A.M. Links: Obama Committed to Letting Bush Tax Cuts Expire, Boehner Limits Romney Enthusiasm to Family, Friends and Mormons, Assad Blames U.S. For Destabilization in Syria

A.M. Links: Obama Committed to Letting Bush Tax Cuts Expire, Boehner Limits Romney Enthusiasm to Family, Friends and Mormons, Assad Blames U.S. For Destabilization in Syria

| July 9, 2012

  • not lovable?President
    Obama is “100% committed” to allowing the Bush era tax cuts to
    expire for those making more than $250,000 a year,
    according     to Robert Gibbs. The president will
    apparently     be asking for a partial one-year extension of the
    tax cuts.
  • John Boehner
    explained     the landscape of the 2012 presidential election at a
    fundraiser in West Virginia: “The American people probably aren’t
    going to fall in love with Mitt Romney. I’ll tell you this: 95
    percent of the people that show up to vote in November are going to
    show up in that voting booth, and they are going to vote for or
    against Barack Obama.  Mitt Romney has some friends, relatives
    and fellow Mormons … some people that are going to vote for him.
    But that’s not what this election is about. This election is going
    to be a referendum on the president’s failed economic
    policies.”
  • Bashar Assad
    accused     the United States of “destabilizing” Syria, apparently
    unaware that events in his country have been in the world news for
    the last year and a half.
  • It looks like third time’s the charm as liberal parties may
    actually be looking at a
    victory     over the Muslim Brotherhood in the first free elections
    in Libya.
  • A malware program believed to have spread to computers around
    the world is set to shut down Internet access to those computers

    today    . Something to do with your DNS resolution, which can be
    checked here.
  • NASA scientists appear to have been
    wrong     about finding arsenic-based life. The bacteria the study
    was based on apparently lives despite the arsenic in its cells, not
    because of it.

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