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Too Little, Too Late? Morning Joe Laments Obama’s ‘Unfortunate’ Lack Of Gun Control Progress Since Newtown
Morning Joe started the week off with a gun control discussion, noting that there are now five Republican senators who have said they’ll filibuster any legislation on the issue. Questioning the progress (or lack thereof) Washington has made since Newtown, the panel took on background checks specifically — going to ask, did President Obama miss his chance? The stage for the segment was set with a nod to Dana Milibank‘s op-ed in the Washington Post, arguing that Obama’s actions on the issue now are “too little, too late.” Wrote Milibank: Obama’s failure to strike while the iron was hot offers a lesson in presidential leadership that goes beyond gun control. On almost every topic, from budget negotiations to national security, Washington seems only to act these days in response to crisis, if it acts at all. Obama erred in trying to use Newtown to build support for his positions on taxes, energy and immigration. And he compounded the error by sending Joe Biden off to conduct a study — an unnecessary delay when solutions were obvious. Once the president took his foot off the accelerator, no other action — not even Michael Bloomberg’s ad campaign — could maintain the momentum. [...]
Trump complains: Too many Hispanic ‘illegals,’ but ‘borders are secure from Europe’
Billionaire reality star Donald Trump on Monday warned Republicans that they should slow down efforts to reform the immigration system before “12 million illegals” become Democratic voters because the Hispanic immigrants could easily get into the country, while “the borders are secure from Europe.” During an interview on Fox & Friends, host Gretchen Carlson asked Trump for his reaction to the news that the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO had come to an agreement on allowing low-skilled migrant workers into the country. “The Republicans are just absolutely rushing to do whatever they can to get out of the box they’re in,” the birther mogul explained. “And they’re going to make it possible for 11 million or 12 million illegals to become citizens. And I always warn them and I tell them all the time — they’re calling and asking my opinion — every single one of those 12 million people will be voting against the Republicans.” snip- raw story
April Fools Prank Of The Day: White House features farts in ‘special message’ from the ‘president’
The White House announced on Monday that it would be releasing a “special message from the president.” But instead of an important policy announcement, the White House joined in on the April Fools’ Day fun with a much younger “president” taking the place of President Barack Obama. “It looks like you were expecting somebody else, but April Fools on all of y’all,” the “president” quipped. “I’m kid president and I hope everyone has an awesome day.” Watch this video from The White House, broadcast April 1, 2013. raw story lol so funny mister president
MSNBC: Scarborough, Brzezinski Rip Google’s ‘Cultural Blind Spot’ In Commemorating Cesar Chavez Over Easter
You’ve likely heard by now that Google is in a sticky situation after its “doodle” on Sunday commemorated not Easter but labor leader Cesar Chavez. Morning Joe, too, chimed in on the controversy on Monday — and like many others, the roundtable felt the tech giant simply “screwed up.” And the company should own up to it. “It’s tough!” Joe Scarborough mocked, gesturing an imaginary balance with his hands. “Two thousand years, this has been a tossup.” “This might just be a cultural blind spot for our friends at Google,” he further quipped. On a more serious note, Mika Brzezinski said the company ought to release a simply statement admitting, “We screwed up.” “I mean, come on, seriously?” Scarborough jumped back in. “Google is saying, it’s tough to decide between Easter and Chavez’s birthday. … I’m not knocking Chavez’s birthday, that’s important, right — but this is crazy.” And with that, Scarborough quoted John Updike: “Let us not mock God with metaphor, analogy, side-stepping, transcendence, making of the event a parable…let us walk through the door.” “Google did not walk through the door,” Willie Geist quipped. For its part, Google, in a response, noted the difficulty that goes into choosing [...]
The Sequestor is an Economy-Killing Python
The greatest single crisis ever of capitalism, the Great Depression of the 1930s, did not have the benefit of the mountains of evidence that we have now…that The Sequestor is an Economy-Killing snake that kills by the methods of a python, not a viper. In the over 250-year-old history of modern capitalism, the economic output of the West has consistently ticked upward, with just a few inconsistent blips from the dominant trend of growth; and in each case the culprit was exactly what some very callous, very rich, very selfish, yet quite convincing Republican snake-oil salesmen have now bestowed upon a clueless and soon-to-be-sacrificed voting public for the sake of political gain. And it’s an historical fact that but for two self-inflicted wounds, The U.S. would have been able to spare the globe that terrible economic crisis… Britain dragging the U.S. kicking and screaming back to the Gold Standard and F.D.R. allowing his political counterparts to convince him to pull back on the stimulus that was working, and implement a recovery-killing, debt & deficit obsession-fueled austerity process. The U.S. Has Three Huge Real-Time Irrefutable Cases-In-Point Count them. Three perfect examples. If the economic suicide the GOP has forced on the [...]
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