| Jamelle Bouie: What could we expect from a President Romney? Oct 29th 2012, 15:48 The Boston Globe has a short compendium of Mitt Romney's various shifts to the "center," made over the last two months of the presidential campaign. In February, for instance, Romney announced his full support of the Blunt Amendment, which would allow employers to deny coverage of contraceptives based off of "religious or moral convictions." During the second presidential debate, however, Romney turned his back on that position, telling Americans that he doesn't "believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care of not." Read full article >>   |  | Jennifer Rubin: Doesn't Obama owe us answers? Oct 29th 2012, 15:45 Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) weighed in on whether the president made the decision not to send forces into rescue the Americans under siege for seven hours in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012: As he has done since the Libya fiasco began to unfold, the president is refusing to say what he ordered (or didn't order) done to save our people on Sept. 11, 2012. There is no excuse for this reticence; he doesn't need an investigation to tell him what he did. Read full article >>   | | Hurricane Sandy's 'rogue wave' attacks CBS reporter Oct 29th 2012, 14:58 CBS News reporter Chip Reid called it a "rogue wave." Whatever you call it, it caused some difficulties for Reid and his setup in Ocean City, Md. "The camera is the only thing that didn't go down into the two feet of water in which we had been standing." There's really no such thing, of course, as a "rogue wave" in a once-in-a-lifetime storm, something that Reid appeared to have acknowledged in his chat with "CBS This Morning." Read full article >>   | | Jennifer Rubin: Obama's biggest failures and successes Oct 29th 2012, 14:30 President Obama may be in be final months of his presidency or just nearing the end of his first term. If you asked conservatives to name the worst thing Obama has done in his presidency, many would say Obamacare or the debt. Some might say the deterioration in the U.S.-Israel relationship or the Libya debacle. But these things can be ameliorated by future presidents and lawmakers. There are some things however that are not so easily erased, and in the long term may be far more detrimental to the United States and the West. Read full article >>   | | Alexandra Petri: Weathering the Frankenstorm Oct 29th 2012, 14:25 10) Panic. You wanted to buy water? Well, too bad. By the time you made it to the store to buy water, all the water was gone and there was only one Highlander left, standing over a pile of prone forms that he had bludgeoned into submission with a container of yogurt. In wealthier areas of town, there were runs on seltzer and Perrier, and several butlers were injured in the stampede. Read full article >>   | | Sandy, Obama and Romney Oct 29th 2012, 14:15 As work and school are canceled today, and Sandy has already zapped our power, there is a lot of time to speculate on the possible political implications of 50 million Americans being really angry right before they go to the polls. Natural disasters often follow a pattern: Hype, consequences of actual event, intense media focus on the worst, relief among many that it wasn't worse for them, some initial good cheer and even joy at a routine interrupted — how many babies named Sandy may be conceived in the next 72 hours, how many families rediscovering card games, children reading by candle light, friends acting naughty on an unexpected and very long weekend? But then, if the power stays out or the basement floods, or the street is closed from flooding or downed trees, it gets old in a hurry, and many people move from relief through stoicism to anger. Read full article >>   | | The politics of the storm Oct 29th 2012, 13:50 The political impact of the storm of 2012 is still uncertain, but it probably gives President Obama an advantage. First and most obviously, natural disasters allow presidents to present themselves as commanding and coming to the aid of endangered Americans. Simply put, the president can direct people and resources to those in need and serve as the nation's voice in expressing sympathy, concern and determination for our fellow citizens who need our collective help. Read full article >>   | | Jennifer Rubin: Friday question answered Oct 29th 2012, 13:45 Who wins the presidential race and by what margin in Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Colorado? Not surprisingly, partisans on each side predicted their man would sweep these five states. The most interesting reader responses in the hundreds on this one took a bigger picture view of the race and polling in general. Read full article >>   | | Jennifer Rubin: Iowa shaken up Oct 29th 2012, 12:45 At least in Iowa, and potentially in other locales in the heavily contested Midwest, the Des Moines Register's endorsement of Mitt Romney shook up both campaigns. This was the most prominent, certainly left-of center editorial board (which had not endorsed a Republican since Richard Nixon in 1972) in a deadlocked state abandoning President Obama, whom it endorsed in 2008. The message both to voters and from voters (who reportedly influence the endorsement) was in effect: It's fine to dump him. The editorial board issued a stunning rebuke to the incumbent president: Read full article >>   | | Jennifer Rubin: Morning Bits Oct 29th 2012, 11:45 More proof of an organized jihadist attack. "It began around nightfall on Sept. 11 with around 150 bearded gunmen, some wearing the Afghan-style tunics favored by Islamic militants, sealing off the streets leading to the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. They set up roadblocks with pick-up trucks mounted with heavy machine guns, according to witnesses. . . .Within 24 hours of the attack, both the embassy in Tripoli and the CIA station chief sent word to Washington that it was a planned militant attack. Still, days later, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, said the attack began as a spontaneous protest over the film." Read full article >>   | | Once and for all Oct 29th 2012, 11:15 Nobody says once and for all anymore. Appropriate. Of course there never was a once and for all, but it seemed that way, once. Or it seems now that it must have seemed that way. The sands in the hour glass, when there actually still WERE hourglasses, used to run through a little narrow place, that slowed the sand down, so Dorothy had some time to think about her dire situation when the wicked witch thumped the terrifying apparatus on the table in front of her. Is my train of thought starting to wander already? Yes, and I'm just getting started. Stay with me here. Now the hourglass is shaped like a family-size can of tomato paste, and we are inside of it and the wind is picking up and now we're in a howling sandstorm of contingency and change and our feet are mired in the tomato paste. People are unsettled by it all. Read full article >>   | |
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