Friday News Roundup - Domestic
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A midnight shooting at a Denver Theater left 12 people dead. A suspect is in custody. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke described efforts to lower the unemployment rate as frustratingly slow. Housing data indicated a market in recovery, with existing home sales and prices and new home starts all up in June. Senator John McCain criticized attacks by Congresswoman Michele Bachman on a long-time aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. And, without intervention from Congress, the Post Office moved closer to defaulting on payments for future retiree benefits. Jerry Seib of the Wall Street Journal, Susan Page of USA Today and Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post join Diane for the domestic hour of our Friday News Roundup.
Guests
Jerry Seib
Washington bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal.
Susan Page
Washington bureau chief for USA Today.
Chris Cillizza
author of The Fix, a Washington Post politics blog; managing editor of PostPolitics.com; and author of a new book, "The Gospel According to The Fix."
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Our panel discussed the repercussions of the Colorado movie theater shooting that left 12 dead and dozens injured Friday morning. Jerry Seib, Washington bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, said the shooting could renew the political debate about violence and gun control in the United States. The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza said polls show there's typically a short-lived bump in the national discussion after major gun-related events, such as the Virginia Tech massacre and Columbine High School shooting. Cillizza added that Gallup polls have found American support for stricter gun laws fall by about 50 percent since 1990.
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Please discuss the changes in work requirements to receive welfare by edict from president Obama to HHS. Does this not illegally circumvent the will of congress and the bipartisan Welfare Reform Act of 1996.
USDA partnering with Mexico to boost food stamp participation
The Mexican government has been working with the United States Department of Agriculture to increase participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps.
“It’s a very disturbing policy, gone on for some years, and it raises very serious questions about American immigration policy as well as fiscal policy,” Session said. “Let’s get back to the fundamentals. What happened with the ‘96 welfare reform was to say that if want to you come to America you come legally, you assert you’re not coming for welfare benefits but you’re coming to work or otherwise be independent. There is no logic behind an immigration policy that would encourage immigrants who can’t successfully operate within this society.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/19/usda-partnering-with-mexico-to-boost-f...
"Outsourcer in Chief"......Will finally be on the November ballot.Not since 1992 and Ross Perot have the American people debated sending our jobs abroad.
Is opposing sending American jobs to China unfriendly to business?
Is evading your tax obligation,and hiding your wealth offshore the act of a loyal American?
Why did we fight Communism and sacrifice the lives of 100,0000 Americans,only to send the Communists OUR JOBS,OUR WEALTH,AND OUR FUTURE,without a whimper?
Patsy Wrote:
"Why did we fight Communism and sacrifice the lives of 100,0000 Americans,only to send the Communists OUR JOBS,OUR WEALTH,AND OUR FUTURE,without a whimper?"
Because under Capitalism, everything is for sale. Which includes, your kids, your house, your yard, your county, your state and your country. Anything for a buck!
We have come down to this....the wealthy are ready to sell us to the highest bidder.
“I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.”
Dr. Thompson
Again it is congress and the house leadership in particular that is responsible for economic policies, NOT the president, he does not have the powers to do so. Media do keep having this wrong and are involved in collective president bashing, even NPR on their morning and ATC shows. And the orange Boehner is laughing. Remember the sole GOP policy is to sabotage the president, the people be damned as collateral damage. Shame on NPR for not to pointing this out, even when the same house leadership is working hard to defund public broadcasting and many other programs that DO make a difference in ordinary people's lives.
I would like you to touch on Marco Rubio's visit yesterday. Particularly to challenge him on one point. He said he represents only the people who voted for him. Is this what a public servant is supposed to do? I thought a member of Congress represents ALL the people from his or her district. Rubio got a majority of the votes but Crist and Meek split more votes than Rubio won. Who knows what would have happened if Crist had not entered the race as an independent. Finally, Rubio is an example of one of the people who have shut down legislation in order to ensure that the President fails. As a result, we still are in an economic crisis. Bob Kay, FL
In discu8ssing Romney's tax returns, please remember the isue isn't just about how rich he is or how he got those riches.
He has given inconsistent statements about
(1) his control of Bain Capital when it was shipping jobs overseas, AND investing in a company to help other US companies do that
And (2) his state residency when he was running the Olympic Committee - an essential element of whether he was qualified to run for governor.
His tax returns will likely allow us to determine which of his statements are true and which are false.
The entire strategy of both the Bush and Obama economics teams has been to prevent the big banks, bondholders and other creditors from having to take haircuts by writing down the bad loans, phony instruments and bad debt. They have suspended any objective accounting requirements, allowed endless shell games to hide the debt and pretend all of the insolvent creditors are solvent, done everything under the sun to artificially prop up asset prices, turned a blind eye to the underlying fraud which caused the bubble, the toxic investment instruments and false representations, and then helped cover up the mess.
Romney intends to continue this....on steroids.
So sad about Colorado, but stricter gun laws are not the answer look at Syria. Gun control means the government can control you absolutely. It is a freedom the same as speech and writing etc. which, again many countries don't have.
God bless the families.
How about a trade, Obama's college records for Romney's tax returns. We still know very little about Obama's past and how a drugged up teenager got into prestigious schools.
No, Romney's problem is not a political problem, it is a heart problem. He doesn't understand first hand what many people go through to make it today. Has he had to have 2 jobs to make ends meet? Has he had to do manual work or work like at a McDonald's? Has he had to make decisions like getting his kid's teeth checked or paying rent? And btw, this is a problem for the majority of our politicians.
"Annoying dupe"
Job growth crushed by Congressional inaction.
Sorry but you are spinning Obama's statement to deflect his true intent, all the examples used in his speech were examples of government employees making success possible for the entrepreneur. Obama's socialist views are apparent to any objective observer.
Guest comments regarding Presidential quotes are spot-on.
Would Ms. Rehm be willing to spend at least an hour discussing the philisophical divide described by your hosts? For a "conservative" like me (a rough label that is accurate for the purpose of this topic), Obama's poorly-delivered speech still clearly defines the difference between me and my political opponents. This is a divide I find in every facet of my life: people appear to be either individualistic or communist (no politics implied). Either I am successful because I individually earned My success, or We are successful because We collectively earned Our success. Obama does not seem to recognize the difference between I and We, and that is what worries me and other "conservatives" who fear ongoing coercion by the collectivists.
Please discuss the reports that both campaigns are editing reporters discussions with people within their campaigns before they can be released to the news outlets, and the fact that the outlets are apparently going along with it.
Yes, someone helped you do that! Someone built the roads, etc. But 43% of Americans pay no income tax. Many of those not only pay no tax but get payments from the government. The top 10% of earners pay most of the income tax. They built their businesses... and, YES, they built the roads also!
Everytime Ciliza is on the analysis is weakened. The Bachman reference as being broadly politically negative is yet another example. Don't point a finger where it belongs at the GOP, Chris, that has been hijacked by the fringe right Tea Party - God forbid you analyze rather than regurgitating news NPR viewers had read or heard elsewhere.
Everytime Ciliza is on the analysis is weakened. The Bachman reference as being broadly politically negative is yet another example. Don't point a finger where it belongs at the GOP, Chris, that has been hijacked by the fringe right Tea Party - God forbid you analyze rather than regurgitating news NPR viewers had read or heard elsewhere.
Everytime Ciliza is on the analysis is weakened. The Bachman reference as being broadly politically negative is yet another example. Don't point a finger where it belongs at the GOP, Chris, that has been hijacked by the fringe right Tea Party - God forbid you analyze rather than regurgitating news NPR viewers had read or heard elsewhere.
The difference in the incident in the internet cafe in Fla. and the movie theater in Colorado is an old man with a concealed handgun.
$200 billion in ads? OMG.
Bob Kay
My heart is breaking for the innocent people in Colorado. When will we learn that mental health care is much cheaper than the alternative? I'm also very concerned about the assault riflles etc.--these are not hunting rifles and I can not believe that carrying guns in public will make us safe.
I'm perplexed at the willingness of so many to give Mitt Romney a pass on tax returns.
It seems that this is part of the vetting process to assure we are qualifying a person who meets the high moral standards of the job POTUS.
I think taxes tell a valueable story about the character of a person. The desperation to elect the "anti-Obama" candidate is seducing a large segment of the country and that is inherently more dangerous than the sputtering economy.
If Mr. Romney is given to excessive greed and any form of artifice we need to know that now and his tax returns are a big part of the story of who Mitt Romney is
The gun industry and how they insist on enabling crazy people with fire power designed for all out warfare is disgusting, obtuse, and it's really criminal. "Freedom to bear arms" has nothing to do with it. This happens because there's no laws regarding guns. It's more stupidity being forced upon us by superstitious, magical thinking right wing knuckleheads. The whole business of selling guns from manufactures to whatever market they end up in should be held criminally and civilly liable. Throw them in jail for a long time and sue them broke. What penalty for this shooter could be anything close to justice? He's not the only one responsible.
The argument for gun control often focuses on an ordinary citizen’s ability to defend themselves in the face of some type of tragic incident like the one last night in Colorado. Are there any instances of an actual private citizen defending themselves or others when confronted by an attacker? It seems to me that despite the relatively lax gun laws, private citizens with legally licensed weapons are still not able to defend themselves. This, in my mind, would seem to negate the argument.
R-Money's supporters have made a point of calling his "economic plans" "Bush on Steroids." Why would the American people want to bring back the very policies that destroyed the economy to begin with? The President's policies could have worked but for Rethuglican obstructionism.
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