I remember when Obama tried to build Florida a high-speed rail line and you sent the money back to Washington. twitter.com/scottforflorid…
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Michael Grunwald (@MikeGrunwald) August 25, 2018
Posts Tagged ‘rick
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What Democrats should have been doing for a while
Pres. Obama says to fact-check his critics, you’d have to "run back the tape.”
So we did: youtu.be/eDFDB9YY8yE
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Ari Melber (@AriMelber) March 19, 2015
Take our quiz to share what you'd do if you were in charge of America's budget → go.wh.gov/WQEd6m #HouseOfCuts http://t.co/xfKvv4adeM
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 19, 2015
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"Don't worry about what other people think. It doesn't matter." —The First Lady: youtu.be/zk5KoCv4REE #DearMe #LetGirlsLearn
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The First Lady (@FLOTUS) March 19, 2015
Say cheese! All smiles with kids at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. http://t.co/1LAIN9Iu97
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The First Lady (@FLOTUS) March 19, 2015
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He didn’t have a fake ID yet the cops almost killed him. There but for the grace of God go Black people who somehow get home safely everyday
UVA student Martese Johnson: My head is "bloodied but unbowed" nbcnews.to/1biLxt8
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(@msnbc) March 19, 2015
So his ID wasnt fake just expired? Smh "@deray: Watch Martese Johnson speak. Now. #JusticeFoMartese nbcnews.to/1biLxt8"
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The Spacey (@KrownRoyaleNY) March 19, 2015
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This happened in Mississippi. He went missing on March 9th
Breaking: The body of an African American man is found hanging from a tree in Claiborne County. The FBI and MBI are on the scene.
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Melissa Faith Payne (@MelissaFPayne) March 19, 2015
Breaking: Claiborne Co. Coroner and other officals not allowed to remove body from tree until FBI completes preliminary investigation.
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Melissa Faith Payne (@MelissaFPayne) March 19, 2015
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#Breaking News: The Claiborne County branch of the NAACP indicates the man found hanging is Otis Byrd.
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Melissa Faith Payne (@MelissaFPayne) March 19, 2015
#Breaking News: Byrd was last seen when a friend dropped him off at Vicksburg's Riverwalk Casino ten days ago.
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Melissa Faith Payne (@MelissaFPayne) March 19, 2015
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#Breaking News The NAACP sent an email to the Justice Dept "join the current investigation of the suspicious hanging death of Mr. Otis Byrd"
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Melissa Faith Payne (@MelissaFPayne) March 19, 2015
Breaking: NAACP of Claiborne County, #MS says this is man, Otis Byrd, found hanging in tree today. #FBI on scene now! http://t.co/4621BNMi5v
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Kennan Oliphant (@TVNewsGuru) March 19, 2015
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28-Year-Old Single Mom Of 3 Graduates From UCLA With 3 Degrees shar.es/1fKtt2 http://t.co/gStrbs2ly2
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(@HipHopWired) March 19, 2015
The sordid history of the alcohol control agency that beat up Martese Johnson goo.gl/zhCWcM
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ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) March 19, 2015
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And the white man in cuffs literally runs away. America. http://t.co/7FJBN5cCP0
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deray mckesson (@deray) March 19, 2015
He would have been shot dead had he been black RT @deray: And the white man in cuffs literally runs away. America. http://t.co/j2ceiYbYda
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Negus (@TKurth1) March 19, 2015
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People like this can go f**k themselves
White parents on Fox News condemn school's black history month bit.ly/1O9f3jW http://t.co/sRZnAIsYcD
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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) March 19, 2015
NYC Judge Denies Requests to Disclose Eric Garner Grand Jury Details bit.ly/1FacsDG http://t.co/K45NELYabt
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(@Mediaite) March 19, 2015
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Tell me racism is dead in the US. I fucking dare you. MT @deray Otis James Byrd, hanged in MS m.msnewsnow.com/msnewsnow/db_3… http://t.co/3Bus4ae8Z1
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Michael Bunting (@daedalus4096) March 19, 2015
Otis James Byrd went missing in Claiborne County.
He was then found hanging from a tree.
#JusticeForByrd
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Manik (@ManikRathee) March 19, 2015
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Josh Earnest Calls Out Netanyahu for Flip-Flopping on Two-State Solution bit.ly/1Fa3ExI (VIDEO) http://t.co/pXUr1wQZzb
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(@Mediaite) March 19, 2015
.@igorvolsky breaks down how Bibi sabotaged the 2 state solution way before his rhetoric changed thinkprogress.org/world/2015/03/…
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Aviva Shen (@avivash) March 19, 2015
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Obama signs executive order cutting federal government's greenhouse gas emissions: on.msnbc.com/1I1YPF3 (Getty) http://t.co/ztRWYB9RKt
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(@msnbc) March 19, 2015
Students arrested while protesting Congress’ plan to slash billions from higher education thkpr.gs/3636235 http://t.co/T3z1Bk9a6u
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ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) March 19, 2015
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A doctor steps outside and reacts to losing a 19-y.o. patient: wgntv.com/2015/03/19/pho… http://t.co/ukjzma0vW0
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David Nelson (@DavidNelsonNews) March 19, 2015
Overuse of antipsychotic drugs poses increased death risk for dementia patients, study says. usat.ly/1LxbRzI http://t.co/HmSulyK46h
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USA TODAY (@USATODAY) March 19, 2015
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Enraged by Netanyahu's rhetoric, White House officials believe Israeli-U.S. relations have fundamentally changed haaretz.com/news/diplomacy…
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meta (@metaquest) March 19, 2015
#BREAKING White House: US 'to reevaluate' backing for Israel at UN
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Agence France-Presse (@AFP) March 19, 2015
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PBO to Bibi: We don't accept explanations backtracking on statements. U.S. will reassess Israeli-Palest peace policy haaretz.com/news/diplomacy…
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meta (@metaquest) March 19, 2015
President Obama commended Tunisian people for their commitment to standing strong & united in the face of terrorism #Tunisia
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WH National Security (@NSCPress) March 19, 2015
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Harriet Tubman helped free hundreds of slaves via the UndergroundRailroad. #LittleKnownFact: she did it all living w/ epilepsy #WomenSucceed
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Valerie Jarrett (@vj44) March 19, 2015
Dear @nick_clegg
@netanyahu merely confirmed what his actions betrayed long ago - NO Palestinian State.
US+UK should recognize Palestine.
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Bobfr (@Our4thEstate) March 19, 2015
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LOL. Ludacris was receiving recognition for his charity work and Jeb Bush tried to use him to look cool. After everything Luda has said, Jeb doesn’t seem to get it into his mind that he doesn’t like the Bush politicians
As he is leaving statehouse, Ludacris is asked which Bush is his favorite. His response: "The one outside." #gapol http://t.co/7tCh12qiOc
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Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) March 19, 2015
Read Netanyahu's dizzying flip-flop on peace with Palestinians vox.com/e/8022556?utm_… http://t.co/K1kW3jqLuw
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Vox (@voxdotcom) March 19, 2015
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Disney Channel announces upcoming film, "Throw Like Mo," about Little League pitcher Mo'ne Davis. @DisneyChannel http://t.co/DgdRvBnUqR
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AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) March 19, 2015
I ❤ @AshleyJudd --> Forget Your Team: Your Online Violence Toward Girls and Women Is What Can Kiss My Ass mic.com/articles/11322…
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Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) March 19, 2015
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Japanese police arrest a suspect in US embassy bomb threats bit.ly/1I2hZdN
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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) March 19, 2015
Disabled veteran shoots two men to save pregnant woman nbcnews.to/1MRMzI6
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NBC News (@NBCNews) March 19, 2015
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Sugar’s not-so-sweet effects could shave 18.2% off GDP growth of OECD countries by 2035 bloom.bg/1EyKdMg http://t.co/4kMnTxNsqW
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Bloomberg Business (@business) March 19, 2015
Armed with a map and other tools, Nigerians push for peaceful elections to.pbs.org/1F9IMXj http://t.co/sV0SvxX5UJ
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PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) March 19, 2015
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President Obama signing an executive order today to cut the federal government’s greenhouse gas emissions ❤️ http://t.co/0UVvjFNngr
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TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) March 19, 2015
@LisaToddSutton Yes, @SenJohnMcCain lost all sense of decency in 2000, but had to hold it in until 2008. Downhill since. @SenatorDurbin
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(@JOBoomr) March 19, 2015
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Body found in New Jersey river ID'd as missing former Wall Street Journal reporter trib.in/1H6VRRP
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Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) March 19, 2015
The government is finally doing something to end the rape-kit backlog bit.ly/1FBnrVO http://t.co/OIXbrXMoeV
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Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 19, 2015
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When your employees think #RaceTogether is dumb, you have failed, Starbucks
What Starbucks employees think of 'Race Together' thkpr.gs/3636233 http://t.co/aEU6qO25aX
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ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) March 19, 2015
Starbucks PR chief can't handle "the conversation" on race and quits Twitter bit.ly/1CAKYGZ
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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) March 19, 2015
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Wind energy will be cheaper than fossil fuels within a decade bit.ly/1FwEKHe http://t.co/RIdfHcXPbF
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Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 19, 2015
Say it with me: the human body is a self cleaning oven. Detoxes and cleanses are bullshit. rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/mod…
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Sarah Orsborn (@erniebufflo) March 19, 2015
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Every. Freaking. Day.
Alaska Army base investigated for holding ‘Racial Thursdays’ where racial slurs have no consequences ow.ly/Ky7jZ
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Raw Story (@RawStory) March 19, 2015
Read the nasty note a neighbor left an amputee about a handicapped spot ti.me/1H6CZm8
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TIME.com (@TIME) March 19, 2015
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The mystery of America's largest museum theft still hasn't been solved theatln.tc/1H46di5 http://t.co/MG72GqU7H9
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The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) March 19, 2015
.@GlobeHorowitz: What are your chances of going to prison? ow.ly/Ky1Cn http://t.co/EEpKWGjKGs
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The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) March 19, 2015
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#Fantrum
#YesWeFan pic.twitter.com/J7J7a3eVRe
— FL Democratic Party (@FlaDems) October 16, 2014
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The Fan-tastic clip from the @CharlieCrist debate tonight…. http://t.co/TXWaV0W5Zl
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) October 16, 2014
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WTF? Is this a joke?!? Gov Scott refused to debate because Christ has a small fan? #FLGovDebate
— aspirational12 (@aspirational12) October 15, 2014
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Wow. Charlie Crist is just standing there on his own because Rick Scott refuses to take stage over fan. Amazing. pic.twitter.com/zjsArg3unI
— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) October 15, 2014
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Post debate surveys indicate that Crist came in first, Scott third, and the fan a close second.
— ‘Alloween Brauer (@allanbrauer) October 16, 2014
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I wonder if refusing to take the stage for a debate on live TV is disqualifying for @FLGovScott? Let’s ask @chucktodd.
— ‘Alloween Brauer (@allanbrauer) October 16, 2014
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So, basically Scott invoked "Stand Your Ground" over a fan. #FLGovDebate #YesWeFan
— BWD (@theonlyadult) October 16, 2014
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Hopefully Rick Scott will have lots of free time to write his autobiography soon pic.twitter.com/FxO3GqAi3m
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) October 16, 2014
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Just remember, folks: Voldemort @FLGovScott just may have lost an election over a fan. A fan.
— Liberal Librarian (@Lib_Librarian) October 16, 2014
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The best part of tonight was @CharlieCrist‘s heroic effort to keep a straight face #FanGate pic.twitter.com/BJFaOBh5I8
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) October 16, 2014
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Rick Scott fan-boy @ChuckTodd watching his TV tonight. pic.twitter.com/Nc2vUSQwS1
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) October 16, 2014
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The sad part is that it’s hiding from a fan that has made @FLGovScott a natl joke, not overseeing the biggest Medicare fraud in US history
— Danny Kanner (@DannyKanner) October 16, 2014
Rise and Shine
President Barack Obama greets departing Associate Counsel to the President Alison J. “Ali” Nathan, left, Meg Satterthwaite, and their twin sons Oliver and Nathan, in the Outer Oval Office, July 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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Daily Presidential Schedule (All Times Eastern)
11:0: The President meets with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus
12:45: Press Briefing by Jay Carney
1:00: Michelle Obama delivers remarks to mayors and other local officials engaged in Let’s Move! Cities, Towns and Counties
2:0: The President awards the 2012 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal; The First Lady also attends
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Knox News: Makenna Hurd’s tasty banana muffins got her through the White House door. While she was there, the 9-year-old delivered something extra: Hugs for President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle.
…. Makenna earned the invitation by being one of the winners of a recipe challenge that is part of the first lady’s “Let’s Move!” initiative to promote healthy eating.
“I’m at the White House!” exclaimed Makenna, who has Down syndrome.
…. As news photographers jostled to record the scene, Obama squatted down by Makenna’s seat and thanked her for coming. Makenna thanked him back, threw her arms around his neck and gave him a hug.
Her mother, Amanda Hurd, who watched with tears in her eyes, was so caught up in the moment that she forgot to pull out her own camera and take photos.
“I was too busy soaking in the fact that my daughter was hugging the president,” Hurd said.
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The time is now for the House to take up immigration reform. Add your voice and let’s #TakeItToTheHouse: http://t.co/XAyBtieNaJ
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 9, 2013
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USA Today: This morning, President Obama meets with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to talk about the major immigration bill now pending in the U.S. House.
The bill would increase border security and provide a path to citizenship for some 11 million people who are already in the country illegally.
The Obama administration is also releasing a report Wednesday arguing that an overhaul of the immigration system would strengthen the economy, create more jobs, increase worker productivity, and decrease budget deficits.
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The women of North Carolina want to take a step forward—not back—on reproductive care. #HB695 #standwithNCwomen pic.twitter.com/ZOBvVafVKI
— OFA NC (@OFA_NC) July 9, 2013
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This exchange is worth the read. This is how STUPID Republicans are and their stupidity will kill thousands of women
Jennifer Bendery: Texas State Rep. Jodie Laubenberg (R), the author of the radically anti-abortion bill making its way through the Texas Legislature this week, argued for hours on Tuesday that lawmakers should support her bill because of its strong protections for a person’s “pre-born life.” But back in 2007, she made the case against treating the unborn as people — at least, when it comes to qualifying for health care services. During a House debate on an appropriations bill that year, Laubenberg, a staunch conservative, put forward an amendment that would require expectant mothers to wait three months before they could begin receiving prenatal and perinatal care under the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, a program that helps cover uninsured children in low-income families.
Don't be hoodwinked, #Zimmerman & #SB1 come from the same place: a large subculture infused in the belief that blacks & women are property.
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Wieland (@lawscribe) July 10, 2013
Laubenberg’s amendment drew criticism from Democratic Rep. Rafael Anchia, who said the change would mean that more than 95,000 children, in utero, would be kicked out of the CHIP program. As the two sparred over whether that was true — Anchia cited CHIP data from hospitals, Laubenberg alleged it was “misinformation” — Anchia asked if Laubenberg recognized those in-utero babies as people. “You do know, don’t you, that these are U.S. citizens?” Anchia asked. “But they’re not born yet,” Laubenberg said.
Laubenberg’s response drew a look of shock from Democratic Rep. Dawnna Dukes, who could be seen standing next to Anchia during the exchange. Anchia also appeared to relish the moment as he pressed Laubenberg that she was now arguing against treating a fetus as a person. “That’s the whole point, see?” Anchia said. “You have an anti-life amendment.” Laubenberg fired back that there is “no one more pro-life” in the House than her, and again said Anchia’s data was wrong. Still, something he said must have rattled her because she pulled down her amendment. “I will be back,” Laubenberg said as she prepared to leave the podium. “But right now, out of consideration for the body, I will pull this amendment down.”
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Well, hellooooo Governor Transvaginal Probe
Hard to read these 5 paragraphs and understand how Bob McDonnell stays on as Governor of Virginia http://t.co/RuK7I3hEnw
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Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 10, 2013
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Wikileaks, a group dedicated to transparency, has truly murky finances http://t.co/Lsw7Zt9xMk
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 9, 2013
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2012 National Medal of Arts:
Herb Alpert * Lin Arison * Joan Myers * Renée Fleming * Ernest Gaines * Ellsworth Kelly * Tony Kushner * George Lucas * Elaine May * Laurie Olin * Allen Toussaint * Washington Performing Arts Society, Washington, DC
2012 National Humanities Medal:
Edward L. Ayers * William G. Bowen * Jill Ker Conway * Natalie Zemon Davis * Frank Deford * Joan Didion * Robert Putnam¸* Marilynne Robinson¸* Kay Ryan * Robert B. Silvers * Anna Deavere Smith¸* Camilo José Vergara
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More Americans still rightfully angrier at George Bush over the state of the economy than Pres. Barack Obama
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Jared Bernstein: First, “not hurting” isn’t the same as “helping.” But more important, it is hurting. Real GDP growth was only 1.8 percent in the first quarter of this year, with the government sector subtracting 0.9 percent (that’s percentage points) from the growth rate. That’s not all sequestration, of course, but it is implicated.
Catherine Rampell also has a very useful bit of analysis over at the NYT, showing job impacts. As many have, she notes that while public sector jobs have been declining for years now, federal government job losses accelerated in March when the sequester hit; they’re down 40,000 since then.
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Becca Aaronson: After more than 10 hours of debate, the House voted 98-49 to tentatively approve the abortion regulations in House Bill 2, which would ban abortions at 20 weeks and add regulations to abortion providers and facilities that opponents argue would effectively eliminate access to abortion in Texas. The House must approve the bill again on another calendar day before it will be sent to the Senate. State Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, urged lawmakers to realize that no one is “pro-abortion,” and expressed discontent that some supporters of the bill had labeled opponents of the legislation “baby killers.” She said that the question is not when life begins but rather, “It’s a question of decisions that have to be made along the way.”
Howard said that during the regular session, a bipartisan group of lawmakers came together to increase financing for family planning services, which decrease maternal deaths, infant deaths and unplanned pregnancies. “What we’re talking about here is going backwards,” she said. “It’s embarrassing that we’re doing this.”
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Michael Tomasky: There’s an assumption embedded in the argument that no one disputes: namely, that whites will always be as conservative as they are now and will always vote Republican in the same numbers they do now. This assumption is wrong. White people—yep, even working-class white people—are going to get less conservative in coming years, so the Republicans’ hopes of building a white-nationalist party will likely be dashed in the future even by white people themselves.
Everyone knows and concedes all this. And everyone counters it by saying that the Republicans will just goose the less-educated white vote. As I noted above, everyone agrees that that vote is theirs for the goosing. But what if it isn’t? Back in March, the Brookings Institution and the Public Religion Research Institute released a big poll on immigration. Those findings are interesting as far as they go, but the questions and results went beyond that. It’s the first poll I’ve seen that breaks the white working class into four distinct age groups (65-plus, 50-64, 30-49, 18-29) and asks respondents attitudes about a broad range of social issues. And guess what? White working-class millennials are fairly liberal!
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Fantastic takedown of Sean Trende’s “GOP WILL BE SAVED BY MISSING WHITE VOTERS” drivel; using FACTS
ThinkProgress: As GOP House members continue their Kamikaze mission to scuttle the immigration reform bill, many political observers are wondering why. After all, isn’t it obvious that Republicans need more minority, particularly Hispanic support, and that therefore their self-interest should lead them to support a reasonable bill? Karl Rove thinks so. But lots and lots of Republicans dissent from that analysis, preferring to put their faith in a group they’re much more comfortable with: white voters. The most influential empirical analysis supporting this view was recently published by Sean Trende in a four part series on RealClearPolitics. Trende’s analysis is built around the idea of “missing white voters.”
What he means by this is that, given the estimated number of white voters in 2008 (derived from exit polls) and the natural increase in white eligible voters between 2008 and 2012 there should have been far more white voters than there actually were (again, estimated from the exit polls). He labels the difference between his projected and actual numbers of white voters as “missing” white voters. He goes on to say that “[i]f these white voters had decided to vote, the racial breakdown of the electorate would have been 73.6 percent white, 12.5 percent black, 9.5 percent Hispanic and 2.4 percent Asian — almost identical to the 2008 numbers.” Get it? The only real demographic change of importance between 2008 and 2012 was all those white voters who didn’t show up.
What’s wrong with this analysis? Plenty. Start with Trende’s projected natural increase in white voters—around 1.5 million voters, based on an assumed 55 percent turnout rate of additional white eligible voters. This implies that Trende was using an estimate of around 2.7 million additional eligible whites between 2008 and 2012. That’s wrong: Census data show an increase of only 1.5 million white eligibles. At Trende’s assumed 55 percent turnout rate, that translates into only 825,000 additional white voters from “natural increase.” So: GOP phone home! Your missing white voters have been found, and it turns out they weren’t really missing. They were simply sitting out a relatively low turnout election along with a large number of their minority counterparts. They may be back next time if it’s a higher turnout election — but then again so will a lot of minority voters. Bottom line: your demographic dilemma remains the same. The mix of voters is changing fast to your disadvantage and there is no cavalry of white voters waiting in the wings to rescue you.
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President Barack Obama meets with senior advisors in the Situation Room of the White House, July 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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Have A Broccoli Loving Day Courtesy Of President Barack Obama! 😀
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Coming Up
(2008)
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All times Eastern:
1:15: President Obama arrives Austin, Texas
1:45: Tours classrooms at Manor New Technology High School
2:05: Delivers remarks (White House live)
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4:15: The First Lady Hosts Mother’s Day Tea (White House live)
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6:0: The President tours Applied Materials Inc.
5.40: Delivers remarks (White House live)
6:35: Departs Austin, Texas
9:45: Arrives the White House
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Chat away!
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“Rick? Are you experiencing some discomfort, or do you always walk like that?” twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/…
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) May 9, 2013
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“Obamer, I’d like to ask you about Bingazzer – what when on in that there Mexican town?” twitter.com/TheObamaDiary/…
— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) May 9, 2013
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