Day: November 25, 2014
Obama Immigration Move Splits Nation
45%
Of American voters agree that the president should issue an executive order on his own to address the immigration issue while 48% disagree, according to a new Quinnipiac poll. Meanwhile, President Obama’s approval rating is a negative 39% to 54%, close to his lowest-ever.
Economy Growing at Fastest Pace in a Decade
3.9%
Rate at which the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the economy, grew in the third quarter, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. The agency had previously estimated the third quarter’s growth rate at 3.5%. “The economy expanded at its fastest pace in more than a decade during the spring and summer, showing the U.S. sits on a solid foundation despite increasing global uncertainty,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Democrats Gave No Reason to Vote for Them in Midterms
Why come out and vote for the Democratic Party? There was no message to say: Here’s what we’ve done. I wish the party or whoever had done a national media campaign and say, here’s what you get when you elect Democrats. But there was no — what was the message out of ’14? I’m asking you rhetorically — do you know? No. What was it?
— Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), quoted by Politico.
Insights Into Hillary Clinton’s Management Style
Sometimes she’d be in those meetings and I’d think, ‘Please don’t let her yell at me.’
— Clinton White House aide Joan Baggett, quoted in a newly-released Miller Center oral history, about Hillary Clinton.
Seventh GOP Benghazi Investigation Finds No Criminality Or Malfeasance – Eighth Inquiry Is Underway
It was a classic Friday night news dump, and then some. Last Friday, which happened to be the Friday before the Thanksgiving holiday week, the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee released the findings of its investigation into the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. This was the seventh congressional investigation into the Benghazi attacks, by most counts — there have also been investigations by the FBI, the State Department and others. There is an eighth investigation underway in the House, and there will likely be more to come as Republicans take control of the Senate next year.
The Republicans’ motive for suppressing news coverage of the report is that, like the previous reports, it exonerates Pres. Obama and his administration, including then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, of anything remotely criminal — which is to say actionable or, more to the point, impeachable:
