Obama A Dithering Untrustworthy President Who Has Come Full Circle.

They just keep coming!









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Bibi meets with a key Senator and supporter of Israel.

Bibi understands America's support for Israel and recognition of it as  a reliable and important ally is best gauged by sentiments expressed in Congress and not from this White House.

Obama is an unreliable partner despite all his words. Ask the Syrians, the Iranians and Republicans.

A president that screws his own people, a president who receives a Nobel Peace Prize before he has done anything to justify getting it and then deserts those being slaughtered and a president who lies is not one to be trusted.(See 1 below.)

Russia has now delivered their air missile defense and are planning on delivering a comparable sea defense to Syria.

This adds a new dimension to the Syrian military picture and will make it far more difficult to attack Syria.

Obama's dithering has lessened our options and made Assad;s overthrow more difficult and/or less likely.

Obama has come full circle from a President who received an undeserved  Nobel Peace Prize to an earned title as one of the most incompetent presidents in recent history.
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Just as I have maintained. (See 2 below.)
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Hanson and the old order. (See 3 below.)
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Jude Wanitski wrote a book on economics years ago entitled: "The Way The World Works."  His thesis was, people eventually do what is less painful.  (See 4 below.)
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1)PM Netanyahu Meets with US Senator Robert Menendez
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening (Wednesday, 29 May 2013),
met with US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez
(D-NJ), and made the following remarks at the start of the meeting:
"Senator, I would like to welcome you as a great friend of Israel. You did
it again. Your bill supporting Israel against the Iranian nuclear threat(see
below) was passed by an amazing majority, I think 99 to 0. Very few people
can accomplish something like that and it’s the second time you’ve done it,
because you’ve also had the important sanctions bill. And we know that you
stand with us, as do the American people and the American Government, the
American congress, against the greatest security threat of our time, which
is Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons. I think it’s the greatest security
threat to the United States, to the free world and to international peace.
And these are our two goals: security and peace. On peace, we applaud
Secretary Kerry’s efforts. I stand ready to resume negotiations immediately,
and I think there’s an abiding interest to achieve a secure peace. And we’re
prepared to get on with it. The one thing that unites all Israelis: the
support and friendship of the United States. It’s very strong because of
people like you. Thank you."

Senator Menendez said: "And for twenty years, as a member of the House of
Representatives and the Senate and now as the Chairman of the Center Foreign
Relations Committee, I’ve always asked two questions in terms of the US
foreign policy abroad: What is in the national interest of the United
States? What is in the national security interest of the United States? And
the answer to those questions, for myself, I’ve always dictated my views, my
advocacy and my votes. And for 20 years I’ve answered that question as it
relates to the Middle East that it’s in the national interest and the
national security of the United States to have a strong, unwavering
relationship with the State of Israel – a true democracy in a very tough
part of the world; a major security ally of the United States; a major trade
partner of the United States; and a country most likely to be voting in
common cause with us in international parts. I haven’t changed those views
as the Chairman of the Center Foreign Relations Committee. I continue to
hold them, and I do agree with you that Iran is a major challenge. It’s why
I’ve led three different set of sanctions laws successfully, and the one
thing about the Congress we may have very significant differences but the
one thing that unites the American Congress is our relationship with Israel
and we look forward to continuing that."
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2)Attorney: Don't expect apology from Attorney General Holder - See more at: http://onenewsnow.com//politics-govt/2013/05/29/attorney-dont-expect-apology-from-attorney-general#.UaZ0bEAWJM4

A former Justice Department attorney says Attorney General Eric Holder will not be forced out of office despite misleading Congress about the pursuit of reporters' records by the DOJ.

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Eric Holder will come up with 15 reasons why he didn't lie under oath," says J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department attorney who worked in the Voting Section at the federal agency.

Adams now serves as legal editor for PJ Media.

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Two weeks ago, Holder testified before the House Judiciary Committee and insisted that "the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material" is not something he was involved in or even knew about.

But Fox News is reporting the Justice Department has acknowledged Holder was involved in the decision to go after Fox News reporter James Rosen's e-mails.

The DOJ filed an affidavit accusing Rosen of being a likely criminal "co-conspirator" in the leak of sensitive material regarding North Korea.

Rosen was never charged and never prosecuted.  

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They had executed search warrants which named James Rosen as a potential conspirator in a crime," Adams tells OneNewsNow. "And it's just another instance of this Justice Department, this administration not being honest with the American people." 

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ut Adams asserts that Holder will not resign or be forced to step down over this latest scandal.

"These are smooth-talking people with usually Ivy League law school degrees," explains Adams. "One of things they teach you in those schools is how to never admit you made a mistake and to always argue your way out of a problem."

Adams adds, "And that's just the culture now in Washington D.C." 

- See more at: http://onenewsnow.com//politics-govt/2013/05/29/attorney-dont-expect-apology-from-attorney-general#.UaZ0bEAWJM4

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3)

The Old Order is Dying

Victor Davis Hanson
Ideas of the 1960s have now grown reactionary in our world that is vastly different from a half-century ago.

Take well-meaning subsidies for those over age 62. Why are there still senior discounts, vast expansions in Social Security and Medicare, and generous public pensions?

Five decades ago all that made sense. There was no such thing as double-dipping. Seniors often were physically worn out from blue-collar jobs. They were usually poorer and frequently sicker than society in general. The aged usually died not long after they retired.

Not now. Seniors often live a quarter-century or longer after a mostly white-collar retirement, drawing subsidies from those least able to pay for them.

Seniors are not like today's strapped youth, scrimping for a down payment on a house. Most are not struggling to find even part-time work. None are paying off crushing student loans. In a calcified economy, why would an affluent couple in their early 60s earn a "senior discount" at a movie, while the struggling young couple with three children in the same line does not?

Affirmative action and enforced "diversity" were originally designed to give a boost to those who were victims of historical bias from the supposedly oppressive white-majority society. Is that still true, a half-century after these assumptions became institutionalized?

Through greater intermarriage and immigration, America has become a multiracial nation. Skin color, general appearance, accent or the sound of one's name cannot so easily identify either "oppressors" or "victims."

So who exactly should receive privileges in job-hiring or college admissions -- the newly arrived Pakistani immigrant, or the third-generation, upper-middle-class Mexican-American who does not speak Spanish? Both, or neither? What about someone of half-Jamaican ancestry? What about the children of Attorney General Eric Holder or self-proclaimed Native American Sen. Elizabeth Warren? What about the poor white grandson of the Oklahoma diaspora who is now a minority in California?

Even if the 21st-century state could define who is a minority, on what moral grounds does the targeted beneficiary deserve special consideration? Is his disadvantage defined by being poorer, by lingering trauma from his grandparents' long-ago ordeals, or by yesterday's experience with routine racial prejudice?

If Latinos are underrepresented at the University of California, Berkeley, is it because of the stubborn institutional prejudices that also somehow have been trumped by Asian-Americans enrolling at three times their numbers in the state's general population? Are women so oppressed by men that they graduate from college in higher numbers than their chauvinist male counterparts?

Consider also the calcified assumptions about college education. The expanding 1960s campus was touted as the future gateway to a smarter, fairer, richer and more ethical America. Is that dream still valid?

Today, the college-educated owe a collective $1 trillion in unpaid student loans. Millions of recent graduates cannot find jobs that offer much chance of paying off their crushing student debts.

College itself has become a sort of five- to six-year lifestyle choice. Debt, joblessness or occasional part-time employment and coursework eat up a youth's 20s -- in a way that military service or vocational training does not.

In reaction, private diploma mills are springing up everywhere. But there are no "diversity czars" at DeVry University. There is no time or money for the luxury of classes such as "Gender Oppression" at Phoenix University. Students do not have rock-climbing walls or have Michael Moore address them at Heald College.

The private-sector campus makes other assumptions. One is that the hallowed liberal arts general-education requirement has been corrupted and no longer ensures an employer that his college-graduate hire is any more broadly educated or liberally minded than those who paid far less tuition for job-training courses at for-profit alternative campuses.

Scan the government grandees caught up in the current administration's ballooning IRS, Associated Press and Benghazi scandals. In each case, a blue-chip Ivy League degree was no guarantee that our best and brightest technocrats would prove transparent or act honorably. What difference did it make that White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder, President Barack Obama and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice had degrees from prestigious universities when they misled the American people or Congress?

The now-aging idealists of the 1960s long ago promised us that a uniformly degreed citizenry -- shepherded by Ivy League-branded technocrats -- would make America better by sorting us out by differences in age, gender, education and race.

It is now past time to end that ossified dream before it becomes our collective downfall.

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4)

Report: Americans Are 'Voting With Their Feet'

By John Morgan

States that have the lowest level of government financial intrusion — e.g., taxes and regulatory obstructions — also tend to have the highest economic growth rates, a new "economic freedom index" shows.

According to data of America’s 51 largest metropolitan regions from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the top 10 areas in job growth included mostly cities in Sunbelt states, such as Houston, Dallas, Austin, Raleigh and Charlotte, while the bottom 10 featured mostly Rust Belt areas, such as St. Louis, Milwaukee and Buffalo, City Journal reported.

While employment numbers nationwide remain bleak when the underemployed or those outside the work force are factored in, some areas of America are thriving.


How to account for the disparity? According to City Journal, answer is contained in "Freedom in the 50 States," a new report from the George Washington University's Mercatus Center, which suggests geographic shifts in job growth are the result not only of policy, but also of "broader governing philosophies."

The Mercatus "economic freedom index" takes into account tax levels, government spending, tort laws, permits and licensing, labor rights and healthcare choices, among other factors.

"The results seem to imply that Americans value freedom and are willing to vote with their feet for it," said Jason Sorens, one of the authors of the Mercatus report.

"People definitely consider tax burden in their choice of a new home. Business regulation can dampen job opportunities, and people tend to move where the jobs are."

Sorens said taxes and regulations have made life unaffordable for some Americans, and forced them from states like California, which lost 1.5 million people last decade, to places like Texas, which gained 2 million, according to City Journal.

A separate Cato Institute study analyzing tax burdens by metro area found that the 10 lowest-taxed regions experienced three times the increase in the populations of the 10 highest-taxed metros from 1980 to 2007, City Journal reported.

Veronique de Rugy, a Mercatus researcher, testified before the Senate Budget Committee last week stating that government spending cuts can be a significant factor in economic growth.

In the United States, "public spending is about 43 percent of GDP [gross domestic product], a level common in Europe not long ago, and up from 34 percent in 2000," she explained.

A consensus among economists "seems to have emerged recently that spending-based fiscal adjustments are not only more likely to reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio than tax-based ones but also less likely to trigger a recession."

"In fact, if accompanied by the right type of policies (especially changes to public employees' pay and public pension reforms), spending-based adjustments can actually be associated with economic growth," De Rugy testified

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