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Tuesday, 31 May 2011
The Fix: Romney's tea party-friendly defense on health care
Mitt Romney made some of his most significant statements yet this weekend about the health care bill he signed as governor of Massachusetts, offering a preview of his defense for what many are expecting to be a potent line of attack for Romney's opponents.
Report: Still Scant Evidence Iran Has Decided On Nuclear Weapons
In 2007, Washington’s Mid East hawks went berserk over a National Intelligence Estimate (N.I.E.) which asserted that, in the absence of any proof otherwise, Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program. The N.I.E., a consensus opinion of the U.S. intelligence community, took much of the wind out of the sails of the remaining hawks in [...]
Source: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/05/31/231749/iran-decision-nuclear-weapons/
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Sunday Talk: The road less traveled
Amid growing signs that she's planning to enter the presidential race, Sarah Palin is set to embark on a weeks-long bus tour that will take her deep into enemy territory.
The starting point for her trip is the annual Memorial Day weekend "Rolling Thunder" motorcycle ride; and although there are questions as to who exactly invited Palin to the event, there can be no doubt that she loves the imagery associated with it.
Her itinerary is filled with numerous stops at Civil War battlefields, which are the perfect places to unite all Americans behind her half-term governing philosophy.
Meanwhile, back in D.C., Congressional Republicans (with financial assistance from Newt Gingrich's donors) continued to throw senior citizens under the bus as they head down the path to prosperity permanent minority, much to the delight of Dick Cheney.
Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/z-TmWirCvUo/-Sunday-Talk:-The-road-less-traveled
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Palin Family Hits Road, if Not 2012 Trail
Sarah Palin says her ?One Nation? bus tour, which she?s presenting as a typical family vacation, might ?at some point? go to Iowa, where the 2012 voting begins.
Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=25b1bce2642a3f40ec8fe551275bb419
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White House to work with both sides on gun control measure
President Obama called Sunday for greater enforcement of gun control laws and improved background checks in the wake of the January shootings in Tucson.
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Midday open thread
- Tim Pawlenty, a milquetoast former governor of Minnesota, is a guy running for president. That isn't anything worth caring about right now since he's never gotten above 10% in the polls. But just in case he manages to become the nominee, just remember that he said that if the Republican bill to end Medicare came to his desk as president, he would sign it. Put that in your pocket.
- Newt Gingrich, a guy you know even though you don't want to, says an administrative regulatory dispute between Boeing and the National Labor Relations Board should destroy the credit of the United States if it isn't resolved in Boeing's favor.
- Herman Cain, unlike Pawlenty, has broken into the double-digits in the latest CNN poll.
- Rick Santorum promises to spread santorum all over America by announcing his campaign for president this week.
- Jon Huntsmann has been splashing around the country, looking like a candidate. He says its "wide open." His leaving China to come back and run for president appears to be as big a political error as taking the job as ambassador in the first place. Had he stayed in place, he'd be a sitting two-term governor with a perch in the West and could come into this race with his conservative bona-fides intact. But even still, he says now 'my president called on me' so your answer is to quit and run against him? He would have been much better off coming back next year and writing a book on foreign policy so as to get a V.P. nod.
This guy doesn't have the instincts for the big time. He reminds me of John Edwards. Obama's savvy move sending Huntsman overseas right away was simply brilliant.
- Michelle Bachmann is announcing her run for president. God help us.
- Mitt Romney is announcing this week. I suspect nobody really cares. At all.
- Except for Sarah Palin, who decided to step all over Mitt Romney's announcement in New Hampshire by showing up there in person with her bus. LOL! The in-your-face moxie of that move.... I find it absolutely endearing. But more importantly, her tour, movie, its timing and the route seems to indicate a staff that can keep secrets, plan, and execute.
- The latest Gallup pollof the GOP nomination race:
Mitt Romney 17%
Sarah Palin 15%
Ron Paul 10%
Newt Gingrich 9%
Herman Cain 8%
Tim Pawlenty 6%
Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/6QI-RaRyX-A/-Midday-open-thread
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Monday, 30 May 2011
6 GOP seats hit by new Illinois map
The Democratic-controlled state Legislature is on the verge of passing a radically redrawn map.
Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55904.html
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Palin goes behind enemy lines
She is slated to tour the northeastern U.S.
Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55865.html
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Add Tim Pawlenty to GOP's list of individual mandate flip-floppers (advantage: Sarah Palin)
With Tim Pawlenty on the list of mandate flip-floppers, Sarah Palin may actually
have a shot at the GOP nomination (Palin photo: Roger H. Goun)
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Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty said in a 2006 speech that mandated health insurance was a "potentially helpful" -- but incomplete -- solution to the problem of the uninsured.Pawlenty described a Massachusetts-style mandate in his speech as "a worthy goal and one that we're intrigued by and I think at least open to," but suggested that the central health care problem was not forcing people to buy insurance but helping them afford it.
As Ben Smith points out, Pawlenty never proposed a mandate for Minnesota, and that does set him apart from Romney in Massachusetts, Huntsman in Utah, or Gingrich on a national level. However, Pawlenty did say he was open to a health care mandate as long as it was combined with things like subsidies and consumer protection regulations:
"If you are poor and don't have the resources or don't have the ability to access insurance because there are barriers to that, a mandate by itself is not much of a solution," Pawlenty said."And so, the question then becomes - if you're going to require insurance -- and I think that is a worthy goal and one that we're intrigued by and I think at least open to, how then do you enable people to access the insurance?" Pawlenty said.
The answer, he suggested, was a combination of new efficiencies in health care and new subsidies, starting with a program to insure children -- a move welcomed by Minnesota Democrats at the time. He also suggested both market-based solutions aimed at enhancing competition and transparency, as well as new regulations on, particularly, drug ads.
Sounds an awful lot like the approach President Obama ended up taking, doesn't it? I guess that means that a mere five years ago, Tim Pawlenty was a freaking socialist.
It's tempting to say this is good news for Mitt Romney, as he has a ready-made response to Pawlenty if Pawlenty criticizes him for the Massachusetts mandate, and in truth, it probably does blunt Pawlenty's ability to go on the attack.
But it also means four of the top tier Republican candidates are all vulnerable on health care mandates, and that represents a huge opportunity for a candidate like Sarah Palin or Rick Perry, neither of whom are vulnerable on this issue within the hermetically sealed world of GOP primary voters.
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Texas governor says he might run for president
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the longest serving chief executive in the state's history and a politician who has never lost an election, said Friday he will consider seeking the Republican nomination for president.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43194947/ns/politics-decision_2012/
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Sunday, 29 May 2011
Budget ax threatens to halt successful program fighting AIDS in Africa
A budget-slashing effort in Congress may bring nearly a decade of progress in fighting AIDS in Africa to a sudden and catastrophic halt. 
Source: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_allpolitics/~3/3Qvo7NR2OwQ/index.html
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A World of Financial Ruin
Conrad Black, National Post
Canada.com Networknationalpost.comfinancialpost.comToday's PaperDeliveryContactDigital Paper National Post HomemoreMost PopularToday's Paper & ArchivePodcastsNewslettersDigital PaperHome DeliveryAdvertise with usRaise A ReaderLayton's hidden agendaDancer's descendantsHarper vows to extend Libya missionSaturday Interview: 'I will not stop speaking the truth'Robert Fulford: How the mighty Liberals have fallenHudak reveals key details of PC platform at conventionBusinessmoreNewsOpinionMarketsInvestingPersonal FinanceTech DeskLegal...
Canada.com Networknationalpost.comfinancialpost.comToday's PaperDeliveryContactDigital Paper National Post HomemoreMost PopularToday's Paper & ArchivePodcastsNewslettersDigital PaperHome DeliveryAdvertise with usRaise A ReaderLayton's hidden agendaDancer's descendantsHarper vows to extend Libya missionSaturday Interview: 'I will not stop speaking the truth'Robert Fulford: How the mighty Liberals have fallenHudak reveals key details of PC platform at conventionBusinessmoreNewsOpinionMarketsInvestingPersonal FinanceTech DeskLegal...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/05/29/a_world_of_financial_ruin_256305.html
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This week in science
2011 Joplin, Missouri, Tornado outbreak as seen by NOAA satellite
As storms devastate the nation, it's worth noting who cut critical weather science funding to the bone. And if you don't know who it was, take a wild guess:
Congressional Republicans decided accurate weather forecasting and hurricane tracking were services the American people could live without. The GOP-sponsored 2011 spending bill slashed the budget for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, slashing $700 million targeted for an overhaul of the nation?s aging environmental satellite system. NOAA scientists have stated unequivocally the existing satellites will fail ...Why the terrible tornado outbreak of 2011? As Jeff Masters explains, much of it is just bad luck: the funnels tracked over populated regions. But part of it is the physics:
Tornadoes require two main ingredients for formation?instability and wind shear. Instability is at a maximum when there is record warm air with plenty of moisture at low levels, and cold dry air aloft. April 2011 sea surface temperature in the Gulf of Mexico were at their third highest levels of the past 100 years, so there was plenty of warm, moist air available to create high instability, whenever approaching storm systems pulled the Gulf air northwards into Tornado Alley, and brought cold, dry air south from Canada.
- In the apparently highly solvent but less than informed state of Kentucky, Ignorance Proudly Marches on, this time with big fat tax breaks:
The mission of the project, Zovath said, is to lend credence to the biblical account of a catastrophic flood and to dispel doubts that Noah could have fit two of every kind of animal in an ark. ... The Creation Museum has shown that tourists will flock to biblical attractions. More than 1 million visitors have visited the creation museum since it opened more than 3 years ago.
- Speaking of energy -- OK; on the topic of energy -- Herman Cain wants to run the US like a business ...
But scrubbed from Cain's official story is his long tenure as a director at a Midwest energy corporation named Aquila that, like the infamous Enron Corporation, recklessly dove into the wild west of energy trading and speculation?and ultimately screwed its employees out of tens of millions of dollars.
- Why math is useful: actuary tables and future values used by insurance companies and banks the world over tell me that, at the half century mark, after paying into Social Security and Medicare with every paycheck earned since my first job at age 14, the present value of my lifetime investment is well north of $100,000. The same holds for millions and millions of Americans under age 55. Now, everyone who wants to give away their 100k to super rich people and Exxon for absolutely nothing in return, please raise your hand. ... One has to wonder what part of that common sense reaction the GOP and a chunk of the Beltway media can't seem to grasp?
Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/k579EpOcrD4/-This-week-in-science
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Lights and sirens, badges and guns for the TARP cops
Police forces around the country are scrambling to make do in these tough economic times. Nearly half the force in Camden, N.J. - not exactly known as a crime-free town - has been laid off. The bicycle unit is gone, and the canine unit lost two of its three dogs. The number of patrol cars has bee...
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Republican jobs 'plan': More of the same old voodoo economics nonsense
Yes, the GOP really said its economics plan is for 'job creators'
Academic books pack about 600 words to a page. Normal books clock in around 400. Large-print books ? you know, the ones for kids or the visually impaired ? fit about 250. The House GOP?s jobs plan, however, gets about 200 words to a page. The typeface is fit for giants, and the document?s 10 pages are mostly taken up by pictures. It looks like the staffer in charge forgot the assignment was due on Thursday rather than Friday, and so cranked the font up to 24 and began dumping clip art to pad out the plan.Which is odd, because there?s nothing in this plan that hasn?t been in a thousand other plans.
There isn't a single new idea in the GOP jobs plan, and its biggest idea of all?cutting taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations?is just an amplified version of the same tax policies that helped get us into our current mess. Perhaps most telling of all, Republicans say their plan is a plan for "jobs creators," as if current economic policy is too heavily focused on job seekers. They fundamentally believe that the only thing that matters is the supply-side and that Keynesian economics is fraud, and nothing, not even the fact that time after time their ideas are debunked by reality, they keep on coming back for more of the same. It never changes.
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Joplin couple to wed despite disaster
Ray of hope: Church, reception hall wedding dress survived killer twister; So did groom's sister, who was missing at first 
Source: http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsMain/~3/OMUYiJhd3Gw/main20067055.shtml
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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....
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Saturday, 28 May 2011
In states, parties clash over voting laws that would affect college students, others
In one example, New Hampshire House Republicans are pushing for new laws that would prohibit many college students from voting in the state.
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High court backs Ariz. employer sanctions law
The Supreme Court has sustained Arizona's law that penalizes businesses for hiring workers who are in the United States illegally, rejecting arguments that states have no role in immigration matters.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43181537/ns/politics-more_politics/
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New fronts open in abortion wars
A year after its passage, the health-care overhaul is opening fresh battlefields in an old and bitter debate. Almost immediately after the law came into effect, five states passed bills that will prohibit private health insurance plans sold on its new state-based insurance marketplaces from cover...
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National Briefing | Washington: Two Judges Join Secret Surveillance Court
Two federal district judges are taking seats on the secretive special court that oversees warrants for government surveillance in spy and terrorism cases.
Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=15c0a9d17b08443d0118a080adc490ed
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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.
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Judge: Corporate donations ban unconstitutional
A judge has ruled that the campaign-finance law banning corporations from making contributions to federal candidates is unconstitutional, citing the Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United decision last year in his analysis.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43195634/ns/politics-more_politics/
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Friday, 27 May 2011
California's Smallest City Fights to Stay Alive Despite Rampant Corruption
A small Los Angeles suburb is fighting for its cityhood after the California Assembly voted last month to dissolve it amid allegations of rampant corruption.
Source: http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/politics/~3/UKGzFQ15YAs/
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Giuliani surprise leader in Republican poll
BOSTON (Reuters) - Rudy Giuliani came out on top of a new survey of the 2012 Republican presidential primary field, even though the former New York Mayor has not so far jumped into the race. 
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White House to work with both sides on gun control measure
President Obama called Sunday for greater enforcement of gun control laws and improved background checks in the wake of the January shootings in Tucson.
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In Utah, Sen. Hatch courts tea partyers one by one in quest for survival
LOGAN, UTAH - Here's how you run for reelection if you're a powerful Republican senator from a state where powerful Republican activists want somebody new:
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DEA 'Purposefully' Discriminated on Women
Late last month, a federal administrative judge ruled that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency had 'repeatedly and purposefully' discriminated against the class of female agents in the early 90s, and that the women had been treated less favorably than their male counterparts.
Source: http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo?i=f7d3f487ab5fe5230ecc433d16134064
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