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Sunday, 31 July 2011
By the Numbers: Why It's So Hard to Get to Compromise
If you want to understand why it's so tough for Speaker Boehner to get his Tea Party troops in line, our latest ABC/Washington Post poll can help.
First Read: Democrats in retreat?
Senate Democrats pledge opposition to Boehner plan but they?ve conceded ground in the debt fight throughout the process.
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2chambers: Fla. Democratic congressman faces sexual harassment allegation
The conservative legal group Judicial Watch announced Monday that it has filed a lawsuit against Rep. Alcee Hastings, accusing the 10-term Florida Democrat of sexually harassing a policy adviser who worked on a commission that Hastings once chaired.
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Watch: Comedian Remy Munasifi on 'Raise the Debt Ceiling'
Local comedian pokes fun at Washington's impasse with debt ceiling rap video.
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Caught on tape: Vegas cop beats videographer
Police review finds officer violated policy during arrest and beating of videographer, newspaper reports 
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Afghan army officer arrested for aiding Taliban
Taliban infiltration has become a growing concern; Afghan army officer accused of taking bribes for information exchange 
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Saturday, 30 July 2011
Daily Kos Elections Weekend Digest
Is Virginia becoming a blue state?
With virtually all of the attention in the political world devoted to matters of debt and DC haggling, it'd be forgiveable for one to think that there was no other political news this week.
To be sure, the political countretemps in DC spilled over to the world of polling and electoral news this week, with new polling suggesting that there are, truly, few winners in this latest round of fisticuffs between the president and the Republican contingent on the Hill.
That said, there was a little bit of good polling news this week for President Obama. He still appears to be holding his own in two key states in his 2008 coalition, and the GOP field still appears undefined and underwhelming. Add to that a couple of more states that edged closer to clarifying their 2012 maps, and there was at least some electoral chatter worth perusing.
So, with that in mind, head to the other side of the jump for the week that was on the campaign trail, in a (mostly) debt ceiling-free edition of the weekend digest.
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Nation Calls Capital Mad, and It Agrees
The mood in the nation?s capital was described variously as one of doom, disgust and disbelief.
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Democrats should use the House dysfunction to forgo austerity, push�stimulus
Given that, Adam Serwer writes about what should happen.
Given the awful GDP numbers and the Democrats? increased leverage, they should push for some stimulus measures in Reid?s bill. As Jonathan Cohn pointed out earlier this week, one of the big problems with the loss of Obama?s otherwise awful ?grand bargain? is that at least Obama?s deal contained some small effort at stimulus:As you may recall, the Grand Bargain that President Obama was hashing out with House Speaker Boehner included an extension of unemployment insurance, a renewal of last year?s payroll tax holiday, and some general language promising more funding for highways.I was no great fan of that deal but I certainly appreciated that provision. Together, those changes would have pumped at least $160 billion into the economy, officials familiar with the negotiations have said. Very roughly, that would have translated to an additional 1.5 percentage points in gross domestic product and one million jobs, according to several economists I consulted.
Deliberately hurting the economy at a time when growth is weak is bad enough?Democrats should take advantage of the moment to ameliorate what harm the Reid bill is likely to cause, by pushing again for the stimulus measures the president sought.
Given that they are all in the thrall of austerity, it seems more than just unlikely, it's a pipe dream. But that doesn't mean it would be a very smart idea to not deliberately hurt the economy. Nonetheless, that's what the White House and Congress seem determined to do. We're witnessing the greatest feat of political malpractice since the Iraq War vote. At least in that, we've got bipartisanship.
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