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- Tea Party Favorite Touts . . . Federal Spending?
- Republican senators uneasy with Obama’s nominee for OMB deputy director
- As Daniels considers White House run, supporters venerate, critics unload
- DeMint won’t back Romney without repudiation of Mass. health law
- Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
| Tea Party Favorite Touts . . . Federal Spending? Posted: 18 Mar 2011 11:38 AM PDT By Patrick O’Connor, The Wall Street Journal Republican Rep. Allen West, a tea-party favorite from Florida, railed against earmarks and out-of-control government spending on the campaign trail last fall. But he's happy to claim credit for a little federal largesse. Rep. Allen West (R., Fla.) speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) "This runway is long-awaited and much-anticipated," Mr. West said in the release. "At this crucial time for our economy, it is imperative that we encourage this kind of development, which will bring thousand of jobs with it and boost tourism – South Florida's number one economic engine." But for those on hypocrisy watch, the money did not come through an earmark, but rather a federal grant for airport improvements. The fund –the Airport Improvement Program – is financed through a combination of gas taxes, passenger fees and other levies assessed on air travel. To read more, visit: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/03/18/tea-party-favorite-touts-federal-spending/ |
| Republican senators uneasy with Obama’s nominee for OMB deputy director Posted: 18 Mar 2011 08:54 AM PDT By Amanda Carey – The Daily Caller Republicans on the Hill are taking President Obama's nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as a sign the White House is not serious about cutting spending. Heather Higginbottom, a longtime policy advisor to Democratic politicians, was nominated by the president on January 7 to replace acting Deputy Director Rob Nabors. "I believe it is pretty clear from the opposition that she is seen as a political operative and that members see this as a sign that President Obama has no interest in having a serious discussion about reducing spending," one Republican staffer told The Daily Caller. Higginbottom's previously served as deputy director of the White House's Domestic Policy Council, where, according to a White House press release, she "played an integral role on issues ranging from education to poverty to food safety." Before that, she worked on Obama's presidential campaign as policy director, and spent eight years on Capitol Hill with Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, where she rose to the role of legislative director. |
| As Daniels considers White House run, supporters venerate, critics unload Posted: 18 Mar 2011 08:50 AM PDT
Mitch Daniels is cheap. The Indiana governor and former Office of Management and Budget director for President George W. Bush who is now spoken of as the favorite 2012 candidate of the Washington elite used a gardening glove when he first learned to play golf, unwilling to spend the money for a real golf glove. "He had the same raincoat, which I always thought was too short for him, for about 20 years," a former aide said, recalling another tale of Daniels' frugality. "He doesn't like to spend his money, and he doesn't like to spend the people's money," Al Hubbard, who headed up the National Economic Council during Bush's second term and is considered part of Daniels' inner circle, explained. That stinginess, which may seem extreme in his personal life, is what has prompted some to call for Daniels to run for the Republican nomination for president, in the hopes that he will apply that same level of parsimony to the federal budget. Daniels said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he has agreed to "consider" the possibility of a run. |
| DeMint won’t back Romney without repudiation of Mass. health law Posted: 18 Mar 2011 08:43 AM PDT
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) “would never consider” endorsing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for president again in 2012 unless Romney repudiates the health reforms he sought as governor, a source close to DeMint said Thursday. A source close to the conservative icon emphasized that, despite comments to The Hill indicating that Romney shouldn’t shoulder all the political blame for the Massachusetts healthcare plan, DeMint wouldn’t endorse Romney again unless he admits the plan was mistaken. “It’s obvious Jim was just trying to be nice to the guy he backed over McCain, as many conservatives did in 2008,” the source said. “But he would never consider backing Romney again unless he admits that his Massachusetts healthcare plan was a colossal mistake.” DeMint told The Hill that he hadn’t decided who he would endorse in the 2012 Republican presidential primary and said that Romney wasn’t entirely to blame for the elements of the Massachusetts healthcare plan that conservatives now deplore. To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/150495-demint-wont-back-romney-without-repudiation-of-mass-health-law |
| Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media Posted: 18 Mar 2011 08:39 AM PDT
The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an “online persona management service” that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world. The project has been likened by web experts to China’s attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet. Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives. The discovery that the US military is developing false online personalities – known to users of social media as “sock puppets” – could also encourage other governments, private companies and non-government organisations to do the same. The Centcom contract stipulates that each fake online persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 US-based controllers should be able to operate false identities from their workstations “without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries”. To read more, visit: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks |
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