First House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, said the CIA outright lied in one case.
“These notifications have led me to conclude that this committee has been misled, has not been provided full and complete notifications, and (in at least one case) was affirmatively lied to,” Reyes wrote to Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the committee’s senior Republican. A copy of his letter was obtained by The Associated Press.
Reyes said in the letter that he is considering opening a full investigation.
Ranking Republican on the committee, Rep. Peter Hoekstra fired back on the CBS Today Show;
The ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee said the flap between Democrats and CIA Director Leon Panetta over whether the intelligence agency lied to lawmakers is “bizarre” and shows the Democrats lack leadership.
“[Republicans are] just kind of sitting on the sidelines. We’re trying to focus on national security policy, national security issues, and the Democrats, from my perspective, are looking for some adult supervision. There’s no leadership here at all. … This is very, very bizarre,” Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra said on CBS’ “The Early Show” Thursday.
Hoekstra fills in more of the weird details on The Mark Levin Radio Show Thursday;
“And in other news, a US soldier is missing…Oh! This appears to be last week! A US soldier is missing in Afghanistan, kidnapped by Taliban Overseas Contingents…
“Oh, here’s another view of ‘Neverland Ranch’, and the crowd outside Staples Center. Look at that crowd!”
I’m currently trying to snag a copy of the House debate on Cap N Trade Tax from Friday, and so far have only been able to grab it in five minute bites. How long did the whole thing last?
Multiply that by 5.
In going through all the clips trying to find Boehner, McClintock and a few others, I stumbled on a rare moment. Well, maybe not so rare, considering who’s in charge.
California bashing is a nationwide hobby, and with good reason; it’s a self-inflicted mess which grows larger with every passing month.
Recently the Budget Conference Committee Chairwoman Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa), made a statement nearing the end of the June 16th Budget Conference Committee session that floored even diehard Californians used to the spewing of the liberal elitists in charge.
She said “…there is this mantra out there ‘live within our means’, and while that sounds really nice, it sounds really simple, and it sounds really responsible, its meaningless. Our means are completely within our control.”
Well, there is this mantra out there ‘live within our means’, and while that sounds really nice, it sounds really simple, and it sounds really responsible, its meaningless. Our means are completely within our control. And, as has been pointed out by numerous people, we have just recently given away huge corporate subsidies in February, we have given away other tax reductions over many many years we’ve created new tax loopholes, in good times we routinely give away taxes, and then in lean times we never replace those tax deductions or close those loopholes. We continuously borrow, which is an enormous cost that we shift on into future years, and we find ourselves now with a deficit that — an ongoing structural deficit that we simply can’t close. So, ‘live within our means’ doesn’t mean anything. The fact is, we have a state that has a population that have needs, that we have a moral obligation to provide.
I did some digging and found a way to download the clip from the California Channel site, which is carefully crafted to make download of clips difficult as the things they say are so profoundly stupid they really don’t want us being able to, well you know, use them to tell the side that the media won’t.
Remember Ross Perot and his “Giant Sucking Sound”?
There’s a New Improved sucking sound thanks to House Democrats and a few RINO Repubiks and it’s going to get really loud if Cap and Trade Tax passes the Senate as well as the House.
Once upon a time, we could count on House Republicans to hold the line even when the Senate GOP was having problems.
Saw CNN on Sunday interview Zbigniew Brzezinski in regard to the Iranian election turmoil on a show called GPS, and I couldn’t for the life of me remember what his job was with the Carter Administration. I was thinking he was Sec of State, but not sure so I looked him up.
Turned out he was National Security Advisor for Jimmy Carter, and in going through some of the links I found an interesting interview he did with a French publication which basically turns on its head the left’s claim that Reagan was solely responsible for the arming of the Taliban and the US being involved.
The “Official” history generally has the United States getting involved in 1979 after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan to support the tottering Afghan Communist regime that had sprouted after the 1978 Communist coup.
The Soviet excuse for invading was to stop “US expansionism” into the Middle East and prevent “meddling” with their fledgling Communist government.
The health care system has much room for improvement and I am all for competition: LET THE GAMES BEGIN.
I am one of those who CHOSE not to purchase health insurance for about the last 20 years. When I went to the emergency room or doctor, I paid the bill in ful l (sp). Luckily for me I have great health. Many do not, regardless of their party affiliation. This is not a Dem vs. Repub issue.
I am not one who wants health care FORCED on anyone. When Obama campaigned he said he did not want a mandatory system while Hllary Clinton did. The LAST thing I want is to have all the uninsured to be forced into paying 200-600 dollars a month to the bloated insurance companies.
I am interested in a public plan that we can buy into. Not nationalized medicine.
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It’s hook, line and sinker the idiocy being mixed into the Official Democrat Party Cocktail Kool-Aid; let’s not call it “Nationalized Healthcare” or “Socialized Medicine”, no no no, henceforth it shall be known as “The Public Plan”. Sounds so warm and fruity and chock full O goodness. The rest of the idiocy was picked apart thoroughly in the succeeding comments so I won’t bother but the point is W.O.S.M.B.T. (Whatever Obama Says Must Be True), and as we know B.I.A.R. (Barry Is Always Right).
Somehow with all communication cut, Twitter somehow survives. Yeah I know it’s *shudder* Andrew Sullivan.
[UPDATE 2]
Rumors are spreading that the members of the opposition, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi, and even former president Mohammad Khatami have all been arrested.
Mousavi himself claims via Twitter he is under “House Arrest“.
BBC video makes it out of Iran, after tapes confiscated;
Robert Kahre, who owns numerous construction businesses in Las Vegas, is standing trial on 57 counts of income tax evasion, tax fraud and criminal conspiracy. If convicted on most counts, he could live out his life in prison.
A self-made entrepreneur, Kahre, 48, paid his workers in gold and silver coin, and said they could go by the coins’ face value — rather than the much higher market value of their precious metal content — for federal tax purposes. He did not withhold taxes from their wages, and he provided the same payroll system to 35 outside clients, which were other local businesses.
But attorney William Cohan paints Kahre as an American “hero” who believes his payroll system helped keep the U.S. monetary system sound, and was also a form of legal tax avoidance.
Well this story isn’t about Kahre, it’s about the commenters who posted after the story;
With all the scaremongering you’d thing the end of the world was approaching
A look at the work being accomplished in California legislature this week would convince you otherwise:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — What budget crisis?
As California faces what one official this week called a complete meltdown of state government, some lawmakers have their minds on other matters.
Like creating a blueberry commission. Or standing up for pomegranate juice. And, in what passes for health reform in the nation’s most populous state, ensuring that the name tags of medical workers are in 18-point font.
Those are among the hundreds of bills being debated in the California Legislature as the state faces a $24.3 billion deficit and the prospect of running out of cash by late July.
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Among the more eyebrow-raising bills pending in the state Legislature are ones that would:
_ Ensure that juice sold as “pomegranate” is 100 percent pomegranate.
_ Instruct 9th and 10th graders about the value of organ donation.
_ Ban toy cigarette lighters.
_ Require day cares to serve only healthy food to children.
Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, a Democrat from San Francisco, is the author of the name-tag bill and another that would establish a commission to promote California’s growing blueberry industry. The commission’s $1.2 million annual budget would come from a surcharge on blueberries.
With all the doom and gloom; threats to lay off firefighters, cops and teachers, starve children, and kick little old ladies out into the street, you think the legislature in California would find things to worry about other than;
I work two jobs, 4X10s at one job and Thursday night 'till Sunday afternoon towing cars out of ditches, on-call 24X3. Once a month I'm a reservist in the Navy Seabees after doing four years active from '78 to '82.
Don't tell me raising taxes won't hurt the little guy, I AM the little guy and I get nailed in California the same as a guy making $1 million per year.
