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Subscribe to RSSStu Rothenberg urges a pause (at least until the first of the year) in the already breathless political coverage of the next election cycles. “Because a pause would offer a little time to reflect on what happened Nov. 6 and what it might mean,” he writes. “It would give each of us individually some time to rethink our political assumptions and to re-evaluate our coverage.”
More: “Politics is fun, interesting and important, but at the end of the day, it is merely a way of picking the folks who have to make difficult decisions about public policy — including the fiscal cliff, tax reform, entitlements, the Middle East and immigration reform. … the last thing we need is longer elections and a detailed dissection about an election cycle that really won’t start to take shape until well into January, at the earliest.”
(Realize that the new members of Congress who just won haven’t even been sworn in yet. Although, you can’t completely ignore electoral politics at play – just look at how many Republicans up in 2014 voted against the UN disabilities treaty.)
Despite raising more money than any Senate candidate in the country -- $42 million – Elizabeth Warren’s campaign is in debt.
Marco Rubio tried to clear up his views on the age of the earth, science, religion: " ‘Science says it's about four and a half billion years old and my faith teaches that that's not inconsistent,’ Rubio said at a breakfast sponsored by Politico,” USA Today writes. He added, “The theological debate is how do you reconcile what science has definitely established with what you think your faith teaches. For me, actually, when it comes to the age of the Earth there is no conflict: I believe that in the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth and I think scientific advances give us insight into when he did it and how he did it."
NRSC executive director Rob Jesmer’s heading to FP1 Strategies.
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Dear Mr. Rubio,
It's very touching, to hear you try to reconcile science with what you believe your faith tells you about the creation of the earth.
May I add a concept for your consideration - that the opening chapters in Genisis can be read as metaphor?
There is so much more to the description of the creation of the world, than a simple recitation of historical events. I don't think the Bible was written as an eyewitness account of the formation of the universe. The opening chapters of the Bible establish the concept of God as a force of creation, an agent that unifies the material world and the spiritual. If you read the Bible with your imaginative mind open, you will feel inspired and your view will be enlarged.
I recommend Carl Jung's Man and His Symbols for a discussion of the difference between sign and symbol.
Amy: you are so correct. Like any modern man, you have to reconcile what was written by men 4,000 years ago with modern science. Abraham, Elijah, Moses, Mohammed, Jesus and others have all "ascended into heaven" in one form or another. The History Channel has tales of "ancient aliens." Beam me up Scotty ?
Who knows what future information will bring forth ?
Amy I love it when religious nut jobs tell me that the bible is "God's literal truth" and I have to watch out or the rapture will come. I just smile and tell them to wake me up when they see a 7 headed beast running around bent on taking over the workld. Until then, we're good.
Why not believe in what the Bible says about creation? If God, The Great Creater Spirit Who is Omnipotent can do magnificant things such as create the Universe, The Earth and Mankind couldn't He define a day as any length He wants? To say that God created all that exists in 6 days and is resting on the 7th day may have merit. By the way, if He is resting why do we bother Him with petitions for this or that or the other thing. He worked hard for His time off let Him rest, already!
Speaking of rest, I totally agree that we are starting way, way, way too early for the 2014, and 2016 elections. Somewhere around June or July we should start serious discussions about 2014 and not even think of 2016 until this time in 2014 at the absolute earliest. But the blabber mouths have to have something to talk about, God forbit it be about current events or issues, they want to speculate about who will be in this race or that. Wait, for crying out loud. They are worse than a kid at Christmas wanting to get his hands on the goodies under the tree.
Believing in God, is that like if we give the rich tax cuts that it will trickle down to the rest of us?
One is real, the other is fantasy.
Very good definition, great new word. however low info. voters won't be able to spell it correctly & they will probably think it is a new Obama phone app.
I suppose we should just,
"Get used too it"
Representative Tim Scott, Would be in my humble opinion the logical and best choice to be Sen. DeMint's successor. I've met him, and he seems to be A fine person and A man of impeccable moral character and resolve. Some one I could count as a friend if I knew him better. also he has a great smile...
@ red dev ps
So then, you agree with Richard but it's hard to admit a win for failure. There is no secret, it was not a democrat win, it was a republican loss... "time shall tell"