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| | Sujet: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 8/11/2008, 13:47 | |
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| | Sujet: 2286 - 55% Favor Immigration Law Like Arizona’s For Their State 18/5/2010, 17:39 | |
| 55% Favor Immigration Law Like Arizona’s For Their State Monday, May 17, 2010 Most U.S. voters have been following news reports about the new immigration law in Arizona, and 55% favor passage of such a law in their own state. - Spoiler:
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 33% of voters are opposed to enactment of that kind of law. Another 12% are not sure.
When asked specifically about the chief provision of the Arizona law, support is even higher. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of voters believe a police officer should be required to check the immigration status of anyone stopped for a traffic violation or violation of some other law if he suspects the person might be an illegal immigrant.
Just 23% say police officers should not be required to do this.
Earlier reports suggested that the Arizona law would allow police to stop anyone they suspected of being an illegal immigrant. The law as it stands, however, applies only to situations where someone has been lawfully stopped for some other violation.
Since the law in Arizona has become popular in the polls, some political figures in Washington have sought to move away from the issue. Interestingly, 58% of Mainstream voters say immigration as an issue is Very Important in terms of how they will vote in the next election, a view shared by just 20% of the Political Class.
Most voters have supported the Arizona immigration law from the start, despite criticism of it by President Obama and others, including most major Hispanic groups. Only 25% have a favorable view of those who marched and protested for immigrant rights in major cities following passage of the law.
Seventy-eight percent (78%) of voters say the issue of immigration is at least somewhat important in terms of how they will vote in the next election. This includes 50% who say it is Very Important.
Among those who say immigration is a Very Important issue in their voting decision, 78% favor a law like Arizona’s in their own state.
Fifty-five percent (55%) of voters remain at least somewhat concerned that efforts to identify and deport illegal immigrants also will end up violating the civil rights of some U.S. citizens. Forty-three percent (43%) don’t have this concern. This includes 27% who are Very Concerned and 15% who are Not At All Concerned. This level of concern is consistent with previous surveys.
Republicans and voters not affiliated with either major party are much more supportive than Democrats of having a law like Arizona’s in their home state.
But when asked the separate question of whether police officers should be required to check the immigration status of those stopped for other reasons, a majority of Democrats say yes.
While 68% of Mainstream voters favor passage of a law like Arizona’s in their own state, 66% of the Political Class are opposed.
But there’s a complete reversal of opinion when the Political Class is asked specifically about the chief provision of the Arizona law. In that case, 69% of Political Class voters agree that a police officer should be required to check the immigration status of people they stop if the officer suspects they’re here illegally.
Eighty-two percent (82%) of all voters say they have followed stories about the new immigration law in Arizona at least somewhat closely, with 50% who are following Very Closely.
Most voters continue to say as they have for years that gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers. But most Americans also favor a welcoming immigration policy that excludes only “national security threats, criminals and those who would come here to live off our welfare system.”
Americans also continue to overwhelmingly believe that English should be the official language of the United States and reject by sizable margins the idea that such a move is racist or a violation of free speech.
Eighty percent (80%) of voters believe that those who move to America should adopt American culture. Again, this level of support has remained largely unchanged for years.
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| | Sujet: 2287 - Presidential Tracking Poll 18/5/2010, 17:51 | |
| Presidential Tracking PollTuesday, May 18, 2010 The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -17. That matches the lowest rating earned by the president since the passage of his health care proposal two months ago (see trends). | Date | Presidential Approval Index | Strongly Approve | Strongly Disapprove | Total Approve | Total Disapprove | | 5/18/2010 | -17 | 25% | 42% | 45% | 53% | | 5/17/2010 | -13 | 27% | 40% | 46% | 53% | | 5/16/2010 | -10 | 29% | 39% | 48% | 52% | | 5/15/2010 | -11 | 30% | 41% | 48% | 52% | | 5/14/2010.......... | -13 | 29% | 42% | 46% | 53% |
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| | Sujet: 2288 - SB 1070 (Immigration - Arizona) 18/5/2010, 21:43 | |
| Apres Holder, le Procureur General des Etats Unis (le meme qui avait dit que les Americains etaient des laches pour ne pas vouloir discuter ni resoudre les problemes de racisme dans le pays), c'est Janet Napolitano qui reconnait, elle aussi, avoir critique la loi sur l'immigration de l'Etat de l'arizona sans l'avoir lue.  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano admits that she has not read controversial Arizona immigration law even though she's gone on television to criticize it.The New York Times:....Even before she signed the bill at an afternoon news conference here, President Obama strongly criticized it. Lui, " en tant que President des Etats Unis", l'a-t-il lue? Si cela vous interesse: La Loi en question, SB 1070 (Senate Bill 1070) Depuis les dirigieants de 10 autres etats preparent une loi similaire. |
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| | Sujet: 2289 - Everybody vs. Obama 18/5/2010, 22:14 | |
| Everybody vs. Obama Even Democrats are running against the Obama agenda.By JOHN FUND President Obama is playing an unusual role in tomorrow's special election in Pennsylvania to replace the late Rep. Jack Murtha, king of Democratic pork barrelers. Both major party candidates are doing their best to distance themselves from Mr. Obama's policies.- Spoiler:
It's not surprising that Republican Tim Burns would be running against the Obama White House. But Mark Critz, a former staffer to Mr. Murtha, is spending much of his time as the Democratic candidate beating up on the president's priorities too.
As a sign of just how much blue-collar districts like Mr. Murtha's are shifting, Mr. Critz sometimes appears to be trying to outflank Mr. Burns, a local businessman, on the right. He declares that he wants to be "an independent voice" and highlights how he disagrees with Washington Democrats by opposing gun control and abortion rights. But he goes further and says he would have voted against ObamaCare and the cap-and-trade climate change bill passed by the House last year. Both pieces of legislation were supported by Murtha. Nor has Mr. Critz asked President Obama to campaign for him or even sought an endorsement.
Democrats in Washington are willing to cut Mr. Critz all the slack he wants.
"Candidates need to reflect their districts, the values and priorities of their voters," says Rep. Chris Van Hollen, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Democrats fear a loss of the Murtha seat -- which hasn't elected a Republican since 1972 -- might create a panic among other northeastern Democrats to distance themselves from the Obama agenda.
But even if Democrats pull out a win tomorrow, it may be because they succeeded in branding the Republican Mr. Burns as a tax hiker. The most frequently shown ad in the district is one produced by Mr. Van Hollen's Democratic committee that accuses Mr. Burns of supporting a 23% national sales tax. The ad refers to favorable comments he made last year about the "Fair Tax" proposal but fails to note that the Fair-Tax plan would replace the entire income tax system with a national consumption tax.
Last Friday, Sinclair Broadcasting, which owns the Fox affiliate in Pittsburgh, announced it was pulling the Democratic ad from its lineup because FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan campaign ad watchdog, had characterized it as misleading. Mr. Critz also had to apologize at a forum last month for falsely claiming that Mr. Burns had signed a pledge to back the Fair Tax.
Should Mr. Critz win tomorrow's special election tomorrow, the real question might be: Did voters simply back the candidate who sounded the most conservative? Because no matter who wins the election, it's pretty clear no one running was touting the Obama agenda.
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Date d'inscription : 08/11/2008
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 19/5/2010, 09:12 | |
| Bonne excuse, Laogorus, c'est en general ce que disent ceux qui n'ont pas d'arguments a opposer lors d'une discussion, mais.. je comprends. Toutefois, si vous voulez vous y essayer tout-de-meme et peut-etre meme avec je l'espere autre chose que les generalites largement pro-Obama diffusees par les media et les sites de gauche voir les messages d'Ombre) ca serait avec plaisir.  Au sujet de la negativite, une fois de plus, celle qui a ete montree pendant les 8 annees de G.W. Bush au pouvoir n'a jamais semble vous gener et pourtant, elle etait largement basee sur des informations biaisees et des caricatures dont le seul but etait de ridiculiser l'homme a la Maison Blanche et de destabiliser la politique de defense du president, politique maintenant presqu'entierement suivie par le POTUS. C'est assez drole d'ailleurs. Derniere chose, Laogorus, tous les participants ne sont pas " fluent"s en anglais et parmi ceux qui le sont, ce n'est pas parce que peu repondent a mes messages qu'ils ne les lisent pas; des lors, si je peux d'une maniere meme infime apporter un peu de realite dans le monde de reve peint par les journalistes francais (qui ne font d'ailleurs generalement que traduire les articles pro-obama de journaux ou de sites americains) et reduire ainsi ne serait-ce qu'un peu la propagande deversee sur l'Europe et regulierement postee ici par un autre participant, c'est deja tres bien. Non, non, je ne m'ennuie pas, merci, ce n'est pas parce que la majorite sur LP ne partage pas mes idees que je devrais adopter les leurs pour me faire accepter. si? Bonne continuation, Largorus.  PS: le dernier article cite a ete pris sur le Wall Street Journal, pas n'importe quoi, si? |
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| | Sujet: 2291 - Angry Electorate Roars at Washington 19/5/2010, 09:42 | |
| Angry Electorate Roars at Washington, Hands Setbacks to Establishment CandidatesFOXNews.com One by one, the incumbents or establishment-backed candidates in Tuesday's slate of high-stake contests fell or fell short.- Spoiler:
If Tuesday's primaries were any indication, incumbents and establishment-backed candidates in November should be shaking in their boots.
In Kentucky, Secretary of State Trey Grayson, who was backed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Vice President Dick Cheney, was soundly defeated by Tea Party favorite Rand Paul. In Pennsylvania, five-term Sen. Arlen Specter, who ditched the Republican Party last year to save his career, ended up being sent into retirement anyway by Rep. Joe Sestak in the Democratic primary.
And in Arkansas, Sen. Blanche Lincoln was forced into a runoff against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter after she failed to win the majority of votes in the Democratic primary.
Taken together, the results of Tuesday's races sent a clear message to Washington that the anti-incumbent wave that has gripped the nation over the past year isn't losing steam.
Tuesday's results come in a month when Democratic Rep. Alan Mollohan of West Virginia fell in a primary to an opponent who highlighted ethic issues and Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah was denied a spot on the ballot at a Utah Republican convention.
The latest primaries were closely watched for clues to how angry the electorate is about a weak economy, record-high deficits, two ongoing wars and a Washington environment that critics say favors rhetoric over results.
If recent elections highlight an undercurrent of voter anger, it remains to be seen how that anger will affect November's midterm elections, when Republicans will challenge Democrats for control of both chambers in Congress.
Yet one thing seems certain -- these are uncertain times for career politicians.
"I'm against the establishment. They're all crooked, unreliable and selfish for power," said Bill Osburn, 79, a military retiree from Murray, Ky., who helped tea party favorite Rand Paul win the Senate GOP nomination. "We need citizen representatives, not political politicians."
Paul, a political novice, defeated Grayson in an early test of the so-called Tea Party, a loose affiliation of disaffected voters -- mostly conservatives.
"It cannot be overstated that people want something new," Paul said,
"They don't want the same old, same old politicians and I think they think the system is broken and needs new blood."
The same could be said in Pennsylvania after 80-year-old Specter lost his bid for a sixth term. His rival for the Democratic Senate nomination accused party leaders of trying to foist Specter on Pennsylvania voters.
"My party's establishment got off track," Sestak told USA Today before the election.
In Arkansas, Lincoln didn't do well enough Tuesday to avoid a June 8 runoff against Halter. Her 17-year career in Congress is now at risk.
"Voters are so angry they are throwing plates," said Democratic consultant Dane Strother.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
La Tea Party a montre qu'il est quelque chose dans le panorama politique  Paul sera le candidat Republicain en Novembre. ... et Laogorus qui va encore ecrire que je suis negative!  |
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Date d'inscription : 27/10/2008
| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 19/5/2010, 12:17 | |
| Heu... je m'excuse si je dérange, mais j'ai l'habitude de lire régulièrement, à mes heures, les articles de "l'autre bord" que Sylvette nous transmet ; l'opinion de cette moitié d'Américains que notre presse oublie généralement m'intéresse, bien évidemmen, même si je n'ai pas la prétention de pouvoir donner la réplique aux grands éditorialistes US. Par ailleurs je bénis OmbreBlanche, EddeCochran, Laogorus, Ungern et d'autres d'apporter la contradiction à Sylvette, sans eux il lui serait difficile de donner toute sa mesure qui donne tant de piment et de crédibilité à LP. Voilà voilà...  | |
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| | Sujet: 2292 - Activists seize control of politics 19/5/2010, 12:18 | |
| Activist seize control of politics By JOHN F. HARRIS & JIM VANDEHEI | 5/19/10 4:59 AM EDT For any politician with the usual instincts for self-protection, the lessons of Tuesday’s primaries could not be more clear: This could happen to you. - Spoiler:
Arlen Specter lost in Pennsylvania even though the party-switching Democrat was recruited and backed by a sitting president. Rand Paul won in Kentucky even though the Republican was regarded as an eccentric renegade by that state’s political establishment.
The 2010 electorate has swallowed an emetic—disgorging in a series of retching convulsions officeholders in both parties who seem to embody conventional Washington politics.
The anti-establishment, anti-incumbent fevers on display Tuesday are not new. The ideologically charged, grassroots activists flexing their muscle in this week’s primary showdowns are the same breed as primary voters who four years ago stripped the Democratic nomination away from Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who later won as an independent.
What’s now clear, in a way that wasn’t before, is that these results reflect a genuine national phenomenon, not simply isolated spasms in response to single issues or local circumstances.
This is a stark and potentially durable change in politics. The old structures that protected incumbent power are weakening. New structures, from partisan news outlets to online social networks, are giving anti-establishment politicians access to two essential elements of effective campaigns: publicity and financial support.
In effect, the anti-institutional forces that coalesced in recent years now look like an institutional force of their own.
They beat incumbent Republican Sen. Bob Bennett earlier this month in an intraparty battle in Utah. They beat once-safe Democratic Rep. Alan Mollohan in West Virginia.
And on Tuesday night, liberal activists forced Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas into a run-off as the two-term incumbent failed to even come close to the 50 percent threshold needed to secure re-nomination against challenger Bill Halter.
One place where establishment personalities and techniques did see results was in Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district, where Democrat Mark Critz, a former Hill aide, defeated Republican Tim Burns in a special election for the late Rep. John Murtha’s seat. Both parties in Washington had poured resources into the race, and Bill Clinton campaigned for Critz.
Overall, however, outsiders on right and left alike felt they had reason to crow.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who has positioned himself as leader of the anti-establishment forces in his own party, announced vindication because of Rand Paul’s victory:
"The Washington establishment threw everything they had at him and yet he prevailed,” DeMint said. “Rand's victory is part of an American awakening that is taking place across the country as people embrace the principles of freedom that are the backbone of our country.”
At the other end of the spectrum, Markos Moulitsas of the of the liberal Daily Kos blog endorsed DeMint’s view that establishment power is losing its grip.
“The old structures have been eroding, ever since we knocked Joe Lieberman out of the Democratic Party in 2006,” he said. “We've only gotten more sophisticated in the subsequent years, while insurgents on the right have joined the party. There's no doubt that the inability of both parties to govern effectively has played a role, but we're building a world in which people can bypass their parties' institutional forces and make up their own minds on who to support.”
Viewed in one light, there is something cathartic about a house-cleaning in which voters show their independence and skepticism about the most cynical practices of Washington. Specter, after all, was an 80-year-old mascot for opportunism, who broke his pledge to stay a Republican simply to save his skin. Bennett had reneged on his own promise to term-limit himself. Mollohan, first elected in 1982, was damaged by allegations of self-dealing.
Challengers don’t need help of the Republican National Committee or Democratic National Committee to shake loose small donations anymore. They can simply use the web or email lists of hungry activists. They don't need the RNC or DNC for get-out-the-vote help either. They have MoveOn.org and the Tea Party network.
They also don't need a visit from Barack Obama or Dick Cheney to whip up attention from party activists. They have Rachel Maddow on MSNBC or Glenn Beck on Fox - a much more efficient way of reaching committed activists.
But the cumulative results of the primaries will likely make a hard-to-govern capital even more treacherous. Politicians now on-notice about the power of activists on their flanks will be less inclined to find compromises in the center, and they barely did even before Tuesday.
And they will be under no illusions that Washington can provide institutional support when they are in a jam. The support of the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee did nothing to help Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a moderate who got boxed out of the GOP Senate nomination by conservative Marco Rubio. Nor did the backing of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a fellow Kentuckyian, help veteran state politician Trey Grayson in his fight against Paul. To the contrary, Grayson’s rout has weakened McConnell
Richard Viguerie, who first mobilized conservative activists two generations ago as a direct-mail pioneer, said it is time for McConnell to go as Senate leader.
“The elections results are a massive repudiation of McConnell and the Republican congressional leadership, which aggressively supported Grayson,” Viguerie said in a statement. “Coming on the heels of Senator Robert Bennett's defeat in Utah and the Republican Senatorial Committee's previous support for Charlie Crist in Florida, it is clear that many Washington, D.C. GOP leaders are enormously out of touch with the base of the Republican Party, grassroots conservatives.”
The tea party’s defeat of Grayson suggests a newfound ability to mobilize effectively by a movement that previously had been more like an anti-government, anti-Obama primal scream. This is scary to Democrats because it’s harnessing a sort of mirror image of the force that got Obama elected, and scary to Republicans because of its willingness to be very un-Republican, to throw off the tradition of electoral deference in the GOP that has tended to squelch dissent.
Democrats are used to messier primaries, but with Specter’s defeat, the lesson for the left is that it helps to have a credible alternative to the establishment candidate – in this case, a former admiral in Rep. Joe Sestak. Democrats moved quickly to close ranks around him, with many saying he’ll be a superior candidate this fall compared to Specter.
Levana Layendecker, communications director of Democracy for America, a group founded by former presidential candidate and DNC chairman Howard Dean, suggested there is unrest on the left that is similar to, if milder than, what’s happening on the right.
“Since 2008 a lot of people got their hopes up for some major change,” she said. “Obviously there was a huge appetite for that in the country based on the election results. I think that this election is about the people who feel that either that change isn’t happening fast enough or that that change isn’t happening the way they hoped it would.”
Matt Kibbe, president and CEO of FreedomWorks, the leading tea-party group, said the process of decentralization away from the party establishment began with Obama’s victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primary. That was early evidence that establishments forces didn’t have the clout they once did.
He doesn’t think the GOP will co-opt tea partiers or conservative activist groups.
“I do think there is sustainability to this movement,” Kibbe said. “Part of it is decentralization. They don’t need to rely on three networks or two political parties to find out what’s going on. They can go out and find out for themselves.”
James Hohmann contributed to this report.
Dernière édition par Sylvette le 19/5/2010, 12:43, édité 1 fois |
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| | Sujet: Re: Nouvelles en Langue Anglaise 19/5/2010, 12:27 | |
| Heureuse que ce fil vous interesse, Biloulou, vous et peut-etre quelques autres.
De la meme facon, si je ne participe pas a certains fils, ca ne m'empeche pas de prendre plaisir ou interet a ce qui m'est propose. |
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| | Sujet: 2296 - Specter, dont la candidature etait soutenue par le POTUS, a perdu 19/5/2010, 12:49 | |
| - Sylvette a écrit:
- Comme les temps changent tout de meme... Evidemment, il faut reconnaitre que les 2 derniers candidats Democrates qu'il a soutenu en se rendant physiquement dans leur Etat (Virginia, New Jersey) ont perdu (et c'est sans compter, Chicago devant le Comite des Jeux Olympiques), mais bon...
Obama Offers Democrats His Support but Not His Presence in Key Primaries
By Major Garrett
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Obama has backed Democrats in key primaries on Tuesday, but he hasn't campaigned for them down the stretch
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The political fate of two vulnerable Senate Democrats and the race for a House seat vital to any plausible Republican plan to knock Speaker Nancy Pelosi out of power are topics that, the White House claimed Monday, are barely raising an eyebrow in the administration.The question came up in the daily White House news briefing on the day before three key state primaries."How closely has the president been following the campaigns?" a reporter asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs."Not that closely," Gibbs said.  Gibbs' claim of West Wing disinterest comes after Obama endorsed party-switching Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania and dispatched Vice President Biden to campaign for him. And it comes after Obama had his White House team say complimentary things about Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln's bid to have big banks shed derivatives trading despite opposition from Obama's treasury secretary and his leading outside economic adviser. What Obama hasn't done for Specter and Lincoln is campaign for them down the stretch.Specter clearly wants an Obama visit. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, Specter's leading get-out-the-vote voice, said Monday a last-minute Obama visit would mean at least one percentage point for Specter."It might jack up turnout," Rendell said, with voters heading to the polls Tuesday.Instead Obama will fly over Pennsylvania en route to Youngstown, Ohio, where he will make remarks about the economy.Of course, last-minute trips don't guarantee victories, as made clear when Obama campaigned for losing Virginia gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds, losing New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine and losing Massachusetts Senate candidate Martha Coakley.And Specter could very well lose the Senate primary to two-term Democratic congressman Joe Sestak on the grounds that Specter's down-the-line backing of Obama's agenda isn't good enough -- a criticism that could be vaporized by an Obama visit.Obama hasn't been to Pennsylvania's 12th District, either, despite its evident importance to Democratic plans of minimizing GOP mid-terms gains. The sprawling western Pennsylvania district is the only one in the country that went from Democrat John Kerry in 2004 to Republican John McCain in 2008.In this special election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Pennsylvania political powerhouse John Murtha, Republican Tim Burns is giving Democrat Mark Critz fits, despite the a 2-1 Democratic registration edge.Already, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is pre-emptively trying to devalue a Burns victory, noting the massive GOP spending on the election and expenditures from outside pro-GOP groups.In Arkansas, Lincoln's plans for a third term ran into a union-backed assault from the left in the form of Lt. Gov Bill Halter. The betting is Lincoln will win Tuesday, but probably not with the 50 percent she needs to avoid a June 8 runoff -- a contest that will further deplete Lincoln's campaign warchest. Meanwhile, Republican Rep. John Boozman is sure to emerge as the nominee and already leads Lincoln by double digits.So, at a time when Democrats need to rally their base and unify against Republican, two party incumbents and a long-held House seat hang in the balance -- in part because of intra-party fissures."The Obama machine is just as divided as the Democrats are in Pennsylvania, or the Democrats are in Arkansas," said Democratic strategist Steve McMahon. "All those Democrats are Obama Democrats, but half of them it seems are anti-incumbent, anti-establishment, anti-Congress Democrats." Republicans say it doesn't matter if the political seas are calm or roiling. They smell blood."There needs to be more than teleprompters and eloquence," said Rob Jessmer, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. "People want policy and they want the president listening to them. The bottom line is people want a check on his agenda, and that's the problem (the Democrats) have."
Il a bien fait quand il a vu ca, le POTUS, son candidat a ete ejecte. Quand on pense que Specter etait passe chez les Democrates pour etre certain d'etre re-elu!! |
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| | Sujet: 2297 - EU Mulls Coordinated Action on Naked Short-Selling 19/5/2010, 14:16 | |
| EU Mulls Coordinated Action on Naked Short-Selling By MATTHEW DALTON and TERENCE ROTH BRUSSELS—The European Commission on Wednesday responded to Germany's unilateral ban on a market practice viewed by some as pure speculation with a call for coordinating such regulations throughout the European Union.- Spoiler:
"These measures will be even more efficient if they are coordinated at European level," said Michel Barnier, the European Commissioner for financial regulation. Jock Fistick/Bloomberg News Michel Barnier, the European Union's internal market commissioner, gestured during a news conference following the meeting of European Union finance ministers in Brussels on Tuesday.—Adam Cohen in Brussels, Adam Bradbery in London, Jonathan House in Madrid and Andrea Thomas in Berlin contributed to this article.
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| | Sujet: 2298 - Why President Obama is having so much trouble with the voters 19/5/2010, 14:44 | |
| Why President Obama is having so much trouble with the voters
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| | Sujet: 2299 - Veterans Divided in Connecticut 19/5/2010, 15:07 | |
| Toujours au sujet de Blumenthal qui a fait croire qu'il avait combattu a Vietnam. Veterans Divided in Connecticut By ANDREW GROSSMAN And CHRIS HERRING WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal appeared Tuesday at a VFW hall here, surrounded by cheering veterans, as he admitted misstating his record of service in Vietnam. - Spoiler:
The callers flooding the state's Veterans of Foreign Wars office were hardly as forgiving. Some threatened to revoke membership in the VFW because it set the stage for his news conference. "It's the first time we've ever seen the phones lit up like this," said Ronald Rusakiewicz, the group's state adjutant. "And the majority of these people are steaming." Mr. Blumenthal, the Senate hopeful once considered a surefire win for the Democrats, was responding to a report in the New York Times that he had exaggerated combat experience in Vietnam. Republican opponents seized on his sudden vulnerability with hopes of narrowing what has been a strong lead. Former Rep. Rob Simmons, a Vietnam veteran and former Central Intelligence Agency officer, immediately sought to capitalize on the new focus on military service in the race.View Full Image Associated Press Richard Blumenthal—Devlin Barrett contributed to this article.
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| | Sujet: 2300 - Obama Approval Index History 19/5/2010, 15:54 | |
| Ouffff! Obama Approval Index History | Date | Presidential Approval Index | Strongly Approve | Strongly Disapprove | Total Approve | Total Disapprove | | 5/19/2010.......... | -19 | 25% | 44% | 44% | 55% | | 5/18/2010 | -17 | 25% | 42% | 45% | 53% | | 5/17/2010 | -13 | 27% | 40% | 46% | 53% | | 5/16/2010 | -10 | 29% | 39% | 48% | 52% |
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| Une fois n'est pas coutume: Just received, I wonder why someone sent that to me.
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
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This one is a little different:
Two Different Versions - Two Different Morals
OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away..
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!
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MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopperis allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green...'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the antand blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant'sfood while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
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| | Sujet: 2302 - The EU is as doomed as its currency 19/5/2010, 20:38 | |
| The EU is as doomed as its currency - Let's get out from under this collapsing monstrosityBy Gerald Warner PoliticsLast updated: May 19th, 2010 The European experiment has failed and is only artificially being kept alive on a life-support system of taxpayer-funded bailouts. The euro is now a zombie currency: only the political will of the European nomenklatura keeps it nominally in existence. That is the exact reverse of the proper relationship between a currency and the state: the currency should be the expression of a healthy economy testifying to the legitimacy of the government it represents. Instead, a synthetic European super-state is showing its non-viability and moribundity through the implosion of its currency.- Spoiler:
Do you see that smoking slag-heap of smouldering, toxic debt? The polite name for it is the European Central Bank (ECB). It is a landfill site being used by bond investors to dump Greek waste paper and other unwanted garbage. It resembles the back yards of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac when the sub-prime time-bomb exploded. Steptoe and Son would turn up their noses at such a tip. As the ECB’s president, Jean-Claude Trichet, despairingly confided to Der Spiegel on Monday, Europe’s economy “is in its most difficult situation since World War II or perhaps even since World War I”.
That was an unwarrantedly optimistic assessment. The European economy is in its worst situation since 1789 and the eve of the French Revolution. Indeed, the parallel is uncanny. Jacques Necker, the Vince Cable of his day and similarly the darling of every armchair fiscal reformer in France, was the father and paradigm of all the debt-loving, statist, spendthrift finance ministers of today.
He squandered a fortune on supporting the American War of Independence, the consequence of which was the importation of revolutionary ideas into France; ratcheted up government debt; dispensed largesse to create a dependency culture; insisted on opening the books to the public but cooked them heavily before doing so; and retired to Switzerland when the balloon went up. It is hard to believe Gordon Brown did not have a portrait of him on his office wall. At least Vince Cable did not sire a Madame de Staël, Necker’s daughter who bored for Europe in the early 19th century.
We live in an age of mass communication: people have noticed that Europe has a few little local difficulties. The US Senate has just voted by a robust majority of 94 to 0 to veto IMF rescue packages for hopeless cases. American legislators are determined that, whoever stumps up their hard-earned cash to keep Zorba in his lifestyle of siesta and ouzo, it is not going to be Joe Public, of Main Street, Peoria. Joe has already been sufficiently mugged by Wall Street hoods to feel that his contribution is more than adequate. As European ideologues throw more and more billions into the bottomless pit of Greek, Spanish, Portuguese and Irish indebtedness, they are running out of stashes of cash to plunder. The IMF is now the final resort and the US Senate has drawn a line in the sand.
The real-life solution to the crisis would have been to let Greece and the other PIG nations default on their debt and restructure it; to return to the drachma, peseta, etc and devalue. The euro was never a real currency: it has failed and the longer the Euro-fanatics delay in recognising that reality the more they will be punished. Germany’s nostalgia for the security of the deutschmark is now palpable to the point of urgency. Angela Merkel, having lost the upper house of the German parliament in recent elections, is now a lame duck. As she says, “if the euro fails, it is not only the currency that fails. Then Europe fails. The idea of European unity fails.”
Exactly; except there is no “if” about it – Euroland is down the plughole. The question is: how much longer is Europe going to court economic collapse that could regress its living standards by a generation, to placate the power-mad fantasies of the Unholy Roman Emperors in Brussels? The fundamental, structural flaw in the euro from its inception was that it was a currency invented to give an appearance of substance to a political aspiration – it was Brussels Monopoly Money.
Although we are not part of it, we will still suffer from its implosion. The time has come to dismantle the whole infatuated European project. So, what are Dave and Nick going to do to retrieve Britain’s interests from this accelerating debacle?
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| | Sujet: 2303 - 20/5/2010, 00:52 | |
| Apres que des envoyes du POTUS en Chine aient denigre la loi sur l'emigration de l'Arizona et se soient fait reprocher le manque de justice sociale aux Etats Unis... le POTUS en personne s'aligne avec un president etranger contre une loi passe par le Congres d'un des etats americain. Il n'a aucune honte.Faut-il encore rappeler qu'en fait la loi en question ne fait que renforcer une loi federale deja existante, imposant seulement aux agences de police locales d'en appliquer les dispositions. Obama, Calderon Blast Arizona Immigration Law During White House VisitFOXNews.com President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon joined hands Wednesday in blasting Arizona's controversial immigration law, with Obama calling the legislation a "misdirected effort" after Calderon slammed it as discriminatory. - Spoiler:
 President Obama stands with Mexican President Felipe Calderon during the playing of the American National Anthem, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 19, 2010. President Calderon will be attending a state dinner at the White House with President Obama later in the evening (AP). "We are and will continue to be respectful of the internal policies of the United States and its legitimate right to establish, in accordance to its Constitution, whatever laws it approves," he said, "But we will retain our firm rejection to criminalized migration so that people that work and provide things to this nation would be treated as criminals."Obama also stressed that he and Calderon had directed their governments to make the U.S.-Mexican border more secure and efficient."Illegal immigration is down, not up," Obama said, "And we will continue to do whatever is necessary to secure our shared border." "Today I want every American to know my administration has devoted unprecedented resources in personnel and technology to securing our border," he added. Almost twice as many people support the Arizona law as those who oppose it, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll this month. It found that 42 percent favored it, 24 percent opposed it and another 29 percent said they were neutral.Obama has promised to start work on an immigration overhaul, but he's also warned that Congress may not have the appetite to take on the sensitive issue this year. He pointed out Wednesday that he can't get the 60 votes he would need in the Senate to pass an immigration bill unless some Republicans step forward. That Republican support could be hard to come by for Obama in an election year.The two leaders spoke during a joint news conference in the White House Rose Garden following a private meeting. Obama will host Calderon at a state dinner Wednesday night.The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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| | Sujet: 2304 - Economic governance divides France and Germany 20/5/2010, 09:47 | |
| Economic governance divides France and Germany (Reuters) - Germany's curb on speculative trading has cast doubt on Europe's ability to build the sort of economic governance that many believe is now essential for the euro's survival.- Spoiler:
The move stunned France and showed how the euro zone's two largest economies are struggling to coordinate policy during the debt crisis that has engulfed the single currency.
"France and Germany will have to start speaking the same language or else the euro will disintegrate," said Alexander Law, chief economist at Xerfi consultancy in Paris.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said repeatedly since the start of the Greek debt disaster that euro zone countries must now establish common economic standards and practices if they want their currency to flourish.
But the very concept has revealed core differences between Paris and Berlin, with France talking of "economic government," which sends a shiver down German spines, and Berlin preferring to talk about "economic governance."
The word "government" gives the impression of an outside body that would dictate economic policy, whereas governance raises the prospect in German minds of creating structures, framework and sanctions.
"We are coming from very different directions," said Ulrike Guerot, senior research fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and head of its Berlin office.
"If you come from very different poles, you are bound to bang up against each other. But hopefully there will be a very constructive discourse," she added.
CORE ECONOMIC CONTRADICTIONS
At the heart of the problem are core contradictions between France and Germany over economic development, with no easy solutions in sight.
Germany has undergone painful reforms to create a lean, efficient export machine that is creating unsustainable imbalances across the euro zone.
While Germany is ratcheting up seemingly endless trade surpluses, many of its neighbors, including France, are building up multi-billion euro deficits.
For Paris the answer is obvious -- Germany should boost domestic demand and cut taxes to encourage imports. For Berlin, the answer lies outside its borders -- other countries should simply copy it, primarily by lowering wages.
French officials mutter in private that Germany, which does not have a minimum wage, is simply salary dumping. Germans say it is this solid economic management that they are proud of.
A NECESSARY EVIL, OR JUST EVIL?
Other major battles lie ahead as the euro zone struggles to recover from last year's brutal recession while trying to keep the lid on deficit and debt-levels.
One senior adviser to Sarkozy, Henri Guaino, has argued that the euro zone could benefit from a spell of controlled inflation to relieve the pressure, to the dismay of Germans.
"The French say, 'what is so wrong with inflation of four percent?'. It will be competitive inflation. But for the Germans, inflation at four percent is evil," said Guerot.
France thought that it had won the opening rounds of the battle to create a more homogenous economic management when German Chancellor Angela Merkel finally agreed this month to a $1 trillion rescue package to stabilize the currency.
French officials purred that Germany finally realized what was at stake and was ready to bend to the demands of its partners and resolve long-standing EU economic tensions.
A triumphant Sarkozy gave a news conference in Brussels in front of the 16 flags of the euro zone nations, rather than just the simple EU standard, to herald the improvement in coordination. The German press painted him as the victor.
"Sarkozy, the new king of Europe," said the Berliner Zeitung newspaper in a headline, adding that economic governance or even government was now looking inevitable.
"The Germans would have none of that in the past," the paper wrote. "The German taxman has failed. From here on in the French take the helm."
GERMAN CLOUT
Germany's announcement to ban naked short sales of a range of assets wrong-footed many of its European partners who had hoped that the coordinated action on the rescue package would have taught Berlin not to go it alone.
"Germany took this decision for pure German reasons related to the economic and political situation in Germany," said Jean-Pierre Jouyet, the head of French financial markets regulator AMF who is seen as close to Sarkozy.
In unusually frank language, he told Reuters that such unilateral moves could damage the euro.
"(The euro) will not be in danger as long as there is an orderly governance and therefore any confusion will help more to weaken the euro than to strengthen it," he said.
However, France and its southern Mediterranean neighbors, which are all struggling to contain their deficits, face an uncomfortable truth -- Germany is the richest country in the bloc, carries more weight then any of them and won't be cowed.
So when it comes to thrashing out a new-look economic governance in Europe, Germany will make this clout felt.
"I think that France will end up agreeing with everything Germany says, because they have to, but then they will simply continue to flout the rules as they have done in the past," said Xerfi's Alexander Law.
(Additional reporting by Matthieu Protard and Julien Ponthus)
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| | Sujet: 2305 - Change boomerangs on President Obama 20/5/2010, 14:14 | |
| Change boomerangs on President ObamaBy GLENN THRUSH | 5/20/10 4:50 AM EDT Tuesday's big winner, Mark Critz, ran against Obama's health care overhaul - AP Change is Barack Obama’s political calling card and the fuel that propelled his never-waste-a-crisis agenda — but change is boomeranging big time on the president in a turbulent and unpredictable 2010. - Spoiler:
For the first time since he emerged as a national political figure six years ago, Obama finds himself on the wrong side of the change equation — the status quo side — with challengers in both parties running against him, his policies or his handpicked candidates. Tea party conservative Rand Paul romped in the GOP Kentucky Senate primary by pledging to overturn virtually every major Obama initiative. And both Pennsylvania’s Joe Sestak, who knocked off a Democratic incumbent, and Bill Halter of Arkansas, who forced another one into a runoff, were spurned by Obama despite running on throw-the-bums-out platforms that could have been lifted from the president’s 2008 playbook. “What I tell to the national Democrats is: ‘Bring it on, and please, please, please bring President Obama to Kentucky.’ We would want him to come and campaign for my opponent [Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway],” Paul told CNN on Wednesday, in a taunt reminiscent of statements by Democrats about President George W. Bush in 2006 and 2008. “In fact, we’ll pay for his plane ticket if President Obama will come to Kentucky.” If the results of Tuesday’s night’s grab bag of Senate and House elections prove anything, it’s that Obama didn’t copyright the anti-Washington change message. At a time of nearly 10 percent unemployment, anxiety about the economy, two wars and fury about bailouts and Beltway pay to play, the message of change is bigger than any one cause, one party or even Obama himself. “When I talk to people, I still don’t get the sense that they’re getting down on Obama too much yet ... but he is clearly behind the curve right now,” says Jim Dean, chairman of Democracy for America, which endorsed Halter against Obama-backed Democratic incumbent Sen. Blanche Lincoln. “The goodwill on this thing is pretty close to running out,” said Dean, brother of former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. “This is really it right here, what happened Tuesday night is a catalyst for change. ... You can’t run things structurally like the old machine.” Even the party’s big winner Tuesday — Mark Critz, who won Rep. John Murtha’s old seat in Pennsylvania — ran against Obama’s health care overhaul. Obama has become so synonymous with the Washington establishment these days that a top Democratic consultant joked, “What the White House needs to do is endorse the candidate they don’t want to have win, then the candidate they want to win can run as anti-establishment.” White House officials say they aren’t worried — Obama will regain his footing as the economy improves and heath care reforms take hold. No president, they say, could ever govern effectively while maintaining a pristine record as an outsider — and Obama’s outsize legislative goals have forced him to transact business with Congress, arguably the most unpopular institution in America. “The farther we move away from health care, the better we do,” one adviser said - Increasingly, Obama’s team envisions a supporting rather than a headlining role for the president in the midterms, offering his considerable fundraising apparatus to candidates, while continuing to hammer away at the administration’s commitment to job creation, using official events in states hardest hit by the financial crisis.And they reject the idea that an explicitly anti-Obama message can work. “Let’s be careful about this — the one person who used the change argument against Barack Obama on Tuesday lost the election,” a senior White House official said, referring to Critz’s opponent, Republican Tim Burns. “He nationalized the election, made it expressly about Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi and tried to position himself as an agent of change against both of them, and he got his head handed to him.” Republicans have always rejected the notion that Obama was a true agent of change — they see him as a liberal reactionary who has revived Big Government Democratic policies of the past century. But many of Obama’s progressive supporters are turned off by the ugly compromises he’s made on health reform, the stimulus, Guantanamo Bay and oil drilling. The president — who has tried to position himself as an anti-Washington crusader in recent town halls throughout the country — has further alienated his party’s left wing by forging ungainly alliances with the likes of Sen. Arlen Specter, a moderate who switched parties to avoid a primary against Republican Pat Toomey.“Obama’s brand is everything. If he loses the brand, he loses his power,” says Mark McKinnon, a political consultant who has advised Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), former President George W. Bush and Ann Richards, the late Democratic governor of Texas. “He endorsed an establishment candidate and eroded his brand of change,” McKinnon said. “Instead of staying neutral or helping a younger populist Democrat campaigning on an Obama-like message of change, they bet on an 80-year-old former Republican because they thought he had a better shot to win in November. ... Obama is politically weakened because he sent the signal that his endorsement doesn’t mean that much.” Obama, who needed Specter’s vote to pass the stimulus last year, distanced himself from the senator after Specter’s nightly polls showed him losing ground for two straight weeks. The White House was largely mute on Specter’s loss until Wednesday afternoon, when Vice President Joe Biden, who played a key role in getting Specter to switch parties, released a statement praising him for serving Pennsylvania “with determination, wisdom and skill for many years.” Obama called Sestak to congratulate him hours after the primary was over -- and officials from the White House political office reached out to Sestak’s campaign to collaborate on fundraisers and, possibly, presidential visits, according to a person familiar with the situation.And if Halter defeats Lincoln in the runoff — and most Democratic operatives think he will — the White House will embrace the Arkansas lieutenant governor as enthusiastically as the more conservative Lincoln.Arkansas Democrats say Halter will gladly accept Obama’s support — even though he would be reluctant to have the president campaign personally in a border state that went for McCain in 2008.
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| | Sujet: 2306 - What is big, risky, and losing billions? 20/5/2010, 14:58 | |
| ... et on pourrait ajouter: et qui est tres largement responsable de la crise financiere de laquelle nous avons un mal fou a nous sortir?
What is big, risky, and losing billions?
Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need to go away — but slowly
By Edward L. Glaeser
May 20, 2010
THIS WEEK, the Senate rejected a $400 billion cap on the taxpayer bailout of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation and the Federal National Mortgage Association, better known as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The decision may ensure that the two firms’ collapse will be the most costly event of the economic downturn. Their old model — private companies with an implicit public guarantee — created behemoths that gambled trillions of dollars and lost billions in taxpayers’ money.
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| | Sujet: 2307 - Leave Euro to Its Fate 20/5/2010, 15:40 | |
| Leave Euro to Its Fate By David Cottle Germany was supposed to be the ultimate European team player. As both engine room and standard bearer for European integration, and sound money come to that, it was an archetype of the euro plan; surrendering very considerable national power for the good of all.- Spoiler:
Odd, then, that it should go and act like some sort of sovereign state and, in so doing, possibly deliver a coup de grace to the poor old euro. Its faintly ludicrous ban on certain naked short-selling activities may have been little more than a sop to a restive Bundestag, a-fume at having to bail out less responsible euro users some way south and east of Germany. But for investors, longing in vain for coordinated, confident leadership in the face of sovereign debt meltdown, this bid to go it alone was the worst possible news. Indeed, as Merrill Lynch/Bank of America put it this morning: “The ban has been a final straw for many in highlighting the political pains which still need to be endured to arrive at a country by country (collective) agreement.”
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| | Sujet: 2308 - Anti-Incumbent? Try Anti-Obama 20/5/2010, 17:20 | |
| Nous avons tous besoin d'espoir, ce n'est pas le POTUS qui me contradirait, alors et bien que novembre soit encore LOIN... tres LOIN... Anti-Incumbent? Try Anti-Obama Serious Democratic analysts concede it's their party that's facing trouble in the fall. By FRED BARNESThe hordes are not massing at the gates of Washington—not yet. They won't arrive until after the midterm congressional election in November. Most are likely to be Republicans, a good number of them old Washington hands. Yesterday's primary elections, including the impressive victories of Republican Rand Paul in Kentucky and Democrat Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania, didn't change that.- Spoiler:
The idea that anti-incumbent fever, striking equally at Democrats and Republicans, is the defining feature of the 2010 election is as misguided as last year's notion that President Obama's oratory would tilt the nation in favor of his ambitious agenda. Yet the media, echoing the Obama White House, has adopted anti-incumbency as the all-purpose explanation of this year's political developments. Their latest (supposed) evidence: Mr. Sestak's ouster of incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter. But incumbency, though it played a part, wasn't the main reason Mr. Specter (who switched parties from Republican to Democrat last year) lost. After voting against the 80-year-old Mr. Specter in five elections dating back to 1980, a majority of Democratic voters in Pennsylvania couldn't bring themselves to vote for him yesterday. They didn't trust him. Associated Press Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa.
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| | Sujet: 2309 - The Fruits of Weakness 21/5/2010, 08:36 | |
| May 21, 2010
The Fruits of Weakness
By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON -- It is perfectly obvious that Iran's latest uranium maneuver, brokered by Brazil and Turkey, is a ruse. Iran retains more than enough enriched uranium to make a bomb. And it continues enriching at an accelerated pace and to a greater purity (20 percent). Which is why the French foreign ministry immediately declared that the trumpeted temporary shipping of some Iranian uranium to Turkey will do nothing to halt Iran's nuclear program.
It will, however, make meaningful sanctions more difficult. America's proposed Security Council resolution is already laughably weak -- no blacklisting of Iran's central bank, no sanctions against Iran's oil and gas industry, no nonconsensual inspections on the high seas. Yet Turkey and Brazil -- both current members of the Security Council -- are so opposed to sanctions that they will not even discuss the resolution. And China will now have a new excuse to weaken it further.
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Given Obama's policies and principles, Turkey and Brazil are acting rationally. Why not give cover to Ahmadinejad and his nuclear ambitions? As the U.S. retreats in the face of Iran, China, Russia and Venezuela, why not hedge your bets? There's nothing to fear from Obama, and everything to gain by ingratiating yourself with America's rising adversaries. After all, they actually believe in helping one's friends and punishing one's enemies. |
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| | Sujet: 2310 - Gov. Brewer: "Mr. President, Secretary Napolitano - Do Your Job!" 21/5/2010, 09:03 | |
| Ca m'ennuie de tourner la page rapidement, mais bon, alors pour ceux que ca interesse, l'article hebdomadaire de Krauthammer est dans le message precedent. -------- Gov. Brewer: 'Mr. President, Secretary Napolitano - Do Your Job!'Ariz. governor takes on immigration law controversy, boycotts and Mexican president's comments.Gutsy Lady!
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| | Sujet: 2311 - The president of Mexico takes on Arizona's anti-illegal alien law 21/5/2010, 14:50 | |
| On peut ne pas l'aimer, on peut ne pas etre toujours d'accord, mais bon sang, 'reusement qu'on l'a! O'Reilly - Video Je me demande si Biden et Nancy  l'ont lue, eux, la loi! Si c'est oui, ils sont de mauvaise foi, si c'est non, ils sont egalement de mauvaise foi, mais bon.. what else is new? |
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