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AP: Obama’s staying out of Syria to make Iran happy during nuke talks

Allahpundit — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:21:15 +0000

Appeasement?

What better way to show an enemy that nuclear proliferation isn’t in their interest than by … ceding a crucial regional battlefield to them in hopes of getting them to play nice on nukes? Hello? President Barack Obama’s reluctance to give military aid to Syrian rebels may be explained, in part, in three words: Iranian [...]

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Obama to Israeli TV: Iran’s a “year or so” away from having a bomb

Allahpundit — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:28:32 +0000

Timelines.

The AP headlines this story, “Obama says Iran a year away from nuclear weapon.” Read the excerpt below. Is that what he’s saying, or is he saying that it would take them a year to build one if/when they get eventually cracking full-bore on weaponization? Prediction: When 2013 comes and goes without any resolution, diplomatic [...]

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Quotes of the day

Allahpundit — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 01:31:56 +0000

"Catastrophic."

In the first closed-door meeting of the Republican majority in the new Congress, newly reelected House Speaker John A. Boehner on Friday promised a robust fight with President Obama to cut spending in exchange for raising the nation’s debt limit. The Ohio Republican doubled-down on his insistence that there must be at least a dollar-per-dollar [...]

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Quotes of the day

Allahpundit — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 01:17:00 +0000

Brinksmanship.

A number of Republican senators say a partial government shutdown should be considered as an option if President Obama doesn’t concede on spending cuts to the GOP’s satisfaction… Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told the Dallas Morning News that he would be open to a partial government shutdown, pointing to the 1995 shutdown as “the greatest [...]

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Boehner: I refuse to negotiate one-on-one with Obama anymore

Allahpundit — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:41:06 +0000

Break up.

But … how else will we get our fill of facile political drama in the weeks leading up to the big debt-ceiling standoff? The one and only redeeming virtue of the fiscal cliff negotiations was that it produced a cheeky anecdote of one major player dropping the F-bomb on another. Someone will still drop the [...]

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Quotes of the day

Allahpundit — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 01:31:40 +0000

Cliff diving.

Mr. Obama repeatedly lost patience with the speaker as negotiations faltered. In an Oval Office meeting last week, he told Mr. Boehner that if the sides didn’t reach agreement, he would use his inaugural address and his State of the Union speech to tell the country the Republicans were at fault. At one point, according [...]

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