Glenn Beck - The One Thing 8/26/2009

Raucous and Staged Moran Town Hall

Town Hall Attendees Given George Washington's Rules of Civility - HUMAN EVENTS

by Connie Hair
08/26/2009


Just how badly has Obama’s political capital shrunk? Bad enough for one of the most liberal pols on the planet -- Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) to bail on the prez.

As reported yesterdat in the Lakeland Times, in a townhall meeting this week the hyperliberal Feingold not only touted his opposition to the “cap and trade” national energy tax but made a point to tell the crowd, “There’s a survey that shows that I am the Democrat who has least voted with President Obama.”

Feingold has a 100% voter rating from the ACLU. The uber-liberal Americans for Democratic Action rates him at 100%. The American Conservative Union gives Feingold an 8% rating and the Club for Growth rates him at 1%. Feingold was the first to call for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. This is not a conservative Democrat. He’s left of the left.

And he’s jockeying for a “voted least with President Obama” scout badge? Dismal days in Obamaland.

Feingold also predicted at his town hall meeting that there would be no health care bill passed this year, if ever."

ACLU: Spying for America's Enemies - HUMAN EVENTS

by Michelle Malkin
08/26/2009


Savor the silence of America's self-serving champions of privacy. For once, the American Civil Liberties Union has nothing bad to say about the latest case of secret domestic surveillance -- because it is the ACLU that committed the spying.

Last week, The Washington Post reported on a new Justice Department inquiry into photographs of undercover CIA officials and other intelligence personnel taken by ACLU-sponsored researchers assisting the defense team of Guantanamo Bay detainees. According to the report, the pictures of covert American CIA officers -- 'in some cases surreptitiously taken outside their homes' -- were shown to jihadi suspects tied to the 9/11 attacks in order to identify the interrogators.

The ACLU undertook the so-called 'John Adams Project' with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers -- last seen crusading for convicted jihadi assistant Lynne Stewart. She's the far-left lawyer who helped sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted 1993 World Trade Center bombing and N.Y. landmark bombing plot mastermind, smuggle coded messages of Islamic violence to outside followers in violation of an explicit pledge to abide by her client's court-ordered isolation."

The babies born in hospital corridors: Bed shortage forces 4,000 mothers to give birth in lifts, offices and hospital toilets | Mail Online

By Jenny Hope and Nick Mcdermott
Last updated at 8:36 AM on 26th August 2009

Women are giving birth outside of the wards

Maternity crisis: Women are giving birth in lifts and even toilets

Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds.

The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets - even a caravan - went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000.

Health chiefs admit a lack of maternity beds is partly to blame for the crisis, with hundreds of women in labour being turned away from hospitals because they are full.

Latest figures show that over the past two years there were at least:"

Gray-beard Liberal compares Obama to Carter, while Sen. Feingold Predicts No Health Care Bill by Christmas

The degree of the political problem that President Obama’s “damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead,” approach to health care reform has caused the ruling party in Washington, D.C. is beginning to become clear from some comments made by cognoscenti of the Democratic Party.

A gray-beard of the liberal establishment, Richard Cohen, wrote today in the Washington Post that the most apt comparison to President Obama is President Jimmy Carter. Ouch!

With regard to the health care debate, Cohen writes:

In the end, the success of the health care reform effort comes down to trust. A lesson of the raucous town-hall meetings is the sense of panic, the fear that this man in the White House does not appreciate the anxiety that middle-class Americans fear about health care — whether they will keep what they have, whether they will have enough or whether their last years will be spent in painful, degrading poverty….

More and more Obama is being likened to Lyndon Johnson, with Afghanistan becoming his Vietnam. Maybe. But the better analogy is to Jimmy Carter, particularly the president analyzed by James Fallows in a 1979 Atlantic magazine article, “The Passionless Presidency.” “The central idea of the Carter administration is Jimmy Carter himself,” Fallows wrote. And what is the central idea of the Obama presidency? It is change. And what is that? It is Obama himself.

Unlike Carter, Obama brims with energy and charm. His brilliance is not brittle but supple. Yet, another teachable moment is upon him and he seems lost. The country needs health care reform and a success in Afghanistan, and both efforts are going in the wrong direction. The message needs to be fixed and so, with some tough introspection, does the man.

Just how badly has the Democratic health reform effort failed? Democratic Senator Feingold (WI) is predicting no health care bill before Christmas, and when he said the most likely outcome is nothing being done at all, he was met with cheers from the voters at his town hall meeting.

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Union Official Becomes N.Y. Fed Chairman - Real Time Economics - WSJ

By Michael S. Derby

A top labor union leader has become the leader of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Board of Directors.

The bank said Monday that Denis Hughes, who is president of the New York State AFL-CIO labor union, will lead the bank’s board. Hughes has been serving as acting chairman since May. Columbia University President Lee Bollinger will become the board’s deputy chairman. Both men will hold their positions until year-end.

The New York Fed’s board comprises nine members, and is set up to reflect banking and community interests.

The New York Fed board has been the source of controversy over recent months. In May, its then-chairman Stephen Friedman resigned amid questions over the official’s ties to Goldman Sachs, where he had once worked, and where he had continued to serve as a Goldman director and shareholder.

More broadly, the composition of the boards of directors of all regional Fed banks has come under scrutiny, given that many believe the panels to be dominated by banking sector leaders, to the detriment of community interests."

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