Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry today payed a visit to the man he endorsed during the 2008 presidential campaign, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
Perry and his wife posed with a picture with the former Republican nominee, which McCain shared on Twitter:
http://twitpic.com/iuyzk - I had a great meeting with Joe Perry and his wife Billie - and will never forget their support during the campaign!
"We pretty much stay out of it, but seeing so many people come out for Obama, I just felt like ‘What the hell, I might as well raise my hand for this side,'" Perry told the Boston Herald in October 2008. The shredder cited national security concerns and economic troubles in his endorsement.
McCain and the Perrys:
It looks like the trio is experience some "Sweet Emotion:"
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said on Wednesday that President Barack Obama's stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is "offensive and wrong."
Obama made his first address as president before the United Nations today and called for "a Jewish State of Israel, with true security for all Israelis; and a viable, independent Palestinian state with contiguous territory that ends the occupation that began in 1967, and realizes the potential of the Palestinian people."
The president also asserted his desire to resume peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians "without preconditions."
The freshman lawmaker took exception with Obama's assessment of the decades-longdispute, tweeting:
I am outraged by the President's comments at the U.N. His approach to the Israel-Palestinian situation is wrong on many fronts.
President wants discussions "without preconditions." I disagree. We should always stand tall for Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state.
Also, the President's characterization that Israel should "end the occupation that began in 1967" is offensive and wrong.
The border issue is one of many contentious disputes splitting Israelis and Palestinians. Israel claims that it needs territory seized from Arab nations during the 1967 Six Day War is a necessary buffer for its security. Palestinians say that the land was unjustly taken and demand that Israel retract behind its previous borders.
Like the rest of Utah's congressional delegation, Chaffetz is Mormon.
Some would use the word "interesting" to describe Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who gave his first ever speech before the United Nations on Wednesday.
Last month, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) described a meeting with Libyan
leader Moammar Gadhafi as an "interesting meeting with an interesting
man." McCain met with the leader as part of a congressional delegation visiting the North African nation.
The 2008 presidential nominee later revealed that he warned Gadhafi against giving a hero's welcome to Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi who helped kill 270 people in an attack of a Pan-American jet in 1988.
After being released from Scottish prison due to illness, Megrahi received a celebratory welcome in when he arrived back in Libya about a week after the meeting with Gadhafi.
Today, the controversial head-of-state had some choice words for veto holding members of the UN Security Council. Gadhafi accused the council members of violating the charter of the UN by wielding disproportionate power in the body.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) tweeted that "the top of my head is about to pop off" during a hearing regarding defense contracting reform.
The oft-tweeting senator made her animated comment during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing featuring witnesses from the Department of Defense and the Government Accountability Office (GAO):
Gonna be some tuf ?s for witnesses in a few at this hearng. Unbelievable problms at Def Contrctng Agncy. Top of my head is about to pop off.
A recent GAO audit found that the Defense Contracting Audit Agency is experiencing difficulties overseeing multi-billion dollar defense contracts. Homeland Security Committee chairman Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) told the AP yesterday the DCAA needs "a complete cultural transformation."
Rep. Lee Terry (R-Neb.) on Wednesday said the House's passage of an extension of unemployment benefits demonstrated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) "arrogance."
The congressman tweetedthat a measure that limits the extension to states whose unemployment is over 8.5 percent showed prejudice toward unemployed people in states that fell below the threshold, including his home state of Nebraska:
Arrogance of the speaker showed when she brought a 13-week unemployment extension for peolple (sic) in states w/over 8.5% unemployment...
...That excludes Nebraska. Why is an unemployed person in California more worthy of help than an unemployed person in Nebraska? I voted NO.
Last night, the House approved the bill that would allow those
receiving expanded unemployment benefits under the $787 billion
stimulus package to continue collecting them past September.
"By passing this legislation we have told the American people that we stand with them and will not abandon them at a time when decent hard-working Americans are struggling to regain their economic footing," said the bill's sponsor Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.)
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), one of the Senate's leading Twitterers, said that the markup of healthcare reform legislation now underway will be a "big lift."
Grassley, who is the Senate Finance Committee's ranking member, tweeted:
If u hv time watch Finance Comm during amending process of Health Care. Affects 1/6th economy and evry American. Big lift for Congress
The Finance panel is currently marking up chairman Max Baucus' (D-Mont.) long-awaited health proposal. All eyes seem to be on the Finance Committee this week; Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), who is a member of the panel, yesterday tweeted photos of a packed house just before the markup.
And what would a Grassley tweet be without a Grassley-ism? We assume "big lift" means a difficult task, not a boost in prestige.
Rep. Mike Ross (D-Ark.), a leading Blue Dog in the healthcare
debate, on Wednesday dismissed a story about a 2007 real estate deal
that may pose a conflict of interest as spurred by a "leftist 'news'
organization."
Ross sold he owned named Holly's Health Mart
in a small Arkansas town to USA Drug, a chain of pharmacies for
$420,000, a price that is well-above the market price for the building,
according to ProPublica, who first reported the story.
Arkansas Democrat Gazette clears the air on misleading story on me by leftist, "news" organization. Today's front page. http://bit.ly/28kWin
In the linked article, Ross insisted he sold the Prescott, Ark. property for a "fair price."
ProPublica bills itself
as "an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative
journalism in the public interest" that produces "journalism that
shines a light on exploitation of the weak by the strong and on the
failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them."
The
article claims that the county assessors office valued the pharmacy,
which is named for Ross' wife Holly, and the land it sits on were
valued at a combined $236,000 at the time of the sale.
ProPublica
also wrote that USA Drug's owner Stephen LaFrance, Jr. made a $2,300
campaign contribution to Ross two weeks after the sale closed.
A new study that ranked the influence of members of Congress on Twitter found that Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) has the most clout on the microblogging site.
Wilson gained a great deal of attention on Twitter after he shouted "you lie!" during President Barack Obama's speech before a joint session of Congress two weeks ago.
The study, conducted by the blog techPresident, found that Wilson pulls the most weight on Twitter using a Klout analysis. Klout compiles 25 variables, such as amount of genuine followers (as opposed to spammers), influence of followers, amount of replies, and popularity of tweets among users.
Under the rating system, Wilson earned a score of 79 out of 100.
Rounding out the top five are Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) at 75.4, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) at 72.9, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) at 72.3, and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) at 67.9.
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