Friday News Roundup - Domestic
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Tampa, Fla., Mayor Bob Buckhorn said he was prepared to call off the Republican National Convention next week if Hurricane Isaac threatens public safety. The housing market showed more signs of recovery as home sales rose in July. And U.S. health officials said the West Nile virus outbreak in five states was one of the worst in American history. Naftali Bendavid of The Wall Street Journal, Jeanne Cummings of Bloomberg News and David Chalian of Yahoo! News join Diane for analysis of the week's top national news stories.
Guests
David Chalian
Washington bureau chief, Yahoo! News.
Jeanne Cummings
deputy government editor, Bloomberg News.
Naftali Bendavid
national correspondent, The Wall Street Journal.
Friday News Roundup Video
The panel discussed the reactions to Missouri Rep. Todd Akin's comments about "legitimate rape." Bloomberg News deputy government editor Jeanne Cummings said the reaction in the political world was "truly something we don't see very often." She said the last time both political parties pushed for a candidate to drop out of a race was in 1992. David Chalian, Washington bureau chief for Yahoo! News, said Akin's remarks drove the Republican campaign's message away from jobs and the economy.
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Dennis Greenia wrote:
"What about these "Welfare" ads from Mitt Romney. They are ALL based on lies and made up facts. It is hard to think of them as anything other than race-baiting and appeals to white anxiety as they resurface the old myths about the government taking YOUR money and handing it out to lazy brown people.
I think these ads are disgusting, but the real shame is a National Media that lets Team Romney get away with this kind of thing. It should be called out for what it is: a racist dogwhistle."
Fact: There are more people on the welfare rolls after 3 1/2 years of the Obama Presidency than ever in our Country's history
Fact: The majority of those people are WHITE.
Fact: Dennis Greenia cannot back up one word he says with evidence
providers agreed to the cuts. The Romney team's claim is b.s. Ryan's plan inlcluded cuts of the same amount also, which they fail to mention when they stump.
Hainc... Hmm, Maybe, just maybe we are capable of discussing more than just the economy?
" hainc wrote:
Any news on the economy this week?
Judging by today's discussion, everything must be hunky-dory for all y'alls.
Peace."
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:AKA Vainglorious "Oh, and it’s not the job of the Senate to “put a budget forward”. Budgets start in the House, and then are modified and voted on by the Senate"
"Under the 1974 Congressional Budget Act, the Senate must move a budget out of the Budget Committee by April 1 of every year and adopt a budget resolution on the floor by April 15."
The Congress has past four! Surely your joking with the response you gave, it's incredibly weak.
Try convincing the millions of insulted business owners that Obama did not mean what he said. "you didn't build that" We know exactly what he meant!
The "you didn't build that" comment was not said in a vacuum. Obama has made his contempt clear for anyone who has wealth derived from business. He describes them as not paying their "fair share"and that implies an evil, undeserving of their wealth, who earned their wealth off the backs of the poor and the cheated. If you don't believe that ask just about any democrat and that's what they will tell you, hell I read it here everyday. So when the "you didn't build that" comment came out it was the straw that broke the camels back.
Obama holds the same crippled philosophies as the socialist Elizabeth Warren and I'm not going down that dead end street today.
I enjoy listening to the Diane Rehm Show to hear what the extreme left is thinking. I just fail to understand why tax dollars should fund any portion of her show/studio.
Gas and food prices are skyrocketing yet the Democrats keep talking about abortion and contraception. I suspect this strategy will backfire.
partisan politics wrote:
"Obama has made his contempt clear for anyone who has wealth derived from business."
Even if you stipulate the "you didn't build that comment", to me, as a small business owner, what I found the most insulting was this statement; "People think ... it must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something -- there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there". You know what? There may be a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. But you're gd right I DID work harder than probably most of them. Often, that's what separates the successful from the nots - and certainly from the ones who won't even take the risk. This statement and this alone is all you need to explain why this community organizer does not know business, has never started a business, does not understand business and has no respect for business or free enterprise. Successful entrepreneurs DO work harder than everyone else! AND, they take all the RISK! I know that from hard experience and his statement is a slap in the face of every one of us.
Government does provide infrastructure (and Constitutionally they should) and the taxes on the entrepreneur help pay for that by the way. Government provides police and fire protection which the entrepreneur's taxes also pay for. Governments do these things to provide OPPORTUNITY for entrepreneurs. They don't provide MORE opportunity to the entrepreneur than to the people he employs. That is the point that Obama misses. But this collectivist view is absolutely wrongheaded and poison.
One writer I ran across summed it up this way, "Unless wealth was earned dishonestly, it belongs first and foremost to its earner. Otherwise, we no longer have a country of free people earning money and paying a small amount of it to taxes. Instead, we have a nation of people who earn money first and foremost for government."
And after that comes, "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need".
I'm glad Jeanne Cummings was on the program to provide her perspective, but could we maybe get Reince Priebus on as well to provide the Republican talking points?
Fifty five minutes to cover domestic news and Diane spent 7 or 8 of those minutes discussing a minor Texas county official's dumb remarks about Obama's second term agenda. "Inflammatory" "coarser and more angry and more provocative and more inflammatory" "I mean, really makes me wonder how individuals like that get a microphone to say things like that and to inspire perhaps what we see happening around the country" Sure sounds like an indictment of those crazy Tea Party people in Texas.
Image the reaction if the second highest official in the US government had switched to his version of a southern dialect to tell to an African American audience how the Republican party intended to put them in chains! Of course Vice President Joe Biden did say, "They're going to put ya'll back in chains." Condescending, divisive, intemperate, and damaging to the political dialog.
But not one mention on the Diane Rehm Friday News Roundup - Domestic. Bias? I think the only question is how intentional the bias is.