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Source: MSNBC
BREAKING NEWS: Director of CIA, David Petraeus, submits letter of resignation
BREAKING NEWS: CIA Director Petraeus submits resignation letter, citing extramarital affair
Updated Link:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/09/15054517-cia-director-david-petraeus-resigns-cites-extramarital-affair
Gen. David Petraeus has resigned as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, MSNBC reports.
MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell broke the news Friday afternoon, reading Petraeus' resignation letter on air.
Petraeus wrote in the letter to the CIA staff on Friday that he had gone to the White House on Thursday and asked the president "for personal reasons" to resign.
"After being married for more than 37 years I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair," Petraeus wrote in his letter. "Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as a leader of an organization such as ours."
Petraeus said that the president accepted his resignation on Thursday.
This is a breaking news entry. More to come...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/09/david-petraeus-resigns-cia-director-affair_n_2103094.html
Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/default.aspx?id=11881780&q=patreaus&search=p&1=st&1
Karen Hughes: "College Age Daughters Of Friends Voted For Obama" - Turned Off By NEANDERTHAL GOP
than it is a horrific, violent crime, I want to personally cut out his
tongue. The college-age daughters of many of my friends voted for Obama
because they were completely turned off by Neanderthal comments like the
suggestion of legitimate rape."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83632_Page2.html
rove...
Akin adviser: Karl Rove super-PAC 'a colossal failure'
Source: St Louis Post & Dispatch
Add Rick Tyler, spokesman and key adviser to Rep. Todd Akin, to the list of Rove critics. Tyler is a Newt Gingrich ally and political strategist who journeyed to Missouri in late August to assist Akin's ill-fated campaign for the Senate.
"They lost every race. It was a colossal failure," Tyler said of Rove's political entities. "They went out with their power points and convinced people to give money, but it was as pathetic a performance as I've ever seen."
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/bill-lambrecht/akin-adviser-karl-rove-super-pac-a-colossal-failure/article_70c824a4-5462-5eb3-8f2e-eac9f4153dd2.html
SPINE! President Obama Will Let ALL the Bush Tax Cuts Expire......if he doesn't get what he wants.
This from Jake Tapper:
http://news.yahoo.com/president-obama-call-deal-tax-cuts-argue-impact-152929562--abc-news-politics.html
Judge denies West's motion to impound voting machines, ballots in Palm Beach County
Source: TC Palm
Circuit Court Judge David F. Crow denied Allen West's motion for injunction to impound voting machines and paper ballots in Palm Beach County.
Crow said West's motion "fell woefully short of what's required" and said the Legislature is in charge of election laws, while the courts are meant to interpret them.
Crow said there was no evidence any statute had been breached.
A row of lawyers representing Patrick Murphy, West and the Palm Beach County supervisor of elections were on hand.
Read more: http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2012/nov/09/judge-denies-wests-motion-to-impound-voting-in/
Obama To House: "I've got this pen. I'm ready to sign the bill right away."
Delivering a statement on the economy on Friday, President Obama urged Congress to extend Bush-era tax cuts on the middle class "right now," while talks on a broader deficit reduction package continue with top Republicans.
"If Congress fails to make an agreement...everybody's taxes will automatically go up on January 1st," Obama said.
"All we need is action from the House," Obama added. "I've got the pen. I'm ready to sign the bill right away."
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/obama-calls-on-extending-middle-class-tax-cuts?ref=fpa
The GOP Must Choose: Rush Limbaugh or Minority Voters
Conor Friedersdorf: The GOP Must Choose: Rush Limbaugh or Minority Voters, November 9, 2012
2) Stop the shameless race-baiting, like telling listeners, "Obama's America, white kids getting beat up on school buses now. You put your kids on a school bus, you expect safety but in Obama's America the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, 'Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on,' and, of course, everybody says the white kid deserved it, he was born a racist, he's white."
3) Understand that when you commission a song called "Barack the Magic Negro" for your radio show, the average black person is going to take offense. And that if you pretend to be surprised when they do take offense, no one will believe you.
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the rest:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/the-gop-must-choose-rush-limbaugh-or-minority-voters/265002/
Sheldon Adelson bet against the American people — and lost.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/us/politics/little-to-show-for-cash-flood-by-big-donors.html?hp
http://underthemountainbunker.com/2012/11/09/sheldon-adelson-bet-against-the-american-people-and-lost/
Rasmussen Poll: 68 Percent Of American Voters See Global Warming As A ‘Serious Problem’
Source: Think Progress
Rasmussen Poll: 68 Percent Of American Voters See Global Warming As A Serious Problem
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/environment_energy/energy_update
By Stephen Lacey on Nov 9, 2012 at 11:25 am
Polls have consistently shown that Americans understanding of global warming grows with an increase in extreme weather events. In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, that number continues to grow.
According to a new Rasmussen poll conducted a day before the election and released this morning, 68 percent of American voters said that global warming is either a very serious or somewhat serious problem. This represents a major increase over the last few years. In 2009, Rasmussen reported that only 46 percent of Americans believed that global warming is a problem.
The Rasmussen poll backs up others showing an increase in awareness of the problem. An October poll from George Mason University and the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication showed that 74 percent of Americans understand that global warming is affecting weather in the United States an increase of 5 points from a March 2012 survey. The Yale/George Mason poll also found that a majority of respondents said global warming made the summer heat wave and Midwest drought worse.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/11/09/1170901/rasmussen-poll-68-percent-of-american-voters-see-global-warming-as-a-serious-problem/
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