Friday News Roundup - Domestic
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The Senate rejected an effort to let employers deny health-care coverage on religious grounds. Senator Olympia Snowe was the only Republican to vote against the measure. The Maine centrist announced her retirement from the Senate, citing growing partisanship. Fed chair Bernanke took a cautious stance on the future of the economy. President Obama urged Congress to repeal oil industry subsidies. And the GOP presidential fight shifted to super Tuesday battlegrounds. Naftali Bendavid of The Wall Street Journal, Shawna Thomas of NBC News and David Welna of NPR join Diane for analysis of the week's top national news stories.
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Naftali Bendavid
national correspondent, The Wall Street Journal.
Shawna Thomas
White House producer, NBC News.
David Welna
congressional correspondent, NPR.
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The panelists discuss U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull's inflammatory email that some view as racist and highly insulting to President Obama:
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"Republicans embrace it and Democrats reject it. "
Yeah, right. If they do so, it is only to fit their needs.
Politicians of all stripes decide early on which party's claimed positions compliment the politician's personality - like trying on a suit.
Sometimes the calculation might be in line with what is possible in the locale they need to build support to get started. Once they get comfortable with the impersonation, they can begin climbing the ladder.
It is Pollyann-ish to believe to believe that these pols are in this for your benefit - if that was true, we would not be in the shape we are in.
The fact is, when they get to Washington and see the exercise of power, see how much they get ($700,000 and way up from there) to hire "staff" (personal servants), see how they are fawned over and pampered, free travel back and forth to their home state, etc....you have to be a rube, especially in light of where the country is and how it got there, to believe that crazy talk about the dems having any positive attributes.
Once they taste the power trip in Washington, they will do or say anything to keep the office. Lotsa tears fell in 2010 when all those incumbents lost - and a lot of them want back in.
The thing to do is vote the incumbent out every election cycle.
I listened to Fluke's testimony again, sorry to tell you but it is about birth control for "recreational sexual activity" and not some sad sob story about birth control pills used for some illness, at least that's what any reasonable person would come away with as the THRUST of testimony. By the way if birth control pills are used as medication for an illness I find it hard to believe it would not be covered under the existing insurance policy, someone should look into it.
P.S. If the commentator ES as indicated is a former attorney all that proves is that people do graduate from the bottom of the class.
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote
"It’s no wonder Republi-Cons are siding with the Catholic hierarchy in this matter. Both believe their members should just pay, pray, and obey"
Strudel:
Did you read the letter the President of Georgetown wrote about the incident? He sided with Ms Flukes and blasted Rush. Where is the Catholic hierarchy siding with this matter ES?
http://www.georgetown.edu/message-civility-public-discourse.html
I'm not sure why you go on and on talking about how Romney answered a question and didn't at least play the audio of the incident in context. Then as listeners we all can judge how clearly the question was expressed, how directly it was asked and then how strongly it was answered.
Employers should get out of the business of providing health care coverage and let employees get their own.
Then the chaste wouldn't have to pay for the promiscuous.
With regard to the pipeline issue... my understanding was that President O'Bama was honoring the unanimous call, including Republicans, of the state legislature over a state that the passing thru (South Dakota/?? Nebraska??), demanding an environmental impact investigation-- because of concerns they had