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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-01-10
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2013-01-10 http://t.co/rtauEhOr 21:01:45, 2013-01-10
- Political History / For Richard M. Nixon's 100th celebration. http://t.co/nz3Tgz9d #tcot 19:58:45, 2013-01-10
- @TWCableHelp Is cable service out in West Thousand Oaks? My tv and Internet have been out for 30 minutes in reply to TWCableHelp 18:41:35, 2013-01-10
- For Richard M. Nixon's 100th celebration. – http://t.co/WmJcZtwH #tcot 16:14:45, 2013-01-10
- Flap's California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2013-01-09 – Flap's California Blog http://t.co/1a01zUL1 #tcot 05:26:53, 2013-01-10
- Flap's Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-01-09 – Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/iQIngaxD #tcot 05:26:53, 2013-01-10
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2013-01-09 http://t.co/2vRttVUr 04:02:48, 2013-01-10
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-01-09 http://t.co/lONbzDT8 #tcot 03:06:19, 2013-01-10
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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-01-09
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2013-01-09 – Locum Tenens (Temporary) Dentist – Gregory Cole, D.D.S. http://t.co/k4iaZ5GV #tcot 21:43:05, 2013-01-09
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2013-01-09 http://t.co/LuY2KMGg 21:03:22, 2013-01-09
- Why things might not be as bad as they look for Republicans — in 3 charts http://t.co/9dDZMvWt #tcot 18:15:31, 2013-01-09
- California lawmaker pushes driver's licenses for more illegal immigrants – http://t.co/5MtdTc2x http://t.co/OCSOTDZD #tcot 18:15:31, 2013-01-09
- Video – Breaking News Videos from http://t.co/briKk6fF http://t.co/uZLbjpe9 #tcot 18:15:31, 2013-01-09
- RT @dphaw: All this time the left has been claiming Bush squandered Clinton's "surplus" & all we had to do was make a coin?! 17:09:07, 2013-01-09
- California Assemblyman Roger Hernandez Dodges Another Flap http://t.co/THwEmvau 15:43:47, 2013-01-09
- California lawmaker pushes driver's licenses for more illegal immigrants http://t.co/OCSOTDZD 15:42:05, 2013-01-09
- RT @cnnhealth: Severe flu kills 18 children this season, @DrSanjayGupta reports http://t.co/4KEIDAHu 15:41:58, 2013-01-09
- California Assemblyman Roger Hernandez Dodges Another Flap http://t.co/hlrOBmOj 15:36:01, 2013-01-09
- “Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”
? Dean Karnazes
Happy Wednesday! 15:20:50, 2013-01-09
- Day By Day January 9, 2013 – Back Door Man http://t.co/uN9KdXoE #tcot 15:13:26, 2013-01-09
- ADA Launches Dental Symptom Checker at http://t.co/pqqZwbqy http://t.co/r7B12MuQ 14:49:13, 2013-01-09
- Baseball Hall of Fame 2013: Nobody voted in, Craig Biggio leads vote – MLB Daily Dish http://t.co/LrWFhQCk #tcot 12:26:58, 2013-01-09
- RT @sbnation: For just the eighth time in MLB history, no one was inducted to the Hall of Fame http://t.co/5xI1fwyJ via @mlbdailydish 11:09:04, 2013-01-09
- Flap's California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2013-01-08 – Flap's California Blog http://t.co/4nRFgNv0 #tcot 06:20:30, 2013-01-09
- Flap's Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-01-08 – Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/WzewmH4J #tcot 06:20:30, 2013-01-09
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2013-01-08 http://t.co/LmMImXl3 04:03:50, 2013-01-09
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-01-08 http://t.co/DTfl2GS7 #tcot 03:01:11, 2013-01-09
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Day By Day January 9, 2013 – Back Door Man
Chris, it is difficult to tell the difference between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, isn’t it?
Maybe the spontaneous whining and crying will give it away.
The President has been smart though to not bother Boehner with the backdoor – but front and center.
Obama has been playing Boehner like a fiddle – to the detriment of his Republican colleagues.
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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-01-08
- Capitol Alert: Speaker Pérez modifies Assembly restrictions on press access http://t.co/59Typb5H #tcot 22:45:35, 2013-01-08
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2013-01-08 – Locum Tenens (Temporary) Dentist – Gregory Cole, D.D.S. http://t.co/HhA9NnZO #tcot 21:20:41, 2013-01-08
- Capitol Alert: Speaker Pérez modifies Assembly restrictions on press access http://t.co/2MRRo8en #tcot 21:20:41, 2013-01-08
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2013-01-08 http://t.co/p0IkgFA5 21:08:10, 2013-01-08
- Say Anything Iowa Lawmaker on 'Semi-Automatic' Firearms: 'I Think We Need to Start Taking Them' » Say Anything http://t.co/5Q5YS8ch #tcot 18:50:13, 2013-01-08
- Capitol Alert: Speaker Pérez modifies Assembly restrictions on press access http://t.co/z5aekQfc #tcot 18:50:13, 2013-01-08
- Dodger Stadium remodel includes wider concourses, new scoreboards – http://t.co/5MtdTc2x http://t.co/ZFF7qlPF #tcot 18:50:13, 2013-01-08
- RT @robport: Iowa Lawmaker on ‘Semi-Automatic’ Firearms: ‘I Think We Need to Start Taking Them’ http://t.co/ePwPJorE 18:36:04, 2013-01-08
- Speaker Pérez modifies Assembly restrictions on press access http://t.co/XDmhY0E8 18:28:24, 2013-01-08
- Dodger Stadium remodel includes wider concourses, new scoreboards http://t.co/ZFF7qlPF 18:28:24, 2013-01-08
- The Three Stooges of the Obama Administration Via Michael Ramirez http://t.co/HFrwvTn5 #tcot 18:15:09, 2013-01-08
- Cuomo Close To Announcing Massive New Gun Control Laws http://t.co/capOsbIt #tcot 18:10:20, 2013-01-08
- Why Hagel Was Picked – To Cut Military Spending and Save Medicare http://t.co/oRPk3Yq7 #tcot 18:10:20, 2013-01-08
- Horse-racing gambler funding pro-Hagel campaign http://t.co/KL4ci80B #tcot 15:31:14, 2013-01-08
- Moderate Republican group to remove ‘Republican’ from name, welcome Democrats http://t.co/Raf122jN #tcot 15:31:14, 2013-01-08
- NYC gun owners named on Gawker http://t.co/6xiW7MY3 #tcot 15:31:13, 2013-01-08
- RT @politico: NYC gun owners named on @Gawker: http://t.co/YuGLPtw5 13:43:53, 2013-01-08
- Video: Jerry Brown is Raring to Go http://t.co/In163qCe 13:04:31, 2013-01-08
- Legislation adds a paid holiday to California government calendar http://t.co/R5XGqwTG 12:48:13, 2013-01-08
- Charlie Sheen: Mayor Villaraigosa Is Lying — We Partied For Hours http://t.co/2q8dfDrt 12:48:13, 2013-01-08
- Byron York: GOP may use debt ceiling to force Harry Reid to pass budget | http://t.co/D2rHhz9A http://t.co/8zksGWNH #tcot 11:11:02, 2013-01-08
- Byron York: GOP may use debt ceiling to force Harry Reid to pass budget | http://t.co/D2rHhz9A http://t.co/LspPhUS8 #tcot 10:35:38, 2013-01-08
- Shootings Prompt New Gun Bill | NBC Bay Area http://t.co/DCIEeszj #tcot 10:35:38, 2013-01-08
- Lack of interpreters hampers farmworkers’ health | HealthyCal http://t.co/HYYyGSGy #tcot 10:35:38, 2013-01-08
- The Morning Flap: January 8, 2013 – Flap's Blog http://t.co/atDYAqP0 #tcot 09:10:26, 2013-01-08
- Byron York: GOP may use debt ceiling to force Harry Reid to pass budget | http://t.co/D2rHhz9A http://t.co/lBkyK2r9 #tcot 09:10:26, 2013-01-08
- Lack of Spanish Interpreters hampers farmworkers' health http://t.co/HYYyGSGy 08:16:39, 2013-01-08
- Shootings Prompt New California Gun Bill http://t.co/QpYJblgx 08:16:39, 2013-01-08
- Robert Hertzberg endorses Feuer, leaving Trutanich http://t.co/cwvu0w5u 08:16:38, 2013-01-08
- The Morning Flap: January 8, 2013 http://t.co/DkSQHybt #tcot 07:48:26, 2013-01-08
- Hospital Opens Emergency Tent in Midst of Increasing Flu Cases http://t.co/AKk1U4kd #tcot 07:47:58, 2013-01-08
- GOP may use debt ceiling to force Harry Reid to pass budget http://t.co/zMewCqJa #tcot 07:47:58, 2013-01-08
- ObamaCare: Fast-Food Worker Hours Cut, New Health Care Law Blamed http://t.co/RZBjiBVe #tcot 07:47:58, 2013-01-08
- The California Flap: January 8, 2013 http://t.co/qf9B2mF9 07:16:38, 2013-01-08
- U.S. Supreme Court to hear Proposition 8 arguments on March 26 http://t.co/PA2RLHrP 06:06:27, 2013-01-08
- Brown fails to produce prison plan, seeks end of court control http://t.co/V3BHTz7S 06:06:26, 2013-01-08
- NRCC Mocks Democrats Over Trillion Dollar Coin http://t.co/BCf5kQ1s #tcot 05:59:27, 2013-01-08
- Obama's CIA nominee to face tough questions about ‘enhanced interrogation’ http://t.co/4dG4ABRN #tcot 05:38:11, 2013-01-08
- GOP sees Chuck Hagel pick as chance for payback http://t.co/oDx7KODA #tcot 05:38:10, 2013-01-08
- An appreciation: Richard Ben Cramer's masterpiece http://t.co/yy8eZPfR #tcot 05:38:10, 2013-01-08
- RT @politicalwire Richard Ben Cramer, author of the greatest campaign book of all time, dies at 62
http://t.co/I4iUjsTP 05:19:43, 2013-01-08 - RT @thehill Democrats say courts should resolve debt-limit standoff http://t.co/9YfCZ3ri by @alexanderbolton 05:03:04, 2013-01-08
- Ask yourself this question: "Will this matter a year from now?"
–Richard Carlson
Happy Tuesday! 04:55:52, 2013-01-08
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2013-01-07 http://t.co/2dhWRL4Y 04:03:41, 2013-01-08
- Flap's Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-01-07 – Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/bvLOZ5Kz #tcot 03:42:18, 2013-01-08
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-01-07 http://t.co/BOFyfpqr #tcot 03:03:23, 2013-01-08
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The Three Stooges of the Obama Administration Via Michael Ramirez
Source: investors.com via Gregory Flap on Pinterest
If the Republicans allow RINO Chuck Hagel to be confirmed, the military will surely decline.
Even New York Times columnist David Brooks understands what Obama is doing with the Chuck Hagel appointment.
As the federal government becomes a health care state, there will have to be a generation of defense cuts that overwhelm anything in recent history. Keep in mind how brutal the budget pressure is going to be. According to the Government Accountability Office, if we act on entitlements today, we will still have to cut federal spending by 32 percent and raise taxes by 46 percent over the next 75 years to meet current obligations. If we postpone action for another decade, then we have to cut all non-interest federal spending by 37 percent and raise all taxes by 54 percent.
As this sort of crunch gradually tightens, Medicare will be the last to go. Spending on things like Head Start, scientific research and defense will go quicker. These spending cuts will transform America’s stature in the world, making us look a lot more like Europe today. This is why Adm. Mike Mullen called the national debt the country’s biggest security threat.
Chuck Hagel has been nominated to supervise the beginning of this generation-long process of defense cutbacks. If a Democratic president is going to slash defense, he probably wants a Republican at the Pentagon to give him political cover, and he probably wants a decorated war hero to boot.
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The Morning Flap: January 8, 2013
These are my links for January 7th through January 8th:
- Hospital Opens Emergency Tent in Midst of Increasing Flu Cases – It’s the most miserable time of the year for many people in the area. Flu season is in full effect and this one in particular is shaping up to be more extreme than usual.The State Department of Health reports that four Pennsylvanians have already died of complications from the influenza virus.In response to the early start of flu season, the Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest had to open an emergency space to care for the increased number of people with flu-like symptoms.The hospital tells NBC10’s Katy Zachry why the tent was erected.
“If we can remove them from the main ED and put them in environment where everyone is masked and everyone can be protected, it’s safer for them and certainly safer for the staff,” said Terry Burger, hospital director of infection control
- GOP may use debt ceiling to force Harry Reid to pass budget – Tuesday marks the 1,350th day since the Senate passed a budget. The law requires Congress to pass a budget every year, on the grounds that Americans deserve to know how the government plans to spend the trillions of taxpayer dollars it collects, along with dollars it borrows at the taxpayers’ expense. But Majority Leader Harry Reid, who last allowed a budget through the Senate in April 2009, has ignored the law since then.There’s no mystery why. The budget passed by large Democratic majorities in the first months of the Obama administration had hugely elevated levels of spending in it. By not passing a new spending plan since, Reid has in effect made those levels the new budgetary baseline. Congress has kept the government going with continuing resolutions based on the last budget signed into law.While Reid has forbidden action, the House has passed budgets as required. Senate Democrats have been highly critical of those budgets, designed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. But under Reid’s leadership, Democrats have steadfastly refused to come up with a plan of their own.
- ObamaCare: Fast-Food Worker Hours Cut, New Health Care Law Blamed – A fast-food chain is slashing employee hours so franchise owners don’t have to pay health benefits. Around 100 local Wendy’s workers have learned their hours are being cut. A spokesperson says a new health care law is to blame.“Thirty-six to 37 hours a week.” That’s how many hours T.J. Growbeck works at the 84th and Giles Wendy’s restaurant. The money he earns helps him pay for the basics, but that’s not the case for all his co-workers. “There are some people doing it trying to get by.”The company has announced that all non-management positions will have their hours reduced to 28 a week. Gary Burdette, Vice President of Operations for the local franchise, says the cuts are coming because the new Affordable Health Care Act requires employers to offer health insurance to employees working 32-38 hours a week. Under the current law they are not considered full time and that as a small business owner, he can’t afford to stay in operation and pay for everyone’s health insurance.
- Obama’s CIA nominee to face tough questions about ‘enhanced interrogation’ – President Obama’s pick to head the CIA could face a rough road to confirmation in the Senate due to his involvement in the “enhanced interrogation” techniques of the George W. Bush administration.The president on Monday announced he would nominate John Brennan, the White House’s counterterrorism chief, to lead the top spy agency following the recent departure of David Petraeus.
- GOP sees Chuck Hagel pick as chance for payback – As the tactical skirmishing begins over Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be secretary of defense, the short-term political calculus from 30,000 feet clearly favors Republicans: Hagel’s confirmation hearings are a potential boon for the GOP and a source of queasiness for pro-Israel Democrats, despite the historically long odds of blunting a presidential pick.
- An appreciation: Richard Ben Cramer’s masterpiece – I don’t recall the first time I read “What It Takes,” but I knew exactly where to find it on my bookshelf Monday night upon hearing the awful news that Richard Ben Cramer had died.It’s insufficient to say that Cramer’s 1,047-page tour de force on the 1988 presidential race is the best book ever written about a campaign. It is that. But what makes it so valuable, so rewarding, just so much damn fun is that it illustrates why politics and journalism is so much damn fun.
- Hagel’s Views Do Matter – Suppose a president were to request an assessment of a hypothetical strike on Iran. Suppose the secretary of defense delivers to him a plan requiring the insertion of US ground forces into Iranian cities to be sure of destroying relevant facilities. That “plan” is as much a veto of a strike as any decision.Donald Rumsfeld enabled the Iraq war by producing estimates it could be won with as few as 135,000 troops. Had he instead on 300,000, the war would not have occurred: it would have seemed too heavy a lift. (As indeed it proved.)A Secretary Hagel could similarly thwart policies he disapproved of by magnifying their cost and difficulty. That’s why his views matter, and that’s why it’s so disingenuous to claim they do not.
- Gabrielle Giffords launches anti-gun website – Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband on Tuesday unveiled a new anti-gun violence initiative – two years after she was shot in the head at an event with constituents in Tucson, Arizona.Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, are behind Americans for Responsible Solutions, an effort that “will encourage elected officials to stand up for solutions to prevent gun violence and protect responsible gun ownership by communicating directly with the constituents that elect them,” according to the newly launched website, which is paid for by the Americans for Responsible Solutions PAC.
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-01-07 – Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-01-07 #tcot
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2013-01-07 – Locum Tenens (Temporary) Dentist – Gregory Cole, D.D.S. – My Daily Twitter Digest for 2013-01-07
- Fighting the Flu With Social Media – Fighting the Flu With Social Media
- Chuck Hagel: The Armed Services Committee whip list – Seven of the 12 Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee have already expressed some opposition to Chuck Hagel, mere hours after the former Nebraska GOP senator was officially nominated to be Defense Secretary.Hagel doesn’t technically need any GOP votes to advance beyond the committee, on which Democrats hold a 14-12 majority, but some Democrats have also suggested they are hesitant to confirm him.Five of 14 Democrats on the committee have so far suggested they are either going to vote for Hagel or are leaning toward voting for him. Four others have withheld judgment and the rest haven’t spoken out publicly.Here’s how it breaks down so far
- Chuck Hagel’s chances — in 3 charts – As Chuck Hagel, the former Nebraska senator and now President Obama’s nominee for secretary of defense, gears up for his confirmation process in the Senate, there is at least a possibility that he won’t be cleared by the upper chamber to head up the Pentagon.Just how often does the Senate oppose a Cabinet nominee to the point that he or she is rejected or withdraws? And for what reasons? Thanks to a research paper from James D. King, who heads the political science department at the University of Wyoming, we have the answers to these questions.We encourage you to read the entire report, from which we’ve plucked out some charts illustrating three truths about the Cabinet confirmation process – two of which The Fix’s Aaron Blake also noted in a recent post — that reveal both good and bad news for Hagel’s odds:1) The vast majority of individuals whom presidents nominate to their Cabinets are confirmed by the Senate.
2) The defense secretary post has tended to be a source of very little controversy.
3) Public policy issues account for much of the opposition in the confirmation process.
- Fiscal Cliff Poll: Obama Seen as Victor But What About the Legislation? – Flap’s Blog – Fiscal Cliff Poll: Obama Seen as Victor But What About the Legislation? #tcot
- Capitol Alert: Darrell Steinberg announces CA Senate committee assignments – Capitol Alert: Darrell Steinberg announces CA Senate committee assignments #tcot
- Lawmakers return to work, get assignments – 95 percent accurate – Lawmakers return to work, get assignments
- The Republicans’ Asian Problem – The Republicans’ Asian Problem
- Capitol Alert: Darrell Steinberg announces CA Senate committee assignments – Darrell Steinberg announces CA Senate committee assignments
- Los Angeles Public Television Icon Huell Howser Has Passed Away – Los Angeles Public Television Icon Huell Howser Has Passed Away
- I Got 99 Senators—but Chuck Hagel Ain’t One | Washington Free Beacon – RT @philipaklein: RT @FreeBeacon: 99 Senators signed statement against anti-Semitism—except Chuck Hagel
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: The Daily Extraction: January 7, 2013 – The Daily Extraction: January 7, 2013
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Dentist Melvin Ehrlich Facing Pornography Charges Suspends Practice – Dentist Melvin Ehrlich Facing Pornography Charges Suspends Practice
- Day By Day January 7, 2013 – Rattle Hymn of the Republic – Flap’s Blog – Day By Day January 7, 2013 – Rattle Hymn of the Republic #tcot
- Topsy-turvy Hagel politics – President Obama wants to get credit for bipartisanship, so he picks a Republican defense secretary who will garner few if any Republican votes. He walks away from a politically loyal African American woman for secretary of state (whose nomination would open up his political liabilities) but goes forward with a white, Republican man (whose nomination puts gobs of Senate Republicans in an untenable spot). The two groups of Democrats (gays and Jews) who turned out in droves for him watch a nomination proceed with someone who had tried to exclude gays from government and accused Jews of dual loyalty.
- Obama’s Hagelian imperative – Presidents define themselves in large measure by the fights they pick, especially if these fights create tension with members of their own party or base. By nominating Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense, President Obama has picked a fight that most would consider unnecessary, and that fight puts him in tension with some Democratic Senators and a portion of his base.He thus defines himself. Not as a president who wants to tilt away from Israel and away from confrontation with Iran; Obama can (and I would argue has) defined himself that way without nominating Hagel. Rather, he defines himself as wanting publicly to stick it to Israel and its strongest U.S. supporters – to rub their faces in his redirection of U.S. policy. As Lindsey Graham says, this is an “in your face” nomination.
- Mr. Hagel and the Jews – During the hearings on Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be secretary of defense, it’s clear that the views of gay rights organizations will be heard. There the issue seems to be whether Hagel’s apology for previous remarks and beliefs was sincere, or motivated solely by self-interest. He had years to apologize publicly, but did so only when opposition from gay rights groups threatened his nomination.
- 8 questions for Chuck Hagel | AEIdeas – RT @JimPethokoukis: 8 (pointed) questions for Chuck Hagel
- The California Flap: January 7, 2013 – Flap’s California Blog – The California Flap: January 7, 2013 #tcot
- Hospital Opens Emergency Tent in Midst of Increasing Flu Cases – It’s the most miserable time of the year for many people in the area. Flu season is in full effect and this one in particular is shaping up to be more extreme than usual.The State Department of Health reports that four Pennsylvanians have already died of complications from the influenza virus.In response to the early start of flu season, the Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest had to open an emergency space to care for the increased number of people with flu-like symptoms.The hospital tells NBC10’s Katy Zachry why the tent was erected.
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NRCC Mocks Democrats Over Trillion Dollar Coin
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) wants to remind Americans that the government spending is the problem.
The National Republican Congressional Committee will announce an online petition today urging House Democrats to say they don’t think a $1 trillion coin should be minted to pay down the debt. It’s an attempt to get some earned media ahead of the debt ceiling fight and center the conversation on the deficit. Seven Democrats will be targeted with customized releases (photos of their faces on $1 trillion coins), including Jim Matheson (UT-04), Mike McIntyre (NC-07), Collin Peterson (MN-07), Tim Walz (MN-01), Jerrold Nadler (NY-10) and Nick Rahall (WV-03).
The website is here.
Check it out and sign the petition.
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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-01-07
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2013-01-07 – Locum Tenens (Temporary) Dentist – Gregory Cole, D.D.S. http://t.co/6LlK8GZ5 #tcot 21:55:57, 2013-01-07
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2013-01-07 http://t.co/WIDbTodR 21:14:08, 2013-01-07
- Fighting the Flu With Social Media http://t.co/vTdo6kOW #tcot 17:41:24, 2013-01-07
- Fighting the Flu With Social Media http://t.co/qrUJneLx 17:32:09, 2013-01-07
- Chuck Hagel: The Armed Services Committee whip list http://t.co/Ps7s0Mha #tcot 16:13:26, 2013-01-07
- Chuck Hagel’s chances — in 3 charts http://t.co/jrebhcyS #tcot 16:13:26, 2013-01-07
- Fiscal Cliff Poll: Obama Seen as Victor But What About the Legislation? – Flap's Blog http://t.co/Pdnt1NLa #tcot 16:13:25, 2013-01-07
- Fiscal Cliff Poll: Obama Seen as Victor But What About the Legislation? http://t.co/QY0Fur2l #tcot 15:34:11, 2013-01-07
- Capitol Alert: Darrell Steinberg announces CA Senate committee assignments http://t.co/8iTmH3B0 #tcot 14:52:49, 2013-01-07
- Capitol Alert: Darrell Steinberg announces CA Senate committee assignments http://t.co/QFnlRHMo #tcot 14:18:06, 2013-01-07
- Lawmakers return to work, get assignments – 95 percent accurate http://t.co/WQxHCrtU #tcot 13:42:09, 2013-01-07
- Capitol Alert: Darrell Steinberg announces CA Senate committee assignments http://t.co/94rXgXvH #tcot 13:42:08, 2013-01-07
- The Republicans' Asian Problem http://t.co/OMLUDJ7e #tcot 13:42:08, 2013-01-07
- The Republicans' Asian Problem http://t.co/OMLUDJ7e 13:27:13, 2013-01-07
- Darrell Steinberg announces CA Senate committee assignments http://t.co/XX7OfiUp 13:27:13, 2013-01-07
- Lawmakers return to work, get assignments http://t.co/WQxHCrtU 13:27:13, 2013-01-07
- RT @KevinFerguson: Spokesperson: @KCET plans to air a special report on Howser's life during @SoCalConnected tonight at 5:30pm. Will con … 13:14:18, 2013-01-07
- Los Angeles Public Television Icon Huell Howser Has Passed Away http://t.co/PYN4A0QO 13:07:01, 2013-01-07
- The California Flap: January 7, 2013 http://t.co/ISPLYgFY 13:07:01, 2013-01-07
- I Got 99 Senators—but Chuck Hagel Ain’t One | Washington Free Beacon http://t.co/VZqENoZB #tcot 11:40:21, 2013-01-07
- Flap's Dentistry Blog: The Daily Extraction: January 7, 2013 http://t.co/YNHYOGcG #tcot 11:40:20, 2013-01-07
- Flap's Dentistry Blog: Dentist Melvin Ehrlich Facing Pornography Charges Suspends Practice http://t.co/nHggmTkr #tcot 11:40:20, 2013-01-07
- RT @ShaneGoldmacher: Deb Fischer, the newest GOP senator from Nebraska, also issues noncommital statement: "This process will be thorou … 10:32:59, 2013-01-07
- RT @philipaklein: RT @FreeBeacon: 99 Senators signed statement against anti-Semitism—except Chuck Hagel http://t.co/ADanZBVA 10:23:29, 2013-01-07
- RT @tedcruz: Hagel is not right choice for SecDef & if nominated, it is difficult to imagine any way I could support confirmation: … 10:22:52, 2013-01-07
- RT @ali: Hagel is going down. Why? The GOP needs a win and Hagel is ripe. 10:17:07, 2013-01-07
- RT @philipaklein: Hagel refused to sign letter naming Hezbollah as terrorist org, but did sign letter urging talks with Hamas http://t.c … 10:16:58, 2013-01-07
- The Daily Extraction: January 7, 2013 http://t.co/XxeiG0Vc 10:14:43, 2013-01-07
- Topsy-turvy Hagel politics http://t.co/aKycpmhl #tcot 09:52:41, 2013-01-07
- Obama’s Hagelian imperative http://t.co/tyJNhq24 #tcot 09:52:40, 2013-01-07
- Mr. Hagel and the Jews http://t.co/ZFXRxfkA #tcot 09:52:40, 2013-01-07
- Dentist Melvin Ehrlich Facing Pornography Charges Suspends Practice http://t.co/nKtfMWJn 09:39:21, 2013-01-07
- Day By Day January 7, 2013 – Rattle Hymn of the Republic http://t.co/YVQwxb9L #tcot 09:16:42, 2013-01-07
- RT @JimPethokoukis: 8 (pointed) questions for Chuck Hagel http://t.co/hM78Fzyo 08:28:29, 2013-01-07
- The California Flap: January 7, 2013 http://t.co/UiSSmpnH #tcot 08:22:00, 2013-01-07
- Dan Walters: Parcel tax changes could be big battle in California Legislature http://t.co/mgVeWePA 07:32:08, 2013-01-07
- Democrats look for up to $1 trillion in new tax revenues this year http://t.co/p9yF8JZw #tcot 06:29:21, 2013-01-07
- The Morning Flap: January 7, 2013 http://t.co/t5YH6ypR #tcot 06:22:58, 2013-01-07
- Video: There Would Be A Revolution in this Country If the Government Confiscated Guns http://t.co/KjMVJB2r #tcot 06:22:57, 2013-01-07
- Despite New Health Law, Some See Sharp Rise in Premiums http://t.co/VnByW1DC #tcot 05:47:39, 2013-01-07
- Red state Senate Dems face tough early votes http://t.co/fhSkzW2Z #tcot 05:47:38, 2013-01-07
- Hagel’s Mideast blunder–not on Israel http://t.co/rjOSWRvj #tcot 05:47:38, 2013-01-07
- RT @daveweigel Don't see anything weird about the RNC pre-bashing Hagel. Dems would be behaving this way had Pres Romney nominated Lieberman 05:06:23, 2013-01-07
- Video – Fla. Governor Jeb Bush Considering Run for President http://t.co/tePNGRX8 #tcot 04:55:49, 2013-01-07
- Bill Kristol’s big plans start with Hagel nomination http://t.co/jzeOrIS1 #tcot 04:55:49, 2013-01-07
- Critics slam Chuck Hagel's likely nomination as Defense secretary http://t.co/6NeFdjhk #tcot 04:55:48, 2013-01-07
- RT @DHBerman Bill Kristol-linked group planning a “substantial” paid-media campaign opposing the Hagel DOD nomination http://t.co/zmieF20a 04:54:21, 2013-01-07
- We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.
–Cicero
Happy Monday! 04:42:57, 2013-01-07
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2013-01-06 http://t.co/MaTCyhPj 04:07:13, 2013-01-07
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2013-01-06 – Locum Tenens (Temporary) Dentist – Gregory Cole, D.D.S. http://t.co/gQPhk7eB #tcot 01:15:24, 2013-01-07
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Fiscal Cliff Poll: Obama Seen as Victor But What About the Legislation?
Maybe President Obama looks better than GOP Speaker John Boehner and the feckless Republicans/Democrats in Congress. But, what about the law itself?
Barack Obama is viewed as the clear political winner in the fiscal cliff negotiations, but the legislation itself gets only a lukewarm reception from the public: As many disapprove as approve of the new tax legislation, and more say it will have a negative than positive impact on the federal budget deficit, the national economy and people like themselves.
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Jan. 3-6 among 1,003 adults, finds that 57% say that Obama got more of what he wanted from the tax legislation while just 20% say Republican leaders got more of what they wanted. And while 48% approve of the way Obama handled the fiscal cliff negotiations only 19% approve of the way GOP leaders handled the negotiations.
Republicans take a particularly sour view of the outcome: just 16% approve of the final legislation, and by a 74% to 11% margin they think Obama got more of what he wanted. Only 40% of Republicans approve of how their party’s leaders handled the negotiations; by comparison, fully 81% of Democrats approve of how Obama handled the negotiations.
Relatively few Americans expect that the tax legislation that resulted from those talks will help people like themselves, the budget deficit, or the national economy. Just three-in-ten Americans say the tax measure will mostly help people like them; 52% say it will mostly hurt. And even when it comes to the budget deficit, 44% say the deal will mostly hurt, while 33% say it will mostly help.
President Obama does not have to run for President again and the repercussions of the Fiscal Cliff legislation as of yet realized will have no effect on him. But, should the economy fail to rally his Democratic Party will pay the price at the 2014 elections.
Stay tuned as the details of fiscal cliff, sequestration and the debt limit play through the American economy. My bet is that Obama will NOT be viewed as a political winner, when all is said and done.
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Day By Day January 7, 2013 – Rattle Hymn of the Republic
The buzzing will only increase, Mr. President.