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Memo to the Left: Hands Off Obama

ince the Democratic Party's "shellacking" in last month's midterm elections, speculation has been growing about a possible 2012 presidential primary challenge to President Obama launched by his party's disgruntled left. Talk of a primary challenge has only ratcheted up following Obama's announcement of the tax deal he cut this week with congressional Republicans. Warning: If the Democratic left does to Obama in 2012 what it did to incumbent President Carter in 1980 via Ted Kennedy's damaging Democratic presidential primary challenge - or what the Republican right did to incumbent President George H.W. Bush in 1992 with Pat Buchanan's entry into the GOP primary - the Democratic party as a whole will find itself paying a steep price for years to come.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12...

Politics:

So Who's Holding the Unemployed Hostage Now?

With Democrats threatening to block the Obama/Republican compromise on Bush-era tax cuts, does that mean they're the ones now holding the unemployed hostage until they get their way? That was, after all, the charge Democrats and others had often lodged against Republicans.

Source: http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-so-who-s-hold...

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Gorbachev on WikiLeaks: Fire Diplomats

In an exclusive Newsmax interview, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev says the U.S. officials who claim Russian democracy has all but disappeared should be fired and “replaced by normal people.” Gorbachev acknowledged, however, that occasionally “there is backsliding” in his country’s ongoing effort to develop democratic institutions.

Source: http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/gorbachev-wikileaks-fire-...

Media:

Media Demands That President Obama Start "Acting Black"

Some of the same members of the media, who once sold us on the idea of President Obama being a post racial and post partisan President more than two years ago, are demanding that he gets tougher with his political opponents or in their words, “act black” in order to save his presidency. The left is now embittered because the card house that is Obama has crashed in upon itself, leaving him no other choice, but to comprise with congressional republicans in order to avoid gridlock and move forward on his agenda.

Source: http://bigjournalism.com/kmartin/2010/12/11/media-demands-th...

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Two Black Democrat Officials Bolt for the GOP

Two African-American Democrats on Thursday announced that they were joining the Republican Party. Hall County Commissioner Ashley Bell and former state executive committee member Andre Walker said the Democratic Party had grown too liberal and they are finding a new home with the Republicans. The state GOP touted Bell as the first black elected official in modern times in Georgia to leave the Democrats for the GOP. But that distinction belongs to former state Sen. Roy Allen of Savannah, who joined the Republican Party in 1994.

Source: http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/12/11/two-black-democr...

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GOP Might Pass Own Version of DREAM Act Next Year

Outgoing Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) said Friday he's privately discussed the prospect that Republicans would pursue their own version of the DREAM Act next year. Bennett said he would vote for the immigration legislation, which gives immigrants who were illegally brought to the U.S. as children a conditional pathway to citizenship, if Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) brought it to the floor under the right conditions.

Source: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/133143-sen-...

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Cancun Sees Record Cold Temperatures for U.N. Global Warming Conference

The irony: As negotiators from nearly 200 countries met in Cancun to strategize ways to keep the planet from getting hotter, the temperature in the seaside Mexican city plunged to a 100-year record low of 54° F. Climate-change skeptics are gleefully calling Cancun's weather the latest example of the "Gore Effect" — a plunge in temperature they say occurs wherever former Vice President Al Gore, now a Nobel Prize-winning environmental activist, makes a speech about the climate. Although Gore is not scheduled to speak in Cancun, "it could be that the Gore Effect has announced his secret arrival," jokes former NASA scientist Roy W. Spencer.

Source: http://theweek.com/article/index/210181/irony-alert-the-unus...

Politics:

Media Mostly Ignore Democrat Saying 'F--k the President'

As NewsBusters previously reported, the three broadcast networks completely ignored the revelation that an unknown Democrat said "F--k the President" during a heated meeting of the House Democratic caucus Thursday. A further examination has identified that despite corroboration by other sources, practically no American media outlets reported the news.

Source: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/12/11/media-...

News:

Gas Pump Prices Close in on Average $3 a Gallon

The average price of a gallon of gasoline this week continued to march steadily to $3 a gallon. In some parts of the country, it's above that already. On Friday the average price of a gallon of regular across the U.S. was almost $2.98, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. That's up 2 cents from Monday and 10 cents more than a week ago. Drivers on the West Coast pay an average $3.21 a gallon. Gas is about $3.09 a gallon in New England, $3.05 in the Mid-Atlantic states, $2.98 around the Great Lakes and $2.82 in the Southwest.

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Gas-pump-prices-close-in-on-ap...