Is Health Care Reform in DANGER of FAILURE ?

The Hill: Reports on worries in the House that the Senate version of health care reform will not get the 218 votes to pass the House of Representatives. If health care reform fails it is goodbye Obama Administration, thus it will pass, even if its only the title. The Democrats will just buy the votes as they did in the Senate, any House Representative that will lose his seat in 2010 will find that his gets a nice job in the Obama Administration, also individual districts get some back handers, in effort to create jobs and thus get the economy going and buy a vote. Thus health care reform will pass, the effect might be that it leads to the defeat of President Obama in 2012.

Afghanistan Front News

MOD: Has released the name of the latest soldier to die in Afghanistan, the soldier was " Captain Daniel Read from 11 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps, part of the Counter-IED Task Force ". Our thoughts are with the family of Captain Read.

Murder in Tehran

Guardian: Reports on the murder of a nuclear scientist in Tehran, Iran, the scientist Masoud Ali Mohammadi had links to those dissenting in Iran. The Tehran government is blaming the Israel and the West, while the fact that the scientist has links to those dissenting in Iran could place the guilt at the hands of Government in Tehran. Thus one can see that the finger will be pointed at Mossad in Israel, the CIA in the USA and MI6 in the UK. As for the view of this blog, the murder does seem to have been a professional hit, but who and why, as the scientist had links to those that opposed the regime it seems odd that Israel or the West would take him out, on other hand his very career could make him attractive hit for the regime, as they could get rid of a dissenter, prevent him telling the West what he knew, make it look like a Western hit and the left wing elite media would blame Israel, we have all seen the film Munich. Thus one has a feeling that this will be a cold case for a very long time, of course it could just as well be a personal reason that he was killed, but it is easy for Tehran to set the blame on Israel and the West.

Secret History - The Blair/Bush Letters on Iraq

The Times: Reports on the revelation from the Iraq Inquiry that UK PM Tony Blair sent notes to Bush 43 that stated that the UK would support the USA at the end of the day when it came to Iraq. This is an interesting revelation, lets see if ever see the light of day this side of the pond, it would be interesting to see how much stress Blair placed on the Diplomatic route, if at any time Blair said something in the notes that did not match his public utterances or his statements to the House of Commons. This is the UK, those documents will never see the light of day, but in the USA there is the Freedom of Information Act, lets hope historians or even Congress has a look at these documents. Someone in the UK has to take the blame at the end of the day for the failure of the British mission in Iraq, last time I looked the PM at the time was Tony Blair.

Obama a Failure - CNN

CNN: Reports on its new poll that finds that 48% of Americans think that Obama has failed in his first year. The one major issue that has sent the Obama polls South has been his obsession with health care reform, the major issue for Americans is jobs, jobs and jobs. They see an elite President that does not get the terrorist threat, prefers to give rights to terrorists, spends like a drunk sailor, someone has to remind the STAR that there are a few states in between New York and California and that he only won by 7% in 2008. If Obama cant turn the polls around he will be a one term President, what the Olympic Gods they can take away, and they are lot more ruthless than the New York Times. Think if Obama was to lose the Democrats will be out of the White House for a generation, the President that was to make the Democrats the natural party of Government could make it the official opposition for many a year, what an irony that would be for Obama.