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Demography may be destiny, but we
have some say about our demography

Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/9/2012 5:29:26 AM Post Reply

In a post below, a trial lawyer friend of John and Scott applies some of his litigation wisdom to electoral politics. Let me offer an analogy along the same lines. What would you, as a defense lawyer, say to a consultant who advised you (a) that jurors from a particular demographic group (say, African-Americans) have a strong propensity to sympathize with a particular type of plaintiff in the kind of case you’re defending (for example, an African-American plaintiff in a race discrimination case) and (b) that, in selecting the jury, you should try to maximize

The Revenge Presidency Begins

American Thinker, by M Catharine Evans Original Article

Posted By: DW626- 11/9/2012 5:26:46 AM Post Reply

What's with the revenge theme coming from two successful black multimillionaires? First it was Barack Obama. Now Beyonce has posted this vengeful message on her Tumblr account following Romney's defeat: Take That Mitches Beyonce did delete this childish garble after a while but it still makes you wonder why a 32-year old pop star living the American Dream and worth $300 million isn't just happy her man won. What did Mitt Romney supporters ever do to Beyonce to elicit such a response?

Democrats’ plan for the cliff? Jump.

Washington Post, by Ed Rogers Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/9/2012 5:24:41 AM Post Reply

As talk about the aftermath of the elections begins to coexist with plans for governing in Washington, the No. 1 issue is how the power structure in the Capitol will deal with the harsh reality of the upcoming fiscal cliff. Speaker John Boehner’s statement yesterday was good in both tone and substance. But it was also clearly well-planned, as evidenced by its clarity and by the complementary statements that were issued by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). In the early stages of post-election governing, the Republican House

Will Obama Impose a
Peace Plan On Israel?

Commentary Magazine, by Jonathan S. Tobin Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/9/2012 5:18:02 AM Post Reply

President Obama started his first term seeking to distance the United States from Israel in an effort to jump-start Middle East peace talks. As it turned out, the fights he picked with Israel over settlements, borders and Jerusalem not only failed to entice the Palestinians back to the negotiating table, but also actually caused them to be more intransigent on issues that required compromise if peace is ever to be made. But that hasn’t stopped some on the left from dreaming about the president starting off his second term with one of their favorite fantasies: an American peace plan

Becoming European

Tribune Media Services, by Jonah Goldberg Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/9/2012 5:09:45 AM Post Reply

The Progressives won on Tuesday. I don’t mean the people who voted Democrat who call themselves “progressive.” Though they won, too. I mean the Progressives who’ve been waging a century-long effort to transform our American-style government into a European-style state. The words “government” and “state” are often used interchangeably, but they are really different things. According to the Founders’ vision, the people are sovereign and the government belongs to us. Under the European notion of the state, the people are creatures of the state, significant only as parts of the whole. This European version of the state

Schumer: Put cost of
superstorm on U.S. tab

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: Pluperfect- 11/9/2012 5:05:38 AM Post Reply

New York’s senior senator said Thursday that Congress likely will need to pass an emergency spending bill to help the recovery effort from Superstorm Sandy, and he said that money should be tacked onto the deficit. That could set up the first major spending fight for the next Congress, with at least some Republicans signaling they will argue that any new spending will need to be offset with cuts elsewhere. While the Federal Emergency Management Agency has enough money to continue paying out immediate relief efforts, longer-term recovery for New York and New Jersey communities and transportation networks

Obama heads to Asia amid
looming fear of 'Fiscal Cliff'

New York Post, by S.A. Miller Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/9/2012 5:01:13 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — President Obama yesterday announced he’s jetting off on a victory lap around Southeast Asia, despite a new government report warning the Jan. 1 fiscal cliff will plunge the US into a recession and drive the unemployment rate up to 9.1 percent. Obama and Congress have just 52 days to reach a deal to avoid sailing off that precipice, when a devastating double whammy of tax hikes and budget cuts will rock the economy and hit just about every American. The negotiations will be difficult. Obama signaled he’s sticking to his demand for raising taxes

Mozart's Piano Returns
Home to Applause

ABC News, by Dragana Jovanovic Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/9/2012 4:57:19 AM Post Reply

Like a symphony, all the dramatic elements came together. The piano that Mozart used for the last 10 years of his life and which he used to compose much of his music was returned to his former home in Vienna for a performance of his music. "A big, positive shock was how good the instrument is," said Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov Melnikov after the concert Wednesday. "One can't experience something more overwhelming as a pianist than this." "It was played as Mozart heard it," says Isabelle Hackenberg, a music lover who attended Melnikov's performance.

FEMA—Too Big to Succeed

Weekly Standard, by Mark Hemingway Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/9/2012 4:52:57 AM Post Reply

As people in New York were suffering and hospitals were being evacuated, the New York Times editorial page seized the occasion to score political points: “Disaster coordination is one of the most vital functions of ‘big government,’ which is why Mitt Romney wants to eliminate it.” This was dishonest partisan spin. In a GOP primary debate last year, Romney had been asked by CNN’s John King about the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and whether the “states should take on more of this role.” Romney replied, “Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government

The Case of the Missing White Voters

Real Clear Politics, by Sean Trende Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/9/2012 4:48:22 AM Post Reply

One of the more intriguing narratives for election 2012 was proposed by political scientist Brendan Nyhan fairly early on: that it was "Bizarro 2004." The parallels to that year certainly were eerie: An incumbent adored by his base but with middling approval ratings nationally faces off against an uncharismatic, wishy-washy official from Massachusetts. The race is tight during the summer until the president breaks open a significant lead after his convention. Then, after a tepid first debate for the incumbent, the contest tightens, bringing the opposition tantalizingly close to a win, but not quite close enough.

How the Secret Service
Said Goodbye to Mitt Romney

Gentleman's Quarterly, by Marc Ambinder Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/9/2012 4:36:20 AM Post Reply

At some point, early Wednesday morning, when Gov. Mitt Romney and family were tucked into bed, a quiet call went out on the radio channel used by his Secret Service agents: "Javelin, Jockey details, all posts, discontinue." Of all the indignities involved in losing a presidential race, none is more stark than the sudden emptiness of your entourage. The Secret Service detail guarding Governor Romney since Feb 1. stood down quickly. He had ridden in a 15-car motorcade to the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston for his concession speech. He rode in a single-car motorcade back across the Charles River

Handful of House Races Still Uncalled

Roll Call, by Joshua Miller Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/9/2012 4:31:39 AM Post Reply

The 113th Congress isn’t set yet. The winners in six House races remain unclear. Here’s an update on those races: In Arizona’s 2nd district, retired Air Force Col. Martha McSally (R) led Rep. Ron Barber (D), but there are early ballots and provisional ballots left to be counted. Both parties felt confident that the outcome of this race would be in their favor, but it might take a while to find out who is right. “It’s just gonna drag on there for a week or two,” one Arizona Democratic political insider said.

Haley Barbour: The hurricane
saved Obama’s presidency

Hot Air, by Allahpundit Original Article

Posted By: StormCnter- 11/9/2012 4:24:31 AM Post Reply

I’m going to call BS, partly out of conviction and partly because I just refuse to believe it. I can accept any other conclusion about the election, no matter how grim, but I can’t bear the mental load of thinking that the fate of entitlement reform might have turned on Obama putting on a natty bomber jacket with “President” embroidered on it and standing around in front of storm debris looking concerned. This is the only time you’ll ever see me stick up for low-information voters. They can’t be this dumb. But what if they are?

Alert: Immigration sellout underway?

Daily Caller, by Mickey Kaus Original Article

Posted By: fiesta del sol- 11/9/2012 3:09:17 AM Post Reply

Alert! The entire GOP elite seems to be trying to sell out en masse on immigration. Not only Boehner, but Cantor. And Hannity (who works for pro-amnesty world citizen Rupert Murdoch). Even Krauthammer. … Maybe these people are convinced the larger GOP project can be saved simply by caving on just this one issue. That seems cracked. The bulk of the Hispanic electorate appears to instinctively vote Democratic, and not just because of immigration. Maybe they can be wooed over to the Republican side over the course of decades.

Hannity: I've 'evolved' on
immigration and support
a 'pathway to citizenship'

Politico, by MacKenzie Weinger Original Article

Posted By: Blackeagle- 11/9/2012 1:33:08 AM Post Reply

Sean Hannity said Thursday he has “evolved” on immigration and now supports a “pathway to citizenship.” Hannity told his radio listeners Thursday afternoon that the United States needs to “get rid of the immigration issue altogether.” “It’s simple to me to fix it,” Hannity said. “I think you control the border first. You create a pathway for those people that are here — you don’t say you’ve got to go home. And that is a position that I’ve evolved on. Because, you know what, it’s got to be resolved. The majority of people here, if some people have criminal records you can send them home,

Boehner 'confident' GOP, Obama
can reach deal on immigration

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Daniel Strauss Original Article

Posted By: Blackeagle- 11/9/2012 1:24:46 AM Post Reply

Speaker John Boehner said Thursday he was "confident" Republicans could agree to a comprehensive immigration bill. Boehner (R-Ohio) made the comment in an interview with ABC News released two days after President Obama's decisive reelection victory over Mitt Romney. Obama's win was fueled by Hispanic voters, who made up a larger portion of the electorate than they did four years ago and voted overwhelmingly for Obama. The president won Latino voters by 44 points, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. The defeat and those figures have triggered a round of soul-searching by

**Exclusive** Senate Minority
Leader: No Tax Hikes

Breitbart's Big Government, by Ben Shapiro Original Article

Posted By: PChristopher- 11/9/2012 1:02:02 AM Post Reply

With conservatives across the country concerned about a rumored Republican cave-in in Washington, D.C. over tax policy, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is speaking out. Read his lips: no tax hikes. McConnell said in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News: One issue I’ve never been conflicted about is taxes. I wasn’t sent to Washington to raise anybody’s taxes to pay for more wasteful spending and this election doesn’t change my principles. This election was a disappointment, without doubt, but let’s be clear about something: the House is still run by Republicans,

CNN claims Iran shot at a US drone,
revealing the news network's mindset

PressTV (Iran), by Staff Original Article

Posted By: jeffblair- 11/8/2012 11:44:46 PM Post Reply

Barbara Starr, CNN's Pentagon reporter (more accurately known as: the Pentagon's reporter at CNN), has an exciting exclusive today. Exclusively relying upon "three senior officials" in the Obama administration (all anonymous, needless to say), she claims that "two Iranian Su-25 fighter jets fired on an unarmed U.S. Air Force Predator drone in the Persian Gulf last week," while "the drone was in international airspace east of Kuwait... engaged in routine maritime surveillance." The drone was not hit, but, says CNN, "the incident raises fresh concerns within the Obama administration about Iranian military aggression in crucial (Persian) Gulf oil shipping lanes."

Komen extends fundraising
efforts after race falls short

Houston Chronicle, by Erin Mulvaney Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/8/2012 11:15:06 PM Post Reply

The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Houston saw a sharp decline in participation in the charity's main fundraising event last month, falling 50 percent short of its $3 million goal. Earlier this year, Komen received nationwide criticism after it announced it would stop making grants to Planned Parenthood for breast-cancer screening. It reversed its decision three days later. As a result of the controversy, many Komen supporters around the country abandoned the Race for the Cure. Participation dropped 10 to 30 percent in some cities, including Austin, Dallas

Exclusive - Inside Orca:
How the Romney Campaign
Suppressed Its Own Vote

Breitbart's Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/8/2012 11:11:09 PM Post Reply

As Republicans try to explain their Election Day losses in terms of policy, tactics, and strategy, one factor is emerging as the essential difference between the Obama and Romney campaigns on November 6: the absolute failure of Romney’s get-out-the-vote effort, which underperformed even John McCain’s lackluster 2008 turnout. One culprit appears to be “Orca,” the Romney’s massive technology effort, which failed completely. A source within the Romney campaign agreed to share his reflections on Project Orca

Obama’s battle on Benghazi
far from finished

Washington Times, by Shaun Waterman Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/8/2012 11:08:20 PM Post Reply

President Obama’s victory in the general election this week does not silence those who have been criticizing his administration’s response to the deadly Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The critics, which include of former military and intelligence personnel, conservative commentators and grieving relatives, are set to redouble their efforts, highlighting what they call the administration’s failure to give straight answers to questions about security at the consulate and official actions before, during and after the attack. “We are going to keep the pressure on,” said Fred W. Rustmann Jr., from the advocacy group OpSec.

Obama To Unleash
Racial-Preferences Juggernaut

Investor's Business Daily, by Paul Sperry Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 11/8/2012 11:07:50 PM Post Reply

If your organization has a policy or practice that doesn't benefit minorities equally, watch out: The Obama administration could sue you for racial discrimination under a dubious legal theory that many argue is unconstitutional. President Obama intends to close "persistent gaps" between whites and minorities in everything from credit scores and homeownership to test scores and graduation rates. His remedy — short of new affirmative-action legislation — is to sue financial companies, schools and employers based on "disparate impact" complaints — a stealthy way to achieve racial preferences, opposed 2 to 1 by Americans.

Fiscal cliff forecast:
Bad now, worse later

Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/8/2012 11:05:55 PM Post Reply

As Congress prepares to try to negotiate ways to avoid the fiscal cliff, its own scorekeeper has some stark analysis: There will be pain no matter what, but ducking choices now will mean an even worse situation by the end of the decade. In two reports Thursday, the Congressional Budget Office laid out some of the options facing Washington as lawmakers return next week for a lame-duck session of Congress. But the CBO said that no matter what Congress does, the economy in the short term will struggle. “Even if all of the fiscal tightening was eliminated

Market's Selloff Was About
Obama, Not About Europe

Investor's Business Daily, by Editorial Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 11/8/2012 11:04:11 PM Post Reply

Economy: "Obama Re-election Not To Blame (For) Stock Market Collapse" insisted one headline after Wednesday's 313-point drop, the year's biggest. Whew! For a second there, we were really worried. Here we thought the return of the most anti-business, anti-capitalist, anti-entrepreneur, anti-growth president in the nation's history might influence post-election trading. But no, according to the Huffington Post. We had just fallen in with "a bunch of angry Wall Streeters who unsuccessfully sunk (sic) millions into defeating Obama."

GOP’s rejection of higher tax
rates an obstacle to debt deal

Washington Post, by Paul Kane and David A. Fahrenthold Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/8/2012 11:02:49 PM Post Reply

The new conciliatory tone among House Republican leaders this week will soon have to confront an old Washington reality: the GOP’s deep opposition to higher tax rates. As they begin bipartisan talks on a broad debt deal, White House and congressional leaders face a group of skeptical rank-and-file Republicans in the House who don’t view Tuesday’s Democratic victories as a reason to retreat on taxes. “The president may think that he’s got a mandate, but so do we. The president may have won a second term, but I won a third term,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said Wednesday.

For Losing Republicans, Moderation
Not The Way Forward

Investor's Business Daily, by Charles Krauthammer Original Article

Posted By: earlybird- 11/8/2012 10:59:51 PM Post Reply

They lose and immediately the chorus begins. Republicans must change or die. A rump party of white America, it must adapt to evolving demographics or forever be the minority. The only part of this that is even partially true regards Hispanics. They should be a natural Republican constituency: striving immigrant community, religious, Catholic, family-oriented and socially conservative (on abortion, for example).(Snip)For the party in general, however, the problem is hardly structural. It requires but a single policy change: Border fence plus amnesty. Yes, amnesty. Use the word.

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