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No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research Finds...



http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091230184221.htm (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091230184221.htm)

huh...

Democratic Leaders Plan Secret Health Reform Deliberations


http://www.usnews.com/blogs/peter-roff/2010/01/04/democratic-leaders-plan-secret-health-reform-deliberations.html (http://www.usnews.com/blogs/peter-roff/2010/01/04/democratic-leaders-plan-secret-health-reform-deliberations.html)

Quote from: Henry Hawk on January 05, 2010, 09:21:26 AM
Democratic Leaders Plan Secret Health Reform Deliberations


http://www.usnews.com/blogs/peter-roff/2010/01/04/democratic-leaders-plan-secret-health-reform-deliberations.html (http://www.usnews.com/blogs/peter-roff/2010/01/04/democratic-leaders-plan-secret-health-reform-deliberations.html)

Why should Republicans, who've done nothing but denigrate this reform and voted against its passage, have a seat at the table HH?

Quote from: Locutus on January 05, 2010, 10:53:20 AM
Why should Republicans, who've done nothing but denigrate this reform and voted against its passage, have a seat at the table HH?

for one, Obama PROMISED "No more secrecy"....along with making "government open and transparent"....was to make it "impossible" for Congressmen to slip in pork barrel projects....was supposes to have meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public. (Even Congressional Republicans shut out.) ...and the "Public will have 5 days to look at a bill"....and he said, "You'll know what's in it."........AND..."We will put every pork barrel project online."

and this is the way our government is SUPPOSED to work.....like it or not, Republican are elected officials...and this is the process it is SUPPOSED to take place...even according to Obama, who made PROMISES that is would.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5t8GdxFYBU (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5t8GdxFYBU)

2006 Flashback: Pelosi Says Dems Will Have Most Honest & Ethical Congress


this is a hoot..... ;D

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/05/2006_flashback_pelosi_says_dems_will_have_most_honest__ethical_congress.html (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/05/2006_flashback_pelosi_says_dems_will_have_most_honest__ethical_congress.html)

Obama Promising Televised Healthcare Negotiations...

http://www.breitbart.tv/the-c-span-lie-did-obama-really-promise-televised-healthcare-negotiations/ (http://www.breitbart.tv/the-c-span-lie-did-obama-really-promise-televised-healthcare-negotiations/)

COUNT THE LIES: OBAMA VOWED 8 X TO TELEVISE HEALTHCARE (http://www.breitbart.tv/the-c-span-lie-did-obama-really-promise-televised-healthcare-negotiations/)

This topic is like standing in line at the grocery store; nothing but the Globe and National Enquirer headlines to read. . . I expect to read "Obama had a lobotomy" at any given moment. . .  :rolleyes:

Quote from: Palehorse on January 06, 2010, 11:29:32 AM
This topic is like standing in line at the grocery store; nothing but the Globe and National Enquirer headlines to read. . . I expect to read "Obama had a lobotomy" at any given moment. . .  :rolleyes:

but yet, you didn't listen to Obama HIMSELF, make claims to allow such headlines?....you will defend this guy no mater what....those are HIS words and promises that he is breaking as we speak.... :rolleyes:

Quote from: Henry Hawk on January 06, 2010, 10:59:52 AM
Obama Promising Televised Healthcare Negotiations...

http://www.breitbart.tv/the-c-span-lie-did-obama-really-promise-televised-healthcare-negotiations/ (http://www.breitbart.tv/the-c-span-lie-did-obama-really-promise-televised-healthcare-negotiations/)

COUNT THE LIES: OBAMA VOWED 8 X TO TELEVISE HEALTHCARE

White House Has Allowed Only 'One Hour' of Health Care Coverage

http://www.breitbart.tv/c-span-ceo-white-house-has-allowed-only-one-hour-of-health-care-coverage/ (http://www.breitbart.tv/c-span-ceo-white-house-has-allowed-only-one-hour-of-health-care-coverage/)

That's way too much.

Quote from: Palehorse on January 06, 2010, 11:29:32 AM
This topic is like standing in line at the grocery store; nothing but the Globe and National Enquirer headlines to read. . . I expect to read "Obama had a lobotomy" at any given moment. . .  :rolleyes:

:biggrin:

Former Home Run King Mark McGwire Admits Using Steroids (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582790,00.html)

Should he be stripped of his Home Run Accomplishments?...

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/01/17/jim-cramer-brown-win-causes-huge-stock-rally-investors-nervous-about-
CNBC's Jim Cramer: Brown Win Tuesday Causes Huge Stock Rally As Investors Celebrate 'Pelosi Politburo Emasculation'[/color]Former Barack Obama supporter Jim Cramer on Friday said the stockmarket would have a huge rally if Scott Brown defeats Martha Coakley inTuesday's special senatorial election in Massachusetts."I thinkinvestors who are nervous about the dictatorship of the Pelosiproletariat will feel at ease, and we could have a gigantic rally off aCoakley loss and a Brown win," said Cramer on Friday's "Mad Money."
"It will be a signal that a more pro-business, less pro-labor government could be in front of us."
The often outspoken CNBCer marvelously declared it a "Pelosi politburo emasculation"

And the stock market is down today.   :rolleyes:

Quote from: Exterminator on January 20, 2010, 12:34:03 PM
And the stock market is down today.   :rolleyes:

Nearly 2% down  :rant:

Wasn't Cramer the lamebrain who said the impending recession was not going to happen?

Quote from: followsthewolf on January 20, 2010, 01:33:15 PM
Wasn't Cramer the lamebrain who said the impending recession was not going to happen?

Recognize this?

March 11, 2008 a viewer named Peter submitted the question "Should I be worried about Bear Stearns in terms of liquidity and get my money out of there?" Cramer responded "No! No! No! Bear Stearns is not in trouble. If anything, they're more likely to be taken over. Don't move your money from Bear."

http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080317110946.aspx (http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080317110946.aspx)

That's what I was trying to remember. Scary.

Down another 2% today. I tell you! That Cramer dude is the second coming of Nostradamus,

:rant:

Obama Returning to Familiar Themes in State of the Union, With Goals Unmet

President Obama is expected to wrap his first official State of the Union address around the theme of jobs creation and economic recovery, calling for advances in education, health care reform, clean energy investment and deficit reduction along the way -- just like he did last February in his first major address as president to a joint session of Congress.

Listeners may be forgiven if they experience a bit of deja vu tonight. President Obama is expected to wrap his first State of the Union address around the theme of jobs creation and economic recovery, calling for advances in education, health care reform, clean energy investment and deficit reduction along the way -- just as he did last February in his first major address as president to a joint session of Congress.

Nearly a year later, Obama returns to these themes because the work is unfinished. Some of the initiatives are in progress, some have stalled, and others have barely begun.  The following is a look back at the pledges Obama made in his Feb. 24, 2009, address, and a review of how far along he's taken them.

Jobs

Obama took to the podium last year touting the just-passed stimulus package, intended to be the engine of his domestic policy agenda and the country's economic recovery.

"Over the next two years, this plan will save or create 3.5 million jobs. More than 90 percent of these jobs will be in the private sector, jobs rebuilding our roads and bridges, constructing wind turbines and solar panels, laying broadband and expanding mass transit," Obama said.
Accounting of the stimulus has turned out to be somewhat in the eye of the beholder, with critics charging that stimulus-tied jobs numbers have been inflated or manipulated. Regardless, the country hasn't come close to 3.5 million yet.

The latest third-quarter figures out of the official Recovery.gov site show 640,329 jobs created or saved from the recovery package. The White House Council of Economic Advisers estimated this month that the number of jobs created or saved as of the end of 2009 was between 1.5 and 2 million, though White House advisers gave varying estimates on the Sunday talk shows over the weekend.

The economy nevertheless lost more jobs in 2009 than the recovery package created, though the stimulus may have reduced those losses. Recently released government figures showed employers shed 4.2 million jobs in 2009, pegging the unemployment rate at 10 percent. The jobless rate would be higher if so many people hadn't left the labor force altogether.

As for the claim that 90 percent of stimulus jobs would be in the private sector, that's highly dubious. A government report in late October showed more than half of the jobs saved were in education, with most of that going to save the jobs of teachers who would have otherwise been laid off. A small fraction of the jobs created were in construction.

State-by-state studies underscored the public-private sector split. A Detroit Free-Press study in November found that in Michigan, the hardest-hit state in the country, more than half of the jobs created or saved were connected to education -- the money mainly went to public sector or summer jobs.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in October reported that three-quarters of the jobs created or saved in Wisconsin were in the public sector.

On the plus side, Obama pledged a tax cut for most working households last February, and this, representing a significant chunk of the stimulus funding, was delivered.
Obama has in recent months tried to put more attention on the need to get private sector employees hiring.

He's returning to stimulus-style measures yet again Wednesday night, this time focusing his rhetoric on ways to help small businesses.

And the day after he delivers the speech, he's moving toward directing 2009 stimulus money toward construction jobs, announcing $8 billion for high-speed rail.


Health Care

As one of the three pegs of his domestic agenda last February -- the others being education and energy -- Obama placed great urgency on health care reform. "Let there be no doubt: Health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year," Obama said.  The president didn't wait to tackle the problem. He embarked on health care reform in a big way over the summer, but the legislative process dragged on, past one deadline after another. The package seemed to be on the verge of final passage until it hit a political wall. Republican Scott Brown's victory in the Massachusetts special election broke the Democrats' supermajority in the Senate and slammed the brakes on health care reform.

Obama says he's not walking away from health care reform, but he's clearly pivoting toward jobs, and other Democrats are making it sound like health care reform will in fact "wait another year" -- at least.

"There is no rush," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday.


Energy

Obama cited renewable energy investment as the lead sub-plank of his domestic agenda last February. He cited investments that would be made through the stimulus package as well as through a cap-and-trade energy bill which he called on Congress to pass.
"That's what we need," he said.
The House passed such a bill over the summer, but it has since stalled in the Senate. The administration has taken matters into its own hands in trying to curb climate change, pushing strict fuel-efficiency and emissions standards in the U.S. auto industry and issuing a finding declaring greenhouse gases a danger to public health -- a move that could pave the way for future regulation.

But on the world stage, Obama hasn't achieved the level of success he would have liked. Hampered in part by the inaction of the Senate, Obama was unable to strike a binding accord at the latest international conference on climate change in Copenhagen.


Deficit Reduction

As the president spoke last year about jump-starting the economy and creating jobs, he also pledged to "make hard choices to bring our deficit down."

The hard choices seem hard to come by. The deficit was $1.4 trillion in fiscal 2009, and on Tuesday was projected to hit $1.35 trillion in fiscal 2010.

In his State of the Union address Wednesday night, the president plans to announce a three-year freeze on "non-security" spending. He also plans to freeze salaries of White House aides and political appointees who make more than $100,000.

The three-year freeze is expected to save $250 billion over 10 years. But that's a drop in the bucket, and Republicans say Obama's latest proposals don't go far enough in tackling the country's deep deficit and rising national debt, which stands at more than $12 trillion.


Financial Regulation

Obama talked up the need to get banks lending and hold taxpayer-aided Wall Street firms accountable last February.

A year later, Wall Street is still doling out huge bonuses and paychecks. A Wall Street Journal analysis this month found major firms are likely to pay out a record $145 billion in 2009. Top executives and traders are reportedly positioned to earn almost 18 percent more than in 2008.

Obama and Congress are now back to putting pressure on the executives. The administration is imposing pay caps on executives at bailed-out firms, and Obama recently called for both a new tax on banks to recover bailout money and regulation aimed at limiting the size and complexity of big financial firms.

The House has passed a comprehensive financial regulatory bill, but that package is awaiting action in the Senate.


Afghanistan

Obama promised a new way forward in the protracted Afghanistan war last February.
"With our friends and allies, we will forge a new and comprehensive strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan to defeat Al Qaeda and combat extremism, because I will not allow terrorists to plot against the American people from safe havens halfway around the world. We will not allow it," Obama said.

Terrorists, of course, are still plotting against the American people from halfway around the world, as demonstrated in the failed plot, allegedly hatched with the cooperation of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas.But Obama has followed through on his pledge to put a renewed focus on Afghanistan and Pakistan in hopes of disrupting those plots.

After an extensive strategy review, Obama announced a 30,000-troop infusion into Afghanistan late last year. The White House also approved a concurrent expansion of the drone program inside Pakistan.


Education

Obama referred to the "historic investment in education" made through the stimulus plan in last year's speech to Congress. Indeed, a large percentage of that funding went toward saving teacher jobs, though the private sector seemed to get the short end of that stick.
Obama last year emphasized individual responsibility in his education platform, calling on every American to "commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training."

This year, Obama intends to announce some federal government-driven changes.
One senior administration official said the president will "highlight his commitment to education reform," saying the president's upcoming budget will include a 6.2 percent increase for the Department of Education.


No-Bid Contracts

Obama pledged broadly to improve government transparency and end wasteful spending in Washington, but made one specific promise that he hasn't quite kept -- depending on how the promise is interpreted. "We'll eliminate the no-bid contracts that have wasted billions in Iraq," he said in February.

Fox News has learned, however, that the administration in January awarded a $25 million contract for work in Afghanistan to a company owned by a Democratic campaign contributor without entertaining competitive bids.
The company apparently got a waiver from USAID. A USAID spokesman told Fox News the deal was a renewal of an existing contract, awarded in 2004 by the Bush administration after a competitive bidding process.

From the man you love to hate in his state of the union address:

Take the $30B repaid by wall street and give it to small banks to loan to small business.

Tax breaks and credits to small businesses

Tax incentives for small companies to expand and hire new workers, as well as provide raises for current workers.

Tax credits to all AMERICAN businesses

Remove tax breaks from companies that ship jobs overseas.

A jobs bill on his desk ASAP.

. . . .

Here's a headline for you: the GDP grew in the fourth quarter of 2009  at its best rate since 2003! (http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/29/news/economy/gdp/index.htm?hpt=T2)

Now stocks are going up...that damn Obama!  :rant: