++President Obama is to address AIPAC this weekend and meet with Bibi Netanhayu on Monday. President Obama gave an extensive and sophisticated explanation of his Iran policy in the Atlantic to Jeff Goldberg. As President Obama warns, "I don't bluff."
++Oil Drum newsletter this week showed from an oil industry perspective how the Keystone XL pipeline will cause gas prices in the Midwest to rise from 20-50 cents a gallon. Other reports coming out also show that it will not create jobs.
++Democratic governors pleaded with President Obama to lay off the social issues for is re-election. Actually looking at polls, all the wedge issues, except for gun control, have all gone to the Democratic side. Take our recent contraceptive flap.
++Bill O'Reilly, who has a troubled marital and sexual history, backed Rush Limbaugh on his attacks on Sandra Fluke. The 1%ers have to back one another.
++The Conference Board warns that businesses may soon face a "hiring panic" when the recovery picks up momentum. This coming week we expect a jobs number report, which should be decent. First time unemployment claims were down gain this past month.
++The polls show that the American people actually don't blame Obama as much for the gas hikes as they did Bush when they spiked before. Interesting--50cents to a gallon is attributed to oil speculators anticipating a disruption of oil during an Iran crisis.
++Congress is trying to manufacture another controversy by going after Energy Secretary Chu for once saying--not recently, mind you--that the United States should have gas prices equivalent to those in Europe. So the Republicans want him to resign. Actually Chu has been one of our best Energy Secretaries and advanced alternative energy projects in a way not seen before.
++Olympia Snowe's retirement and Bob Kerry's entry into the Nebraska Senatorial race have cast doubts on the GOP certainty to take over the Senate. Mitch McConnell seeing the disaster wrought by the Blunt Amendment vows not to have another vote this year on repealing any aspect of the Healthcare Bill. John Boehner however wants another shot at contraceptives.
++Wisconsin's Scott Walker now trails all three perspective Democratic challengers in his recall election. Maryland is going to have a referendum on same sex marriage after Governor O'Malley signed it into law. Proponents of same sex marriage are fighting in California the idea backed by Proposition 8 supporters that the 9th Circuit Court must decide the case again en blanc, which means with all justices deliberating. The argument against is that this continues to hold in legal limbo the same sex marriages which were already conducted and those being planned.
++This coming week is Not-so Super Tuesday. All eyes are on Ohio because if Santorum should win there, then the process will be drawn out. Newt is supposed to win Georgia. Romney wins Virginia because the others could not qualify for the ballot and Idaho should go Romney because of the Mormon vote. What the night will do --at least temporarily--is re-establish Newt Gingrich in the race. Newt has a new infusion od cash from the Adelsons. It would be interesting to see whether Newt would have more cash on hand than Romney who has tapped out the big donors and now is actually begging for donations. The appearance of the Donald in Michigan had more to do with fund-raising than a Get out the Vote Drive.
++Pink Panty Sheriff-- the man I call Chief Arapaho--disclosed the finding of his Citizens Posse that President Obama's birth certificate is a forgery. The reason--because it emits a white halo in the PDF file.
++An Alaskan man has filed suit challenging President Obama bid for re-election. His argument is that President Obama is not eligible because he is a mulatto.
++A Montana state legislator is challenging President Obama's bid for re-election on the grounds he usurped power. I guess the President is not a conservative Republican.
++Franklin Graham gave a faux apology for questioning President Obama's Christian faith but said he was against President Obama because he is pro-abortion. Or the President has to enforce the law making abortion legal. Actually Franklin hates President Obama because he was tossed as the chairman of the Pentagon's Prayer Day because of his anti-Moslem comments. Which Franklin has interpreted as the President being pro-Moslem, instead of prudently protecting American troops from crackpot clergy who are anti-Islam.
++It's good to know that Iran will know they will get bombed if Newt is president. I hear a lot of Republicans say this but would one of them please explain how they are going to successfully do it and how are they going to pay for it.
++President Obama will raise your taxes. Make sure you memorize this. After all he really raised taxes a lot his first three years.
++President Obama called for reform of corporate taxes. The strange thing is that the United States has one of the world's highest tax rates but one of the lowest "effective tax rates". Go figure.
No comments:
Post a Comment