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What Really Happens to Politicians Without Labels. It's Not Pretty.
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyYou may have heard there's a "No Labels" movement afoot to rouse the country's silent majority – the sane, reasonable, moderate middle that just wants civility, and solutions, and an end to the fighting in Washington. Maybe you're one of those people and you like this idea of no labels. There are lots of big names associated with this group -- senators, mayors, media celebs and more. But I'll be honest, I've been skeptical. You only have to listen to actual no-labels types to understand why. A few days after the official launch of No Labels, four of them offered eye-opening accounts of ...
Obama: Not Caving to GOP on Bush Tax Cuts
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(Nov. 12) -- President Obama on Friday dialed back a top aide's assertion that he was ready to accede to Republican demands that Bush-era tax cuts to be extended to all Americans, including the wealthy. Obama said his "number one" priority remains preserving the tax relief for the middle class -- that is, families earning less than $250,000 annually. At a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, the president said a Huffington Post article quoting top adviser David Axelrod as saying the White House would accept across-the-board extension of the income tax reductions from 2001 and 2003 was ...
Opinion: 10 Years Later, Our Electoral System Is Still Broken
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(Nov. 10) -- Let's face it -- our electoral system is broken. Not completely. In most instances the system does its job and determines a winner. But if the race is close and the outcome determines who gets political power, the cracks in the structure become painfully clear. This was the real lesson of the 2000 presidential recount crisis in Florida: In close elections, when every vote counts, our electoral machinery is not up to the job. Sadly, this lesson was lost in the controversy ignited by the Supreme Court's unprecedented ruling in Bush v. Gore, in which a five-justice majority ...
Bush: 'Damn Right' on Waterboarding
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LONDON (Nov. 9) -- Former U.S. President George W. Bush says that information obtained from terrorist suspects subjected to "waterboarding" thwarted what could have been spectacular attacks in London. Bush told The Times of London that the coercive interrogation technique -- where water is poured over a person's mouth and nose, simulating the effects of drowning -- had helped reveal plots to attack London's Heathrow Airport and Canary Wharf, one of the British capital's main financial districts. "Three people were waterboarded, and I believe that decision saved lives," he told the paper, ...
Bush Re-Enters Spotlight With Big Interviews
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Since leaving office nearly two years ago, George W. Bush has stayed out of the public spotlight, maintaining a decidedly low profile. That ends this week, starting with his prime-time interview Monday night on NBC to promote his presidential memoir, "Decision Points." Taped last month, the interview with Matt Lauer will be the first of many, including sit-downs with Oprah Winfrey (already taped but airing Tuesday), Rush Limbaugh (airing live Tuesday) and several of the Fox News Channel's prime-time hosts – Sean Hannity on Tuesday; Bill O'Reilly on Thursday; Greta Van Susteren on ...
George W. Bush on Alcohol: 'It Became a Love'
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(Nov. 4) -- For the first time, George W. Bush has opened up about the years he spent as a lush. In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, Bush describes years of heavy drinking that caused embarrassing moments and even strained his relationship with his family. "It became a love and, therefore, began to compete for my love with my wife and my daughters," he said, according to People.com. "I wasn't a knee-walkin' drunk," Bush said in his interview with Lauer. "I could easily have a beer or two, or a martini, before dinner, bourbons, B&Bs. I was a drinker." In an interview promoting his ...
What the Tea Party Could Learn From British Conservatives
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Oct. 22) -- Tea partiers bemoan the swelling federal deficit but offer no ideas for substantive cuts in government spending to bring it down. As I've pointed out before, whenever Republican, tea-party-backed candidates are asked which entitlement programs they'd cut to reduce the deficit, they dodge the question. Not so British conservatives, who actually are committed to cutting government spending. Peter Beinart, the former New Republic editor, takes a look across the pond in an article for the Daily Beast: I have my philosophical differences with British Prime Minister David Cameron, but ...
Remember How Obama Promised to Close Guantanamo Bay?
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 24) -- What should be done about Gitmo? In a long review of three publications on the subject for The New York Review of Books, David Cole ponders this continually vexing question. Allegedly conceived, Cole writes, as a "hole into which suspects would for all practical purposes disappear, never to be heard from again," the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay was set up in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks by the Bush administration. It incurred widespread domestic and international outrage since it first began accepting prisoners in October 2001. And yet it has survived virtually ...
Report: US Soldier Killed Herself After Refusing to Participate in Torture
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 15) -- On this day seven years ago, Specialist Alyssa Peterson took her own life in Iraq. Just 27, the Arizonian was an Arabic-speaking interrogator. The Defense Department has tried to keep the circumstances of her death a secret, officially describing the incident as a "non-hostile weapons discharge." But thanks to the digging by Arizona reporter Kevin Elston and now, by The Nation's Greg Mitchell, it's clear that Peterson took her own life -- and that witnessing the torture of Iraqi prisoners drove her to do it. In the days preceding her death, Peterson had objected to the way ...
Opinion: Imam Rauf's a 'Moderate' ... Compared to What?
By J.D. Gordon - AOL News(Sept. 2) -- Imam Feisal Rauf, the man behind the Park51 project, formerly the Cordoba House (aka ground zero mosque), has been commonly referred to as a "moderate" -- though the question should be "compared to what?" His "moderate" reputation has garnered the respect of President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who's backed the $100 million mega-mosque and community center on a site that was damaged on 9/11. It has also lent credibility to Rauf's stated quest of bridging "the great divide" between Islam and other faiths. But where does Rauf, author of three books on ...
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