Sources: Jesse Jackson Jr. in treatment for alcoholism
By Stephen C. Webster
Thursday, July 12, 2012 9:09 EDT
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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s strange absence from Congress is due to clinical depression and a stay in an Arizona substance abuse clinic, where he was being treated for alcoholism, NBC’s Nightly News reported on Wednesday night.
Speculation has swirled in recent weeks that marital problems and stress from a congressional ethics investigation stemming from the conviction of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) had become unbearable for Jackson, ultimately forcing him to seek treatment.
His office called the Congressman’s condition a “mood disorder,” disputing the claim of alcoholism and marital discord. Aides to Jackson claimed in June that he had taken a leave for “exhaustion.”
“This is about a human being who’s sick,” Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) told The Washington Post on Wednesday. “This is not a political matter, it’s a health matter.”
Jackson went on medical leave on June 10, but his office did not announce his absence until two weeks later.
Speaking to a Chicago news station on Tuesday, Jackson’s father, the civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson, explained that his son is “taking his time in recovery.”
“I speak as a father, an one who right now is pained as he comes out of his crisis,” he said. “We’re with him and we hope that he’ll be fully restored to his health. But right now he’s going through a tremendous challenge.”
One of Jackson’s former fundraisers, Raghuveer Nyak, was arrested days after Jackson’s medical leave began. Audio from the trial of Gov. Blagojevich revealed that the convicted Democrat claimed that Nyak had offered to raise $1.5 million in campaign donations if Blagojevich would pick Jackson to be the next Senator from Illinois.
Nyak’s arrest does not appear to be connected to Jackson. He faces charges of mail fraud, racketeering and bribing doctors. Jackson has denied involvement in the Blagojevich scandal.
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Thursday, July 12, 2012 9:09 EDT
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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s strange absence from Congress is due to clinical depression and a stay in an Arizona substance abuse clinic, where he was being treated for alcoholism, NBC’s Nightly News reported on Wednesday night.
Speculation has swirled in recent weeks that marital problems and stress from a congressional ethics investigation stemming from the conviction of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) had become unbearable for Jackson, ultimately forcing him to seek treatment.
His office called the Congressman’s condition a “mood disorder,” disputing the claim of alcoholism and marital discord. Aides to Jackson claimed in June that he had taken a leave for “exhaustion.”
“This is about a human being who’s sick,” Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) told The Washington Post on Wednesday. “This is not a political matter, it’s a health matter.”
Jackson went on medical leave on June 10, but his office did not announce his absence until two weeks later.
Speaking to a Chicago news station on Tuesday, Jackson’s father, the civil rights icon Rev. Jesse Jackson, explained that his son is “taking his time in recovery.”
“I speak as a father, an one who right now is pained as he comes out of his crisis,” he said. “We’re with him and we hope that he’ll be fully restored to his health. But right now he’s going through a tremendous challenge.”
One of Jackson’s former fundraisers, Raghuveer Nyak, was arrested days after Jackson’s medical leave began. Audio from the trial of Gov. Blagojevich revealed that the convicted Democrat claimed that Nyak had offered to raise $1.5 million in campaign donations if Blagojevich would pick Jackson to be the next Senator from Illinois.
Nyak’s arrest does not appear to be connected to Jackson. He faces charges of mail fraud, racketeering and bribing doctors. Jackson has denied involvement in the Blagojevich scandal.
One-Third of Obama’s Earnings 2009-2011 From Foreign Sources
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During the time that President Obama has been in office, he has earned some $2,711,340 from foreign sources. That’s 30.1 percent of Obama’s total income during that time. During that period, Obama forked over $87,429 to foreign countries. Most of that cash comes from book sales.
That’s an inordinately large amount of money coming from overseas – far more than the typical American, certainly. And the question becomes whether President Obama is outsourcing his book sales. After all, why not pay American tax rates on that income? Why not ship from the United States, rather than printing abroad?
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During the time that President Obama has been in office, he has earned some $2,711,340 from foreign sources. That’s 30.1 percent of Obama’s total income during that time. During that period, Obama forked over $87,429 to foreign countries. Most of that cash comes from book sales.
That’s an inordinately large amount of money coming from overseas – far more than the typical American, certainly. And the question becomes whether President Obama is outsourcing his book sales. After all, why not pay American tax rates on that income? Why not ship from the United States, rather than printing abroad?
Liberal Logic
Liberal Logic: it was wrong for GWB to sign the Patriot Act, but it's perfectly fine to grope 90 year old grandmas and pull out their colostomy bags so their business is spilled all over everyone else's carry-on baggage and you stink all the way to Denver.
Liberal Logic: conservatives are wrong because they are only concerned about a human life before it's born, but afterwards they want nothing to do with them. I mean... how dare conservatives expect parents to actually raise their children instead of demanding taxpayers do it for them.
Liberal Logic: it's perfectly acceptable to take a jumbo jet across the country to celebrate the planting of a tree on earth day.
Liberal Logic: it's wrong to hide your money in a Swiss bank account, but it's perfectly fine for Obama's treasury secretary to be guilty of tax evasion.
Liberal Logic: it's wrong to verify someone's identification when casting a ballot to determine the leader of the free world, but it's perfectly fine that you can't renew your driver's license without 18 forms of identification and a stool sample.
Liberal Logic: it is wrong to sentence a violent criminal to the death penalty, but it's perfectly fine to sentence an innocent, unborn, baby to the scrap bucket.
Liberal Logic: a muslim extremist can open fire and terminate the lives of 13 service men and women at Fort Hood and the DOJ refuses to call him a terrorist. But the TEA party throws a peaceful rally, cleans up their own trash, and actually leaves the landscape in better shape than how they found it and liberals call them public enemies.
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Liberal Logic: if you're successful, it's because the government helped you. If you're a loser, it's because the rich man is keeping you down.
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Liberal Logic: it's wrong to spend four trillion dollars over eight years, but it's ok to spend five trillion dollars over three years.
Liberal Logic: it's wrong to drive gas guzzling SUV's, but it's perfectly fine to drive Chevy Volt's that are fueled by coal burning electric plants.
Liberal Logic: it was wrong for GWB to sign the Patriot Act, but it's perfectly fine to grope 90 year old grandmas and pull out their colostomy bags so their business is spilled all over everyone else's carry-on baggage and you stink all the way to Denver.
Liberal Logic: conservatives are wrong because they are only concerned about a human life before it's born, but afterwards they want nothing to do with them. I mean... how dare conservatives expect parents to actually raise their children instead of demanding taxpayers do it for them.
Liberal Logic: it's perfectly acceptable to take a jumbo jet across the country to celebrate the planting of a tree on earth day.
Liberal Logic: it's wrong to hide your money in a Swiss bank account, but it's perfectly fine for Obama's treasury secretary to be guilty of tax evasion.
Liberal Logic: it's wrong to verify someone's identification when casting a ballot to determine the leader of the free world, but it's perfectly fine that you can't renew your driver's license without 18 forms of identification and a stool sample.
Liberal Logic: it is wrong to sentence a violent criminal to the death penalty, but it's perfectly fine to sentence an innocent, unborn, baby to the scrap bucket.
Liberal Logic: a muslim extremist can open fire and terminate the lives of 13 service men and women at Fort Hood and the DOJ refuses to call him a terrorist. But the TEA party throws a peaceful rally, cleans up their own trash, and actually leaves the landscape in better shape than how they found it and liberals call them public enemies.
Liberal Logic: It's wrong for a neighborhood watchman to defend his life with violent force when his head is being smashed repeatedly into concrete by a young thug high on pot... but it's perfectly fine to terminate hundreds of thousands of innocent, unborn, babies every year.
Liberal Logic: if you're successful, it's because the government helped you. If you're a loser, it's because the rich man is keeping you down.
Liberal Logic: it's wrong to employ tens of thousands of people with a keystone pipeline, but it's perfectly normal to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on bankrupt green energy companies.
Liberal Logic: it's wrong to spend four trillion dollars over eight years, but it's ok to spend five trillion dollars over three years.
Liberal Logic: it's wrong to drive gas guzzling SUV's, but it's perfectly fine to drive Chevy Volt's that are fueled by coal burning electric plants.
Michelle Obama's Luxery Ski Weekend Costs Taxpayers at Least $83,000.00
A February 2012 ski trip enjoyed by first lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters cost taxpayers at least $83,000, according to records obtained by Judicial Watch.
The total cost of the President’s Day weekend getaway was at least $83,182.99. The largest expense was $48,950.38 for Secret Service protection, which included accommodations at the Fasching Haus deluxe condominium and the Inn at Aspen.
The cost of transportation was also hefty. Using official Department of Defense hourly rates, Judicial Watch estimated that the flights cost $22,583.70. This didn’t include in-flight purchases costing $235.44. The cost of rental cars was $6,442.23.
Judicial Watch received the records after filing a May 31 lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force and Secret Service.
“No wonder we had to file a lawsuit in federal court and wait six months to get basic information on Michelle Obama’s luxury Aspen vacation,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The costs of the Obama family ski weekend are staggering. These high-priced luxury vacations, and the lack of transparency about them, are beginning to seem like an abuse of office.”
Few details were released about the vacation, but FoxNews.com pointed out that it was the 16th vacation in three years for the Obama family.
While the cost of the trip was high, it hardly compares to some of the other trips the Obamas have taken, including a vacation to Spain that cost $467,585 and a trip to Africa costing $424,142.
A February 2012 ski trip enjoyed by first lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters cost taxpayers at least $83,000, according to records obtained by Judicial Watch.
The total cost of the President’s Day weekend getaway was at least $83,182.99. The largest expense was $48,950.38 for Secret Service protection, which included accommodations at the Fasching Haus deluxe condominium and the Inn at Aspen.
The cost of transportation was also hefty. Using official Department of Defense hourly rates, Judicial Watch estimated that the flights cost $22,583.70. This didn’t include in-flight purchases costing $235.44. The cost of rental cars was $6,442.23.
Judicial Watch received the records after filing a May 31 lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force and Secret Service.
“No wonder we had to file a lawsuit in federal court and wait six months to get basic information on Michelle Obama’s luxury Aspen vacation,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The costs of the Obama family ski weekend are staggering. These high-priced luxury vacations, and the lack of transparency about them, are beginning to seem like an abuse of office.”
Few details were released about the vacation, but FoxNews.com pointed out that it was the 16th vacation in three years for the Obama family.
While the cost of the trip was high, it hardly compares to some of the other trips the Obamas have taken, including a vacation to Spain that cost $467,585 and a trip to Africa costing $424,142.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net.
Census figures for 2011 will be released this fall in the critical weeks ahead of the November elections.
The Associated Press surveyed more than a dozen economists, think tanks and academics, both nonpartisan and those with known liberal or conservative leanings, and found a broad consensus: The official poverty rate will rise from 15.1 percent in 2010, climbing as high as 15.7 percent. Several predicted a more modest gain, but even a 0.1 percentage point increase would put poverty at the highest since 1965.
Poverty is spreading at record levels across many groups, from underemployed workers and suburban families to the poorest poor. More discouraged workers are giving up on the job market, leaving them vulnerable as unemployment aid begins to run out. Suburbs are seeing increases in poverty, including in such political battlegrounds as Colorado, Florida and Nevada, where voters are coping with a new norm of living hand to mouth.
"I grew up going to Hawaii every summer. Now I'm here, applying for assistance because it's hard to make ends meet. It's very hard to adjust," said Laura Fritz, 27, of Wheat Ridge, Colo., describing her slide from rich to poor as she filled out aid forms at a county center. Since 2000, large swaths of Jefferson County just outside Denver have seen poverty nearly double.
Fritz says she grew up wealthy in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch, but fortunes turned after her parents lost a significant amount of money in the housing bust. Stuck in a half-million dollar house, her parents began living off food stamps and Fritz's college money evaporated. She tried joining the Army but was injured during basic training.
Now she's living on disability, with an infant daughter and a boyfriend, Garrett Goudeseune, 25, who can't find work as a landscaper. They are struggling to pay their $650 rent on his unemployment checks and don't know how they would get by without the extra help as they hope for the job market to improve.
In an election year dominated by discussion of the middle class, Fritz's case highlights a dim reality for the growing group in poverty. Millions could fall through the cracks as government aid from unemployment insurance, Medicaid, welfare and food stamps diminishes.
"The issues aren't just with public benefits. We have some deep problems in the economy," said Peter Edelman, director of the Georgetown Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy.
He pointed to the recent recession but also longer-term changes in the economy such as globalization, automation, outsourcing, immigration, and less unionization that have pushed median household income lower. Even after strong economic growth in the 1990s, poverty never fell below a 1973 low of 11.1 percent. That low point came after President Lyndon Johnson's war on poverty, launched in 1964, created Medicaid, Medicare and other social welfare programs.
"I'm reluctant to say that we've gone back to where we were in the 1960s. The programs we enacted make a big difference. The problem is that the tidal wave of low-wage jobs is dragging us down and the wage problem is not going to go away anytime soon," Edelman said.
Stacey Mazer of the National Association of State Budget Officers said states will be watching for poverty increases when figures are released in September as they make decisions about the Medicaid expansion. Most states generally assume poverty levels will hold mostly steady and they will hesitate if the findings show otherwise. "It's a constant tension in the budget," she said.
The predictions for 2011 are based on separate AP interviews, supplemented with research on suburban poverty from Alan Berube of the Brookings Institution and an analysis of federal spending by the Congressional Research Service and Elise Gould of the Economic Policy Institute.
The analysts' estimates suggest that some 47 million people in the U.S., or 1 in 6, were poor last year. An increase of one-tenth of a percentage point to 15.2 percent would tie the 1983 rate, the highest since 1965. The highest level on record was 22.4 percent in 1959, when the government began calculating poverty figures.
Poverty is closely tied to joblessness. While the unemployment rate improved from 9.6 percent in 2010 to 8.9 percent in 2011, the employment-population ratio remained largely unchanged, meaning many discouraged workers simply stopped looking for work. Food stamp rolls, another indicator of poverty, also grew.
Demographers also say:
_Poverty will remain above the pre-recession level of 12.5 percent for many more years. Several predicted that peak poverty levels - 15 percent to 16 percent - will last at least until 2014, due to expiring unemployment benefits, a jobless rate persistently above 6 percent and weak wage growth.
_Suburban poverty, already at a record level of 11.8 percent, will increase again in 2011.
_Part-time or underemployed workers, who saw a record 15 percent poverty in 2010, will rise to a new high.
_Poverty among people 65 and older will remain at historically low levels, buoyed by Social Security cash payments.
_Child poverty will increase from its 22 percent level in 2010.
Analysts also believe that the poorest poor, defined as those at 50 percent or less of the poverty level, will remain near its peak level of 6.7 percent.
"I've always been the guy who could find a job. Now I'm not," said Dale Szymanski, 56, a Teamsters Union forklift operator and convention hand who lives outside Las Vegas in Clark County. In a state where unemployment ranks highest in the nation, the Las Vegas suburbs have seen a particularly rapid increase in poverty from 9.7 percent in 2007 to 14.7 percent.
Szymanski, who moved from Wisconsin in 2000, said he used to make a decent living of more than $40,000 a year but now doesn't work enough hours to qualify for union health care. He changed apartments several months ago and sold his aging 2001 Chrysler Sebring in April to pay expenses.
"You keep thinking it's going to turn around. But I'm stuck," he said.
The 2010 poverty level was $22,314 for a family of four, and $11,139 for an individual, based on an official government calculation that includes only cash income, before tax deductions. It excludes capital gains or accumulated wealth, such as home ownership, as well as noncash aid such as food stamps and tax credits, which were expanded substantially under President Barack Obama's stimulus package.
An additional 9 million people in 2010 would have been counted above the poverty line if food stamps and tax credits were taken into account.
Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, believes the social safety net has worked and it's now time to cut back. He worries that advocates may use a rising poverty rate to justify additional spending on the poor, when in fact, he says, many live in decent-size homes, drive cars and own wide-screen TVs.
A new census measure accounts for noncash aid, but that supplemental poverty figure isn't expected to be released until after the November election. Since that measure is relatively new, the official rate remains the best gauge of year-to-year changes in poverty dating back to 1959.
Few people advocate cuts in anti-poverty programs. Roughly 79 percent of Americans think the gap between rich and poor has grown in the past two decades, according to a Public Religion Research Institute/RNS Religion News survey from November 2011. The same poll found that about 67 percent oppose "cutting federal funding for social programs that help the poor" to help reduce the budget deficit.
Outside of Medicaid, federal spending on major low-income assistance programs such as food stamps, disability aid and tax credits have been mostly flat at roughly 1.5 percent of the gross domestic product from 1975 to the 1990s. Spending spiked higher to 2.3 percent of GDP after Obama's stimulus program in 2009 temporarily expanded unemployment insurance and tax credits for the poor.
The U.S. safety net may soon offer little comfort to people such as Jose Gorrin, 52, who lives in the western Miami suburb of Hialeah Gardens. Arriving from Cuba in 1980, he was able to earn a decent living as a plumber for years, providing for his children and ex-wife. But things turned sour in 2007 and in the past two years he has barely worked, surviving on the occasional odd job.
His unemployment has run out, and he's too young to draw Social Security.
Holding a paper bag of still-warm bread he'd just bought for lunch, Gorrin said he hasn't decided whom he'll vote for in November, expressing little confidence the presidential candidates can solve the nation's economic problems. "They all promise to help when they're candidates," Gorrin said, adding, "I hope things turn around. I already left Cuba. I don't know where else I can go."
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Associated Press writers Kristen Wyatt in Lakewood, Colo., Ken Ritter and Michelle Rindels in Las Vegas, Laura Wides-Munoz in Miami and AP Deputy Director of Polling Jennifer Agiesta contributed to this report.
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At Least Bush Didn't Welcome Terrorists into the White House
WASHINGTON — Federal agencies skirted the law in allowing an Egyptian with self-professed terror ties to visit the White House to lobby for the release of an imprisoned terror boss, Rep. Pete King charged Wednesday.
Hani Nour Eldin — an avowed member of a group deemed by the feds to be a terror outfit — was elected to Egypt’s parliament following last year’s Arab Spring uprisings.
His tenure ended June 14 when the Egyptian judiciary dissolved the body, but he had already landed a slot on a diplomatic junket to the U.S. last month that included a White House visit.
Eldin was subjected to three layers of vetting before he could get a U.S. visa, enter the U.S. and then gain admittance to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told lawmakers Wednesday.
But investigators from the State and Homeland Security Departments either ignored Hani’s own Facebook page or didn’t check it at all.
There he states his membership in Gama’a al-Islamiyya, an Islamist militant group designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government.
Federal law requires that the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security sign off on waivers before issuing visas to members of designated federal terrorist organizations, and notify Congress. The agencies did not give Congress the heads-up, King said at a hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security, which he chairs.
Napolitano told King that Eldin was found to pose no security risk, but she called King’s concerns about process “a fair point to make.”
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Wednesday that a review found “that procedures were followed,” but would not comment further citing visa privacy protections.
Eldin got an audience with senior officials at the White House on June 19, and asked them to transfer Omar Abdel Rahman to Egyptian authorities.
The blind ex-New Yorker was spiritual leader to both Gama'a al-Islamiyya and the men who carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
He is serving a life sentence in federal prison for his role in a failed plot to detonate explosives at New York landmarks in the early 1990s.
Eldin “was told the answer is ‘No,’” said King (R-L.I.).
As democratic reform sweeps the Middle East, Washington must be far more careful as it welcomes newly-elected foreign politicians into its halls of power, King warned.
“We could have hundreds of people in this situation over the next several years coming in who may not all brag on their Facebook page that they’re a member of a foreign terrorist organization,” King said.
Napolitano argued that the issue is complicated when groups designated as terror organizations enter the political mainstream of U.S. allies like Egypt.
New Egyptian Prime Minister Mohammed Morsi vowed last month to push for Rahman’s release, but he, like Eldin, has also struck a moderate tone.
Both men have pledged to honor the 1979 Camp David Accords that established peace with Israel.
WASHINGTON — Federal agencies skirted the law in allowing an Egyptian with self-professed terror ties to visit the White House to lobby for the release of an imprisoned terror boss, Rep. Pete King charged Wednesday.
Hani Nour Eldin — an avowed member of a group deemed by the feds to be a terror outfit — was elected to Egypt’s parliament following last year’s Arab Spring uprisings.
His tenure ended June 14 when the Egyptian judiciary dissolved the body, but he had already landed a slot on a diplomatic junket to the U.S. last month that included a White House visit.
Eldin was subjected to three layers of vetting before he could get a U.S. visa, enter the U.S. and then gain admittance to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told lawmakers Wednesday.
But investigators from the State and Homeland Security Departments either ignored Hani’s own Facebook page or didn’t check it at all.
There he states his membership in Gama’a al-Islamiyya, an Islamist militant group designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government.
Federal law requires that the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security sign off on waivers before issuing visas to members of designated federal terrorist organizations, and notify Congress. The agencies did not give Congress the heads-up, King said at a hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security, which he chairs.
Napolitano told King that Eldin was found to pose no security risk, but she called King’s concerns about process “a fair point to make.”
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Wednesday that a review found “that procedures were followed,” but would not comment further citing visa privacy protections.
Eldin got an audience with senior officials at the White House on June 19, and asked them to transfer Omar Abdel Rahman to Egyptian authorities.
The blind ex-New Yorker was spiritual leader to both Gama'a al-Islamiyya and the men who carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
He is serving a life sentence in federal prison for his role in a failed plot to detonate explosives at New York landmarks in the early 1990s.
Eldin “was told the answer is ‘No,’” said King (R-L.I.).
As democratic reform sweeps the Middle East, Washington must be far more careful as it welcomes newly-elected foreign politicians into its halls of power, King warned.
“We could have hundreds of people in this situation over the next several years coming in who may not all brag on their Facebook page that they’re a member of a foreign terrorist organization,” King said.
Napolitano argued that the issue is complicated when groups designated as terror organizations enter the political mainstream of U.S. allies like Egypt.
New Egyptian Prime Minister Mohammed Morsi vowed last month to push for Rahman’s release, but he, like Eldin, has also struck a moderate tone.
Both men have pledged to honor the 1979 Camp David Accords that established peace with Israel.
