Top staff members for key congressional
Republicans met behind closed door Tuesday with energy lobbyists to "work on strategy to handcuff the Obama administration's climate change agenda." "[W]e pretty strongly told them
we do need your help to get this done," a Republican aide told Politico. "And when we walked away from the meeting the feeling was we got that."Neely Fuller, Jr On Identifying Racists
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http://t.co/jsR2eMF Florida hate pastor
Terry Jones has been denied entry into Britain . "The government
opposes extremism in all its forms which is why we have excluded
Pastor Terry Jones from the UK," a Home Office spokesperson said. Jones garnered international attention last year when he
threatened to burn Qurans on 9/11.
Advocacy group
Common Cause filed a petition with the DOJ yesterday asking it to
"investigate potential conflicts by Justices Scalia and Thomas" in hearing campaign finance cases "and move for their disqualification from the landmark
Citizens United case." Citing the Justices' invitation to conservative financier Charles Koch's retreat this month, the group alleges "they may be biased" toward Koch who spent millions on 2010 campaigns.
http://t.co/kSJR71Z Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele told CNN yesterday that he believes the
GOP is relieved he was not re-elected to lead the party again: "I think the people in the party, particularly the establishment, are breathing a sigh of relief," Steele said. "They have control of the
RNC now; let's see what they do with it."
Defense Secretary Robert Gates will soon
lift the ban on initiating new cases against Guantanamo detainees in preparation to increase the use of military commissions for prosecution.
Imposed "on the day of President Obama's inauguration," the overturned ban will be accompanied by "an executive order to create a parole board-like system" to review cases of nearly 50 detainees who would be held without trial.
At a briefing hosted by the
Economic Policy Institute, the Century Foundation, and Demos yesterday, major pollsters said that President Obama's failure to say he will rule regressive cuts to
Social Security off the table is
"turning off voters." White Supremacy's "Mulatto" Factor
http://t.co/y6vjEPo One of the poll results from Lake Research Partners finds that perhaps for the
first time ever, voters are trusting Republicans more than Democrats when it comes to Social Security.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives
passed a
repeal of health care reform yesterday, by a
245-189 vote.
The Senate is not expected to take up the bill, and President Obama has said he will veto any attempt at repeal.
The Associated Press reports that the GOP's campaign promise of cutting $100 billion from the federal budget and returning to 2008 levels of spending could mean huge cuts in
programs that serve millions of Americans. Included among the cuts would be Pell Grants being cut back by more than
$1,000 per student and a 16 percent cut to the FBI budget.
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And finally:
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) invented a drinking game yesterday for observers of congressional Republicans' attempts to repeal President Obama's health care law: "
you take a shot every time a Republican lies ." Speaking on the house floor, Weiner made sure to encourage people to "get a designated driver," as they would have to
take a lot of shots.
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