Don't try telling that to this exuberant volunteer with an infectious laugh. "Girl,it ain't no less exciting," Weaver tells me as table mates egg her on. "It was important enough for me to come out of my house when it's cold."Suddenly the Maryland publicist stopped joking and collected her thoughts. "You want me to go deep?" she asked. "Our forefathers died for us to be here."Walking to one of the two inaugural balls on this Martin Luther King Jr. Day revealed that nearly all the passersby were African-American. There were a few boarded-up row houses in the lower-middle-income neighborhood,empty lots marked by razor wire and a homeless man's clothes strewn on a front stoop.
This "progressive Tea Party" approach made its appearance on a smaller scale in a recent special Congressional Election in Illinois. Greg Sargent:Bloomberg's PAC wasn't the only group that sought to swing the race. A number of liberal organizations and online groups also got involved: CREDO Super PAC did on the ground organizing against Halvorson; DailyKos raised money for her; Democracy for America also raised money and contributed phone banking; and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee did some last minute organizing. The success of this effort is likely to encourage such groups to look for other "gun rights" Dems to target."As long as Democrats and Republicans keep voting with the NRA instead of their constituents,you will see progressive groups like CREDO,DFA and the Daily Kos community continue to make the NRA a major factor in our election organizing — including in Democratic primaries — going forward," Becky Bond,the president of the CREDO Super PAC,tells me.
The only fault is that some of the dialogue seems a little stilted, as in people don't really talk like this in real life. This may be accentuated by the translation and of course real life conversations would likely be more boring and less revealing. R042 11 September 2013 9:05am Having finished The Tale of Murasaki, which was rather good if only because it encouraged me to read more about the Heian period, I've begun reading HHhH by Laurent Binet. It's fascinating. Last week's thread brought up Tristram Shandy and HHhH almost evokes it in many ways - a digressive narrator obsessed with finding the correct and most comprehensive way to depict events. capebretoner 10 September 2013 11:46pm I have just finished Nightwalk by Chris Yates I liked it a lot .
I'll post a summary soon.8.45am: Here's some Twitter reaction to Ed Miliband's Today interview.From ConservativeHome's Tim MontgomerieClear from that Ed Miliband interview that he's a centraliser -- opposing regionalised pay and Gove's schools reforms— Tim Montgomerie (@TimMontgomerie) April 26, 2012From the Telegraph's Iain MartinV good @EvanHD interview with ED M on @BBCr4today - beyond the fuss of the moment,
marc by marc jacobs tote, very revealing. At root Ed really loves the big state— Iain Martin (@iainmartin1) April 26, 2012From Michael Dugher, the shadow Cabinet Office minister@iainmartin1 Ed pro-academies but wants to see a stronger local role and give more powers to heads. Sounds like your cup of tea, Iain.
? Robert Winnett and James Kirkup in the Daily Telegraph say the government will impose new restrictions on the bonuses in the public sector.Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, and Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, have written to all government departments asking them to review their bonus structures. In future, bonuses should only be paid for "genuine excellence" and not "run-of-the-mill performance" after it emerged that up to a quarter of officials automatically qualified for rewards.Mr Alexander told The Daily Telegraph that the review would ensure that there was no suggestion of "rewards for failure" in publicly-funded bodies."The idea is to look at the levers government has, to make sure that the remuneration rules are fit for purpose and command public confidence," he said.
Their aim is to persuade the US and sceptical investors that the zone has the political will, and the cohesion, to ride out the storm.Who would they lend it to? Why, to underfunded banks which urgently need recapitalisation as their debts to southern eurozone countries, most conspicuously Greece,
marc jacobs wallets, look dodgier by the day and less likely than ever to be repaid in full.There is a circularity to all this – governments with their own huge debt problems lending more money to the banks whose debt problems triggered the crisis.The ECB has been buying more debt to maintain confidence in what we now call the "PIGS" economies – Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain. Or is that I for Italy now? It's so hard to keep up, and the Irish are recovering better than feared,
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I follow it pretty closely and feel like I have a sense of the pulse. But this shocked even me. Check out the immigration answer. A slight majority believes the party's immigration position is off base. And among that majority,twice as many think the party's position is not conservative enough as think it's too conservative. What would be more conservative? Round 'em up and throw 'em the fuck out,I guess.These people really have created an out-of-control Frankenstein in this base. Although now that I think about it I'm not wild about that analogy,because doesn't Frankenstein kill the doctor or something? Doesn't bode well for the body politic. In any case,unbelievable.
Sir Alec Douglas-Home, of course, told people in Scotland they could vote no in 1979 to devolution and they would get a much better form of devolution from the Tories. What happened to Scotland was 17 years of Conservative government from London. We got fooled once on that particular prospectus. If the prime minister has an offer to make to the people of Scotland then he should make it now. He should spell it out now so we can have a clear decision on the alternative futures for Scotland. This idea of saying, well, vote no and we'll give you something later, I don't think is going to convince anyone in Scotland, and I think the prime minister - as a new tack, that he's just adopted this morning - is on very, very shaky ground if he believes people in Scotland will be fooled again.
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