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Apparently, some of the Dem candidates have decided that a great way to celebrate tonight’s HISTORIC YouTube debate would be to… have more of it! Edwards and Dodd will be having their own personal bonus rounds after the debate is over. “Over” if you mean, “no longer have other people participating.” Though, really, it’s not like this particular format will offer much back-and-forth to begin with. That’s okay, most internet video is masturbatory anyway.
Hotline has the skinny.
Candidates often say things when polling in the single digits that come back to haunt them when they start leading the polls. Last October, Rick Santorum gave an interview with an Evangelical blog called Caffeinated Thoughts, in which he said contraception is “not okay,” and that this would be a public policy issue he would tackle as President. In particular, he said he would “get rid of any idea that you have to have abortion coverage or contraceptive coverage” as a government policy. Start watching the following video at 17:55.
There’s nothing “wrong” with protests built around placard-hoisting and park-squatting, but Occupy the SEC is definitely doing something right with its radically different tack. The OWS-offshoot has submitted a 325-page letter to federal financial regulatory agencies on the Volcker Rule, a controversial measure designed to prohibit banks from proprietary trading, or making investments with their own dollars rather than their customers’, that was passed as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law.
