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This Valentine’s Day considering the true romances flourishing in politics. Opening a new animated series for the brand new Washington Spectator site, washingtonspectator.org. Also running now on the Huffington Post. Many thanks to Lou Dubose, Hamilton Fish, Emily Gordon, Betty Russell, Alissa Levin, Edel Rodriguez and everyone who made this new site possible. This is just beginning; happy for all feedback.
Powerful Dem Chuck Schumer (NY) has as yet not taken a stand on the Keystone XL Pipeline project which the GOP has now made into the latest Rollerball game in the Conservadrome. The Senate will vote this week and he will influence the outcome. Today green activists are gathering in NY to protest. If you are near Dag Hammarskjo
http://www.facebook.com/events/356459914379056/
Separate this Big Mother and Child.
Warbucks’ Winter Mitten of the Day. Greg Palast asks the interesting question: why did Romney superpac support fall off in recent mid western states when Santorum posed a threat to his candidacy? He posits in this piece Truthout
http://www.truth-out.org/billionaires-brokered-convention/1328809810
that the “owners” don’t believe in Romney in any real way. They want, Palast, suggests, a muddled field where Romney arrives at the convention so disabled and delegate-light, that a deadlocked convention could then nominate someone else. A more perfect Annie for Daddy Warbucks.
New Faces of 2012: Stephen Sweeney has an answer to the Californians who think they are on the right side of history by opposing marriage rights. He is the New Jersey state senate president or voted to abstain on the equal marriage bill the last time it came before the legislature. Not this time. He has reconsidered and is now championing the bill due for a vote next week. A symbol that the arc of history is indeed bending toward justice. The bill will probably be vetoed by Governor Christie. But will win there and elsewhere in the long run. The talk is that Sweeney wants to be US senator. This is an excellent place to start his campaign.
Rick Santorum, in sweeping three contests last night in Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri, has revealed a successful strategy to the Republican nomination: pray away the Romney.
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