Politburo Controlling US Policy, Sotomayor, Worst Violence Since US Pullback hits Iraq, Dems Leak Cheney Plan to Cover Pelosi

FYI, my posts may become a little more sporadic in the coming days, as I am helping to edit a book Sharron Angle is writing.   1) 'Politburo' controlling U.S. policy Sources say White House cadre bypassing agencies, jeopardizing security JERUSALEM – A small group of officials working mostly from the White House are tightly controlling U.S. foreign policy, bypassing other government agencies and making decisions without employing their expertise, according to diplomatic sources speaking to WND.  The sources said some of the decisions may be jeopardizing U.S. security.  A senior Middle East diplomatic source said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently apologized to a Mideast leader, explaining to him U.S. policy regarding his country is being dictated by the White House and not her agency.  The diplomatic sources all confirmed Clinton has been largely cut out from the decision-making process, as have U.S. National Security Adviser James Jones and other top figures. …The senior U.S. official said Emanuel is most heavily involved in drafting policy, describing him as a sort of policy CEO, while Axelrod works to brand White House decisions.  The source described the decision-making group as "ignorant" and as "still in campaign mode," citing as one example the lack of understanding among the group of Syria's strong ties to Iran.  In another example, a second source said Obama and his team last week made numerous factual errors while negotiating in Russia, completely surprising Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with their lack of knowledge. …The sources said a main goal of the Obama administration is to oversee an eventual withdrawal from Iraq, even if that means cutting deals that would undermine U.S. security in other areas. The sources said they are concerned many foreign policy decisions are based on branding and are not taking U.S. security into consideration. See: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103910 2) Worst violence since US pullback hits Iraq BAGHDAD – Bombs killed nearly 60 people in Iraq on Thursday in the worst violence since U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban areas last week, and American forces released five Iranian officials suspected of aiding Shiite insurgents. See: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090710/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq 3) Democrats Leak Cheney CIA Plan to Cover for Pelosi RUSH: This New York Times story that came up on Sunday about Cheney and the CIA and a secret plan... you know, this is classic. The plan was never implemented. It was a secret plan, Cheney and the CIA, basically to target Al-Qaeda operatives. And now everybody's having a cow over Cheney doing something secret and not telling anybody about it, and all this is is an attempt to give cover for Nancy Pelosi. The story is that there has been a plan since 2001 to target and capture and kill Al-Qaeda leaders, 9/11, 2001, and Leon Panetta ended it when he found out. That's the story. The story is the Democrats ended it. That's what everybody needs to know when it comes to the Democrat's national security and foreign policy. This is just absurd.   Wall Street Journal: "CIA Had a Plan to Capture and Kill Al-Qaeda." Well, we should hope so! What the hell else would you do after 9/11? Doesn't that seem sort of like a natural flow? We lose the World Trade Center, part of the Pentagon, and people on a plane in Pennsylvania, and so we implement a plan with the CIA to capture and kill Al-Qaeda. I would sure as hell hope that's what was happening. See: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_071309/content/01125104.guest.html 4) Sotomayor and the Era of Empathy  Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court start this week. Her nomination is an attempt by the Obama Administration to change the role of judges and the courts. President Obama seeks to establish a new standard for judges: empathy.  Empathy is highly subjective and provides little direction for judges. In some cases, all of the parties are sympathetic. In other cases, none are. In still other cases, the law may be unambiguously on the side of a party who is less sympathetic. If empathy is the guiding principle, how is a judge to decide? And is there any way to separate empathy from personal bias? In choosing nominees, President Obama should seek judges who would apply the Constitution and the laws as they are written and interpret them in a manner consistent with their plain and original meaning. But that is not Sonia Sotomayor’s method of judging.  Bias and Policymaking. Judge Sotomayor has questioned whether judges can be impartial in most cases and has even asserted that such impartiality is undesirable. She describes a judge’s role as making policy and envisions a judiciary in which judges constantly “overhaul” the law to address social and political changes in society—changes that should be addressed by the American people through their elected representatives. This is not the rule of law, but of activist judges who make up the law according to their own preferences and biases. See: http://www.askheritage.org/Issues.aspx?ID=394 5) Google blocks blog exposing homosexual agenda 'Actions represent trial balloon for government censorship of 'hate' speech Google's blog hosting service, Blogger.com, admits that in the name of "free speech" some of its blogs are "offensive, harmful, inaccurate," but when one of its clients blogged in opposition to a transgender rights bill, Google drew the line.  A day before the Massachusetts Legislature plans to review a controversial gender identity bill, Blogger.com blocked the blog of MassResistance, an organization that exposes the increasingly open agenda of the homosexual movement in Massachusetts, with a warning that some of the content may be "objectionable," requiring readers to confirm their intent to visit.  "Some readers of this blog have contacted Google because they believe this blog's content is objectionable," the warning reads. "In general, Google does not review nor do we endorse the content of this or any blog. For more information about our content policies, please visit the Blogger Terms of Service."  MassResistance blogger Amy Contrada, however, writes that the only potentially "objectionable" items on the blog are photos taken in public settings and her group's politically incorrect viewpoints. See: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103902 6) Obama science czar Holdren called for forced abortions 'Comprehensive Planetary Regime could control development, distribution of all natural resources' The man President Obama has chosen to be his science czar once advocated a shocking approach to the "population crisis" feared by scientists at the time: namely, compulsory abortions in the U.S. and a "Planetary Regime" with the power to enforce human reproduction restrictions.  "There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated," wrote Obama appointee John Holdren, as reported by FrontPage Magazine. "It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society."  Holdren's comments, made in 1977, mirror the astonishing admission this week of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who said she was under the impression that legalizing abortion with the 1973 Roe. v. Wade case would eliminate undesirable members of the populace, or as she put it "populations that we don't want to have too many of." See: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103707