Morning News For Monday

   After helping to craft the new immigration bill, employers have decided that they do not like it.

WASHINGTON, May 20 — Employers, who helped shape a major immigration bill over the last three months, said on Sunday that they were unhappy with the result because it would not cure the severe labor shortages they foresee in the coming decade.

In addition, employers expressed alarm as they learned that the Senate bill would require them to check a government database to verify that all current and former employees — aliens and citizens alike — were eligible to work in the United States.         NYTimes

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Second Life for Study Group
Monday, May 21, 2007

After an initially tepid reception from policymakers, the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group are getting a second look from the White House and Congress, as officials continue to scour for bipartisan solutions to salvage the American engagement in Iraq.

With negotiations continuing this week on a new war funding bill, the administration is strongly signaling that it would accept the idea of requiring the Iraqi government to meet political benchmarks or else risk losing some assistance from the United States. That was one of the key proposals from the group headed by former secretary of state James A. Baker III and former Indiana congressman Lee H. Hamilton, but it was initially dismissed by the White House when first proposed last December.       Washington Post

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Haniyeh Could Be on Israeli Hit List

GAZA CITY/RAMALLAH, 21 May 2007 — Israeli forces killed at least four Palestinians yesterday and an Israeli minister warned that even Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh could be targeted by his country.

Israeli Minister Ze’ev Boim said Israel must strike at Hamas leaders “with all our might.”

“There’s a list of them from the first of them to the very last,” Boim told Israel Radio. “Now, with Hamas saying openly that it is the one who is firing the Qassam rockets, we must strike at Hamas. There are people there who are launching them, there are their commanders there in the armed wing, and there is the political echelon, there is a prime minister.”

Arab News

 

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White House Crying Over Jimmy Carter Speaking The Truth

  It's a good thing that I bought a new box of tissue as old George Bush and the boys at the White house may need them after they are finished crying about former president Jimmy Carter's remarks about Bush being the worst president ever so far as international relations are concerned.  

  As you all know by now, Carter told the  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that "as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history."  So I ask you reader, is Mr. Carter wrong in his statement? I think not.

  White House mouthpiece Tony Fratto had something to  say about it today, saying that Carter was " irrelevant ' in these kinds of things.

Fratto: "I think it's sad that President Carter's reckless personal criticism is out there. I think it's unfortunate. And I think he is proving to be increasingly irrelevant with these kinds of comments."     WaPo

   Everyone is making a big deal out of this since it is generally a courtesy to not say to much about the president if you have been a president yourself. Get over it Republicans! You punks have changed the rules of the game to favor your immoral and illegal activities so now anyone, former presidents included, can take their best shots at Bush and the rest of you criminals for as long as they wish.

   The correct way to spell ' irrelevant ' is ' Bush.'

 Carter: "We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want to change the regime there or if we fear that some time in the future our security might be endangered."

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