Greg Sargent: It’s on: Republicans slam Elizabeth Warren for embracing Occupy Wall Street
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 26th, 2011 4:34 am by HL
Greg Sargent: It’s on: Republicans slam Elizabeth Warren for embracing Occupy Wall Street
Wow, this is going to be good: Occupy Wall Street is now officially an issue in what may be the highest-profile and most polarizing Senate race in the country.
National Republicans are now attacking Elizabeth Warren for embracing the protests, seeking to make a liability out of the fact that Warren, a longtime critic of Wall Street excess, has now aligned herself with the movement’s intellectual underpinnings. What this means: The conservative effort to turn blue collar whites and independents against the protesters and their broader populist message — exploiting a traditional cultural fault line in our politics — will now unfold in the context of a high profile political campaign.
Republican candidates offer a diverse set of economic plans
At a moment when the fragility of the economy ranks at the top of American concerns, sharp differences have begun to emerge in how the leading GOP presidential contenders would solve the problem — illuminating not only a diversity in approach, but a striking contrast in the candidates’ governing philosophies.
Activist group seeks investigation of NIH deaths
The activist group Public Citizen asked the secretaries of defense and health and human services on Tuesday to investigate the deaths of two people who received platelet transfusions contaminated with bacteria at the National Institutes of Health’s research hospital this summer.
The transfusions caused infection, shock and multiple-organ failure in cancer patients with compromised immune systems. One died a month later, the other six weeks later, according to a letter sent by Sidney M. Wolfe, the physician who heads Public Citizen’s Health Research Group.
Rick Perry raises ‘birther’ issue, casting doubt about Obama’s birthplace
Texas Gov. Rick Perry was supposed to be answering questions about his presidential bid. Instead, he raised more.
Perry tried to reboot his struggling campaign this week by announcing a broad economic policy agenda, recruiting longtime strategists with national credentials and reintroducing himself as the “bold” choice for the Republican nomination. But he undercut the reach of his economic message by repeatedly injecting an issue that most Americans thought had been put to rest.
In 2008, Obama was the cool candidate. He could channel Jay-Z, had The Roots and other young celebs starring in Obama-themed music videos, and in a campaign first, he text messaged his VP pick.
Well, now it’s 2011 and everybody and their grandma is texting and tweeting, and even a townhall meeting co-sponsored by Facebook is just another townhall. As it turns out, cool is hard to come by when you’re commander-in-chief.
