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Flake: 17th Amendment Should Go Away
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Blame It On The Rain – And Also Obama
President Obama urged members of Congress Monday to pass a farm bill intended to relieve farmers struggling in the midst of a debilitating drought. He also signed off on $170 million in drought aid.
That might all be a product of Obama’s guilty conscience, suggested an aide to House Speaker John Boehner, who wrote on the official speaker’s website Monday that not only should Obama do more – he should take personal responsibility for the natural disaster: “The president continues to blame anyone and everyone for the drought but himself.”
Following a round of Internet mockery: The post now includes changed language, and an update.
Rocky Start
Paul Ryan’s first solo campaign gig gets off to rocky start.
Oh, You Thought That Was Over?
Darrell Issa, not letting go of Fast & Furious.
The Medicare War
With Paul Ryan’s arrival on the GOP ticket, the issue of Medicare is front and center in the campaign. Mitt Romney, Ryan and the RNC have wasted no time in trying to inoculate themselves from the coming Democratic onslaught over Ryan’s plan to privatize Medicare by saying that it is in fact President Obama who has cut mercilessly from the insurance program. But the attempt is a transparent sleight of hand. Sahil Kapur has the details.
Marsquake?
It’s early days in the mission of NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, but back on Earth geologists have discovered something significant about the Red Planet.
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Double R Primetime Premiere
Sneak peek at the first joint Romney-Ryan interview about to air on 60 Minutes. More here.
See You in a Week
Happy trails. I didn’t realize it would be such a big news day. But I’ve been pleasantly oblivious to it.
As of yesterday afternoon I’m away on a much needed vacation. I may stop by to recommend a couple of books. Otherwise I’ll see you in a week.
It’s A Good Thing
Set aside for a moment questions about what having Paul Ryan on the GOP ticket means for the campaign, or what it says about Mitt Romney vis-à-vis the conservatives who pushed him in this direction.
Short of having Ryan or a like-minded Republican leading the ticket, I think today’s development is a genuinely healthy one for the country.
Read More →Agree To Agree
Paul Ryan may end up being the one thing everyone in this election agrees on. Republicans finally got their dream pick , and Democrats get their dream opponent.
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WATCH LIVE: Romney and Ryan
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan appear together at 9AM eastern for the GOP ticket’s official unveiling. Watch live here.
From Crying Wolf to Crying Uncle
In homage to the late Rodney King, Romney asks Obama: “Can we all get along?”
Zakaria Apologizes
Fareed Zakaria: ”I made a terrible mistake.”
Romney: Shootings Should Prompt ‘Thoughtful Consideration’—Not Gun Control
After a third consecutive shooting made headlines, Mitt Romney said he doesn’t favor gun-control measures.
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The Myth Of Paul Ryan The Bipartisan Leader
Mitt Romney has been talking up Rep. Paul Ryan’s bipartisan credentials since he unveiled the congressman as his running mate early Saturday. But the mild-mannered Wisconsinite’s record reveals a near-total absence of Democratic support for his many ambitious proposals, very few of which have won enough support to become law. “This guy’s a real leader,” Romney told CBS News on Sunday. “He’s reached across the aisle. He’s worked with Democrats, Republicans. Tried to take on the…
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Be The Mars Curiosity Rover With New 360 Interactive Panoramas
Updated 6:11 p.m. ET, Monday, August 13 NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover has spent one week on the Red Planet and already sent back some incredible views of its immediate surroundings. But now things are about to get even more interesting: The rover is concluding a massive software update that will allow it to begin driving around and sampling Martian soil and geology, officially embarking on its two-year scientific exploration mission to determine whether Mars ever had conditions…
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Romney: Shootings Should Prompt ‘Thoughtful Consideration’ – Not Gun Control
Mitt Romney told reporters Monday after a third consecutive shooting made headlines that something must be done to curb the violence. But whatever that is, he said, it shouldn’t include gun-control measures. Romney held a brief press conference in Florida Monday afternoon, as details of a mass shooting in College Park, Texas, were coming to light. Just as he did after the shooting at an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, Romney stressed that new gun laws aren’t the answer. “This…
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Jeff Flake Would Like The 17th Amendment To Go Away
Jeff Flake, the Republican Arizona congressman who is running for U.S. Senate, would prefer if the voters of his state didn’t have the chance to cast a ballot for him this year. Instead, he said at a recent campaign stop, he wishes the Arizona legislature, which is dominated by a Republican super majority, would get to choose who represents the state in the Senate. Flake made the comments last week in response to a question at an event in Payson, Ariz. The local newspaper, the Payson …
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Paul Ryan Insider Trading Rumor Quickly Debunked
It had the makings of a scandal: Paul Ryan traded banking stocks during the financial crisis the same day as a meeting with top Treasury Department officials, a Virginia blog wrote Monday. But the rumor, which spread rapidly across the Internet, doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. The meeting in question took place on Sept. 18, 2008, between Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and congressional leaders including Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner and Harry…
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Republican Candidates Tip-Toe Around Ryan’s Medicare Plan
“We want this fight,” blared a Monday email from the National Republican Congressional Committee, pushing back on the idea that Democrats are salivating at the prospect of running against Paul Ryan’s budget in races up and down the ballot. But not every Republican candidate appears to have gotten the memo. Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, who is locked in an incredibly tight race with Democrat Elizabeth Warren, detailed his opposition to Ryan’s 2011 proposal to privatize Medicare in …
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Google Doubles Down On Local, Buys Frommer’s
Updated 3:46 p.m. ET, Monday, August 13 Google has purchased Frommer’s, the travel guide brand started by writer Arthur Frommer back in 1957, from its parent publishing company Wiley, both Google and Wiley confirmed on Monday. Aside from a great global brand name and some 300 travel guide titles to cities and places around the globe, the deal gives Google more ammunition in its quest to turn its now year-old social network, Google Plus, into the premiere resource for users to find…
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Study: Voter Impersonation Fraud, Target Of Voter ID, ‘Virtually Non-Existent’
Voter impersonation fraud, the type of voter fraud which could be prevented by the types of voter ID laws that have swept through mostly Republican-controlled state legislatures over the past few years, is virtually nonexistent, according to a new study. News21, a Carnegie-Knight investigative reporting project, sent public information requests to all 50 states (though not all of them responded) and found 10 cases of alleged in-person voter fraud since 2000. Out of the 146 million…
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Paul Ryan: Exciting, But Not Palin-Level Exciting (CHART)
This post has been updated. They like him – they really like him. But there are signs the GOP base isn’t showering it’s new VP nominee with affection, or cash, the way it did for Sarah Palin. There’s no doubt Mitt Romney fired up the less-than-fully enthused conservative electorate with the Ryan pick over the weekend. Opening rallies were packed, conservative pundits were thrilled and anecdotal evidence from the ground showed Republican voters are stoked to start talking about the …
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Does CNN’s New Direction Include Reality Television?
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Issa Sues Holder Over Fast And Furious Documents
The House Oversight Committee, led by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), filed a civil lawsuit against Attorney General Eric Holder Monday for what Issa alleges was Holder’s failure to cooperate with a congressional subpoena.
Issa promised to sue after the House of Representatives found Holder in contempt of Congress for allegedly failing to provide documents related to committee’s investigation into the botched ATF operation known as Fast and Furious.
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The Difference Between Obama And Ryan’s Medicare Cuts
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