Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/07/31/nancy_pelosi_get_that_woman_a_cape_260498.html
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Sunday 31 July 2011
Debt ceiling vote delayed until tomorrow: no deal so far
On the bright side, there's a bunch of children in Congress who don't have to stay up past their bedtime now. Maybe they'll all be less crabby in the morning.
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N.J. Gov. Christie hospitalized
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was hospitalized with ?difficulty breathing,? his office confirms to WNBC?s Brian Thompson.
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Reid and Pelosi summoned to White House to talk strategy on debt ceiling
Politico reports:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are heading to the White House Saturday to strategize on the debt ceiling, after it became clear that Reid?s plan is several votes shy of overcoming a Republican filibuster in the Senate and the measure went down in defeat in the House.Behind the scenes, Reid is also working to build support in the Senate for his plan. He dispatched his Budget Committee chairman, Kent Conrad, to work with rank-and-file Republicans on changes to the plan that would win their support before next Tuesday?s deadline to avert a catastrophic default.
Meanwhile, in a press conference this afternoon, House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell repeatedly stated they are "confident" we will reach a resolution on the debt ceiling:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Saturday he and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) are fully engaged with the White House on a debt deal and expressed optimism an agreement will be reached.?I?ve spoken with the president and the vice-president within the last hour and a half," McConnell said at a press conference with Boehner shortly after the House rejected Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) debt ceiling plan.
"We are now fully engaged with the one person ? who can sign a bill into law,? McConnell told reporters.
Well, at least they've stopped refusing to take the president's phone calls. Progress!
And by the way, here's a reminder, via Think Progress, that Republicans were for raising the debt ceiling before they were against it:
2:21 PM PT: Pelosi and Reid's meeting at the White House has ended. No word yet on whether they're as "confident" as McConnell.
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Lane: Give me liberty or give me health care -- the end
For those following my ruminations about the constitutionality of the individual mandate in President Obama's health-care reform legislation -- a group substantially smaller than, say, Sara Bareilles's fan base, I admit -- it may come as a surprise that I actually think an individual mandate can ...
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Congress Can Learn Something About Compromise From The Auto Industry
President Obama announced a new compromise with the auto industry to increase fuel economy standards
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Top 6 Budget Gimmicks
Solutions are scarce in Washington, where Republicans and Democrats continue their stalemate over raising the debt ceiling ahead of an Aug. 2 deadline.
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Saturday 30 July 2011
Rep. Peter King's congressional hearings on American Muslim radicalization consider CAIR impact
Congressman Peter King held Congressional hearings on radicalization in the American muslim community. As Michelle Boorstein and David Fahrenthold reported on the proceedings:
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Rival Plans Avoid Tough Decisions
The two main deficit-reduction plans in the House and the Senate rely heavily on procedural steps to impose fiscal discipline.
Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=43d96a32388d5a788304093480ff9cba
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In states, parties clash over voting laws that would affect college students, others
In one example, New Hampshire House Republicans are pushing for new laws that would prohibit many college students from voting in the state.
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Health-care law opens new fronts in abortion wars
A year after its passage, the federal health-care overhaul is opening fresh battlefields in an old and bitter debate. Almost immediately after the law took effect, five states passed bills that will prohibit private insurance plans sold on new state-based marketplaces from covering abortion, except...
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Rick Perry Discusses Awfulness of Gay Rights While Texas Burns
Rick Perry recently skipped Texas, where there is an epic drought engulfing 90% of the state, so that he could tell social conservatives at a GOP donor sleepover party in Aspen (ahem) that the recent passage of a gay marriage bill in New York was its own business, states rights, etc. Then, here’s a little [...]
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White House seeks to reconnect with young voters
At colleges, president tries to restore close ties with young voters.
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Labor Official Quits, Accused of Steering Work to Friends
An internal investigation found that the head of the Veterans Employment and Training Service improperly steered contracts to friends and former colleagues.
Source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=46969443b61f1a85fa044a8209563af5
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: 7/29
Senate:
? FL-Sen: There must be a special on cat fud down at the supermarket, because there sure is a lot of it getting flung around in this digest. The latest installment: Recently departed Senate candidate (and embarrassing disgrace) Mike Haridopolos refused to endorse fellow Republican Adam Hasner, saying: ?I can tell you one thing: I will not be supporting Adam Hasner for the Senate." Haridopolos also added the he hopes a ?a principled and trusted conservative? gets into the race ? i.e., there ain't any already running. Reminds me a bit of the Bill McCollum-Rick Scott fallout from last year's gubernatorial primary. Fun!
Meanwhile, on Twitter, Larry Sabato says it "[l]ooks like Rep. Vern Buchanan may run" for the GOP nomination. I don't recall Buchanan ever definitively ruling it out (correct me if I'm wrong?), and despite his baggage, I think he'd be a formidable primary candidate, given his strong conservative pedigree and immense personal wealth. And seeing how weak the Republican field is, he may be better than anything else they could offer for the general.
? IN-Sen: Dick Lugar's campaign attacked that Club for Growth poll we mentioned the other day (the one showing him trailing Richard Mourdock 34-32 in the GOP primary), saying it "does not resemble anything we are seeing"... but refusing to provide any internals of their own.
? MA-Sen: "It Gets Better" gets better. On Wednesday, we told you about an "It Gets Better" video that the entire Massachusetts congressional delegation participated in, except for Scott Brown. Well, as it turns out, of course Brown was invited. His excuse for not participating? "His main focus right now is on creating jobs and getting our economy back on track." So what legislation was Brown working on to further these goals? Increasing the penalty for harming seals.
In other MA-Sen news, on a recent radio show, Gov. Deval Patrick mentioned two names that haven't gotten a lot of play so far as potential Democratic candidates: former John Hancock CEO David D?Alessandro and Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino. In an interview with the Boston Herald, D'Alessandro laughed about the idea but would not rule out a run.
? MD-Sen, MD-02: State Delegate and conservative talk radio host Pat McDonough was last seen running against veteran Dem Dutch Ruppersberger for the 2nd CD House seat. He's now characterizing his campaign as "testing the waters," and says that if the district gets "gerrymandered, rendering it impossible to win," then he might instead challenge Sen. Ben Cardin.
? MO-Sen: This is nice-n-scuzzy: David Farr, the chairman of electrical conglomerate Emerson, sent a letter to his employees (all 128,000 of them, I wonder?) encouraging them to attend a fundraiser for GOP Rep. Todd Akin. The suggested donation is $1,000, but if you give $5,000 you get invited to "an intimate dinner event" with Akin, Farr, and Farr's wife. No question that it's his right to do so, but I'd feel pretty uncomfortable if I ever got a note like that from my employer.
? NM-Sen: Karl Rove will be headlining a fundraiser for ex-Rep. Heather Wilson next month, and as Matthew Reichbach points out, that ought to cast a spotlight back on the sordid business of the firing of U.S. Attorney David Iglesias, something both Rove and Wilson were intimately involved with ? though they had contradictory self-serving stories to tell about the whole affair.
? WA-Sen, WA-08: Mike Seely of the Seattle Weekly says he's heard "somewhat credible rumors" that GOP Rep. Dave Reichert might run for Senate? something he's never formally ruled out (and on account of that, these kinds of "rumors" have percolated now and again for some time). But Dem consultant Blair Butterworth says: "I've always thought that he was using the rumor as leverage on the redistricting commission so as not to make the 8th District more Democratic."
Gubernatorial:
? NE-Gov: That's getting an early start: Republican Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy says he's planning to run in 2014, when current Gov. Dave Heineman will be term-limited out.
House:
? IL-08/IL-14: Priceless: GOP freshman Joe Walsh, a teabagger princeling who loves to lecture everyone else on fiscal responsibility, has been sued for over $100,000 in unpaid child support by his ex-wife. Terrific cover on the Chicago Sun-Times, too. (By the way, I'm considering Walsh to be in a Schr�dinger?s Seat-type situation. I don't think he's formally declared for the 14th, but it's the most logical place for him, and the Club for Growth endorsed him to run there.)
? IL-16: God, these pre-pre-pre-announcements are just getting ridiculous. Republican Winnebago County Board member Frank Gambino, who previously expressed interest in a congressional run, is informing reporters that he will "announce formation of an exploratory committee." The way I read that, he's not even creating the exploratory committee ? just announcing that he will. Which means this news constitutes and announcement of an announcement of something that actually doesn't really exist. (The FEC doesn't recognize any such creature as an "exploratory" committee. It's a campaign committee, period, regardless of what candidates call it.)
? NC-11: Well, this statement from Heath Shuler's spokesman sounds pretty reverse-Shermanesque (Shuleresque?):
?Heath Shuler is running for reelection in 2012. He is not going to be the next athletic director at the University of Tennessee. He has not sought it. He has not interviewed for it. If offered, he will not accept it. He will not be the next AD at UT. He is running for reelection.?
Here's a thought, courtesy David Jarman: Could Shuler pull a Tim Holden and instead run in the redrawn 10th CD? It contains the Democratic town of Asheville, it's overall less red than the new 11th, and even though it has an incumbent, does anyone really like Patrick McHenry?
? ND-AL: GOP state Rep. Kim Koppelman claims he's being "strongly encouraged" to run for Rick Berg's open seat by local and national leader. No timeline on a decision, though.
? NY-09: This might be the one district where you actually want his help: Joe Lieberman (remember him?) just endorsed Democrat David Weprin in the special election, a move aimed to push back at Ed Koch's ridiculous endorsement of Bob Turner.
? OH-04: Now this is the kind of cat fud we all live for. If you've been following the debt ceiling absurdities, you may be aware that a top aide to the ultra-rightist Republican Study Committee sent out emails trying to whip votes against John Boehner's latest proposal. This infuriated the GOP caucus for a whole host of obvious reasons, with RSC chair Jim Jordan being the chief object of their rage ? and now Jordan may pay the ultimate price. With Ohio losing two seats in redistricting, one Republican source tells the Columbus Dispatch that Jordan "doesn't know it, but he solved a problem for Republican line-drawers by (figuratively) standing up and saying, 'I'm a jerk and I deserved to be punished.'" Punished, that is, by having his seat dismantled. Another nameless Republican concurs, saying: "The easiest option for everybody has presented itself." Jean Schmidt ought to send Jim Jordan a birthday cake? but the only thing he's eating right now is a box of Purina.
Yesterday afternoon, in response to the idea that Jordan's district might get dismembered, House Speaker John Boehner said "the word 'retribution' is not in my vocabulary." Boehner may not (yet) be chopped liver, but he's also not a member of the Ohio legislature. And if that body should nonetheless decide to do Jordan in? well, Boehner can say it again: retribution is not in his vocabulary!
? RI-01: Things have been looking quite rocky lately for freshman Dem David Cicilline, with a whole host of folks thinking about primarying him ? and a pretty serious general election challenger emerging in the form retired state police chief Brendan Doherty. But ex-Rep. Patrick Kennedy, the man Cicilline replaced, is still standing by him, holding a fundraiser in California for Cicilline last month and planning another this fall. On the flipside, in "Did you know they were Republicans?" news, the Farrelly brothers ? of Something About Mary fame ? are hosting a fundraising event for Doherty.
? UT-02 (?): Republican Morgan Philpot, who came close to beating Rep. Jim Matheson last year and had previously expressed interest in running again, says he's forming an exploratory committee ? but, as is so often the case, he's not sure which district he'll run in. In addition to Matheson's CD, Utah is getting a new seat and Jason Chaffetz looks like he'll run for Senate, so he might have as many as three options. (Hell, maybe Rob Bishop will primary Gov. Gary Herbert.) As an aside, can I just say I'm really glad we only have to deal with redistricting once a decade? Because writing up these "he could run in eleventy thousand different districts" stories is starting to wear me out. Thank you for letting me complain.
? WA-01: Oregon 1st CD voters, breathe easy. Dennis Kucinich is indeed headed back to the Pacific Northwest next week, but to his usual stomping grounds in Seattle. He'll speak at the Washington State Labor Council's yearly convention, along with actual Washingtonians like Roger Goodman, Marko Liias, Laura Ruderman, and Denny Heck. Actually, since OR-01 will have a special election, couldn't Kucinich run there first and then run in WA-01 as a fallback option? Hahahahah! Yes he could!
Other Races:
? WI Recall (PDF): A company called the Campaign Media Analysis Group has an impressive roundup of what looks like every ad airing in the Wisconsin recalls, as of last Friday. Though the link is to a PDF, the file contains links to all the ads, including those by third-party groups. Very much worth checking out.
Redistricting Roundup:
? CA Redistricting: Some confusingly-titled "final drafts" of the CA redistricting commission's work were circulated yesterday, but the actual final maps are being released today. While the commission didn't leave itself a lot of time, it's possible some last-minute tweaks will be made.
? NC Redistricting: North Carolina's GOP-held legislature passed its new legislative and congressional plans on Wednesday, and since Dem Gov. Beverly Perdue doesn't get a veto, these maps are now "final." I put "final" in scare-quotes, of course, because there will indeed be serious litigation over these plans, guaranteed. You can see the congressional map just below. It looks like it changed only slightly from version 2, which we analyzed here. Click for a larger version:
Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/uTeP6HFO1xs/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Morning-Digest:-7-29
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Friday 29 July 2011
Both Boehner and Reid austerity plans could hurt�recovery
With even Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi embracing austerity and "shared sacrifice," the battle of trying to focus on jobs and the economy over the deficit seems to have been lost, despite the obvious and often stated desires of the American people.
Cue Adam Serwer, writing at Plum Line:
David Dayen writes that the International Monetary Fund estimates that fiscal contraction?which both plans would do?could increase unemployment.Think about that for a second. At a time when unemployment is hovering close to ten percent, both major parties in Washington are proposing legislation that could increase joblessness instead of lessening it.
From the point of view of helping the economy recover, this is idiotic. For Republicans, of course, increased unemployment and lower GDP increase the possibility of Obama being a one term president. The reason few people are stating the obvious?that there?s something oddly masochistic about harming the economy at time when so many are unemployed?is that both sides are pushing plans that could damage the recovery.[...]
With both parties competing for the mantle of austerity, they?re acting a bit like two crazed medeival doctors leeching a patient who?s already suffering from catastrophic blood loss.
Let's unpack that a little. In the IMF reference, Dayen is linking to this post from Suzy Khimm, in which she writes:
[A]uthorities such as the International Monetary Fund have dismissed (pdf) the idea that austerity measures would help an economy such as the United States? in the short term, pointing out that few cases exist where sharp cuts led to fast growth in countries where employment was robust, interest rates were high (so the monetary authorities could compensate for the cuts), and exports were strong?conditions that don?t apply to the United States. More normally, they concluded, ?a fiscal consolidation equal to 1 percent of GDP typically reduces GDP by about 0.5 percent within two years and raises the unemployment rate by about 0.3 percentage point.?
Even the IMF say austerity won't work for the United States. Yet here we are, on this path to increase the unemployment rate and make the worst economic situation the nation has faced since the Great Depression even more painful. Welcome to our own lost decade. Let's just hope it only lasts ten years.
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