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“Few would quarrel with President Barack Obama's point that the Republican Party has drifted to the right in recent years, disavowing ideas it once embraced -- even created. But making that case in a major campaign speech, Obama ignored realities in his own Democratic ranks,” the AP’s Woodward writes. “For one, it was opposition from coal-state Democrats that sank cap-and-trade legislation to control greenhouse gas emissions, not just from those arch-conservative Republicans. For another, if Republicans have moved to the right on health care, it's also true that Obama has moved to the left. He strenuously opposed a mandate forcing people to obtain health insurance until he won office and changed his mind.”
(Or one could argue, it was Obama moving to the right, since conservatives first proposed the idea of a mandate and that he’d once upon a time expressed support for a single-payer system.)
“President Obama said again Tuesday that it has been a long time since the Supreme Court struck down an economic law passed by Congress, but he mixed up the decisions and their timing,” the L.A. Times’ Savage writes.
Republicans (and conservative judges) took issue with President Obama’s challenge to the Supreme Court, saying he was “threatening” and “intimidating” the court. Of course, Republicans have long criticized “activist judges.” And Newt Gingrich, for one, called for the arrest of “radical” ones. Romney denounced Gingrich for that view, but Romney himself joked, “Isn't this wonderful to finally have a liberal talking about judicial activism?” And in 2004, he wrote: “Beware of activist judges,” in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, entitled, “One Man, One Woman; A citizen’s guide to protecting marriage.”
NBC Universal announced yesterday that its USA Network will air a new restoration of the film classic, “To Kill a Mockingbird” on Saturday April, 7 and President Obama will deliver the introduction, NBC’s Kristen Welker reports. The film is based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which tells the story of Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch, who defends an African-American man accused of rape.
Check this out: In a Pew study that asked about the media coverage of the Trayvon Martin case in Florida, “Of the 1,000 adults surveyed by Pew, 56 percent of Republicans said they felt the coverage was too heavy, compared to 25 percent of Democrats who said the story had garnered too much attention,” the U.S. News writes.
Russian spy Ann Chapman was busted, because she got too close to an Obama cabinet official, an FBI official tells the BBC.
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Here comes the headline bout. Obama takes off the gloves, while Mittens...........well, he wears mittens. LOL
The only gloves Obama takes off is his golf gloves.
fuzzy,
what a stupid remark. What are you attempting to do, stand in for Feisty?
TO: winemaker-4308406 who wrote:
Get used to it winemaker, whenever you talk about Romney it always sounds kinda "stupid".
That's what happens when you have a guy who claims to be all things to all people and doesn't mind flip flopping around like a carp.
Obama / Biden 2012
American Girl,
To answer your question, you get Obama!
In this case Obama is 'taking off the gloves' to attack the Judicial System! Someone should tell the former Constitutional Lawyer (yeah right!) that the Judicial System is there to protect citizens from the other two branches... This will come back to bite him...!
How can someone be a Constitutional Lawyer and still be dumb as a box of rocks?
Mark, obamacare is a great example of the executive (and legislative) branches trying to circumvent the Constitution! That's why obama is attacking the Judicial Branch (they should call his silly bluff)!
In his NAFTA 'speech' yesterday our neighborhood organizer said a 'very large majority of American's voted for my healthcare bill'!! LOL, it passed by 9 votes in the democrat controlled House at the time... not 'a very large majority' by any means. And recent polls show that 65% of Americans don't like obamacare! Now that's called a 'Super Majority'.
The end of obamcare will be the end of obama, Romney can rest easier and enjoy the ride!
Mark: drop the talking points. What we all think we know about Marbury vs. Madison is mostly wrong. Jefferson was aghast at what he had unleashed. He had won the case, but lost the war. Chief Justice Marshall was politically savvy enough to also recognize the political implications so that in his 26 years on the court only one other law was ruled unconstitutional. The SCOTUS is not immune from comment. You can't unleash "unlimited free speech" by way of Citizens United and then say, but you can't criticize us. And I would also suggest the humility is a virtue. While Obama may be risking his image, I would have to say that the way that the GOP is acting, they clearly have no fall back plan. If the ruling upholds ACA, we are going to have to keep the GOP away from the windows.
hmmmm. Wonder if the partisans SO concerned about the Judicial system were equally concerned when Newtie said he wanted to disband the 9th Circuit, because he HATES them, or that he would send Federal Marshals after judges that he suspected were (gasp!) LIBERAL!
That judge on the 5th Circuit is out of line. He is a right wing nutcase appointed by Reagan. This was purely THAT judges attack on the sanctity of the court. You know....keeping politics out of it.
President Obama is 100% correct that Reagan couldn't win in todays Republican party. Reagan was to smart to stand on the platform of today's Republican Party first of all. The Republicans want to stand so completely entrenched in their fight to prevent tax hikes that they are willing to hurt more people than those they would help.
Without tax hikes they can't balance the budget. So their idea is to cut the programs that at least 1/3 of the country currently uses every day. Programs like Medicare and Medicaid would take huge budget cuts to offset the budget.
But they would also begin to cut Social Security until such time as it doesn't exist.
All of that is fine is your wealthy enough to never need any of these programs. But the simple fact is that the vast majority of the people in the country need all of these programs and more; today and tomorrow.
Add the $2.5 trillion of Romney tax cuts and $4.5 billion increase in non-combat defense spending to the current deficit and Raygun's "Starve the Beast" economic strategy looks more like "quit feeding the pigeons"
If the GOP is so convinced that Obama is an easy knockdown, why couldn't they come up with a credible candidate. The smart money is waiting for 2016 because they see a blowout coming in November.
I'd like to share your optimism, but that was also the CW in 2000 with George W Bush. He had all the money, so the establishment mostly sat back and said, "let him spend it, maybe we'll get lucky."
Big difference between 2000 and now, organizational-wise.
Both parties have created some pretty tremendous political organizations, OFA springing to mind. Even the republicans have admitted jealousy over Obama's grassroots organizational skills.
And this is the first year we'll actually get to see OFA in action for a presidential cycle.
The GO teams already helped propel the man to a 55-45 win in 2008, and the democrats have actually increased their net and training programs for the volunteer corps.
This is going to be a pretty fun election to watch, from a statistician's standpoint.
The hate mongers are rampant this morning. The closer we get to the election the more desperate the tea people Koch republicans get. Going to be a fun summer watching them twist and turn day in and day out for seven more months.
The tea people Koch republicans are already crying that President Obama is being mean to Willard Mitt Romney. All I've got to say folks, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Good Morning Mo.
The hate mongers are rampant this morning. The closer we get to the election the more desperate the tea people Koch republicans get.
It's the absolute truth. They know they are in trouble and are already crying foul about everything that happens. The simple fact remains that they love to dish it out but can't accept the same in return.
the only hate mongers I see are a bunch of weak spined liberals. Liberal seemingly in denial of Obama's onerous agenda or maybe they just can't see the forest for the trees! Bit by bit Obama is ruining this great Country!
Not nearly as loudly as the Soros Lib/Progs and idiot union thugs. We the PEOPLE will take our county back and you mental midgets cannot stop it. What is so sad is that the PEOPLE gave you an opportunity to show what you are made of and you blew it WORSE than Bush and the Republicans. And the worst this is STARTING with 10 trillion debt and in three years increasing it by 5 trillion. THAT has to be the glory of this administration in a nutshell.
“President Obama said again Tuesday that it has been a long time since the Supreme Court struck down an economic law passed by Congress, but he mixed up the decisions and their timing,” the L.A. Times’ Savage writes. I think the word again is used wrong here. Since that is not what he said in the first comment. Spin spin spin. And perhaps it's not so much the R's move to the right as it is the D's move to the left, it's a matter of perspective. This sort of comment would never have been made by either Clinton, perhaps G. McGovern and we all know how well his election ran. Obama "wants to use government to help people succeed and Republicans who would abandon a basic compact with society and let most people struggle at the expense of the rich.”See you at the polls. It is going to be fun.
Travis where on earth do you concieve that the government has the ability to HELP anyone succeed except themselves. Government is a non profit center and to give must take from someone that earns. You talk about Republicans as if they come from an alien planet. What they stand for is the freedom to succeed and prosper, personal accountability, and individual ability. You believe that success is impossible WITHOUT big brother helping, that people are not capable or able to succeed without government, that success is evil and must be punished, and that personal accountability is old fashioned. If your plan works so well why is Russia collapsed, why is China manipulating their currency to attempt competing with America, why has EVERY single Socialist entity failed. Why are we spending more on education than any other country in the world with such pitiful results, why has poverty continued to increase with the billions spent to stop poverty, why are there so many with ever increasing needs for assistance rather than those seeking to improve their lot in life. We have slavery in this country and it is controlled, managed, and increased by the new Plantation owners the Lib/Prog Democratic Party.
Obama can't run on his record, cannot claim to be a world leader, nor can he claim to be a brilliant public speaker. Without a teleprompter he is a mush-mouth r-tard who makes GWB sound like Mark Twain.
Romney 2012,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,send socialism back to Europe or home to Indonesia
He has no record except failure. Community Activist he failed. Senator he failed and as President he didn't even try to hide his inability to lead. Super Failure. Now he wants 4 more. The brain dead will vote for him because they have no clue. Disgusting really.
Why would anyone with half a brain make a comment like he did about R Reagan. I would be willing to bet that if he were a fellow African and not a naturalized citizen like he is, he would not have said such a thing. It just goes to show we need to get that idiot out of OUR White House. We don't need him in there, we can't afford him in there, he is slowly destroying our rights and re-writing the constitution to suit the people who control him and his selfish socialist needs! He embarrases this countryevery time he travels, in OUR aircraft not his. He opens his mouth without a teleprompter and sticks his foot in up to his knees. He has traveled more for his own personal desires that any 10 presidents before him, and who is paying for his sight-seeing tours and dinners out with his family and his, "I can't stand the heat, I have to get out the kitchen for a while" vacations. You and every other tax paying American. Remove him from office, get him out, send him back to Illinois to be with his Chicago Mafia buddies!
Bit by bit the Republicans are ruining this great Country!
Oh the horror,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,those terrible people that want to stop illegal immigrants, limit government intrusion into daily life and allow working people to keep most of their pay checks.
Isn't it awful that they think you should have I.D. to prove who you are when you get welfare, travel on planes or vote????
I mean can you imagine the nerve of them,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,fully funding a government program instead of sticking their grandchildren with the problem of paying for your life of luxury.
Whatever will we do??????
job1
Your wrong. Even you know it. You can't be smart enough to dress yourself and be over the age of 30 and not know that the Democratic party is destroying this country. Only the truely dense would believe otherwise when they can look and see the damage that is being done.
Nope, the Republican party is destroying this country, and to many Republican live in the bubble, in which they don't think. Look at the damage that is being done by this radical right.
Just for fun Job let's hear specifically how they are destroying America. This will be classic if you even attempt an answer.
The reason "conservatives" call institutions of higher education liberal is easy to see. Students are taught facts and reasoning skills in college. There is a converse relationship between educational achievement and voting Republican. Thinking and Republican ideology are at odds in practically every course of student pursuit from science to the humanities. It is liberal to think for yourself and have a grasp of knowledge that is no longer simple and superficial.
We will soon witness the great destruction of the entire Democratic party.
Soon, it will be considered an insult to even be called a Democrat. "The "D" word"