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Alicia Powe | June 14, 2012
Why is President Obama still blaming Bush for the weak economy and the soaring debt? Why is he rejecting all personal responsibility? It seems President Obama's key campaign strategy is to blame the Bush admininstration for everthing that goes wrong, and take credit for anything that goes right. President Obama said the debt and deficit he inherited is "baked in" structurally:   "All of this…
Alicia Powe | June 14, 2012
Karl Rove examined President Obama's remarks on the economy on Fox New's Greta Van Susteran's show last nightRove said he wants Obam to keep blaming Bush because " it shows the contempt of the President of the United States for the intelligence of the average American.""He is responsible for the debt runup on his watch," Rove said. "It is fine for him to blame it on president bush or a japanese…
Alicia Powe | June 14, 2012
President Obama at a fundraiser in Baltimore Tuesday said he inherited a trillion-dollar deficit and Republicans "baked in" a structural deficit that will last for decades. "It's like somebody goes to the restaurant, orders a big steak dinner, martini, all that stuff and then just as you're sitting down, they leave and accuse you of running up the tab," said the president Charles Krauthammer said…
Alicia Powe | June 13, 2012
At a fundraiser in Baltimore Tuesday President Obama said the debt and deficit he inherited is "baked in" structurally."I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. We had a surplus, they turned it into a deficit, built it into a structural deficit that lasts for decades, " said President Obama."All of this stuff is baked in, with all the interest payments for it, it's like somebody goes to the…
Alicia Powe | June 12, 2012
The U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton,  warned Russia over its armed shipments to the Syrian regime, saying it was untrue that it had nothing to do with putting down the current uprising. "We have confronted the Russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to Syria," said Clinton.  "They have from time to time said that we shouldn't worry, everything they're shipping is unrelated…
Alicia Powe | June 12, 2012
The Head of The UN peacekeeping operation said today that Syria had entered a full-scale Civil War and that the Government had lost control of large parts of the country. Every day civilians escape across the border with nothing but their lives and stories of what they swear the Assad regime is doing to its own people.  (h/t BBC ) 
Alicia Powe | June 12, 2012
Attorney General Eric Holder testified Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee on a wide range of initiatives of the Department of Justice.Sen. John Cornyn (R- Texas) outlined a long list of reasons that the Attorney General should resign."The American people deserve better and deserve an attorney general that is accountable and independent and puts justice before politics," Cornyn said.   
Alicia Powe | June 12, 2012
Attorney General Eric Holder testified Tuesday at a Senate Judiciary Committee  and was asked about his appointments of two federal prosecutors to lead an investigation into leaks of national security information. Sen. Lindsey Graham requested that an independent investigator be named. Graham said he was asking for no more than "Senator Biden and Senator Obama asked for" during the Valerie Plame…
Alicia Powe | June 11, 2012
The anti corporaton movement all  started with FDR. Roosevelt thought the stock market crash was proof that laissez-faire capitalism didn’t work and that the government should intervene.Roosevelt won re-election in 1936 and business paniced and began to fight back. (h/t: The Century Of The Self 1 of 4 | One: Happiness Machines )
Alicia Powe | June 7, 2012
Darth Vader isn't having it when a NYPD traffic enforcement officer  tries to give him a parking ticket.