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I would argue that it is sufficient for a majority of the people for Obama to not be a right-wing demagogue. The threshold is now that low. 'Cause really, what are the rational options?
The Republicans should heed this fact in the next few years.
Otherwise their candidate will go the way of Romney, McCain, Bachmann, Palin, Gingrich, Santorum, etc...
Playing to the base is just that, but it appeals to the choir and brings in few.
So Noonan expects no political statements by a President in a re-election campaign?
What was she famous for, again?
So the "scandal" depends on two ideas about the 2012 election: the nascent Tea Party organizations were prima facie "non-political"; and Obama was "political".
Just another iteration of the "victimhood" meme of the right.
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There are limits: 501(c)(4)'s can't have electioneering as a primary purpose (such organizations must incorporate as 527s, which have to disclose their donors) and they cannot coordinate directly with political parties. They can’t have a narrow focus of advancing their funders’ financial interests; for example, utility companies can’t form a 501(c)4 to lobby for higher utility rates.
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So the groups that:
* organized in response to an impending...
The attached graph clearly show how big the departure in CO2 is from the past 800 thousand years:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/files/2013/05/co2_800k.png
The attached graph shows the correlation between CO2 and temperatures:
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.....So, if a skeptical friend hits you with the "saturation argument" against global warming, here’s all you need to say: (a) You’d still get an increase in greenhouse warming even if the atmosphere were saturated, because it’s the absorption in the thin upper atmosphere (which is unsaturated) that counts (b) It’s not even true that the atmosphere is actually saturated with respect to absorption by CO2, (c) Water vapor doesn’t overwhelm the effects of CO2 because there’s...
The fact is that the physics of the association of temperature and CO2 remains. An tiny blip in the upward trajectory of temperature proves absolutely nothing but that we do not know what territory we are moving into.
And that is what 10 or 15 years is--a tiny blip in the scale of time of the previous records of temperature rises and falls. Perhaps the wooly mastodons said that the new summer would not last, also...
There are a lot of uninhabitable planets in the universe--...
........We recruited about 100, 150 endorsements from pastors and other faith-based leaders to support Representative Bachmann.
However, in that process I began to receive more complaints from pastors in Iowa that the advance team was rude, discourteous, tried to impose their will on the church, tried to change liturgy. I went from recruiting pastors to apologizing to pastors.....
Separation of church and state?
Where is the IRS when you need them?
....impose...
Republicans can't decide whether the President is an arrogant, corrupt, intimidating, power-wielding, law-breaking, big government thug or he is an inept, incompetent, passive, President who is in over his head and unable to lead.
Certainly this requires more investigation that the Bush/Cheney false claims that Iraq had WMD, were soo to deliver nuclear weapons, and that Iraq had, helped to plan and implement the 9/11 attacks.
After all, that only led to deaths and injuries to tens of thousands of Americans and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
This is far more outrageous!!!.
A swirl of institutional CYA emails after an unexpected attack.
Whoodathunk bureaucrats were capable...
Two things are accomplished: drip, drip, drip, eroding public confidence; second, turn the second administration into a prolonged replay of the Clinton years when they were crippled by repeated and convoluted invented scandals.
It's a strategy for a "do-nothing" Congress to look busy.
Its a way to muddy the implementation of Obamacare.
It's a way to take immigration reform off the front burner.
It's a tool for hiding Republican failures.
The Benghazi...