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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-03-06
- Garcetti finishes first, then Greuel and James – runoffs ahead* – LA Observed http://t.co/cSXtta55T8 #tcot 21:28:14, 2013-03-06
- RT @emzanotti: Confirmed: @senrandpaul can pee if someone else is asking a question and holding the floor. He has not peed, however. #st … 20:42:49, 2013-03-06
- @dccc What are you talking about the SEQUESTER was Obama's idea and he signed it into law. Get your facts straight! #tcot in reply to dccc 15:59:53, 2013-03-06
- Absolutely —> so take that Jeb and Marco RT @jeff_poor: Krauthammer: This has launnched Rand Paul as a national figure #tcot 15:57:04, 2013-03-06
- Destinations / Spacecraft Dragon at the International Space Station http://t.co/VvU2hSIyE4 #tcot 12:59:07, 2013-03-06
- Decades later, 1972 Supreme Court decision overturning the death penalty has lasting impact | abc http://t.co/mxSpJ7fTWu #tcot 12:59:06, 2013-03-06
- Garcetti finishes first, then Greuel and James – runoffs ahead* – LA Observed http://t.co/WY4kqyJGo6 #tcot 12:59:06, 2013-03-06
- RT @Dodgers: Our followers to retweet this tweet are eligible to win a #Dodgers Team Mexico signed baseball! #VivaLosDodgers 10:31:52, 2013-03-06
- Spacecraft Dragon at the International Space Station http://t.co/Yvqpl4hKdY via @pinterest 10:13:56, 2013-03-06
- Decades later, 1972 Supreme Court decision overturning the California death penalty has lasting impact http://t.co/mxSpJ7fTWu 09:52:12, 2013-03-06
- RT @LAObserved: Here are the lineups for LA city runoff elections, including three for city council. http://t.co/Q0ZJpW3TsE 08:05:25, 2013-03-06
- Dentistry Wednesday Watch: March 6, 2013 http://t.co/GLD4aaRc2R 06:46:03, 2013-03-06
- The Morning Drill: March 4, 2013 http://t.co/oZhpa8laOO 06:46:03, 2013-03-06
- Hugo Chavez, passionate but polarizing Venezuelan president, dead at 58 http://t.co/qamwxHpfFJ #tcot 06:35:17, 2013-03-06
- Jeb Bush is back in the spotlight — and thinking about 2016 http://t.co/QvBCQ2OfN8 #tcot 06:35:17, 2013-03-06
- Journalists as Ring Wraiths http://t.co/fZhBxB67Sl #tcot 06:35:17, 2013-03-06
- More California pension alarms sounding – CalSTRS http://t.co/ksxzGW0tQU 06:02:37, 2013-03-06
- Massachusetts needs a waiver from Obamacare rules for small-business health plans http://t.co/vJeJMwHYqu #tcot 05:57:37, 2013-03-06
- God and Jeb at CPAC – CPAC Has Become the Defender of the Status Quo http://t.co/QunxrECkwC #tcot 05:57:36, 2013-03-06
- The Mighty Jeb Bush Comes Down to Earth http://t.co/p3B0PJKVPW #tcot 05:21:35, 2013-03-06
- Boehner Pledges to Stick to the 'Hastert Rule' http://t.co/WYxv6zJlE8 #tcot 05:21:35, 2013-03-06
- RT @DRUDGE: Snow postpones Congressional global warming hearing — again! Carbon tax the politicians!! http://t.co/KtVMKcnjS1 in reply to DRUDGE 05:17:58, 2013-03-06
- RT @postpolls: Post-ABC poll: 61% support broad gov't spending cuts; 60% oppose broad military cuts http://t.co/3nlFIUhQOo in reply to postpolls 04:59:51, 2013-03-06
- Pain is temporary; finishing is forever.
— Unknown
Happy Wednesday!
LA Marathon for me on March 17 04:50:13, 2013-03-06
- Analyst estimates Chávez’s family fortune at around $2 billion http://t.co/hVnccrqugR #tcot 04:43:25, 2013-03-06
- CDC Warns Of Spread Of Deadly Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria « CBS Miami http://t.co/oiHehewRm1 #tcot 04:43:24, 2013-03-06
- Twitter / RepJoseSerrano: Hugo Chavez was a leader that … http://t.co/Fm5X907TEV #tcot 04:43:24, 2013-03-06
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The Morning Flap: March 6, 2013
These are my news headlines for March 5th through March 6th:
- Hugo Chavez, passionate but polarizing Venezuelan president, dead at 58 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who went from a young conspiratorial soldier who dreamed of revolution to the fiery anti-U.S. leader of one of the world’s great oil powers, died March 5 in Caracas of complications from an unspecified cancer in his pelvic area.He was 58 and had been president since 1999, longer than any other democratically elected leader in the Americas. Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced the death.Mr. Chavez first revealed in a brief, dramatic television address in June 2011 that he had undergone two surgical procedures in Cuba. He would go under the knife two more times, greatly weakening the once robust leader. Mr. Chavez had been elected in October 2012 to a third six-year term. But he missed his swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 10 while lying gravely ill in a Havana hospital after undergoing what his aides had called a complex operation a month before.
The country was plunged into an institutional crisis, with Mr. Chavez’s foes accusing the government of violating the constitution. But Mr. Chavez’s lieutenants managed to buy time until their leader’s pre-dawn return to Venezuela on Feb. 18. He remained at a Caracas military hospital, with his Twitter account bursting out messages such as “Onward toward victory always!! We will live and we will triumph!!”
As an obscure 37-year-old lieutenant colonel, Mr. Chavez had led a failed coup in 1992 against President Carlos Andres Perez’s government. Six years later, on Dec. 6, 1998, Mr. Chavez was elected president in a landslide after pledging to replace a broken, corrupt political system and redistribute the country’s substantial oil-fueled wealth.
- Jeb Bush is back in the spotlight — and thinking about 2016 – Former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who has remained on the sidelines since his older brother left the White House with dismal ratings four years ago, has jumped back into the political fray this week with a new book, wall-to-wall television interviews and a round of public speaking engagements.His appearances mark a change in approach for Bush, 60, who has operated as more of a Republican elder statesman since leaving Tallahassee in 2007 but is now clearly considering a run for the White House.
- Journalists as Ring Wraiths – Today’s Washington journalists are like J. R. R. Tolkien’s ring wraiths, petty lords who wanted a few shiny golden Obama rings — only to end up as shrunken slaves to the One.The Bob Woodward/Ron Fournier/Lanny Davis psychodrama is another small reminder that the Obama administration continues to assume that the press should be little more than a veritable Ministry of Truth. Its proper duty is to serve the White House and promote the progressive agenda of Barack Obama. Any were considered suspect who questioned whether those exalted ends should really be achieved by any means necessary — but they were so few and far between that it mattered little.
- Massachusetts needs a waiver from Obamacare rules for small-business health plans – Massachusetts has made a concerted effort in the last few years to rein in health care costs for small businesses. But new federal regulations written to implement the Affordable Care Act threaten to undercut those efforts — and saddle thousands of Bay State businesses with big increases in premiums.
- God and Jeb at CPAC – CPAC Has Become the Defender of the Status Quo – John McCain’s presidential campaign manager from four years ago, Steve Schmidt, has compared the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to the “Star Wars bar scene.”Reflecting on the dysfunctional 2008 freak show that passed for a campaign against Barack Obama, Mr. Schmidt would know.The conference’s problem, for many longtime participants, is not the diversity and raucous freedom one might expect to find in a social club on an alien planet. The quandary is that what is now the largest gathering of conservative activists in the nation has wandered far from its original intent, which was a rejection of the status quo.
In the old days, the event represented the best intellectual revolutionary elements of the conservative movement. Panel after panel would argue and debate issues such as abortion, foreign aid, spending policies and about what the true Holy Grail of conservatism entailed – defending institutions or individuals?
The conference was always separate and apart from the GOP establishment, even in the Reagan years. Today it no longer represents a joyous insurgency but is instead part of the Washington political establishment.
- The Mighty Jeb Bush Comes Down to Earth – Bush’s flip flop on immigration will doom any chance he had for a 2016 Presidential race.
- Boehner Pledges to Stick to the ‘Hastert Rule’ – Speaker John A. Boehner sought to assure his conference on Tuesday that the “Hastert rule” is still regular practice, on the heels of breaking it for the third time this Congress.Republicans breached the rule — under which the speaker only brings forward bills that enjoy support from the “majority of the majority” — last week when a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act passed with a majority of Democratic votes. Of three major bills passed this session, two have passed in violation of the rule. The House passed the fiscal-cliff deal Jan. 1 despite the rule as well.The rule — named after former Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. — may be tested again in coming months on legislation relating to immigration and gun control, although a GOP leadership aide said that scenario is highly unlikely.
- Analyst estimates Chávez’s family fortune at around $2 billion – But, u can’t take it with you RT @DRUDGE_REPORT: CLAIM: Chavez Had Amassed Private Fortune of $2 Billion…
- CDC Warns Of Spread Of Deadly Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria « CBS Miami – CDC Warns Of Spread Of Deadly Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria #tcot
- Twitter / RepJoseSerrano: Hugo Chavez was a leader that … – RT @jeffemanuel: So, is it McCarthyism to declare @RepJoseSerrano a dyed-in-the-wool, dictator-supporting socialist?
- Untitled (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/chavezs-successor-venezuela-nicolas-maduro) – RT @AP: Hugo Chavez’s successor in Venezuela: Nicolas Maduro: -CC
- Jeb Bush immigration comments spark uproar – Kevin Robillard – POLITICO.com – RT @politico: Jeb Bush immigration comments spark uproar:
- Jeb Bush: Actually, I could support a path to citizenship in theory « Hot Air – Jeb Bush is all over the place on immigration. He is as much feckless as his brother W was wrong #tcot
- Video: Jeb Bush on 2016: ‘I’ve Decided . . . Not to Think About It for a While’ – Former Florida governor Jeb Bush continued to fend off speculation about his 2016 presidential prospects this morning, saying that he hasn’t decided whether he’ll run and won’t for at least another couple years.“I’ve decided not to think about it for a while, and I have the discipline to do that,” Bush told CBS’s Charlie Rose, and that his focus is on being a voice in immigration reform, the subject of his new book, Immigration Wars. When co-host Norah O’Donnell suggested that it was interesting he hadn’t ruled out running, Bush laughed it off: “I guess that’s interesting, I don’t find it that interesting.”
- Rubio in ‘same place’ as Jeb Bush on immigration – POLITICO.com – “@politico: Marco Rubio in “same place” as Jeb Bush on immigration, @mkraju reports: “
- Ken Jeong AHA Hands-Only CPR video – YouTube – RT @RaDragon: Disco is NOT dead 😉 PSA: Hands-Only CPR
- Support @Flap – Gregory Flap Cole in the 2013 Los Angeles Marathon – Locum Tenens (Temporary) Dentist – Gregory Cole, D.D.S. – Support @Flap – Gregory Flap Cole in the 2013 Los Angeles Marathon #tcot
- Jeb Bush’s False-Flag Operation – Jeb Bush generated quite a bit of publicity for his new book yesterday by suggesting that amnestied illegal immigrants should not be eligible for citizenship. Instead, he’s suggesting they be given some kind of permanent status that would provide them work cards, Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses, and the right to travel abroad and return, but not allow for eventual naturalization — in effect, a kind of permanent guestworker program or a green-card-lite, rather than an actual green card. This is consistent with suggestions from other pro-amnesty Republicans, including Senator Rubio and a group of House members working up an amnesty deal.Unfortunately, it’s a trick.
- Two more casualities of Twitter’s power play | Android Central – @TweetDeck better give mobile users a better app RT @androidcentral: Two more casualities of Twitter’s power play
- Jeb Bush’s Poorly Timed Flip-Flop on Immigration – NationalJournal.com – Jeb knows exactly what he is doing |Jeb Bush’s Poorly? Timed Flip -Flop on Immigration
- A Market Solution to Immigration Reform | RealClearPolitics – A Market Solution to Immigration Reform #tcot
- Hugo Chavez, passionate but polarizing Venezuelan president, dead at 58 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who went from a young conspiratorial soldier who dreamed of revolution to the fiery anti-U.S. leader of one of the world’s great oil powers, died March 5 in Caracas of complications from an unspecified cancer in his pelvic area.He was 58 and had been president since 1999, longer than any other democratically elected leader in the Americas. Vice President Nicolas Maduro announced the death.Mr. Chavez first revealed in a brief, dramatic television address in June 2011 that he had undergone two surgical procedures in Cuba. He would go under the knife two more times, greatly weakening the once robust leader. Mr. Chavez had been elected in October 2012 to a third six-year term. But he missed his swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 10 while lying gravely ill in a Havana hospital after undergoing what his aides had called a complex operation a month before.
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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-03-05
- @NonaPenelope2 @Marsha250 On the other hand, Obama has not had the foreign policy humiliation like Carter did to America w/ Iranian hostages in reply to NonaPenelope2 17:41:07, 2013-03-05
- @NonaPenelope2 @Marsha250 A tie works for me. in reply to NonaPenelope2 17:26:37, 2013-03-05
- @Marsha250 @gcamerica2 @NonaPenelope2 Carter is a Big America hater though! in reply to Marsha250 17:24:41, 2013-03-05
- Right a DEAD one! RT @rsmccain: Today, Hugo Chavez became the only kind of good Marxist. 17:18:08, 2013-03-05
- OK, I will go with that RT @Marsha250: @Flap @NonaPenelope2 How about a tie? Carter and Obama are the worst Presidents in USA history. 17:17:16, 2013-03-05
- @NonaPenelope2 NOPE = Jimmy Carter = the WORST President – at least in my lifetime. #TGDN in reply to NonaPenelope2 17:14:37, 2013-03-05
- Knew that Jimmy Carter would start to praise DEAD dictator Hugo Chavez. The worst President in USA history lives again. 17:11:58, 2013-03-05
- Jeb Bush immigration comments spark uproar – Kevin Robillard – http://t.co/leZPBBBa8v http://t.co/fSyD6KAU8Z #tcot 16:12:53, 2013-03-05
- But, u can't take it with you RT @DRUDGE_REPORT: CLAIM: Chavez Had Amassed Private Fortune of $2 Billion… http://t.co/XhMKTxLAOm in reply to DRUDGE_REPORT 15:31:39, 2013-03-05
- CDC Warns Of Spread Of Deadly Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria http://t.co/oiHehewRm1 #tcot 15:15:48, 2013-03-05
- Due to the SEQUESTER President Obama will NOT be able to send Jimmy Carter to monitor new Venezuelan elections due to Hugo Chavez's death 14:58:58, 2013-03-05
- Due to the SEQUESTER Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa won't be attending Hugo Chavez's funeral. 14:53:49, 2013-03-05
- RT @jeffemanuel: So, is it McCarthyism to declare @RepJoseSerrano a dyed-in-the-wool, dictator-supporting socialist? http://t.co/OyZ7SvmHmN 14:47:58, 2013-03-05
- RT @AP: Hugo Chavez's successor in Venezuela: Nicolas Maduro: http://t.co/jQWFXPpzwn -CC 14:46:04, 2013-03-05
- More SEQUESTER pain as White House cancels state dinner meeting of Dennis Rodman and North Korean Ambassador. But, Obama called Rodman. 14:43:21, 2013-03-05
- Matt @Drudge is rotating images of Hugo Chavez on Drudge Report and some are unseemingly brutal. What do dictators expect at death? 14:38:26, 2013-03-05
- Due to the SEQUESTER President Obama will not be able to send condolence foreign aid to Venezuela. 14:36:10, 2013-03-05
- Can't say that I am particularly sad that Venezuelan President/Dictator Hugo Chavez is dead from cancer at age 58. Who says good die young? 14:34:24, 2013-03-05
- RT @michellemalkin: CPAC is now the new Celebrity Apprentice promotional vehicle for clown Trump. #CPACisdead 12:59:16, 2013-03-05
- RT @politico: Jeb Bush immigration comments spark uproar: http://t.co/0pzJvECjz6 12:37:38, 2013-03-05
- Jeb Bush is all over the place on immigration. He is as much feckless as his brother W was wrong http://t.co/dVztdRM8ul #tcot 12:28:22, 2013-03-05
- Video: Jeb Bush on 2016: ‘I’ve Decided . . . Not to Think About It for a While’ http://t.co/8H6UMIVtDn #tcot 10:45:20, 2013-03-05
- RT @MLBNetwork: 100 & 200th RT get World Baseball Classic shirt! Watch @WBCBaseball on @MLBNetwork and tune in for @USABaseball's 1s … 10:39:01, 2013-03-05
- "@politico: Marco Rubio in "same place" as Jeb Bush on immigration, @mkraju reports: http://t.co/3cVHk26UlU" 10:10:56, 2013-03-05
- RT @RaDragon: Disco is NOT dead 😉 PSA: Hands-Only CPR http://t.co/jbLPo9pjBF 09:42:20, 2013-03-05
- With the withdrawal of support for mobile @TweetDeck be the opening Google has been hoping for Goggle Plus? 09:34:41, 2013-03-05
- Support @Flap – Gregory Flap Cole in the 2013 Los Angeles Marathon http://t.co/NeQLAbGwDN #tcot 07:52:55, 2013-03-05
- If the GOP's choice in 2016 is between Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush, the Tea Party conservatives will stay at home = Hillary is President #tcot 07:05:24, 2013-03-05
- My first impressions on Jeb Bush's roll out on immigration and the Presidency = #FAIL. #tcot 07:02:51, 2013-03-05
- I like Jeb Bush personally but he will NOT lead GOP on immigration or the Presidency in 2016 = needs to go away now http://t.co/PiDY1qge8S 07:01:54, 2013-03-05
- Jeb Bush’s False-Flag Operation http://t.co/hthad4Nnyz #tcot 06:50:54, 2013-03-05
- A Market Solution to Immigration Reform http://t.co/NGxTQJGL64 #tcot 06:50:54, 2013-03-05
- Jeb Bush's Poorly Timed Flip -Flop on Immigration http://t.co/RTW606Q9UE #tcot 06:50:53, 2013-03-05
- Jeb Bush’s False-Flag Operation on Immigration http://t.co/DziHhZSfL0 #tcot 06:50:07, 2013-03-05
- @TweetDeck better give mobile users a better app RT @androidcentral: Two more casualities of Twitter's power play http://t.co/RhPBbHOQcM 06:42:14, 2013-03-05
- The Morning Flap: March 5, 2013 http://t.co/Bux8AmF2sb #tcot 06:35:36, 2013-03-05
- Jeb knows exactly what he is doing |Jeb Bush's Poorly? Timed Flip -Flop on Immigration http://t.co/0xVAQOOpmY 06:11:01, 2013-03-05
- A Market Solution to Immigration Reform http://t.co/qfMeXruM7H #tcot 06:09:10, 2013-03-05
- Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
–Albert Einstein
Happy Tuesday! 05:00:48, 2013-03-05
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The Morning Flap: March 5, 2013
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is interviewed on Fox News and discusses his new immigration book
These are my links for February 28th through March 5th:
- Jeb Bush’s False-Flag Operation – Jeb Bush generated quite a bit of publicity for his new book yesterday by suggesting that amnestied illegal immigrants should not be eligible for citizenship. Instead, he’s suggesting they be given some kind of permanent status that would provide them work cards, Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses, and the right to travel abroad and return, but not allow for eventual naturalization — in effect, a kind of permanent guestworker program or a green-card-lite, rather than an actual green card. This is consistent with suggestions from other pro-amnesty Republicans, including Senator Rubio and a group of House members working up an amnesty deal.Unfortunately, it’s a trick.
- A Market Solution to Immigration Reform – Since the recession formally ended in June 2009, the American economy has been growing at a rate of 2%, about one percentage point below its long-term average. To improve this performance, the U.S. needs more people with skills, vision and a drive to improve themselves—qualities that lead to innovation, business creation, increased employment and higher wages. One quick way to get such people is through immigration. A market approach would do this.We propose that, instead of the current maze of rules and formulas, the U.S. should sell the right to become a citizen. Setting a price of perhaps $50,000 would attract those who place the highest value on citizenship.
- Jeb Bush’s Poorly Timed Flip -Flop on Immigration – Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s new book was aimed at nudging a reluctant Republican Party toward reforms that would allow illegal immigrants to live and work without fear of deportation.But by recommending only legal residency and backing off his past support for citizenship, Bush is throwing cold water over a fledgling deal in the Senate, denting his own reputation as a bold policymaker and stoking speculation that he will run for president in 2016.None of those things were supposed to happen.The stunning reversal by one of the Republican Party’s leading champions of immigration reform and Hispanic outreach, at least in part, comes down to a colossal political miscalculation.When Bush and coauthor Clint Bolick were writing the book during the 2012 presidential campaign, the GOP was veering far to the right. Republican nominee Mitt Romney had staked out a hard-line position against illegal immigration, blasting his primary rivals as pro-amnesty and promoting “self-deportation” for undocumented workers. Bush sent the book to the printer before Christmas – weeks before a handful of Senate Republicans embraced a sweeping overhaul that, like the proposals backed by Bush’s brother, former President George W. Bush, would allow illegal immigrants to earn citizenship.
In other words, Bush’s party unexpectedly moved a lot faster than the book-publishing world.
- Video: Jeb Bush Promotes Comprehensive Immigration Reform
- Obama job approval tumbles After Sequester Debate – President Obama’s job approval rating took a hit over the weekend, falling to its lowest level in the Gallup three-day average since his reelection.His approval rating was 46 percent between Feb 29 and March 2, down from 53 percent a week earlier.The drop comes after Obama and Congress failed to reach a last-minute deal and automatic sequester cuts kicked in across the government on Friday.His disapproval rating also jumped to its highest level since November, hitting 46 percent over the weekend, up from 40 percent a week earlier.
- Ashley Judd’s War With Kentucky’s Coal Industry Could Doom Candidacy – Comments Ashley Judd made in 2010 comparing the mining practices of Kentucky’s coal industry to rape could sink her much buzzed-about Senate candidacy before it even begins.In a 2010 speech to the National Press Club in Washington, Judd called mountain top removal — the controversial but principal type of surface mining in Appalachia that involves the removal of mountaintops to extract coal — “the state-sanctioned, federal government-supported, coal industry-operated rape of Appalachia.”Coal mines employe more than 19,000 people through
the year in Kentucky according to a report from the state, and the mining directly contributed approximately $4 billion to the state’s economy while accounting for 1 percent of the state’s employment. Kentucky’s economic reliance on coal ranks in the top three in the United States, behind only West Virginia and Wyoming.Judd’s use of rape to define the mining practice wasn’t a slip of the tongue. Later in her speech she doubled down on her remarks. - Tag-teaming Obama – John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are currently mopping the floor with Barack Obama – Don’t tell the Tea Party, but the tag team of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are currently mopping the floor with Barack Obama.The president convincingly won a second term in November, but since that time, the congressional Republican leadership has outfoxed, outmaneuvered and plain out-strategized him on just about every issue.
- What’s Jeb Bush up to?
- Wait: Jeb Bush now opposes a path to citizenship for illegals? – So his plan is DOA in Congress, but he knows that already. The point here isn’t to float a viable compromise that might make comprehensive reform more salable to the base, it’s to give Bush a way to hit Rubio from the right in the primaries two years from now — which is ironic, because in another segment this morning, Bush told Lauer that Romney got in trouble with Latino voters by tacking a bit too far right on immigration in the debates in 2011. I assume he thinks he’s built up enough cred with Latinos over the years that backing away from a path to citizenship now won’t cost him many votes. We’ll see.
- Jeb Bush pushes back against pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants – Former Florida governor – and potential GOP presidential candidate – Jeb Bush said this week that a pathway to citizenship should not be a component of an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system.Bush, a Spanish-speaker who’s wife is Mexican-born, has long-been viewed as one of the more liberal-minded GOP leaders when in comes to immigration policy, warning Republicans for years that they oppose significant reform at their own political peril.
- Official Website for IMMIGRATION WARS by Jeb Bush & Clint Bolick – RT @JebBush Honored to work w/my friend Clint Bolick. #ImmigrationWars hits shelves tomorrow.
- Ow.ly – image uploaded by @JebBush – RT @JebBush Honored to work w/my friend Clint Bolick. #ImmigrationWars hits shelves tomorrow.
- Doctors report first cure of HIV in a child – Doctors report first cure of HIV in a child #tcot
- Exercise, less sitting time, linked to better sleep
| Reuters – Exercise, less sitting time, linked to better sleep #tcot - Journaling helps woman lose half her body weight – CNN.com – Journaling helps woman lose half her body weight #tcot
- Republican Consultants Plot New Tech-Savvy Infrastructure – After last year’s blowout election, the Republican digital strategist Patrick Ruffini went on a not-so-secret mission to find out how to fix what was wrong with his party. “In less than 12 hours, the #infiltration begins,” he tweeted, the day before the start of RootsCamp, an annual conference for Democratic digital, data and grassroots strategists that is held by a liberal non-profit group called the New Organizing Institute.What he found at the event came as a sort of revelation: A vast liberal brain trust bursting with young talent who had advanced far beyond Republicans in the art and science of using data, analytics and voter outreach. He live-tweeted his observations, and then began meeting with other young strategists in his party, like Katie Harbath, who handles Republican campaign outreach for Facebook, Kristen Soltis Anderson, a pollster at the Winston Group, and Reihan Salam, a political columnist for the National Review.
- Chris Christie will have an uphill battle for the 2016 nomination – Also of note?Wall Street Journal columnist and deputy editor, Daniel Henninger , claimed Christie has an “uphill battle” for the 2016 nomination, thanks to his conservative competition.”This is going to be a different group of people that Chris Christie will be competing against, and he’ll be competing as a governor from the liberal Northeast.I think it’s an uphill battle.”Finally, one more thing of note?
Gigot pointed out that New Jersey’s 9.6% unemployment rate was “one of the worst records in the country.”
- Tim Carney: Health industry pushes GOP states toward Obamacare | Mobile Washington Examiner – Health industry pushes GOP states toward Obamacare #tcot
- Health industry pushes GOP states toward Obamacare – Republicans around the country railed against President Obama’s health-care law for four years, but in recent weeks, GOP governors and state legislators have embraced some of the bill’s provisions.
How did Republicans learn to stop worrying and love Obamacare?
In a word: industry.Hospitals, insurers and drug companies have lobbied in state capital after state capital, leaning on Republicans until they agreed to create insurance exchanges or expand Medicaid as Obamacare prescribed. - Moderate Ex-Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado “seriously” considers run against Jerry Brown | Politics Blog | an SFGate.com blog – Moderate Ex-Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado “seriously” considers run against Jerry Brown
- Allysia Finley: The Reverse-Joads of California – WSJ.com – The Reverse-Joads of California
- Gallup Poll: Asian voters lean Democratic, but are not strongly committed – A new poll found that Asian-Americans lean Democratic, but that they are not strongly committed to either the GOP or the Democratic Party.Fifty-seven percent of Asian-Americans lean Democratic, compared with 28 percent who lean Republican and 13 percent who are independent, according to a Gallup poll released Monday. The remaining are undecided or did not respond.
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- At state convention, Republicans try to chart a new way forward – latimes.com – At state convention, Republicans try to chart a new way forward
- Calif. GOP seeks answers for turning party around – San Jose Mercury News – California GOP seeks answers for turning party around
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-03-02 – Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-03-02 #tcot
- CA GOP Convention delegates urge retired congressmen to help party’s finances | CalWatchDog – CA GOP Convention delegates urge retired congressmen to help party’s finances
- Gregory Flap @ Glendale-Hyperion Bridge – Finished the almost 10 miles of hills at Dodger Stadium. Now, some good food at Walt’s studio. [pic]:
- Gregory Flap @ Dodger Stadium – Getting ready for hill training with LA Roadrunners (@ Dodger Stadium w/ 3 others) [pic]:
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- Joshua Treviño Admits to Shilling for Malaysia – Conservative commentator Joshua Treviño admitted today that he’s spent years doing down-low PR work for the government of Malaysia, and received $389,724.70 for the trouble. Some of that, but not most, was paid to writers who wrote negative pieces about the country’s opposition leader for the likes of the Huffington Post, National Review, and RedState. BuzzFeed’s Rosie Gray, in a report on the scam this afternoon, picks up where her boss Ben Smith left off. In 2011, Treviño told Smith, “I was never on any ‘Malaysian entity’s payroll,’ and I resent your assumption that I was,” which he now admits was a lie. But he’s not particularly sorry.
- Covert Malaysian Campaign Touched A Wide Range Of American Media – A range of mainstream American publications printed paid propaganda for the government of Malaysia, much of it focused on the campaign against a pro-democracy figure there.The payments to conservative American opinion writers — whose work appeared in outlets from the Huffington Post and San Francisco Examiner to the Washington Times to National Review and RedState — emerged in a filing this week to the Department of Justice. The filing under the Foreign Agent Registration Act outlines a campaign spanning May 2008 to April 2011 and led by Joshua Trevino, a conservative pundit, who received $389,724.70 under the contract and paid smaller sums to a series of conservative writers.
- Political Cartoons / So, you think Obama is over-hyping this sequestration thing? – So, you think Obama is over-hyping this sequestration thing? via @pinterest
- Twitter / SpaceX: LIFTOFF of Falcon 9 and #Dragon … – Beautiful! RT @SpaceX LIFTOFF of Falcon 9 and #Dragon to the International Space Station
- Twitter / NASA: Liftoff of the @SpaceX Falcon … – RT @NASA: Liftoff of the @SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and #Dragon spacecraft to the #ISS!
- Watch Live: SpaceX’s Dragon Blasts Off to Space Station | Wired Science | Wired.com – RT @wired: Watch Live now: SpaceX’s Dragon Blasts Off to Space Station
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2013-02-28 – Flap’s California Blog – Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2013-02-28
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- ASICS Support Your Marathoner – I’m running the 2013 Los Angeles Marathon sponsored by ASICS. Cheer me on at via @ASICSamerica
- Club for Growth President Chocola: ‘Sooner or Later, They Won’t Want You to be their Speaker’ – I will be surprised if Boehner survives as Speaker more than through the summer.
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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-03-04
- RT @HotlineJosh: RT @jimantle: Jeb Bush to replace immigration plan's path to citizenship with a path to the nomination. 12:07:50, 2013-03-04
- Wait: Jeb Bush now opposes a path to citizenship for illegals? http://t.co/Mr4zIkQqgv #tcot 11:30:14, 2013-03-04
- Jeb Bush pushes back against pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants http://t.co/TltCloqGEg #tcot 11:30:14, 2013-03-04
- Ow.ly – image uploaded by @JebBush http://t.co/vyorKIjVNC #tcot 08:56:23, 2013-03-04
- Official Website for IMMIGRATION WARS by Jeb Bush & Clint Bolick http://t.co/mOOhOimLLd #tcot 08:56:22, 2013-03-04
- Journaling helps woman lose half her body weight – http://t.co/bTaE4Y2DGH http://t.co/u5cNcs8YYs #tcot 08:56:22, 2013-03-04
- RT @JebBush Honored to work w/my friend Clint Bolick. #ImmigrationWars hits shelves tomorrow. http://t.co/qOZ8IAUc9y http://t.co/vyorKIjVNC 06:11:23, 2013-03-04
- Journaling helps woman lose half her body weight http://t.co/yTBNNywrGV #tcot 06:10:57, 2013-03-04
- Exercise, less sitting time, linked to better sleep http://t.co/PtSgToIDVZ #tcot 06:10:57, 2013-03-04
- Doctors report first cure of HIV in a child http://t.co/pGXT1ZwT2u #tcot 06:10:57, 2013-03-04
- Republican Consultants Plot New Tech-Savvy Infrastructure http://t.co/d0xUJBycWn #tcot 05:55:10, 2013-03-04
- Chris Christie will have an uphill battle for the 2016 nomination http://t.co/oZ8TRvLri4 #tcot 05:55:10, 2013-03-04
- Health industry pushes GOP states toward Obamacare http://t.co/YjiOvtr4fS #tcot 05:19:48, 2013-03-04
- Gallup Poll: Asian voters lean Democratic, but are not strongly committed http://t.co/pE23XdAS1V #tcot 05:19:47, 2013-03-04
- Bush is running RT @KSoltisAnderson “@JebBush on @TodayShow re: 2016 run: "That's way off into the future." But "I won't" rule it out.” 05:05:11, 2013-03-04
- The Reverse-Joads of California http://t.co/gsf65H3sAR 05:02:14, 2013-03-04
- Moderate Ex-Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado “seriously” considers run against Jerry Brown http://t.co/RAtz8zHY48 05:02:14, 2013-03-04
- (500) http://t.co/DLkZ3EJ3Hj http://t.co/tgyETF7hUC #tcot 04:44:14, 2013-03-04
- Untitled (http://t.co/lCs1i3H3Cy… http://t.co/6Z1eLVgVRR #tcot 04:44:14, 2013-03-04
- If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?
–Joe Namath
Happy Monday!
Less than two weeks until the Los Angeles Marathon. 04:38:20, 2013-03-04
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-03-03 http://t.co/cyKCTD4V1K #tcot 03:01:32, 2013-03-04
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Day By Day March 3, 2013 – The Bill
Chris, sometimes we forget…..
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- At state convention, Republicans try to chart a new way forward – http://t.co/AP5qhFl2cd http://t.co/2g6TGsdb4D #tcot 15:45:49, 2013-03-03
- Untitled (http://t.co/lCs1i3H3Cy… http://t.co/qyMZKYKLVR #tcot 15:45:49, 2013-03-03
- Calif. GOP seeks answers for turning party around – San Jose Mercury News http://t.co/e9zFPnEfpu #tcot 15:45:49, 2013-03-03
- RT @hamsterwatch: @flap @bastable can you please RT this? a feedster's hubby is missing.. I don't do causes here but it's #bbfamily http … 12:21:57, 2013-03-03
- At state convention, Republicans try to chart a new way forward http://t.co/2g6TGsdb4D 11:54:10, 2013-03-03
- California GOP seeks answers for turning party around http://t.co/e9zFPnEfpu 11:54:09, 2013-03-03
- Cancer stole her voice, but TV ad sent loud anti-smoking message http://t.co/Lb8DmGqcoH 11:54:09, 2013-03-03
- Flap's Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-03-02 – Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/omwh0E3itD #tcot 05:02:28, 2013-03-03
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-03-02 http://t.co/cKHCGY1FT0 #tcot 03:01:41, 2013-03-03
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- CA GOP Convention delegates urge retired congressmen to help party’s finances | CalWatchDog http://t.co/Dr4iDdMxJv #tcot 22:47:34, 2013-03-02
- CA GOP Convention delegates urge retired congressmen to help party’s finances http://t.co/Dr4iDdMxJv 20:42:36, 2013-03-02
- Gregory Flap @ Glendale-Hyperion Bridge http://t.co/yieDWf4TMx #tcot 14:04:06, 2013-03-02
- Gregory Flap @ Dodger Stadium http://t.co/kJH4hvY9kR #tcot 14:04:06, 2013-03-02
- Finished the almost 10 miles of hills at Dodger Stadium. Now, some good food at Walt's studio. [pic]: http://t.co/0mJG9l6B0J 10:20:31, 2013-03-02
- Getting ready for hill training with LA Roadrunners (@ Dodger Stadium w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/a4zlw6xKZU 06:41:42, 2013-03-02
- Flap's California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2013-03-01 – Flap's California Blog http://t.co/b0jOCjx6iU #tcot 05:53:56, 2013-03-02
- Flap's Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-03-01 – Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/eplyco59CL #tcot 05:53:56, 2013-03-02
- Off soon to Dodger Stadium & @LAMarathon training w/ the LA Roadrunners. 9 miles of hills today & then bagels at Walt's studio Temps = 70's 04:32:01, 2013-03-02
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2013-03-01 http://t.co/gzqYlwp7Tz 04:01:46, 2013-03-02
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-03-01 http://t.co/uLBKJXGKK4 #tcot 03:02:05, 2013-03-02
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- @AakashRaut @lheal And,also, Josh Trevino, apparently, was a foreign agent writing on behalf of Malaysia without full disclosure. in reply to AakashRaut 17:37:43, 2013-03-01
- Joshua Treviño Admits to Shilling for Malaysia http://t.co/ggdCppm2O4 #tcot 17:14:54, 2013-03-01
- Covert Malaysian Campaign Touched A Wide Range Of American Media http://t.co/cHIgXYzZr3 #tcot 17:14:54, 2013-03-01
- Political Cartoons / So, you think Obama is over-hyping this sequestration thing? http://t.co/DYfofGzutl #tcot 14:24:01, 2013-03-01
- Twitter / SpaceX: LIFTOFF of Falcon 9 and #Dragon … http://t.co/ertUcwryNZ #tcot 14:24:01, 2013-03-01
- Twitter / NASA: Liftoff of the @SpaceX Falcon … http://t.co/HKZHHBTlq1 #tcot 14:24:00, 2013-03-01
- You mean @BarackObama pardoned 17 more illegal aliens? No wait! 14:01:22, 2013-03-01
- RT @joshrogin: Keystone XL pipeline approval will not come until a final environmental report is issued and THEN a decision is made. 13:09:04, 2013-03-01
- RT @seanhackbarth: State: "If all pipeline capacity were restricted, oil sands production could decrease
by approximately 2 to 4 percen … 13:07:35, 2013-03-01 - RT @elonmusk: Thruster pods one through four are now operating nominally. Preparing to raise orbit. All systems green. 13:06:21, 2013-03-01
- So, you think Obama is over-hyping this sequestration thing? http://t.co/xtyl84mL41 via @pinterest 09:31:30, 2013-03-01
- Wow! Such moving words! NOT RT @politicoroger: Obama: "Sequester will not be an apocalypse. It's just dumb." 09:16:22, 2013-03-01
- RT @elonmusk: Thruster pod 3 tank pressure trending positive. Preparing to deploy solar arrays. 08:43:18, 2013-03-01
- Beautiful! RT @SpaceX LIFTOFF of Falcon 9 and #Dragon to the International Space Station http://t.co/SG22fDFHEM 07:37:38, 2013-03-01
- Congrats to the @SpaceX folks for a successful liftoff of the #Dragon and its mission to the #ISS. 07:14:42, 2013-03-01
- RT @NASA: Liftoff of the @SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and #Dragon spacecraft to the #ISS! http://t.co/CHC40vb5ZJ 07:12:50, 2013-03-01
- RT @SpaceX: LIFTOFF!!! 07:12:29, 2013-03-01
- RT @wired: Watch Live now: SpaceX’s Dragon Blasts Off to Space Station http://t.co/eR524WkBv9 07:12:24, 2013-03-01
- Flap's California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2013-02-28 – Flap's California Blog http://t.co/VSwOWNxjpx #tcot 04:54:07, 2013-03-01
- Flap's Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-02-28 – Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/L6tOUnRFWw #tcot 04:54:07, 2013-03-01
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2013-02-28 http://t.co/kcQ3bhj4Zn 04:01:16, 2013-03-01
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-02-28 http://t.co/LGHQVSe3oI #tcot 03:02:14, 2013-03-01
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- @seanhackbarth It is fun! And, going with your family is priceless! in reply to seanhackbarth 17:44:42, 2013-02-28
- @seanhackbarth Sean, this will be my 8th Los Angeles Marathon! Thanks! in reply to seanhackbarth 17:41:22, 2013-02-28
- I'm running the 2013 Los Angeles Marathon sponsored by ASICS. Cheer me on at http://t.co/whMN7OPDRW via @ASICSamerica 17:37:53, 2013-02-28
- RT @Stranahan: Dear #tcot and #tlot and #TeaParty and everyone else : please make sure @AndrewBreitbart trends in the next 24 hours. He' … 17:30:36, 2013-02-28
- Club for Growth President Chocola: ‘Sooner or Later, They Won’t Want You to be their Speaker’ http://t.co/xDPAeNuVhP #tcot 14:49:29, 2013-02-28
- Divergent views on illegal immigration emerge in state GOP – http://t.co/AP5qhFl2cd http://t.co/6xZyfGAcSE #tcot 12:57:15, 2013-02-28
- RT @AnthonyYorkLAT: State schools chief says more than 100 school districts "remain in financial jeopardy" despite passage of Prop. 30. … 11:27:41, 2013-02-28
- Turning off Fox News every time until they get rid of Nicole Wallace as a pundit – please. She jumped the shark with W. #tcot 10:29:38, 2013-02-28
- Divergent views on illegal immigration emerge in California state GOP http://t.co/6xZyfGAcSE 08:50:29, 2013-02-28
- I am almost enjoying the politicians, particularly Senators scrambling for political cover over Sequestration cuts. #Idiotsspendingour$ 07:55:10, 2013-02-28
- Shocker : Insurers: New rules will cause health costs to spike 'overnight' http://t.co/fnZwvulP7D #tcot 07:04:16, 2013-02-28
- Release of about 300 illegal immigrants from federal custody in Arizona stirs up debate http://t.co/CXwp8ZOqvv #tcot 06:23:21, 2013-02-28
- @ChuckTodd ask Colbert-Busch about gun control or abortion. I dare ya! #tcot 06:21:41, 2013-02-28
- @ChuckTodd feeding Colbert-Busch questions on MSNBC = pretty pathetic journalism here. #tcot 06:19:44, 2013-02-28
- The Morning Flap: February 28, 2013 http://t.co/UNteapnDMT #tcot 05:54:48, 2013-02-28
- Noonan: A Message for Wall Street http://t.co/fXEyaR2cPA #tcot 05:43:49, 2013-02-28
- Republicans need to go negative http://t.co/v4zdoAdRy6 #tcot 05:43:48, 2013-02-28
- ‘3 Amigos’ make life difficult for Mitch McConnell http://t.co/o4TWxJeVys #tcot 05:43:48, 2013-02-28
- Republican group readies immigration blitz http://t.co/YDYPbTmaRe #tcot 05:03:22, 2013-02-28
- @aburnspolitico Ha! Where is Malek and Co going to find 350k Republicans who will support their immigration amnesty. Good luck with that in reply to aburnspolitico 05:01:51, 2013-02-28
- Character is, in the long run, the decisive factor in the life of individuals and of nations alike.
–Theodore Roosevelt
Happy Thursday! 04:42:43, 2013-02-28
- Flap's California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2013-02-27 – Flap's California Blog http://t.co/22mYIHSiQa #tcot 04:27:45, 2013-02-28
- Flap's Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-02-27 – Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/fT126VCqTb #tcot 04:27:44, 2013-02-28
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2013-02-27 http://t.co/9WdcWyPHoq 04:02:51, 2013-02-28
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2013-02-27 http://t.co/mQDFfJMBdJ #tcot 03:02:52, 2013-02-28