Friday News Roundup - Domestic
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-03-08/friday-news-roundup-domestic
President Barack Obama courts rank-and-file Republicans. The House votes to avert a government shutdown. The latest jobs numbers are released. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top national news stories.
Guests
Jeanne Cummings
deputy government editor for Bloomberg News.
Manu Raju
senior congressional reporter at Politico.
Michael Scherer
White House correspondent for Time magazine.
Featured Video
President Barack Obama met with several rank-and-file GOP leaders for meals this week in attempt to shore up support for a budget deal.
Jeanne Cummings, deputy government editor for Bloomberg News, said the meetings indicate both Democrats and Republicans are making an effort to end the spending debate.
"It's sort of very refreshing for someone like me who spends my life covering a very frustrating city, a very broken city. The last week has been, at least by appearances, the way Washington should be," said Michael Scherer, White House correspondent for Time magazine.
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The domestic drone program should be met by an equal in size public anti aircraft artillery program.
Archy: Minty or mentee is a character on Eastenders who works as a thug and a mechanic.
f or w: Are you ready to pay for Iron Dome, or the upgrade Chrome Dome? I think not. Anyone considering welfare is too poor. But we do provide a hat for Israel, right out of our paychecks.
Invasion of the comment snatchers. What is going on here?
gary k wrote:
"The filibuster is nothing more than a temper tantrum for adults. And just as childish".
Just had this thought. First, the filibuster in the United States Senate has been a legitimate procedure for more than 200 years.
Second, I wonder how gary k's comment might have been different if George W. Bush were still President, refusing to answer a simple question about the circumstances under which a President could kill an American citizen on American soil, and a young Senator Barack Obama were filibustering on the floor of the Senate. Hmmmm.
" Republicans did meet with Obama on several documented occasions, only to be later demonised on Obama's permanent campaign throughout his presidency. Any sensible person will eventually get it into their heads that consensus reached at a meeting and then the President goes out there and kicks their heads in, is bad deal. They were used for a photo op. "
f or w: Thanks for the trip in the Way-Back machine. People forget. Last sentence of your post was the key. This is exactly what was happening on Wednesday night.
ecgberht2,
"No need to ask. I can answer that."
Get your own site and answer all you want. Make up as many obfuscations as you please. Just because the Pope abdicated doesn't mean anyone died and made YOU moderator.
Face it: The President was re-elected on his policies in spite of opposing views and the ravings of Rove, Rush, and Fox - the Unholy Trinity. The Republican leaders discarded the closing of loopholes in favor of protecting the bulk of the top 2%ers, settling for a revenue proposal of 620B produced in the final agreement (per Sen. Coburn this morning on Morning Joe). And it was W's class warfare that created the situation to begin with.
The stats speak for themselves - the top 1% and corporations' income jumped 14% over the decade while individuals (especially Mitt's 47%ers) dropped.
We all noticed you were 100% ad hominem today per usual.
203cc wrote: "Get your own site and answer all you want. Make up as many obfuscations as you please. Just because the Pope abdicated doesn't mean anyone died and made YOU moderator."
"Face it: The President was re-elected on his policies in spite of opposing views and the ravings of Rove, Rush, and Fox - the Unholy Trinity"
Live and let live, there was nothing wrong with the reply. Seems ecgberht2 is really getting under your skin, there is room for everyone here including you.
The President was reelected for many reasons, his policies were way down on that list. His signature legislation, Obamacare, was and still is widely disliked.
I think this sums it up nicely. Plain and simple, Romney came off as a cold fish, add to that the months of pounding he took in swing states before he could respond due to a lack of campaign funds early in the race.
'In the end, Romney was right. It was all about the economy. But Americans seemed to want more than someone who cares about fixing the problem; they want someone they think cares about them. It was the empathy, stupid. When voters were asked which candidate cared more about then, Obama won more than 80 percent of those voters."
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/11/how_oba...
"We all noticed you were 100% ad hominem today per usual."
So. You speak for everyone?! Hey, 203cc. Buy a clue. Ad hominem? Which post? Chapter and verse. Put up or shut your pie hole. I don't think you know what ad hominem means. C'mon. Point out the post so I can school you.
"Get your own site and answer all you want."
This is a message board. People are free to post what they want, in response to what they want, as long as it is within the bounds of Code of Conduct. Don't like it? Get your own site. Just because the Pope abdicated doesn't mean anyone died and made YOU moderator.
The Republican leaders DID NOT discard the "closing of loopholes". They offered it, the President went after rates on the top percentage earners instead. And W's class warfare? Are you kidding me?! Obama rewrote the book.