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Musings on Politics, The Tea Party, and America's Rampant Electile Dysfunction
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With her entire staff on the Senate floor and her husband watching from the gallery, Senator Olympia J. Snowe delivered a plea to her colleagues Thursday to overcome “excessive political polarization’’ to work together to reach consensus on the ‘‘fiscal cliff’’ and other important issues.
The Maine Republican, known for her fierce independence, lamented that the Senate has evolved into something akin to a parliamentary system, where members vote in party blocs, promoting corrosive partisanship that has led only to gridlock. ‘‘I’m so passionate about changing the tenor in Congress because I’ve seen that it can be different,’’ she said. “It hasn’t always been this way. And it absolutely does not have to be this way.’’ Snowe shocked the political establishment in February when she abruptly ended her bid for a fourth term, a race that she would have easily won. She cited partisan gridlock in the Senate and House as a key reason for retiring. Snowe served for 34 years in Congress, including three terms in the Senate. She is the third-longest-serving woman in congressional history. 
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Joe Scarborough lashed out at some conservatives, particularly pundits, for "destroying" the Republican party on Monday.
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It would seem that the gun lobby's main talking point has become, "Let's not talk about it." Whenever there's a shooting that makes national news, you can count on hearing pundits opine about how inappropriate and politicized it is to mention gun...
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A new analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics finds that the median House Tea Party Caucus member is more than twice as wealthy as the median member of Congress and nearly three times as wealthy as the median member of the Progressive Caucus: The median average net worth of a member of the House Tea Party Caucus was $1.8 million in 2010.
That's significantly higher than the comparable number for the median House member: $755,000. It's also more than 130 percent above the $774,280 average net worth of the median, non-Tea Party Caucus House Republican.
Furthermore, the caucus, a group of 60 House members founded by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), includes 33 millionaires and six members worth more than $20 million, according to the Center's research.
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by DAN FROOMKIN (HuffPost Blog)
Post-mortems of contemporary election coverage typically include regrets about horserace journalism, he-said-she-said stenography, and the lack of enlightening stories about the issues.
But according to longtime political observers Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein, campaign coverage in 2012 was a particularly calamitous failure, almost entirely missing the single biggest story of the race: Namely, the radical right-wing, off-the-rails lurch of the Republican Party, both in terms of its agenda and its relationship to the truth.
Mann and Ornstein are two longtime centrist Washington fixtures who earlier this year dramatically rejected the strictures of false equivalency that bind so much of the capital's media elite and publicly concluded that GOP leaders have become "ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition."
The 2012 campaign further proved their point, they both said in recent interviews. It also exposed how fabulists and liars can exploit the elite media's fear of being seen as taking sides.
"The mainstream press really has such a difficult time trying to cope with asymmetry between the two parties' agendas and connections to facts and truth," said Mann, who has spent nearly three decades as a congressional scholar at the centrist Brookings Institution.
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Christianity: Philosophy or Religion?Patheos (blog)Conservative pundit Bill O'Reilly (AKA “Papa Bear” if you're Stephen Colbert) really stepped in the rhetorical poop pile recently when, in an effort to defend the claim that there is a war in our ...
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by GREG RUSSAK
Today, December 8, 2012, is Bodhi Day which, according to Wikipedia is,
"...the Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day that the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautauma (Shakyamuni), experienced enlightenment, also known as bodhi in Sanskrit and Pali. According to tradition, Siddhartha had recently forsaken years of extreme ascetic practices and resolved to sit under a peepal tree and simply meditate until he found the root of suffering, and how to liberate oneself from it."
So to Buddhists everywhere, I'd like to send my best to you this day and everyday.
Ok, I admit it. This post and my well-wishes to Buddhists are the result of shear happenstance. It all started when I read an email from a Christian relative. They are very concerned about the takeover of Christmas by the politically correct apparatchiks hell-bent on taking Christ out of Christmas. The chain email was meant to be sent to everyone, demanding that we stand up to the rest of society and express proudly to everyone (presumably whether they believe in Christ or not) a Merry Christmas.
That said, and besides not knowing that today is Bodhi Day, I'm supposed to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Consider this greeting banked for those who believe until December 25th.
What I'm curious about now is how is it possible in the age of smartphones, ubiquitous wi-fi, and the 24-hour news cycle that I didn't know that today is Bodhi Day? (Not to worry. I'll get to Chanukah in a minute.)
How's that possible? How can I miss a religious holiday at this time of year when the volume is turned up to what one of my fellow Coffee Party friends calls "a Spinal Tap 11" over the fears and concerns that America is losing sight of the religious significance of this time of year?
I think I know the answer. [MORE]
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"It needs to be a wake-up call about a broken institution that's letting down the American people." So said John Kerry in a fit of frustration after the Senate voted against ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
This was the sort of pro-forma vote that would have passed with broad bipartisan support a decade or so ago – a symbolic signing on to a UN treaty that aimed to raise international standards on the treatment of the disabled, not to some dizzying new height but to the level the US achieved more than 20 years ago under President George H W Bush. America, it was hoped, would add its weight to the push to extend disability rights around the world.
Instead, the vote became a litmus test that pitted Main Street moderate Republicans against right-wing fear-mongers. The fear-mongers won. In the process, the vote showed just how polarised and dysfunctional the Senate has become.....
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An apartment manager in Colorado Springs is threatening to raise the rent of tenants who voted to re-elect President Obama. According to ABC affiliate KRDO, the manager, John Obringer sent a letter to his tenants Wednesday regarding staff and maintenance issues, but it included a post script that read, “BTW: If you voted ‘Democrat’ on Nov. 6, please notify me ASAP so I can raise your rent first to help pay for what you asked for.” Obringer’s letter began by decrying the “stupidity” of an electorate that would back “the Obama-administration’s continued assault on small business.”
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Leaders of the American business community, who have long indulged the Republican far right as an instrument toward their own ends, seem to be growing weary of its political excesses. Recognizing the public verdict of last month’s election, corporate officialdom is moving toward moderation on taxes and other issues, showing support for the Obama White House and edging away from congressional Republicans. The latest top executive to endorse the president’s position on rescinding the Bush tax cuts for the top two percent is Fred Smith, CEO of Federal Express and a former economic advisor to Senator John McCain — who denounced as “mythology” the notion that raising the top rate would damage the U.S. economy...
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Back when Romney was rammed through the establishment choice, I wrote that the establishment had its shot, but that if it blew it again, those responsible should be prepared to pay the price. No price is being paid of course. Instead, insanely enough, the GOP is trying to purge the Tea Party.
his is fantastically stupid, because Obama won on turnout and organization, he won on volunteers from a passionate member base willing to fight for an extreme program. And where is the GOP going to find the people who will out-volunteer, out-organize and out-donate them? Nowhere. A party of business leaders was a fine proposition in 1821. It’s no more viable today than it was a hundred years ago.
The fiscal cliff is Obama’s way of splitting the Conservative grassroots, who are a threat to him, from the established Republican Party, which is not. Republicans are worried about being blamed...
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Here are four signs that the end – or at least a diminished future --may be near for once powerful Tea Party phenomenon that lifted Republicans to a House majority in the 2010 mid-term elections. ...
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Comedian Stephen Colbert has been “vetted” to replace retiring Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley joked on Thursday. "Mr. Colbert, clearly a whole lot of people felt you needed a second look for U.S.
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Lobbyists already chafing under the Obama administration s lobbying restrictions and congressional ethics rules could soon have a brand new headache: a nascent grass-roots movement that is placed reining in lobbyists at its center.
Via Robert Trotner
Robert Trotner's curator insight,
December 11, 2012 3:18 PM
Campaign Financing Law: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? Lobbyists Could See More Curbs Arising From Campaign Finance Movement : Roll Call Influence | @scoopit http://sco.lt/...
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Get Out of the Bedroom! Dec 11, 2012 by Meghan McCain Since the election, there has been a lot of rhetoric about how the Republican Party can modernize to meet the needs of today’s voters. I wrote an op-ed on why the Republican party needs to wake up on the Daily Beast, and I’ve been enjoying your comments about this topic in the forum here on McCainBlogette.com.
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by SHANNON WEBSTER (Examiner) Republicans used marriage equality as a wedge issue to scare people in 2004 and 2006. Since then, the issue has been less successful in electing Republican politicians. On Sunday's edition of ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulis, George Will, a conservative columnist with the Washington Post, told the panel, "Quite literally, the opposition to gay marriage is dying… it’s old people." Will's comments come only days after the Supreme Court agreed to look at the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, and California's Proposition 8 challenge. When asked about the upcoming Supreme Court cases involving marriage equality, Will said.... Read more here: http://exm.nr/TMB89v
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On Monday, Joe Scarborough took a harsh look at the conservative “racket” The Weekly Standard‘s Bill Kristol described recently in an op-ed. Agreeing with the sentiment, Scarborough criticized those in the conservative movement who are simply getting rich while “destroying” the Republican Party. “You have a lot of people running around, saying harsh things that sell books and push ratings and lose elections,” Scarborough said. “And that’s where we are. Conservatism is a racket for a lot of people to get very, very rich. With no thought of winning elections." Conservatives have winning ideas, he added, but they’re not being put forth in an effective way. “Our philosophy is a governing philosophy for the future,” he said, “but that’s been stripped away by the anti-intellectualism of the past decade and the conservative cause." Scarborough noted that there are exceptions, but that those who do try to push the message of compassionate conservatism in an “intelligent way” are “thrown to the side because they don’t sound enough like Glenn Beck or a blogger.” They’re “cowards” and “bullies,” he said. “You punch them in the face, and they back off."
Willie Geist questioned dismissing talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh, who has a large following. “That’s not nothing."
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Conservative media watchdog group One Million Moms is angry about Ellen DeGeneres' new Christmas ad for J.C. Penney, NBC's "Today Show" reports. Via Religulous
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Apart from Stephen Colbert, the best pick South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley could make for Jim DeMint’s Senate seat is Congressman Tim Scott. Happily, Scott is also reportedly DeMint’s first choice, though the current senator has nothing more than advisory powers in picking his successor. Scott’s appointment would be historic for South Carolina and the Republican Party. More important, it would be constructive for the country. Tim Scott first made history in the Tea Party year of 2010, when he defeated Strom Thurmond’s son Paul Thurmond to win the Republican primary for the first congressional district.
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The Florida law made infamous this spring by the killing of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin was conceived during the epic hurricane season of 2004. That November, 77-year-old James Workman moved his family into an RV outside Pensacola after Hurricane Ivan peeled back the roof of their house. One night a stranger tried to force his way into the trailer, and Workman killed him with two shots from a .38 revolver. The stranger turned out to be a disoriented temporary worker for the Federal Emergency Management Agency who was checking for looters and distressed homeowners. Workman was never arrested, but three months went by before authorities cleared him of wrongdoing.....
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There has been much talk lately of compromise in Washington, of the need for it, the possibility of it, the shape it might take.
I’ve also heard nearly as much conversation about whether the signals that are coming from the Capitol—particularly from the Republican side of the House—are trustworthy, or whether they are merely the sounds of more pandering, this time aimed at convincing the American people that the lessons of November 6th were well-learned and that the GOP is now willing to take down their banner, the one that for two years read “The Party of NO!”
The belief that the Republicans are merely posturing, behaving like admonished children who still eye more mischief, certainly stems from a reasonable core....
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This is about as absurd as it can possible get.... Just had to share....