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Comment on Iowa Republican Caucuses by Chris B

Chris B — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:57:23 +0000

Is The White House Caving On Contraception?
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Headlines on White House thinking didn’t look good for women’s health care advocates Tuesday night. But one advocacy group tells TPM that they’re not worried about what’s being reported as a serious shift from the Obama administration on a edict that requires all health insurance plans to provide birth control to women who want it.

The issue has become a firestorm in the presidential race, with Mitt Romney attacking Obama on it last week amidst improving economic news. Republicans and leaders of the Catholic Church have called on Obama to change the rule, allowing religious-run hospitals, universities and the like to deny their employees birth control coverage based on their religious tenets.

At first, Democrats and the Obama campaign responded by pointing out what they called Romney’s hypocrisy on the issue. They reacted quickly, pumping out tale after tale of Romney’s seeming flip-flop on the issue of contraceptive requirements. A Feb. 3 Boston Globe story, “Romney shifted on ‘conscience’ issue,” was a favorite in those early emails. The Obama campaign turned the story into an infographic, detailing how rules Romney oversaw while governor of Massachusetts when it came to insurance plans offering contraceptives were similar to the new federal rules he’s attacking Obama for.

Further to your point HarryH

More here..

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/is-the-white-house-caving-on-contraception.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

Comment on Iowa Republican Caucuses by Chris B

Chris B — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:42:26 +0000

Obama Takes Back Lead in Virginia
A new Quinnipiac poll in Virginia shows President Obama pulling ahead of Mitt Romney in a general election match up, 47% to 43%. In late December, Romney was ahead by two points, 44% to 42%.

Obama also leads Rick Santorum 49% to 41%, tops Ron Paul 47% to 40%, and crushes Newt Gingrich 51% to 37%.

Said pollster Peter Brown: “The keys are the president’s improved standing among independent voters and women in the Old Dominion.”

http://politicalwire.com

Comment on Iowa Republican Caucuses by HarryH

HarryH — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:20:57 +0000

I have watched hours and hours of commentary on Fox and CNN and read thru Politico articles about Santorums 3 victories yesterday. Yet i haven’t heard one commentator raise the idea that it was brilliant strategy by the Obama people that pushed Santorum along and halted Romneys advance.

I believe they know that Romney will win the nom but they want it to be dragged out and bloody. This primary season is hurting Republicans and helping Dems.

So, how to halt a quick end to this?….Help Santorum.

How to help Santorum?….Throw some red meat out to hardcore Catholics.

So they did, via the contraception issue(which they know is an overall winner for them)

And it worked.

The WH would have been very content watching last nights results.

Comment on Iowa Republican Caucuses by Cardster

Cardster — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:28:54 +0000

Tim Dorsey’s “Serge Storm” series of novels may not be to everyone’s taste (their structure is unusual, with a long prologue focusing on events that will be explained in detail in the body of the book). However, the latest has these words of wisdom from an exerable political-operator character, “Malcom Glide”
“Tons of people can’t stand that the president is the wrong flavor”.
“That’s racism” says a pollster.
“And racism is not cool any more,” said Glide. “Even for racists. So we call him a socialist.”
“That’s nuts.”
“The people we’re trying to reach will get it.” said Glide. “‘Socialist’ is the new ‘N-word’. Have that imprinted on your brain.”

Comment on Iowa Republican Caucuses by Chris B

Chris B — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:17:25 +0000

391 paddy “As for the wanker who their ABC had on The Drum as a so-called “expert”……Words fail.”

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I couldn’t agree more paddy. I was waiting to see an expert on the NBN. They bought in an anti NBN person.

Comment on Iowa Republican Caucuses by Chris B

Chris B — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:59:42 +0000

I wish they would hurry up and nail Murdoch.

Comment on Iowa Republican Caucuses by paddy

paddy — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:01:16 +0000

Interesting to watch the bullshit spouted by Turnbull about using existing satellite capacity for the LNP version of the NBN.
The figures from Conroy make him look even sillier than usual.
Existing capacity. Aprox 7 Gbts
New satellites 90 Gbts
As for the wanker who their ABC had on The Drum as a so-called “expert”……Words fail.

Comment on Iowa Republican Caucuses by Chris B

Chris B — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:32:35 +0000

Rick Santorum Sweeps Colorado, Missouri, Minnesota, Embarrassing Romney.
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It was a very bad night for Mitt Romney Tuesday, no matter which way you sliced it, another harsh blow undermining his argument that he is the strongest Republican candidate for president.

It happened in Iowa on Jan. 3. It happened Jan. 22 in South Carolina. And on Tuesday night, Romney was again rejected by a large portion of the Republican electorate, this time in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) won Missouri and Minnesota by large margins, capturing 55 percent of the vote in Missouri to Romney’s 25 percent, and winning Minnesota — a state Romney won in the 2008 primary — with with 45 percent of the vote. Romney came in third there with only 17 percent of the vote, finishing behind Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who got 27 percent. Santorum won all 114 of Missouri’s counties.

“Conservatism is alive and well in Missouri and Minnesota,” Santorum crowed, at a rally in St. Charles, Mo. “Tonight was a victory for the voices of our party, conservatives and Tea Party people.”

More here…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/08/rick-santorum-colorado-caucus-_n_1261734.html

Comment on Iowa Republican Caucuses by Chris B

Chris B — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:12:39 +0000

Katielou current count is 4,918,034 They have added 4 million hits in a day!

Comment on Iowa Republican Caucuses by Chris B

Chris B — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:04:27 +0000

Massive anouncement by Julia Gillard and Stephen Conroy for the NBN satellites.
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The Gillard government has announced that the National Broadband Network will spend $620 million on two new satellites to connect some of Australia’s most remote towns.

The satellites will be built in California and are due in service in 2015.

According to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, they will provide “dedicated broadband services for the most remote 3 per cent of houses in Australia”.