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NRA Convention Gun Advocates Include Victims, Immigrants, Kids - The Daily Beast

Brite — Mon, 6 May 2013 15:55:00 +0000

Not long after Elvin Daniel joined the National Rifle Association, his sister, Zina, was shot to death by her husband. She was 42 years old and in the process of a divorce on the fall day last year when her husband, Radcliffe Haughton Jr., an ex-Marine, showed up at the Azana Sal …

Next Time, the NRA Will Lose - The Daily Beast

Brite — Thu, 2 May 2013 15:17:57 +0000

How stupid does the Senate background-check vote look now, I ask the pundits and others who thought it was dumb politics for Obama and the Democrats to push for a vote that they obviously knew they were going to lose. I’d say not very stupid at all. The nosedive taken in th …

The GOP's Three Fiscal Lies - The Daily Beast

Brite — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:14:32 +0000

As we immerse ourselves in March Madness this weekend, a thought experiment for you: imagine that a majority of Americans were under the impression that the team that committed fewer fouls won the game. After all, not committing fouls is a good, even salutary, thing. It demon …

The PowerPoint That Proves It's Not Obama's Sequester After All - The Daily Beast

Brite — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:22:46 +0000

The latest semantic spin is to call the looming $1.2 trillion in cuts, which could throw the whole economy back into recession, “Obama’s Sequester.” House Speaker John Boehner indulged this approach half a dozen times in a floor speech before he went on bre …

GOP Swears It's not Stupid - The Daily Beast

easyjjgrand3 — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 03:21:26 +0000

Eric Cantor is talking about the problems of working mothers. Marco Rubio is on the cover of Time as “the New Voice of the GOP” and will respond next week to the president’s State of the Union. And Karl Rove has launched a group to push mainstream conservati …

Obama Realigns, the GOP Declines: The New Political Paradigm - The Daily Beast

Brite — Fri, 1 Feb 2013 19:36:38 +0000

It’s a word seldom heard since Karl Rove brandished it after the 2004 election. On the basis of an Electoral College win secured by the precarious margin of one state, an Ohio rife with voter suppression, “Bush’s brain”—is that a compliment to Rov …

Immigration Reform Proposal Shows Similar Ideas Betweeen Bush and Obama - The Daily Beast

Brite — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:03:33 +0000

The past president serves as both an unlikely inspiration and negative object lesson to the current effort. Because the plan pushed by Bush in his second term bears an uncanny resemblance to the bipartisan plan now backed by the Gang of Eight senators and hailed by Oba …

Cory Booker's Murder Accessory: Turning Buyback Guns Into Jewelry - The Daily Beast

Brite — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:57:52 +0000

Newark Mayor Cory Booker is collaborating with jewelry designer Jessica Mindich to repurpose guns and bullet casings into accessories—the legal kind.

GOP Attracting Minorities? - The Daily Beast

Brite — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:24:29 +0000

What with everything going on these days, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Reince Priebus hasn’t been foremost in your mind lately.

Washington's Endless Civil War - The Daily Beast

Brite — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:48:14 +0000

We may be heading for a general and fundamental impasse—and it’s not likely to yield to public pressure for compromise.

Parties Resort to Finger-Pointing as U.S. Heads Over Fiscal Cliff - The Daily Beast

Brite — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:57:35 +0000

There was a brief burst of optimism after Barack Obama’s reelection that Democrats and Republicans would finally go the grownup route and avert the so-called fiscal cliff.

Six Nominees to Succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State -- With opposition to Susan Rice mounting daily, Michael Tomasky proposes six alternative nominees for the top post at Foggy Bottom. Head of the list? The winner of the 2000 election.

euterpe-1641499 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:00:13 +0000

Things maybe aren’t looking so great for Susan Rice. The throw-down yesterday by Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins, who extended the Republican case against Riceback to the Clinton years, is one of those Washington smoke signals, and it’s not a positive on …

Much of the Media Is Calling the Presidential Race for Barack Obama - The Daily Beast

Brite — Mon, 5 Nov 2012 21:42:29 +0000

We still have to go through the ritual of holding the election on Tuesday, but the media’s forecasters have placed their bet, and the overwhelming consensus is that the president will win a second term.

Hurricane Sandy Exposes Mitt Romney's Self-Made FEMA Problem

euterpe-1641499 — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:12:40 +0000

In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, President Obama has been coordinating storm response from the White House—while Mitt Romney has been dodging questions about what critics say was a primary campaign call to cut funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. At a camp …

Democrats Showing Momentum in Early Voting -- As the president cast a first-ever pre-Election Day ballot, early voting experts say the returns to date show signs of Democratic momentum. James Warren reports.

euterpe-1641499 — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:37:55 +0000

President Obama joined a surge in hometown voters casting an early election ballot Thursday, trekking to an austere Chicago community center where the waiting-room seats are now off limits after becoming a hangout for drug dealers. The surge, if not the center, s …

The Obama Haters Book Club: The Canon Swells

euterpe-1641499 — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:25:31 +0000

John Avlon runs through the overheated, often unhinged obsessively anti-Obama canon. PLUS: An interactive stroll through the hate. Welcome to the Obama Haters Book Club—a parallel universe of fear mongering for fun and profit. Over the past four years, no les …

Robert Shrum: Why Obama Will Win -- Was it all a bluff? As Mitt Romney's 'surge' erodes, the Republican nominee's campaign faces reality. Across the swing states, the polls show the president holds the advantage.

euterpe-1641499 — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:14:49 +0000

We have now witnessed the penultimate phase of Mitt’s moderate makeover tour. He pleaded nolo contendre in the final presidential debate—perhaps wisely because his comprehension of foreign policy evidences all the depth of a sound bite. Every time he’s touche …

David Stockman: Mitt Romney and the Bain Drain - Newsweek and The Daily Beast

Brite — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:13:26 +0000

Bain Capital is a product of the Great Deformation. It has garnered fabulous winnings through leveraged speculation in financial markets that have been perverted and deformed by decades of money printing and Wall Street coddling by the Fed. So Bain’s billions of profits …

In His Own Words: Paul Ryan's Totalitarian World View (VIDEO) | Veracity Stew

Brite — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:46:33 +0000

Perhaps the most disturbing and revealing discussion of the Vice Presidential debate centered on abortion. While we already knew Paul Ryan opposed all abortions, he revealed how he is incapable of separating his guiding principles in life from imposing those same principles o …

Joe Biden Authored the Violence Against Women Act so Fox News Calls Him a Sexist

Brite — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 18:52:20 +0000

Fox News is still so angry over the debate beating that Joe Biden gave Paul Ryan that they are insinuating that the Vice President of the United States is sexist.

Biden's Win Was a Big It Was a Big F@$&ing Deal - The Daily Beast

Brite — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:18:02 +0000

It’s no contest—Biden nailed it. But Obama still needs to seal the deal. Robert Shrum on the three things that will determine the outcome of the presidential race—and why they all point toward a Democratic victory. He dominated the debate. …

"You See..."Says Ryan

Marion Otto — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:05:08 +0000

The 42 year old Ryan, who dares to condescend to us all, needs to "see" the nose on his face. The noble and enlightened Ryan is a direct beneficiary of Social Security and Sesame Street, and can't appreciate how important these programs were to his development. These …

Paul Ryan's 5 Biggest Lies of the First Half of the Vice Presidential Debate

Brite — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:22:42 +0000

Paul Ryan has been throwing the lies around in rapid order, and here are his five biggest fibs during the first half of the vice presidential debate.

Biden Vs. Ryan Vice Presidential Debate Fact-Check: Who Lied? - The Daily Beast

Brite — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:16:45 +0000

Biden exaggerated a few of Romney’s statements and Ryan got some unemployment numbers wrong. The Daily Beast turns to the Internet’s most reliable fact-checkers for the vice-presidential candidates’ biggest slip-ups.

Jack Welch, Rupert Murdoch & The Angry Rich Old White Guys Who Hate Obama

Carloz — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:26:17 +0000

Jack Welch, who accused Obama of manipulating the jobs report, is just one of the wealthy white dudes, mostly in their late 60s and 70s, who’ve been stalking the airwaves, print, and social media, attacking the president. Daniel Gross offers a guide to the aging moguls wh …