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MindMover's JournalDid the Conservative Supreme Court Dash Romney's White House Hopes?
By opening up the campaign-finance system to super PACs, the justices enabled Romney's opponents to hang on and severely weaken him.
American politics is generous with ironies. But here's one to savor. Our Wild West campaign-finance system -- deregulated by the conservative bloc on the Supreme Court and embraced by Republicans for both ideological and strategic reasons -- may be dousing the party's hopes to win the White House.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/03/did-the-conservative-supreme-court-dash-romneys-white-house-hopes/253890/
George Will: Take Congress, not White House
Columnist George Will says the 2012 presidential race looks like it might be a lost cause for Republicans and believes that the primary goal of conservatives should be to retain control of the House and win the Senate so Congress can restrain President Barack Obama while the GOP grooms its talent for 2016.
“Romney and Rick Santorum… are conservatives, although of strikingly different stripes. Neither, however, seems likely to be elected… If either is nominated, conservatives should vote for him,” Will writes in his upcoming Sunday column, obtained in advance by POLITICO Playbook by Mike Allen.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73541.html#ixzz1nyjXiAFQ
Well isn't that what gerrymandering and voting obstacles are all about.......?
Austerity, American Style
Let’s look at real government consumption and investment spending — basically purchases of goods and services — from all levels of government during three recoveries: the current expansion, the Bush Boom (such as it was), and Morning in America. Here’s what you get:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/austerity-american-style/
Obama to Iran and Israel: 'As President of the United States, I Don't Bluff'
Source: The Atlantic
Dismissing a strategy of "containment" as unworkable, the president tells me it's "unacceptable" for the Islamic Republic of Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
At the White House on Monday, President Obama will seek to persuade the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to postpone whatever plans he may have to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities in the coming months. Obama will argue that under his leadership, the United States "has Israel's back," and that he will order the U.S. military to destroy Iran's nuclear program if economic sanctions fail to compel Tehran to shelve its nuclear ambitions.
Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/obama-to-iran-and-israel-as-president-of-the-united-states-i-dont-bluff/253875/
I really do like a man that means what he says and says what he means......
Obama and the Koran: Was it wrong to say sorry?
To be fair, the Koran incident has put the unpredictable President Karzai between a rock and a hard place, with little political capital in the bank.
No doubt there should be an Afghan apology as well as an American one - particularly if the Afghan government expects the US Congress and the American people to continue to support this fragile and frustrating relationship.
'Not deliberate'
The fact that President Obama went first is usually considered, well, leadership
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17228693
Republican dysfunction Exhibit A: Highways
If President Barack Obama is looking for an example of House Republican dysfunction to use during this campaign season, he should look no further than the GOP’s efforts to pass a highway bill championed by Speaker John Boehner.
After considering several iterations of legislation aimed at rebuilding the nation’s crumbling infrastructure paid for by increased energy production, leadership privately concedes they’re at a standstill and don’t know what to do.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73527.html#ixzz1nwV6BCFB
Modern Myths that Destroy Humanity
“All things are subject to interpretation; whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” –Friedrich Nietzsche
I'd like to take this opportunity to comment on an oldie but a goodie from the Indian environmentalist, Vandan Shiva. In her brief article for Odewire, "Two myths that keep the world poor", Shiva tears apart the logic of Harvard economist and neoliberal (-feudal), economic "shock therapy" advocate Jeffrey Sachs with all the force one would expect from the God of destruction. It was in response to a book written by Sachs called The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities of Our Time, which featured all the nonsensical arguments that “liberal progressives” like to spout off in magazines and on television these days.
They proffer the same kind of fundamental myth that Nietzsche identified crawling through the bowels of modern religions such as Christianity – if one toils hard enough on Earth, and accepts one’s designated roles in society, he/she will be rewarded in Heaven. If that is God’s [Blankfein’s] given truth, then there is no need to radically alter the system or fight for justice/equality, right? Shiva first explains why global poverty is not a function of people being "left behind", as if they had been ten minutes late to the train station, but rather of people being held up for nearly all their wealth/resources at gunpoint.
http://theautomaticearth.org/Finance/modern-myths-that-destroy-humanity.html
Reviewing All 20 Republican Debates
It began so cordially. Nine months ago, in the first of the GOP debates leading into this primary season, President Obama was the common enemy. Erstwhile candidate Tim Pawlenty, onstage with Mitt Romney, declined the opportunity to jab the front-runner over his Massachusetts health-care reform, or “Obamneycare,” as Pawlenty had called it. The conflict avoidance wouldn’t last; neither would Pawlenty and several other presidential hopefuls. A recap of attacks, piling on, and conservative credential peddling.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-01/reviewing-all-20-republican-debates?campaign_id=rss_null
This is quite a comparison chart for one of the funniest ever debate seasons......
Dog registered to vote linked to Heather Wilson's Senate campaign
The man who registered his dog to vote is married to a senior campaign staff member of U.S. Senate candidate Heather Wilson, and could soon face felony voter registration fraud charges.
Thomas Tolbert, a Republican, registered his dog Buddy as a Democrat in an attempt to expose problems with New Mexico’s voter registration system, he told KOB Eyewitness News 4.
Buddy received a voter registration card, but Tolbert said he never intended to attempt to use the card at the polls.
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s2520115.shtml?cat=500
ruf, ruf, I vote for Santorum....
Albert Einstein, always interesting.....
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed.
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