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Gay Romney Spokesman Resigns — Daily Intel
“The imbroglio also shows that Romney remains beholden to his base — that he is, or feels, unable to weather even modest levels of heat over what was a purely policy-free concession to the center. Romney just isn’t going to be able to anger any portion of the Republican coalition.”
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Obama To Troops: ‘I Could Not Be Prouder To Be Your Commander-In-Chief’ | TPM Livewire
“And I want everyone to know when you get home, we’re going to be here for you when you’re in uniform and we will stay there for you when you’re out of uniform – because you’ve earned it.”
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“Far from the no-brainer that Romney depicts, the secret, high-level discussions leading up to the raid were fraught with intense debate and uncertainty—and Obama’s final decisions, on both whether and how to attack, went against some of his top advisers’ recommendations.”
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Romney’s openly gay adviser steps down – The Plum Line – The Washington Post
“The question many are asking is whether Grenell’s departure demonstrates Romney’s weakness, his unwillingness to stand up to social conservatives.”
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How the Death of Osama bin Laden Sent the GOP Chasing Its Tail | Eclectablog
“Politicizing 9/11 is terrible. But using it as a premise to invade the wrong country is cool.”
Yep.
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In Romney’s Gay Rights Mess, Silence Wasn’t An Option
“With the departure of his openly gay foreign policy spokesman, Mitt Romney has suddenly found himself fending off charges that his campaign is anti-gay — an unexpected and precarious position for the Republican, and a moment that seems to mark a turning point in the politics of gay rights. The central question: Can the Romney campaign be blamed for keeping silent in the face of anti-gay attacks on the aide?”
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NY Senate Dems, GOP Brawl Over School Aid | New York Daily News
“The state Senate’s ruling GOP majority waited until just before close of business today to unveil a resolution dolling out nearly $10 million in education aid to Republican districts, sparking a heated and lengthy debate in chamber.”
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Full Text: President Obama On Afghanistan | New York Daily News
“Here’s the full text of the address President Obama made just moments ago from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. The president today in Kabul signed an agreement with his counterpart, Hamid Karzai, on how to wind down U.S. involvement in the conflict there without abandoning the country 13 years after American forces first invaded in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks.”
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Ron Paul’s supporters have not stopped winning over delegates to their cause. – Slate Magazine
“Activist-for-activist, Paul’s people make the Republican Party look like pikers. And there will be some consequence—we’re not sure what yet—when the Paul diehards inevitably lose.”
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Of Course They Don’t Like It | Talking Points Memo
“But of course the Bush administration foreign policy team doesn’t like President Obama focusing on the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden. It was Bush administration policy for seven years to de-prioritize the search for Osama bin Laden. That happened at Tora Bora to refocus the fight to Iraq and Saddam Hussein. And it continued that way through early 2009. The Bush foreign policy team never saw non-state actors like bin Laden as the core threat. It was states like Iraq, Iran, Syria and North Korea where they identified the true threat. This is why Romney said that hunting down bin Laden shouldn’t be the focus of our policy back in 2007 — because that was Bush administration policy. And in 2007, President Bush was the head of the Republican party. It’s not only the go-ahead that President Obama gave to launch the commando raid one year ago — it was the aggressive refocus on hunting down OBL that he launched on coming to office.”
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On Surprise Trip to Kabul, Obama Signs Afghan Pact – NYTimes.com
“President Obama made a surprise trip here on Tuesday to sign a landmark strategic partnership agreement between the United States and Afghanistan in a midnight ceremony meant to mark the beginning of the end of a war that has lasted for more than a decade.”
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House Republicans: No offsets for extending Bush-era tax rates – The Hill’s On The Money
“House Republicans say they have no plans to pay for the extension of the Bush-era tax rates, a move that could erase the deficit reduction they have achieved since winning their majority in the chamber in 2010.”
So everything else, from the payroll tax cut to disaster relief, must be paid for, but not tax cuts for for the wealthy! GOP hypocrisy on the deficit knows no bounds.
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Tell Mitt Romney: Bring your offshore accounts back to the USA — Barack Obama
“Tell Mitt Romney to bring his offshore accounts back to the USA.”
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“Mann and Ornstein rightly blame the news media for doing a mediocre job covering the most important political story of the last three decades: the transformation of the Republican Party. They are critical of the conventions of mainstream journalism that lead to the evenhandedness they have now abandoned themselves. They see a ‘reflexive tendency of many in the mainstream press to use false equivalence to explain outcomes,’ when Republican obstructionism and Republican rejection of science and basic facts have no Democratic equivalents. It’s much easier to write stories ‘that convey an impression that the two sides are equally implicated.’”
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Making Sense Of Sluts, Moms, Dogs, And Other Crazy Campaign News | TPMDC
“But what the data show, and what the parties’ actions reflect, is the fact that familiar Democratic and Republican coalitions are taking shape again — that an evenly divided electorate will determine the outcome of the 2012 election, much as it did in years past. And that means the parties are fighting for votes at the margin — locked in equal and opposite efforts to rally their own bases, depress their opponents’ and maybe, if they’re lucky, make inroads with typically hostile constituencies. Aim the past weeks’ disjointed news through this prism, and an ordered logic comes out the other side.”
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How Romney’s Allies Won the Class War – Politics – The Atlantic Wire
“Mitt Romney has positioned himself as a defender of the hardworking job creators who have been rightfully well-rewarded for their efforts — wealthy people that lefties deride as undeserving nepotism cases who think they’re better than you. ‘I started new businesses and turned around broken ones — and I am not ashamed to say that I was very successful at it,’ Romney said at CPAC in February, to huge cheers. But two people close to Romney make the case so easy for those lefties and their ‘envy economics.’ One is Edward Conard, who worked for Romney at Bain Capital, set up a mysterious entity so he could donate $1 million to Romney’s superPAC, and has written a book arguing that income inequality is a good thing, and should be wider, so more people are encouraged to take big risks. The other is Romney’s son Tagg, whose Solamere Capital private equity firm is very successful in part because he was able to pull so many investors from the donor list of his dad’s 2008 campaign.”
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Obama makes surprise visit to Afghanistan – The Washington Post
“President Obama made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Tuesday, landing on the one-year anniversary of the attack that killed Osama bin Laden and during a pivotal moment in U.S-Afghan relations, as the two countries look to define their military and economic ties beyond 2014.”
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“Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives.”
So the man’s sexual orientation was disqualifying, but his record of hateful, sexist posts on Twitter was not.
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Jon Meacham: Why Barack Obama Owns Osama bin Laden | TIME Ideas | TIME.com
“Republicans are — forgive the cliché — shocked, shocked to discover that a presidential contender is ‘politicizing’ an important national event. In this sense, ‘politicizing’ might be best translated as ‘beating us up and we don’t have anything much to say to stop it.’ The ad itself raises intriguing, substantive, legitimate questions — and the ferocious, sputtering Republican reaction is proof positive that they know it, or at least suspect it. The ad’s theme is that Obama made a courageous and risky decision to send in the SEALs. Here the President has history and facts on his side: it was a courageous and risky call.”
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More on the Mitt Laden Smackdown | Talking Points Memo
“He’s trying to demonstrate Romney’s inability to defend the country by demonstrating his inability to defend himself.”
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Obama and Romney Spar Over Invoking of Bin Laden’s Raid – NYTimes.com
“Mr. Obama’s allies, eager to deny Republicans their traditional advantage with voters on national security issues, have portrayed it as a legitimate part of Mr. Obama’s record and sought to keep Mr. Romney on the defensive over his own remarks on the subject. “
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Ties to Romney ’08 Helped Fuel Equity Firm – NYTimes.com
“It is not unusual for start-ups looking for investors to approach friends and relatives. But the overlap between the elder Romney’s political apparatus and Solamere adds a different, potentially nettlesome dimension, given the widespread presumption since the last presidential election that the former Massachusetts governor was next in line for the Republican nomination.”
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“Republican congressional candidate and Batavia resident David Bellavia made his tax returns available today for review by journalists and he’s calling on his primary opponent, Chris Collins, to do the same.”
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Governor Cuomo Establishes New NY Education Reform Commission | Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
“Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today established the New NY Education Reform Commission, bringing together nationally-recognized education, community, and business leaders to recommend reforms to the state’s education system in order to improve performance in the classroom so that all of New York’s students are fully prepared for their futures.”
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