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Linda McMahon Reflects On
Her $97 Million Senate Bids

Bloomberg Businessweek, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/9/2012 10:44:03 AM Post Reply

As the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, Linda McMahon knows drama. But even she didn’t anticipate the furor over her latest bid to win a U.S. Senate seat in Connecticut, which she lost to Democrat Chris Murphy. It was audacious, coming just two years after losing to another Democrat in a state where only one-fifth of voters are registered Republicans. It was expensive, with McMahon personally spending $97 million on the two campaigns. And it was controversial, as McMahon ran ads that ripped apart her opponent while distancing herself from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Condoleezza Rice: GOP
sent 'mixed messages'

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/9/2012 10:27:45 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Republican Party must adapt better to rapidly changing demographics in the United States, saying the GOP sent "mixed messages" in the election campaign on immigration and women's issues. Rice tells "CBS This Morning" the changing face of America "really necessitates" new thinking. She says, quote, "When you send mixed messages, sometimes people hear only one side of that." Rice says the GOP came close to matching the Democrats in the popular vote. But she also acknowledges that "clearly we are losing important segments" of the

Harry Reid: 'We'll Raise' Debt
Ceiling by $2.4 Trillion

Breitbart Big Government, by Tony Lee Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/9/2012 10:24:45 AM Post Reply

On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Democrats were more than willing to raise the debt ceiling by another $2.4 trillion when America hits its current ceiling at the end of the year. When asked what Democrats would do when America inevitably hits its debt ceiling, Reid told reporters, "If it has to be raised, we'll raise it." The Treasury Department has noted America will hit its current $16.394 trillion debt ceiling by the end of the year, but Reid said he thought that would not happen until 2013.

Obama to speak on 'fiscal cliff'

The Hill [Washington DC], by Amie Parnes Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/9/2012 10:19:45 AM Post Reply

Fresh off his reelection win, President Obama will address the economy on Friday and the action Congress can take to reduce the deficit. Delivering a statement in the East Room of the White House, Obama is expected to discuss the tax increases and spending cuts that are set to take effect in January, and will likely urge Congress to take action on both. He is not likely to put forward a new plan. Obama spent much of the presidential campaign calling for people who earn more than $250,000 per year to pay their "fair share" in taxes,

Christie calls Obama
to congratulate, emails
Romney condolences

The Hill [Washington, DC], by Justin Sink Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/9/2012 10:19:43 AM Post Reply

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said that he had called President Obama to congratulate him on his win in the 2012 presidential election — but has only sent an email to Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for whom he campaigned heavily earlier this year. “We didn’t have a political strategy discussion,” Christie said of his call to Obama, according to Bloomberg. “I said congratulations on your win last night Mr. President, he said thank you governor.” Christie added that he had sent an email to Romney on Wednesday night. "We haven't spoken on the phone yet," he continued.

Defense officials: 7 Navy SEALs
punished for disclosing classified
information to video game maker

Associated Press, by Staff Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/9/2012 10:14:38 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Seven members of the secretive Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in the mission to get Osama bin Laden, have been punished for disclosing classified information, senior Navy officials said Thursday. Four other SEALs are under investigation for similar alleged violations, one official said. The SEALs are alleged to have divulged classified information to the maker of a video game called “Medal of Honor: Warfighter.” Each of the seven received a punitive letter of reprimand and a partial forfeiture of pay for two months. Those actions generally hinder a military member’s career. The deputy commander of

Brian Williams Turned to Steve
Schmidt on Election Night:
Tell Them It's Time to Shut
This Limbaugh Down

NewsBusters, by Tim Graham Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/9/2012 10:08:28 AM Post Reply

Now that the Republican Party lost another presidential election, the hot trend right now in the liberal media is to turn to the conservative-trashing Republicans and urge them to tell the public once again how the conservatives are ruining American politics with their crazy talk. Perhaps because he loves Barack Obama so deeply, NBC anchor Brian Williams spent Election Night in a snit over some odd tweets by Donald Trump somehow denying America is a democracy. He turned to Steve Schmidt -- ahem, the strategic genius who lost the last presidential campaign to Obama -- to explain why

Report: Mexican Cartel Bought
Guns From U.S. Border Patrol

Wired News, by Robert Beckhusen Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/9/2012 10:02:43 AM Post Reply

The testimony of a Mexican hitman turned government witness has revealed some astonishing details of life inside Mexico’s criminal underworld. Most astonishing of all: claims that cartel assassins obtained guns from the U.S. Border Patrol. According to Mexican magazine Revista Contralinea, the testimony comes from a protected government witness and former hitman, who cooperated in the prosecution of a Sinaloa Cartel accountant by the Mexican Attorney General’s Office. The testimony details a series of battles fought by a group of cartel members attempting to drive out rival gangsters from territory in Mexico’s desert west.

Boehner: ‘We don’t have a
tea party caucus to speak
of in the House’

Daily Caller, by Alexis Levinson Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/9/2012 9:57:02 AM Post Reply

There is no tea party caucus independent of the Republican caucus in the House of Representatives, Speaker of the House John Boehner said Thursday in an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer. “We’ve got members from all different types — all walks of life, if you will,” Boehner said. “But do they come back changed by this election?” Sawyer asked. “Well, listen, I think this has been the most misreported story of my two years’ tenure,” Boehner replied. “We don’t have a tea party caucus to speak of in the House. All of us who were elected in 2010

No, Amnesty Is
Not the Answer

Breitbart's Big Government, by Joel B. Pollak Original Article

Posted By: KarenJ1- 11/9/2012 9:41:48 AM Post Reply

As an immigrant, married to a fellow immigrant, I have to say I am puzzled that some conservatives are urging the Republican Party to embrace amnesty for illegal immigration in the wake of Tuesday's election--even those who otherwise think the GOP should reaffirm its commitment to conservative principles. Doing so would gain few Hispanic votes while sacrificing more of the core supporters Republicans left at home. Yes, Democrats did better among Hispanics. They were the only ethnic group among whom Obama and his party netted more votes in 2012 than they did in 2008

A Tattered Look For
J.C. Penney: $203 Million Q3
Loss And Fewer Customers

Forbes, by Abram Brown Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog- 11/9/2012 9:40:58 AM Post Reply

J.C. Penney shares sank nearly 10% this morning, after the department-store chain, in the midst of a controversial turnaround, posted a larger-than-expected quarterly loss. J.C. Penney swung to a $203 million, 93 cents a share, loss, from a $186 million, 71 cents a share, profit a year earlier. Excluding one-time items, J.C. Penney lost 56 cents a share. This greatly exceeded analysts’ prediction of 19 cents a share. Same-store sales fell 26.1%, suggesting that J.C. Penney’s struggles to attract customers continue. This is a key metric for retailers because it strips away volatile results from newly opened or closed stores.

Did voter turnout really
decline this time?

Investor's Business Daily, by Andrew Malcolm Original Article

Posted By: SurferLad- 11/9/2012 9:09:44 AM Post Reply

You know how the overall voter turnout for this week's presidential election was disappointingly down so much over 2008? It's been all over online sites since Tuesday. Well, wait one. The friendly folks over at Public Opinion Strategies have crunched the numbers and come up with an interesting different view. It shows that while this year's total may be down, it's down nowhere near what all the democracy fretters are wringing their hands over. And they may actually end up very close.

Big Brother alert: Microsoft wants to
know how many friends you’ve
got in your living room

Telegraph [UK], by Mic Wright Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/9/2012 8:54:04 AM Post Reply

One of Microsoft’s latest patent applications is a humdinger. It proposes to turn the Kinect camera into a snitch for movie studios, reporting back just how many friends you’ve got in your living room and what they’re watching. Think that sounds alarmist? Here’s what it actually says: “The users consuming the content on a display device are monitored so that if the number of user-views licensed is exceeded, remedial action may be taken.” It’s that blatant--a system to spy on private viewing habits. If put into practice, Microsoft’s plan could mean that the film

What does Obama's win
mean for the Middle East?

Telegraph [UK], by David Blair Original Article

Posted By: Attercliffe- 11/9/2012 8:50:27 AM Post Reply

When American presidents are liberated from the need to win re-election, they often devote more time to foreign policy. Barack Obama in his second term is unlikely to be an exception. So what does his victory mean for the Middle East? At the moment, the region has three burning crises--Syria, Iran and the Arab-Israeli conflict. I would argue that Obama’s second term means “no change” for the first two, and potentially a very big change indeed for the last. Let me explain. On Syria and Iran, America has a settled policy. In both cases, Washington will maximise the pressure

So What Could Possibly Go Wrong

American Thinker, by C. Edmund Wright Original Article

Posted By: Passion- 11/9/2012 8:41:51 AM Post Reply

The story of the 2012 election is that voters still blame Republicans for systemic problems caused by liberalism, and yet they credit Obama for victories brought about by applied conservatism. Now how does this happen? The answer is both a short story and part of a longer festering narrative. Consider: during the Republican primary season, half of Mitt Romney's consultants told him to call Newt Gingrich the devil. The other half told him to merely to claim that the devil worshiped Gingrich. Then these same sorcerers all told Mitt to call Barack Obama "a nice guy."
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7 Navy SEALS Punished for
Divulging Secrets

New York Daily News, by Joseph Straw Original Article

Posted By: MattMusson- 11/9/2012 8:25:01 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON — Seven members of a unit that killed Osama bin Laden got career-ending reprimands Thursday for spilling secrets to a video game developer, a Navy official said.The members of the elite SEAL Team 6 were charged with dereliction of duty for disclosure of classified materials and unauthorized use of unit equipment for two days of off-the-clock work earlier this year. The SEALS were helping the firm EA with its new first-person shooter "Medal of Honor: Warfighter," which came out last month.
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Mitt Romney Had Every Chance
to Win—But He Blew It

National Journal, by Michael Hirsh Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 11/9/2012 8:18:57 AM Post Reply

Mitt Romney could have won. By Tuesday night, it was certain that 48 percent of the country no longer believed in the portrait of hope and change that Barack Obama offered up in 2008—if any ever had. Like the picture of Dorian Gray, the reality had grown somewhat repugnant to vast numbers of voters unhappy with a stagnant economy, even as Obama continued to portray himself as the good-guy savior (from George W. Bush, that is) in the White House.

McAuliffe beginning process
of gubernatorial run

Washington Times, by David Sherfinski Original Article

Posted By: pineledger- 11/9/2012 8:12:17 AM Post Reply

Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe said Thursday he plans to run for governor of Virginia in 2013, becoming the first Democrat to enter a race that will undoubtedly receive significant national attention as just one of two gubernatorial contests next year. Mr. McAuliffe, who lost in a three-way primary for the party’s nomination in 2009, had indicated his intention to run, but had also said he wanted to see whether Sen. Mark R. Warner decided to seek the post before making a firm decision.

John Boehner Should
Get of Obama's Way

American Thinker, by Jeannie DeAngelis Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/9/2012 7:57:19 AM Post Reply

Based on the dismal state of the union and after four years of doing exactly what Rush Limbaugh said he hoped that he would do, by any thinking person's standards President Barack Obama has indeed "failed." Yet, despite the catastrophe, on Election Day the American people inexplicably invited the President to spend the next four years beating the dead horse that he killed during his first term. The next day, after being MIA for months, Speaker of the House John Boehner crawled out of the tanning bed long enough to publicly assure the President

The way forward - Thread Closed

Washington Post, by Charles Krauthammer Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 11/9/2012 7:44:49 AM Post Reply

They lose and immediately the chorus begins. Republicans must change or die. A rump party of white America, it must adapt to evolving demographics or forever be the minority. The only part of this that is even partially true regards Hispanics. They should be a natural Republican constituency: striving immigrant community, religious, Catholic, family-oriented and socially conservative (on abortion, for example).

Republicans Find Refuge in the House

Wall Street Journal, by Michael Barone Original Article

Posted By: Dreadnought- 11/9/2012 7:36:37 AM Post Reply

In the decision desk at Fox News on election night, none of us paid much heed when it became clear that Republicans would maintain their majority in the House of Representatives. The information was broadcast quickly and everyone went back to talking about the presidential election. But actually it was rather extraordinary. Republicans won or are leading in 236 of the 435 House seats, down just six from the 2010 midterm. And they achieved this despite losing five seats because of partisan redistricting in Illinois and another five in California thanks to a supposedly nonpartisan redistricting commission

The Reality Check Election

Washington Free Beacon, by Matthew Continetti Original Article

Posted By: Drive- 11/9/2012 7:34:37 AM Post Reply

Republicans (and I) thought the 2008 election was a fluke. We thought the Obama coalition of minorities, young people, and white liberals had been brought together under unusual circumstances: the unpopularity of the Bush presidency, the war in Iraq, and the recession and financial crisis. The 2010 midterms, in which the Obama coalition did not appear and Republicans had their best performance in decades, supported this assumption. A combination of GOP enthusiasm and a lackluster economy would spell trouble for Obama’s reelection.

Ron Paul: Election shows U.S. 'far gone'

The Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan Original Article

Posted By: Envirodude- 11/9/2012 7:32:24 AM Post Reply

Rep. Ron Paul, whose maverick presidential bids shook the GOP, said in the wake of this week's elections that the country has already veered over the fiscal cliff and he sees no chance of righting ship in a country where too many people are dependent on government. "We're so far gone. We're over the cliff," the Texas Republican told Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop" program. "We cannot get enough people in Congress in the next 5-10 years who will do wise things. (Snip) Mr. Paul, who is retiring after 12 terms in the House

What we lost on November 6

American Thinker, by Greg Halvorson Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/9/2012 7:30:37 AM Post Reply

Well, now that it's over - and it is, OVER - I might as well add to the requiem vault. I made this list Monday evening before the last vestiges of the Constitution were steam-rolled by Zombies, and the lamp of Liberty grew dim. Many good-hearted patriots are bucking-up, dusting off their Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine quotes, but the fact is, ObamaCare - a colossal, debt-driven nightmare - will, indeed, transform America (as per Obama's wish), and the radical quislings for whom he is sovereign will press forward on many fronts.

Boehner Exclusive: Raising
Tax Rates 'Unacceptable' but
Will Put New Revenue on Table

ABC News, by John Parkinson Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/9/2012 7:25:25 AM Post Reply

Raising tax rates is "unacceptable" to House Speaker John Boehner as he prepares to open negotiations on the looming "fiscal cliff" with the president and congressional Democrats, he told "World News" anchor Diane Sawyer today in an exclusive interview. "Raising tax rates is unacceptable," Boehner, R-Ohio, said in his first broadcast interview since the election Tuesday. "Frankly, it couldn't even pass the House. I'm not sure it could pass the Senate." That stance could set up a real showdown with the White House given that the president has said he would veto any deal that does not

Clinton honors slain envoy to Libya

Associated Press, by Matthew Lee Original Article

Posted By: JoniTx- 11/9/2012 7:18:35 AM Post Reply

WASHINGTON- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton paid tribute Thursday to slain U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, calling him a "fallen hero" who understood that diplomacy requires taking risks. About two months after Stevens and three other Americans were killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, Clinton said the State Department and Pentagon are reviewing security at high-threat diplomatic posts to determine what improvements should be made. But Clinton also stressed that diplomacy in unstable areas is inherently dangerous and praised Stevens for volunteering for difficult jobs to serve his country.

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