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Chris Christie’s Attack on the Civil-Liberties Wing of the GOP

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“Now it seems clear that Christie will adopt the neoconservative line on national security, embracing the most radical actions of both George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Speaking at the Aspen Institute on Thursday, Christie belittled the libertarian wing of his party for its take on NSA spying. ‘As a former prosecutor who was appointed by President George W. Bush on Sept. 10, 2001, I just want us to be really cautious, because this strain of libertarianism that’s going through both parties right now and making big headlines, I think, is a very dangerous thought,’ he said.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/chris-christies-attack-on-the-civil-liberties-wing-of-the-gop/278128/

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House leaders defend voting against bill to rein in NSA spying

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“Republican and Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives defended their support for a spy program that sweeps up vast amounts of electronic communications after it survived a surprisingly close vote a day earlier.  Although Speaker John Boehner said he was glad the House had the debate, he was unapologetic about his vote, echoing the contention of the Obama administration and intelligence chiefs that the NSA program was essential for national security. Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House, who voted against the amendment, said Democrats voted on both sides of the resolution, but ‘stand together’ in their concerns about the program.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/25/house-leaders-defend-voting-against-bill-to-rein-in-nsa-spying/

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Republican battles for Medicaid funding turn to God and morality

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“Most Republicans oppose Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as a costly, ineffective and unnecessary expansion of government. But some Republican governors, like Arizona’s Jan Brewer and Michigan’s Rick Snyder, have broken ranks to embrace the law’s Medicaid expansion as a practical way to help the poor while infusing their state budgets with billions of dollars in federal funding to pay for it. Ohio’s John Kasich has gone further. His message of morality goes straight to the Republican Party’s allegiance to traditional American values including charity, and should resonate with religious conservatives within its influential Tea Party faction.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/26/us-usa-healthcare-medicaid-idUSBRE95P07E20130626

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The Democrats Finally Embrace Money Printing

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“Even though Quantitative Easing started in 2008, it seems as if Democrats didn’t really ‘get it’. They viewed it as a way to save the banksters’ collective bacon—they didn’t see it as the way by which the Federal government could go into limitless debt. But with Thursday’s testimony, it’s clear like a bomb blast that the Democrats finally understand what QE really means: The Federal government can go into as much deficit spending as it wishes, because the Federal Reserve will be buying the bonds that finance this deficit spending by way of QE. And now that they understand this, they are all in favor of more of it.”

http://gonzalolira.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-democrats-finally-embrace-money.html

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7 Ways The Obama Administration Has Accelerated Police Militarization

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“In many of these examples, Obama is merely continuing policies that began in previous administrations. And there are some areas where he has made progress, notably by apportioning a greater portion his anti-drug budget to treatment instead of enforcement. But in several of the examples above, he has actually stepped up the policies he inherited. Obama the candidate made some unusually frank and critical statements about the drug war, incarceration, and the criminal justice system. His drug czar then showed some rare insight into the dangers of war rhetoric when discussing domestic policing. Obama the president has been more of the same, and in some cases worse.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/10/obama-police-militarization_n_3566478.html

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Obama toasts Bush: ‘We are surely a kinder and gentler nation because of you’

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“In a rare and warm appearance, former President George H.W. Bush returned to the White House on Monday. The 89-year-old was there to hand out the 5,000th award from his ‘Points of Light’ Foundation, but the celebration also recognized the 41st president’s legacy of charity and altruism.  President Barack Obama credited the 89-year-old Bush with sparking a ‘national movement’ to advance volunteerism and community service as the 41st president of the United States, joined Obama onstage.”

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/15/19487988-obama-toasts-bush-we-are-surely-a-kinder-and-gentler-nation-because-of-you?lite

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The War on Terror Is a War on American Freedom

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“Our Democratic law professor president, a self-described progressive, has created a perfect storm. Ten years ago, liberals screamed because the Republican administration took note of what patrons checked out at the library. Today, they seem much more complacent in the face of more intimate forms of mass surveillance. Democrats once talked about prosecuting executive officials for wrongdoing. Today they muse about whether the government should jail journalists like Glenn Greenwald, U.S. columnist for the British newspaper, the Guardian, merely for providing a soapbox for whistleblowers.”

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=4670

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Farm Bill: Are Republicans the “Stupid Party” or the “Big-Government Party”…or Both?

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“It should go without saying that America’s agriculture policy has always been a terrible, stupid, counterproductive exercise in self-dealing cronyism. But when House Republicans severed the traditional connection, arbitrary but politically effective, between farm subsidies and food stamps, it briefly seemed like they were looking for an opportunity to put libertarian populist principle into practice, by separating both outlays in order to trim or reform both separately. But no — instead they were just making it easier for the party’s congressmen to vote for a bloated, awful big government program that benefits mostly-Republican states and interest groups.”

http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/are-republicans-the-stupid-party-or-the-big-government-party-or-both/

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Justin Amash amendment to defund the NSA may be circumvented by House leadership

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“House Republican leaders are considering limiting amendments to the defense bill out of concern for proposals that Amash and other lawmakers might bring forward. Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) wrote to his colleagues last week that the panel might limit amendments, a departure from the open amendment process that’s been used on the defense bill since Republicans took over in 2011.  In addition to amendments on the NSA, there are concerns about amendments tying President Obama’s hands in Syria and Egypt, according to defense sources.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-and-strategy/311057-rep-amash-vows-to-defund-nsa-surveillance-programs

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Obama Practices Trickle Down Economics?

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Obama Practices Trickle Down Economics?

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