International:
Bush Says Invading Iran 'Not the Plan'
President Bush believes he might have been misunderstood when he started speaking about the need to go after Iran for its involvement in aiding the insurgency in Iraq.
As he traveled to Illinois today to share good news on the economy, he said the subject has been overshadowed by the war in Iraq, and he clarified his stance on Iran, which he does not plan to invade. Read more here [Meanwhile, read the timeline of buildup to War with Iran]
Officials: White House Holding Back Report Detailing Iran's Meddling in Iraq
A plan by the Bush administration to release detailed and possibly damning specific evidence linking the Iranian government to efforts to destabilize Iraq have been put on hold, U.S. officials told FOX News. Click here for more
10 years to save the planet
A NEW worldwide movement backed by celebrities, musicians, politicians and business leaders is aiming to reverse the effects of global warming over the next decade.Global Cool launched in London and LA today and is calling on one billion people to reduce their carbon emissions by just one tonne a year, for the next 10 years. Boffins have found the climatic tipping point - when the climate becomes irreversibly damaged - can be turned back if global CO2 emissions are reduced by one billion tonnes a year. Read more here
On The Other Hand...
Two New Books Confirm Global Warming is Natural; Not Caused By Human Activity.
Two powerful new books say today’s global warming is due not to human activity but primarily to a long, moderate solar-linked cycle. Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years, by physicist Fred Singer and economist Dennis Avery was released just before Christmas. The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change, by Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark and former BBC science writer Nigel Calder (Icon Books), is due out in March. More here
National:
Democrats unveil $463.5B spending bill
Democrats say they are making the best of a bad situation as they bring to the House floor a massive bill cobbling together $463.5 billion in unfinished budget business.
The bill, combining the budgets of 13 Cabinet agencies, won praise Tuesday from Democratic Party allies such as activists pressing the fight against AIDS' overseas and advocates for boosting education funding. More from the AP
The bill, combining the budgets of 13 Cabinet agencies, won praise Tuesday from Democratic Party allies such as activists pressing the fight against AIDS' overseas and advocates for boosting education funding. More from the AP
When Democrats blasted Republicans last fall for taking annual congressional pay raises while blocking numerous attempts to raise the minimum wage, it was an effective campaign tactic. Democrats vowed not to accept the annual cost-of-living hike until Congress increases the minimum wage.
But Republicans angered over the political attacks are unwilling to allow Democrats to reinstate the so-called members' COLA, forcing Democratic leaders to scuttle the 1.7 percent pay hike for the entire year.
"There will be no COLA adjustment," said a disappointed Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the House's No. 2 Democrat, on Tuesday. [Good for them I say -it is yet undeserved]
Rep. Charlie Rangel on Bush
New York Democrat on impeach Bush movement
New York Democrat on impeach Bush movement
In Other News...
The Army and Marine Corps "are short thousands of vehicles, armor kits and other equipment needed to supply" the extra 21,500 troops President Bush plans to send to Iraq. "It's inevitable that that has to happen, unless five brigades of up-armored Humvees fall out of the sky," one senior Army official said.
Simulations of civil war in Iraq carried out by the Brookings Institution found that "as the descent into civil war gathered pace, confrontation between the US and Iran intensified, and Washington's leverage on Tehran diminished. Civil war in Iraq would turn Iran into 'the unambiguous adversary' of the US."
Testimony from former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer yesterday showed he knew only "what the truly powerful chose to tell him, and sometimes that was not much. On occasion he would pronounce with great authority the administration's position on a topic only to find it had changed and nobody had bothered to let him know."
The House has reconstituted "the Oversight and Investigations subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee" after "more than a decade of dormancy." The subcommittee "will delve into the details of Iraq-related reconstruction contracts, troop readiness, equipment priorities and Iraq war strategy -- looking for waste, fraud and shortfalls."
From The Right: David Limbaugh: Hillary's Understandable Contradictions
Hillary Clinton's many contradictions aren't hard to understand once you realize her need to suppress her natural instincts and policy preferences because they conflict with her lifelong presidential aspirations.
Hillary Clinton's many contradictions aren't hard to understand once you realize her need to suppress her natural instincts and policy preferences because they conflict with her lifelong presidential aspirations.
From The Left: Randi Rhodes: Devine Strake, Bush’s simulated nuke test, is STILL on the table. We stopped once and we will have to do so again.
Quote Of The Day:
"The Congress should say to the President, that 'we believe you should come to the Congress before you initiate any kind of attack.'" -Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC)(Sources: AP, TheSunOnline, FOXNews, ThinkProgress, DrudgeReport, Breitbart, ABCNews, RawStory, WashingtonPost, TownHall, DailyKOs, NYT, Politico, RandiRhodesShow)
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