Voting laws passed
by Republican-led legislatures in a dozen states during the past year
have sharply restricted voter-registration drives that typically target
young, low-income, African-American and Hispanic voters - groups that
have backed the Democratic president by wide margins.
A further 16 states
are considering bills that would end voter registration on election
days, impose a range of limits on groups that register voters and make
it more difficult for people to sign up, according to the Brennan Center
for Justice at New York University Law School. http://news.yahoo.com/curbs-voter-registration-could-hurt-obama-111027228.html
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Daily Interlake opines: Some politicos say it is because Mitt Romney paid a lower tax rate
than Barack Obama. You know what? Who cares? They both followed the law,
and paid what they were supposed to pay. Did Mitt Romney write the tax
code? No. Would we think he would be a better president if he were so
stupid that he paid twice as much in taxes as he was legally required to
do? Um, I hope not. Even Warren Buffet is smart enough not to pay taxes
he doesn’t owe!So this whole thing is a phony issue. I have no idea when the press became so powerful that journalists could demand to see private documents held by candidates.
Turns out that Barack Obama — yes, PRESIDENT Barack Obama — sent out three messages from his personal Twitter account in early April challenging Mitt Romney to come clean with his financial records. The last Tweet in particular said #WhatsRomneyHiding.”
It is hard to find irony any deeper or richer than that! This president really thinks he can make transparency an issue? For four years now, reporters have been asking the president to release his college transcripts, and they have been met with nothing but the stony silence of “I don’t have to.”
Now, think about it. What’s more likely to reflect on one’s performance as president — How much money you made? Or how good a student you were? Don’t mean to offend anyone, but lots of folks make piles of money without being very smart. On the other hand, if President Obama was getting straight A’s at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, then that would suggest he is a problem solver who knows how to use the old noodle.
So Mr. Romney ought to double down on the president’s challenge: “I’ll see your tax returns, and I’ll raise you three college transcripts!” http://www.dailyinterlake.com/opinion/columns/frank/article_85771a82-8c38-11e1-89b7-0019bb2963f4.html
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Independent Journal writes: Celebrity Matt Damon, former staunch supporter of President Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign, has now changed his mind.
In the new issue of
Elle Magazine, Damon said in the interview, “You know, a one-term
president with some balls who actually got stuff done would have been,
in the long run of the country, much better.” If Hollywood turns against
Obama in 2012 citing a lack of results, 2012 could be a very long and
painful year for the President. [The reason, however, is that Obama has not been radical enough....] http://www.ijreview.com/2012/04/3880-celebrity-matt-damon-retracts-support-of-obama/
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The Mackinac Center reports: The Missouri state House voted Thursday to “nullify” Obamacare, making
it illegal for federal or state officials to even attempt to enforce the
law. http://www.mackinac.org/16801
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NY Post reports: President Barack Obama is "apoplectic" over reports of lavish
spending at the General Services Administration, senior adviser David
Axelrod said Sunday.
The GSA is under congressional investigation
for spending more than $820,000 on a Las Vegas-area conference -- a
revelation that has led to other allegations about the agency's practice
of improperly billing taxpayers for meals, trips and other expenses."On the GSA issue, he was I think it's fair to say -- apoplectic," Axelrod said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
AXELROD CALLS SECRET SERVICE SCANDAL 'REALLY DISAPPOINTING'
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Powerline reports: ONE MORE THING: Muslims don’t eat dogs. Barack Obama lived with a Muslim stepfather in a Muslim area of Indonesia. Dogs were not eaten there; presumably not in Obama’s Muslim household. So Obama’s claim in his autobiography that he ate dog in Indonesia may well be false–an error introduced by Bill Ayers or whoever actually wrote Obama’s autobiography. But it is way too late now for Obama to disavow the autobiography that he allegedly wrote. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/04/obama-dog-eater-joke-of-the-day.php
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NY Times reports: When he announced a cut in refinancing fees for federally insured mortgages last month, for example, he said: “If Congress refuses to act, I’ve said that I’ll continue to do everything in my power to act without them.”
Aides say many more such moves are coming. Not just a short-term shift
in governing style and a re-election strategy, Mr. Obama’s increasingly
assertive use of executive action could foreshadow pitched battles over
the separation of powers in his second term, should he win and
Republicans consolidate their power in Congress. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/us/politics/shift-on-executive-powers-let-obama-bypass-congress.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120423#
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