Obama’s Iraq Address: Afghan War Looms Large Over Speech - TIME.

For almost the entire speech, Obama remained impassive. He was not awesome.

He was very clear when it came to praising the troops. “At every turn, America’s men and women in uniform have served with courage and resolve,” he said, in a statement nobody would dispute.

Opinion: A grim speech for a grim war - Roger Simon - POLITICO.com.

Obama is still candidate Obama, never tiring of reminding us that he kept his campaign pledge and ever eager to push aside foreign policy challenges so he can get on with the business of remaking America. All in all, it was what we were promised it would not be — self-serving, disingenuous, ungracious, and unreassuring.

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This week’s Iraq moment means that Mr. Obama now has, to steal a term he used last year to refer to Russian relations, hit the reset button on all four important areas of American policy in the region: Iraq, Afghanistan, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iran.

Underlying Iraq Strategy, as So Many Others, Is Iran - WSJ.com.

John Boehner is Right; Obama’s Economic Policies Have Failed the American People.

No - please - anything but that!

In policy debates, it’s commonplace to see two different interpretations of historical events as part of opposing arguments about what to do next.  The $787 billion stimulus package of 2009 is hardly old enough to be called a “historical event,” but already reports vary about its effects.

Independent Women’s Forum - Do we need a second stimulus?.

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Gen David Petraeus, senior US and Nato commander in the country, warned last week fighting would “get harder before it gets easier”.

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SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser had a debate with Tarina Keene of NARAL Virginia, who proved once again that pro-abortion advocates fight for radical abortion ideology-not women

Breaking news out of Washington DC: there’s a huge disconnect between those in charge and the people on the economy!

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“No longer does the government seem to be a fairy godmother but rather a tough enforcer of an avalanche of new mandates, taxes and regulatory requirements,” writes Grace-Marie Turner, the Galen Institute’s ace healthcare policy analyst, in today’s IBD.

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“Sometimes you have to spend money to save money.” So said Pennsylvania’s Governor Ed Rendell at a Monday morning news conference in Harrisburg to detail his proposal to fund transportation projects in his state.

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The Las Vegas Review-Journal is outraged at the deceptions avowed to pass the latest $26 Billion bailout for public employees. The editorial ended with these very harsh words:

“The biggest Keynesian stimulus in U.S. history was a bust,” AEI economist Kevin Hassett writes today on Bloomberg. He’s referring, of course, to the economic stimulus package that didn’t prevent new unemployment claims from rising to 500,000 in mid-August.

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President Obama’s Radio Address “No Corporate Takeover of Our Democracy” Exposes President’s Double Standard Regarding Corporate Influence (more…)

Last month, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi claimed that unemployment benefits “creates jobs faster than almost any other initiative you can name.” PolitiZoid has created an animated video of Nancy Pelosi’s foolish speech on the “stimulus” of unemployment benefits:

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The first Rasmussen Reports post-primary look at the Florida Senate race shows Marco Rubio attracting 40% of the vote, while Charlie Crist picks up 30%. The new Democratic nominee Kendrick Meek earns 21% support.

Scott and Sink both have work to do to generate more support from within their own parties. Scott presently earns 70% of Republican voters, while Sink is backed by 65% of Democrats. Chiles draws single-digit support from voters in both parties. Voters not affiliated with either party give 33% support to Scott, 36% to Sink and 12% to Chiles.

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And Boehner was just getting started.

He called for an Obama pledge to veto any lame-duck congressional actions that would damage the economy, including the union card-check bill and a national cap-and-trade energy tax.

He called for the repeal of Obamacare’s job-killing 1099 mandate that would require small-business paperwork to show any purchases of more than $600.

He slammed Obamacare in general, noting the creation of more than 160 boards, bureaucracies, programs, and commissions, and the 3,833 pages of new regulations already in place.

He called for an aggressive spending-reduction package that would roll back non-defense discretionary expenditures to 2008 levels, before the stimulus plan was put in place.

Ever since the first Obama stimulus bill last year, Republicans have been dogged by charges that they are the Party of No. Critics go so far as to invite Big Lebowski-inspired mockery by calling them “nihilists.” (So far nobody has followed my suggestion to form a Republican Nihilist Caucus, but give it about a week.) They say that Republican opposition to Democratic legislation is entirely opportunistic, based on partisan pique rather than underlying principal.

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Alveda King — Martin Luther King’s niece — will participate in the rally. She recently wrote: “When I join Beck and all gathered at the Lincoln Memorial this weekend, I will talk about my Uncle Martin and the America he envisioned. I will talk about honor and character and sacrifice. I will be joined by those who represent the diversity of the human race.”

This morning, a new Franklin and Marshall College poll shows Pat leading Joe Sestak by 9 points in their Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race matchup.

Pat: 40%
Sestak: 31%

This is the third public poll (Rasmussen Reports 8.17.10, Public Policy Polling 8.17.10) released in the last week in which Pat leads Joe Sestak by 9 percentage points.

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