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Rick Santorum?s spokeswoman Alice Stewart said in a TV interview on Monday that Santorum was referring to President Barack Obama?s ?radical Islamic policies? when he said the president?s agenda was driven by ?phony theology? ? but then quickly called up MSNBC after the segment aired to say she misspoke.

?There is a type of theological secularism when it comes to the global warmists in this country. That?s what he was referring to. He was referring to the president?s policies in terms of the radical Islamic policies the president has,? Stewart said on ?Andrea Mitchell Reports.?

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Mitchell later said on the air that Stewart phoned the show after the interview to say she had slipped up and said ?radical Islamic policies? instead of Obama?s ?radical environmental policies.?

Mitchell noted she had missed Stewart?s phrasing of ?radical Islamic policies? during the live interview.

?She had repeatedly said during that same interview ?radical environmental policies? and she said she slipped when she apparently said [it],? Mitchell said. ?I did not hear it, or I would have caught her on it and tried to get a correction at the moment. I really, frankly, did not hear her use the word Islamic, but the tape tells the tale.?

Santorum said in Ohio on Saturday that Obama?s agenda is ?not about you. It?s not about your quality of life. It?s not about your jobs. It?s about some phony ideal, some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology, but no less a theology.?

Santorum stood by his remarks later, telling reporters he wasn?t suggesting Obama is less of a Christian.

?No one?s suggesting that,? he said. ?I?m suggesting, obviously we all know in the Christian church there are a lot of different stripes of Christianity. I?m just saying he?s imposing his values on the church and I think that?s wrong. ? If the president says he?s a Christian, he?s a Christian.?

Santorum said on Sunday that he was referring to what he described as Obama?s radical views on the environment and on Monday, he continued attacking the president?s environmental record on the campaign trail.

During a panel discussion on MSNBC on Monday after Stewart?s slip of the tongue, The Washington Post?s Anne Kornblut said she thought Stewart would apologize for the comment, but that it may not stop conspiracy theorists from grabbing onto her statement.

?I expect we?re going to hear more from Alice Stewart apologizing about those remarks. But there will be conspiracy theorists thinking it was some kind of message she was trying to get out or it was really on the mind of the Santorum campaign when they are talking about President Obama,? Kornblut said.

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Posted on January 7, 2012 at 3:57 PM

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — The chief of staff for University of Illinois President Michael Hogan has resigned amid an internal investigation.

Hogan announced Lisa Troyer’s resignation Friday in an email to administrators.

No reason for her departure was given.

The Chicago Tribune (http://trib.in/zWg2Ei ) reports that the university’s ethics and information technology offices are investigating allegations against Troyer.

The allegations are that she posed as a member of a faculty advisory group and sent anonymous emails to its members about a report that was critical of some of the president’s proposals.

Hogan’s announcement says Troyer will resume research and teaching duties as a tenured psychology professor.
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But interim Provost Richard Wheeler says the Urbana-Champaign campus may need to review the results of the internal investigation before making a decision about Troyer’s role with the faculty.
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During Saturday night?s ABC News debate in New Hampshire,?Texas Gov. Rick Perry pledged that he would send American troops back into Iraq if he were elected president.

After Perry?s declaration, which contrasted strongly with those of other presidential candidates on the stage, ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, formerly President Bill Clinton?s press secretary, asked a one-word follow-up question: ?Now??

?I think we start talking with the Iraqi individuals there,? Perry said. ?The idea that we allow the Iranians to come back into Iraq and take over that country, with all of the treasure, both in blood and money, that we have spent in Iraq, because this president wants to kowtow to his liberal, leftist base and move out those men and women. He could have renegotiated that timeframe.?

?I think it is a huge error for us. We?re going to see Iran, in my opinion, move back in at literally the speed of light,? Perry added. ?They?re going to move back in, and all of the work that we?ve done, every young man that has lost his life in that country will have been for nothing because we?ve got a president that does not understand what?s going on in that region.?

President Obama withdrew the final U.S. troops from Iraq in December.

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According to the latest Rasmussen presidential tracking poll, 53 percent of American voters say they at least somewhat disapprove of President Obama?s job performance. And you can count Obama?s cousin,?Milton R. Wolf, among them.

In a video Wolf made exclusively for The Daily Caller,?the board-certified diagnostic radiologist and medical director waxes about the president?s recent boast that he led the charge to provide Americans with a two-month, year-end extension of former President George W. Bush?s payroll tax cuts. Obama bragged in December speeches that he had delivered, on average, a $40 tax cut for every working American.

Big whoop, Wolf says.

?Forty dollars ? is enough money to tip your beach waiter serving you pi?a?coladas ? at least on one of the 17 days of your Hawaiian vacation.?Forty dollars can buy at least one phony ACORN signature on an Indiana primary petition.

?Forty?dollars can buy the entire DVD boxed set of Rev. Jeremiah Wright?s sermons ? just in case you?ve missed any over the last 20 years.?Forty?dollars can buy a couple cartons of cigarettes for your Chicago friends, Blago and Rezko. They may come in handy where they?re going.?

Watch:

?No president,? Wolf states, ?should destroy our country with socialized medicine, bank bailouts and a failed trillion-dollar shovel-ready stimulus.?

?He should stop bowing to foreign leaders. It just makes America look weak. Plus,? he jokes, ?it draws attention to his skinny legs.?

Source: http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/09/obamas-cousin-president-shouldnt-destroy-our-country-video/

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Justice Department reported Monday that it has recovered nearly $9 billion in fraud against the government since the beginning of the Obama administration, a record three-year total.

The $3 billion recovered in the past fiscal year included an unprecedented $2.8 billion raised after whistle blowers filed lawsuits on behalf of the government to reclaim U.S. money or property such as Medicare benefits, military contracts and federal subsidies and loans.

Reports of these claims increased after Congress amended the False Claims Act 25 years ago to increase incentives for whistle blowers to 15 to 30 percent of funds recovered from the lawsuits.

Assistant Attorney General Tony West noted that 28 percent of the more than $30 billion in recoveries since then have come since President Barack Obama took office. He said that’s because the president decided shortly after taking office to make health care fraud a major push of his administration, creating a joint task force between the departments of Justice and Health and Human Services to coordinate efforts.

“The president essentially raised health care fraud to a cabinet-level priority,” West told reporters in an interview to announce the figures.

Most of the recoveries in the past fiscal year ? $2.4 billion ? have been fraud against health care programs. The largest recoveries came from drug companies, including $900 million from eight drug makers to resolve allegations of a long-standing practice of billing the government inflated prices. GlaxoSmithKline PLC paid $750 million to resolve allegations it manufactured and sold adulterated drugs.

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Washington ? President Barack Obama’s “we can’t wait” refrain is all about projecting a sense of urgency and bold action heading into his fourth year in office. It turns out other presidents haven’t had much luck with that.

The fourth year is often a disappointment, particularly when a president facing re-election is trying to coax action out of a Congress in the hands of the other party. The heady optimism of earlier years gets bogged down in partisan bickering, and big initiatives give way to less ambitious steps.

Bill Clinton, chastened by huge GOP gains in the 1994 congressional elections, ended up tacking to the center in his fourth year, a remarkable transformation captured in his 1996 acknowledgment that “the era of big government is over.” Clinton, helped by a solid economy, did enough to get re-elected, but it was a year largely characterized by small-bore initiatives like school uniforms and neighborhood curfews.

George H.W. Bush, frustrated that he couldn’t get action out of a Democratic Congress on his economic proposals, opened his fourth year in 1992 with words akin to Obama’s:

“My friends: The people cannot wait,” he said in his State of the Union address that January. “They need help now.”

By that November, voters in a down economy were tired of waiting for help, and gave the president’s job to Clinton. Bush’s heralded leadership of the Desert Storm coalition that expelled Iraq’s invasion forces from Kuwait in 1991 had slipped from people’s attention by then.

The second President Bush, in his fourth year, had the benefits of banner economic growth and a Republican-controlled Congress. That allowed him to deliver his fourth tax cut in four years just a month before Election Day 2004.

“The law I sign this morning comes at just the right time for America,” Bush said as he signed the bill in the leadoff caucus state of Iowa.

The time was just right for his re-election campaign, too, he might have added.

Bush’s larger accomplishments, though, came earlier in his term: education reform, big tax relief packages and managing the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001. He took the country into war in Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.

Each president has faced his own set of challenges and advantages as his first term wound down.

Franklin Roosevelt still had steam in his fourth year, as he continued to advance portions of his New Deal, and voters re-elected him in 1936 by a lopsided margin. Lyndon Johnson, who opted not to seek re-election in 1968, was slowing down but still managed to get through fair housing legislation. Jimmy Carter’s fourth year was dominated by the Iranian hostage crisis and continuing inflation, and so voters denied him a fifth. Ronald Reagan had a strong economy working for him in 1984, and was rewarded with a second term.

Overall, the track record of recent presidents in year four is somewhat depressing, says Princeton University historian Julian Zelizer.

“It is possible to govern in the fourth year, whether you’re popular or unpopular” he says, “but it’s obviously much more limited, usually, in terms of what you can get.”

Calvin Mackenzie, a presidential historian at Colby College in Maine, says the problem for sitting presidents is bigger than simply fourth-year blues.

“The system is stacked against effective presidential leadership,” says Mackenzie. “In everything that involves economic and domestic policy, the president is circumscribed by constraints everywhere he turns.”

Obama doesn’t need a historian to tell him that: The Republican-controlled Congress has made it clear that the president’s big jobs package won’t go anywhere, forcing the president to plead for bite-size pieces and look for chunks that he can put in place on his own.

“We can’t wait for Congress to do its job,” he said in on recent speech. “If they won’t act, I will.”

But in the same speech, he acknowledged a countervailing truth, saying: “The only way we can attack our economic challenges on the scale that’s needed is with bold action by Congress.”

Obama’s tone, a year out from the 2012 elections, is sharply different than when he spoke exactly one year out from Election Day 2008.

Then, he spoke optimistically of “an opportunity to deal with those challenges that we haven’t met for decades because of a political system in Washington that has failed the American people.”

“I’m running because I don’t want to wake up one morning four years from now and turn on one of those cable talk shows and see that Washington is stuck in the same food fight that it’s been in for over a decade.”

Well, it’s four years later, and Obama can point to some big accomplishments, such as health care reform, and winding down the war in Iraq.

But the partisan divide in Washington is as broad as ever, hemming in the president’s opportunities for further action and leaving many voters feeling disappointed.

And Mackenzie says the president must take a share of the blame for raising expectations unrealistically high.

“The problem is we do expect much ? and presidents encourage us to expect much,” Mackenzie says. “So we’ve got this awful paradox of rising expectations and diminishing ability of presidents to meet those expectations. So we’re constantly disappointed in our presidents.”

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