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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Thiessen: Al-Qaeda's American-bred leadership
In recent days, critics in this section have pounded Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) for holding hearings to examine radicalization in the American Muslim community. They've accused him of "providing fuel for bigots" and "stoking irrational fears." Really? It is hardly irrational for the chairman House ...
Christie axes 'Snooki subsidy'
Hey Snooki, you're not welcome on the Jersey Shore. 
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Daily Kos/SEIU State of the Nation Poll: Huge support for Buffett Rule
A little over a week ago, in a speech in support of his jobs plan, President Obama included a bit of populist rhetoric that immediately garnered a lot of attention:
And any reform should follow another simple principle: Middle-class families shouldn?t pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires. That?s pretty straightforward. It?s hard to argue against that. Warren Buffett?s secretary shouldn?t pay a higher tax rate than Warren Buffett. There is no justification for it.
This distillation of common sense, appropriately enough, became known as the "Buffett Rule" and was greeted enthusiastically in many quarters. But we wanted to see just how popular the idea is, so we included a question on our weekly national poll to test it out.
Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos & SEIU. 9/15-18 . Registered voters. MoE �3.1% (no trendlines):
Q: Do you support or oppose ensuring that people who make over a million dollars a year pay the same percentage of taxes or more on their total income as those who make less than a million dollars a year?Support: 73
Oppose: 16
Not sure: 11
That's some of the strongest support I've ever seen for a proposal which would, of course, raise taxes. Though the Beltway press never discusses it, the idea of increasing taxes on the rich invariably polls very well, but here support is stratospheric. I think the Buffett Rule's explicit appeal to fairness is the key factor ? as the president says, it's just hard to argue against.
Indeed, every demographic sub-group favors the idea. Republicans back it 66-17. Hell, even self-identified tea partiers, the weakest supporters, are at 52-29. Oh, and those making over $100,000? 73-16.
Of course, we all know that Republicans in Congress don't care what Republicans in real life think, and they'll block anything that even resembles a tax hike. But this poll demonstrates that the genius of the Buffett Rule is in its value as a political weapon. Obama is putting some serious rhetorical screws to the GOP, and both he and they know it. This is a great example of how pushing a seemingly "hopeless" idea can pay political dividends by showing ordinary people that you're fighting for them ? and by showing exactly how Republicans are fighting against them. It's the kind of thing many progressives would like to see more of, so I'm heartened that the president is on the offensive here. All I can say is: More like this, please.
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The Fix: Palin: The GOP's Pelosi?
Sarah Palin's unfavorable rating has spiked to a new high, adding further fuel to the argument that her presidential campaign may be doomed before it begins.
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Right Turn: Mitch Daniels doubles down on social issues 'truce'
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) was recently interviewed by the Hoover Institution's Peter Robinson. The full interview airs Monday, but the released clips are already causing a stir:
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2chambers: Senate rejects two long-term funding bills, sending leaders back to negotiating table
Two competing government funding bills fell short in the Senate on Wednesday, sending congressional leaders and the White House back to the negotiating table to try to work out a budget compromise.
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Without Keith Olbermann, MSNBC on verge of falling behind CNN
Pat Buchanan's network is in a funk
How badly has MSNBC been hurt by the loss of Keith Olbermann? Enough, apparently, to be on the verge of falling back into third place among the cable news networks.The ratings results for the month of September show that CNN, long relegated to third place in the prime-time cable news competition, is edging its way back up, while MSNBC is moving in the other direction.
For the month, CNN averaged 257,000 viewers in prime time in the category that counts most to the networks ? viewers between the ages of 25 and 54 ? because that is where the advertising money goes for news programming. MSNBC was just barely ahead with 269,000 viewers. (Neither approached the leader, Fox News, with 526,000).
It's actually worse than those numbers suggest, because MSNBC's numbers were inflated by the GOP's first debate of the month. With both that debate and the CNN tea party debate factored out, CNN was actually in second, ahead of MSNBC.
Both CNN and MSNBC had one especially strong night because of the Republican presidential debates. With those excluded, however, CNN beat MSNBC, 219,000 to 207,000. A year ago, when Mr. Olbermann still occupied the 8 p.m. hour, MSNBC edged CNN by 83,000 viewers, with 256,000 viewers for MSNBC to 173,000 for CNN.
Overall, CNN's numbers are up by 38% in Olbermann's old hour and MSNBC's are down by roughly the same amount. But don't worry, the architect behind Olbermann's departure says it's all good:
Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC, had a succinct answer to the question of whether the network is feeling the impact of Mr. Olbermann?s departure: ?No.?He added, ?I?m confident that we will increase our ratings as politics become the dominant story over the next year.?
Well that's a brilliant strategy. Rely on a quadrennial event to boost your ratings. It's almost like NBC and the Olympics ... except in this case, you can't buy exclusive rights to cover the presidential election. So even though Griffin's probably right, 2012 will boost MSNBC's ratings, it will also boost those of CNN and Fox ? and, of course, Current TV, which is exactly where you can now find Keith Olbermann, every night at 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM ET.
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