Happy New Year
Bookworm on Dec 31 2009 at 7:07 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
I’d meant to write a long, ruminative post about the end of a very painful 2009 and the beginning of what we hope is a better 2010. My husband, however, has commandeered my computer, so I am reduced to blogging on my iPhone. The best I can do, therefore, is to wish all of you a simple, but heartfelt, Happy New Year!!
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While Mr. Book has your computer, ask him if he knows where our Sec’y of State is.
No one has seen or heard her since December 22.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/59189
Save your ruminations, they’ll be plenty of time and cause for them. In the meantime, a healthy and propserous New Year to you and yours.
A Happy New Year to you Book and to all that post here. It’s actually a new decade if you think about it.Sadie after reading the cnsnews link I don’t even miss her.
Happy New Year to you and your lovely family.
“My husband, however, has commandeered my computer.”
Typical liberal, always somebody else’s wealth or property.
Speaking of Hillary, she couldn’t be in a better position. As Obama self-destructs, and huge swaths of Americans wake up and realize what a putz he is, Hillary’s going to look pretty good. Nancy boy’s attempt to neutralize her is going to backfire royally because it’s giving her “plausible deniability.”
Way to go Obamessiah!
Sorry, where were my manners?
Happy New Year, Book, and every other good person on this site.
Happy New Year!
I saw a prediction that Obama will nominate Hillary for the next Supreme Court position.
That would neutralize her.
The Hill: 2009 in headlines
January
Obama visits Capitol Hill to discuss massive stimulus package
Roland Burris shows up in the Senate to be seated
Deficit soars; unemployment hits 7.2 percent
Burris (D-Ill.) sworn into office
Inauguration Day; Obama sworn into office
Obama signs executive orders seeking closure of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility within a year
Kirsten Gillibrand (D) selected as Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate replacement
Obama meets with Republicans on Capitol Hill
Obama signs pay equity bill into law
House passes stimulus bill
February
Obama orders 17,000 additional troops to Afghanistan
Tom Daschle withdraws as Health and Human Services secretary nominee
Obama signs children’s healthcare bill into law
FBI raid on PMA shines ethics spotlight on Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.); ethics office later clears Murtha
Senate strikes deal on stimulus
Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) withdraws as Commerce secretary nominee
Congress passes $787 billion stimulus
Burris under pressure to resign after new information surfaces on Gov. Blagojevich
Obama addresses Congress
Obama proposes $3.6 trillion budget plan
March
Dow drops below 6,800
House passes housing cramdown bill; measure later falters
After delay, Congress passes omnibus spending measure
Obama administration announces it will give ailing auto industry billions of dollars
AIG bonus controversy explodes
Election for Gillibrand’s former House seat is too close to call; subsequently stays in Dem hands
April
Justice Department drops case against former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)
House and Senate pass their budget measures
Rep. Bachus claims there are 17 socialists in Congress
Allegations on Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and wiretaps surface
Sen. Specter bolts the GOP to become a Democrat
May
Supreme Court Justice David Souter announces he will retire
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) under fire for what she knew about waterboarding
Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney deliver dueling speeches on military prison in Guantanamo Bay
Congress passes credit card reform
Obama selects Sonia Sotomayor to replace Souter
June
Obama taps Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.) to be his Army secretary
War supplemental passes
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) exchange words on the House floor over earmark
Climate bill passes House, 219-212
South Carolina Gov. Sanford admits affair with woman in Argentina; Sanford had gone missing for days and his staff claimed he was hiking the Appalachian Trail
Scandal involving Sen. Ensign attracts headlines
Al Franken declared winner of Minnesota Senate race as incumbent Norm Coleman (R) concedes
July
Unemployment hits 9.5 percent
Alaska Gov. Palin announces she will resign
Vice President Joe Biden says administration “misread the economy”
Healthcare reform on the ropes as House and Senate miss deadlines
Obama says Cambridge, Mass., cops “acted stupidly” in arrest of Gates
Sotomayor approved, 68-31
August
Lawmakers confronted at town halls on healthcare reform
Sen. Kennedy dies
August is deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan
September
Unemployment hits 9.7 percent
Obama address Congress on healthcare reform; Rep. Wilson shouts “You lie!” at Obama
Wilson reprimanded by the House; Pelosi fears political violence
House passes education reform bill
Congress votes to strip ACORN of federal funding
Pelosi commits to public option in healthcare reform bill
October
Rep. Grayson says Republicans want sick people to die quickly; refuses to apologize
Pelosi rolls eyes at press conference after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) suggests Congress will support Obama in whatever decision he makes on Afghanistan
Obama wins the Nobel Peace Price
House ethics panel broadens probe of Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rangel
Senate Finance Committee approves healthcare bill; Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) votes yes
Reid announces new “opt out” public option
House ethics committee document leaked to The Washington Post
October becomes deadliest month for U.S. troops in Afghanistan
November
Fort Hood shooting kills 13
House adopts Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-Mich.) abortion language to healthcare bill, 240-194
House passes healthcare bill, 220-215
Dems win special election for McHugh’s seat as GOP split over candidates; GOP wins gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia
Unemployment rate increases to 10.2 percent
Senate health bill clears procedural hurdle
December
Obama announces 30,000 more troops will be sent to Afghanistan
Congress holds hearing on alleged White House party crashers
Obama hosts job summit
Obama approval drops under 50 percent
Unemployment drops to 10 percent
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) acknowledges he nominated his girlfriend for U.S. attorney post
Sen. Ben Nelson’s (D-Neb.) anti-abortion rights amendment to health bill falls short
Reid scraps public option; proposes new bill with “Medicare buy-in” plan
House passes financial regulatory reform bill
Medicare buy-in dropped; Dem centrists commit to bill
Congress passes omnibus measure
Senate health bill clears hurdle on cloture motion with 60 votes; Snowe votes no
Senate passes healthcare reform bill, 60-39
Rep. Parker Griffith (Ala.) leaves Democratic Party to become a Republican
Dow hits year high of 10,520 points
Terrorist plot foiled; Nigerian attempted to blow up plane headed for Detroit
Congress calls for hearings on apparent lapses in homeland security
Happy (tardy) New Year, BW…..
By the way, at Costco a Netbook is around $300.00…totally affordable, and what you could use on the road or when Mr. BW is hogging the computer! Just sayin’…….
Best for a WONDERFUL year in two thousand ten!
Happy New Year! To Book, and to all of her commenters and readers.
How wonderful for all of us to see President Obama step to the microphone tomorrow afternoon in an impromptu press conference, without teleprompter, to say: “I awoke at 3 am last night in a cold sweat, thinking, “My God, if the mammoth Homeland Security apparatus can’t even flag the Underwear Terrorist Bomber as a threat, what hope is there that a mammoth National Universal Health Care bureaucracy can control and manage every Americans’ health care in a reasonable manner? It would be impossible. Therefore, I announce, at this moment, that I am opposed to government control of Americans’ health care, because it would be guaranteed to be inefficient, unresponsive, and ultimately harmful and outrageously expensive, while accomplishing little. I can’t do that to my fellow Americans, who deserve so much better.”
Happy New Year!