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Of the committee and made them the chair of that committee? has that ever happened? we have been digging around for an answer to that all day. and the answer appears to be, never. at least not since the 19th century. when committees were assembled in a very different way than they are today. that s what makes today s news so interesting because house speaker john boehner announced today that he did find a gal. congresswoman candice miller we guess he s decided to put in charge of not the homeland security committee, no, the house administration committee. so the woman who wanted to chair homeland security and was on that committee, instead, got a consolation prize. she s going to be chair of a committee she hasn t been on before. a committee that among other things oversees the house cafeterias. so this not helpful picture is now, if i have done the math right, suddenly 105% more helpful. look. diversity. speaker boehner has one more ....
States? i mean he did this speech at this speech not in the united states? i mean he did this speech at oxford and did it right after the election. do you see that as important? you know, i think time and place is always important. the british have a bit of a different position than e we do. they are a little bit ahead of us, you might say, on some of the issues of detainees, of how we conduct ourselves globally. i think we don t really know here, rachel, until we hear from the administration. people will be pressing the administration saying can you give us specifics? is this the start of a new way of thinking of policies that might be unfolding in the next couple months? or is this a trial balloon and you re seeing how it looks and how people react to it and it may fall under the category of we re trying, but not much is going to happen. the fact is if there s another terrorist attack in the the ....
you know, if he s going to do it, this constitutional law president, it will be in this term. it might be toward the end of this term. the issues, no matter what happens on some of these sort of legal sort of standards, the issues in a way don t change. small groups of people can get their hands on weapons that were once powerful and reserved for nations. that doesn t change. that s carried by technology and it s one of the great perils of the modern age. having said that, it s clear that this president has thought a lot about how to establish that crucial principle rule of law, duly designated to shape the u.s. policies. now here, let s be clear on what s at stake here. it s not so much drone strikes. i think that s been misinterpreted. the president under the powers of the articles can continue with essentially the kind of global war on terror, call it whatever you will, that he s been conducting. especially the drone strikes. ....
Way that is sort of without precedent in modern american history. red states got really, really red. blue states got really, really blue. it goes further than that. it s not just one party rule. one party majority. it s one party mega rule in a lot of states. take a look at california. democrats don t just have a majority in the california state legislature now. they re going to have a supermajority meaning republicans essentially don t have enough minority power to stop anything the democrats want to do. the same story in indiana, but for the republicans. indiana republicans will have a supermajority in the house and in the senate and they hold the governor s mansion. ditto oklahoma. republicans took a supermajority and turned it into a bigger supermajority. this is what happened in 2012. not just the disappearance of divided rule in the states. split rule between two parties. but the rise of supermajority one party rule. that is a position of immense power for whichever party it is t ....
Seems like newt gingrich maybe got enamored with that wise tale. he thought he would take miz presidential campaign about gas prices for awhile. thereby creating the impression that gas prices might go down under him if he were elected president. that was his planned road to the white house for awhile. that road did not lead to the white house. it didn t even lead to a fox news gig. what s he doing now any way? gas prices are not just politically sailing. they are sailing it because they are sail yant to our economy, the price of gas has an impact on how much pocket change americans have to save or spend on anything else. people are not happy this morning. gas prices are going up. many people are flocking to places like this to find the cheapest gas prices around. right now a gallon is going to cost you $4.13. last week it jumped 16 cents. prices are expected to go up ....