Daily Archives: 05/23/2012

FACT: FY2009 Spending Was 14% Larger Than Bush’s Proposal!

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Bush submitted to Congress a budget for FY 2009 of $3.1 trillion dollars. However, the bottom line spending for that year (nine month of it with Obama in office) was $3.52 trillion; an increase of FOURTEEN PERCENT!

But  But even if you take all of the FY2009 outlays and blame it on Bush – which  would include the second half of TARP that Obama requested; most of the Auto  Bailout which Obama pushed; The Mortgage/Loan Medication Program; The Omnibus Spending Bill  signed by Obama March 2009; The Stimulus Bill, and the S-CHIP expansion – take  all of this and place it on Bush, spending is still up by almost 24% in Obama’s  first term versus Bush’s last:

> Total outlays for Budget Years 2006, 200, 2008 and 2009: $11.882 trillion.

> Total outlays for the following four budget years will be approximately  $14.645 trillion. This, my friends, is an increase of almost  24%.

Jewish NYC Mayor Bloomberg Thinks 6-Day War Took Place in 1987

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Acknowledging the absence of laughter in the tent pitched on Gracie Mansion’s lawn, the Jewish mayor tried a few more from his script before shifting topics and talking about the recent occurrence of Jerusalem Day, the anniversary of Israel’s capture of the Old City of Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War. Except Bloomberg said it happened in 1987. – JTA

FRIENDS: Iran Navy Helps U.S. Ship Attacked by Pirates

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Bloomberg Reports: Iran’s navy helped a U.S.-flagged cargo ship that was attacked by pirates off the United Arab Emirates, according to the vessel’s owner, Maersk Line Ltd. The Iranian navy was the first to respond to the initial distress call from the Maersk Texas, Kevin Speers, senior director of marketing at Maersk Line, said by phone today. The vessel was attacked by several skiffs and armed guards on board returned fire, the company said in an earlier statement. Read more »

PHOTOSHOPPING Jewish Congressman Suggests All Publicity is Good Publicity

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Rep. Brad Sherman sent Jewish voters a picture of his family including his mother, while other voters got the same picture, minus mom. Today, he claimed it was a clever scheme aimed at forcing the press to print pictures of his family. He doesn’t seem to be joking. - BuzzFeed H/T Political Wire

Hawaii Sends Arizona Verification of Obama’s Birth

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Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett said Tuesday night that he has received  information from Hawaii that proves President Obama’s American birth and  satisfies Arizona’s requirements for having the president on the upcoming  election ballot. Bennett said the issue is now resolved from his point of view. He has cancelled  a planned Wednesday news conference where he was expected to discuss the issue. – AZ Central H/T Drudge Report.

POLL: 40% Say Trayvon Shot in Self-Defense; Less Than Half Blacks Say It’s Murder

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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 24% of American Adults still believe the man who shot Martin should be found guilty of murder. But that’s down from 33% in late March when the case first began to draw national headlines… Forty percent (40%) now think George Zimmerman acted in self-defense. That’s up 25 points from 15% in March… Thirty-six percent (36%) remain undecided, compared to 55% two months ago… Interestingly, 47% of black adults still feel Zimmerman should be found guilty of murdering the black teenager, compared to 55% in March. Now nearly as many blacks (40%) think Zimmerman acted in self-defense. – Rasmussen

KY, AR Primary Results: Romney Gets More Among GOP Than Obama Among Dems

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In Kentucky, Romney, who is expected to clinch the nomination after the Texas primary on May 29, received a higher percentage of the vote in the Republican presidential primary than Obama received in the Democratic presidential primary. With 99.9 percent of precincts reporting, Romney had 67 percent of the vote, while Obama had 58 percent – compared to “uncommitted,” which received 42 percent, according to The Associated Press. In Arkansas, results are still in the early stages of being counted, but with 33 percent of precincts reporting, Obama has 61.5 percent of the vote, and his Democratic challenger,   John Wolfe, a lawyer from Tennessee, has 38.5 percent. Romney, comparatively, has received 69.5 percent of the vote, the AP reported. ABC News Via Yahoo

NJ9 – Shmuley Boteach: ‘Cory Booker Is My Brother’

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Politicker Reports: In the aftermath of the flap over Mr. Booker’s comments about the Obama campaign’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital, Mr. Boteach wrote an op-ed in the Jewish newspaper Algemeiner criticizing anyone who would try to score points off the Bain brouhaha. He also included a shot against his probably opponents in New Jersey’s 9th congressional district.

Mr. Boteach began his column on an apolitical note.

“For a moment, let me remove my hat as a Republican candidate for public office and speak only wearing my yarmulke, as a Rabbi who has known Cory for twenty years and has had the blessing throughout that time of an intimate, brotherly friendship,” he wrote. ”Cory is my brother. We are on different sides of the political spectrum. He is a proud and staunch Democrat. But few people have taught me more about being a good person than Cory.”