Posted on 10 April 2012. Tags: Activist, Affordable Care, Care Act, Constitutionality, Dim View, Economic Legislation, Federal Government, Health Care Law, House Of Representatives, Lexington Kentucky, Mitch Mcconnell, Preemptive, Republicans, Scrutiny, Senate Republican Leader, Temerity, Tenor, Unprecedented Power, Washington Post, Worth Noting That
President Obama’s preemptive criticism last week of the Supreme Court as it considers the constitutionality of his health care continues to face scrutiny. Speaking in Lexington, Kentucky, on Thursday, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell took a dim view of the president’s complaints about the Court. “[A]pparently,” he said, “President Obama didn’t like the tenor [...]
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Posted on 05 April 2012. Tags: Barack Obama, Blasts, Careful Study, Carney, Controversial Remarks, Election Year, Fter, Health Care Law, Healthcare Reform, Lexington Kentucky, Mitch Mcconnell, Precedents, Preemptive, Press Secretary, Reuters, Rotary Club, Senate Republican Leader, Tenor, Unprecedented Power, White House Press
Reuters wrote yesterday, “The White House was forced on the defensive on Wednesday as it sought to explain controversial remarks President Barack Obama made earlier in the week about the Supreme Court’s review of his signature healthcare reform law. . . . Obama expressed confidence on Monday that the Court would not take an ‘unprecedented, [...]
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Posted on 19 January 2012. Tags: Bald Guy, Boast, Butterfly Sting, Comments Section, Council Homepage, Council Member, Council Members, Council News, E Mail Address, Honorable Mention, Ilse, Nada, Noisy Room, Notoriety, Obama, Political Commentator, Preemptive, S Council, Talking Points, Weekly Contest
Seventy years young yesterday…rumble young man, rumble! Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside [...]
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Posted on 29 May 2011. Tags: 19 Years, Arab States, Arab World, Arabs, Bookworm, Cairo, Commemorative Issue, Diatribes, Editorial Board, Extermination, Face Offs, Israeli Arab Conflict, Legitimacy, Media Coverage, Nasser, Netanyahu, Obama, Preemptive, Sirocco, State Of War
The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week, carved eternally in the records of cyberspace. This week, Israel was very much in the news after President Obama’s speech demanding a settlement of the Israeli-Arab conflict based on the pre-’67 lines and Israeli PM Netanyahu’s worthy riposte. [...]
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