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2016 election: Hillary Clinton vs.
Jeb Bush?

Politico, by Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman Original Article

Posted By: jackson- 11/8/2012 11:01:20 AM Post Reply

BOSTON — American politics may be headed back to the future. Four years after the country elected a 40-something African-American newcomer named Barack to the presidency, a more familiar political order is poised to reassert itself: the House of Clinton.representing Democrats and the House of Bush atop the GOP. The restoration of either is no sure thing, but what’s certain is that Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush loom the largest over their respective parties as the long road toward 2016 begins. Any other would-be presidential candidate will first take a long look toward Chappaqua and Miami before moving forward.

Bleary Eyes, Broken
Hearts, We Lost

PJ Media, by Bryan Preston Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/8/2012 10:54:50 AM Post Reply

Let’s get the emotional response to the Disaster of 2012 out of the way. I don’t know about you, but this is how I felt last night and continue to feel today. I couldn’t have said it better, Chuck. Sixty million Americans did vote to blow it up. Emotion out of the way, what happened to about a million John McCain voters? In 2008, the uninspiring nominee who became the GOP standard-bearer because of a timely endorsement from orange Charlie Crist racked up 58,343,671 votes. In 2012, four years after America has seen Barack Obama’s special blend of malevolent

A Q&A on sequester with Armed
Services Chairman Buck McKeon

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 11/8/2012 10:54:47 AM Post Reply

Now that we're done talking about the major issues of Romnesia and the evils of venture capitalists making money, all that's left for the D.C. clowns to screw up is the next looming fiscal crisis to show how divided the country's political establishment remains. Should be no surprise there. [Snip]Jan. 2 is what you're hearing called the fiscal cliff, the White House and congressionally-contrived deadline when Bush tax cuts are set to expire with a next huge round of budget cuts.

New York's emergency management
director fired for sending crews to
his OWN house during Superstorm
Sandy to remove downed tree

Daily Mail [UK], by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/8/2012 10:42:21 AM Post Reply

New York's emergency management director has been fired by the governor after it was revealed he diverted rescue crews to his own house in the midst of Superstorm Sandy recovery. Steven Kuhr, who was working in the state capital of Albany, reportedly told emergency management crews to go to his house in Long Island and clear a tree from his driveway. The order was given a millions of people were without power and hundreds of other needed recusing in the aftermath of the devastating storm that ravaged New Jersey and New York.

Russia expects President Barack
Obama to be more flexible on
missile defense shield dispute

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 11/8/2012 10:29:01 AM Post Reply

MOSCOW — Russia expects Barack Obama to show more flexibility in a dispute over U.S. missile defense plans in Europe following his re-election as president, a top official said Thursday. The controversy over the planned missile shield has strained the relations between the U.S. and Russia. Moscow has rejected Washington’s assurances that the shield is intended to fend off potential missile threats from Iran and voiced concerns that the system could threaten Russia’s nuclear deterrent. In March, Obama, unaware that he was speaking on an open microphone, told Dmitry Medvedev, then Russia’s president, that he would have more flexibility

Waiting for 2016: Elizabeth Warren,
Sarah Palin, Rick Perry, Chris
Christie, Jeb Bush and David Petraeus

The Hill (DC), by Bernie Quigley Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/8/2012 10:23:11 AM Post Reply

"To win, President Obama and Mitt Romney each seemed willing to say almost anything," said Robert Samuelson in The Washington Post on Nov. 5, Guy Fawkes Day. This is a good day for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who so hoped for an Obama win that he embarrassed himself during the tragic storm in New Jersey by virtually endorsing the president. And it would then be a good day for Jeb Bush, who sees himself as Christie's No. 2 in 2016. A Romney victory would have prevented that future for the Bush Dynasty. Clinton’s wistful and unlikely dynasty,

Immigration & Delusion

National Review Online, by Andrew C. McCarthy Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/8/2012 10:22:32 AM Post Reply

Could you find a more sharp disagreement between genuinely smart folk than in the competing description of Hispanic immigrants offered by Heather Mac Donald and the editors of the Wall Street Journal? Here is the Journal this morning: Immigrants should be a natural GOP constituency. Newcomers to the U.S.—legal or illegal—tend to be aspiring people who believe in the dignity of work and self-sufficiency, and they are cultural conservatives. They are not the 47%.Here is Heather yesterday: If Republicans want to change their stance on immigration, they should do so on the merits, not out

Providence Journal lays
off 23 full-time employees

Providence Journal [RI], by Paul Grimaldi Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/8/2012 10:18:24 AM Post Reply

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Providence Journal Co. laid off 23 full-time workers Wednesday as part of a cost-cutting effort, including 16 members of the Providence Newspaper Guild and 7 non-union employees. The cutback represents 5 percent of The Journal's workforce. The reductions come about two months after 11 employees accepted a voluntary separation offer. "Given a persistent softness in advertising revenue and the resultant impact on our earnings, it is necessary that we reduce our cost structure," said Howard G. Sutton, publisher, president and chief executive officer, in a statement. "It is always difficult to reduce staffing levels through layoffs

Forget 'hope and change'-
this was a victory for
fear and loathing

Daily Mail [UK], by Richard Littlejohn Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/8/2012 10:16:57 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney was right about one thing. He was secretly taped back in May telling fund-raisers that half the country would support Barack Obama because they depend on the government for all or part of their income. Romney correctly identified America’s burgeoning entitlement culture as a major obstacle to a Republican winning back the White House. ‘There are 47 per cent of the people who will vote for the President no matter what?.?.?.?who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe they are entitled to healthcare, to food,
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Is Demography Destiny?

Daily Beast, by Megan McArdle Original Article

Posted By: FormerDem- 11/8/2012 10:16:23 AM Post Reply

So Obama won. Quel surprise. A lot of buzz last night that this represents the culmination of what Judis and Teixera long ago dubbed "The Emerging Democratic Majority": a coalition of minority voters that will consistently produce Democratic landslides. (snip) One of our editors suggested that I write something up on it, and my response was that I'm not sure how enduring this "Emerging Democratic Majority" will prove to be. Some reasons for my skepticism

After Obama win, U.S.
backs new U.N. arms
treaty talks

Reuters, by Louis Charbonneau & Xavier Briand Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/8/2012 10:08:44 AM Post Reply

UNITED NATIONS - Hours after U.S. President Barack Obama was re-elected, the United States backed a U.N. committee's call on Wednesday to renew debate over a draft international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional arms trade. U.N. delegates and gun control activists have complained that talks collapsed in July largely because Obama feared attacks from Republican rival Mitt Romney if his administration was seen as supporting the pact, a charge Washington denies. The month-long talks at U.N. headquarters broke off after the United States - along with Russia and other major arms producers -

Viewpoint: Obama’s Campaign
Diminished the Presidency

Time Magazine, by Karen Hughes Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/8/2012 9:58:57 AM Post Reply

Like many Republicans across the country, I woke up this morning deeply depressed, my mood soon matched by the falling stock market. I’m distressed not only by the outcome of the presidential election, but also because of the way it was won. (Snip) I felt that I was watching a shrinking presidency as the campaign unfolded, with President Obama getting smaller each day. He often came across as peeved, petty and not presidential. On stage during the first debate he looked as if he wanted to be anywhere else, and his comments about his opponent were cutting

The Long Game

City Journal, by Andrew Klavan Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/8/2012 9:57:13 AM Post Reply

Life is short, said Hippocrates, but art is long. There is a practical corollary to that great truth: elections are won and lost in the politics of the moment, but it’s the culture that makes the nation. In the aftermath of President Obama’s victory, conservative political thinkers will have to ask themselves some hard questions. How much of our defeat was due to strategy and how much to structure? How can we reach out to struggling workers without sacrificing our commitment to free enterprise and individual liberty? How can we speak to single women without losing voters committed

Vegas Employer: Obama
Won–So I Fired 22 Employees

CBS News, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 11/8/2012 9:55:23 AM Post Reply

LAS VEGAS— A Las Vegas business owner with 114 employees fired 22 workers today, apparently as a direct result of President Obama’s re-election. “David” (he asked to remain anonymous for obvious reasons) told Host Kevin Wall on 100.5 KXNT that “elections have consequences” (snip) “I’ve done my share of educating my employees. I never tell them which way to vote. I believe in the free system we have, I believe in the right to choose who they want to be president, but I did explain as a business owner that I have always put my employees first.

Calif. Man Behind Anti-
Muslim Film Gets Prison

Associated Press, by Greg Risling Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/8/2012 9:43:24 AM Post Reply

LOS ANGELES The California man behind an anti-Muslim film that roiled the Middle East was sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison for violating his probation stemming from a 2010 bank fraud conviction by lying about his identity. U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder immediately sentenced Mark Basseley Youssef after he admitted to four of the eight alleged violations, including obtaining a fraudulent California driver's license. None of the violations had to do with the content of "Innocence of Muslims," a film that depicts Mohammad as a religious fraud, pedophile and a womanizer. The movie sparked violence in

A time for
Obama to be bold

Washington Post, by David Ignatius Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/8/2012 9:40:14 AM Post Reply

There’s a telling moment at the beginning of Robert A. Caro’s new book when Lyndon Johnson’s advisers are gathered, four days after he has become president, to draft his first speech to Congress. Capitol Hill is divided, the country is grieving from the assassination of his predecessor and some of LBJ’s advisers are urging him to take it slow. “Well, what the hell’s the presidency for?” Johnson replies. Barack Obama will be getting advice by the boatload over the next few weeks, but the best guidance may be what emerges from Caro’s biography “The Passage of Power”: Think big.

Groundhog Day in America

Tribune Media Services, Inc., by Victor Davis Hanson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/8/2012 9:34:14 AM Post Reply

Barack Obama won a moderately close victory over Mitt Romney on Tuesday. But oddly, nothing much has changed. The country is still split nearly 50/50. There is still a Democratic president, and an almost identically Democratic Senate at war with an almost identically Republican House, in a Groundhog Day America. Obama’s win did not really reflect affirmation of his first term, given that the president made only halfhearted efforts to defend Obamacare, the stimulus, huge Keynesian deficits, and his attempts to implement cap-and-trade. So if there is a second-term agenda, even Obama supporters don’t quite know what it will be.

Hugh Hewitt's advice
to grieving conservatives

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 11/8/2012 9:17:06 AM Post Reply

With a deep sadness and no little fear: Congratulations to Mitt Romney for having conducted a disciplined and idealistic campaign of great consequence for the country, even if he did not prevail. He is such a good and generous man that the defeat is very hard on all of the people that saw in him a combination of talents that the country desperately needed. Nature intervened after he had successfully overcome all the powers of incumbency, but he and his team --and especially his remarkable and wonderful family-- sacrificed so much and worked so hard.

The President's Cliff Walk

Wall Street Journal, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 11/8/2012 9:14:59 AM Post Reply

So much for the post-election honeymoon. The financial markets took a header Wednesday on (take your pick) the return of European troubles, the risk of a Beltway breakdown over the looming tax cliff, or the greater prospect of a major tax increase arriving in 2013. (Snip) Specifically, is he going to consider his re-election to be a mandate to repeat his first-term record of rejecting all GOP ideas and insisting on his priorities? Or is he going to show some magnanimity in victory and give Republican Speaker John Boehner something he can sell to his own re-elected majority?

Excommunicating Christie

Washington Times, by Brett M. Decker Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 11/8/2012 9:06:06 AM Post Reply

The day after a presidential election is a time for soul-searching for the losing party. Republicans need to look in the mirror and seriously analyze the troublesome reality that they have forgotten how to win important elections. With unemployment stuck around 8 percent, economic growth basically nonexistent and the nation suffocating from record debt, the White House should have been the GOP’s for the taking in 2012. The elephants need a new dynamic leader. It’s vital they don’t pick a RINO. The biggest bull in the herd is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Post-Election Survey: Voters
Have No Confidence in Media

Breitbart's Big Government, by Michael Patrick Leahy Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/8/2012 8:57:12 AM Post Reply

Rush Limbaugh calls them "Democrats with bylines." Most voters who watched the second Presidential debate saw CNN's Candy Crowley jump in and bail out President Barack Obama when he stumbled on Benghazi and correctly concluded she was biased in his favor. Many conservatives noticed how the mainstream media has played the role of Nixon's henchmen rather than Woodward and Bernstein in the Benghazi coverup and reporting on the Hurricane Sandy federal response debacle. Now a new survey completed by Breitbart News and Judicial Watch on election night confirms

Vast Majority of Voters
Concerned About Federal
Government Corruption

Breitbart's Big Government, by Michael Patrick Leahy Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/8/2012 8:55:28 AM Post Reply

The Breitbart News/Judicial Watch survey of election day voters released today showed that the vast majority of voters are concerned about government corruption, but that this issue did not give the Republicans an advantage on Election Day. Surprisingly, slightly more voters had confidence in the ability of the Democratic Party to limit corruption in Washington than the Republican Party. 85% of voters were either very or somewhat concerned about the issue of federal government corruption in Washington, D.C.:

Despair deepens, transportation snarled
as Nor'easter strikes Sandy-blasted NYC

New York Post, by DANA SAUCHELLI,* Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 11/8/2012 8:43:30 AM Post Reply

Despair deepened for thousands reeling from last week’s devastating Superstorm Sandy — as a nor’easter blew through the city yesterday with sleet, snow and gusting winds. Storm survivors from the Rockaways to Red Hook and Staten Island endured frigid temperatures in blacked-out homes with no heat — choosing not to evacuate and risk break-ins and looting. Temperatures hovered around the freezing mark through the night, with wind chills in the teens. “The wind, the snow and the cold is just rubbing salt in the wounds that were already open as a result of Sandy,” said AccuWeather meteorologist Erik Pindrock.

Scarborough To Republicans:
'Stop Blaming The Media'

Newsbusters, by Mark Finkelstein Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/8/2012 8:34:17 AM Post Reply

Should Republicans unilaterally disarm in the media-bias wars? Joe Scarborough seems to think so. Arguing that it distracts Republicans from performing the political blocking-and-tackling needed to win elections, Scarborough has called on Republicans to "stop blaming the media." Saying "let's makes this personal," Scarborough cited as an example of the supposed distractions to which he was referring the controversy over the tape Morning Joe aired in September from a Romney campaign stop. Readers will recall that the clip seemed to show Romney asking the crowd, which had been chanting "Romney!", to change to "Romney/Ryan."

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