WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans boycotted the start of committee debate Tuesday on a bill to curb greenhouse gases, protesting that

Barbara Boxer: I understand about this much about what I'm talking about...

the bill's costs have not been fully examined. The action put a spotlight on the difficulties Democratic leaders face in moving climate legislation this year.Republican Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio attended the session for 15 minutes to explain the GOP's argument for staying away. He insisted the tactic "is not a ruse" to block the bill, but concern that its widespread impact on the country has not been made clear.

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Thank God somebodies actually starting to stand up and do something of consequence in an effort to stem the tide of idiocracy coming out of this administration. The amount of legislation they're trying to jam through amidst the health care debate is unconscionable. It just kills me how much of a hurry this administration is in on everything but Afghanistan, the ONE situation where people's lives are truly hanging in the balance on DAILY BASIS.

Can somebody explain that one to me?

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updated 11:08 p.m. MT, Fri., Oct . 30, 2009

The White House warns that many names that may appear familiar — and controversial — do not in fact refer to the most famous people to carry those names. Jeremiah Wright is on the list, but it's not the president's former pastor. This Michael Jordan is not the basketball player. This Michael Moore is not a filmmaker. The William Ayers who took a group tour of the White House isn't the former radical from Chicago who figured so prominently in the 2008 campaign. And the Angela Davis on the list has a different middle initial than the activist and former fugitive.

The White House could have avoided some of that sort of confusion by providing more information on the visitors, such as an employer name and the city they hail from. For example, is the Shawn Carter who attended a poetry reading the same one who goes by Jay-Z and had campaigned for Obama?

"This unprecedented level of transparency can sometimes be confusing rather than providing clear information," a White House special counsel, Norm Eisen, wrote on the White House blog.

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You know, I just don't know how much more of this we're supposed to take... I mean, SERIOUSLY... These names aren't the ones we know and recognize??? Bill Ayres, Jeremiah Wright, Michael Moore, Angela Davis... No, they're "other" people by the same name, end of story... Dammit people, would you accept this kind of information from somebody who was in your direct employ? Well guess what? THEY ARE IN YOUR DIRECT EMPLOY AND YOU NEED TO REMIND THEM.

Malik Shabazz... Is there another one??? Is this the kind of man getting invitations to the White House these days? Do yourself a favor, download the list of names yourself and have a look at the ones you may recognize, then take a moment to consider, if these are the names they're letting you see, imagine who's names must be on the lists they continue to conceal

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Pointing an accusing finger at the United States, the Palestinians on Sunday said Washington's backing for Israeli refusal to halt Jewish settlement expansion had killed any hope of reviving peace negotiations soon.

On a one-day Middle East visit on Saturday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorsed Israel's view that settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank should not be a bar to resuming negotiations -- contradicting the Palestinian position.

U.S. President Barack Obama himself, after persuading Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in September to meet Netanyahu in New York, called only for "restraint" in settlement, not the "freeze" he had previously proposed.

Stung by Obama's about-face and Clinton's remarks, the Palestinians voiced their frustration.

"The negotiations are in a state of paralysis, and the result of Israel's intransigence and America's back-pedaling is that there is no hope of negotiations on the horizon," Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah said.

He said the Palestinians were calling for the Arab League to formulate a "unified Palestinian-Arab position" on the stalled peace process.

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More dithering? Sadly, this administration appears to be conducting themselves on the world stage in much the same way they do here at home... Either say one thing and do another, or say one thing and simply back pedal later with little or no explanation. With all do respect, we shouldn't even have a female trying to negotiate anything when it comes to the Middle East. Anyone with even a cursory understanding of their culture recognizes the position women hold within their society... Note the "head gear" Hilary wears in all pictures of her taken out doors while traveling over there... HOW can we as a nation send a woman to "negotiate" with people who treat their women as second class citizens at best? Never mind the cultural illogic behind this thinking, but has Hilary no conscience? There was a time in the not so distant past when countries of questionable civil rights practices were publicly denounced by The US... Are we "open for business" with everyone now?

It's always a noble gesture to reach out to people of all cultural backgrounds, both at home and abroad, for this is how we learn to better understand one another. The problem is, what good is this understanding if we're not going to be allowed to actually learn from it, and adjust our behavior based on that knowledge? How much compatibility is their between people who celebrate the likes of Paris Hilton and those who force OUR Secretary of State to put on a headdress? Has this country EVER forced a visiting dignitary from ANY country to alter their appearance in order to travel in this country?

Perhaps I'm being a bit simplistic in these observations, foreign policy is a weighty issue... However; at some point we have to look at what's in front of our eyes and ask ourselves, in the grand scheme of things, are things getting better or worse for us in trying to deal with these people as we have for the last ten or fifteen years? Would we not be safer focusing our efforts on locking down our own borders and securing those of questionable device who are already here? Does anyone fear Afghan rebels flying jets over US airspace or launching ICBMs at us? It seems to me, we could let these people train in their caves on the mountain to be terrorists to their hearts content, if we just start taking measures to KEEP THEM OUT OF OUR COUNTRY.

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"There is a manifest, a marked distinction, which ill men with ill designs, or weak men incapable of any design, will constantly be confounding,-that is a marked distinction between change and reformation. The former alters the substance of the objects themselves, and gets rid of all their essential good as well as all of the accidental evil annexed them. Change is a novelty; and whether it is to operate any one of the effects of reformation at all, or whether it may not contradict the very principle upon which reformation is desired, cannot be known beforehand. Reform is not change in the substance or in the primary modification of the object, but a direct application of a remedy to the grievance complained of. So far as that is removed, all is sure. It stops there; and if it fails, the substance which underwent the operation, at the very worst, is but where it was."

Simply read, real reform focuses solely on addressing the problem or grievance rendered. The tire on the car is going flat, therefore I will go to a garage and have it fixed. In the case of Obamacare, the tire on the car is going flat, and the proposed remedy is to take up riding a bike... Change, not reform... In fact, our situation is even worse than that of the metaphor because contrary to the case of health care, the effects of changing from a car to a bike are already known. With 1900+ pages to deal with, it's impossible to know all of the effects of this administrations proposed reform change until it's too late.

What we need is health care reform. What is being forced on us is health care change... Something we were told was coming all along...

Get it?

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WASHINGTON — Trumpeting a victory against careless spending, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed a defense bill that kills some costly weapons projects and expands war efforts. In a major civil rights change, the law also makes it a federal hate crime to assault people based on sexual orientation.

Kills costly weapons projects and expands war efforts. Already I'm getting lost because these things sound like a contradiction to me... I can't think of a single recent example of the government expanding any kind of effort on anything while at the same time reducing costs. HOW do "hate crimes" have anything to do with THIS???

The $680 billion bill authorizes spending but doesn't provide any actual dollars. Rather, it sets guidance that is typically followed by congressional committees that decide appropriations. Obama hailed it as a step toward ending needless military spending that he called "an affront to the American people and to our troops."

Sooo, let me get this straight... We're authorizing the spending of $680 million we don't have because it's an affront to the American people and to our troops. If the money is in fact used to better equip our troops, how is ANY military spending an affront to our troops??? On the one hand, I'm all for reducing military spending, mainly because we have a government too weak to bring the full weight of our military to bear on any given conflict. On the other, I'll ask again, HOW do you expand a war effort while reducing military spending?

The measure expands current hate crimes law to include violence based on gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. To assure its passage after years of frustrated efforts, Democratic supporters attached the measure to the must-pass defense policy bill over the steep objections of many Republicans.

What can I even say to that??? After years of frustration, the Democrats are jamming something down our throats by gluing it to a must-pass defense bill... People, this shit has got to STOP, and I mean TODAY. How much legislation goes through this way, or the way our friend John Murtha handles it in the video from two posts ago? This kind of bullshit is ruining the country...

The White House put most of its focus on what the bill does contain: project after project that Obama billed as unneeded. The bill terminates production of the F-22 fighter jet program, which has its origins in the Cold War era and, its critics maintain, is poorly suited for anti-insurgent battles in Iraq and Afghanistan.

No complaints... Such an aircraft would truly be a prestigious accomplishment, but given the nature of "modern war", probably unnecessary...

"When Secretary Gates and I first proposed going after some of these wasteful projects, there were a lot of people who didn't think it was possible, who were certain we were going to lose, who were certain that we were going to get steamrolled," Obama said. "Today, we have proven them wrong."

Given the passage of the new hate crimes legislation bill, it sounds like Obama and company are the ones doing the steamrolling...

In another of several examples, the legislation terminates the replacement helicopter program for the president's own fleet. That program is six years behind schedule and estimated costs have doubled to more than $13 billion.

Thank you.

He [Obama] spoke more personally about the new civil rights protections. A priority of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., that had been on the congressional agenda for a decade, the measure is named for Matthew Shepard, the gay Wyoming college student murdered 11 years ago.

I don't want to appear callous, but one homosexual gets murdered and we have to pass legislation placing gays in a position of legal, higher intrinsic value than heterosexuals? Once again I will quote Herb Silverman from The Washington Post:

A crime is a crime, regardless of the victim's race, color, religion, national origin or sexual orientation. A murdered white heterosexual male is no less dead than an Hispanic, gay Christian. Suppose three murders occur: one for money, another out of jealousy, and a third because the victim is a black, gay Wiccan. If the first two murderers are sentenced to 20 years in prison and the third is sentenced to 30 years, would the families of the victims in the first two cases feel they had received equal justice under the law?

I wont hold my breath waiting for an answer... Folks, we have to do something to put an end to this wheeling and dealing style of legislating... Hate crimes laws are only another tool of division... Legislated tolerance is in actuality, INTOLERANCE...

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There's a lot of commentary I wanted to post along with the video but it will have to wait until this afternoon... I'm liable to write anything at this hour LOL, PS - My apologies to the mainstream media on this one [kinda slam 'em a little in the video]... I watched tonight and the three local channels I watched all covered the rally... Ah well, what can ya do? I'm sure they'll miss the next one

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