Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
10:15 AM ET, December 2, 2014

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Charlie Cook / National Journal:
Democrats Paved the Way for Their Own Decline  —  They have subordinated their traditional focus on helping working-class Americans move up the economic ladder in favor of other priorities.  —  Much has been said about the long-term demographic challenges facing the Republican Party.
RELATED:
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Obama's dangerous legacy for Democrats  —  Now that the 2014 elections are over and national politics is all about 2016, Democrats have good reason to worry that, for all his success at the polls, President Obama will leave his party with a toxic legacy.  —  The Obama damage is two-fold.
Discussion: Political Wire
Dan Sewell / Associated Press:
Ohio Sen. Portman rules out presidential bid  —  1 photo  —  CINCINNATI (AP) — Ohio Sen. Rob Portman says he will not run for president in 2016, choosing instead to seek a second term in the Senate over the Republican nomination for the White House.  —  The former White House budget chief …
RELATED:
Shane Goldmacher / National Journal:
Inside Rand Paul's Plan to Run for Senate and President at the Same Time  —  The Kentucky Republican is announcing his bid for reelection this week.  But that is only the first step.  —  Rand Paul's brain trust has spent months developing an exhaustive political and legal battle plan …
Discussion: Washington Post
Sam Youngman / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Citing ‘unfinished business,’ Rand Paul will announce re-election effort Tuesday
Discussion: OnPolitics
Arlette Saenz / ABC News:
Rob Portman Says No To 2016 Presidential Race
Discussion: ABC News
Maggie Haberman / Politico:   Rob Portman won't run for president in 2016
Judith Shulevitz / The New Republic:
Rolling Stone Never Gave the Villains of Its Gang Rape Story a Chance to Defend Themselves  —  When scholars of the Historical Jesus try to figure out whether certain stories or sayings reported in the Gospels are authentic—a complicated concept in this context, but never mind …
RELATED:
Paul Lewis / Guardian:
Obama resists demands to curtail police militarisation calling instead for improved officer training  —  Obama has separately asked for extra federal funds to reform police departments across the country, in the wake of protests that followed the death of Michael Brown
RELATED:
Reuters:
U.S. attorney general to issue new guidance on racial profiling
Discussion: Hot Air, New York Times and Mediaite
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama to provide funding for 50,000 police body cameras
The Hill:
How the White House torpedoed Harry Reid's tax deal  —  The White House worked closely with liberal House Democrats last week to torpedo a tax deal that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-­Nev.) was negotiating with Republicans.  —  The unusual move to kill a Reid­-backed proposal …
Discussion: Political Wire
RELATED:
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Harry Reid threatens recess, Christmas  —  Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid is using his final weeks as majority leader to threaten one of lawmakers' most valuable assets: Recess.  —  Facing down a daunting list of tasks, ranging from funding the government past Dec. 11 to approving …
Kelsey Snell / Politico:
Dems at odds over tax breaks
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Hagel ouster highlights power shift  —  The forced resignation of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is exposing deep tensions between the Pentagon and President Obama's national security staff.  —  While administration aides characterized Hagel's departure as a mutual decision …
Discussion: Political Wire
RELATED:
CNN:
Meet Chuck Hagel's expected replacement as Defense Secretary
Discussion: Political Wire
Paul Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Mitch McConnell Rider Could Roll Back Campaign Finance Laws  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is trying to use a massive appropriations bill to loosen campaign finance rules.  —  The Republican leader's office is attempting to attach a policy rider to the omnibus bill …
Geoff Earle / New York Post:
Sharpton and his ‘Co-Mayor’ meet with Obama  —  Al Sharpton followed de Blasio to Washington to meet with Obama.  —  WASHINGTON — He never leaves home without him.  —  Bill de Blasio and “Co-Mayor” Al Sharpton are joined at the hip in New York, so why not in Washington?
Discussion: Power Line and Mediaite
RELATED:
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Mayor de Blasio Unveiling Bill to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages
Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
County police chief says Rams apologized for ‘Hands up’ gesture; team's VP says otherwise  —  • By Jim Thomas jthomas@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8197  —  UPDATED at 9:36 p.m. Monday with comment from Rams vice president.  —  Rams vice president of football operations Kevin Demoff …
Donna Cassata / Associated Press:
Obama Dealt Major Setback in Closing Guantanamo  —  President Barack Obama's 5-year-old campaign to close the federal prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, suffered a major setback as lawmakers finalizing the annual defense policy bill rejected steps toward shuttering the facility.
John B. Judis / The New Republic:
The Ferguson Decision Was Not a “Miscarriage of Justice.”  Liberals Need to Accept That.  —  Susan Sontag once famously commented that one could have learned much more about the Soviet Union from 1950 to 1970 from reading the Readers' Digest than from reading The Nation.
RELATED:
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Republicans Float ‘Impeachment Lite’ Plan To Censure Obama  —  Impeachment has faded in Republican circles as an option to punish President Barack Obama over his sweeping executive actions to reshape immigration enforcement, ruled out even by hardliners like Rep. Steve King (R-IA) who are livid with the president and want to retaliate.
Discussion: Political Wire and rubber hose
James Hohmann / Politico:
The new GOP divide  —  2016 Republicans disagree on surveillance, gay marriage and Common Core.  —  Two years ago, Bobby Jindal was pushing a state law to adapt national curriculum standards to local schools; today, not only is the Louisiana governor suing the federal government to stop Common Core …
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
As oil prices plunge, wide-ranging effects for consumers and the global economy  —  Tumbling oil prices are draining hundreds of billions of dollars from the coffers of oil-rich exporters and oil companies and injecting a much-needed boost for ailing economies in Europe and Japan …
Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Bosnian community in St. Louis outraged over fatal hammer attack in Bevo Mill neighborhood  —  • By Joel Currier jcurrier@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8256  —  UPDATED at 10:45 a.m. with arrest of third suspect in attack.  —  ST. LOUIS  • A third male suspect in a deadly hammer attack …
RELATED:
Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
GOP Staffer Who Attacked Obama Girls Was Arrested During Her Own “Awful Teen Years”  —  Buster  —  The Republican congressional aide who castigated the Obama daughters for their lack of “class” and dressing as if they were angling for a “spot at a bar” was once arrested for larceny during her own …
RELATED:
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Indigestion over the Obama girls
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 10:15 AM ET, December 2, 2014.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Lawmakers make ‘hands up’ gesture on House floor
Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Stewart Unloads On Hannity For Blaming Ferguson On Obama, Sharpton (VIDEO)
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Eli Lake / Bloomberg View:
Why Is the FBI Still Targeting Petraeus?
Discussion: emptywheel
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
UNEQUAL TREATMENT IN ARIZONA, SWINGS IN MEDICAID ACCESS SHOW PROGRAM'S IMPACT
Discussion: Daily Kos and Booman Tribune
 Earlier Items: 
David Weigel / Bloomberg Politics:
The Torch Is Being Passed to A New Generation of Right-Wing Media
Karen Deyoung / Washington Post:
U.S. weighs a new front to create safe zone in Syria
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Rick Santorum: Separation Of Church And State A Communist Idea, Not An American One
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Bad Memories Down South