Today Health:
Leonard Nimoy became famous for a character who was out of this world, but he succumbed to an illness all too common in real life. The respected and revered "Star Trek" actor spent his final year urging people to learn from his mistakes and quit smoking.
Nimoy died Friday of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which he had revealed a year ago. He was 83.
I quit smoking 30 yrs ago. Not soon enough. I have COPD. Grandpa says, quit now!! LLAP
— @TheRealNimoy
Some thoughts during last night's muddled voting, before the House went ahead with a 1 week extension:
National Journal:
House Rejects DHS Funding Bill, Next Step Unclear Ahead of Shutdown
NBC News:
It's unclear what House Speaker John Boehner will do next.
Get used to that. In the meantime,
the House passed a stopgap one week DHS funding bill.
Boehner spox says Speaker didn’t commit to bringing up yearlong DHS bill next week. Dem cong. aide says that's "100%, absolutely not true".
— @sahilkapur
Republicans who have repeatedly failed at governance, fail at governance. Discuss.
— @DemFromCT
More politics and policy below the fold.
The problems for supporters of defunding "executive amnesty" is that they never had the power to do so…(1/2)
— @DavidMDrucker
…Only thing they could do is defund other things and hope that Obama decides it's too painful & caves. HIGHLY unlikely. (2/2)
— @DavidMDrucker
HuffPost (with
data):
The allegations building against Bill O'Reilly are apparently taking a harsh toll on his trustworthiness and favorability among Americans.
Only 35 percent of Americans still find the Fox News host trustworthy, while 21 percent find him "very untrustworthy" and 16 percent find him "somewhat untrustworthy," according to a HuffPost/YouGov poll conducted this week.
Thirty-seven percent of participants now have an unfavorable view of the host.
The poll also revealed that half of Americans have now heard about the allegations against him.
Josh Kraushaar on Carly Fiorina:
Indeed, after her speech, several attendees speculated that if her campaign exceeds expectations, she could end up on the short list as the GOP nominee's running mate. She's already playing the traditional running mate role with her aggressive attacks against Hillary Clinton. She'd potentially neutralize the GOP vulnerability with women voters, one of the major concerns of GOP strategists. Asked what he thought of her speech, Adam Kwasman, a 2014 congressional candidate from Arizona, volunteered that she should be the party's top number two.
@HotlineJosh interesting take. Better #2 for Walker, I’d think, who needs some softening around the edges.
— @DemFromCT
Greg Sargent:
Veteran GOP pollster Whit Ayres is releasing a new book today that will — or should — stoke a lot of discussion in GOP circles, particularly now that Republicans gearing up for 2016 are once again grappling with how to talk about immigration in a way that doesn’t alienate Latinos in 2012 numbers. In the book, Ayres argues that Republicans need to figure out a way to lead on the issue:
Rather than cursing the darkness, reflexively screaming “amnesty,” and calling for deportation of a population the size of Ohio, they need to light a candle and show the way forward on this complex issue. And they must do this in a way that solves the problem and does not doom the Republican Party to political irrelevance in the future.
Any suggestions that Republicans can avoid tackling this challenge and instead run up even larger totals among white voters to offset 2012-level struggles among Latinos, Aryes suggests, are rooted in an unwillingness to grapple with demographic realities.
Jeffrey Goldberg:
A Partial Accounting of the Damage Netanyahu Is Doing to Israel
The Israeli prime minister seems willing to undermine his country's relations with the U.S. in order to save his career.