AP – An outside group founded this spring by two former Obama White House advisers has raked in millions in donations since April, relying in part on top-flight fundraisers and labor unions to counter GOP-leaning ads critical of the president and congressional Democrats.
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DAVID ESPO AP Political Writer Racing the clock to avoid a government default, President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders closed in Sunday night on a compromise to permit vital U.S. borrowing by the Treasury in exchange for more than $2 trillion in long-term spending cuts. But no votes seemed likely in either house of Congress until Monday at the earliest, just one day before the deadline to raise the federal debt limit and enable the… examinerpolitics.com
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Reuters – Democrats in the House of Representatives might decide not to support a last-minute deal to raise the debt ceiling when they meet on Monday, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday.
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Weak. When Senate Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) appeared this morning on Fox News to say he was feeling a bit “more positive” about the possibility of a debt ceiling agreement, he also said something revealing about the Senate’s failure to produce a budget in 823 days. From the Twitter feed of the GOP side View the video
Oh my. Watching Al Sharpton perform off-the-cuff analysis is like watching a completely inebriated individual attempt to stand up, over and over again, and failing. “Well if he never said ‘goalposts,’ how did he move the goalposts?” “But after it goes before the Senate and the House the Balanced Budget Amendment I mean, uh, it is incredibly uh, uh, far right and incredibly uh real, real, real, political miscalculation.” The hell? That is verbatim. When the Dallas Tea Party criticized MSNBC for the complete lack of diversity in their lineup, I thought MSNBC would remedy their lack of diversity by finding someone who actually has the skills (Juan Williams, Roland Martin, Larry Elder off the top of my head) to host a television program, not grab someone who many (even on the left) argue got the job in a suspicious way . The Comcast/NBC merger would not have occurred if not for the approval of the FCC. One FCC commissioner, Democrat Michael Copps, voted against the merger saying that it would “erode(s) diversity, localism and competition”. The “diversity and localism” issue is something that had been a key concern for newly appointed FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn when she took her position early in the Obama Administration. And she held out her approval until she was certain that it would not be an issue. She was swayed by a “diversity memorandum of agreement” signed by Sharpton and developed with help from his National Action Network. Clyburn, daughter of South Carolina congressman James Clyburn, said the diversity memorandum “will serve to keep the new entity (Comcast/NBC) honest in promoting diversity.” As The Daily Beast reports: Sharpton has a long and well-documented history of leveraging his civil-rights profile for his own benefit. Grabbing a prime-time anchor spot in exchange for cheerleading for a controversial merger would be the capper on that career. It’s gone remarkably unnoticed that Sharpton was the first major black leader to endorse the Comcast merger, which met fierce resistance. Is this MSNBC “leaning forward?” I already miss Cenk.
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AP – President Barack Obama’s top ally in the Senate has signed on to a long-delayed agreement to raise the government’s borrowing cap and cut spending — subject to approval by his fellow Senate Democrats.
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“This deal is a cure as bad as the disease.” I call upon these hardline, hostage-taking ideological fanatics to compromise for the good of America. “This deal trades peoples’ livelihoods for the votes of a few unappeasable right-wing radicals, and I will not support it. Progressives have been organizing for months to oppose any scheme that cuts Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security, and it now Read this post
ContributorNetwork – As the debt ceiling clock runs out, Obama and the Democrats are running the only economic play they’ve had since 2008 — the Chicken Little plan. The only problem is, they sky isn’t falling. So, are they simply crying wolf?
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ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | As President Barack Obama contemplates his prospects for the 2012 election, he surely must be anxious about the fact that a key constituency that helped to elect him is 2008, young people, are abandoning him in droves, according to Michael Barone.
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Young People Abandoning Obama, Democrats Over Economic, Cultural Issues
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