Newt Gingrich launched a broad attack on the judiciary, while Mitt Romney appeared to nudge his campaign toward the political center in their closing arguments to Iowa voters.
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GOP Rivals Diverge on Late Tactics in Iowa
I know this is something that many were concerned with, no matter what side of the political aisle they stand on. But, American citizens should not be concerned, as the final bill does not give the government the right to detain Americans indefinitely, send them to Guantanamo Bay, or give them military trials (LA Times) The
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Final Defense Bill Does Not Include Ability To Detain American Citizens
AP – On issues from air pollution to contraception, President Barack Obama has broken sharply with liberal activists and come down on the side of business interests and social conservatives as he moves more to the political middle for his re-election campaign.
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Obama decides high-profile issues ahead of 2012
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AP – The 2012 presidential contenders have had a rough go of it on Twitter, according to an analysis of the political conversation taking place on the popular social network.
Former speaker of the house and GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich has been called many things by MSNBC host Chris Matthews during his time in the political spotlight, but a “gaseous state” is indeed a new one. To kick-off his latest tirade, Matthews played a clip of Gingrich in which he stated: What you have today is that the rich in Wall Street and the powerful at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had so many politicians beholding to them that in fact nobody was going to check them. And so they got away with things that were absolute baloney. It’s a tragedy. To which Matthews blasted, “He’s [Gingrich] not a human being, he’s a gaseous state. Isn’t he? I mean Joan, this is like a gaseous state around the world. I mean, this is Newtism.” Newsbusters provides the transcript and video:
A deeper look at those who sympathize with the tea party and occupy movements suggests they are more accurately seen as expressions of economic anxiety and anger that have spread into the political mainstream.
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Two Populist Movements Rooted in Same Soil
From Adam Davidson, at New York Times , ” Can Politicians Really Create Jobs? “: The current economic downturn has been called a housing crisis, a financial crisis and a debt crisis, but the simplifying logic of the political season has settled on what is really more a result than a cause. We are now, according to nearly everyone running for office, in a jobs crisis. Every politician currently has a “jobs plan,” very often a list of vague proposals filled with serious-sounding phrases like “budget framework” and “regulatory cap” that are designed, for the most part, to mean both everything and nothing at all. RTWT. GOP leaders say they have a plan , and at Minority Leader Eric Cantor’s page, ” The Republican No Cost Jobs Plan .”
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Jobs Crisis
