Follow the Leader
United States officials worked with Portuguese authorities to follow that lead, using the Portuguese national identity database, which includes fingerprints. (NYT, 9/28/2011)
This article on the arrest of a fugitive caught the attention of RedStateVT. So Portugal has a "national identity database, which includes fingerprints?" Well good for the Portuguese! In the U.S., of course, Liberals oppose having to show a drivers license to vote.
Basking
In Los Angeles, at a slick West Hollywood restaurant, the president basked in the love of an entertainment-industry crowd that included the actress Eva Longoria; the director Judd Apatow; the music producer Quincy Jones; and Jeffrey Katzenberg, a DreamWorks studio executive. (NYT, 9/28/2011)
Obama's base.
Far Far Below
Overall, the households with same-sex couples are far below 1% of total U.S. households, the Census Bureau said....According to the Census Bureau, the revised estimate of married same-sex households is 131,729, well below the initial count of 349,377. The revised estimate of same-sex households with unmarried partners was 514,735, much closer to the original census count of 552,620. (CNN.com, 9/28/2011)
Given the attention demanded and given to gay issues, one could be forgiven for thinking that gays represented upwards of 50% of the population. Now even the original low estimates are revised downward.
No Way
We cannot spend our way out of this. We cannot tax our way out of this. We cannot artificially stimulate our way out of this. We cannot regulate our way out of this. Shaming the successful or redistributing income won't get us out of this. We cannot fund our government coffers by following the "Buffett Rule," i.e., raising taxes on Americans earning more than $1 million a year. (Charles R. Schwab, WSJ, 9/28/2011)
Obama wants a "Buffett Rule," Repubs counter with a "Schwab Rule."
Worser
The decision to focus on health care was the president's own. It could have been even worse. Some staffers advised him—this was just after the American economy lost almost 600,000 jobs in one month—that he should focus on global warming. (Peggy Noonan discussing Ron Suskind's book on the Obama administration, Confidence Men, WSJ, 9/24/2011)
RedStateVT once again states the obvious: Obama's problems are self-inflicted.
In Portugal, the National Identity Card does not cost the individual anything to get. If the states or the federal government provided it for free you would see less opposition except for those in the Tea Party who are libertarians opposed to any oversight of their activities by any government.
ReplyDeletethis is not just a liberal thing anymore. There is a core group in the Republicans who oppose it as well.
You are being naive if you think that Liberal opposition is based on the cost. Liberal opposition is based on the belief that illegals will vote for Democrats if not challenged to provide identification.
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