August 10, 2008
MORNING
UPDATE:
RUSSIA
WATCH…this is a serious matter we should not
ignore.
ENERGY CONTINUES TO
DOMINATE THE DEBATE…Americans are upset over ever increasing
prices, not only at the pump, but everything that is affected by
rising energy prices.
ANN ARBOR PELOSI
PROTEST…here is a great “summary video” prepared
by 7th District Chairman Wyck Seelig. Congrats and job well
done to our local Republican activists who showed up and helped
make this such a great success.
http://migop.blogs.com/blog/2008/08/pelosi-protest.html
FOX
NEWS…CAVUTO…covered our Pelosi rally Thursday and did
a follow-up interview Friday live on national TV. We called
on the Democrat controlled Congress to come back from their 5 week
paid vacation and vote on domestic drilling and a comprehensive
energy policy NOW! See the interviews here.
http://migop.blogs.com/blog/2008/08/before-the-rall.html
http://migop.blogs.com/blog/2008/08/after-the-rally.html
McCAIN SUPPORTS A
COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY PROGRAM…that includes domestic
drilling, nuclear, wind and solar power…to make America
energy independent.
MICHIGAN GOP STATE
CONVENTION INFO…here is the information on our upcoming
State Convention to take place Saturday, August
23rd.
http://www.migop.org/inner.asp?z=108
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30,000 homeless as a
chaotic conflict intensifies
By Shaun Walker, Kim
Sengupta and Rupert Cornwell in Gori, Tbilisi and
Washington
As many as 2,000
people may have been killed and 30,000 made homeless as the chaotic
conflict between Georgian and Russian forces in the pro-Moscow
enclave of South Ossetia entered its second bloody day.
Georgia’s parliament
approved a state of war across the country for the next 15 days,
while also calling for a ceasefire. The Russian President, Dmitry
Medvedev, said that there would be no talks until Georgian troops
left the conflict zone. And, in what could be a second front,
Abkhazia, another pro-Russian enclave in Georgia, said its forces
had begun an operation to drive out Tbilisi’s forces.
The situation on the
ground in South Ossetia, most of whose population are ethnic
Russians, remained highly confused. Russia said it had seized South
Ossetia’s capital, Tskhinvali, but Georgia denied this. Russia,
which sent in tanks to back the South Ossetians, said its forces
had "liberated" the enclave’s capital, but Georgia responded that
Tskhinvali was under its "complete control".
Russian Ships Steam Toward Georgia as Conflict
Grows
By Paul Abelsky and
Alex Nicholson
Aug. 10 (Bloomberg)
– Russia sent warships from the Black Sea fleet toward Georgia as
it stepped up its conflict with the former Soviet republic over the
separatist South Ossetia region.
The ships included a
vessel based in the naval port of Sevastopol and four others from
Novorossiysk, Komsomolskaya Pravda reported, without saying where
it got the information. Georgian Economic Development Minister Eka
Sharashidze said a ship carrying grain to the Georgian port of Poti
was turned away by a Russian warship, suggesting an economic
blockade.
“Russia has shown
itself capable of crossing every line in this conflict,”
Sharashidze said in a telephone interview late yesterday from
Tbilisi, the Georgian capital.
Georgia Proposes
Cease-Fire With Russia
NPR.org, August 9, 2008
A delegation of U.S.
and European diplomats is reportedly heading to the former Soviet
republic of Georgia to try to broker a truce in the escalating
conflict with Russia over the breakaway region of South
Ossetia.
Georgia’s President
Mikhail Saakashvili has proposed a cease-fire, while accusing
Russia of seeking to destroy his country. Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev says Russia is trying to force the Georgian side to
peace.
Georgia
launched a major offensive Friday to retake control of South
Ossetia. Russia, which has close ties to the province and posts
peacekeepers there, responded by sending in armed convoys and
military combat aircraft.
Obama Tax Plan Would
Balloon Deficit, Analysis Finds
Lori Montgomery – Washington Post Staff Writer
President Bush for "reckless" economic policies that are
"mortgaging our children’s future on a mountain of debt." But the
Democratic presidential candidate has adopted a key component of
Bush’s fiscal policy: A novel bookkeeping method that guarantees
that the $9.5 trillion national debt will get much bigger.
class without increasing the deficit, he is measuring his proposals
against the large deficits that would result from Bush’s plan to
extend his signature tax cuts beyond their 2010 expiration date.
Because Obama wants to eliminate some of the Bush tax cuts, he
would bring more money into the Treasury, permitting him to pay for
new programs without increasing the deficit even more.
But under current law, all the tax cuts expire and the deficit
disappears completely. Democrats in Congress have vowed to preserve
the Bush tax cuts only if they can cover the cost and keep the
budget in balance. Measured against current law and against the
promises of his fellow Democrats, Obama would rack up huge
deficits. According to a recent analysis by the nonpartisan Tax
Policy Center, Obama’s tax plan would add $3.4 trillion to the
national debt, including interest, by 2018.
Why not drill and
develop new energy sources?
Charles Krauthammer – Detroit News
Let’s see: housing meltdown, credit crunch, oil shock not seen
since the 1970s. The economy is slowing, unemployment growing and
inflation increasing. It’s the sixth year of a highly unpopular war
and the president’s approval rating is at 30 percent.
The Italian Communist Party could win this election. The
American Democratic Party is trying its best to lose it.
Democrats have the advantage on just about every domestic issue
from health care to education. However, Americans’ greatest concern
is the economy, and their greatest economic concern is energy (by a
significant margin: 37 percent to 21 percent for inflation). Yet
Democrats have gratuitously forfeited the issue of increased
drilling for domestic oil and gas. By an overwhelming margin of
2-1, Americans want to lift the moratorium preventing drilling on
the Outer Continental Shelf, thus unlocking vast energy resources
shut down for the last 27 years.
Will lawmakers’
fears cost state new energy policy?
BY TOM WALSH • FREE PRESS COLUMNIST
Michigan’s legislators appear poised to blow it again.
Poised to punt away a chance to create thousands of jobs.
Poised to again display cluelessness, rather than leadership,
about the need for a bold, new approach to energy policy.
Members of the state House and Senate do have a chance this week
to redeem themselves, to earn respect from a citizenry that sadly
has come to expect ineptitude.
Mayor
Spotted At Ontario Water Park
Kilpatrick had court permission to travel to New York and other
locations before he was jailed for an unauthorized trip to Windsor,
Ontario, his public relations representatives said
Saturday.
Kilpatrick had been approval to leave the U.S.Marcus Reese with
Impact Strategies of Washington, D.C., sent this statement to Local
4 in response to reports that said Kilpatrick was in Windsor two
days before another cross-border visit that landed him in jail for
violating his bond.
approved trip to Ithaca, NY for a seminar. He flew to Ithaca and
drove back to Detroit by the most direct route; through Buffalo,
Niagara Falls and Windsor making stops at other small towns along
the way. The Mayor also flew to Tallahassee on a court approved
trip, then drove back to Detroit making stops in Atlanta to visit
the King Center (also court approved), Chattanooga, and Cincinnati.
Another trip occurred to Chicago and was again, court approved. On
the way back he stopped in Indiana. Each time the Mayor opted to
drive back, sometimes to enjoy the company of family members but
other times because he simply enjoys the solitude of driving. Each
trip was court approved, within the court approved timeframe,
albeit through different jurisdictions and was the most direct
route back to Detroit.”
Kilpatrick may have
violated bond, Cox spokesman says
David Josar / The
Detroit News
DETROIT — A spokesman for Attorney General
Michael Cox said Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick may have broken
conditions of his bond if he had contact with his sister Saturday
morning while visiting his mother’s house.
Kilpatrick, along
with his executive protection police unit, was at the home of the
mayor’s mother, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick on Saturday at the same
time his sister was seen entering and leaving the home.
On Friday, a
magistrate in 36th District Court barred Kilpatrick from having
contact with witnesses to an assault the mayor is accused of
committing July 24. The mayor’s sister, Ayanna Kilpatrick, and
members of his executive protection unit, were among the witnesses
listed.
Readers sound
off on Detroit mayor becoming a national
story
By STEPHEN FRYE
"I think we all
make mistakes because none of us are perfect. The mayor may have
ventured outside the moral/legal laws of this society, but I don’t
think his life needs to be completely destroyed because of his
mistakes, said Calvin in Southfield. "We all have made mistakes in
our past, and I’m sure, we will continue to make mistakes in our
futures. However, if we can get in touch with the spiritual side of
our humaness and engage in a ‘daily moral inventory’ I am sure our
mistakes will become less and less injurious to ourselves and
others."
"I was actually
dissapointed when the people of Detroit reelected Kwami. He had
already demonstrated that he was willing to use tax payer money for
his personal life. And for him to suggest that the Suburbs were
against the city was racially motivated. It shows me where the
uneducated citizens stand. I know they don’t all feel that way,
said a reader in Rochester Hills. "The fact that Kwami won’t go
without a fight, shows his selfishness. Does anybody really believe
that Kwami cares more about the city than his own self perception?
I don’t believe he’s there to serve the citizens."
"I think he, or
anyone for that matter, who violated bond conditions, deserve to go
to jail. The judge did what is called for. In this age of high
technology communications, the mayor could still have ‘presented’
himself in the Canada meeting via video conferencing and thus not
violating his bond conditions," said a reader in
Farmington.
Out of jail, now
Kilpatrick needs to leave office
FREE PRESS
EDITORIAL
Detroit Mayor Kwame
Kilpatrick managed to get himself sprung from the Wayne County Jail
after his lawyers convinced one judge that another should not have
revoked the mayor’s bond.
weekend.
But his tethered
liberty changes substantially nothing of the situation at hand. In
jail or out, Kilpatrick is a renegade officeholder, charged now
with 10 felonies (including the two he caught in another court
Friday afternoon after being un-jailed) and a constant
embarrassment to himself and this city. He has still got to go, and
the sooner the better.
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