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(Reuters) – Unusually harsh winter weather appears to be behind recent signs of weakness in the U.S. economy, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on Thursday, suggesting the central bank was poised to press forward in ratcheting back its stimulus.

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Ukraine downfall: Lack of leadership to blame?

Published time: February 22, 2014 13:40

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (AFP Photo / Sergei Supinsky)

With dozens dead and the country profoundly divided, Ukraine is facing the worst crisis it has experienced in modern history. Lack of leadership from President Yanukovich is coming under the spotlight as the country teeters on the brink of civil war.

When Yanukovich’s government announced that it would not sign a key trade agreement with the EU three months ago, hardly anyone expected that it would lead to Kiev being turned into a battlefield.

As the Ukrainian protest slowly evolved from a peaceful pro-EU demonstration into a mass-rioting gang shooting at police with firearms, it seems that the Ukrainian president was preoccupied with two things: staying in power and avoiding responsibility.

“A lot depends on the resolve of President Yanukovich. Until now he hasn’t shown the necessary qualities to take control of the situation,” said Veronika Krasheninnikova, head of the Institute of Foreign Policy Research and Initiatives, a political think tank. “So most probably it will continue to deteriorate. Chaos will continue spreading in Ukraine.”

On several occasions Yanukovich could have acted decisively in one of two ways. He could have stepped down and called an early election, de facto putting the future of Ukraine to a referendum.

This would most likely ruin Yanukovich’s personal aspiration for reelection. In a post-protest election, an apparently weak leader accused of corruption by his rivals and with an ailing economy on his hands would barely stand a chance. But at least Euro-skeptics and Euro-proponents would have their opportunity to convince all Ukrainians – not just a few thousand anti-government activists – to choose their course of action.

Yanukovich could also have dispersed the protesters and maintained public order in the country, whatever criticism it might have brought. This is how the then Georgian president, Mikhail Saakashvili, acted in 2007. He brutally suppressed a peaceful protest and called an early presidential election, which he won, instead of an early parliamentary election, which the opposition demanded and which his party could well have lost. Unlike the Georgian leader, Yanukovich hesitated even when the Ukrainian protest turned Kiev into a battlefield.

The Ukrainian president chose neither option. He made a series of moves that the moderate opposition demanded of him, which can only be described as too little too late. He sent riot police to guard governmental buildings and made them stand unresponsive under a rain of firebombs and stones. Now he has reportedly fled Kiev just hours after agreeing to an early election and gone to the east of the country.

As Yanukovich went missing, delegates from local governments decided in Kharkov that they should resist a new opposition-enforced government and form local militias to defend themselves from a potential armed attack from western Ukraine.

“Yanukovich was desperate to hold on to power. He was willing to do whatever it took to maintain that power. Even to make concessions that he understood would tear his own country apart. This is pure politics on his part grasping to hold on to his power,” commented the geopolitical analyst Eric Draitser to RT.

The ramifications of this non-choice by Yanukovich are on his head, but they may have dire consequences for the whole of Ukraine. The moderate opposition may pretend that they have taken power, but in reality it was the radical fighters of the Right Front who made Yanukovich flee. The same fighters, who booed opposition leaders each time they returned from talks with the president to announce new concessions and demanded more.

“What we’ve learned in Ukraine now is that if you really disagree with what the elected government is doing, you should go to the streets and just raise holy hell until those policies are reversed or until there is some change made in the procedure. That’s not going to lead to peace in Ukraine in the future,” warns Congressman Dana Rohrabacher from California.

Part of the blame for the bloody crisis, which cost about 80 lives and put the country on the brink of civil war, is on the moderate opposition. They failed to produce a figure strong and resolute enough to join all forces under his control and strike a lasting deal with the government.

Part of the blame lies with foreign governments, which were all too eager to cheer the Yanukovich-bashing crowds and turn a blind eye to the radical part of the protest and the violence.

But it was the duty of Yanukovich to prevent the situation from spiraling out of control. A duty he utterly failed.

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Blame big data for "slut" label

How does a woman get a letter from her bank, and it’s addressed to “A Slut?” Or a man whose daughter died in an auto accident get a promotion addressed to “Daughter Killed In Car Crash/Or Current Business?”

Two cases in the past few weeks have shed a light on a silent industry that makes billions slurping up, slicing off and reselling every digitized data point about our lives, from the DVDs we buy to our own private griefs.

Forget whether the NSA is going to snoop your data; direct marketers have already got it, and they’re not always taking the best care of it.

Last week, Lisa McIntire’s mom texted her to say a Bank of America credit card offer had arrived at her house for her daughter. It was sent by Golden Key International, an honor roll society McIntire had joined, which is also an affiliate marketer for Bank of America. The letter was addressed to “Lisa Is A Slut McIntire.”

“I don’t know what is going on, but having my mom receive mail addressed to “Lisa Is A Slut McIntire” is wildly not acceptable,” McIntire, a San Francisco-based freelance writer, tweeted along with photos of the letter.

“We take full responsibility,” Golden Key spokeswoman Melissa Leitzell told NBC News. She said that since McIntire joined in 2000, her account had been modified five times between 2004 and 2008. Four of those times the modifications occurred using her login, but in 2007, one of them was by a Golden Key customer service representative. That person hasn’t worked for Golden Key since fall 2007, said Leitzell.

When marketers are dealing with hundreds of millions of people’s personal records, there’s bound to be errors, especially when humans are involved, said Steven Sheck, president of MailingLists.com, a mailing list broker.

“You can hire somebody who is mentally unfit and does this for their own personal gains,” he said, adding that maybe the person did it to get a twisted thrill. For whatever reason, McIntire’s entry became vandalized.

Typically companies screen their mailings lists for bad addresses and bad words, but “slut” somehow made it through.

A misanthropic employee’s rogue keystrokes aren’t the only thing customers are never supposed to see on their “special offers.”

“You can hire somebody who is mentally unfit and does this for their own personal gains.”

As much as they can, marketers buy and repackage every form you fill out, every “fun” survey you take, and every site you visit. Every time you make a blip on the data grid, someone is trying to harvest it, attach it to your name, and collate it with everything else the database knows about you. Marketers buy this information to send out targeted letters and emails and phone calls, saving on overhead by narrowing down their efforts to likely prospects.

Customers usually don’t know why they’re getting pitched. Then there are the slip-ups.

In late January, Mike Seay, a 46-year old unemployed man from Illinois whose daughter recently died in an automobile accident, received a letter from OfficeMax. It was addressed to “Mike Seay/Daughter Killed in Car Crash/Or Current Business.”

OfficeMax apologized to the family and said it had upgraded its filters to flag inappropriate information. The office supplies retailer said that it had rented the list from a third-party provider and that it hadn’t targeted those customers based on personal information.

But that doesn’t mean Seay isn’t on such a list.

‘Critical moments’ list
Pam Dixon, founder of the World Privacy Forum, has testified before the Senate about the increasing invasiveness of direct marketing lists. “The parents landed on what’s called a ‘critical moments’ list,” she said. “If you’re recently widowed, divorced, lost a child … diagnosed with a fatal mortal illness, that event will land you on one of those lists.”

For some macabre marketers, that sheet of names represents an array of promising buyers.

So the entry field for a list called “daughter killed in car crash,” somehow got mingled into the business name and Seay received his unnerving junk mail, said Dixon.

Sheck offers a more benign explanation. Often database entries contain a comments section, he said. A data entry worker, “might have put in “daughter killed in crash” to try to be nice to this person if talking on the phone, or to give them a discount,” he said.

Though Seay’s daughter’s death was public and had been reported in the news, that it was considered a commoditizable piece of information represents a startling new frontier for privacy, or the lack thereof.

“Data brokers collect information from public data, from transactional data, everything you buy,” said Dixon. And Increasingly, even more sources are getting trawled to “append” it to your basic name, address and age profile, including Facebook. “If you have not locked down a social media profile … it’s getting scraped,” she said.

In her research, she found you could buy lists for people who suffer from cancer and Alzheimer’s, and even rape victims. In one case, insurance companies bought lists of people with genetic illnesses. In another, a credit bureau sold data, including Social Security numbers and drivers’ licenses, to a company connected to a ring of identity thieves.

“Once you’re on these lists, you don’t know where it goes,” said Dixon.

First published February 10 2014, 11:25 AM

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Eating badly? You can blame your friends study says

A new study has shown that those around us have a big influence on our food choices – for better or worse.

The meta study by from the University of Liverpool looked at 11 different journals and 15 experimental studies and found that those around us have a profound influence on what we put in our mouths.

Eight of the studies analyzed food intake norms with the amount of food eaten, while the other seven looked at the influence of information about food choice norms what the participants choose to eat.

“It appears that in some contexts, conforming to informational eating norms may be a way of reinforcing identity to a social group, which is in line with social identity theory,” said study author Eric Robinson.

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“By this social identity account, if a person’s sense of self is strongly guided by their identity as a member of their local community and that community is perceived to eat healthily, then that person would be hypothesized to eat healthily in order to maintain a consistent sense of social identity.”

Researchers said that this could even work at the societal level: better food choices across a large group could make everyone eat less and healthier.

The study was published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

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Do-nothing Congress: Lawmakers pass more blame than bills

• Congress is on track to have its least productive year in recent history


• Boehner blames the Democratic Senate, White House, cites 148 House-passed bills


• Many targeted Obamacare, dealt with shutdown with no chance of passage


• Democrats blame House conservatives for impeding legislative progress

Tune in to “Crossfire” on CNN Thursday at 6:30pm ET. Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) join hosts S.E. Cupp and Stephanie Cutter to debate who is to blame for the do-nothing Congress.

Washington (CNN) — Congress is on pace to have its least productive year in modern history, earning a “do-nothing” label and adding another unwanted statistic to a body already facing chronically low approval ratings.

Cue the blame game.

“To date, the House has passed nearly 150 bills this Congress that the United States Senate has failed to act on,” Republican Speaker John Boehner argued Wednesday. “The Senate (and) the President continue to stand in the way of the people’s priorities.”

Democrats are tossing responsibility right back in the GOP’s lap, arguing that hardline House conservatives are blocking legislative progress.

• Number of laws passed so far by the 113th Congress — 56: Sound substantial? Check out the breakdown.

• Bills limited to one piece of land or region — 10: These include the Denali Park Improvement Act, the Freedom to Fish Act and the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act.

• Reauthorization of laws –5: The U.S. Parole Commission, a congressional award program and a handful of other regular pieces of business were reauthorized — not exactly heavy lifting.

• Keeping government running — 5: Congress repeatedly had to vote to fund government and keep the bureaucracy from hitting its self-imposed debt ceiling.

• Naming things — 4: Congress voted to name a bridge, a VA building, an air traffic control tower and a section of the IRS Code.

• What else did they do? Most of the others were focused and had limited impact. One dealt with how to handle organ transplants from HIV+ donors. Another delayed new pipeline safety standards.

• There were a few heavy lifts: The House and Senate agreed on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, prepared for a possible pandemic flu and handled the nation’s helium reserve, pivotal in the medical world.)

• Stuck in idle: Immigration; jobs and the economy; energy reform/Keystone pipeline/climate change; future Medicare insolvency; future Social Security insolvency.

Meanwhile, America’s national legislature is growing increasingly dysfunctional.

No deal, but sides said to be closer on budget deal

So far, 56 bills have been signed into law in the first session of the 113th Congress. Assuming legislators don’t pick up the pace next year — and the smart money says they won’t as the midterms draw near — this will become the least productive Congress in at least the last 40 years, according to a CNN analysis of congressional records.

Is the fact that fewer bills have become law necessarily a bad thing? That depends on your point of view. But representatives and senators on both sides of the aisle readily acknowledge that some major issues have not been addressed.

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Congress hasn’t passed a budget, among other things. None of the 12 annual spending bills has made it to the President’s desk. We don’t have a new farm bill. Immigration reform is stalled. Tax and entitlement reform are dead in the water.

Adding insult to injury, in October the federal government had its first partial shutdown in nearly two decades.

The most important issue in Washington political circles, naturally, is who’s responsible.

Democrats point out that roughly one-third of the 148 bills passed by the GOP-controlled House so far this year were attempts to repeal, delay or defund Obamacare that had zero chance of passing the Senate or surviving a certain presidential veto.

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More than a dozen of those measures were also partisan, piecemeal spending bills passed during the government shutdown that had no chance of being signed into law.

Some of them had nothing to do with major issues at all, such as the bills renaming courthouses in Sherman, Texas, and Fergus Falls, Minnesota.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has called the House GOP a bunch of “modern-day anarchists.” But Republicans argue that Democrats are standing in the way of priorities such as entitlement reform. Democrats are standing in the way of a major overhaul of the tax code, they insist.

While both the House and the Senate passed farm bills, Democrats are blocking much-needed changes to the country’s agriculture laws, Republicans say.

As is usually the case in Washington, your opinion of which party is to blame is probably determined by which party you belong to. Meanwhile, Democrats and Republicans are growing more ideologically distant by the day.

And that is a recipe for gridlock.

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Carville: Obamacare Rollout Has Been "Awful," Obama Only "Has Himself To Blame"

JAMES CARVILLE: The truth of that is he could have said it a lot more elegantly than he did. I look at these polls, and I think it’s all self-inflicted. This rollout, which they’ve got to get right. It was a disaster. A joke. And there was a way to talk about how many people should get to keep their health insurance in a way that wouldn’t have caused so much trouble. I’m one of the few people who believes and continues to believe that in the end this thing is going to work.

IMUS: I keep thinking that too. I don’t have any interest in this either way, I’m just and observer, sitting here watching the freak parade. But I keep thinking the same thing. That everybody is hysterical: the website doesn’t work and this doesn’t work and things cost too much. But, there is the possibility that come, this time next year we’ll look back on this and say it was awful getting started, but they got it worked out and now it’s fine.

JAMES CARVILLE: The reason they say that IS, In places where it’s up and running — i.e., Massachusetts and some of these other places, you know, California, Connecticut, Kentucky — it is actually doing fine. And they never, things – they get in front of it. The website, they get better. It’ll get better down the road.

They’re going to get better, but the rollout of this has been awful, and it didn’t have to be that way at all. And I think the president has himself to blame as much as anybody. I don’t think he was done in, in this instance, by the Republicans, or done in by the media, done in by anything. It was just a massive mess-up that’s cost him and cost the Democratic party some grief. Maybe temporarily, I hope, but it’s certainly caused some grief out there.

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There is an 8-Year-Old Girl With Lung Cancer, and China"s Smog is to Blame

There is an 8-Year-Old Girl With Lung Cancer, and China’s Smog is to Blame Image Credit: AP

In the first case of its kind, an eight-year-old girl in China has become the youngest person in history to be diagnosed with lung cancer. Local doctors believe that China’s skyrocketing levels of air pollution are to blame. While rare, this case highlights the extreme degree to which China is undercutting its own economy and health with an outdated and inefficient growth model.

Every minute, there are six new cases of cancer in China, and every year there are two million related deaths a year. In 2010 alone, there were an estimated 1.2 million in premature deaths. These were largely due to air pollution, which is the largest environmental risk. Such loss of damage and cost to future economic activity is believed to have cost China $ 230 billion in 2010. Other examples of China’s pollution woes include a case from October of this year, when toxic smog forced the 11 million strong city of Harbin to shut down. The smog caused visibility to drop to ten meters, causing schools to cancel classes and airports to close. Such incidents are also alarming China’s neighbors as factories and power plants in China have caused increased acid rain to fall on Seoul and Tokyo.

Such telling statistics have been occasionally censored in certain official Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reports, since they could be damaging to the party’s reputation and growth strategy. China’s method of economic development is important because not only is it officially institutionalized, but also economic growth is what provides the legitimacy on which the CPP rests.

Over the last 30 years, the CCP’s shift from socialism to state capitalism has lifted over 500 million Chinese out of poverty. In the late 1980s, Deng Xiaoping created a new incentive system in which provincial and local officials are judged and promoted based on two criteria: continual economic growth in their jurisdiction and suppressing dissent. Central plans for economic growth and tight competition to be promoted resulted in local officials trying to outdo their peers’ growth in provincial and city GDPs.

In rural China, land is still collectivized and peasants lease the land and are without private property rights. Because of this, local official often seize their land for development, providing little compensation while selling the land at high rates to private or, more often, state-run companies.

These perverted incentives also cause officials to support or turn a blind eye to projects that are less energy or cost efficient, but boost short-term GDP and are quick to complete. Examples of this include little to no insulation in most new buildings and the use of long outdated turbine technology in power plants.

The result has been soaring economic growth fueled by an artificial stimulus of land and house prices without great concern for future growth, the environment, or local dissent. Real estate, housing, development, and their related industries now account for about a third of China’s economy and real concerns have emerged that the CCP’s political incentives are creating a housing bubble on the scale of America’s infamous 2008 one.

Putting this another way, imagine for a moment if American governors and mayors were judged over how much economic growth they could create and that they were given free use of imminent domain to achieve such growth. They could send the policy to seize as much land to give to Walmart or General Motors as they’d like and all they have to do was provide a meager penance as compensation. That is the source of China’s environmental and future economic woes; citizens have no legal recourse and politicians have no incentive to think in the long term.

China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection is also very weak. In fact, state owned companies block or ignore regulations on a regular basis. Also, half-hearted efforts by President Hu Jintao to include a into the evaluations of local officials has made no difference. Initially designed to take into account the cost of pollution, the measure was scrapped because of the many of the new growth calculations were close to zero in several provinces.

While environmental degradation as a side effect of the industrialization is the norm throughout history, and arguably nearly impossible to avoid, there is no comparison to China’s juggernaut. Never before has a state had economic growth and environmental problems on such a massive scale, and thus there is no previous case to go by. And so far, China has made some progress but the results are mixed and the long-term outcome uncertain.

On one hand, China has undertaken a $ 200 billion green and nuclear energy initiative and has begun experimenting with cap and trade as theoretical solutions in some special zones. Also despite how bad things are, most of China’s cities are “no more polluted than Japan’s were in 1960 … [and] air quality is improving at about the same rate as Japan’s did in the 1970s.”

Yet at the same time, many other parts of China’s environment are much worse, such as the Yellow River in the north, which serves 50% of all Chinese and irrigates 60% of all farmland, and is in grave overuse. Pollution has also caused almost 500 million Chinese to be without access to safe drinking water.

Thus, it is difficult to tell what lies in China’s environmental future and whether Beijing is unable or unwilling to change its top-down incentives for short-term growth despite the cost.

Either way, China’s top-heavy model of growth is due for an overhaul.

John Grover

Senior at Bowdoin College. Love all things political, especially international relations. Am a moderate conservative who draws upon a classical liberal understanding of the social contract. Hope to join in building a better world through the State …

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Two Off-Duty Cops Prove What Young Women Know About Who"s Really to Blame For Rape

Two Off-Duty Cops Prove What Young Women Know About Who’s Really to Blame For Rape

Judging from what you’ve read in the media lately, you’d think there’s a direct correlation between a woman’s drunk slutty drinking and her propensity to get sexually assaulted, but as it turns out there are more ways of preventing rape that don’t include making half the population stay indoors past midnight and holding them responsible for the illegal actions of others!

What if … men … (stay with me) … didn’t … (stay with me) … rape? Moreover, what if people … (stay with me) … stopped … men from raping? I know it sounds bonkers to put the burden of responsibility on anyone but the victim in the case of sexual assault, but ABC wanted to see what happened when we do. As it turns out, it can be pretty effective.

In a popular ABC segment called “What Would You Do?”, two actors stage a scene that should send massive alarm bells in the head of any human-being: a woman who is visibly intoxicated, being dragged away by a man who’s clearly intending to rape her in his hotel room. Yes, I said rape, not sex. Look it up. If we want to stop minimizing rape, we need to stop calling it sex. I’m talking to you, Kansas City Star.

The first half of the video is pretty faith-restoring, because it shows women and men standing up against a man who appears to be intentionally taking her away so that he can rape her, although no one mentions the word rape, only that he’s “taking advantage of her.” The video takes a petrifying turn at 6:40 when two married men come in. The fact that they encourage the man to rape the woman is bad, but the fact that we later learn ( at the 8 minute mark) that they are both off-duty cops is horrifying. Take a look.

The rapist in this video is not only allowed to rape, he’s encouraged to do it. This is what happens when police officers, the media, or female journalists tell women to stop getting drunk/dressing like sluts to prevent sexual assault. It would be sensible advice if it didn’t reinforce the very structures that make sexual assault not only possible, but probable.

One in five women will be a victim of rape at some point in her life. Women who are between the ages of 16-24, are four times for likely to get raped than any other population group. It doesn’t keep happening because alcohol exists, it keeps happening because men who rape get to joke about it with off-duty cops. If the people who are supposed to be protecting women, buy into rape culture, it’s not surprising that rape remains the most unreported crime.

Even if alcohol was prohibited for every woman tomorrow, rape would still happen. Booze and short skirts don’t cause rape; rapists do. The more we focus on the victims, the less we focus on the rapists. Until perpetrators are held accountable, they will have no reason to change. Let’s make it harder to rape, not easier to blame the victim.

What do you think? Is there inherent harm in telling women not to get drunk? Let me know on Twitter and Facebook.

Elizabeth Plank

Viral Content & Social Justice Editor at PolicyMic. Masters degree from the London School of Economics. Behavioral science consultant by training and feminist crusader by passion.

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The "Glitch" Blame Game

Consider the following qualification rules for different Obamacare plans.

If income < 20k then Plan-1

If income >= 20k and < 50k then Plan-2

If income < 30 k and net worth > 150 k and single then Plan-2

But what about this applicant?

Client: unemployed, single, net worth > 150 k and income < 20 k

Since income is < 50 k the client qualifies for Plan-1 or Plan-2. Since income < 20 k client qualifies for Plan-1. Since net worth > 150k and single and unemployed the client qualifies for Plan-2. The computer system will then freeze – probably from stack overflow.

In actuality the qualification rules for various different plans are much more complex than the example above and inconsistency is very hard to track -especially when rules refer to other rules (“as per”, “subject to”, “as qualified by”) as is standard fare for legalese. Moreover, several different programmers will be coding different sections of the rules. And the blame lies then with whom?

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Arkansas Poll: Most Blame Obama, Democrats for Shutdown

More voters in Arkansas blame President Barack Obama and Democrats than congressional Republicans for the government shutdown, a poll released Monday showed.

The Talk Business-Hendrix College survey found 40 percent of voters laid the blame for the shutdown on Obama and his party in Congress, while 35 percent pointed the finger at Republican lawmakers.

Twenty-four percent of voters surveyed said both are equally to blame.

The president’s job approval ratings also were dismal in the poll: Only 34 percent of those surveyed approve of how Obama is doing while 62 percent disapprove.

The Arkansas results also found among independent voters, 49 percent blamed Obama and Democrats, while 30 percent blamed Republicans in Congress.

In the Senate race in Arkansas, the survey shows Sen. Mark Pryor, a Democrat from Arkansas, at 42 percent, in a statistical dead-heat with Republican Rep. Tom Cotton, who garnered 41 percent — with nearly a year to go.

“One would assume that such dismal approval numbers would doom an incumbent senator running for re-election,” Jay Barth, professor of political science at Hendrix College, noted in his breakdown of the results. “Yet Pryor continues to hold a sliver of a lead over his challenger.”

The poll found among independents, however, Cotton has a 48 percent to 42 percent lead.
The results defy national polling that indicates more blame being placed on the Republicans in Congress than on Obama and the Democrats.

This survey was conducted Oct. 8, and has a margin of error of 4 percent.

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No Deal Yet? Blame Obama’s Credibility Gap

This morning House Republicans are meeting to discuss ideas floated by Rep. Paul Ryan to avert a showdown over the debt ceiling. Ryan, who outlined his proposal in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal is, as we have come to expect of him, the leading voice of reason in the GOP caucus, and the White House ought to seize on this opportunity to avert what it keeps telling us is a fiscal catastrophe that will happen on Oct. 17 if the Republicans don’t surrender. But since we already know that President Obama is far more interested in pushing confrontation with the Republicans because he believes it to be in his political interests, there’s little chance of that happening.

While more conservatives are coming to grips with the fact that they are not going to be able to defund ObamaCare, it’s also unclear whether enough House Republicans will get behind Ryan’s scheme that trades off a short-term extension of the debt ceiling along with reform of Medicare and a start on comprehensive tax reform. These are core conservative ideas that are focused on the underlying problems behind the deficit — entitlements and tax unfairness — that are opposed by Democrats who seek to preserve an indefensible status quo.

But if Ryan is having trouble rallying his party behind his proposal it is in no small measure due to the fact that a lot of Republicans just aren’t buying the hype about next week’s debt ceiling deadline. Nor is there any massive public groundswell of fear pushing them to give in as the president says they must. That is causing some in the liberal mainstream media to recycle their “debt denier” slur first trotted out last winter during the fiscal cliff showdown. But, as Politico noted in a feature published today, the reason why Republicans aren’t running scared is what the site aptly terms “Obama’s “Chicken Little Challenge.” After repeatedly falsely prophesying doom and destruction about the sequester and the government shutdown, the nation, let alone the GOP, just isn’t buying his debt ceiling warnings.

To acknowledge the president’s credibility gap on fiscal issues is not to ignore the dire possibilities of a default on the national debt. Were that ever to happen, it really would be an economic catastrophe and no one, not even the most ardent advocates of going to the brink with the White House, is saying anything different. However, as Senator Pat Toomey calmly explained on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program yesterday, that isn’t what will happen if there is no deal by next Wednesday:

First of all, there is zero chance that the U.S. government is going to default on its debt. It’s unfortunate that people have conflated this idea of not raising the debt ceiling immediately on October 17 with somehow defaulting on our debt. We bring in tax revenue about 12 times as much money as it takes to pay our interest on our debt. There is no way that any Treasury secretary or administration would willfully choose to have the catastrophic results that would occur if we actually defaulted on our debt when it’s not necessary. So this is pretty well understood in financial circles. You see Treasury prices have barely moved through this entire episode. But I’ve got legislation that would simply codify and formalize the obligation to make sure that under no circumstances we would default on our debt. Interestingly, the White House doesn’t want that legislation. They’ve threatened to veto it precisely because they want to be able to hold the specter of a catastrophe in front of Republicans to cow us and intimidate us into giving the president what he wants, which is a whole lot of additional borrowing authority with no reforms whatsoever, and I think that’s irresponsible.

Toomey’s reality check debunks the administration’s latest “the sky is falling” routine. But even if we accept the notion that a failure to reach a deal on the debt would be problematic, there’s little chance that even those who agree that the government shutdown is more the GOP’s fault than the president’s are going to believe the Democrats’ warnings of imminent danger. After all, we were told the same thing about the sequester cuts only to discover that the republic could survive if government departments were forced to make across the board cuts. Nor have the predictions of disaster about the government shutdown that began last week proved true.

That is not to say that the sequester or the shutdown are positive developments. There is long term damage being done by cuts, especially those to national defense. But the American public saw right through the stunts staged by the administration to illustrate the pain of the shutdown like closing open-air national monuments. When the president says the country is in danger no one, not even most of his supporters, believe him anymore. They understand every word coming out of his mouth about the standoff with his Republican foes is political in nature and designed to force them to unconditionally surrender on their fiscal demands. Some may support that position but few believe the doom and gloom predictions that underlie his “no negotiations” stand.

It is to be hoped that as the artificial debt deadline approaches, more Republicans will get behind Paul Ryan’s ideas and that enough Democrats will be willing to talk to avert more damage being done to the economy. But if we do go over the brink, the primary responsibility will belong to the Chicken Little in the Oval Office.

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No Deal Yet? Blame Obama’s Credibility Gap

Poll Shows That Americans Blame Obama and BOTH parties For Shutdown

AP spins it’s own findings to favor White House

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
Oct 8, 2013

Despite being presented by a headline that lays blame for the government shutdown squarely at the feet of the GOP, a new AP poll reveals that Americans see both parties as responsible, as well as the president himself.

The poll finds that Fifty-two percent of Americans believe Obama is not doing enough to cooperate with Republicans to end the shutdown. It also reveals that 49% blame Obama, with 49% ALSO blaming congressional Democrats for the shutdown.

The poll also places Obama’s approval rating at just 37%, with 53% unhappy with his performance.

A massive 83% said they disapprove of Congress, with only 5% approving of the job representatives are doing.

Despite these facts, the AP chose to lead with the headline Poll: GOP Gets The Blame In Shutdown.

The survey notes that 63% say Republicans aren’t doing enough to reverse the shutdown, but the figures clearly show that overall, Americans are blaming both parties for the mess the country is in, with 68% saying it is a major problem.

The AP even cites a Texas woman who was asked if she blamed Obama, House Republicans, Senate Democrats or the tea party for the shutdown, saying she simply replied “yes, you bet. All of them.”

“Somebody needs to jerk those guys together to get a solution, instead of just saying ‘no,’” said Martha Blair, an independent. “It’s just so frustrating.”

A more accurate headline would have been Americans Blame Obama, Both Parties For Shutdown. But obviously, the leading branch of the corporate media isn’t going to upset the White House applecart.

A similar CNN poll released two days ago also outlined that Americans see both sides as responsible for the shutdown.

“…the Democrats are not getting off scot-free. Fifty-seven percent of Americans are also angry at the way the Democrats are dealing with the shutdown. And a 53% majority say they are also angry at President Obama,” said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

“It looks like there is more than enough blame to go around and both parties are being hurt by the shutdown.” Holland added.

A Pew Research Center poll, and surveys from Gallup and CBS News/New York Times also found that the blame, whhile being slightly more directed at the GOP, was significantly spread.

In other words, both parties are losing, with the Republicans losing by slightly more. If ever there were a case for the emergence of a third party, or a coalition of independents, this is it.

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.

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Poll Shows That Americans Blame Obama and BOTH parties For Shutdown

Poll Shows That Americans Blame Obama and BOTH parties For Shutdown

AP spins it’s own findings to favor White House

Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Oct 8, 2013

Despite being presented by a headline that lays blame for the government shutdown squarely at the feet of the GOP, a new AP poll reveals that Americans see both parties as responsible, as well as the president himself.

The poll finds that Fifty-two percent of Americans believe Obama is not doing enough to cooperate with Republicans to end the shutdown. It also reveals that 49% blame Obama, with 49% ALSO blaming congressional Democrats for the shutdown.

The poll also places Obama’s approval rating at just 37%, with 53% unhappy with his performance.

A massive 83% said they disapprove of Congress, with only 5% approving of the job representatives are doing.

Despite these facts, the AP chose to lead with the headline Poll: GOP Gets The Blame In Shutdown.

The survey notes that 63% say Republicans aren’t doing enough to reverse the shutdown, but the figures clearly show that overall, Americans are blaming both parties for the mess the country is in, with 68% saying it is a major problem.

The AP even cites a Texas woman who was asked if she blamed Obama, House Republicans, Senate Democrats or the tea party for the shutdown, saying she simply replied “yes, you bet. All of them.”

“Somebody needs to jerk those guys together to get a solution, instead of just saying ‘no,’” said Martha Blair, an independent. “It’s just so frustrating.”

A more accurate headline would have been Americans Blame Obama, Both Parties For Shutdown. But obviously, the leading branch of the corporate media isn’t going to upset the White House applecart.

A similar CNN poll released two days ago also outlined that Americans see both sides as responsible for the shutdown.

“…the Democrats are not getting off scot-free. Fifty-seven percent of Americans are also angry at the way the Democrats are dealing with the shutdown. And a 53% majority say they are also angry at President Obama,” said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

“It looks like there is more than enough blame to go around and both parties are being hurt by the shutdown.” Holland added.

A Pew Research Center poll, and surveys from Gallup and CBS News/New York Times also found that the blame, whhile being slightly more directed at the GOP, was significantly spread.

In other words, both parties are losing, with the Republicans losing by slightly more. If ever there were a case for the emergence of a third party, or a coalition of independents, this is it.

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.

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Poll Shows That Americans Blame Obama and BOTH parties For Shutdown

Poll Shows That Americans Blame Obama and BOTH parties For Shutdown

AP spins it’s own findings to favor White House

Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Oct 8, 2013

Despite being presented by a headline that lays blame for the government shutdown squarely at the feet of the GOP, a new AP poll reveals that Americans see both parties as responsible, as well as the president himself.

The poll finds that Fifty-two percent of Americans believe Obama is not doing enough to cooperate with Republicans to end the shutdown. It also reveals that 49% blame Obama, with 49% ALSO blaming congressional Democrats for the shutdown.

The poll also places Obama’s approval rating at just 37%, with 53% unhappy with his performance.

A massive 83% said they disapprove of Congress, with only 5% approving of the job representatives are doing.

Despite these facts, the AP chose to lead with the headline Poll: GOP Gets The Blame In Shutdown.

The survey notes that 63% say Republicans aren’t doing enough to reverse the shutdown, but the figures clearly show that overall, Americans are blaming both parties for the mess the country is in, with 68% saying it is a major problem.

The AP even cites a Texas woman who was asked if she blamed Obama, House Republicans, Senate Democrats or the tea party for the shutdown, saying she simply replied “yes, you bet. All of them.”

“Somebody needs to jerk those guys together to get a solution, instead of just saying ‘no,’” said Martha Blair, an independent. “It’s just so frustrating.”

A more accurate headline would have been Americans Blame Obama, Both Parties For Shutdown. But obviously, the leading branch of the corporate media isn’t going to upset the White House applecart.

A similar CNN poll released two days ago also outlined that Americans see both sides as responsible for the shutdown.

“…the Democrats are not getting off scot-free. Fifty-seven percent of Americans are also angry at the way the Democrats are dealing with the shutdown. And a 53% majority say they are also angry at President Obama,” said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

“It looks like there is more than enough blame to go around and both parties are being hurt by the shutdown.” Holland added.

A Pew Research Center poll, and surveys from Gallup and CBS News/New York Times also found that the blame, whhile being slightly more directed at the GOP, was significantly spread.

In other words, both parties are losing, with the Republicans losing by slightly more. If ever there were a case for the emergence of a third party, or a coalition of independents, this is it.

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.

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