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News/Politics 1-28-14

What’s interesting in the news today?

1. Here we go again. 🙄

From TheHill  “The White House said Monday that President Obama would not pay “an ideological ransom” in exchange for raising the debt ceiling.

“The American people cannot — and the president will not on their behalf — pay an ideological ransom just so that Congress will do its job and pay the bills that Congress has racked up,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said. “It’s just irresponsible.”

The comments came after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested over the weekend that the GOP wanted to “attach something significant for the country” — like the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline — to a debt limit increase.

“Any president’s request to raise the debt ceiling, whether this one or previous presidents, is a good opportunity to try to do something about the debt. I think the president is taking an unreasonable position to suggest that we ought to treat his request to raise the debt ceiling like some kind of motherhood resolution that everybody says ‘aye,’ and we don’t do anything, when we have the stagnant economy and this massive debt created under his administration,” McConnell told Fox News.”

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2. The first lady is bringing a gay NBA player to the S. of the U. speech tonight as one of her guests. I guess to make a statement. Some have decided to use the invite to make a statement of their own as well.

From TheWashingtonTimes  “The father of one of the men who died in the terrorist attack in Benghazi will attend Tuesday’s State of the Union address, escalating the battle of the guests that takes place every year.

Rep. Jim Bridenstine’s invitation to Charles Woods, father of former Navy SEAL and Benghazi terrorist attack victim Tyrone Woods, is the latest evidence that the real politics of the major speech happens well above the president’s head, in the public viewing galleries.”

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3. One of the themes you’ll hear tonight will be the new buzz words “income inequality.” And as is usually the case, it’s someone with a lot of money doing the complaining about it. (Funny though, it’s always our money they want to use to “fix” it, not theirs.)

Tonight the president will cheerlead his new meme, and filthy rich Democrats will follow suit, and the press will run with it, just like always. And as always, they miss their own hypocrisy. They completely miss that they’re the “evil” rich they rail about.

This lady is a perfect example, just like the president. She rails against CEO’s and their outrageous pay, yet fails to mention her husband George Lucas is worth 7.3 billion. She’s a real spokesperson for the little people. Funny though, she didn’t mention how much of their money she’ll be giving to help offset this inequality. Weird right? 🙄

From NewsBusters  “CBS analyst Mellody Hobson, whose husband George Lucas is worth $7.3 billion, appeared on This Morning to slam excessive salaries for corporate bosses. Discussing income inequality and Barack Obama’s planned discussion at the State of the Union, Hobson lashed out, “If you look today, the typical CEO makes 354 times more than the typical worker in his or her company, mostly his because there are so few women running companies.” (How much more does the male Lucas make than the average worker?)

She continued, “If you look back to 1980, that difference was just 42 times. So it’s been that kind of income inequality that has started a lot of backlash and chatter…” Co-host Norah O’Donnell introduced the segment by highlighting a hyperbolic letter to the Wall Street Journal by CEO Tom Perkins comparing the treatment of the wealthy to Jews during the Holocaust. O’Donnell promoted, “[President Obama] calls [income inequality] one of the defining challenges of our time. How do you think that will be received by people in the business community?”

“Hobson cheered Obama’s efforts: “Well, one, I’ve heard the President directly speak on these issues. I heard him right before Thanksgiving firsthand talk about this issue of the middle class…. Additionally what I would call it is positive populism.”

I‘d call it class warfare.

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4. The NY Times public editor is calling out the Times for it’s lack of coverage of the March for Life.

From LifeNews  “Kudos to New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan for asking why the Times couldn’t provide much coverage of Wednesday’s March for Life. Hundreds, if not thousands of New Yorkers were there, so “Was this local participation, or the event itself, worthy of a news story in the paper of record? Apparently not.”

“The Times, in print, published only a stand-alone photograph of the event on Page A17 with a two-line caption on Thursday.” Sullivan reproduced complaints from pro-life readers:”

“Another reader made the point that The Times’s political agenda was on display, not only in the lack of coverage of the event but also in what it did choose to give a major amount of space to in the same day’s paper: a front-page article about a Catholic school in suburban Seattle where students are protesting the firing of a school official who was let go after he married his male partner.

Francis H. Hoffman wrote: “A handful of young people from Seattle who support their fired vice principal merits big coverage, but a massive pro-life march in a winter storm is all but ignored. And the motto of the New York Times is, “All the News That’s Fit to Print.” I guess pro-life news is not fit to print.”

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5. This one is sad, and he deserves it. Yet at the same time I don’t understand why it’s OK for a woman to do it either without the father’s permission. Both are parents of the child after all. It seems a little contradictory. And the plea was for other charges. They didn’t address the major issues, like whether the defense’s claim that Roe v. Wade protected him as well was valid, since he was the father.

From LifeSiteNews  “The man who tricked his ex-girlfriend into taking an abortion-inducing drug has been sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison.

John Andrew Welden received the full negotiated sentence of 13 years and eight months in a hearing at 1:30 this afternoon.

“I don’t think Mr. Welden is an evil person, but he committed an evil act and for that he’s going to have to pay the consequences,” said U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara as he imposed the full sentence.

Welden signed a plea bargain in September to avoid life in prison for violating the 2004 Unborn Victims of Violence Act. But Lazzara, a 1997 Clinton appointee, nearly let Welden escape with only 41 months in prison.”

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6. The more we know, the worse it gets. I’m sure the administration is in no hurry to rectify this. And they don’t dare cave and let Republicans re-write any of it.

From WatchDog.org  “Insurance companies working under the Obamacare umbrella have secretly added a surcharge to cover the cost of abortions, an apparent violation of federal law that forbids the practice, congressional leaders charge.

Consumers signing up for insurance in an Obamacare exchange won’t find a single sentence telling them that they will pay at least $1 a month to fund abortions.

“The president promised when the health care bill passed that it would not cover abortion. We knew that was an empty promise as the bill stipulated a $1 a month surcharge for plans that covered abortions,” said Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., who chairs the House’s Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Health. “On top of that … it’s near impossible to decipher which plans include abortion and at what cost!”

To fix this, a House bill will be introduced this week to demand full disclosure and a separate itemized premium. It also will prohibit federal subsidies for Obamacare insurance plans that cover abortion. That bill, HR-7, or the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” will be introduced by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.”

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15 thoughts on “News/Politics 1-28-14”

  3. I didn’t see the Grammies, but from what I heard, “Sodom Grammies'” might be a good descriptive term.
    It may apply to the Presiden’t speech, depending on how the media plays it.
    I won’t be watching:
    1. It will be too late for me to see the entire speech.
    2. If he says anythng, Rush’ll tell me.
    3. It doesn’t mean anything, anyhow.

    This “global warming” thing has morphed into “climate change” because the globe obviously isn’t warming, and there is still money to be made, plants to close, and power to be gained, by trying to manipulate culture.

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  7. Here’s what you’ll miss Chas.

    Blah, blah, blah, (insert lie)
    Blah, blah, Republicans evil
    Blah, blah, blah, income inequality
    Blah, blah, blah, fairness
    Blah, blah, blah, (insert another lie)
    Blah, blah, blah, promise more free stuff to the 47%ers
    Blah, blah, blah, Did I mention Republicans are evil and everything bad is their fault? Because I meant to
    Blah, blah, blah, repeat….

    I just saved you an hour of time this evening. Now you can find something better to do, like watch paint dry.

    You’re welcome. 🙂

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  9. If I don’t laugh at the absurdity of it I’ll cry. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t begrudge them their economic success. I’m all for that and quite pleased that we all have the opportunity to try and achieve it in this country. I’m just sick of them being hypocrites about it.

    In a perfect world, we’d all be rich. But it ain’t, so we ain’t. So their brilliant plan is to make everyone equally miserable. Well everyone who isn’t in the ruling elite, or a contributor to the campaigns of said elites. Those people are of course exempt.

    But if you’re not on the list, look out, especially if you’re successful like the Koch bros. Then you’re a target and the most evil thing on the planet. And you have to pay for all the stuff they want to redistribute to donors and certain voters.

    They run govt like Jesse Jackson runs his shakedown operation. Pay, or you pay. Either way, you pay. I think there might be a pattern here. 🙄

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  10. Raising the minimum wage on government contractors is just flailing in the air.
    I doubt that there are any governmnent cortractors that pay minimum wage to clerks or anyone else.
    He’s correcting a non-issue.

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  12. I believe that if tomorrow, everyone in the country were given the same property and the same weekly salary, within 10 years we’d have rich and poor people again.

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  13. Although…….

    Maybe I will watch a little with my neighbor. For some reason we get a great deal of amusement out of Bobblehead Joe the Yes Man, who does nothing but nod his head in agreement at every word. 🙂 And then there’s Spring Loaded Nancy, who flies to her feet at the drop of a hat. The president throws out a talking point or buzz word and she pops up like a jack in the box. 😆

    She’s why the speech always takes 3 times longer than necessary. They oughta strap her down. Things would move a lot more quickly. 🙂

    And hasn’t anyone in Washington ever considered a “hold your applause until the end” announcement at the start? Just sayin’….

    After about 20 minutes of the whole affair, my eyes glaze over and they lose me. What I’d pay to see is for Republicans to go all Joe Wilson on him. When he fudges facts and things, point it out. Go all reality TV on him. That, I’d watch. 🙂

    And instead of a rebuttal we just do a steel cage match between Reid and Boehner. Much more entertaining than the rebuttal the establishment repubs have in mind. We could make it a triple threat and throw in the guy doing the Tea Party rebuttal too.

    Or you let all 4 make their point and do a fan vote like Idol to see who wins. Let the public decide.

    If they would just ask me, I have lot’s of ideas to make this better.

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  14. Ha, Politico headline: “Obama embraces Obamacare”. Good luck with that.

    “President Barack Obama left no doubt Tuesday night what his Obamacare sales technique will be: loud voice, lots of confidence and no apologies.

    “Don’t dwell on the scratches on the hood. Just tell the customer how good it will feel to rev the engine and drive the car off the lot. … ”

    Hello?

    Seems like that’s a pretty bad strategy.

    Call it stubborn or blindly committed, but I can’t help but think he just is politically tone deaf.

    http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/barack-obama-obamacare-affordable-care-act-state-of-the-union-2014-102771.html?hp=t1

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