Reince tells Trump to put a sock in it

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Wednesday July 08, 2015 · 7:09 PM PDT

2015/07/08 · 19:09

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus spent an hour on the phone telling Trump to tone down his rhetoric on immigration.

Priebus’s decision to reach out to Trump came after days of talks with Republican donors and officials about how best to manage Trump’s outsize presence on the airwaves. Many financiers who are influential at the RNC have been fuming about Trump’s ascent and told Priebus that he must ensure that the RNC’s efforts over the past year to win more of the Hispanic vote is not harmed.

Yeah, good luck with that.

For the life of me I cannot understand why they didn't figure out a way to keep him out of this to begin with.

Politico: Christie was Mitt's choice

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Saturday November 03, 2012 · 6:00 AM PDT

2012/11/03 · 06:00

And so the unraveling of a campaign begins with the blame game.

Insiders in the Romney campaign are saying that Mitt wanted Christie all along.

Romney was so close to picking Christie that some top advisers at the campaign’s Boston headquarters believed the governor had been offered the job. The campaign made tentative plans to announce a pick in late July, just before Romney headed off on his overseas trip, starting with a stop at the London Olympics.
“Mitt liked him because he saw him as a street fighter,” a Romney official said. “It’s the kind of political mentality that Romney doesn’t have, but admires. He wanted someone who could play the Chicago game [like Obama headquarters] on its own terms.”

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payroll tax cut - did the GOP really win?

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Thursday December 22, 2011 · 5:51 AM PST

2011/12/22 · 05:51

It's quite easy to sit here and watch the GOP implosion over the extension of the payroll tax cut and laugh at the carnage. I mean who doesn't enjoy watching Boehner get rolled by his Tea Party caucus? But in the middle of all of this House disarray over extending this tax cut, it seems prudent to ask, did the conservatives really win this ideological battle?

I'm pretty sure at the time of original payroll tax cut proposal, many people from the progressive side voiced concerns over taking away some of the revenue stream for social security - one of the pillars of the social safety net, the one responsible for making sure fewer seniors have been devastated by the current recession. The argument went and still goes something like this - once you cut taxes, it's almost impossible to raise them again. And so we can look at that original payroll tax rate reduction as a first volley in making social security less secure. That was the progressive argument against the original cut balanced against the need to put money in people's pockets to help keep the economy from crashing.

And so now here we are a year later and we're fighting over keeping this cut for another year. This time, it's the GOP on the hook for letting it expire (although the really won't) and it's the Democrats arguing to keep it. Democrats arguing to keep something that in the end will partially undermine one of the tenets of the Democratic party - social security.

So I ask, who's really winning here?

All You Need to Know about Cain (SCOTUS)

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Sunday October 16, 2011 · 6:35 AM PDT

2011/10/16 · 06:35

Herman Cain was just on Meet the Press. David Gregory was surprisingly tough on him.

The biggest surprise - when asked if he had any model for Supreme Court justices, Cain said "Justice Clarence Thomas." When the question was asked I was thinking, no way, he's not going to say Thomas. Cain said that in spite of all the criticism for the left he thought Thomas based his opinions on a clear reading of the law. And he respects Thomas for that. If Cain somehow manages to win the Republican nomination, I hope someone pulls that quote out and makes a commercial out of it.

I regards to his 9-9-9 plan, he said that once implemented all of these "invisible taxes" would go away and costs of things would come down. Yeah, right. Like those businesses are just going to give that money back.

Herman Cain - reality disconnect.

Email from Obama campaign

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Wednesday August 31, 2011 · 7:30 PM PDT

2011/08/31 · 19:30

I'm sure many of the rest of you got this same email in the last hour:

Today I asked for a joint session of Congress where I will lay out a clear plan to get Americans back to work. Next week, I will deliver the details of the plan and call on lawmakers to pass it.
Whether they will do the job they were elected to do is ultimately up to them.

But both you and I can pressure them to do the right thing. We can send the message that the American people are playing by the rules and meeting their responsibilities -- and it's time for our leaders in Congress to meet theirs.

And we must hold them accountable if they don't.

So I'm asking you to stand with me in calling on Congress to step up and take action on jobs:

http://my.barackobama.com/...

No matter how things go in the weeks and months ahead, this will be an important challenge for our organization.

It's been a long time since Congress was focused on what the American people need them to be focused on.

I know that you're frustrated by that. I am, too.

That's why I'm putting forward a set of bipartisan proposals to help grow the economy and create jobs -- that means strengthening our small businesses, giving needed breaks to middle-class families, while taking responsible steps to bring down our deficit.

I'm asking lawmakers to look past short-term politics and take action on that plan. But we've got to do this together.

I will deliver this message to Congress next week, but I'm asking you to stand alongside me today:

http://my.barackobama.com/...

More to come,

Barack

update:update: first time visit to the rec list. Thanks.

I didn't want this to turn into another pie fight - just venting frustration. This comment from CT Hank below is the more important thing to focus on:

This is what actually bothers me: (1+ / 0-)
"I'm putting forward a set of bipartisan proposals."

That probably means they will be already pre-compromised into nothingness.

Why doesn't he put forward "a set of proposals commensurate with the scale of the crisis and based on approaches that have worked in the past?"

Does he have some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder where everything has to be "bipartisan" even though the other partisan is stark raving nuts?

As for switching the date? Whatever. A tempest in a teapot although it certainly just makes him look once again like a patsy. But what I care about is substance not little schoolyard games like that.

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King Day - the Sanitation Workers

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Monday January 17, 2011 · 7:29 AM PST

2011/01/17 · 07:29

I posted this on Labor Day and am reposting it today.

A few years ago as I was driving around on Martin Luther King, Jr. day, I noticed that the trashman was driving through the neighborhood picking up the garbage from the curb. How odd, I thought. It's a national holiday. But the odd was not as strange as the ironic. You see, when Dr. King was killed in Memphis on April 4, 1968, he was there in support of a sanitation workers strike. They were trying to organize a union and were having very difficult times with the city of Memphis and in particular, the hard line mayor.

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Monday September 06, 2010 · 1:54 PM PDT

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Monday December 14, 2009 · 7:01 PM PST

2009/12/14 · 19:01

The USDA's report on Household Food Security in the United States, 2008 has received some headlines in the last week or so.

Perhaps the most shocking revelation is that 1 in 4 children faced some level of food insecurity last year. Incomprehensible. Insane. Immoral. We are failing our children.

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Wednesday November 11, 2009 · 7:49 PM PST

2009/11/11 · 19:49

Cross posted at LiveJournal
In 1968 Bobby Kennedy entered the race for President in large part because he felt he needed to end the war in Vietnam. He was vociferous in opposition to the policies of escalation of the Johnson administration. Now, 40 years later, we find ourselves again bogged down in a war in Afghanistan and a President facing a decision about escalation. The original purpose is long confused. The Afghan government is illegitimate and corrupt. We have no partner and don't know the enemy. And yet, the generals are asking for more troops, more war. At what cost? To what purpose? Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The former Soviet Union bogged down in Afghanistan for 9 years before leaving without "victory".

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Wednesday November 04, 2009 · 7:57 AM PST

2009/11/04 · 07:57

DISCLAIMER: I am not a historian nor a political scientist. I do have a fascination and interest in the Constitution and so I started reading the Federalist Papers and posting my interpretation on my own blog. I thought it might be of some interest here. Your interpretations and thoughts are greatly appreciated in the comments!

You can find the Federalist Papers in their entirety at The Library of Congress website.

All previous entries in this series can be found in this mothership.

No. 21 below the fold and cross-posted at LiveJournal.

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Wednesday October 07, 2009 · 6:29 PM PDT

2009/10/07 · 18:29

Cross posted at LiveJournal.

The Nobel Committee announced the recipients of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award goes to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz, and Ada Yonath for their elucidation of the structure of the ribosome.

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Tuesday October 06, 2009 · 6:50 PM PDT

2009/10/06 · 18:50

Cross-posted at LiveJournal.

The Nobel Committee today awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics to Charles Kao, Willard Boyle, and George Smith.

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