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Surprises from Inauguration

Obama stressed the need to combat climate change. He declared his full support for gay rights. And his speech lasted just 10 minutes.



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Quote of the Day

Just because I’m your friend 80 percent of the time doesn’t make me your enemy 20 percent of the time.
-President Reagan

Quote of the Day

“Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn’t have any innocent bystander ."
-Chris Rock

Quote of the Day

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

—Douglas Adams, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

 

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Quote of the Day

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Democracy simply doesn’t work.” —Kent Brockman, The Simpsons

 

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Issue of the Day

Puerto Rican Statehood

Moreover, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has little incentive to address the topic. According to exit polls, 83% of boricuas on the mainland voted for Barack Obama. Statehood would add two Senate seats and a House delegation of five, the same size as Oregon’s and probably as reliably Democratic.

Unless the island holds another vote that yields a different result, however, Puerto Rico has now officially requested statehood. If Democrats retake the House in 2014, they would be well-advised to try to add a 51st star to the flag.

 

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Issue of the Day

ACLU’s Anthony Romero: “There should be an investigation not of the personal behavior of General Petraeus and General Allen but of what surveillance powers the F.B.I. used to look into their private lives. This is a textbook example of the blurring of lines between the private and the public.”

Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center told the Times: “It’s a particular problem with cyberinvestigations — they rapidly become open-ended, because there’s such a huge quantity of information available and it’s so easily searchable. If the C.I.A. director can get caught, it’s pretty much open season on everyone else.”

 

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Fact of the Day

But above all else, Americans voted for Barack Obama. Again. Not because they were duped by the hopey-changey rhetoric of a fresh-faced celebrity but because they believed, after four years of watching him in action, that he deserved a second term more than Romney deserved a first. As the NBC political team wrote Wednesday morning, 2012 was a ticking demographic time bomb that blew up in the GOP’s face: “Obama carried a whopping 93% of black voters (representing 13% of the electorate), 71% of Latinos (representing 10%), and also 73% of Asians (3%). What’s more, despite all the predictions that youth turnout would be down, voters 18–29 made up 19% of last night’s voting population—up from 18% four years ago—and President Obama took 60% from that group.” Sure, Romney won white voters. He won more white voters than Ronald Reagan in 1980. But it wasn’t enough.

 

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Fact of the Day

Fully 89 percent of Romney’s 2012 voters are non-Hispanic whites. But surely Republicans know that by 2042, whites will no longer be a majority in the U.S.

 

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Bill Kristol on 47%

It’s worth recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don’t pay income taxes are Romney supporters — especially of course seniors (who might well “believe they are entitled to heath care,” a position Romney agrees with), as well as many lower-income Americans (including men and women serving in the military) who think conservative policies are better for the country even if they’re not getting a tax cut under the Romney plan. So Romney seems to have contempt not just for the Democrats who oppose him, but for tens of millions who intend to vote for him.

 

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Republican Weakness

Republicans need to win 2/3s of the white working class vote in a pres election to compensate for its weakness in almost every demographic category.

 

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Tshirt Ideas

• BULLETS, NOT BALLOTS

• WE CAME UNARMED (THIS TIME)

• SAVE THE PLANET: KILL A REPUBLICAN