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Obamacare, Spending Orgy Destroying Democrats? (Limbaugh)
Rush Limbaugh (12/11/14): "Her whole point here is how Obamacare has destroyed the Democrat Party. Now, you may not see that written in such terms because the media of course is not going to...
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President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and other Democrats have made a concerted effort over the past two years to seat as many federal judges as possible, and this week they could declare victory, having confirmed the most judges in a single Congress since 1980. But this strategy based on the political calculus that lifetime judicial appointments will have greater, longer impact than executive branch nominees means some federal agencies will still face serious gaps during Obamas remaining time in office.
In private conversation with a Republican senator earlier this year, Reid acknowledged that confirming federal judges was his top priority, according an aide to the GOP senator, because, Its what lasts.
While Senate Democrats were able to confirm dozens of the presidents stalled nominees in the final legislative frenzy before Congress adjourned for the year, the Obama administration will enter its last two years in with more than a quarter of all its senior cabinet agency posts 96 presidentially appointed positions unfilled, according to a White House analysis. The reason, in most cases, is that nominees for those jobs have not been confirmed by the Senate.
But which nominations advance to confirmation and which ones flounder has become a political choice that reflect the ideological divisions that now define Washington.
Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson said given the fact that federal judges serve well beyond the course of a single administration, One is truly a legacy situation, and one is less sweeping. But he added that Reid had tried, under difficult circumstances, to confirm key agency nominees where it made a difference.
It was a triage situation, and we tried to address the crisis where it was the most acute, he said, noting that while Reid has had more latitude in calling up nominees, he has been limited by time available to debate the nominations.
The feud between Democrats and Republicans on the issue reached a low point in November 2013, when Democrats were so frustrated with their efforts to seat three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, they lowered the threshold for confirmations by eliminating filibusters for most of the presidents nominees.
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who has helped broker bipartisan deals on the confirmation process in the past, said in an interview that by upending the rules, Democrats have undermined their ability to seat future nominees in the GOP-controlled Senate next year.
There was a price to pay. Alexander noted there are more nominees that have cleared committee and are waiting for a vote than on Nov. 21, 2013, when Senate Democrats changed the confirmation rules.
Most lawmakers and academic experts said it will be increasingly difficult for Obama to win approval of his executive branch nominees during his last two years in office.
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Hillary Clintons circle wants to be quoted yawning at Jeb Bush, a sure sign of concern that he could beat her in 2016.
Hes got his own party to run in, and I will be very impressed if he makes it through that primary system, Paul Begala, a longtime adviser to Clinton and her husband, said after Bush announced this week that he is actively exploring a presidential run.
Make no mistake. Clintons team and other Democrats already are trying to figure out how to take on Bush, and theres no early consensus. They could portray him as a shadow of his brother, President George W. Bush, as a moderate who cant make it through his own partys primary, or as a candidate who is too conservative to win a general election.
A Bush-centric e-mail that EMILYs List sent to its donors on Wednesday took the latter approach.
Jeb Bush made it official. Hes exploring a run for president, reads the graphic embedded in the fundraising pitch from the group that supports women candidates who back abortion rights. As governor, he called himself the most pro-life governor in modern times....Imagine what hed do as president.
A button at the bottom of the e-mail says Help us get ready to hold Jeb Bush accountable. Donate.
Stephanie Schriock, the president of EMILYs list, is often mentioned as a possible campaign manager for the former First Lady. Jess McIntosh, a spokeswoman for the group, sought to portray Bush as too conservative for the American electorate.
Jeb Bush is going to spend a long time reminding everyone how conservative he is on these issues, she said. Voters are going to see that hes not on their side.
Yet at the same time, the Democratic super-PAC American Bridge released a Web video replete with clips of Republican commentators and news reporters saying Bush will struggle to win over conservatives. The group counts high-profile Clinton donors among its benefactors.
Jaime Harrison, the chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, said that if Bush runs and wins the Republican nomination, hell struggle to galvanize the conservative base because hes endorsed the Common Core education standards reviled by many in the Republican Party and speaks warmly of undocumented immigrants.
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Immigration reform = Cops gone wild, says Ron Paul - usa
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Predicting little progress on immigration reform in the next Congress, some of the nation's top advocates say they're shifting gears to focus on defending President Obama's new deportation policy from GOP attacks.
"We're not looking to Congress for relief in the next two years," Frank Sharry, head of America's Voice, an advocacy group, said Thursday during a breakfast at the Mayflower Hotel in downtown Washington. "We're looking to defend the win that we've had, and to set the stage to expand on that win."
But Obama and the Democrats are largely opposed to that strategy for fear that passing the popular provisions as stand-alone bills would doom the more controversial elements, particularly the legalization and citizenship benefits for millions of immigrants living in the country illegally.
What we dont want to do is simply carve out one piece of it ... but leave behind some of the tougher stuff that still needs to get done, Obama said last year.
That partisan conflict, the liberal advocates say, sets the stage for yet another two-year impasse on the thorny issue of reform policy.
"I don't think that there's any chance of comprehensive immigration reform this Congress," said Marshall Fitz, an immigration expert at the liberal Center for American Progress.
With those dynamics in mind, liberal reform advocates say their focus is shifting to the implementation and defense of Obama's new deportation policy, rather than expectations of bold congressional action.
"That's going to be the movement's priority. It is in the interest of our community to make this program a success," said Cristina Jimenez, managing director of United We Dream, another group pushing for comprehensive reform.
"Republicans have a self-interest, politically, to work on it [comprehensive reform]," she added. "We just don't see how they get their party together to actually provide a viable solution."
In the absence of congressional action, Obama last month adopted new rules that will halt deportations and grant work permits to as many as 5 million illegal immigrants. The move outraged Republicans, who are searching for legislative ways to dismantle the program.
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Immigration advocates shift to defense