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Bartlett: The GOP Isn't Serious About The Deficit

Bartlett: GOP Isn't Serious About Deficit From the Fiscal Times: One of the most far-reaching political consequences of the recent fight over the Affordable Care Act is that it was the final step in the total transformation of the Republican Party into the party of Medicare. It’s why …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

Pawlenty: Holder Should Resign

Pawlenty: Holder Should Resign Ben Smith at Politico reports: On the Hugh Hewitt radio show, Minnesota governor and possible presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty called for Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation over the Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani terror trial: Hewitt : Okay, …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

Murkowski Might Vote to End DADT

Murkowski Might Vote to End DADT The Wonk Room reports : Last night during an appearance on MSNBC, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) refused to say if she would vote for a National Defense Authorization Act that included a repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, but this afternoon, during an …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

Krauthammer: Don't Touch my Junk

Krauthammer to TSA: Don't Touch my Junk Charles Krauthammer writes : Ah, the airport, where modern folk heroes are made. The airport, where that inspired flight attendant did what everyone who's ever been in the spam-in-a-can crush of a flying aluminum tube - where we collectively …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

Biden: Obama Can Beat Palin

Biden: Obama Can Beat Palin Politico reports: Vice President Joe Biden believes Sarah Palin has "a good chance" of winning the GOP's presidential nod in 2012, but that President Barack Obama "would be in good shape" for re-election against the former Alaska governor. "Were I a …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

McConnell Moves to Kill Omnibus Spending Bill

McConnell Moves to Kill Omnibus Spending Bill Politico reports: Republicans moved Thursday to kill a year-end spending compromise, hoping to gain leverage in what could be a quick strike against President Barack Obama in the next Congress over budget priorities — and quite …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

Dem Senators Rip White House

Dem Senators Rip White House Politico reports: Senate Democrats – including typically mild-mannered Bill Nelson of Florida – lit into President Barack Obama during an unusually tense air-clearing caucus session on Thursday, senators and staffers told POLITICO. Nelson told …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

U.S. Deploys Tanks Against Taliban

U.S. Deploys Tanks Against Taliban The Washington Pos t reports: The U.S. military is sending a contingent of heavily armored battle tanks to Afghanistan for the first time in the nine-year war, defense officials said, a shift that signals a further escalation in the aggressive …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

Bernanke Defends Fed Stimulus Plan

Bernanke Defends Fed Stimulus Plan The Washington Post reports: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is hitting back at the major nations that have assailed the Fed's latest actions to try to boost growth, offering a blunt argument that the steps were needed to keep the U.S. …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

Palin Preps on Europe's Debt Crisis

Sarah Palin is taking an interest in the European debt crisis, but does she have an expert to help her understand the subject? From today's Real Clear Politics, a story based on interviews with Palin advisers: Palin has taken a particular interest in the European debt crisis as of late, and …

Written by David Frum on Friday November 19, 2010

Turning a Blind Eye to Afghan Election Fraud

Obama was quick to rip Burma’s rigged general elections, but as for Afghanistan where election fraud charges have also surfaced, the U.S. stays silent. President Obama was quick to speak out against Burma’s rigged general elections. But in Afghanistan where complaints of election fraud have …

Written by Wahid Monawar on Friday November 19, 2010

Miller Sues to Prevent Vote Certification

Miller Sues to Prevent Vote Certification Fox News reports : ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The GOP candidate in the Alaska U.S. Senate race asked a federal judge Thursday for a preliminary injunction stopping officials from certifying the election. An attorney for Joe Miller sought the …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

Douthat: The GOP Needs Tackle Social Immobility

Douthat: The GOP Needs Tackle Social Immobility ConservativeHome USA reports : RS: Imagine that you have just been named the czar of the middle class. What 3 policy changes would you implement to improve the prospects of middle class families in America? Douthat: First, a reform …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

Did Israel Launch a Computer Worm Against Iran?

Did Israel Launch a Computer Worm Against Iran? The New York Times reports : Experts dissecting the computer worm suspected of being aimed at Iran’s nuclear program have determined that it was precisely calibrated in a way that could send nuclear centrifuges wildly out of control. …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

Dems Will Vote to Extend Some Tax-Cuts

Dems Will Vote to Extend Some Tax-Cuts Greg Sargent reports : Steny Hoyer, the number two in the House Dem leadership, told Democrats at a caucus meeting this morning that they would get to vote this year on just extending the Bush tax cuts for the middle class, a senior Dem aide …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

Pentagon Wants Repeal of DADT

Pentagon Wants Repeal of DADT Think Progress reports : This afternoon, Defense Department spokesperson Geoff Morrell gave the Pentagon’s strongest endorsement yet of passing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal during the lame duck session of the Senate. Speaking to reporters at a news …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

70% of Americans Don't Want Entitlements Cut

70% of Americans Don't Want Entitlements Cut The Wall Street Journal reports : President Barack Obama and many lawmakers say they will work to rein in the federal deficit, but a new survey underscores the challenges they face in taking specific steps that could help reduce the red …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

The Center for Constitutional Rights Shame

The Center for Constitutional Rights Shame John Podhoretz writes : There is appropriate horror being expressed today all over the blogosphere about the statement released by the radical leftist group called the Center for Constitutional Rights on the verdict in the Ghailani trial: …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

Rep. Inglis Attacks Climate Change Deniers

Rep. Inglis Attacks Climate Change Deniers Mother Jones reports : For its final hearing of this legislative session, the House Science and Technology Committee chose an appropriate topic. Dubbed "A Rational Discussion of Climate Change: the Science, the Evidence, the Response," …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010

GOP Fails With Vote to Defund NPR

GOP Fails With Vote to Defund NPR The Huffington Post reports : WASHINGTON -- The Republican campaign to take away all federal funding from National Public Radio (NPR) was over before it began, with GOP lawmakers' procedural trick to force a vote on the issue failing on Thursday. It …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday November 19, 2010