When Fox's White House Reporter, Major Garrett, started getting invites to the off-air sessions, with Robert Gibbs during the Obama Does Asia Tour, one could have thought that the WH was extending an olive branch and calling for a cease-fire... But, with Obama granting Major a one-on-one interview... I think we can classify this as a full surrender.
Niles Gardiner of the Telegraph UK says:
I predicted last month that the White House would lose its war with Fox News. That now looks to be the case with the announcement by Fox News White House correspondent Major Garrett that Fox is one of five networks selected to interview Barack Obama in Beijing this evening, with each allotted ten minutes with the President.
The decision to include Fox in tonight’s interview roster, alongside the likes of NBC, ABC and CBS, is a humiliating about-turn for the White House after it spent weeks rubbishing Fox’s credibility.
Read all of Gardiner's article HERE.
Today’s announcement is not only a big symbolic win for Fox, but also a victory for press freedom in America. It is the role of the media in a free society to actively question the policies and actions of government and its elected officials. The White House’s war against Fox smacked of authoritarianism in a nation built around the principles of free speech, free enterprise and limited government. Its decision to back down is good news for all US media outlets, of whatever political stripe.
See Major Garret's interview with Obama HERE.
JUDGE LEVIES BLAME FOR LEVEES
U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is culpable for the New Orleans disaster. Judge Duval found monumental negligence" in the operation and maintenance of a shipping channel called the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, known locally as MRGO.
Flood victims, arguments that the widening of the channel and subsequent loss of protective wetlands turned MRGO into a speedway for Katrina's storm surge won over the government's argument that the Corps was immune from liability and had properly maintained the navigation channel.
If the ruling survives the appeal process, the taxpayer will have a huge bill to pay as all the other New Orleans flood victims file their own suits.
Although the judge did not include standard liberal Blame Bush language, you can bet that the liberals will be sure to fill in the blanks. The bad condition of the levees is something I have been aware of since I was 17 (many, many years ago and no I am not going to say how many) but I was not aware, that it was under the jurisdiction of the Corps.
ANOTHER OBAMA NOMINEE HAS TAX ISSUES
Can anyone blame us if we start wondering if Obama knows anyone that just plays it straight, by the rules, and pays their taxes... in full, on time? You would think that after having ridden in this rodeo before that Team Obama would at least check to see if people have any tax issues they need to worry about BEFORE they nominate them. Or is this symptomatic of the Audacity of Arrogance and they simply are not concerned with character or appearance?
The AP reports that Lael Brainard, Obama’s nominee for Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs (don't laugh, its true) was late paying real estate taxes in 2005, 2006 and 2007. The AP said it was the fifth Obama nominee with tax issues. I know it is easy to lose track, but I think they overlooked a few... let's see there is Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle, Hilda Solis, Nancy Killefer, Ron Kirk and Kathleen Sebelius and Lael Brainard makes seven. FireAndreaMitchell thinks "AP might be using the Recovery.gov standard for adding up things."
MEMO ABOUT JIHADIST NIDAL MALIK HASAN SURFACES
While visiting FireAndreaMitchell.com I read a very interesting posting about a NPR article that uncovered a memo written by a top psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center was so concerned about what he saw as Nidal Malik Hasan’s incompetence and reckless behavior that he put those concerns in writing.
The 2007 Memo About Maj. Nidal Hasan: Read a transcript of the May 2007 memo obtained by NPR in which Dr. Scott Moran, the chief of psychiatric residents at Walter Reed, outlines his concerns about Hasan.
OBAMA EXPLAINS HIS SOLUTION TO UNINSURED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
This VIDEO explains why Obama didn't fight putting language into ObamaCare that would prohibit access for Illegal Immigrants to Universal Health Care/Insurance Reform. (Hint: It's starts with A-M and ends with N-E-S-T-Y)
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WASTE $98 BILLION
"Washington (AP) - More than $98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted, much of it on questionable claims for tax credits and Medicare benefits, representing an increase of $26 billion from the previous year."
And this is the same government which proposes to pay for ObamaCare by stopping waste in Medicare? If the government could or would stop waste, why have they not already done so?
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