Friday News Roundup - Domestic
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-04-06/friday-news-roundup-domestic
The US employment rate falls to 8.2 percent. The Justice Department affirms both judicial review and the President’s health care comments concerning the supreme court. Congressman Paul Ryan joins Mitt Romney on the campaign trail leading some to wonder if he’ll be on the GOP presidential ticket. Top officials of a government agency goes through a massive shake up after a lavish Vegas trip is revealed. And why a conservative group is facing a boycott because of the Trayvon Martin case.A panel of journalists joins guest host Tom Gjelten of NPR for analysis of the week's top national news stories.
Guests
Greg Ip
U.S. economics editor, The Economist, and author of "The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World."
Shawna Thomas
White House producer, NBC News.
Chris Cillizza
author of The Fix, a Washington Post politics blog, and managing editor of PostPolitics.com.
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“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping
the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before
the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his
... grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a
certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to
get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only
an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through
which to make themselves prominent before the public..”
Quote by: Booker T. Washington
(1856-1915) African American political leader, educator and author
Date: 1911
‘Borderline Offensive’: Debbie Wasserman Schultz Left Nearly Speechless After Tough Interview"
"Doug McIntyre, a radio host at 790 KABC-RADIO in Los Angeles, interviewed the chairwoman on Monday about the DNC’s decision to name LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to head the party’s convention. As McIntyre notes, Villaraigosa has his critics in Southern California (“Los Angeles can’t even pave the sidewalks”), and McIntryre was floored that he was chosen."
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/borderline-offensive-debbie-wasserman-sc...
At this point even liberals must be surprised by the divide and outrage tactics by Obama and his surrogates. Main stream medias silence or complicity in it is as well troubling and telling.
MarcusTullius on April 5, 2012 @ 11:12 am wrote: ““There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.”
Yup, next thing you know dem “outside agitators” will be busy protesting segregation, poll taxes, and demanding all kinds of “equal protection of the law”!
It’s time dem “darkies” knew their place.
Oct21 on April 5, 2012 @ 10:47 pm wrote: “At this point even liberals must be surprised by the divide and outrage tactics by Obama and his surrogates.”
Considering it only exists in conservative hallucinations (you know, right next door to where they deny conservative attempts to divide America along religious, ethnic, and racial lines - among others), the only thing I’m surprised by is that you expect thinking people to fall for such nonsense as you spewed.
Or perhaps you think sympathetic condolences and comments on the shooting death of an unarmed teenager, who was walking home (not engaged in any nefarious conduct) is divisive?
I mean, it’s not like Obama has called for Zimmerman’s immediate execution. (Unlike conservatives, who praised the attempt at his immediate exoneration.)
(As for the antics of some others, like the New Black Panthers, I’ll make you a deal. I won’t blame all conservatives for the ravings of the John Birch Society, if you won’t blame all liberals for the ravings of that bunch. Of course, the difference is the Birchers are now welcome hosts to conservative events.)
Here’s an idea: let’s wait until we have all the facts, submitted to an impartial trier of fact.
I realize zealots on the left think Obama is not out of line dividing the country up into pockets of hate, after all hatred is a form of blindness and there is a lot of that on the left. We will find out in November which way the voters want this country to go, I just merely point out when survival is at stake I think most would prefer to keep the ship afloat rather than a suicidal spiral into the abyss.
If anything deficit spending is what will do our incompetent divisive president in, he is obviously operating from an irrational play book created in his mind decades ago and is unable change.
strudel wrote:
"Yup, next thing you know dem “outside agitators” will be busy protesting segregation, poll taxes, and demanding all kinds of “equal protection of the law”!"
Booker T Washington was black ... and he was right. Perhaps he was just a "house negro". Unbelievable.
The U.S. unemployment rate is going down,be it slowly,UNDER OBAMA.
The U.K. unemployment rate rising to nearly 11%,using T-Party,right wing AUSTERITY.
How long will the people of the world tolerate these insane right wing economic policies?
"AUSTERITY" measures are put in place when there is no where else to go, it's coming no matter who is president.
MarcusTullius and ecgberht, maybe you should be learning from history instead of wishing to reverse it. Maybe in your minds you are benevolent plantation owners.
Booker T. Washington was speaking long before the Civil Rights era and was counseling patience, mostly for tactical reasons born of optimism that it would take only a few years for things to change.
If those uppity blacks and their white allies who actually fought for civil rights had been similarly patient, they would have waited.....and waited.....and waited....., and Booker T., if he had still been around, would no doubt have lost his patience. Justice is never given freely. To this day it is still sometimes denied, and when it is, it must be fought for and defended all over again.
hey marcus
nice quote, what's yore point using a quote from 1911?
The GOP is doubling down on their war on women:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/05/rnc-chair-gop-war-on-women-fiction...
It must be true because a women don't care about contraception:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/03/nikki-haley-women-dont-care-about-...
I love it -- let's just hope the Repubs continue this all the way to the election. ;)
Obviously Obama as well as the House think the Affordable Care Act is constitutional, or they would not pass it. Those who say he should shut up seem to suggest that Obama and members of Congress should pretend to be ignorant about the constitution, which is silly. They have an opinion but the SCOTUS has the final say. Moreover the justices could not care less.
I must be missing something. How can a budget that calls for self-reliance, minimal government intervention, minimized government support to the individual be a budget that is "...antithetical to what makes America a land of opportunity"? Did our ancestors emigrate and populate this country in order to receive social welfare benefits?
hey oct21
yes we all look forward to Nov. 7th to see you whining and crying about 4 more years of the big O & Biden. hen heh.....
Jobs, economy, gas prices are going to decide the next election. Along with Obama's achiles heel not one person held accountable for the sub prime mortgage and foreclosure frauds. Romney would have protected these fraudsters just the way Obama has. Obama will have to tell us what would be the difference between he and Romney after Romney gets through the radical right wingers. Romney knows Obamacare is not going away. He knows this. Obama is in big trouble in this next election
roland wrote:
"Those who say he should shut up seem to suggest that Obama and members of Congress should pretend to be ignorant about the constitution, which is silly."
Some people are taken aback by the direct frontal attack on the supreme court and Obamas deliberate lies on the supreme courts purpose and relevance.
@Oct21
From where i sit, it is the teabaggers that have successfully divided this country. It was the republican congress that kept two wars off the books for years, creating a perception that the nation was doing fine, it was a republican congress that kept a 15 minute vote open for 3 hours to pass an "entitlement" that they had no idea of how the nation would pay for it.
It was republicans who decided that they were not willing to work with the president for a large portion of this term to try to ensure that he would not get reelected. The divisions in the country were not initiated by Obama, he made every effort to work with the other side, many times to the frustration of his supporters. The deficit spending was in place before Obama arrived in the office.
Oct21 wrote:
" Some people are taken aback by the direct frontal attack on the supreme court and Obamas deliberate lies on the supreme courts purpose and relevance."
yea oct21 you and a handful of faux news watchers that couldn't hit their own back-sides with a G.P.S. & a roadmap!
Why is NPR referring to Mr. Zimmerman as a "white Latino" I hav never heard this term before. Does this show bias on the part of NPR. I have never heard the President referred to as a white African.
I think it wise to recall which presidential administration raised this county's speed limits 10 miles per hour, causing us to gobble more gasoline, thereby increasing fuel oil use for his own investment profit. This administration made my life more unhappy by changing a dear home environment (also, a teenager was killed on the road in my driveway due to these, then new speed limits.) Our current president has much wiser judgement.
Oct21
Correct me if I am wrong, but the President is still an American and therefore had the right to say what he wants about the Supreme Court. The accusations of trying to intimidate the court are just wrong. There is nothing he can use to sway their opinion one way or another. He cannot remove them, he cannot reassign them, he cannot even change the color of their robes. We the people are similarly powerless to sway the court, and I believe that this is more evidence of the genius of the Founding Fathers.
Are you not covering the disgraceful and truly scandalous behavior of ABC, NBC, and CNN regarding their deceipt perpetrated on the American public with their purposeful, willful editing of recordings and video in the Zimmerman/Trayvon case, in order to weave a racial narrative?
@Kathleen
One of the sad things about the rule of law is, doing immoral things like creating the sub prime mortgages, but not technically breaking the law doesn't get you prosecuted. Since the rules were changed to accommodate the crooks, how do we get to the courts?
As far as jobs are concerned, if the congress would mandate that U. S. countries bring jobs back to these shores, we might have more jobs. The President didn't export the manufacturing sector to China, i.e. Apple et. al.
Mike Sergeant wrote: " the President is still an American and therefore had the right to say what he wants about the Supreme Court."
We expect a certain level of dignity from our presidents, it is not acceptable for the president to lower himself to the level of a political partisan hack. He is obviously setting the stage for another issue to divide the country, this time it's about undermining the very structure of our government, this can only hurt not help.
As a voter not affiliated to any party I am considering Mitt Romney and President Obama, though I rarely vote for politicians seeking re-election. However, if Romney chooses Marco Rubio as his running mate he will definitely not get my vote. There is no way I am setting up this nation with the possibility, gods forbid, that Rubio could become the President of the United States of America. I love my country too much to even consider this bizarro scenario.
José A. Amorós ... wrote:
"Are you not covering the disgraceful and truly scandalous behavior of ABC, NBC, and CNN regarding their deceipt perpetrated on the American public with their purposeful, willful editing of recordings and video in the Zimmerman/Trayvon case, in order to weave a racial narrative?"
Good observation, this show was all in for this latest media scandal, not a surprise it was not mentioned. The issue no longer serves the purposes of the democrat party or the liberal media, expect nothing in the way of sincere apologies or meaningful retractions, that is the liberal way!
jlynwood wrote:
"The divisions in the country were not initiated by Obama, "
Correct. They were initiated by Democrates in Congress beginning with the January 2007 term, while then Senator Obama was a freshman with the words "We won the election, we write the bills".
Keep in mind that this is not the first time that the President has gone after the SCOTUS in public. His comments related to Citizens United during the 2010 State of the Union address explicitly criticized the justices - a wholly unprecedented action on the part of a Chief Executive. Interestingly, he criticized the justices in this forum, then went on to take explicit advantage of the benefits afforded by the Citizens United ruling. (Hypocrisy?) His most recent comments can only be interpreted in light of the campaign, where he is hoping to set the table for bashing the right and any insufficiently progressive view of the Constitution.
@StLouis
Guess what, he was right. The money is flowing like water from persons unknown.