$1.6-Trillion US Deficit For 2010

By SUNIL Sonkar
Washington, Feb. 02 — US President Barack obama put on Tuesday a sobering price tag on financial crisis in the US and also ensured recession. The tag is a record-shattering $1.6-trillion (U.S.) deficit for 2010.

Obama unveiled the budget proposal on Monday, which holds a plan that juggles the conflicting goals to boost the [...]

Guess how many “fiscally responsible” Republican senators voted for the pay-as-you-go budgeting rules?

The answer is: 0
Source
Grouped By Vote Position

YEAs —60

Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Burris (D-IL)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kirk (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
McCaskill [...]

A numbers breakdown of the SOTU: Obama refers to himself 114 times

Examiner

Any speech from President obama is guaranteed to include numerous references to himself, blaming George bush, and creating straw men.  Wednesday night’s State of the Union was no different.
By my count from watching the speech, here is a numbers breakdown of Obama’s first State of the Union:
114 – The staggering number of [...]

U.S. to back reintegration of Taliban fighters. Yes, you read that correctly.

U.S. to back reintegration of Taliban fighters
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LONDON – The United States said Wednesday that it will support a plan to reintegrate Taliban fighters set to be announced by Afghan President Hamid Karzai at an international conference in London.
U.S. special representative Richard Holbrooke said Karzai will outline the plan Thursday [...]

Man who exposed ACORN accused of seeking to wiretap Landrieu’s phones

Click Here for FBI affidavit [PDF]

(AP) NEW ORLEANS – A conservative filmmaker who posed as a pimp to target the liberal activist group ACORN was arrested with the son of a federal prosecutor and two other men and accused of plotting to tamper with the New Orleans offices of Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La.
Activist James O’Keefe, [...]

Barack Obama to freeze top-level White House salaries

WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack obama will freeze the salaries of senior White House officials and other top political appointees for savings of $4 million in fiscal 2011, a senior administration official said on Tuesday.
The official told Reuters that Obama, in his State of the Union address on Wednesday, would likely mention [...]

Democrat Rep Carol Shea-Porter: Congress Could Pass Health Reform If Men Were “Sent Home”

The Hill: “We go to the ladies room and the Republican women and the Democratic women and we just roll our eyes,” Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-N.H.) said. “And the Republican women said when we were fighting over the healthcare bill, if we sent the men home…” at which point she was interrupted by loud applause.