Obama Extends Presidential Emergency Powers for Another Year

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http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/Obama_Extends_Presidential_Emergency_Powers_for_Another_Year_100920

Obama Extends Presidential Emergency Powers for Another Year

It’s been more than nine years since September 11, 2001, and the U.S. government continues to operate under the provisions of the National Emergencies Act, which President George W. Bush first implemented three days after the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, DC.

Bush renewed the state of emergency every year he was in office, and now President Barack Obama has done the same thing during his first two years in the White House.

Obama wins more spending cuts than Bush

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/14/obama-wins-more-cuts-in-spending-than-bush/

EXCLUSIVE: Obama wins more spending cuts than Bush


Congress accepts 60% of proposals


President Obama notched substantial successes in spending cuts last year, winning 60 percent of his proposed cuts and managing to get Congress to ax several programs that had bedeviled President George W. Bush for years.


TG: Obama is certainly no fiscal conservative, but he has procured more spending cuts in one year than Bush did in eight. What does that say for Bush?

OBAMA the NEO-CON

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Y2Y3ODE2OTQ0MjAxZTI4Y2UxYmQ1ZmFkOWRmMTQyZTY=


No less that the National Review, the mouthpiece of the late neocon idol William Buckley, is referring to Barack Obama as a neocon. They are praising him for continuing Bush's war, even expanding it.

Obama Supports Extending Patriot Act

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/15/obama-supports-extending-provisions-patriot-act/?test=latestnews



Obama Supports Extending Provisions of the Patriot Act


Lawmakers and civil rights groups had been pressing the Democratic administration to say whether it wants to preserve the post-Sept. 11 law's authority to access business records, as well as monitor so-called "lone wolf" terrorists and conduct roving wiretaps.



TG: We could use some of that "change" Obama promised. Where is it?

"Right Wing Nutballs"

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32809316/ns/politics-washington_post/

Top McCAIN advisor decries Tea Parties: "right-wing nutballs are aligning themselves with these movements".

So if McCain would have won, what would be different?

Politically - nothing.

Geopolitical "change"?

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http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090824_obamas_foreign_policy_end_beginning/?utm_source=Snapshot&utm_campaign=none&utm_medium=email

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090209_munich_continuity_between_bush_and_obama_foreign_policies

Especially in foreign policy, the more things "change", the more things stay the same.

As we have mentioned before, the single most remarkable thing about Obama’s foreign policy is how consistent it is with the policies of former President George W. Bush. Still, it is worth pausing to note how little Obama has deviated from the Bush foreign policy.

First, instead of ordering an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, he adopted the Bush administration’s policy of a staged withdrawal keyed to political stabilization and the development of Iraqi security forces. While he tweaked the timeline on the withdrawal, the basic strategy remained intact. Indeed, he retained Bush’s defense secretary, Robert Gates, to oversee the withdrawal. Second, he increased the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Read the whole article. It's chock full of Bush policies that Obama has continued.

NEWT SUPPORTS OBAMA ON EDUCATION

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090814/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_obama_education

WASHINGTON – Education Secretary Arne Duncan is joining forces with two unlikely allies, the Rev. Al Sharpton and Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, to push cities to fix failing schools. The trio will visit Philadelphia, New Orleans and Baltimore later this year. They plan to add more stops as their tour progresses.

TG: But, but, Newt Gingrich is a conservative Republican, isn't he?

The president has vowed to make the United States the world leader in the number of people who graduate from college.

TG: That means they have to make the requirements easier again. Then they wonder why our kids keep getting dumber (but they are trained to be cogs in the machine).