Politics - 21 July 2007

2007-07-21 06:50:24 · 5 answers · asked by spy killer 1

Präsident Bush ist das folgende Hitler!

2007-07-21 06:37:33 · 3 answers · asked by Michael F 3

the giggly jokes..should at least be from an informed source..or perhaps even be able to spell the procedure..
while school is not in session..answers may even do it's assigned mission statement today..

I wonder if anyone in your family has avoided cancer by using the healthcare industry the way it is designed?

http://www.colonoscopy.com

2007-07-21 06:37:27 · 5 answers · asked by UMD Terps 3

Can you see a coupe coming soon?

2007-07-21 06:03:55 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

can we expect some contrived scandal?..or will they concentrate on things they can control for once?

2007-07-21 05:47:59 · 8 answers · asked by UMD Terps 3

2007-07-21 05:37:58 · 34 answers · asked by Page 4

Do you agree with him most of the time or disagree?
Do you like him or dislike him?
Would you like to see him make a run for President?

2007-07-21 05:34:42 · 18 answers · asked by john h 7

I'm not sure exactly what the approval rating is for Congress now. Last time I checked it was like 14%. Would it go up or down even more if they cut the funding for the war ?

2007-07-21 05:24:16 · 18 answers · asked by ? 6

2007-07-21 05:18:58 · 16 answers · asked by Page 4

Professor Penelope would give him

Cutting Taxes for Working People A +
Conducting himself with Honor & Dignity A +
Tort Reform Bill A +
Economy A
War on Terror A
Keeping us Safe since 9/11 B +
(Please close the borders)
Iraq Invasion A +
Post Iraq Planning D
Drug Giveaway D
(What are you a democrat?)
Social Security Reform F
'A' for effort though
Supreme Court Picks A +
No Child Left Behind B
Energy & Transportation Bills D
(too much pork)

2007-07-21 05:17:05 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

The liberation of iraq or the liberaton of Bush's colon. And would his colononscopy be covered by universal heatlh coverage?

2007-07-21 05:13:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

There was this smirk on his face he couldn't seem to wipe off during the whole press conference. Is this going to be like the 9/11 widows? They could say any ridiculous Bush-deranged garbage they wanted. Any time someone responded in-kind, their response to the widows was not rebutted on its' merits. Anyone who responded to the widows was simply called "mean".

Is Elizabeth Edwards now an unassailable human-shield for her sleazeball husband because she has cancer?

If she dies before the election, who will he use next?

Can anyone answer this question without calling me "mean"?
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2007-07-21 05:07:35 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Republicans haven't approved of the Democratic controlled Congress because Democrats now have the majority. Democrats don't approve of Congress because they have done almost nothing to stop George Bush and the Iraq war.
It's obvious that if Congress wants approval they will stop this war. I would think that since Congress is pretty much doing what Bush wants them to do that the Republicans would approve of the job they are doing. But instead they foolishly keep pointing out that Congress has a low approval rating. Hmmmm....why is that ? The more critism Congress gets the more willing they will be to take action against the President's policies. They won't lose much Republican support ( because they have very little right now), BUT they will gain a lot of Democratic support.
Shouldn't you Bush supporters be approving of the fact that Congress is letting Bush have his way ?

2007-07-21 05:06:35 · 14 answers · asked by ? 6

Why do they welcome al-qaida and mexican invaders with open arms?

2007-07-21 05:03:24 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I see stalkers are filing bogus abuse reports against similar questions, so get your answers in fast.

2007-07-21 05:01:32 · 15 answers · asked by ? 7

This had any effect on any descisions he made while in office?

2007-07-21 04:59:02 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-21 04:59:00 · 13 answers · asked by nofear_intrepid40 1

Al Gore III faces felony drug charges
Former vice president has little to say today about son's arrest.
City News Service

MISSION VIEJO – Former Vice President Al Gore's son faced drug charges today in Orange County as his father faced the media while preparing for an international music festival to highlight global warming.

Al Gore III, 24, a Los Angeles resident, was driving a blue Toyota Prius south on the San Diego (5) Freeway about 2:15 a.m. yesterday when a sheriff's deputy stopped him at the Crown Valley Parkway exit for speeding, said sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino.

The deputy smelled marijuana and searched the car, finding less than an ounce of pot, but also the prescription drugs Valium, Xanax, Vicodin, Soma and Adderall, which is used to treat attention deficit disorder.

The Harvard graduate said he did not have a prescription for the drugs and admitted smoking pot shortly before being stopped, Amormino said.

However, authorities did not book him on suspicion of DUI because they decided Gore was not "impaired" by the marijuana, he said.

He was arrested on suspicion of drug possession -- and speeding -- and booked into jail in Santa Ana on $20,000 bail. One of his sisters, reportedly Sarah, posted his bail and he was released about 2 p.m. yesterday.

Appearing on NBC's "Today" show for a previously scheduled interview, the former vice president -- who is one of the organizers of this weekend's "Live Earth," a 24-hour, seven-continent concert series to promote the battle against global warming -- was asked about the arrest.

"Well, we're dealing with it as a private family matter," Gore said, "and we love him very much, and we're glad that he's safe, and that he's getting treatment, and we're going to leave it as a private matter."

Possessing less than an ounce of pot is a misdemeanor, but illegal possession of prescription drugs is a felony.

Gore is scheduled to appear in court Aug. 1. Prosecutors have not decided whether to file felony charges against him, said Susan Schroeder of the Orange County District Attorney's Office.

Orange County offers three drug diversion programs that allow people to undergo treatment instead of going to jail, but participants must meet certain qualifications, she said.

Among the qualifications for the "Drug Court" program operated by the Orange County Superior Court, a participant must have no record of violence, drug trafficking or possession of drugs for sale, said court spokeswoman Carole Levitzky.

It is aimed at people with a second or third offense, and there "has to be a willingness" to go through drug treatment programs, such as attend a 12-step program, she said.

"It's hard -- they get tested frequently," Levitzky said.

Schroeder said the programs basically require participants to enter guilty pleas. Under a drug diversion program put in place by the Legislature, the defendant enters a guilty plea, but the plea is not entered as a judgment and it is never recorded if the person successfully completes a program.

Under the Proposition 36 program passed by voters, a person pleads guilty and is sentenced to treatment instead of jail, she said.

The son of the former vice president was charged with marijuana possession in Maryland in 2003 after police stopped the car he was driving for not having its headlights on. In February 2004 he entered a substance abuse program as part of a plea agreement.

Gore was ticketed for reckless driving by North Carolina police in August 2000 for allegedly driving 94 mph, and in September 2002, military police arrested him on suspicion of drunk driving near a military base in Virginia.

2007-07-21 04:58:10 · 11 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070721/ap_o...

All of the news articles I found, only talk about colon cancer, etc, focusing their attention on the medical aspect, and Not on political aspect...

Look at what happened when Cheney took over NORAD on 9/11 running exercizes pretending our planes were hitting buildings LIKE the twin towers

2007-07-21 04:49:24 · 18 answers · asked by Kacy H 5

2007-07-21 04:44:50 · 11 answers · asked by Page 4

Inspired By: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ArDOL89r8V0WxKeDvBmW1WDsy6IX?qid=20070720143618AAZPzJH

2007-07-21 04:18:24 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

1. Some are more consumed by Realty TV than what is actually happening in the world.
2. Some are more consumed with Paris Hilton and what is happening than what is actually happening with their country being led by Bush and Corruption.
3. Actually you need these ignorant and uneducated people as they make good lemmings or commonly called Bushies.

2007-07-21 04:14:45 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Yep , apparently 'panic attack' medication of every kind has been sold-out throughout the country as a result of the President's colonoscopy and Cheney's temporary status as 'president' !!!
Yeah , I guess their marketing department is going to offer free colonoscopys to the President on a monthly basis till the end of his term . And Wlagreens is offering free Kleenex for the whiners with every purchase of medication too . Sales , they are a bustlin' !!

What will they think of next ?

2007-07-21 04:07:46 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

If the Democrats agree to enact some free-market reforms, it might be worth supporting a modest expansion of S-CHIP. Otherwise, President Bush should make good on his veto threat.


Ten years ago, Congress enacted the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or S-CHIP, to cover kids whose parents were doing too well to qualify for Medicaid assistance but not well enough to buy their own insurance. Now the program is up for re-authorization, and congressional Democrats want to expand it as a down payment on national health care.

The program has already expanded beyond its original mission. New York is planning to cover families that make four times the federal poverty line. Almost 700,000 adults get their coverage through the program. The design of the program abets its growth: When states expand benefits, the federal government picks up most of the tab.

The program’s expansion has come at the expense of private health-care coverage. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Democrats’ proposal would get insurance to 2.3 million additional children but simply replace private insurance for another 1.7 million. (It does not report on how many adults would also lose their private coverage.) Liberals are untroubled by this prospect. The replacement effect “hardly matters as long as the net effect is an expansion of insurance,” says The New Republic. But it means that taxpayers are not getting much bang for their bucks.

S-CHIP also creates a trap for low-wage workers. Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute notes that, in combination with other welfare programs, S-CHIP levies a very high effective marginal tax rate on many such workers. If they work hard to make more money, that is, the resulting loss of benefits can put them behind where they started.

Senate Democrats would finance the S-CHIP expansion by hiking cigarette taxes. These taxes fall most heavily on the poor; they cannot be hiked much further without stimulating black-market activity; and they will not raise the target amount of money unless a lot more people take up the newly expensive habit. (House Democrats would raise additional money by also kneecapping the private-sector component of Medicare.)

A lot of children are going without health insurance for the same reasons that a lot of adults are: Government policies have made health markets dysfunctional. Instead of giving up on those markets and having the federal government pick up the tab, we should fix those policies. We could start by taking two steps the Bush administration advocates. The first is to reform the tax code so that individuals who buy health insurance for themselves can get the same tax break that employer-provided health insurance gets. The second is to allow individuals to cross state lines, and thus jump over their own states’ onerous mandates, to buy insurance.

Cannon, the Cato Institute health-care expert, makes a strong case for a third step: treating S-CHIP and Medicaid the way we treat welfare. In 1996, we reformed welfare by block-granting it to the states. Similarly, Congress should give a set amount of money to the states to cover needy families. It should not reward the states for being more generous.

The Democrats are in no mood to do any of these things. “Health insurance for kids” is a popular slogan, of course, and much of the business community is with the Democrats. Health-care providers are happy to get new subsidies, and some of them are afraid that Congress will ding them if they don’t get on board.

If the Democrats agree to enact some free-market reforms, it might be worth supporting a modest expansion of S-CHIP. Otherwise, President Bush should make good on his veto threat.

2007-07-21 03:53:37 · 3 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2

Clinton had high approval ratings because he did absolutely nothing in his 8 years. The more a president does during the presidency, the more approval ratings drop. The Clintons are all about popularity and know how to do nothing

2007-07-21 03:46:00 · 11 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2

2007-07-21 03:42:32 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

in the political office to become the President of the United States?

2007-07-21 03:39:54 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Democrat party is self-imploding. The fringe left base who elected officials based on campaign promises have yet to see any thing happen. Since they have been in control of the congress for 180 days, they have done nothing to satisfy the extreme left base. They won't get the troop withdrawl that Harry Reid wants. You think the Democrats want to be blamed when genocide would wipe out Iraq on our withdrawl? I don't think so. They are vested in our defeat but want to be sure that President Bush gets the blame.

2007-07-21 03:38:30 · 17 answers · asked by 7th generation 2

by Muslim clerics?

2007-07-21 03:36:31 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

If not, WHY?

2007-07-21 03:34:27 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous