Rick Perry’s newbie mistake on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 20th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
Rick Perry’s newbie mistake on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Question: Do you believe there should be a Palestinian state?
“I certainly have some concerns. The first step in any peaceful negotiation for a two-state solution for the Palestinians is to recognize the right of Israel’s existence. They have to denounce terrorism in both word and deed. And they have to sit down and negotiate with Israel directly. Anything short of that is a non-starter in my opinion.”
Obama proposes new taxes on wealthy for half of debt plan
President Obama made a defiant call on Monday for $1.5 trillion in new taxes as part of a plan to find $3.2 trillion in budget savings over the next decade, issuing his most detailed proposal yet to tame the soaring federal debt.
Abandoning earlier compromises, Obama adopted a posture that cedes far less ground in cutting the nation’s social safety net and demands much more in terms of new levies on millionaires, other wealthy Americans and some industries.
Old debate over raising rich’s taxes plays out on new landscape
On Monday, President Obama arrived at the place that many presidents reach when a recession won’t quit: He went after the rich.
Obama said he planned to increase tax rates on the wealthy, to ensure they “pay their fair share, just like everybody else.” Republicans called Obama’s ideas “class warfare” and suggested that they would hurt the economy by leaving small-business owners with less money to spend.
Fact checking Obama’s Rose Garden statement on taxes and spending
Analysts have decreed that President Obama’s speech in the Rose Garden on Monday was a political statement designed to rally his political base rather than engage in real negotiations with Republicans on Capitol Hill — who may be beyond negotiations with this president in any case.
But we deal in facts. How factual were various assertions made by the president?
