joint bank account so that Ms. Holcomb-Mott couldn't access it. She said her daughter had left for Denver on Friday, Sept. 11, to meet an unknown friend, was supposed to be back by Monday, but had not returned and was not answering calls or text messages. Ms. Holcomb-Mott feared the little boy was "in training" to become a terrorist, according to Sgt. Saige Thomas of the Leadville police, who conducted the investigation. Mr. Mott, a convert to Islam himself, says he went to Denver to find his stepdaughter but couldn't track her down. The police found Ms. Paulin-Ramirez's car, a 2005 Pontiac Bonneville, at the Denver International Airport in the long-term parking lot. Mr. Mott said that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents showed up at his door and questioned him, and took his stepdaughter's computer. She had added a keyboard with Arabic keys, he said. "Jamie took off just like JihadJane took off on her boyfriend," Mr. Mott said. "We have been trying since September of last year to get her back here and get that baby back here." A few months before she disappeared, her stepfather says he confronted her: "What are you going to do, strap a bomb on and blow up something?" he asked her. He recalled that she responded: "If necessary, yes." "She never liked who she was," her mother said. "She was always looking for something." "I thought this was just a phase she was going through, that she was trying to find herself," said Ms. Paulin-Ramirez's older brother, Michael Holcomb, 36, who lives in Houston. "Now I'm angry. And disappointed. She had a good job and she gave it all up. It's beyond me." He said he was "actually relieved" she had been arrested because it may help them get her son back. "My only concern is getting her son back. Other than that, I don't care what happens to her." —Neil Shah in London and James Oberman in New York contributed to this article
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| HOWEVER. UPDATE! Three Released in Ireland Terror Case By NEIL SHAHIrish police on Friday released from custody three of the seven individuals arrested earlier this week in connection with an alleged plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist. [spoiler] [/sp A man and woman who had been detained at the Dungarvan Garda Station were released late Friday evening after being arrested on Tuesday and questioned for several days, according to Irish law authorities. In addition, a woman detained at the Tramore Garda Station was released, leaving four individuals -- three men and one woman -- in custody. It is unclear whether the woman still in custody is U.S. national Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, a 31-year-old mother who is the second American woman to be linked to an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who made fun of the Prophet Mohammed. The Irish police would not provide any information about the suspects released or still being held, and also would not provide details about the whereabouts of Ms. Paulin-Ramirez's young son. The police said it is possible that more individuals could be released as the investigation continues.An indictment was unsealed this week against Colleen R. LaRose, 46, a suburban Philadelphia woman who authorities said used the Web alias "JihadJane." Ms. LaRose was accused of plotting to kill the cartoonist and attempting to recruit jihadis via the Internet. Before releasing the three individuals, the Irish police had been holding four men and three women, including three Algerians, a Croatian, a Palestinian, a Libyan and a U.S. national, according to a person close to the police. Under Irish law, the police can hold the remaining four suspects, which were arrested on Tuesday, for a maximum of seven days without charging them. The seven were arrested as part of an investigation into "a conspiracy to commit a serious offense (namely, conspiracy to murder an individual in another jurisdiction)," according to a police news release on Tuesday.oiler] |
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| ... et Nancy et ses allies se posent en grands democrates, defenseurs de la Constitution, et tout, et tout.. Incroyable, le procede de gavage des oies a cote de ca, ce n'est rien! Evidemment ca veut dire qu'elle n'a pas le nombre de voix necessaire. House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on itBy Lori Montgomery and Paul KaneWashington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it. ..... ========== The tactic -- known as a "self-executing rule" or a "deem and pass" -- has been commonly used, although never to pass legislation as momentous as the $875 billion health-care bill. It is one of three options that Pelosi said she is considering for a late-week House vote, but she added that she prefers it because it would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the measure. Vive la transparence comme elle nous l'a ete promise. Rien de cacher comme du temps de Pres. Bush!! Quelle horreur! Courageux ceux qui vont changer d'avis parce que leurs electeurs ne seraient pas au courant. On croit rever! |
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| Tea Partiers Rally on Capitol Hill in Opposition to Health Care BillFOXNews.com Thousands of Tea Party activists are expected to rally outside Democratic congressional offices in Washington on Tuesday to protest the $875 billion health care bill and demand meetings with their respective members of Congress.- Spoiler:
Tea Party activists from across the country rallied outside Democratic congressional offices in Washington on Tuesday to protest the $875 billion health care bill and demand meetings with their respective members of Congress. And by all appearances, their arrival is not being taken lightly.House Democrats received a formal memo from the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, listing tips for how targeted representatives should handle the crowds of activists. "Tens of thousands of conservative and Tea Party activists will be on the Hill as part of what they are dubbing a 'Surge Against Obamacare,'" reads the memo, which also includes a checklist of provisions in the current bill to counter the "caricature of the reform bill presented by right-wing media outlets." The checklist says: "Reduces the deficit; Cracks down on Medicare waste, fraud, and abuse; Provides historic tax credit for small businesses and individuals to purchase health insurance." The rally, dubbed the "Code Red Health Care Rally," featured a host of Republican speakers, including Reps. Mike Pence, R-Ind.; Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.; Tom Price, R-Georgia; and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. "Kill the bill," shouted protesters, as a string of Tea Party leaders spoke out against the massive health care overhaul. Two separate groups affiliated with the Tea Party movement, Freedom Works and the Tea Party Patriots, told Fox News they had expected a large Pennsylvania contingent to be present at the rally. The office of Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., who voted against the health care legislation last fall, was named as a popular destination for protesters. Altmire, a pro-life Democrat, told Fox News in an interview Tuesday that he remains concerned about the cost of the bill as well as its current language on abortion. "There's definitely a lot of anxiety about this bill," said Altmire. "I'm not gonna cast a vote that my constituents are not comfortable with." Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political advocacy group, attributes the Tea Party's organized push to kill the legislation as reason for its hold-up. "I think that the Tea Party movement and activists and rallies like today are the reason this bill isn't already passed," said Phillips, who was a featured speaker at the protest. "They're trying to cram this 2,000-page bill down the throat of the American people," Phillips said of the legislation, suggesting that "individual snapshot reforms" are a more viable approach to a health care overhaul. Fox News' Griff Jenkins contributed to this report.
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| March 16, 2010 The Euro's Fiscal Policy Will Give Pause to Reserve-Currency AllocatorsBy Ian Bremmer and Jon LevyThe Greek crisis is making clear a reality long ignored or glossed over: Eurozone fiscal policy is messy and opaque. This is not a short-term phenomenon, nor can any concerted action change this fact. Global central banks, sovereign wealth firms and other major entities are going to revise their currency-allocation strategies based on this new recognition. This process is just beginning, but it suggests a roadblock to the euro taking up a greater share of reserve-currency allocations.
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At first glance, there is a strong case for the euro to emerge as an increasingly important part of the global reserve-currency mix. It is very liquid; is accepted in highly competitive, globalized economies; and has international convertibility. Eurozone monetary policy, hewing to a strict price stability mandate may be more predictable than in any other regime. European powers have few contentious political relationships in the world. In a non-polar, anti-hegemonic world, all of these factors can be seen by global reserve-currency allocators as attractive arguments for holding an increased share of euros relative to dollars.
Throughout the Greek crisis -- which is by no means over -- much attention has focused on a European solution, the idea that somehow Germany, France or the EU institutions could bring clarity and predictability to Greek budget politics. This vain expectation should signal the death knell of an era in which the euro was falsely considered to be analogous to the dollar, or a souped-up version of the old deutschmark, the pound, the yen or the Swiss franc.
In all of the above currency regimes, fiscal policy was the product of domestic decision-making. This is not the case in the eurozone because there is no such thing as a single domestic policy.
In the eurozone, fiscal policy decisions are made by 16 different governments. They are supposed to be guided by benchmarks governing the levels of government debt and deficits -- with limits set at 60 percent and 3 percent of GDP, respectively. When governments breach these limits, the European commission can launch an "Excessive Deficit Procedure," intended to force countries to correct violations. This procedure can lead to legal, administrative and financial punishments.
However, there is ample evident that the threat of punishment has little dissuasive weight: Greece has never complied with debt rules; only three countries are currently not under excessive deficit procedures, and two of those are effectively city-states; in 2005, the German and French governments, unwilling to meet deficit limits, simply forced through revisions to the rules of the game.
This policy structure means that to figure out what the eurozone's governments will tax and what they will spend is a complex, constantly evolving process.
The very notion of a reserve currency is conservative; it suggests a maximal interest in capital preservation, contingency planning and crisis management. A bias toward predictability and clarity naturally follows.
At any given time, exchange rates may reflect a set of assumptions about fiscal policy. However, it is the structural nature of eurozone fiscal policy, rather than any current trends, that present the most significant challenge to the idea of the euro as a reserve currency.
European policymakers cannot alter this reality. Trying to create consolidated eurozone fiscal policy is politically toxic -- particularly as it would be seen as a backdoor means to transfer wealth from countries with lower debt levels to those with higher levels.
Even if these political hurdles could be overcome, opacity and uncertainty would still prevail. In areas in which there is a great deal of centralized policy power -- such as trade policy -- national and other interest groups shape policy to a high degree. This creates a separate, but no less challenging, source of uncertainty. Thus, from a reserve allocation perspective, new fiscal policy mechanisms will do little to bring greater clarity. Just as with the Greek budget crisis, there is simply no European solution. The problem with the euro is a fundamentally European problem.
If there is to be any policy response to the Greek mess, it will probably be the establishment of a eurozone sovereign lender of last-resort facility -- a eurozone version of the IMF.
However, any new facility is unlikely to deal with yet another highly problematic issue in the EU: the lack of a formal mechanism to deal with a potential cross-border banking crisis that is too large to be managed by a single country. This is yet another potential surprise hiding in plain sight in the eurozone -- and yet another risk that will give any prudent central banker pause when thinking about ramping up relative euro exposure.
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Ian Bremmer is president of Eurasia Group, a political-risk consultancy. Jon Levy is the Europe analyst for Eurasia Group. They can be reached via e-mail at research@eurasiagroup.net.
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