div class=”dkimg-r”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/151025/Pink_ribbon.png” alt=”Pink ribbon” height=”407″ width=”275″ //div Unless you were living under a rock this week, you’re probably aware of the clusterfuck the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation created for itself when it a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/31/1060414/-Susan-G-Komen-for-the-Cure-caves-to-anti-choicers,-stops-funding-PlannedParenthood?via=history”decided to stop funding/a Planned Parenthood’s cancer screening and prevention programs. pWhat followed was nothing short of spectacular. The foundation’s leadership seemed completely unprepared for the national outrage at the blatantly obvious politicization of breast cancer and women’s health. Karen Handel, the foundation’s senior vice president of public policy and failed Republican candidate for governor of Georgia (endorsed by Sarah Palin), echoed the a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/02/1061064/-Komen-Foundation-official-deletes-evidence-of-anti-choice-biasfromTwitter?detail=hide”"cry me a river”/a response from fervent anti-choicers on Twitter—a tweet that was deleted, but not before an image was taken and spread far and wide across the Internet./p pKomen founder and CEO Nancy Brinker a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/02/1061140/-Komen-Foundation-in-damage-control-mode-over-its-decision-to-defund-Planned-Parenthood?detail=hide”then took to the airwaves/a to offer a whole new excuse for cutting the funding, insisting that the decision was emnot/em political, and emtsk-tsking/em critics, whom she insisted didn’t know what they were talking about and needed to “pause” and “slow down.” Translation: Stop criticizing us for siding with an anti-woman agenda instead of with women. And keep buying our pink crap!/p pThat did not go over too well either./p pNext, the Komen Foundation released an a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/03/1061413/-Komen-Foundation-apologizes-for-defunding-Planned-Parenthood,-but-isnt-backing-down?detail=hide”apology/a for its decision, which the traditional media (and, sadly, even many alternative media sources, including feminist writers) a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/03/1061413/-Komen-Foundation-apologizes-for-defunding-Planned-Parenthood,-but-isnt-backing-down?detail=hide”inaccurately reported/a as a reversal of the foundation’s new policy. Additional conversations with members of the foundation’s board confirmed that it had emnot/em reversed its policy; rather, the apology was a further attempt to salvage its a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/02/1061265/-Susan-G-Komen-for-the-Cure:-More-brand-destruction?detail=hideamp;via=blog_1″all-but-destroyed brand/a, chastise critics, and make the whole PR disaster go away./p pWhat we’ve learned this week is that even if Komen were to continue funding Planned Parenthood’s breast cancer exams and education programs, it’s most likely too late for the foundation to undo the damage it has done to its reputation and credibility as an organization that cares about women’s health. With its new policy, its anti-choice extremist leadership, and its long history of questionable practices, including a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/komen-foundation-charities-cure_n_793176.html”suing the hell out of smaller charities/a that dare to use the word “cure,” not to mention the number of articles, new and old, exposing how little of the money the foundation raises actually goes toward cancer research, Komen deserves no second chances. Those who care about fighting cancer have promised to send their money elsewhere, and forced to choose between the pink ribbon and Planned Parenthood, Americans—even self-identified “pro-life” Americans—are standing with Planned Parenthood. a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/02/1060949/-You-bet-your-pink-ribbon-I-stand-with-Planned-Parenthood?detail=hideamp;via=blog_604733″I am one of them/a./p pIn this a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/news/this20in20war20women”weekly series/a, we usually document and discuss any number of stories that demonstrate the many fronts of the War on Women, and how extremist activists work with extremist lawmakers to roll back legal protections for women and to further enforce anti-woman ideology that impacts women’s lives and livelihood./p pSo this week, let’s connect the dots to see how a relentless push by activists to destroy the nation’s largest provider of women’s health care led to congressional action, which led to the political decision of a private, supposedly inon/i-political, organization joining in that battle—on the wrong side, emagainst/em women./p pThere’s more below the fold./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PxVf3etVptKuRyqcmXEJSMjs_14/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PxVf3etVptKuRyqcmXEJSMjs_14/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PxVf3etVptKuRyqcmXEJSMjs_14/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/PxVf3etVptKuRyqcmXEJSMjs_14/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=VenC1VoQ_so:v7SNDVd3c5Q:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/VenC1VoQ_so” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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This week in the War on Women: How the pink ribbon catastrophe is all part of the war
pALEXANDRIA, Va. — You may have noticed that some of us at HuffPost DC are a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/31/aaron-denu-potomac-phil-groundhog-day_n_1242335.html?ref=dc” target=”_hplink”crazy/a a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/pit-bull-adoption-funding_n_1236790.html” target=”_hplink”about/a a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/19/maryland-dc-rats_n_1215951.html” target=”_hplink”animals/a. /ppSo it was no small joy to meet Harold, a friendly black and white cat whose owners take him for walks around Old Town, a place so dog-centric that it has not one but two stores specializing in home-made dog treats./ppHarold’s owners are 26-year-old Sarah Howell, a massage therapist at Old Town’s a href=”http://sugarhousedayspa.com/” target=”_hplink”Sugar House Day Spa/a, and her husband, 31-year-old Jeff Jones. Harold will be two on Feb. 22 — “On George Washington’s Birthday,” notes Jones, who works for the National Park Service./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/02/harold-the-cat-walks-old-town_n_1234216.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/animals/”More on Animals/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gpd_ac9KcG0XQ0gzLP5SU95khCc/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gpd_ac9KcG0XQ0gzLP5SU95khCc/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gpd_ac9KcG0XQ0gzLP5SU95khCc/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/gpd_ac9KcG0XQ0gzLP5SU95khCc/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=PROg7SUxTEw:69uJXl5zdUg:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=PROg7SUxTEw:69uJXl5zdUg:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=PROg7SUxTEw:69uJXl5zdUg:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=PROg7SUxTEw:69uJXl5zdUg:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=PROg7SUxTEw:69uJXl5zdUg:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/PROg7SUxTEw” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Meet Harold The Cat, Who Walks Around Old Town Alexandria On A Leash (PHOTOS)
pTAMPA, Fla. — Is Newt Gingrich the Tea Party candidate? /ppThe former House Speaker (R-Ga.) won 45 percent of the vote from Florida voters who “strongly support” the Tea Party, compared to Mitt Romney’s 33 percent and former Sen. Rick Santorum’s (R-Pa.) 17 percent, a href=”http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2012/florida-primary-jan-31/exit-polls” target=”_hplink”according to Florida primary exit polls/a. /ppFormer Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former presidential candidate Herman Cain rallied to Gingrich’s side over the past week, and the Gingrich campaign boasted they have the backing of 300 Tea Party groups in 36 states across the country, including 47 in Florida./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/01/newt-gingrich-tea-party_n_1244564.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/tea-party/”More on Tea Party/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HzGJFftqdEAcK3hVEokr5J-0XXU/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HzGJFftqdEAcK3hVEokr5J-0XXU/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HzGJFftqdEAcK3hVEokr5J-0XXU/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/HzGJFftqdEAcK3hVEokr5J-0XXU/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=BzSD41v7D_c:7mZ160OVwWI:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=BzSD41v7D_c:7mZ160OVwWI:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=BzSD41v7D_c:7mZ160OVwWI:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=BzSD41v7D_c:7mZ160OVwWI:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=BzSD41v7D_c:7mZ160OVwWI:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/BzSD41v7D_c” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Newt Gingrich Not Quite The Life Of The Tea Party
pThe CW is currently in a pilot-ordering frenzy. The teen-centric network has orded three very interesting new pilots, including one that very reminiscent of a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/31/hunger-games-stars-talk-twilight_n_1245328.html?ref=entertainment#comments” target=”_hplink”Suzanne Collins’ “Hunger Games” trilogy/a. /ppWhile Katniss Everdeen herself will not be stepping onto the small screen any time soon, the new CW pilot, based off another series of books by Kiera Cass, “is an epic romance set 300 years in the future which centers on a poor young woman who is chosen by lottery to participate in a competition to become the next queen of a war-torn nation at a crossroads,” a href=”http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/01/31/cw-hunger-games-style-pilot/” target=”_hplink”reports EW.com/a. /ppElizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain will serve as executive producers and writers for the project. /pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/31/cw-pilot-update-hunger-games-green-arrow-stephen-amell_n_1245184.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/reality-free/”More on Reality-Free/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Icfm6VRiQpDdIUaxZlqybtqINsk/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Icfm6VRiQpDdIUaxZlqybtqINsk/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Icfm6VRiQpDdIUaxZlqybtqINsk/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Icfm6VRiQpDdIUaxZlqybtqINsk/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=_VDFamY9zAc:6pjgA_ETq8o:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=_VDFamY9zAc:6pjgA_ETq8o:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=_VDFamY9zAc:6pjgA_ETq8o:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=_VDFamY9zAc:6pjgA_ETq8o:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=_VDFamY9zAc:6pjgA_ETq8o:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/_VDFamY9zAc” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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CW Pilot Update: Orders ‘Hunger Games’-Style Drama, J.J. Abrams Drama, Stephen Amell Cast As Green Arrow
pIn what has become a a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/29/sarah-palin-calls-gingrich-criticism-stalin-esque_n_1239746.html” target=”_hplink”common/a a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/sarah-palin-newt-gingrich-florida-primary_n_1242030.html” target=”_hplink”occurrence/a, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) took to Fox News Monday evening to defend GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich from a flurry of attacks launched by fellow Republicans last week./ppThe anti-Gingrich assault was centered upon what his detractors claim was his misrepresentation of his relationship with former President Ronald Reagan and the broader “Reagan Revolution.” A number of conservative columnists a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/26/newt-gingrich-conservative-attacks_n_1234956.html” target=”_hplink”suggested that Gingrich lacked the character and discipline/a to be defined as a conservative in Reagan’s vein. Others wrote that he had, at times, even opposed Reagan directly./ppOn Monday, Palin said these allegations were fabricated and entirely false./pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/31/sarah-palin-newt-gingrich-establishment_n_1244026.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/newt-gingrich/”More on Newt Gingrich/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fa1rXaGkG9KzQ1pp9IbwDPnBcuA/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fa1rXaGkG9KzQ1pp9IbwDPnBcuA/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fa1rXaGkG9KzQ1pp9IbwDPnBcuA/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fa1rXaGkG9KzQ1pp9IbwDPnBcuA/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=lw-Y8Neavf4:unjHDbwit5k:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=lw-Y8Neavf4:unjHDbwit5k:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=lw-Y8Neavf4:unjHDbwit5k:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=lw-Y8Neavf4:unjHDbwit5k:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=lw-Y8Neavf4:unjHDbwit5k:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/lw-Y8Neavf4″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Sarah Palin: Establishment Rewrote ‘False Narrative’ About Gingrich’s Relationship With Reagan
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Animation: Palin defends Newt (actual audio)
centeriframe width=”550″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/KUgscE3UVIc” frameborder=”0″ defang_allowfullscreen=”"/iframe/center blockquoteYeah how can he say he is not part of the establishment? Well look at the players in the establishment, who are fighting so hard against him. They want to crucify him because he has tapped into that average everyday American Tea Party grassroots movement that has said “enough is enough of the establishment.” pThat tries to run the show that tries to tweak rules and law and regulations for their own good and not for our nation’s own good. Well when both party machines and many in the media are trying to crucify Newt Gingrich for bucking the tide and bucking the establishment that tells ya something./p pI saw ya know you gotta rage against the machine, at this point in order to defend our Republic and save what is good and secure and prosperous about our nation, we need somebody who is engaged in sudden and relentless reform and isn’t afraid to shake it up. Shake up that establishment./p pSo, if for no other reason to rage against the machine vote for Newt, annoy a liberal. Vote Newt. Keep this vetting process going, keep the debate going./p /blockquote pHow dumb is Sarah Palin? So dumb that she thinks Newt Gingrich—former speaker of the House, regular guest on the Sunday talk shows, and, a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/26/1058697/-Mitt-Romney-allies:-Newt-Gingrich-must-be-stopped-because-he-insulted-RonaldReagan?detail=hide”according to Nancy Reagan/a, the leader of the conservative movement to whom St. Ronnie himself handed off the torch—is an “outsider” who scares “the establishment.”/p pSarah Palin is so dumb she thinks the reason the “establishment” is afraid of Newt is because of how well he’s tapped into the “average everyday American Tea Party grassroots,” which is neither “average” nor “everyday American” nor “grassroots.” Yeah, it has nothing to do with the reality, as Bob Dole took a break last week from shilling for hard-on pills a href=”http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/289360/dole-goes-nuclear-nro-staff”to point out/a, that a Gingrich nomination would “have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices,” just like Newt’s myriad ethical problems were a disaster for his own party in the ’90s, including damaging Dole’s run for the White House. (Apparently, that’s one pill that’s still too bitter for Dole to swallow.)/p pSarah Palin is so dumb she thinks Democrats are afraid to run against Newt Gingrich, even though polling shows President Obama would chew him up and spit him out in the general election because he doesn’t just have baggage—he’s got a full set of Tiffany-monogrammed luggage (from his ethical violations to his chronic philandering to his crazy Big Ideas like moon bases to his blatant dog whistle racism) that Democrats would emlove/em the opportunity to talk about./p pBut you keep talking, Sarah. Keep encouraging your ever-dwindling following to really stick it to The Man by voting for the walking disaster that is Newt, all but ensuring that Obama enjoys the greatest landslide since, well, since Reagan./p p’Cause that will emreally/em annoy us liberals./p p(Via a href=”http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/01/palin-annoy-liberals-vote-for-newt.html”Joe My God/a)/p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pacRJbnoJJOTLF4K0YaZyU7QJ9w/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pacRJbnoJJOTLF4K0YaZyU7QJ9w/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pacRJbnoJJOTLF4K0YaZyU7QJ9w/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pacRJbnoJJOTLF4K0YaZyU7QJ9w/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=bpQV2BIqb3w:Ez-HBP_GAsI:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/bpQV2BIqb3w” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Sarah Palin: Vote for Newt Gingrich to ‘annoy liberals’ and ‘rage against the machine’
div class=”dkimg-r”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/6/knight-of-wands.jpg” alt=”" height=”325″ width=”197″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”Magical solution to GOP predicament seemsbr / to have missed his train./div /div For months, some disenchanted Republicans have sought an alternative to the GOP presidential field. Actually, there are lots of disenchanted Republicans. At the beginning of this month, a href=”http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57355532-503544/poll-58-of-republicans-want-more-presidential-choices/”58 percent said/a they weren’t happy with their choices. pSome prominent members of this cohort gave up on getting Sarah Palin in the race, as if another candidate with a record of wackiness, missteps and being unqualified for the office she’s already held could possibly have improved matters. Then they turned their sights on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Indiana Gov. a href=”http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2012/01/25/why-mitch-daniels-should-enter-the-race-the-real-conservative-alternative/”Mitch Daniels/a and, of course, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. None stepped up to the plate, even though some hopefuls keep a href=”http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/candidate-be-drafted-later_617478.html”grasping at straws/a./p pIn truth, it’s been too late for the knight in shining armor to come to the rescue for some time. Winning the nomination requires more than magic. It takes organization in the primary and caucus states and none of the purported saviors have that. No offices, no phone lines, no team of phone-bankers. Zilch./p pThere’s one more problem: Filing deadlines. Josh Putnam a href=”http://frontloading.blogspot.com/2012/01/ill-see-your-white-knight-and-raise-you.html”lays it out/a in stark terms at FrontloadingHQ. If the GOP rescuer got it together right now, today, and filed all the paperwork necessary to get on the ballot in the states whose deadlines have not yet passed, he or she could possibly arrive in Tampa in August with the 1144 delegates necessary to get the nomination at the GOP Convention. Assuming he or she won emevery/em available delegate in emevery/em state. Possible, no doubt, in a video game. After Tuesday, even that won’t be possible, however, as the filing deadlines for Kentucky and Indiana pass into history./p pYes, there’s another straw-grasping scenario: getting the uncommitted delegates. Counting the possibility that enough such delegates would swing toward a still-unannounced candidate ups the chances a bit. And even if a candidate couldn’t get the needed votes to win the nomination, there might be enough to block another candidate from being the nominee. But that suggests throwing in with one of the not-good-enough candidates that nearly three-fifths of Republican voters aren’t happy about./p pStill, as Putnam says, there is that one remaining problem for such a scenario:/p blockquoteWho is that candidate? Let me rephrase that. Who is the candidate who can not only successfully enter the race late, but who can also marshal the organization necessary to cobble together enough delegates to take the nomination or throw enough of a monkeywrench into the process and still maintain support in the party to win the nomination at the convention? Let’s think about this for a moment. There are people in this race now actively seeking the nomination (and who have been running for president for quite some time) who cannot get on the ballots in some states. And we are expecting someone to come in and immediately be able to beat these deadlines, organize write-in efforts and uncommitted slates of delegates to get within shouting distance of 1144 or a lower total held by the frontrunner./blockquote pHahahahahahahaha. Ahem./p pThe Republicans came to the dance with the wrong partners. And now they’re going to have to go home with one of them./p pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vUbK-qGKiPP4-vwivjSM-arNhwA/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vUbK-qGKiPP4-vwivjSM-arNhwA/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vUbK-qGKiPP4-vwivjSM-arNhwA/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/vUbK-qGKiPP4-vwivjSM-arNhwA/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=A_863psCuF8:1VNYzIaGH1k:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/A_863psCuF8″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Clock runs out on white knight who could save GOP from Mitt, Newt, Rick and Ron
div class=”dkimg-c”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/426/APR_1_30_2012.jpg” alt=”" height=”442″ width=”550″ //div pVisual source: a href=”http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/”Newseum/a/p pa href=”http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/01/newt-mad-and-mental-enough-to-fight-on-after-florida.html”John Heilemann/a unsheathes his sickle and goes to town on Mr. Gingrich:/p blockquotePledges to continue the fight unabated in the face of harsh and/or humiliating outcomes are staples of presidential campaigns. And they are also patently meaningless. (Please recall Jon Huntsman’s feigned brio on the night of the New Hampshire primary — and his departure from the race a few days later.) But in Gingrich’s case, he might be serious, so much has he come to despise Romney and the Republican Establishment that has brought down on him a twenty-ton shithammer in Florida, and so convinced is he of his own Churchillian greatness and world-historical destiny. The same antic, manic, lunatic bloody-mindedness that has made him such a rotten candidate in the Sunshine State may be enough to keep him the race a good long time./blockquote pa href=”http://www.denverpost.com/rosen/ci_19821269″Mike Rosen/a, striving for a new world’s record (or at least a personal worst), gets only nine words into his latest hackeyed diatribe before invoking the “liberal media” in yet another of his kettle-pot whines about what a cliché Occupy is./p pa href=”http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/01/what-debt-did-for-romney.html#ixzz1kuzL5dm0″James Surowiecki/a:br //p blockquoteThe most interesting line in the G.O.P.’s official response to the State of the Union address was Mitch Daniels’s assertion that the United States is in big trouble because “no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.” Unsurprising as the attack was, its phrasing inadvertently underscored the curious reality of this year’s election; namely, that the same party that loves to inveigh against the dangers of excessive borrowing is now likely to nominate for President a man whose entire career, and entire fortune, was built on debt. Leveraged-buyout firms like Bain Capital, which Mitt Romney ran between 1984 and 1999, routinely borrow massive sums in order to make their acquisitions, leaving companies with debt loads equal to twice their annual sales or more./blockquote br / a href=”http://www.thenation.com/blog/165931/wisconsin-recall-drive-more-popular-gop-presidential-candidates-combined”John Nichols/a whips out his calculator and concludes that the recall drive against Wisconsion Gov. Scott Walker is a lot more popular with voters than all three contests for the GOP presidential nomination have been. pa href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/opinion/krugman-the-austerity-debacle.html?_r=1amp;hp”Paul Krugman/a notes that Britain is doing worse in some measures at pulling out of recession now than it did during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Why?br //p blockquote[S]urpassing the track record of the 1930s shouldn’t be a tough challenge. Haven’t we learned a lot about economic management over the last 80 years? Yes, we have — but in Britain and elsewhere, the policy elite decided to throw that hard-won knowledge out the window, and rely on ideologically convenient wishful thinking instead./blockquote pa href=”http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/obamas_faux_populism_sounds_like_bill_clinton_20120126/”Robert Scheer/a:br //p blockquoteI’ll admit it: Listening to Barack Obama, I am ready to enlist in his campaign against the feed-the-rich Republicans … until I recall that I once responded in the same way to Bill Clinton’s faux populism. And then I get angry because betrayal by the “good guys” for whom I have ended up voting has become the norm. pYes, betrayal, because if Obama meant what he said in Tuesday’s State of the Union address about holding the financial industry responsible for its scams, why did he appoint the old Clinton crowd that had legalized those scams to the top economic posts in his administration? Why did he hire Timothy Geithner, who has turned the Treasury Department into a concierge service for Wall Street tycoons? nbsp;/p /blockquote pa href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/opinion/new-strategy-old-pentagon-budget.html?ref=opinion?hp”The New York Times Editorial Board/a says what a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/08/1052807/-Obama-administrations-proposed-cuts-in-Pentagon-spending-welcome,-but-only-a-small-first-step-?via=history”we/a have been a href=”http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/26/1058804/-Peace-dividend:-100,000-ground-forces-to-be-cut?via=history”saying/a:br //p blockquoteAfter a decade of unrestrained Pentagon spending increases, President Obama deserves credit for putting on the brakes. The cuts are a credible down payment on his pledge to reduce projected defense spending by $487 billion in the next decade. They are not going to be enough. In the likely absence of a bipartisan budget pact, a further automatic across-the-board 10-year cut of nearly $500 billion is to take effect starting next January. pEven if a last-minute deal heads that off, the country needs to find more savings. And there is still plenty of room to cut deeper without jeopardizing national security./p /blockquote br / a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-breach-of-faith-over-contraceptive-ruling/2012/01/29/gIQAY7V5aQ_story.html”E.J. Dionne Jr./a says President Obama twice botched his decision on how contraception services should be handled under health care. pa href=”http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-chayes-afghanistan-20120126,0,7655119.story”Sarah Chayes/a:br //p blockquoteUnderlying the current dispute over the intelligence estimate is another, deeper divide. The assessment reportedly acknowledges the hard work by Afghan and foreign troops in driving the Taliban out of many of its strongholds. That success is clearly visible in Kandahar, where I have lived for most of the last decade. But its significance is less clear. p”Yes, we’ve made gains against the Taliban around Kandahar,” a minister and former Kandahar governor told me recently. “But it takes 18,000 men for a single district. We can’t sustain that.”/p pAnd there have been other costs. As troops moved into rural districts the Taliban had held, they built dirt roads right through farmers’ vineyards and orchards. I saw the results when I went to visit a friend’s family land. Debris had been shoved into an irrigation channel that once watered the whole village, razor wire had been looped across a road, and buildings where families dry their grapes to make prized raisins had been destroyed./p /blockquote br / a href=”http://patriotpost.us/opinion/jonah-goldberg/2012/01/27/obamas-vision-for-a-spartan-america/”Jonah Goldberg/a, once again, epitomizes upsidedownism at its finest. pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cON25-dx-cjjNfjFUUOymUekEyY/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cON25-dx-cjjNfjFUUOymUekEyY/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cON25-dx-cjjNfjFUUOymUekEyY/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/cON25-dx-cjjNfjFUUOymUekEyY/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.dailykos.com/~ff/dailykos/index?a=jPBz0Pud5xU:b9TWhw4nEAQ:H0mrP-F8Qgo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/dailykos/index?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/dailykos/index/~4/jPBz0Pud5xU” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: ‘Antic, manic, lunatic’ Newt Gingrich may really stick it out
pIt’s a big TV event week as February sweeps gets into full swing./ppOn Monday, “Gossip Girl” celebrates 100 episodes with a big song-and-dance number. Tuesday sees the return of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s CW drama “Ringer” and “Glee” pays tribute to Michael Jackson. On Wednesday, the contestants on “Face Off” are tasked with creating villains based on specific phobias. Thursday’s offerings include the premiere of MTV’s “I Just Want My Pants Back” and “Grey’s Anatomy” gives viewers a glimpse into an alternate reality. The CW’s Friday night is packed with new “Nikita” and “Supernatural.” And this weekend, following the Super Bowl on Sunday is the premiere of NBC’s “The Voice.” Or if you’re feeling a bit raunchier, tune into Showtime’s “Shameless.”/ppemCheck out the slideshow for the full rundown of what to tune into this week./em/pbra href=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/29/what-to-watch-tv_n_1240409.htmlRead More…/abr a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/gossip-girl/”More on Gossip Girl/a pa href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oGZKmf5DUUpAvZyH_EGffLIQ1mE/0/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oGZKmf5DUUpAvZyH_EGffLIQ1mE/0/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/abr/ a href=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oGZKmf5DUUpAvZyH_EGffLIQ1mE/1/da”img src=”http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/oGZKmf5DUUpAvZyH_EGffLIQ1mE/1/di” border=”0″ ismap=”true”/img/a/pdiv class=”feedflare” a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=KJ_RIUcIIkY:fEmtkZlMYDY:yIl2AUoC8zA”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=KJ_RIUcIIkY:fEmtkZlMYDY:F7zBnMyn0Lo”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=KJ_RIUcIIkY:fEmtkZlMYDY:F7zBnMyn0Lo” border=”0″/img/a a href=”http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?a=KJ_RIUcIIkY:fEmtkZlMYDY:V_sGLiPBpWU”img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/huffingtonpost/raw_feed?i=KJ_RIUcIIkY:fEmtkZlMYDY:V_sGLiPBpWU” border=”0″/img/a /divimg src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/huffingtonpost/raw_feed/~4/KJ_RIUcIIkY” height=”1″ width=”1″/
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