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It truly appears that we are on the verge of a reckoning within the GOP beyond simply
the targeting of a few seats. Who will win is anyone’s guess, in part, because there are so many
Republican factions fighting each other.  Indeed, the three day Battle of Gettysburg was easier
to follow because there were only two sides, the North led by General George Meade and the
Confederates headed up by General Robert E. Lee.

The Republican Party conflict, in contrast, pits three or even four groups of combatants against
each other and features numerous battle lines. We have establishment Republicans led by people
like Peter King. There are the Tea Party Republicans featuring Ted Cruz and his cohorts. Then
there’s the libertarian wing headed by Rand Paul.

And arguably, there’s a fourth group seeking control of the GOP: the religious social conservatives
such as Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee. Although this GOP faction seems less focused on fighting
with fellow Republicans and more concerned about “women’s libidos.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's governors emerged from a meeting with President Barack Obama on Monday claiming harmony, only to immediately break into an on-camera partisan feud in front of the West Wing.


Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal lashed out first, saying if Obama were serious about growing the economy he would approve the Keystone XL pipeline project and take other executive actions.


Instead, Jindal said, Obama "seems to be waving the white flag of surrender" on the economy by focusing on raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10, up from $7.25. "The Obama economy is now the minimum wage economy. I think we can do better than that," Jindal said.


Jindal's statements were the kind that Republicans often make on television appearances or at partisan events, but don't usually come from potential presidential candidates standing yards from the Oval Office. Other governors had been instead expressing wide agreement and appreciation for the president's time. As Jindal spoke, some of his colleagues began shaking their heads, and Hawaii Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie began audibly mumbling to others around him.


Connecticut Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy took over the microphone from Jindal and responded sharply, "Wait a second, until a few moments ago we were going down a pretty cooperative road. So let me just say that we don't all agree that moving Canadian oil through the United States is necessarily the best thing for the United States economy."


Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, a Republican who chairs the National Governors Association and supports Keystone, earlier said she asked Obama when the administration would decide whether to allow it and he told her there would be an answer in the next couple months.


Malloy said Jindal's "white flag statement" was the most partisan of their weekend conference and that many governors support a minimum wage increase.


"What the heck was a reference to white flag when it comes to people making $404 a week?" Malloy snapped. "I mean, that's the most insane statement I've ever heard."


Jindal did not the back down.


"If that's the most partisan thing he's heard all weekend, I want to make sure he hears a more partisan statement," the Louisiana governor responded. "I think we can grow the economy more if we would delay more of these Obamacare mandates."


But Malloy was already walking away from the news conference. He called Jindal a "cheap shot artist" as he departed the White House grounds.


The public dispute came after Obama appealed to the governors for their help to advance his economic policies that stand little chance of winning passage on Capitol Hill.


"Even when there's little appetite in Congress to move on some of these priories, on the state level you guys are governed by practical considerations," Obama told the governors during remarks in the State Dining Room. "You want to do right by your people."


The president pressed in particular for states to act on their own to raise the minimum wage and expand access to early childhood education, two initiatives that have gained little traction in Congress since Obama first introduced them last year.


Several governors are seen as potential presidential candidates in 2016. Obama made light of the speculation about the race to replace him, saying he "enjoyed watching some of you with your eyes on higher office size up the drapes, and each other."


Not every governor met Monday with the president.


New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie left the NGA meeting early to attend his daughter's birthday and prepare for a budget address.


Facing multiple investigations in a political-retribution probe in New Jersey, the Republican leader also skipped a Monday news conference by the Republican Governors Association, which he leads.


Jindal shrugged off Christie's absence from the news conference, declaring that the RGA is "more important than just any one governor."


Asked about his own presidential ambitions, Jindal responded, "My honest answer is I don't know what I'm going to be doing in 2016."

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the old boy is rolling over dead and the b**ch is entering the arena

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W H A T ??????
Speak English!!!!

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Pootwattle, the Virtual Academic(TM), says:
The fallacy of empowerment is, in the most fundamental sense, the engendering of
autonomous phenomena.

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Pootwattle's wide-ranging study of the relationship between the fallacy of empowerment
and the engendering of autonomous phenomena perhaps overstates the influence of Kinbote.

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the GOP is going to have a sex change...from the good ole boys

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This is a demoralizing moment for combatants on the conservative side of the culture
war. Every few days, it seems, a judge strikes down a state statute or constitutional amendment
banning gay marriage. (The latest was in Texas.) The Supreme Court (or rather, Justice Anthony
Kennedy) seems poised to nationalize gay marriage at any time. And of course there's the defeat
of Arizona's anti-gay bill. The desperate effort of Arizona lawmakers to pass such a law in the
first place (along with a similar ill-fated attempt in Kansas) recently inspired Andrew Sullivan to
remark that we're living through the "death throes of the anti-gay movement."

That may well be right. But what if we're living through something even more significant? A
poll released this week by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute reinforces what
a series of surveys have shown for years: An incredibly rapid and far-reaching shift toward public
acceptance of both homosexuality and gay marriage. Indeed, PRRI's new numbers are so stunning
that they inspired conservative culture warrior Rod Dreher to declare in no uncertain terms that
"the culture war is over. The other side won."

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~~~ Yes, President Obama is right.
The 113th Congress will be the least productive in history.~~~




Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....ve-ever-is-he-right/

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Good job box!  Your democracy is working!  As a believer in democracy, the 113th congress is reflective of the will on the people.