Sunday, October 2, 2011

Republican Wisconsin senators bypass Democrats in vote on collective bargaining

Senate Republicans abruptly passed Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's plan to sharply curtail collective-bargaining rights for public employees Wednesday night, using a legislative maneuver to approve the measure without 14 Democratic senators who fled the state in an effort to block it.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/09/AR2011030900299.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Watch: Tapper vs. Carney:Was Awlaki Death Constitutional?

ABC's Jake Tapper presses WH on legality of Awlaki killing

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The Plum Line: Do people care about the deficit?

Duncan Black poses a question: "Nobody cares about the deficit. Why don't people understand this?" Matthew Yglesias attempts an answer: "Politicians don't understand that the voters don't care about the deficit because the voters themselves don't understand that they don't care about the deficit....

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/11/AR2011031103780.html?wprss=rss_politics

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FiveThirtyEight: Reads & Reactions

In this edition: upheaval in the Republican presidential nomination contest, an old foe returns, college football chaos and baseball collapses.

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U.S. issues travel alert after Awlaki death

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department issued a worldwide travel alert on Saturday warning of the possibility of anti-American attacks in response to the killing of two top al Qaeda members.

Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/PoliticsNews/~3/iTuWKacGnm4/us-usa-travel-warning-idUSTRE7901P920111001

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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Who cares about Chris Christie? edition

Visual source: Newseum

Behind the numbers:

Despite the media hubbub over New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), the aforementioned Fox News poll finds lukewarm reaction to a presidential bid from the New Jersey governor outside the Beltway. While 32 percent of registered voters say he should run, 39 percent say he shouldn?t (28 percent don?t know). Republicans are more hopeful than others ? four in 10 say he should run ? but 33 percent of GOP loyalists prefer that Christie sit out the race.
Dana Milbank:
?I really implore you,? said the woman, after listening to Christie speak at the Reagan Library, ?as a citizen of this country to, please, sir, to reconsider. . . Go home and really think about it, please. Do it -- do it for my daughter. Do it for our grandchildren. Do it for our sons. Please, sir, don?t -- we need you. Your country needs you to run for president.?

I feel sorry for this woman, because she will, inevitably, be disappointed ? even if Christie runs, even if Christie wins. This is because it is not Christie that she and so many other Republicans want but what Christie represents: a political superman who can, in a single-bound, transform the whole mess our political system has become.

The media's sad role in covering politics as if both parties are at fault when the GOP Senate is obstructionist and the GOP House is insane continues to be neglected in favor of the Republican flavor of the month, such a huge story because Donald Trump Sarah Palin Mitch Daniels Rick Perry Fred Thompson Chris Christie will be the next President.

WSJ:

"I knew when I got into this race that I'd have my hands full fighting President [Barack] Obama's big-government agenda. I just didn't think it would be in the Republican primary," Mr. Perry told a crowd of business leaders and Republican politicians at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank.

Mr. Perry and other Republican candidates have been criticizing Mr. Romney on health-care policy, saying the broad overhaul he signed in Massachusetts paved the way for Mr. Obama's federal law, which is widely disliked among conservatives. On Friday, Mr. Perry broadened his critique of Mr. Romney to include environmental policy.

it is unfortunate, albeit predictable, that environmental policy is hostage to GOP primary politics.

Charlie Cook:

A plethora of articles in recent days have noted President Obama?s sudden shift in emphasis back to his party?s liberal base, following his largely unrewarded dalliance with independents. What has gone unnoticed, however, is that this move could mimic the strategy that Karl Rove pursued in President Bush?s 2004 reelection campaign. When faced with a bloc of independent voters who viewed Bush with skepticism, the campaign began focusing more on expanding its base than on throwing huge amounts of resources at independent and undecided voters.
National Journal [subscription]:
To hear GOP presidential front-runner Rick Perry and some tea party-backed lawmakers tell it, the Republican position on global warming is that it?s a problem that doesn?t even exist.

That wasn?t always the case. And if prominent Republican elder statesmen have their way, it won?t continue to be.

Just goes to show you the only sane Republican is a retired Republican.

Chronicle of Higher Education:

15 Years After an Essay on Procrastination, a Philosopher Wins an Ig Nobel

ohn R. Perry is a prolific philosopher, with at least eight scholarly books and scores of journal articles to his credit.

He is also a self-diagnosed procrastinator and a self-help author of sorts, having written an essay called "How to Procrastinate and Still Get Things Done." First published in 1996 in The Chronicle, the article established the principle of "structured procrastination," which holds that "the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely, and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important."

Mr. Perry, a professor emeritus of philosophy at Stanford University and an active professor of philosophy at the University of California at Riverside, won the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for the ideas set forth in that essay.

I love that guy! I'll email him congratulations, in a few years. PS I spelled his name wrong. I'll fix it later.


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Nevada caucus to stay put

Nevada's caucus will likely stay in early February.

Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64879.html

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AP source: Obama to tap Locke for China ambassador

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will nominate Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, the son and grandson of Chinese immigrants, to be the next U.S. ambassador to China, a senior administration official said Monday. A formal announcement could come as early as Tuesday.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030704163.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Castro calls Obama stupid, slams Cuba policy

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro lashed out at U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday for demanding changes on the island in order to improve bilateral relations and referred to him as "stupid."

Source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_allpolitics/~3/6c7JCHxdFSg/index.html

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Stromberg: Won't climate change help America?

Ever heard this one: Even if the Earth's climate changes, warmer temperatures will be good for America -- longer growing seasons, perhaps? Or its cousin: Humans will simply do what they've done for millennia -- adapt to changing temperatures with different technology and behaviors? Isn't that bet...

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/07/AR2011030704221.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Michael Giltz: Movies: NYFF #2 -- "Dreileben" This Year's "Red Riding" Trilogy (Almost)

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-giltz/movies-nyff-2----dreilebe_b_990565.html

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Romney defends flip-flopping, says it's a habit he formed 'in the private sector'

In his 1994 U.S. Senate campaign in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney said the death of a family friend
after a botched illegal abortion had made him a committed pro-choicer.
 
Mitt Romney on why he flip-flops:
"In the private sector," he said, "if you don't change your view when the facts change, well you'll get fired for being stubborn and stupid. Winston Churchill said, 'When the facts change I change too, Madam." What do you do?"

That'd be an even more compelling answer if he hadn't said the exact opposite a week earlier:

That's different from what he said a week ago, when he said he doesn't change positions.

The American people "can tell when people are being phony and are pandering to an audience," he said, "and you?ll see that in politics. You?re not going to see that in my campaign."

And as sensible as it may be to change your mind when the facts change, exactly what "facts" changed between 1994 and 2011 when Mitt Romney went from a committed pro-choicer (see the above video) to a committed anti-choicer? Other than the fact that he's now seeking the GOP presidential nomination, nothing changed.

To be fair to Romney, it would be stupid to seek the GOP presidential nomination as a pro-choicer. I guess that means he thinks it's better to be a liar than to be stupid. The only question I have is which Mitt Romney was lying?


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Senate funding vote delayed as parties trade barbs over competing proposals

After delaying a planned Tuesday vote on the federal spending bill, Senate leaders traded accusations over the motives behind their competing proposals to keep the government from shutting down later this month.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030803656.html?wprss=rss_politics

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New Hampshire college students can still vote in state, for now

A controversial move by New Hampshire Republicans to prohibit voting by many of the state's college students appears to be dead - at least for now.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/10/AR2011031002875.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Obama May Suffer a Landslide Defeat

Charles Krauthammer, FOX News
"I think if Obama cannot rise from the 31% approval rating he has among independents, he's going to suffer a landslide," Charles Krauthammer said on the "Special Report" panel tonight. 

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/29/krauthammer_warns_obama_will_suffer_landslide_election.html

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Fla. Republicans make it harder for ex-felons to vote

Florida Gov. Rick Scott and other Cabinet-level officials voted unanimously Wednesday to roll back state rules enacted four years ago that made it easier for many ex-felons to regain the right to vote.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/08/AR2011030806672.html?wprss=rss_politics

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Friday, September 30, 2011

South Carolina, Rick Perry's to lose?

Mix of GOP interests makes this conservative state less monolithic than many assume.

Source: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/30/8059496-south-carolina-rick-perrys-to-lose

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Killing of al-Awlaki Major Blow to Al-Qaeda

Con Coughlin, The Telegraph
Another bombing raid, and another al-Qaeda terrorist mastermind bites the dust. The latest attack, which is said to have killed Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemeni-born terrorist who masterminded the East Midlands Airport cargo bomb plot, means that 2011 is turning out to be an exceptional year for the West's counter-terrorist offensive against al-Qaeda.The elimination of Osama bin Laden by a team of US Navy Seals in May removed the terrorist organisation of its spiritual figurehead. The killing of Awlaki and several other al-Qaeda operatives in a bombing raid in Yemen – most...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/09/30/killing_of_al-awlaki_major_blow_to_al-qaeda_264530.html

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Federal Eye: Fed worker pay comes under fire

The Republican-led House is scheduled to hold its first hearing Wednesday on the compensation of federal employees, pitting the Obama administration and federal worker union leaders against conservative fiscal experts armed with detailed reports suggesting federal employees are paid too generousl...

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/09/AR2011030901988.html?wprss=rss_politics

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The killing of a U.S. jihadist

U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was on "hit list" of terror targets; His death in drone attack raises debate over the reach of U.S. law

Source: http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsMain/~3/j3bdIOoqOs4/main20114032.shtml

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Is Cain the GOP's Next Big Thing?

Nia-Malika Henderson, Washington Post

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/09/30/is_cain_the_gop039s_next_big_thing_264522.html

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A 2012 boom for Cain, but winning will be tougher

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Herman Cain is on a roll, the latest hot commodity in a constantly shifting 2012 Republican presidential race.

Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/PoliticsNews/~3/udA07dBDoBw/us-usa-campaign-cain-idUSTRE78S6EU20110929

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Number one Romney attack line against Perry? Immigration.

Indicted for insufficient hatred. (Reuters)
Indicted for insufficient hatred. (Reuters)
Anyone who still doubts the role immigration will play in knocking down Texas Gov. Rick Perry, just look at the latest attack line from Mitt Romney's camp:
?It is becoming increasingly clear that Rick Perry has problems with the truth. Each of Rick Perry?s attacks has been proven false,? Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said. ?Instead of dreaming up phony attacks on Mitt Romney, Governor Perry should explain why he encourages illegal immigration, why he wants to dismantle Social Security, and why he accepted billions of dollars of stimulus to cover up his massive budget deficit.?

It's no accident that immigration leads the list. Perry's insufficient hatred toward brown people was always liable to become a campaign issue, and his opponents are finally wielding it like a club (like Michele Bachmann).

Rick Perry is such a nut that there aren't a lot of opportunities to attack him from the Right. This is perhaps the only place for them to do that, and Perry's opponents won't let that opportunity go to waste?even if it further alienates the GOP from the nation's largest growing demographic.


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Arab League's backing of no-fly zone over Libya ramps up pressure on West

The league's move represents an extraordinary step by the leading Arab organization, historically reluctant to sanction a member, and provided fresh evidence of the reformist spirit recasting Arab politics.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/12/AR2011031200900.html?wprss=rss_politics

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