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LAST WEEK

Week ending June 4, 2010

Monday, Memorial Day
Israelis board the activists ship Mari Marvarva
Here is a video of troops rapelling from a helicopter to the deck.

Tuesday
Sheikh Sa’id al-Masri, a.k.a. Mustafa al-Yazid reduced to dustArab world announces that al-Qaeda’s #3 leader’s death, confirming that this tiime he has really gone to his virgins.

President of Germany resigns
Here is a link to the news with comment from the Leftist UK Gaurdian

The Gores split up.
Poor Al. His home state cast their votes for Bush and cost him the election, the global warming business is faltering, Bill Clinton is ridiculing him, now Tipper is leaving the sinking ship. Speaking of ships, I wonder who is getting the house boat.

Wednesday
Sestak II surfaces in Colorado
Former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff says he was bribed with a job offer if he would not run for office.

Pennsylvania Democrats decline photo op with Obama
Obama goes to Pittsburgh to give a big speech and only the mayor shows up to greet him.

Thursday
Washington blocks all new drilling in Gulf of Mexico
That’s good news for makers of candles and bicycles.

Joran van der Sloot caught in a taxi in Chile,
The deaths of Natalee Holloway and now Stephany Flores are not the only issues van der Sloot has had with the law. He made a deal to reveal the location of Natalee’s body and pocketed the $15,000 down payment. This guy is pure slime.

Beatle bashes Bush
Paul McCartney gushes over Obama and bashes bush. Video here.

Bob B

MILTON FRIEDMAN TAKES ON PHIL DONOHUE

Professor Friedman was known as the father of the Chicago school of economics. He was a great communicator in the category of Buckley and Reagan. In this clip he takes on the super liberal Phil Donohue. It is a shame Milton is no longer with us. It would be a delight to see him spar with Michael Moore or Bill Maher.

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HAWAII ELECTS A REPUBLICAN

From USA Today
HONOLULU (AP) — Republicans scored a midterm election victory Saturday when Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou won a Democratic-held House seat in Hawaii in the district where President Obama grew up — the latest triumph for the GOP as it looks to take back control of Congress.

Djou’s victory was a blow to Obama and other Democrats who could not rally around a candidate and find away to win a congressional race that should have been a cakewalk. The seat had been held by a Democrat for nearly 20 years and is located where Obama was born and spent most of his childhood.

RANDOM OBSERVATIONS

In “Kagan on Reagan” a certain sagacious blonde quotes Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan as having written of Ronald Reagan’s election that “the world has gone mad, liberalism is dead and that there is no longer any place for the ideals we held or the beliefs we espoused”. The lady, (Kagan, not the blonde) is no moderate. She is a true believer in the progressive theme.

Bye the way,” progressive”, that’s propagandic for regressive of course.

If I were you, I would take a cue from Mae West and go up and see this blonde sometime. You will see a nice set of articles if you do. The key to her room is http://mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com/ .

Next. I noticed the New Yorker magazine has something to say about Tocqueville in America in the latest issue. In 5 or 6 pages they managed to make Christianity look pretty silly but didn’t find space available to print his rather timely statement that “America will last until the populace discovers it can vote for itself largess out of the public treasury”.

Finally. It seems Obama is dissing America by proxy now. Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner has been assigned the duty of urging the Chinese to improve their humanitarian policies. He led the discussions by volunteering that Arizona’s new illegal immigration policy is a violation of basic human rights. Somehow I don’t think murdering dissidents is the same thing as enforcing laws on illegal immigration. What is it about this administration that causes them to think negotiations will be more fruitful if you humiliate yourself at the outset?

Bob B

CARTOON by RAMIREZ

Oh my, if only it worked this way

WASHINGTON BY THE WEEK

Week ending May 1, 2010
Monday
AP declares financial reform will likely pass
AP: “Democrats believe that public pressure and the scent of a Wall Street scandal have given them the upper hand.”

Buffet lobbies to protect his 63 billion in derivatives
Warren derides derivatives here.
Warren lobbies to keep his derivatives here.

Tuesday
Sen Carl Levin (D) Michigan, exhibits diarrhea of the mouth at Goldman hearings
If you are up for a lesson in how to get the maximum impact from excrement, here’s the video.

Wed
Sovereign debt of Greece downgraded to junk status.
Spain also lowered but still a couple notches above junk, for now.

Thursday
White House does a favor for Iran, China and Russia
From the Washington Times. The Obama administration is pressing Congress to provide an exemption from Iran sanctions for companies based in “co-operating countries,” a move that likely would exempt Chinese and Russian concerns from penalties meant to discourage investment in Iran.

Friday
Administration announces moratorium on drilling
No new drilling in domestic areas will go forward until “there is an adequate review of what happened” in the Gulf oil spill.

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THE WEEK IN WASHINGTON

Week ending April 23, 2010

Monday
Obama misses Polish President’s funeral
Heads of state from the smaller European countries found ways around their ashes to attend the funeral, Sarkozy and Merkel stayed home. Biden and Clinton express their sympathies to the Polish Embassy. Obama played golf.

New York Times reports Muslim outreach
Obama is becoming less cautious about speaking out for Muslims

Tuesday
GOP goes on fishing expedition
Asks for investigation into White House connection to Goldman Sachs case.

Biden lays it on.
Blames greedy banks for financial collapse

Wednesday
Grounds trembling under SEC case against Goldman Sachs
SEC charge is Goldman defrauded ACA by failing to disclose Paulson’s intent to short the portfolio ACA was assembling. Paulson aide says he informed ACA of Paulson’s intent.

Thusday
Obama and Biden both go to the scene of the crime to pump up some resentment
In a speech at Cooper Union in NYC Obama lays it on the greedy banks for causing the country’s economic problem. Biden carries the same water elsewhere in the city.

Friday
Obama slams Arizona immigration law
Claims law violates civil rights

About Washington Week in Review
It is our intent to publish this feature on Saturday in the future. The goal is to provide a handy recap of interesting events that occurred during the week, including some that may not have been given much attention in the major media.

FORDHAM RUNNER LEAPS HOME

Here is a baseball play that justifies the cliché, “it’s gotta be seen to be believed”.