Morning Must Reads: Game

(White House/Pete Souza)

–Jim DeMint wins the earmarks game; Minority Leader McConnell and President Obama embrace the porkatorium.

–Nate Silver thinks Tim Pawlenty is too forgettable to be the GOP’s next presidential nominee.

–Jonathan Bernstein thinks Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin are overrated.

–Newt Gingrich sticks up for Romney vis-à-vis health care.

–Following up on last week’s post, Mike Huckabee ally Bob Vander Plaats officially gets the nod to head up the Iowa Family Policy Center umbrella group and is unambiguous about being a player in 2012.

–Mary Landrieu still has a hold on incoming OMB topper Jack Lew. The White House’s annual budget is due to Congress in February.

–Dick Lugar will run for re-election in 2012. Expect a primary.

–Conservatives find quite a bit of traction in Fed bashing.

James Fallows pulls on the yarn of that amazing Chinese professor ad.

–I can’t imgaine two people Sarah Palin must like less than Lisa Murkowski and Katie Couric.

–Murkowski has pretty much locked things up in Alaska.

–Shot: Speaker-to-be Boehner tells the incoming freshmen, “It’s about the people.”

–Chaser: Incoming freshman Andy Harris M.D. just wants to know where his taxpayer-funded health coverage is and why he can’t have it faster. (The good doctor could get COBRA, but he’d prefer to buy some kind of “insurance from the government.”)

–And choose your own adventure: Fix the budget.

Just got back from a long weekend with no internet or cell service, so I’m sure I missed plenty.

E-mail Adam

Related Topics: Barack Obama, Congress, Democratic Party, Economy, John Boehner, Miscellany, Republican Party, Senate, White House
  • Latest on Swampland

    Pete Souza / White House

    Obama’s Persuasive Powers on Gay Marriage Manifest in Maryland

    When President Obama endorsed gay marriage earlier this month, the media grappled with two basic political questions: Was his personal “evolution” a case of  a politician transparently following a national trend toward accepting same-sex unions (accelerated, perhaps, by his chatty number two), and would it hurt his re-election chances by alienating socially conservative voters like black churchgoers? Sure, there was a recognition that it marked a gratifying moment for gay marriage advocates—as well as some grumbling about the President’s view that it remains a state issue, not a federal one. But by and large, there were few suggestions that one man, even the President, would shift public opinion on the issue or affect public policy. Based on a new Public Policy Polling survey out of Maryland, it seems this possibility was underestimated.

    Lewis Eisenberg, Major Romney Donor, Accuses Obama Of Demonizing Wall StreetHuffPost Politics

    Cherokee Zero

    Apparently, Massachusetts voters don’t mind that Elizabeth Warren foolishly identified herself as a Native American early in her academic career–it was, apparently, a case of family pride and wishful thinking about a Cherokee ancestor. That’s good. Warren may be the best public figure when it comes to explaining the depredations of the financial industry and [...]

  • Ivy_B

    Of course the $1,535,993,325 in earmarks McConnell brought home in the last two years doesn’t mean he doesn’t have a principled stand against them. He did say that eliminating them is such a small amount it means nothing. So, he gets a big PR boost for doing diddly.

    http://www.legistorm.com/earmarks/members/filter_by/senators/page/1/year/all/sort/member/type/asc/letter/M.html

  • Ivy_B

    Also, meant to say above that I hope you had a good time, but I missed the Reads.

  • charlieromeobravo

    “Jim DeMint wins the earmarks game”
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    Hurray for symbolic gestures. Clearly the Repubicans have learned their lesson during their two years in the wilderness

  • grape_crush

    Just got back from a long weekend with no internet or cell service, so I’m sure I missed plenty.

    Yup, but you’re forgiven. All weekends should be at least a day longer…and on a side note, how bad were you jonesing for your cell/internet service?

    Anyway…

    The tide is high | I’m holding on

    “Scientists long believed that the collapse of the gigantic ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica would take thousands of years, with sea level possibly rising as little as seven inches in this century, about the same amount as in the 20th century.

    But researchers have recently been startled to see big changes unfold in both Greenland and Antarctica.

    As a result of recent calculations that take the changes into account, many scientists now say that sea level is likely to rise perhaps three feet by 2100 — an increase that, should it come to pass, would pose a threat to coastal regions the world over.

    And the calculations suggest that the rise could conceivably exceed six feet, which would put thousands of square miles of the American coastline under water and would probably displace tens of millions of people in Asia.”

  • newfreedomblog

    While the libtards are focused on earmarks and how Republicans are being forced into passing legislation to ban earmarks. Here is what the rest of America thinks.
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    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45136.html
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    “The midterms not only dealt a big shock to the Democrats, but also sent a message to President Obama. According to the new POLITICO “Power and the People” poll, only 26 percent of the public believes he will now be re-elected as President in 2012.”

  • newfreedomblog

    When things are just not going well at home. You can always leave, right?
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    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AE3GV20101115
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    “Coming off a marathon Asia trip where Obama often found himself rebuffed by fellow world leaders, he will head to Europe this week where the agenda will be clouded by a growing divide over economic strategy and a sense of neglect among traditional U.S. allies.”

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    Someone needs to flatten the tires on Air Force One. Pronto!!

  • newfreedomblog

    Bosom buddies. China, Russia and India. Days after Obama left India, our “friends” in India signed a deal. Amazing how well this President is able to negotiate, isn’t it?
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    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.c3a7214bcfe6083ee696ade4d9402691.b51&show_article=1
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    “The foreign ministers of developing giants China, India and Russia pledged on Monday to step up cooperation in trade, energy and geopolitical affairs including climate change.
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    The pledges were made in a joint communique after two days of meetings in the central Chinese city of Wuhan by Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his Russian and Indian counterparts Sergei Lavrov and S.M. Krishna.”

  • http://redstatedebate.wordpress.com redstatedebate

    Here is a morning must read

    Glenn Beck’s new website The Blaze came out with a piece today claiming that The Huffington Post was stealing intellectual property rights from from two guys helping with her website; well, they are not the only ones.

    Dawn Rouse — creator of True Wife Confessions — has a similar claim. This chick is pissed off.

    http://conservativeblogscentral.blogspot.com/2010/11/its-twue-its-twue-what-they-say-about.html

  • freeinpa

    The liberals constantly harangued conservatives to stay out of their bedrooms. Yet they seem to have no limits to anything else– all for the children of course

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    Fresh off their city’s banning of Happy Meals, some San Francisco residents want to put a stop to another cruelty inflicted upon young children: male circumcision.

    http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/san-francisco-considers-ban-on-male-circumcision/19714358

  • freeinpa

    Liberals will be dong for our energy costs just what they are doing to our HC costs— forcing them higher on the ones who can least afford it. Coincidentally these are the same people they claim to care so much about and what “fairness” for them

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    During its time with us, our 2011 Chevy Volt tester consumed energy at the rate of 39.0 kilowatt-hours per 100 miles when in electric-only mode and averaged 31.1 mpg in gas engine assistance mode. We paid an average of $0.31 per kilowatt-hour of electricity and $3.31 per gallon of 91 octane swill, so the magic of arithmetic tells us that each one of the Volt’s miles driven on electricity cost us more money than if it’d simply consumed gasoline instead. That’s due in part to our high electricity rate – had our rate dropped to $0.24 per kilowatt-hour, we’d have reached parity on a cost-per-mile basis between electrons and dinosaurs.

    http://green.autoblog.com/2010/11/11/inside-line-our-chevy-volts-battery-miles-cost-more-than-the-g/

  • kbanginmotown

    The Tea Party: Where principles are only skin deep…
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    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/freshman-goper-hey-wheres-my-health-care.php?ref=fpa
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    Re: Fix the Budget app? h/t to apr, by chance?

  • freeinpa

    Liberals can never face the truth and say what they really mean because deep down they known their views are in th extreme and supported by only their fellow loons. So we get twisted explanations like this:

    On Friday night’s NewsHour on PBS, liberal commentator Mark Shields felt the need to offer a “correction” to less-liberal commentator David Brooks when he said President Obama “wanted to raise your taxes” if you make over $250,000. He didn’t want to “raise taxes,” said Shields, but just “return it to where it was” under Clinton. They’re now “artificially reduced” for the rich”

  • kevin

    Hooray, 0.5% of the spending problem is now theoretically under control!
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    Now that they’ve handled that microscopic issue, never mind as conservatives push for a permanent extension of the top Bush tax cuts which will raise the deficit by $700,000,000,000.00!

  • newfreedomblog

    Sarah Palin’s “Alaska” draws in 5 million viewers. Can we say it is a hit?
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    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45191.html

  • newfreedomblog

    NPR to host a docu-drama, “Barack Obama’s Chicago Southside”

  • kevin

    Liberals are constantly haranguing conservatives to abide by the terms of their bet.
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    Good to see you’re still posting here as a reminder that conservatives have no integrity or honor. Keep at it, liar!

  • kevin

    Hey, I’m not going to be a dong for anything.
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    But if you want to keep acting like a dong, welshing on your bets, please continue to do so.

  • grape_crush

    No mandate for the GOP?

    “Americans approve of the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives in the midterms, but only one in six say the election results were a mandate for the GOP, according to a new national poll.

    A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday also indicates that President Barack Obama’s approval rating has rebounded from an all time low in September, but is still below 50 percent.

    Fifty-two percent of people questioned in the poll say that Republican control of the House will be good for the country, with 39 percent saying it will be bad for the country. The GOP won a net gain of at least 60 seats in the House (with six contests still unresolved) to win back the chamber after four years of control by the Democrats.

    But only one in three thinks the Republicans will do a better job than the Democrats in running the House, with just over one in five saying the GOP will do a worse job, and 44 percent saying there won’t be much difference.”

  • kevin

    Liberals can never face the truth because conservatives never keep their word. Too bad you’re a poor loser and a liar.

  • newfreedomblog

    Video of the week from the libtards.
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  • newfreedomblog

    Obama’s Job Approval
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    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
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    Continues at or near all time low of 44%

  • grape_crush

    I’m sure that severe austerity measures would work much better here in the US.

    “Investors want an implicit guarantee from the EU that they would step in with funding, to complement the Irish government plan.

    All of this should be read among the backdrop that the Irish plan simply isn’t working. They have been way out in front of other European nations in instituting painful austerity packages to compensate for the dramatic loss in revenue as unemployment skyrocketed and the housing bubble popped. But the austerity has only made things worse by eliminating the one area where demand could be generated. Unemployment has steadily worsened in Ireland, and scores of homes sit empty, far more than can ever be filled. And the budget deficit has only grown.

    This is true in Greece as well – their 2009 budget deficit has been shown to be worse than previously reported, and their target for 2010 is subsequently higher. Greece’s debts were at 126.8% of GDP last year; this year, they are expected to soar to 144%.

    Simply put, austerity doesn’t work. It reduces demand and causes higher unemployment. The subsequent collapse in government revenues only exacerbates the deficit problem. This doesn’t mean that spending cuts never reduce the deficit, but in a recession where the government is the spender of last resort, that’s clearly what happens. And Ireland and Greece can be seen as examples of this.”

  • newfreedomblog

    Who says that our Government and all of the bureaucrats are not sick, twisted people?
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    http://www.flickr.com/photos/igeldard/2681602963/

  • newfreedomblog

    Is this the start of a wild ride, down?
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    http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/
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    It is coming, it is just a matter of when and how far.

  • grape_crush

    Good enough for me, but not for thee.

    “Andy Harris is a newly-elected far-right congressman from Maryland. Yesterday, at an orientation session, he and his colleagues were told that their health coverage would take effect on Feb. 1, and Harris, an anesthesiologist who railed against the Affordable Care Act to get elected, suggested that’s not soon enough.

    He wants his government-subsidized health care — and he wants it now.

    “He stood up and asked the two ladies who were answering questions why it had to take so long, what he would do without 28 days of health care,” said a congressional staffer who saw the exchange. [...]

    ‘Harris then asked if he could purchase insurance from the government to cover the gap,’ added the aide, who was struck by the similarity to Harris’s request and the public option he denounced as a gateway to socialized medicine.[...]

    Harris spent months condemning the idea of Americans being entitled to taxpayer-subsidized health care coverage. Now that the election’s over, Harris suddenly feels entitled to taxpayer-subsidized health care coverage — and wants it immediately. (For the record, Harris and his family will probably rely on COBRA to stay insured until his coverage kicks in. COBRA, of course, is another government program that the right opposed.)

    That Harris apparently sought a public option for him and his family just makes the whole story that much more hilarious.”

  • newfreedomblog

    Paying taxes. Who pays and who doesn’t.
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    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Report-Foreclosure-mess-could-apf-1251045484.html
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    According to an IRS study last year, those employees and federal retirees owed a staggering $3.3 billion dollars in delinquent tax payments to the government.
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    The federal agency with the largest back-tax bill? The US Postal Service, where hundreds of thousands of employees owed a total of more than $283 million, said the report.

  • grape_crush

    Activist judges.

    “Apparently, Alito is a regular benefactor for highly political conservative fundraisers. Last year, he headlined the fundraising dinner for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) — the same corporate front that funded the rise of Republican dirty trickster James O’Keefe and anti-masturbation activist Christine O’Donnell. According to the sponsorship levels for the event, Alito helped ISI raise $70,000 or more.

    Documents exposed by ThinkProgress last month revealed that Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas have also attended secret political fundraisers. We published a memo detailing fundraising events, organized by oil billionaires David and Charles Koch, to fund Republican campaigns, judicial elections, and groups running ads in the 2010 midterm election. The fundraisers, attended by some of the nation’s wealthiest bankers, industrialists, and other executives, help fund much of the conservative infrastructure. The memo stated the Thomas and Alito were past participants of the Koch fundraisers. Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress’ resident legal expert, noted:

    A Supreme Court justice lending a hand to a political fundraising event would be a clear violation of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, if it wasn’t for the fact that the nine justices have exempted themselves from much of the ethical rules governing all other federal judges. Nevertheless, a spokesperson for the Supreme Court tells ThinkProgress that “[t]he Justices look to the Code of Conduct for guidance” in determining when they may participate in fundraising activities.

    That Code provides that in almost all circumstances, ‘a judge should not personally participate in fund-raising activities, solicit funds for any organization, or use or permit the use of the prestige of judicial office for that purpose. A judge should not personally participate in membership solicitation if the solicitation might reasonably be perceived as coercive or is essentially a fund-raising mechanism.’”

  • newfreedomblog

    More evidence those in power do not have a clue as to what to do.
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    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703326204575616321781875884.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop
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    Bucking the Federal Reserve’s efforts to push interest rates lower, investors are selling off U.S. government debt, driving rates in many cases to their highest levels in more than three months.
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    The Fed’s $600 billion program to buy Treasury bonds began late last week and is kicking into high gear this week, with the central bank buying up tens of billions of dollars of debt.
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    The trend is a potential problem for the economy and the Fed. Rates had fallen sharply for months in anticipation of a Fed buying program, and in a short time much of that effect has been lost, spelling an unwelcome rise in borrowing costs throughout the economy.
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    That could throw a wrench in what the Fed is trying to accomplish: to use low rates to encourage more borrowing and risk-taking by consumers, businesses and investors, thereby reviving growth.

  • grape_crush

    The Other Klein discusses negotiations on the upcoming Bush tax increase.

    “And it’s the Democrats — as they still control both houses of Congress and the presidency — who deserve the blame. They still have not settled on a policy or strategy for extending the Bush tax cuts. They waited until after the election, which weakened their hand. And they’ve been unable to get their members on the same page, which has kept them from messaging the issue to the country or forcing Republicans to the negotiating table.

    Which is a shame, because even an extension of the tax cuts is a much-needed legislative opportunity for a reeling party that desperately needs some political and procedural leverage over the Republicans. Democrats being Democrats, it’s entirely possible that they’ll take neither, and simply extend the tax cuts outright. But talks with informed sources both on and off the Hill revealed not just a lot of frustration with the possibility of that outcome, but a lot of sensible ideas for negotiating something better.[...]

    It’s worth saying, again and again, that the Bush tax cuts cannot pass without Democratic support. They expire before the House changes hands. And even if they didn’t, Democrats still control the Senate and the White House. They have a much stronger negotiating position than the Republicans: They can decide what passes, and Republicans have never been willing to end the tax cuts for most Americans simply to preserve the tax cuts for the rich. But though they’re the party in charge, Democrats aren’t acting like it.”

  • grape_crush

    Ah, crap. Sorensen posted the link previously. Apologies.

  • grape_crush

    The Party Of Debt.

    (Fallows highlights an interesting point; there’s a difference between moderate GOPers and their right-wing bretheren)

    “To be clear: the middle column is how much overall federal debt grew, or shrank, as a share of gross domestic product during each administration, and the right-hand chart is the average annual rate of growth or reduction during that administration. As Spinney said in a note, “The ideas of this column is to simply the average annual change for the period covered in the first column — so you can compare one term administrations to two term administrations in terms of their annual performance. The first row of the second column says, for example, that the average debt burden ratio declined by 4.7% during each year of the Truman administration.”

    When the economy is growing faster than the debt, that administration looks ‘green.’ When it isn’t, red. The chart may give a slightly unfair boost to Harry Truman, whose administration coincided with the end of huge outlays and borrowing for World War II. Otherwise…”

  • freeinpa

    Yes you join the chorus of liberals who harp about integrity over a nonsense bet but have absolutely no problem of living the lie of liberalism and all the policies that have been forced on Americans.
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    You continue to have no shame or clue.

  • grape_crush

    Yeah, that will end up well.

    “The opt-out plan has quickly emerged as another high-profile topic for the 2011 Legislature, pushed by Gov. Rick Perry and a number of conservative lawmakers who believe that Texas can provide health coverage to the indigent more efficiently with a state-run plan free of federal mandates.

    ‘We know how to deliver healthcare to more people in a less expensive way than what the federal government does,’ Perry said in Dallas last week…He said states ‘need to stand up and say, ‘We don’t want your strings attached. We don’t want you down here telling us how to run our business.’[...]

    Healthcare advocates, however, are preparing to resist moves to pull out of the state-federal insurance program, which covers 3.1 million indigent beneficiaries, including 2.3 million children. The total cost of Medicaid for fiscal 2011 is $24.7 billion, with the federal government paying $16.6 billion, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission says.

    ‘Unless our state leaders can come up with a financing plan to replace the current Medicaid structure that’s even better than what we have now, I think it will ultimately end up backfiring and costing more in the long run,’ said Dr. Susan Bailey, a Fort Worth allergist and president of the Texas Medical Association.

    Republican Rep. Mark Shelton, a Fort Worth pediatrician, said: ‘I think opting out of Medicaid without a viable alternative is not a good idea. We need to make sure … the vulnerable people in our society — the poor, children and the elderly — are taken care of.’”

  • freeinpa

    Look in the mirror and see the face of self righteous delusions.

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    I guess that by pointing to someone else it helps you avoid facing the reality that your entire life is built on a lie

  • freeinpa

    Of course doctors may have a say:

    WASHINGTON – Breast cancer surgeon Kathryn Wagner has posted a warning in her waiting room about a different sort of risk to patients’ health: She’ll stop taking new Medicare cases if Congress allows looming cuts in doctors’ pay to go through.
    The scheduled cuts — the result of a failed system set up years ago to control costs — have raised alarms that real damage to Medicare could result if the lame-duck Congress winds up in a partisan standoff and fails to act by Dec. 1. That’s when an initial 23 percent reduction would hit.

  • freeinpa

    And real ethics issues:

    Ethics committee finds Rangel guilty

  • freeinpa

    Or maybe we can have the non-partisan DOJ investigate them.

    The report’s author, Maura Lee, began her DOJ career in the civil rights division, but now works in the DOJ Office of Inspector General. Hans von Spakovsky, former counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, supervised Lee and told TheDC that he was “astonished” when he found out she was the author of the report.

    According to von Spakovsky, Lee was “one of the most belligerent, unprofessional lawyers” he encountered during his time at the DOJ. “Because of her,” he said, “we had to completely change our security protocol.”

    Another former senior DOJ official who asked not to be named confirmed Lee’s involvement in strategizing to leak information to the Washington Post, saying that she was not a trustworthy person and had major political motivations.

    Von Spakovsky described one case where Lee was caught breaking into the e-mail of a colleague, Joshua Rogers, specifically because Rogers was conservative and Christian. “Lee was radically left. She made it plain that she didn’t like Rogers,” von Spakovsky said.

    He went on to call Lee’s efforts at DOJ a “major security breach.”

    “She was one of the most partisan career people I ever met,” von Spakovsky told TheDC. So partisan, in fact, that he describes Lee as someone who would encourage other DOJ lawyers not to pursue cases so that the Bush administration would not be able to take credit for being progressive on voter and civil rights issues.

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/16/author-of-doj-report-targeting-nj-governor-chris-christie-has-history-of-using-position-for-political-purposes-sources-say/#ixzz15Sijc6wS
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    Since they are done interfering with the New Black Panther Case

    On Monday, the group Judicial Watch announced it had obtained highly-redacted documents related to the Justice Department’s decision in May 2009 to reverse course on a federal case against two members of the New Black Panther Party. The 31 pages of documents include emails between Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, the Justice Department’s third-in-command, and other political appointees within the department.

    In an April 30, 2009, email, Justice Department official Sam Hirsch told Perrelli they “need to discuss” the New Black Panther Party case soon. Two hours later, Hirsch sent an email to Civil Rights Division official Steve Rosenbaum thanking him “for doing everything you’re doing to make sure that this case is properly resolved.” And two weeks later, according to the documents, Hirsch sent an email to Perrelli with a subject line referencing “your questions.”

    Asked repeatedly about the nature of Perrelli’s questions, Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler declined to answer.

    In a statement, Judicial Watch said the documents show “the New Black Panther decision [was] shamelessly politicized by the Obama administration” and “provide new evidence that top political appointees at the [Justice Department] were intimately involved in the decision to dismiss the voter intimidation case,” which stemmed from video on Election Day 2008 capturing two New Black Panther Party members at a Philadelphia polling place

  • grape_crush

    If you don’t have the integrity to honor what you call a nonsense bet, Freeper, why should anyone place any value or import on anything else you say?
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    You’re a liar and a poor loser, Freeper.

  • stuartzechman

    Mark Shields is a “liberal” in the old, pre-1972 establishment sense, meaning he’s as liberal as Richard Nixon, and David Brooks is not “less-liberal,” but not a liberal at all.

  • freeinpa

    Decades of overindulgent public spending have finally caught up with Greece
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    which produced this
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    This is true in Greece as well – their 2009 budget deficit has been shown to be worse than previously reported, and their target for 2010 is subsequently higher. Greece’s debts were at 126.8% of GDP last year; this year, they are expected to soar to 144%.

    Simply put, austerity doesn’t work
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    Spending got them into the problem but austerity doesn’t work. Debt to GDP to increased because they didn’t deficit spend at a higher rate— Your logic is laughable.
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    From 2000 until 2010, Greece’s average quarterly GDP Growth was 0.66 percent reaching an historical high of 2.80 percent in March of 2003 and a record low of -1.50 percent in June of 2010. Despite all the spending GDP every year was horrible. The austerity program doesn’t take full effect until 2012.
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    What doesn’t work is mindless spending with the ever hopeful prayer that “tax the rich” will bail out socialism.
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    Simply put,. Socialism and its impaired cousin liberalism has failed!

  • freeinpa

    For the same reason they would read the lying delusional crap you post. It is hard to say which is sadder your faux moral superiority for an ardent defense of a lying failed philosophy or the delusion you hold that lying about major issues every faces are less of an issue than a bet. PAthetic in either case.
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    Your entire life is a lie yet you whine on about me. Again what frosts you nads is you can’t spew your crap without being called on it because liberalism’s true colors have been exposed so you need to silence the opposition, no matter how petty the issue is.

  • freeinpa

    I wonder if E.Klein used the same data that gave us the chart of unemployment not going above 8% if Congress passed an $800 billion stimulus?

    It’s nice he takes breaks from skateboarding in the the Time magazine parking lot to write about subjects he knows little. I have been out of college longer than he has been alive.

  • charlieromeobravo

    Bush’s approval ratings were 50% at the ’04 election, didn’t reach 40% the last 2 years he was in office and dipped into the 20s frequently in his last few months. Were you pointing at those number as evidence of Bush’s poor job performance back then too?

  • apr2563

    Just “Gimme Some Truth” and 501 button front jeans.

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  • newfreedomblog

    Pay the libtards no mind, freeinpa. Many a bet has been made with them as well, and they still are here too.

  • apr2563

    Kevin: Accept the fact you have integrity and freeper does not. I see his comments as a pathetic whisper from a distance and I choose not to hear.

  • apr2563

    Thanks kbang. I just found the hypocrisy so hysterical.

  • apr2563

    Yes and her daughter keeps from being displaced from DWTS because she is such a great dancer. TLC has found the Palin niche and she has found a place for her phoney propaganda and a way to further exploit her children.
    She is to hunting and fishing as Newt Gingrich is to honesty and integrity.
    Go Gingrich/Palin 2012!

  • apr2563

    http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/148855/taibbi:_the_tea_party_moron_complex/?page=entire
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    The anti-intlelletualism of the TPers and their enablers.
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    Again, I speak from the viewpoint of the TP generation. Many only finished high school because you could get gainful employment without college at that time.
    Many distained those going on to college. If you were considered a “brain” and not a “jock”, you were up for ridicule.
    Yet, you had to wear certain brand clothes and conform in all ways.
    Yes, overall a pretty shallow bunch.

  • apr2563
  • apr2563

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russ-baker/post_1254_b_783289.html?page=1
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    Excerpts from Russ Baker’s new book “Family of Secrets”. I haven’t read it yet. Ordered to Kindle.
    The excerpts are some things I have read in the past and some new items. The Bushes are really the WASP mafia. And, Junior just is so lazy!

  • freeinpa

    It is hard to take any liberal seriously who lies about major policy issues and defends other liberals who lie to pass the extreme agenda that the majority of America does not want. But as typical they feign righteous indignation over a minor issue.

    There is nothing like liberal phony sanctimony with delusional beliefs.

  • http://2thirdsrocks.wordpress.com 2thirdsrocks

    And if a frog had wings he could possibly keep from bumping his ass.

  • http://2thirdsrocks.wordpress.com 2thirdsrocks

    Spoken by the queen of integrity. har har har

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  • herby002

    As usual, you neglected to include more from your source, which negates the thrust of your rant:

    “It should be mentioned that the base rate for electricity in the Volt’s early roll-out states is $0.16 per kilowatt-hour and many areas of the nation charge significantly less than that. So, we’re still going to assume e-miles are cheaper than gas ones, but we do know this is not always the case.”

    Typical.

  • herby002

    Indeed impressive. Be sure to report the following week’s ratings.
    I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that this is a loss leader for the network:

    “Palin reportedly sought $1 million per episode for the 8 week season.”

  • herby002

    Oh, clueless one. Do you not know satire when you see it?
    It was not produced by the US government. As a matter of fact, if you had read the name of the original source, you would have seen that it’s not even this country. The site’s text is all in French, so it is probably in France or Belgium:

    http://mojito.over-blog.net/

  • herby002

    Gee, you were predicting doom back when the Dow was at 6,000, 7,000, 8,000, 9,000, 10,000 too.
    Time for a new crystal ball?

  • herby002

    Again, you left out an inconvenient part of your source document:

    “Still, it is far too early to declare that the Fed’s plan is failing, and many rates remain near historic lows.

    And recent economic indicators, such as a Monday report on retail sales, suggest the economy continues to recover—which is the Fed’s ultimate concern.”

    So – your point is… what?

  • herby002

    I couldn’t find anything in the article that said what you quoted. Did I miss it? If so, please tell me what paragraph it’s in.

    The article is interesting, though, in how it explores the latest revelations of banks’ incompetence re the housing/mortgage crisis.

  • herby002

    free,

    I went to your rightie-tightie site and read its blather. Then I went to its link to the pdf DOJ report.

    Question: Did Christie do what the report said, and overcharge for travel expenses?

    Question: Did four others overcharge for travel expenses?

    If Christie was targeted politically because he is allegedly a conservative, are the other four also alleged conservatives?

    If not, why were they investigated and found responsible for the same infractions?

    If they are alleged conservatives, why are you hue-and-crying only about the supposed DOJ injustice to Christie?

  • herby002

    25.4 – newfreedomblog,

    “Pay the libtards no mind, freeinpa. Many a bet has been made with them as well, and they still are here too.”

    Name one bet where someone bet that they would leave if they lost, and didn’t leave, other than freeinpa.

    Matter of fact, name anyone who welshed on a bet, other than freeinpa.

    ????????????????????????????????????

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