Yesterday’s viral video star pours her discontent out on Obama during a town hall. Thoughts?
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Open Thread: ‘I’m Exhausted of Defending You’
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The top 20 socialism quotes from people in and around the Obama administration. The clips include formers green jobs czar van jones, former white communications director anita dunn, fcc diversity czar mark lloyd, and other fun characters http://www.theblaze.com/stories/blaze-mix-video-top-20-pro-socialism-sound-bites… added by: ibrake4rappers13
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Generation Y Giving Cars a Pass- –Selling cars to young adults under 30 is proving to be a real challenge for automakers. Unlike their elders, Generation Yers own fewer cars and don’t drive much. They’re likely to see autos as a source of pollution, not as a sex or status symbol. Motorists aged 21 to 30 now account for 14% of miles driven, down from 21% in 1995. They’re more apt to ride mass transit to work and use car sharing services — pioneered by Zipcar — for longer trips. And car sharing choices are expanding, with car rental firms moving into the market, making it convenient for young folks to rent with hourly rates and easy insurance. Connect by Hertz, for example, is rolling out its car sharing services in the New York metropolitan area, with plans to eventually expand them to around 40 college campuses nationwide. more at LINK – – – http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/1523/generation-y-gi… added by: remanns
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It was billed as “Investing In America,” a live televised conversation between President Obama and American workers, students, business people and retirees on the state of the economy, a kind of Wall Street to Main Street reality check. But it sounded like a therapy session for disillusioned Obama supporters. “I’m exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for,” said the first questioner, an African-American woman who identified herself as a chief financial officer, a mother and a military veteran. “I’ve been told that I voted for a man who was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class, and I’m waiting, sir, I’m waiting. I still don’t feel it yet.” added by: maasanova
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Tax-cut advocates used to pretend that they were mainly concerned about helping typical American families. Even tax breaks for the rich were justified in terms of trickle-down economics, the claim that lower taxes at the top would make the economy stronger for everyone. These days, however, tax-cutters are hardly even trying to make the trickle-down case. Yes, Republicans are pushing the line that raising taxes at the top would hurt small businesses, but their hearts don’t really seem in it. Instead, it has become common to hear vehement denials that people making $400,000 or $500,000 a year are rich. I mean, look at the expenses of people in that income class — the property taxes they have to pay on their expensive houses, the cost of sending their kids to elite private schools, and so on. Why, they can barely make ends meet. And among the undeniably rich, a belligerent sense of entitlement has taken hold: it’s their money, and they have the right to keep it. “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes — but that was a long time ago. The spectacle of high-income Americans, the world’s luckiest people, wallowing in self-pity and self-righteousness would be funny, except for one thing: they may well get their way. Never mind the $700 billion price tag for extending the high-end tax breaks: virtually all Republicans and some Democrats are rushing to the aid of the oppressed affluent. added by: mik661
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From the Huffington Post: White House advisers on Monday pushed back hard against a New York Times report that the administration is ready to launch a full-frontal assault on the Tea Party movement as the November elections approach. No such plans are being made, insisted senior advisers. And, sure enough, the Times quickly modified its story into something a bit duller. In a town hall meeting broadcast live by CNBC on Monday, however, President Obama seemed to be reading off the initial script. Pressed by an audience member to weigh in on what exactly drives the Tea Party, Obama, in no uncertain terms, accused the movement's members of refusing to talk in specifics. If there is anger over the economic or political landscape, he added, it is being misdirected in his direction. “The problem that I've seen in the debate that's been taking place and in some of these Tea Party events is, I think they're misidentifying sort of who the culprits are here,” said Obama. “As I said before, we had to take some emergency steps last year. But the majority of economists will tell you that the emergency steps we take are not the problem long-term. The problems long-term are the problems that I talked about earlier. We had two tax cuts that weren't paid for, two wars that weren't paid for. We've got a population that's getting older. We're all demanding services, but our taxes have actually substantially gone down.” “So the challenge, I think, for the Tea Party movement is to identify, specifically, what would you do?” he added. “It's not enough just to say get control of spending. I think it's important for you to say, I'm willing to cut veterans' benefits or I'm willing to cut Medicare or Social Security benefits or I'm willing to see these taxes go up. What you can't do, which is what I've been hearing a lot from the other side, is we're going to control government spending, we're going to propose $4 trillion of additional tax cuts, and that magically somehow things are going to work. Now, some of these are very difficult choices.” Obama does seem to operate at his best when facing inherently adversarial questions (recall the positive coverage he received for going to a Republican conference in Baltimore during the height of the health care debate). And while several questioners at the CNBC event were sympathetic to the president, the answers that seemed to resonate best came when the pro-business or anti-government questioners were pressing him. His direct questioning of the Tea Party's motives came just moments before he acknowledged that being “healthfully skeptical about government” is in “our DNA.” added by: BRAVATRAVELS
“The justices have not struck down a major piece of legislation, let alone a president’s signature initiative, as beyond Congress’s power to regulate commerce in some 75 years.” That’s how Newsweek’s Stuart Taylor Jr. today all but argued that, political ideology of the Supreme Court’s majority aside, a Supreme Court decision declaring unconstitutional the “individual mandate” of ObamaCare is quite unlikely. But while Taylor may be right that no signature presidential initiative post-New Deal has been declared unconstitutional by the Court on the grounds that it violated the interstate commerce clause, he neglected to mention there are two key cases in the past 15 years where the Supreme Court did set outer limits to Congress’s exploitation of the commerce clause as a fountain of federal power. In 1995, a 5-justice majority in U.S. v. Lopez struck down a provision of the Gun Free School Zones Act of 1990 that made it a federal crime to possess a firearm in a school zone. Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote for the Court that “the possession of a gun in a local school zone is in no sense an economic activity that might, through repetition elsewhere, have such a substantial effect on interstate commerce…. Nor is it an essential part of a larger regulation of economic activity, in which the regulatory scheme could be undercut unless the intrastate activity were regulated.” What’s more, Rehnquist noted (emphasis mine), “To uphold the Government’s contention that 922(q) is justified because firearms possession in a local school zone does indeed substantially affect interstate commerce would require this Court to pile inference upon inference in a manner that would bid fair to convert congressional Commerce Clause authority to a general police power of the sort held only by the States.” In other words, if the Court had accepted the government’s rationale in Lopez, it would paved the way to destroy what is supposed to be an enumerated, limited federal power into a broader “police power” that is reserved for the several states of the Union. Similar arguments regarding ObamaCare are certain to be made before the Supreme Court should the case get that far. Five years later in United States v. Morrison , the Rehnquist Court drew on the precedent in Lopez to strike down a portion of the federal Violence Against Women Act — legislation championed by current Vice President and then-Delaware Senator Joe Biden — on the grounds that it was an improper application of the interstate commerce clause. Wrote Rehnquist for the Court (emphasis mine): The Constitution requires a distinction between what is truly national and what is truly local , and there is no better example of the police power , which the Founders undeniably left reposed in the States and denied the central government, than the suppression of violent crime and vindication of its victims. Congress therefore may not regulate noneconomic, violent criminal conduct based solely on the conduct’s aggregate effect on interstate commerce. Both Lopez and Morrison were 5-to-4 cases, but they are relevant case law for the question of whether the ObamaCare individual mandate violates the interstate commerce clause by jury-rigging it into a police power-granting clause for Congress.
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Singer visited Howard University to launch the $10,000 Get Schooled: College Affordability Challenge. By Alexandra Bradshaw John Legend Photo: MTV Grammy-winning singer John Legend surprised a class at Howard University last week, when he showed up to help kick off the Get Schooled: College Affordability Challenge , calling on current and aspiring college students to propose innovative digital tools to simplify the process of finding funding for school. The singer also became the class’ guest teacher for the day for an upcoming episode of mtvU’s “Stand In.” “Too many of our people are still living in consistent poverty, living in a country where opportunities are not equal,” Legend told the class. “Educational inequality is the reality that where a child is born, what color that child is and/or how much money that child’s parents make determine the quality of his or her education and life prospects. That’s not just, that’s not fair, that’s not right.” Legend — whose new album with the Roots, Wake Up!, is out on Tuesday — spoke of his journey toward obtaining a degree with honors from University of Pennsylvania. He praised past teachers who provided him with the support and guidance to receive a scholarship to UPenn and explained how vital scholarships were to his ability to complete college. “I was one of the lucky ones,” he said. “Too many other kids don’t have those same opportunities today.” Studies have shown that upwards of 2 million college students don’t apply for financial aid that is available to them each year, and that almost two thirds of students surveyed find the process of applying for financial aid difficult and time consuming. In response to these trends, MTV and the College Board Advocacy and Policy Center partnered to launch the Get Schooled: College Affordability Challenge. “They’re calling on you guys and college students nationwide to re-imagine the financial aid process,” Legend explained as he announced the contest. Students nationwide are encouraged to submit ideas for a digital tool that would connect their peers with more money for school at GetSchooled.MTV.com . The grand-prize winner will receive $10,000 and the opportunity to work with world-class design firm frog design to bring their tool to life. Applications are being accepted until December 17, 2010. Go to GetSchooled.com for resources on college completion and to watch the “Get Schooled: You Have a Right” special, featuring President Barack Obama, LeBron James and Kelly Clarkson. Related Artists John Legend
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John Legend Challenges Students To Re-Imagine Financial Aid
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CNN contributor John Avlon returned to his consistent theme of bashing conservative on Monday’s Newsroom, labeling Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell the ” new queen of the wingnuts .” Avlon also referenced Reason magazine’s label of O’Donnell as a ” crackpot of the first order ” and didn’t provide the full context of her 1997 remarks on AIDS. Anchor Kyra Phillips led the 9 am Eastern hour of Newsroom with the Republican’s 1999 appearance on ABC’s Politically Incorrect where she cited how she “dabbled” in witchcraft as a teenager. After playing a clip from the 11-year-old appearance, Phillips continued that O’Donnell’s remarks are ” raising eyebrows and some concerns from the GOP establishment ” and brought on Avlon, who has a knack for being tougher on his identified “wingnuts” on the right than those he picks from the left. The anchor referenced The Daily Beast writer’s September 15 column in her first question: “O’Donnell actually canceled two Sunday talk show appearances after this came to light, and now, you are calling her the new queen of wingnuts .” Avlon confirmed his label of the Delaware candidate and went right into citing Reason magazine and made his mischaracterization of her 13-year-old comments on AIDS from an appearance on C-SPAN : AVLON: Ah, the queen of the wingnuts . Yes, and this week in the Values Voters [Summit], she was very clear to say that she was not a wingnut. She was very specific about that. But this new revelations haven’t helped, and when you cancel Sunday shows at the last minute, that is sign of a campaign in crisis and damage control mode. This is just the newest revelation, but in reality, these sorts of claims have been dogging her campaign from early on. I mean, the libertarian Reason magazine called her a crackpot of the first order before the primary . So this is just the latest information, and whether you find this witchcraft claim more controversial or offensive than statements like- say, that AIDS sufferers shouldn’t be called victims, that’s a judgment call . But there’s a lot more where this comes from. The writer failed to mention that O’Donnell was criticizing what, in her view, was a “gross disproportionate allocation of funds” going towards dealing with HIV/AIDS. She made an analogy with heart disease: “When somebody finds out that they’re at high risk for heart disease, they cut out the fatty foods, they start exercising, they quit smoking. However, our approach to AIDS, when you’re in a high risk behavior, is to eliminate the consequences so that you can continue in your lifestyle which brings about this disease.” Speaking of “politically incorrect,” that’s how one could qualify pointing out the fact that lifestyles such as drug abuse or male homosexual activity put people at much higher risk for HIV than other activities, something that the CDC clearly underlines . Later, Phillips made light of the witch issue with a reference to the popular “Bewitched” TV series: “I don’t know, John. Can you imagine just kind of twitching your nose, doing a little ‘Bewitched’ action, being able to change policy? I don’t know…. Elizabeth Montgomery would be the positive witch model .” Avlon has repeatedly bashed conservatives in past TV appearances. During a October 23, 2009 appearance on CNN’s American Morning, he equated conservatism with racism. He labeled the “saving freedom” theme for CPAC 2010 ” a little extreme ” and ” a little far out ” during two February 2010 segments . The Daily Beast writer also lamented Senator John McCain’s tack to the right during the Arizona primary on August 25 and slammed Glenn Beck as a “professional divider” on CBS’s Early Show two days later . The full transcript of Kyra Phillips and John Avlon’s segment from Monday’s Newsroom: PHILLIPS: All right, it’s getting harder to be shocked by anything in politics. But here’s a story that sure meets the challenge: a politician admits that she dabbled in witchcraft, and it’s not some local crackpot running for dog catcher. It’s Christine O’Donnell, a Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, and a darling of the surging Tea Party movement. Here’s her surprising claim resurfacing from a 1999 interview. CHRISTINE O’DONNELL (from 1999 episode of ABC’s ‘Politically Incorrect’): I dabbled into witchcraft. I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. JAMIE KENNEDY, ACTOR: Wait a minute. You were a witch? BILL MAHER: Yes, she was a witch. KENNEDY: You were a witch. O’DONNELL: I didn’t join a coven. I didn’t join a coven. Let’s get this straight. KENNEDY: Wait a minute. I love this. You’re a witch. You’re going Halloween-‘I was a witch.’ I mean, wait a minute. O’DONNELL: That’s exactly why. KENNEDY: How did you used to be a witch? O’DONNELL: Because I dabbled into witchcraft, I hung around people who were doing these things. I’m not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do. PHILLIPS (live): Okay. Well, O’Donnell’s comments are raising eyebrows and some concerns from the GOP establishment. But what matters most is what voters are thinking, just six weeks ahead of the midterm elections. CNN’s Jim Acosta will join with the results of a weekend straw poll in just a second, and CNN contributor John Avlon looks at O’Donnell’s mission: damage control. John, let’s go ahead and start with you. O’Donnell actually canceled two Sunday talk show appearances after this came to light, and now, you are calling her the new queen of wingnuts. AVLON: Ah, the queen of the wingnuts. Yes, and this week in the Values Voters [Summit], she was very clear to say that she was not a wingnut. She was very specific about that. But this new revelations haven’t helped, and when you cancel Sunday shows at the last minute, that is sign of a campaign in crisis and damage control mode. This is just the newest revelation, but in reality, these sorts of claims have been dogging her campaign from early on. I mean, the libertarian Reason magazine called her a crackpot of the first order before the primary. So this is just the latest information, and whether you find this witchcraft claim more controversial or offensive than statements like- say, that AIDS sufferers shouldn’t be called victims, that’s a judgment call. But there’s a lot more where this comes from. PHILLIPS: Well, and Karl Rove weighed in, of course, not showing her any love, and she actually Tweeted Sunday night on that and said that if she did have the powers of a witch, then Karl Rove would be backing her candidacy. (laughs) AVLON: (laughs) Well, that’s one way to spin it. (laughs) I mean- PHILLIPS: Well, does she owe an explanation to her fellow Republicans? AVLON: You know, I mean, I don’t think this should be taken that seriously. What it’s indicative of- this is a comment made on ‘Politically Incorrect’ 10 years ago. What it’s indicative of is a candidate who’s got a huge amount of baggage, who will be radioactive to voters in the common-sense center of America because of this and many, many other statements and questions about her candidacy- questions that other Republicans were raising before the primary, saying- hey, folks, we’ve got a good chance to pick up Joe Biden’s seat in the Senate if the nominee is Mike Castle, but a really bad chance if it’s Christine O’Donnell, who’s never held elected office before, but has run for the Senate three times in the last five years. PHILLIPS: Now, no one has come out- well, Republican-wise and had her back. Mike Pence was even on American [Morning] this morning, he skirted around the issues. We got six weeks and counting, John, and this is not her first obscure moment, shall we say? (both Phillips and Avlon laugh) You’ve talked about- you know, I mean, we watched them. We’ve covered it. You mentioned the- AVLON: Just the tip of the iceberg- yeah. PHILLIPS: Yeah. Well, that’s what we’re wondering. Is this just the tip of the iceberg and how long- AVLON: Yes. PHILLIPS: Until someone gets behind he,r or just says that’s it, got to go? You’re out. AVLON: You know, I think she’s in. Look, she won a close partisan primary fairly decisively. But the problem is that’s not representative of the entire electorate. But she has the strong backing of the Tea Party Express- put a quarter of a million dollars in her campaign in the last 10 days. But this is going to keep coming out. There is a lot more where this comes from because, throughout the 1990s, she was essentially a professional social conservative activist, going on television shows, from MTV to Politically Incorrect, and playing the kind of evangelical ingenue role here, and that is something that’s going to create a lot of vulnerabilities. There is videotape and a lot of it, of her saying some things which can really alienate or raise some reasonable questions among reasonable-minded people. PHILLIPS: I don’t know, John. Can you imagine just kind of twitching your nose, doing a little ‘Bewitched’ action, being able to change policy? I don’t know. That might be- AVLON: That’s the positive vision [unintelligible]- PHILLIPS: Yeah! That’s actually a nice way to look at it. AVLON: Elizabeth Montgomery would be the positive witch model. PHILLIPS: There you go. (laughs) Oh boy. Boy, did we age ourselves there. John Avalon, great to see you. AVLON: (laughs) Good to see you.
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CNN Contributor Avlon: Christine O’Donnell ‘Queen of the Wingnuts’
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