private security firm on county time. he had kind of surrounded himself with some kind of thuggish characters and dorsey began referring to himself in the third person. they started this relentless attack on sidney dorsey, morning, afternoon, evening, reporting constantly. apparently, the voting community was very confused. fiscal responsibility of professional management. these things have not been addressed because of all of these side issues. the heated general election was too close to call. and a runoff was necessary. initially, sidney was less than 500 votes away from going back into office. i think that people finally heard the message that derwin was preaching. but in the runoff election, derwin brown won by a margin of two to one and was elected
economic, humanitarian and intelligence, contingent upon them cooperating with us in this effort. the pakistani nukes get in the hands of the islamists, if tehran gets the nuclear weapon they are trying to build, we are in trouble if we don t have the bases on either side of iran. sean: if we are not in trouble, israel will be in trouble first. this concerns me about the rift if you will, that has existed with our relationship with israel since president obama took office. it ought to be clear to everybody, certainly it is clear in jerusalem, to the israelis that they are not going to get any help from the united states. we continue to sell munitions and the like to them. if hezbollah acts up in south lebanon, if hamas in gaza launches further attacks, israel has to stand on their own and they know that, with this administration. until we have a change in washington, they are in trouble. sean: two other side issues that we haven t talked a lot
economic, humanitarian and intelligence, contingent upon them cooperating with us in this effort. the pakistani nukes get in the hands of the islamists, if tehran gets the nuclear weapon they are trying to build, we are in trouble if we don t have the bases on either side of iran. sean: if we are not in trouble, israel will be in trouble first. this concerns me about the rift if you will,, that has existed with our relationship with israel since president obama took office. it ought to be clear to everybody, certainly it is clear in jerusalem, to the israelis that they are not going to get any help from the united states. we continue to sell munitions and the like to them. if hezbollah acts up in south lebanon, if hamas in gaza launches further attacks, israel has to stand on their own and they know that, with this administration. until we have a change in washington, they are in trouble. sean: two other side issues that we haven t talked a lot
issues including one that came up late in the game, they wanted to ease restrictions on mountaintop mining. so kind of a curious thing there. you and certainly the president and a lot of democrats have talk about how a shutdown would be so consequential and detrimental to the economic recovery. so my question to you is, why do democrats not support what republicans have offered in the house to continue funding the government for one week so that the sides can continue to negotiate? well, the problem is they ve introduced all these side issues, so-called legislative riders, that have nothing to do with the spending controversy. and they started with some 55 of them. you know the rule in the congress is you cannot legislate on an appropriations bill. but that s exactly what they re trying to do, a back-door approach changing laws and regulations. don t both sides do that as a matter of course?
meteorologist, as a forecaster and i have a lot of people that rely on me for that forecast, and that pay me because i am right enough they believe i bring value to things, that forecast has to be right. and i will give you an example. i believe we are back where we were in the 1950 s where the pacific turning colder and the atlantic warm. say you are in north carolina a city planner, do you notice the 1950 s were dry. there were less people and less golf courses but if you know the upcoming 10 years because of the climate pattern will be dry because you have been watching things go on, rather than global warming, then, you can plan for things like that, so that is what i do. the other thing, they are side issues. and now a few years ago, a couple years ago, i put this up on national tv and said, okay, get ready, we have to start looking for the cold to fight back no that we are going into