Holder: I Ordered Miranda Rights for Underwear Bomber
Attorney General Eric Holder says he made the decision to read the underwear bomber suspect his Miranda rights — and he’s hammering Republicans for politicizing a practice he says they backed when George W. Bush was in office.“I made the decision to charge Mr. Abdulmutallab with federal crimes, and to seek his detention in connection with those charges, with the knowledge of, and with no objection from, all other relevant departments of the government,” Holder wrote in a letter to senators Monday.
He called the decision “fully consistent” with precedents set by “administrations of both parties.”
“Those policies and practices, which were not criticized when employed by previous administrations, have been and remain extremely effective in protecting national security,” he said. He didn't of course say he lied, but admitted that it wasn't true. Now he tells us, months after 1) making the promise on multiple occasions, and 2) trying to ram the bill down our throats regardless. Of course, this is just another in a long string of broken promises. From Real Clear Politics via Instapundit, memeorandum: Obama's Stunning Admission. Here's the must-see video:
I haven't seen anyone focus on the President's rather stunning admission about the Democrats' health care legislation (Video):
Obama outright admited he and the Democrats lied about keeping your doctor. How many times has he and his progressive minion say that "we can keep our doctor"? Common sense tells us that can't be true. I'm sure there are a lot more lies hiden within the 2000 pages. This is one more proof that the Democrats will lie to the people of America and sneek in a health care bill that will control us. I'm getting sick and tired of the liberals telling us to just trust the Democrats. We don't even trust our own party and you want us to trust yours? That would be dumb. But when these guys are cought lieing we need to cut that cancer out. We need to expect all of our politicians to tell the truth no matter what letter comes after your name. If you wouldn't have it if your spouse lied to you or your boss. There comes a lose of truts every time the Democrats and Republicans lie. Obama said he would pull out of Iraq in 2009,GITMO he promised would be closed by now,he said they wouldn't torture but only changed the definition,he said he would get the debt down and creat jobs. He said unemployment wouldn't get past 8% it's at 10.4% and he did it by design. He didn't make jobs or the economy his #1 priority. We still have the Partiot Act and a ton of lobiest in his admin. We all have reason to be pissed and we all need to speak up like we did with Bush on his progressive agendas. Thanks to the Democrats and the Republicans we might loose our AAA-rating. Just keep spending like there is no tommorow and there wont be.
This is from moveon.Top Five Health Care Reform Lies—and How to Fight Back
ReplyDeleteLie #1: President Obama wants to euthanize your grandma!!!
The truth: These accusations—of "death panels" and forced euthanasia—are, of course, flatly untrue. As an article from the Associated Press puts it: "No 'death panel' in health care bill."1 What's the real deal? Reform legislation includes a provision, supported by the AARP, to offer senior citizens access to a professional medical counselor who will provide them with information on preparing a living will and other issues facing older Americans.2
If you'd like to read the actual section of the legislation that spawned these outrageous claims (Section 1233 of H.R. 3200) for yourself, here it is. It's pretty boring stuff, which is why the accusations that it creates "death panels" is so absurd. But don't take our word for it, read it yourself.
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Lie #2: Democrats are going to outlaw private insurance and force you into a government plan!!!
The truth: With reform, choices will increase, not decrease. Obama's reform plans will create a health insurance exchange, a one-stop shopping marketplace for affordable, high-quality insurance options.3 Included in the exchange is the public health insurance option—a nationwide plan with a broad network of providers—that will operate alongside private insurance companies, injecting competition into the market to drive quality up and costs down.4 If you're happy with your coverage and doctors, you can keep them.5 But the new public plan will expand choices to millions of businesses or individuals who choose to opt into it, including many who simply can't afford health care now.
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Lie #3: President Obama wants to implement Soviet-style rationing!!!
The truth: Health care reform will expand access to high-quality health insurance, and give individuals, families, and businesses more choices for coverage. Right now, big corporations decide whether to give you coverage, what doctors you get to see, and whether a particular procedure or medicine is covered—that is rationed care. And a big part of reform is to stop that.
Health care reform will do away with some of the most nefarious aspects of this rationing: discrimination for pre-existing conditions, insurers that cancel coverage when you get sick, gender discrimination, and lifetime and yearly limits on coverage.6 And outside of that, as noted above, reform will increase insurance options, not force anyone into a rationed situation.
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Lie #4: Obama is secretly plotting to cut senior citizens' Medicare benefits!!!
The truth: Health care reform plans will not reduce Medicare benefits.7 Reform includes savings from Medicare that are unrelated to patient care—in fact, the savings comes from cutting billions of dollars in overpayments to insurance companies and eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse.8
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Lie #5: Obama's health care plan will bankrupt America!!!
The truth: We need health care reform now in order to prevent bankruptcy—to control spiraling costs that affect individuals, families, small businesses, and the American economy. Right now, we spend more than $2 trillion dollars a year on health care.9 The average family premium is projected to rise to over $22,000 in the next decade10—and each year, nearly a million people face bankruptcy because of medical expenses.11 Reform, with an affordable, high-quality public option that can spur competition, is necessary to bring down skyrocketing costs. Also, President Obama's reform plans would be fully paid for over 10 years and not add a penny to the deficit.12
Now is the time to fight hard. Lets make this happen by hook or crook.
In the coming months and years, self sufficiency will be the most important concept to our survival. In fact the words survival and self sufficiency are interchangeable and synonymous.
ReplyDeleteThe idea of self sufficiency and survival are hard and harsh concepts to Americans who are in every way dependent on the system. I fear that most may one day be very hungry and forced to resort to stealing their food.
I have often remarked that an honest man will steal if he and his family are hungry. And if desperate enough, he may plunder or may even kill.
The only exception to this is the age group that was born in the 1930s. This small group could easily revert to the land without having a nervous breakdown.
If you have ever watched the movie, Gone With the Wind, you remember the desperate conditions people endured just after the Civil War. Prior to the war Scarlet O’Hara had the finest things that life in the Old South could give, but the war and devastation reduced her to poverty. When the war was over she still had the land. But with everything gone except the land, Scarlet was reduced to living on turnips and whatever she could grow literally with her hands.
That scene happened for real in Germany during World War I. Turnips became survival.
For more on food and water storage, and everything you need to prepare for the hard times that are coming, see my special report, How to Survive the Collapse of Civilization.
But this doesn’t have to happen to you if you take small but determined action while there is yet time.
Oh, you have trouble believing that Scarlet’s plight could happen to you? Suppose you take my suggestion and prepare, and of all horrors, nothing bad happens? Well, everything that you have done to prepare—everything you have stored—you can consume.
Plus, you will have on hand food bought before the coming inflation makes limited food available at very high prices.
Most low-income people are having trouble getting affordable food now. Look around and you will see all the people who are overweight because they only get mostly low-cost high-carbohydrate food.
Some readers have asked lately how to go about storing food and how they can prepare for when times get rough. Here are answers to some of them:
What food items to store? Try to store food that has shelf-life and always rotate it. I bought a ton of brown rice 40 years ago and I am still eating it, after raising my children on it. I used diatomaceous earth to preserve it. Diatomaceous earth dehydrates bugs in grains.
Canned goods—fruits, vegetables and meats—have an expiration date. Buy extra every trip you make to the grocery store and be sure your rotate your stock to use the oldest first.
There are food kits available online and in some survival/outdoor stores that will sustain you through emergencies. Some of these contain all you need for survival and are marked to show how many people can survive off the food included and for how long.
How much to store? That is an individual problem and a difficult question that contains no set answer. The best bet is to watch what your family eats in a week and make note of it (how many servings of meat, vegetables, fruit and grains). Then you’ll have an idea of how much must be set aside for each week you think an emergency might exist. As for water, experts say each person needs about two gallons per day for drinking, cooking and hygiene. A minimum of three days supply should be kept on hand, and more is better.
Store seeds in your refrigerator. All who want a garden should store natural seeds, not hybrid seeds. Store some each year from your crop.
Chris, there's no lie here at all. If you had listened more carefully, he was talking about being able to keep your insurance and apparently there are some provision that might require people to switch insurance, not switch doctors.
ReplyDeleteSecond, he said that the bill is in the process of being scrubbed to be consistent with the principles he has been talking about from the beginning.
Third, the President is not 100% able to control the process, obviously, and through the legislative process, some things he may not agree with can show up in the legislation. If he could get everything he wanted, we wouldn't need a legislative branch at all. The President would just submit legislation and it would be come law, no need for the Congress.
I would choose your words more carefully, Chris, and think through your positions more carefully before just posting things that call everyone liars all the time.
As far as the unemployment rate, yes, it went over 8%, but you know as well as I do, economics is an inexact art. If you were held to the same standard as you hold the President, I'm sure your kids would be calling you a liar all day long, every day.
Bruce listen again. You are hearing what you want to hear. If that bill the Democrats wanted to push though would have passed it would have made Obama a liar. And Obama knew they had it in the bill and he said it wasn't many many many times. That does make him a liar. Paint it any way you want Bruce but the fact is Obama lied about being able to keep your doctor and insurance. What else did they say that wasn't true?
ReplyDeleteBruce aren't you the one that said the war in Iraq was lost? That Bush put us in an "illegal war"? It's hard to take you serious when you are such a hypocrit and drama queen.
ReplyDeleteFirst, anonymous, you have no credibility when you post anything anonymously. At least have the courage to use your real name with your comments.
ReplyDeleteSecond, the war in Iraq is illegal and it has recently come out that there was a secret agreement between Bush and Blair about going to war with Iraq soon after 9/11.
Bush Raised Iraq with Blair Days after 9/11
An anonymous commenter calling me a hypocrite and drama queen is pretty weak.
Obama held another Q and A session yesterday, just like the one he held with Republicans. It was the same type of dog and pony show where no follow up questions were asked, so Obama got to lie his ass off for the cameras.
ReplyDeleteWhat we learn today is that it really and truly was a dog and pony show; scripted to make Obama look good and the contentious subject of healthcare was saved for after the cameras stopped rolling.
From The Hill:
Senate Democrats held back from asking President Barack Obama about healthcare reform during a carefully scripted question-and-answer session in front of television cameras.
With the cameras rolling, a group of senators selected in advance by the Democratic leadership asked questions about such topics as partisan gridlock and GOP obstruction.
But once the president left and reporters were escorted out of the room, senators pressed White House officials about healthcare reform, according to those at the meeting.
Democrats expressed their frustration with the lack of a clear plan for passing healthcare reform, according to one person in the room.
One Democratic senator even grew heated in his remarks, according to the source.
“It wasn’t a discussion about how to get from Point A to Point B; it was a discussion about the lack of a plan to get from Point A to Point B,” said a person who attended the meeting. “Many of the members were frustrated, but one person really expressed his frustration.”
Staged and scripted questions are what Obama does best. I would love to see that man answer real questions on the fly from the average American. I don’t think he would last 5 minutes.
As to healthcare, the dumb Democrats have not figured out that Obama is leaving them with the whole mess. He knows the process is over. There are too many jittery Democrats to move forward. Look at what Mary Landrieu, Queen of the Healthcare whores, had to say about using reconciliation:
“I’m not for using reconciliation for healthcare — I’m just not.” said Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.). “If we couldn’t get a bill through the Congress that had broad support, I said we shouldn’t have a bill.”
Another Democratic senator said that using reconciliation to pass healthcare reform in the next few months would be very difficult and that the best solution is for the House to pass the Senate bill.
Mary Landrieu who was so proud of her $300 million payoff is now all jittery about using reconciliation. If she has second thoughts about using reconciliation to pass fixes to the Senate bill, imagine how House Democrats feel about passing the Senate bill without any fixes. As I have been telling you all along, ObamaCare is dead, dead, dead.
Bruce are you still pushing your "Truther" bs? You are so far out there. You had a post about Glen Beck killing a woman and now this? Emanuel is right about you "retarded progressives". You are all about coverups and conspiracy thoeries. No wonder no one listens to your rants. Bruce if you want weak just look at your arguments in favor of the Democratic Party. The Democrats couldn't even get health care done with a supermajority and you blame it on the Republicans. That is weak.
ReplyDeleteThe Washington Post reports through "unnamed sources" that the Panty Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, is giving up intelligence to the FBI again. Byron York notes how this information conveniently comes just as the administration finds that Congress Members, on both sides of the aisle, were shocked that Abdulmutallab was only interrogated for 50 minutes before receiving his Miranda Rights. York also notes that Abdulmutallabs new information flies in the face of the administration’s previous insistence that they got all the information they could from the Panty Bomber before he was handed over to the criminal justice system.
ReplyDeleteThe whole story reeks of political opportunism. It really sounds like a story designed to cover the administration’s ass on how they handled the Abdulmatallab once he was in custody. Even for the sake of argument, if the story is 100% true, then shouldn’t we be worried that we lost precious time to act on Abdulmatallab’s information as he sat silent with his Miranda Rights?
Any way you slice it, Obama does not have a security team he has a security circus. It is a circus filled with clowns who are completely incapable of bringing an A-Game to fight the war on terror. No wondered everyone in Washington seems so confident that Al Qaeda is going to strike in the next few months, they must all realize that this crew is totally incapable of preventing it.
ROFLMAO .... FAILk, aren't you the one who used a fake name on Brian Pannebecker's blog? LOL ... and then you say this:
ReplyDeleteBruce Fealk said...
First, anonymous, you have no credibility when you post anything anonymously. At least have the courage to use your real name with your comments.
BWAAAAHAHAHAHA ... that's a good one George! Er ... I mean ... Bruce! BWAAAAAHAHAHAHA
Who cares if they post anonymous FAILk?! Besides it getting a little confusing, are you going to look the guy or girl up you nutjob?! What a psycho you are. Seems to me anonymous knows all about you and is afraid to give a psycho like you their real name.
I love the "resource" Jay-Ney gives - MoveOn ???
ReplyDeleteIf I want George Soros talking points (read BS) I wait for B. Husseins teleprompter or the White House daily briefing (again read BS)
The Democrats are going to finish the job on health care.
ReplyDeleteThe American people want and demand that health care be dealt with now. We can't afford to wait.
Bruce Your RIGHT the Democrats WILL Finish their JOBs!
ReplyDeleteShow Me One of Your Magic Polls WHERE Majority of Citizens WANT Nobama Health Care! You Are EATTING Mushrooms Again Bruce BUT You Get OUT There and PUSH those Cowardly Dems ,TRY and PASS Health Care PLEASE!
Chris, is there something wrong with your first post. It seems disconnected like there's a paragraph missing or something.
ReplyDeletecheck the last paragraph before the second video. It doesn't make sense.