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nemployment benefits for the long term unemployed in republicans kill senate jobless aid measure republicans on thursday defeated democrats showcase election year jobs bill including an extension of weekly unemployment benefits for millions of people out of work more than six months the 57 41 vote fell three votes short of the 60 required to crack a gop filibuster delivering a major blow to president barack obama and democrats facing big losses of house and senate seats in the fall election the bill had been sharply pared back after weeks of negotiations with gop moderates olympia snowe and susan collins of maine the most recent version unveiled wednesday night contained new cuts to food stamps and scaled back the state aid provision to allow democrats to claim the measure was fully paid for except for the unemployment insurance extension that didn t move republicans like minority leader mitch mcconnell of kentucky it adds new taxes and over 30 billion to an already staggering 13 trillion dollar national debt said mcconnell ouch dems are working so hard for the poor unemployed but those republicans well they just can t be moved the huffington post covered the story with similarly lamenting first with the booming headline the jobless get jobbed democrats abandon aid package in the face of unified republican filibuster then with jobs bill fails in senate democrats say thursday s doomed vote was the last chance how noble democrats like jesus at a synagogue in nazareth spoke out in compassion for the poor only to fall on the stone ears of the republicans this meme continued throughout most major publications the los angeles times for example losing the good will it gathered by interviewing aacons co founder marie stroughter ran a headline that said senate gop blocks jobless aid extension wow mean even foxnews com simply ran the ap version of events most of these stories strangely enough did not mention why republicans voted against this bill given that the unemployed are still allowed to vote and republicans want votes at least as much as democrats that would seem a reasonable question besides isn t why one of the five ws of journalism the stories that did cover the why behind republican opposition generally featured a statement from mitch mcconnell s office or something along those lines buried eight paragraphs down that essentially said it raises the deficit too much in other words the mainstream media is painting the republican party once again being the party of no just as it was during the healthcare reform debate with neither constructive ideas of its own nor with any concern for the least fortunate of those they are elected to represent however just as in the healthcare debate republicans actually do seem to have the capacity to do more than simply vote against whatever the democrats propose unfortunately one would have to be extremely diligent extremely intelligent or extremely lucky to find any reporting of the republican alternative in the mainstream media i was extremely lucky as it turns out there is a republican alternative to hr4213 as reported by associatedcontent com the final vote 57 41 reflected a gain of one vote in a week where democrats cut and dropped and sliced to win bipartisan support senator max baucus sponsor of the current version of the bill said that about 100 billion had been taken away the original measure for republicans it still wasn t enough much of the republican aversion to the bill they have claimed was that the unemployment benefits extension provision 35 5 billion was unpaid for that there would be an increase in overall taxes and that the bill would increase the national debt democrats countered their argument this week by agreeing to pay for some of the programs in the american jobs and tax loopholes act of 2010 with some of the unused and unallocated monies from the economic stimulus package and finding ways to pay for the unemployment extensions the problem now seems to be the raise in taxes the taxes are all levied in the business sector a republican version of the bill sponsored by john thune provides for everything the democrats have incorporated in their bill actually decreases the deficit and pays for everything as well however thune s version does not mention business taxes at all so republicans had a reasoned argument against the democrat bill and suggested an alternative that would have taken a different and in my opinion superior route to achieve the same result that the democrats claim that they want again this was also the case in the healthcare reform debate where the republican argument became framed as either not wanting to burden insurance companies with the cost of actually insuring people or being willing to sacrifice the well being of americans simply to have an issue with which they could embarrass the president never mind that the republicans argued for healthcare reform involving interstate portability tort reform etc both during and before the obama administration which senator obama opposed by the way unfortunately the media resists reporting republican ideas on any major issue preferring instead to stick to their white house directed narrative that the gop is the party of no dk leave a comment from media media bias mcchrystal obama and afghanistan by coby dillard june 24 2010 tags coby dillard general mcchrystal obama resignation by marie so gen mcchrystal resigned in fairness he wasn t fired though he probably would have been from his position as the top american and nato commander in afghanistan and all because it seems he said that president obama seemed uncomfortable and intimidated at a briefing that he thought seemed more of a photo op let s look at what actually happened whether his resignation was the best move and what it means for the war in afghanistan and the 2012 presidential race what was said and its ramifications in his article the runaway general michael hastings wrote with emphasis added even though he had voted for obama mcchrystal and his new commander in chief failed from the outset to connect the general first encountered obama a week after he took office when the president met with a dozen senior military officials in a room at the pentagon known as the tank according to sources familiar with the meeting mcchrystal thought obama looked uncomfortable and intimidated by the roomful of military brass it s important to note that throughout the entire article the sentence at the end contains the only disparaging words of mcchrystal towards obama the chaos istan comment stemmed from comments by vice president biden and mcchrystal had been previously counseled on that incident everything else the biden bite me remark for example is attributed to an aide or an adviser that s important article 88 of the uniform code of military justice ucmj states any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the president the vice president congress the secretary of defense the secretary of a military department the secretary of transportation or the governor or legislature of any state territory commonwealth or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court martial may direct the ucmj lists certain elements that must be present for a person to have violated this article 1 that the accused was a commissioned officer of the united states armed forces 2 that the accused used certain words against an official or legislature named in the article 3 that by an act of the accused these words came to the knowledge of a person other than the accused and 4 that the words used were contemptuous either in themselves or by virtue of the circumstances under which they were used numbers 1 2 and 3 definitely apply does 4 does calling someone uncomfortable and disorganized rise to the level of contemptuous i don t think so the words of the various aides and advisors though definitely rise to that level and merit punishment that won t happen though because 1 they re unnamed and 2 mcchrystal s already taken the fall why resign because this isn t the first thing mcchrystal s done to set obama off and a fragile ego already bruised can only take so much before it has to strike back couple that with all the bad press that obama s received over the last few weeks and you have the makings of a person who is well overdue for lashing out and just needs the right spark with this incident actually the third mcchrystal was gone the only question was how but was it the right move for the overall strategy in afghanistan counterinsurgency operations winning hearts and minds instead of winning through brute strength require leaders who have gained the trust of the populations they work within building up that trust isn t something that s done overnight it can take months or at worst years mcchrystal had gained the trust of many afghan leaders including the country s president the president believes that gen mcchrystal is the best commander that nato and coalition forces have had in afghanistan over the past nine years spokesman waheed omar said omar said mcchrystal has worked closely with karzai since he took command last year and that lots of things have improved now there s no doubt that gen petraeus who will replace mcchrystal is more than competent and capable of building the same level of trust with the afghanistan s national government assuming he doesn t have those relationships already but what of the warlords that run large sections of the country what of the villagers who have come to admire mcchrystal s painstaking some would say overly so avoidance of civilian causalities granted petraeus wrote the playbook that mcchrystal used but the people on the ground on the local level may not know him as well so for them it s almost back to the beginning in building that trust it may not take long to build given petraeus reputation but it s time that could be spent doing other things what it all means will the overall strategy in afghanistan change not at all the professor s running the show now instead of the talented graduate assistant but will gen petreaus continue to serve as centcom commander and the isaf lead in afghanistan and can he effectively do both jobs if the security situation there heads further south will he recommend that our troops remain past the 2011 withdrawal objective and what s the real reason for the selection of petreaus clearly he stands well above many of the names that were floated to take over for mcchrystal but is his selection to this post a vote of confidence in his abilities or is it a ploy to keep him off the gop s presidential wish list in 2012 these questions and others will ultimately decide what direction our efforts in afghanistan take one thing is certain though with the appointment of his second general to head our mission in afghanistan in a year president obama definitely owns this war he has the people he selected in command and implementing the strategy he wanted our success or failure there is completely in his hands and not to be blamed on his predecessors about guest blogger coby dillard a blogger navy veteran and activist coby w dillard seeks to apply conservative solutions to the problems of urban and inner city environments he has worked with many grassroots organizations and is a co founder of the hampton roads tea party in 2009 he worked on gov bob mcdonnell s campaign as the director for veteran and african american outreach before briefly pursuing the republican congressional nomination earlier this year in virginia s 3rd district coby and his family live in norfolk where he is completing his undergraduate degree and working as a consultant image credit 2 comments from national security of lambs and lions by ltc allen west june 15 2010 tags allen west barack obama eric holder lambs lions pelosi reid by marie note african american conservatives is pleased to post this from ltc allen b west who was gracious enough to give us an advance copy of his editorial for the july issue of wheels on the road magazine washingtoons 15 june 2010 lieutenant colonel allen b west us army retired of lambs and lions i do not fear an army of lions if they are led by a lamb i do fear an army of sheep if they are led by a lion alexander the great greetings wheels on the road readers fellow south floridians and indeed all americans it is time for our monthly political assessment and this one is rather personal last month we addressed what is at stake and the response was the future of america one of the factors affecting our country right now relates to alexander s quote mentioned above attorney general eric holder once lamented that america is a nation of cowards that is far from the truth the problem we have in america is that we are being led by lambs by an effete ruling class elite america is a nation of lions warriors but when we find ourselves being led by a cabal of weak ineffective and indecisive appeasers the result is evident sure the liberal progressives are dogged ideologues and tenacious poodles when it comes to nationalizing our production healthcare financial sector energy sector and automobile industry they stand strong against the rule of law regarding illegal immigration and there is no doubt no group will fight harder to redistribute wealth and turn america into a collective balkanized socialist country however what scares the liberals more than anything else is the warrior class they abhor the men and women who find a commitment and conviction in believing in this constitutional republic and the principles which make america exceptional this is a sentiment which over the past 30 days we witnessed being manifested from the highest office in our land the president when barack hussein obama made the decision to take a vacation back to chicago rather than attend memorial day ceremonies at arlington national cemetery that was a complete disregard and disrespect to those who gave the last full measure of devotion i know those who suffer from bush derangement syndrome are frothing and recounting that pres gw bush missed an arlington ceremony but he was at normandy a very appropriate place to be but it was not just the missing memorial day it was also the lack of any recognition of the 66th anniversary of d day it was the failure to address flag day which was also the 235th birthday of the us army lastly obama s refusal for the second year in a row to attend the gold star family events clearly telegraphs his regard for our military does not go beyond photo opportunities the malignant narcissism of the president and the liberal progressives is laser focused on the disrespect and the destruction of the american warrior class they detest anyone who has the courage of conviction and love of america something which they find unconscionable it starts with a national security strategy which refuses to address the enemy of our nation islamic totalitarianism and radical islamic state sponsored terrorism we ...
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