PRAYER REQUEST: Congress Leaves Town Without Tax Decision (September 22, 2012)
Congressional lawmakers have left Washington until after the November elections without making any decisions about taxes, spending and entitlement reform. Despite the countdown clock ticking toward a massive tax increase on January 1, lawmakers say tax and spending decisions can’t be made until after Election Day in November. But the real question many political pundits are asking is whether policymakers can find common ground after the election in a “lame-duck” session before the new Congress takes over next year... Economists, meanwhile, warn the fiscal situation, including the expiration of the Bush tax cuts on January 1, could push the country back into a recession early next year. (Sources: CBS, CNN)
As the Lord leads, please pray:
Congressional lawmakers have left Washington until after the November elections without making any decisions about taxes, spending and entitlement reform. Despite the countdown clock ticking toward a massive tax increase on January 1, lawmakers say tax and spending decisions can’t be made until after Election Day in November. But the real question many political pundits are asking is whether policymakers can find common ground after the election in a “lame-duck” session before the new Congress takes over next year... Economists, meanwhile, warn the fiscal situation, including the expiration of the Bush tax cuts on January 1, could push the country back into a recession early next year. (Sources: CBS, CNN)
As the Lord leads, please pray:
>for the November election and the consequences for the economy
>for the recovery of the American economy
[FYI - 1) I hope that you got to see my post #329 yesterday as it was a special one with a prayer guide for the upcoming elections; 2) BE SURE YOU ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE; 3) , try to either read the book (you can get it from your library) "Obama's America" or see the movie "2016." I promise you, you will not understand our President's worldview until you do; 4) You might also try to get a copy of the book, "Divider-In-Chief"; go to the follow site to read a lengthy preview of it:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570118/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1621570118&linkCode=as2&tag=null07-20#reader_1621570118 - Stan]
[NOTE: By again apologizing to those who incite violence against Americans, in the repeatedly proven futile hope of pacifiying the anger of Islamic extremists, the Obama administration only puruses a policy that only emboldens our enemies. They are doing the same as did the Prime Minister of Great Britain Chamberlain in regards to Hitler when he surrendered to the madman country after country in Europe in the belief that it would appease his agression. Instead, it only fueled it, as our government's continued actions are also bound to do. - Stan]
"The Apology Tour Continues: Obama, Clinton Say 'Sorry' to Rioting Pakistanis," by Helle Dale, September 21, 2012 http://blog.heritage.org/2012/09/21/the-apology-tour-continues-obama-clinton-say-sorry-to-rioting-pakistanis/
In a commercial containing clips from their Washington press conferences, subtitled in Urdu, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton said “sorry” to the mad hordes attacking the American embassy in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad and deplored the infamous anti-Muslim14-minute YouTube video. “We absolutely reject its content and message,” said Clinton in the advertisements, which ended with the seal of the American embassy in Pakistan. U.S. taxpayers footed the bill for this high-level official apology to the tune of $70,000.
This is not public diplomacy. This is madness.
First off, Clinton and Obama should actually issue another apology—this one to the personnel of the U.S. embassy in Cairo. Their apology statement, posted on the embassy’s website on September 11 while the embassy was under attack, was denounced the following day by the Secretary of State and the President and subsequently taken down.
All these apologies are, however, extensions of the Obama “apology tour,” the moral underpinning of the President’s approach to foreign policy, which holds that the U.S. must be at fault whenever international problems arise. It began soon after his inauguration and is still going strong. The President has apologized for Guantanamo; for the CIA and its techniques; for U.S. policies toward the Americas; for slavery, segregation, and the treatment of Native Americans; for the War on Terrorism; for policy toward the Muslim world, etc., etc.
At the heart of Obama’s display of humility, however, is his belief in his own power to redeem this country’s many sins. To the G-20 summit of world leaders, Obama stated in 2009, “I would like to think that with my election and the early decisions that we’ve made, that you’re starting to see some restoration of America’s standing in the world.” Clearly, the rioting mobs burning the American flag and even the President’s image don’t see it that way.
Instead of apologies, the public diplomacy message of the Administration should be a defense of American people, values, and interests. Here is what a worthwhile commercial featuring Clinton and Obama might have said:
We have had enough. The United States stands for freedom of expression at home and abroad and will continue to do so in the face of thuggish intimidation. Freedom of expression is a fundamental principle enshrined in the U.S. Constitution as well as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We stand with those who share these values, and we demand that all violence against our embassies and personnel cease immediately.Sadly, though, the apology tour continues.
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