Bill Clinton and alleged girlfriend Gina Gershon
1. It appears that John Edwards wasn’t the only one having an affair during the 2008 campaign, in the book ‘Game Change’, it alleges that Mrs Clinton set up a ‘war room within a war room’ to deal with questions about Bill Clinton’s mystery woman. ‘The stories about one woman were more concrete, and after some discreet fact-finding, the group concluded that they were true: that BIll was indeed having an affair – and not a frivolous one-night stand but a sustained romantic relationship,’ says the book. Bill Clinton cheating– shocking! But who can blame the guy when he’s married to a closet lesbian.
2. Roll call is reporting that health care negotiators are facing “a serious problem” in resolving their differences and are not likely to have a final bill until February, according to key House Democrats involved in ongoing talks.
3. New polls suggests independent voters are turning away from Obama as he nears the anniversary of his January 20 inauguration — though in a sign of hope for his administration, he remains more popular than his policies. In a new Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday, US voters were split 45-45 on whether Obama’s first year was a success or failure.
4. President Obama may soon be known as the warmonger president. His administration is asking for an additional $33 billion for the war in Afghanistan and Iraq along with a whopping record breaking $708 billion for defense spending. Obama will tell Congress that his military objectives are to win the two wars while preventing new ones. Obama ran last year promising to withdraw troops from Iraq and using the saving to fund health-care. Apparently that was campaign rhetoric. No word on whether voters will protest the murders he’s committing in Iraq and Afghanistan for these useless wars or whether they will demand that the money he’s wasting be spent helping our own people without health-care.
5. The White House has abandoned its controversial method of counting jobs under President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus, making it impossible to track the number of jobs saved or created with the $787 billion in recovery money.
Despite mounting a vigorous defense of its earlier count of more than 640,000 jobs credited to the stimulus, even after numerous errors were identified, the Obama administration now is making it easier to give the stimulus credit for hiring. It’s no longer about counting a job as saved or created; now it’s a matter of counting jobs funded by the stimulus.
That means that any stimulus money used to cover payroll will be included in the jobs credited to the program, including pay raises for existing employees and pay for people who never were in jeopardy of losing their positions. Don’t you just love how the Democrat party and this president, especially, change the rules constantly.
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