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Here is the Bret Baer video with Barney Frank lying about the already failing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac banks. This was aired recently on FOX but I haven't seen a link at FR yet, so here it is.

The insane leader of the House of Representatives said today: "We Cannot Afford to Continue Failed Republican Economic Policies" referring to current problems in our financial markets; like the pending bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers - a leading Wall Street investment house. And yet, Pelosi, by the facts, is nothing but a liar, as to whose "policies" have "failed". Both the "sub-prime" crisis and many of its aftermaths are completely related to total lack of due diligence by Congress in their oversight role of Freddie and Fannie. Since 2000, when Republican House leaders attempted major reforms of Freddie and Fannie it...

Sarah Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson was an appalling attempt at smearing her, even to the point that some in the mainstream media even took Gibson and ABC News to task on it. From the outset, it was clear that Gibson planned to paint her as completely inept and unqualified. The very first question, asking Palin if she hesitated when McCain offered her a spot on the ticket, dripped with condescension. Here was Gibson, looking professorial with his glasses down at the end of his nose, eyebrow cocked, as if to portray her as a liar, or so self-assured as...

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US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday called President George W. Bush "a total failure" who "has no ideas," in an interview with CNN. Responding to stinging criticism from Bush on the Democratic leadership in both houses of Congress and the slow pace of the legislative agenda, as Congress prepares for its one-month summer recess in August, Pelosi let loose: "You know, God bless him, bless his heart, the president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject." Pelosi, 68,...

Future U.S. bank failures linked to the downturn in the real estate market may include "institutions of greater size" than in the recent past, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp Chairman Sheila Bair said on Thursday. An increasing number of banks face high exposure to deteriorating conditions in commercial real estate and construction lending, Bair told a Senate Banking Committee hearing on the state of the banking industry. "There is also the possibility that future failures could include institutions of greater size than we have seen in the recent past," Bair said. "Uncertainties in today's economic environment continue to pose significant challenges...

The Democrats have ended their first year controlling Congress since 1994, and they now return home with much less self-congratulation than when they arrived triumphantly in January. The taste of success turned bitter when their leadership found they could not get their agenda past a suprisingly resilient opposition, and discovered the hard way that presidents are never irrelevant. Still, they have not learned that they created most of the problems themselves: Congressional Democrats ended their first year in control of Congress in more than a decade Wednesday, approving a $555-billion government spending measure that gave President Bush $70 billion for...

A Failure to Lead The Democratic Congress is more interested in acting out than in taking positive action. BY KARL ROVE Friday, November 9, 2007 This week is the one-year anniversary of Democrats winning Congress. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid probably aren't in a celebrating mood. The goodwill they enjoyed after their victory is gone. Their bright campaign promises are unfulfilled. Democratic leadership is in disarray. And Congress's approval rating has fallen to its lowest point in history. The problems the Democrats are now experiencing begin with the federal budget. Or rather, the lack...

The Democratic Party hasn't just taken over the title of The Stupid Party, as Professor James W. Ceaser characterizes it in his much-admired article of the same name in The Weekly Standard. Professor Ceaser insightfully argues that today's Democratic Party is what it is because of philosophical diffidence readily exploited by the bullying of a "network of techno-thugs," all Leftists. But his erudite argument confines itself to the realm of ideas. In the world of facts on the ground, the Democratic Party is also The Failed Party. The larger truth is that liberalism, as a governing philosophy, is a spent...

Newsweek on Monday will unveil a sweeping redesign of the magazine and its Web site while at the same time formally ending its seven-year distribution agreement with MSNBC.com. While some recent redesigns have been introduced with fanfare, such as BusinessWeek, whose new look hit newsstands yesterday, or Time, which was overhauled in March, Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham has consciously avoided publicizing Newsweek's revamping. "It was stealth redesign," Meacham said yesterday as he was getting ready to ship the first of the new-look pages to the printer.

Read the story that prompted this column Mike Flaherty, San Carlos An F, for failure to de-fund the war. Instead of playing commander-in-chief with timetables, benchmarks, etc, they should have used their constitutional power of the purse if they were at all serious. F for leadership, F for integrity and F for execution. Harry Reid does receive a C+ for most disheartening comment made by a U.S. senator in time of war and for furnishing aid and comfort to the enemy. Julie Bennett, San Francisco C-. It's their turn, and I feel like they are wimping out. They are asking...

Democrats' great shark hunt for Alberto Gonzales seems to be running into some snags. Michael Ramirez's cartoon commentary is here.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US generals came under fire Friday in a stinging critique by a mid-level officer and combat veteran who charged that as a whole they repeated the mistakes of Vietnam in Iraq. Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling said the generals failed to prepare the military for counter-insurgency warfare, kept silent when the country went to war with too few troops, and botched the post-invasion occupation. "In 2007, Iraq's grave and deteriorating condition offers diminishing hope for an American victory and portends risk of an even wider and more destructive regional war," Yingling wrote in an essay published in the...

Democrat Failures By Tank It seems that Democrats are more and more nomadic–wandering from presidential epithets to anguished groans about Bush’s judicial nominees, searching desparately for a identity (apart from liberal insanity, that is). Victor Davis Hanson authored a tremendous piece on the failings of the modern Democratic party and why the Democrats will continue to fail. Hanson highlights some of the Democrats hypocrisy: [T]here is the widening gulf between word and deed — and Americans hate hypocrites most of all. When you meet a guy from the Chamber of Commerce or insurance association, you pretty much know that what...

In September 1971, John Lennon released what was to become his greatest hit after the breakup of the Beatles. It was the “poetic” expression of the 1960s, the utopian vision that the Beatles and others of their generation came to embrace. “Imagine” envisioned a world free not only of war but also of religion, which Lennon believed to be the root cause of all war. Lennon’s world was a stateless one, where communal man lived without poverty, possessions or conflict. “Imagine all the people, Living life in peace...” But why imagine? Why not work for the real thing? Indeed, that’s...

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright criticized President George W. Bush's handling of the war on terror in a speech at Georgetown University Monday night. Albright was the guest of honor at the fourth annual Snowdon Lecture, a speech by a public figure addressing the intersection of faith and social justice in the world. In the speech sponsored by the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington, Albright attacked Bush's policies in Iraq and in third world countries. "I hope I'm wrong, but I'm afraid that Iraq is going to go down in history as the greatest disaster in American foreign policy,"...

It's time to watch the Today Show. The best news the annoying perky one could get is that her old show is doing better without her. Then, after a week or two, stop watching again. FreeRepMates Unite!

ON WEDNESDAY, June 7, U.S. military forces, in President Bush's words, "delivered justice to the most wanted terrorist in Iraq," Abu Musab al Zarqawi. Before considering the possible implications for the war in Iraq and the global struggle against terror, we should pause to celebrate so striking an instance of injustice avenged, and justice vindicated. The unjust--even the barbarically unjust--prevail all too often in this world. It is good for civilized people to see, as Marshall Wittmann put it, that "evil has suffered a setback." In the blunt words of Paul Bigley of the United Kingdom, whose brother Ken was...

At PC World, we spend most of our time talking about products that make your life easier or your work more productive. But it's the lousy ones that linger in our memory long after their shrinkwrap has shriveled, and that make tech editors cry out, "What have I done to deserve this?" Still, even the worst products deserve recognition (or deprecation). So as we put together our list of World Class winners for 2006, we decided also to spotlight the 25 worst tech products that have been released since PC World began publishing nearly a quarter-century ago. Picking our list...

America Online (1989-2006)RealNetworks RealPlayer (1999)Syncronys SoftRAM (1995)Microsoft Windows Millennium (2000)Sony BMG Music CDs (2005)Disney The Lion King CD-ROM (1994)Microsoft Bob (1995)Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (2001)Pressplay and Musicnet (2002)dBASE IV (1988)Priceline Groceries and Gas (2000)PointCast (1996)IBM PCjr. (1984)Gateway 2000 10th Anniversary PC (1995)Iomega Zip Drive (1998)Comet Cursor (1997)Apple Macintosh Portable (1989)IBM Deskstar 75GXP (2000)OQO Model 1 (2004)CueCat (2000)Eyetop Wearable DVD Player (2004)Apple Pippin @World (1996)Free PCs (1999)DigiScents iSmell (2001)Sharp RD3D Notebook (2004)

Disappointing airplay for the first two singles from the new album by the Dixie Chicks exposes a deep -- and seemingly growing -- rift between the trio and the country radio market that helped turn the group into superstars. "Taking the Long Way," due out May 23, is the band's first album since singer Natalie Maines sparked a major controversy in 2003 by declaring that she was ashamed to hail from the same state as fellow Texan President George W. Bush. Radio boycotts ensued, and many fans abandoned the band. The first single, "Not Ready to Make Nice," peaked at...

China admits 'green' failures By Richard Spencer in Beijing (Filed: 20/04/2006) The Chinese government admitted yesterday that it had failed to meet almost half of the environmental targets it set itself six years ago. Wen Jiabao, the prime minister, owned up after a fortnight in which Beijing has experienced some of its worst pollution for years. He told a national conference on environmental protection that "lack of awareness, insufficient planning, illogical industrial structure and a weak legal framework" were all reasons why the country was falling behind on eight of 20 measures set out in 2000. These included the release...

State water officials on Friday warned of the potential for flooding and levee breaks throughout the San Joaquin Valley as California braced for another wave of storms, with a major system predicted to slam the state by early next week. "We are extremely worried there is a potential for levee failure in the San Joaquin system," said Jay Punia, chief of flood operations for the state Department of Water Resources. "We can't tell you where it will happen. If somebody is living behind a levee in the San Joaquin, they should be extremely cautious." The warning comes as California's rivers...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2006 – Terrorists have failed repeatedly to meet their objectives in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said here today. "They failed to stop the January elections, they failed to stop the drafting of the constitution, they failed to stop the referendum on the constitution, they failed to stop the most recent election, they failed to stop the seating of the parliament, they're going to fail to stop the seating of a new government," Rumsfeld said at a Pentagon news briefing. "They are on the run. ... They have failed in almost everything they have tried to...

After the 2004 election Schwarzenegger met with political advisers to discuss how he could regain momentum. Schwarzenegger had denounced Democratic legislators as "girlie men", vetoed bills pushed by Democrats and tried to unseat Democratic legislators. Despite his failure in legislative elections, Schwarzenegger had emerged with high popularity and had personally intervened to defeat a ballot measure that would have weakened the state's "three strikes" law. How could Schwarzenegger leverage his popularity to move an agenda through a Capitol dominated by Democrats, immune to punishment at the polls, thanks to a 2001 bipartisan gerrymander of legislative districts? The strategy that emerged...

A gross of $11,000 per screen is quite good. If you're an autumn Wide Release, opening on 3500 screens across the country. When a movie opens on only 69 of the nation's largest theaters in a few dozen of the largest cities, with almost all of your target audience within range of those theaters, it's pretty bad. Brokeback Mountain played in fourteen times more theaters this Friday than last Friday, and made less than four times as much money, only $760,000. It looks like the movie will make considerably less than its $15 million budget before the Academy Awards come...

Cindy Sheehan Claims Photos Falsely Implied Her Book Signing was a Flop AP The widely-used book signing picture. By E&P Staff Published: November 29, 2005 12:30 PM ET NEW YORK Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and her book publisher are upset about Associated Press and Reuters photos that allegedly presented a misleading impression of her book signing last weekend in Texas. Sheehan, whose soldier son was killed in Iraq, gained wide fame last summer in an antiwar protest near President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, and then in a march in Washington, D.C. She returned to Crawford last week for a...

BOSTON -- It has become known as one of the most effective TV presidential campaign commercials ever: President Bush consoling a 9-year-old Ohio girl named Ashley whose mother died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Mr. Bush hugged Ashley at an appearance in Ohio in 2003, holding her close and telling her, "I know that's hard. Are you all right?" The story of Mr. Bush's hug ran in the Cincinnati Enquirer. In June 2004, a group called Progress For America, a conservative pro-Bush group known as a 527 organization, so named for the part of the federal tax code...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30, 2005 – Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld pointed to this week's open congressional hearings involving the two top generals in Iraq as an opportunity for the world to watch democracy in action. Had the tides been turned, he said, terrorists would have had some "awkward" explanations to make. Army Gen. John Abizaid, chief of U.S. Central Command, and Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., commander of Multinational Force Iraq, were here this week to brief President Bush, the National Security Council and Pentagon leaders about operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. At the president's request, Abizaid and Casey...

Which kind of intelligence failure is better — the kind that badly understates a threat, such as the one in London, or the kind that overstates a threat, such as the insistent warnings before the invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein was armed with weapons of mass destruction? Even in the best intelligence services, failures are sometimes inevitable. Foresight will never be as sharp as hindsight. Only after the fact — after the Underground blows up, after 9/11, after the stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons are nowhere to be found — is it clear what the picture looks like...

2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Friday she was "outraged" that President Bush hasn't spent more money to beef up security on New York City's mass transit system in the wake of Thursday's train bombings in London. "I'm absolutely outraged by the failure of the administration to release the [rail security] funding that Congress approved last year," the top Democrat complained. "We are woefully behind where London and other subway systems are because London does have the video surveillance," she fumed. "I just don't understand what the holdup is." Even before the smoke cleared in London, Clinton was on the...

It is impossible that the Bush tax cuts of June 2003 contributed to relatively lower tax payments by the very richest Americans in 2002. But New York Times writer David Cay Johnston conveniently avoids this fact in his Sunday front-page article, “Richest Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind,” which used tax-payment data that ended in 2002 to extend the class-warfare argument. Is this just more garden-variety Bush-bashing from the newspaper of record? I’d also like to know why Johnston never mentions the fact that the wealthiest Americans suffered the most in the stock market plunge and asset deflation of 2000-02....

It is time again to write our Congresscritters, www.senate.gov & www.house.gov . It is time again to write and call the WhiteHouse, www.whitehouse.gov . It's time to contact the Department of Homeland Security, http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/contactus on the failures and shenianigans of border security. Please encourage your congresscritters to reject Mccain's and Kennedy's new immigration bill that would get the ball rolling on the guest worker program which was tried in 1986 and only worsened the problem. Call the Department of Homeland Security at Operator Number: 202-282-8000 Comment Line: 202-282-8495. What's the latest news on the MinuteMen? I heard they will go...

The Democrats made huge errors in tactics and judgment during the last presidential campaign. But they thought that the patronizing contempt they held – and continue to hold – for the electorate would go unnoticed. Heady with the multimillions pouring into their coffers, with a monopoly on an old media that historically and unfailingly back leftists, and by mistaking their candidate's verbal contortions for substantive policy, they deluded themselves into thinking that the Oval office – as well as the Congress, Senate and a good many governorships – were theirs for the taking. What they failed to grasp was that...

Nationally syndicated talkshow host Dennis Prager interviewed Nancy Soderberg on his show today. She was No. 3 at the NSC in the Clinton administration and is the author of THE SUPERPOWER MYTH: THE USE AND MISUSE OF AMERICAN MIGHT. Where do I begin? She was so misguided, disingenuous, arrogant, and foolish, that I almost had to pull over the DFU mobile to vomit. Among the highlights: - she is proud of the agreement they made with North Korea - she claims that the Iraq war was wrong because Saddam Hussein was not an imminent threat (I was screaming at that...

"SEE NO EVIL " -By Robert Baer- Billed as "The true story of a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism", Robert Baer's very interesting book sheds a great deal of light on the CIA's "culture of failure" : a culture,according to Baer,that led directly to the 9/11 disaster. The CIA,according to Baer,not only abdicated its intelligence-gathering responsibility,it reduced itself -notably during the Clinton administration-to a highly politicized fund-raising group: dedicated to sweeping unpleasant truths under the rug,and punishing anyone unwilling to "get with the program". Sandy Berger (who later pled guilty to theft of documents from the National...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - California's public schools, once among the best in the nation, now lag behind almost every other state in student achievement, funding, teacher quality and facilities. The state's urban high schools have become "dropout factories," saddled with some of the lowest graduation rates in the United States. And the pay disparity among California teachers means that the best-paid teachers in 42 of the 50 largest districts work in schools that serve the fewest number of black and Hispanic students. Those are just a few of the findings outlined in several recent reports which together paint a grim...

The gridlock in Sacramento has become so bad that the people's business has been turned over to the big money fund-raisers and the manipulators of public opinion. Last week, a Superior Court judge ruled that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger can raise unlimited amounts of cash so he can put directly to voters reform measures that the Democrat-controlled Legislature won't even consider seriously. It essentially sanctions both sides to engage in an unfettered cash-fest from special interests and to spend these fortunes on what almost certainly will be false and misleading advertisements. California is giving up the pretense of a representative democracy....

WHAT? NO JUANITA WING? (librarius infectusannotated) virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.com by Mia T, 11.15.04 s former President Bill Clinton's libraryis unveiled at a gala opening this week, one thing is certain: His messy legacy will be on full display. hillary talks:ON TERROR (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE)  THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED(kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) The Parallel Universe of Jamie GorelickWHY THE LEFT IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA   (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)thanx to Fixit for the audio play tape hillary talks:ON CHINA (viewing...

CONSERVATIVE TRUTH 09/06/04 Flip-Flops or Work Boots By Tom Barrett Publisher@ConservativeTruth.org I enjoyed the Republican Convention this week. I endured the Democrat Convention several weeks ago. Those two experiences convinced me of two things: 1) This election may well decide whether or not America survives as a free nation; and 2) Never has there been such stark contrast between two presidential candidates. As to the first, I am really not worried. After Kerry’s ridiculous Convention in which he pathetically tried to make this election about Viet Nam, and Bush’s magnificent Convention in which he and the other speakers laid out...

What began in June with a controversy over an $8 million technology contract has escalated into a scandal exposing high-level management failures at San Jose City Hall. ``It's becoming clear that both the city manager and the city attorney have been running very dysfunctional offices,'' Councilman Dave Cortese said late last week, after more revelations surfaced about favoritism and collusion in the failed deal to buy Cisco Systems networking and telephone equipment for the new City Hall. ``At a tremendous cost to the city, they let that condition fester, and now it's a big-time problem and a big-time cost to...

LAST YEAR at this time, the media were in full scandal mode over 16 words that President Bush had spoken nearly six months earlier. "The British government has learned," Bush had said in his State of the Union address in January, "that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." A furor erupted over that statement when a CIA consultant and ex-diplomat named Joseph Wilson, who had gone to Niger in 2002 to look into the matter, publicly claimed that the charge wasn't true. The White House agreed that the line shouldn't have been in Bush's speech, but...

(Talon News) -- Vice President Dick Cheney went on offense last week, charging that the Clinton administration ignored the threat of terrorism during its eight years in power. His remarks came during a speech at the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans on Thursday. Cheney began by praising the World War II generation for inspiring a new generation of Americans to lives of service in America's armed forces. Cheney pointed out that thousands from the new generation are "standing watch for freedom in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world." The vice president said that the challenges faced by the war...

<p>The resignation of - and subsequent week of heavy demand for - David A. Kay, the former U.N. weapons inspector who headed the weapons-searching Iraq Survey Group, might turn out to be little more than a week of fleeting publicity. Even if his assertions are valid, it is probably too much to hope that it will lead to valuable reform of U.S. intelligence agencies. Mr. Kay said he now doubts Saddam had had stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons, but that the best available intelligence prior to the war made it reasonable to suspect he did.</p>

Higher taxes will be needed to fund health and education improvements, Tony Blair indicated yesterday after admitting that his first six years in power had failed to deliver a promised "transformation" in public services. After weeks on the defensive over Iraq, the euro and accusations of a "botched" reshuffle, Mr Blair sought to regain the initiative by relaunching his second-term agenda of public service reform. Tony Blair: promised to pushthe pace of NHS reform He said the Government had to provide more choice and quality in the NHS and schools to keep better off patients and parents within the State...

Many people I know seemed to have unusual failures with their cell phones this evening. All of 12 had the failure sometime this evening. I live in South Florida. Is someone wreaking havoc with the cell phone satellite or something? My friends use either Verizon or Cingular Wireless.

In a blistering indictment of his old boss's negligence in fighting the war on terrorism, former FBI Director Louis Freeh charged Tuesday that ex-President Clinton was so unhelpful during his agency's investigation into the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing that he had to turn to former President Bush. Writing in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, Freeh described the Clinton White House as "unable or unwilling to help the FBI" gain access to key witnesses in the Khobar case because it feared exposing the role of Hezbollah and its state sponsor, Iran. "The only direction from the Clinton administration regarding Iran was to...

It's Week 2 of Al and Tipper Gore's book campaign juggernaut. The ex-veep and his wife -- who pocketed a rumored seven-figure advance from Henry Holt and Co. -- have been welcomed by countless media outlets willing to help them hawk "Joined at the Heart," an anecdotal study of the American family, and "The Spirit of Family," a companion coffee-table photo collection. But while the authors are getting star billing wherever they go -- including Al's scheduled guest shot on tomorrow's "Tonight Show With Jay Leno" -- their books aren't selling up to expectations, publishing sources told us yesterday. "They've...

HMMM...Daschle and his lousy 23.8 percent Senator Daschle's Job Performance Review 23.8% = UnderperformingAfter a year as Senate Majority Leader, Senator Daschle has little to show for it. Senator Daschle's year as Senate Majority Leader has been a year of delay and obstruction. With no budget, unable to outline priorities, and an inability to pass legislation, Senate Democrats have failed to lead. While the House of Representatives is addressing the President's compassionate conservative agenda for national, homeland, and economic security, Senate Democrats continue to ignore their responsibility to the American people. As Senate Majority Leader, Senator Daschle has a 23.8%*...

Faulty Genes Explain Why Cloning Is So DifficultMon May 27, 3:07 PM ETCloning may not always completely reprogramme an egg cell the way sexual reproduction does, which might explain why the process fails more often than it works, experts say. Dolly, the world's first cloned animal, stands in her pen at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh in this February 23, 1997, file photo. REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cloning may not always completely reprogram an egg cell the way sexual reproduction does, which would explain why the process fails so often, researchers reported on Monday. While lawmakers around the world debate...