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Wall Street's Third Party
This November, when Barack Obama faces off against his Republican opponent, there will be a third candidate in the race, too. This candidate has already qualified for the ballot in 14 states, including California. The campaign to ensure the candidate's ballot access in all 50 states has raised $22 million (more than the campaigns of every Republican presidential candidate except Mitt Romney), with which it has employed 3,000 paid signature gatherers and enlisted 3,000 volunteers.
This third candidate probably doesn't have to do all that well to affect the outcome of the presidential election. Most polling shows that the general election will be close, both nationally and in a number of swing states. It takes no great imaginative leap to envision a scenario in which this third candidate tips a key state to Obama or his GOP opponent, much as Ralph Nader tipped Florida to George W. Bush in 2000.
Only this time around, there's one signal difference: We have no idea who that third candidate will be or what he or she stands for. For that matter, we also have no idea who the donors of that $22 million are, though the organization they've given to has published a list of "leaders" chock-full of private-equity executives and hedge-fund managers.
The group that is working to put this yet-to-be-identified worthy before us come November is called Americans Elect. It is the creation of financier Peter Ackerman, a 65-year-old private-equity executive who made his fortune working alongside Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the 1980s—and who is also a leading advocate for and financial supporter of Gandhian nonviolent political change around the world. Like Ackerman himself, Americans Elect seems to have two distinct identities clumped into one. On the one hand, it seeks to update the nominee-selection process for the digital age through online voting. On the other, it looks to create a political vehicle for the socially tolerant, fiscally conservative financial establishment that Ackerman, and the colleagues he's persuaded to join the organization's leadership, personify.
Americans Elect has established a website on which voters can register their membership (roughly 350,000 have joined so far) and, come June, nominate by majority vote a presidential candidate who has met Americans Elect's candidate criteria—chiefly, that he or she has chosen a member of the opposite party as his or her running mate. As of mid-January, leaders of the organization had met with 30 potential candidates; according to one insider, six are seriously considering making the run. Should they plunge in, they will announce their candidacies on the website, lay out their positions, answer members' questions, and submit themselves to several rounds of member voting until a nominee is selected.
To ensure that the online voting isn't gamed by some disgruntled individuals or groups, voting the dead in some digital version of old Mayor Daley's Chicago, Americans Elect has employed a number of computer security experts to ensure that the voting is valid. Some election technology experts don't believe, however, that any foolproof system yet exists.
The organization's leaders insist that theirs is a more inclusive selection process than the two parties' primaries. But Americans Elect's membership of 350,000, though it will surely rise, for now constitutes 1 percent of the roughly 36 million who voted in the 2008 Democratic primary fight between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Moreover, digitization and democratization are hardly synonymous: Chances are that Americans Elect's membership, with its built-in bias toward life online, both over- and underrepresents distinct portions of its potential voting base. Its electorate is likely to be both younger and wonkier than the group of Americans who share Ackerman's political beliefs.
The digitization of politics is only part of Americans Elect's mission. Its other, greater purpose is to give a voice to what it believes is the "disempowered center" of American politics—thus the requirement that its presidential ticket must represent both parties. What the country needs, Americans Elect insists, are leaders who draw their ideas and support from both parties, from liberals and conservatives. If you press them, Americans Elect's officials go further and say that what the country really needs are culturally liberal, fiscally conservative leaders—leaders whose thinking matches that of the nation's socially enlightened business elites from whose brow Americans Elect has sprung.
"What do I want in the ticket?" asks Eliot Cutler, who ran an unsuccessful independent campaign for governor of Maine in 2010 (splitting the center-left vote and thereby helping elect a right-wing Republican) and is a member of Americans Elect's nine-member board of directors. "A ticket that reflects moderate politics, a pragmatic approach to politics, that looks like the Bowles-Simpson Commission in terms of approach—people who reflect my own biases toward social progressivism and fiscal discipline."
The myth of the disempowered center is at the core of the Wall Street establishment's—and Americans Elect's—analysis of how America got off track. To explore its particulars, we can either watch a month's worth of Charlie Rose shows or, better still, turn to New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, the bard of America's pro-globalization, pro-gay-rights, pro-charter-school corporate elite. Over the past two years, Friedman has also served as Americans Elect's loudest and most influential drumbeater.
In March 2010, Friedman wrote, "We need political innovation that takes America's disempowered radical center and enables it to act in proportion to its true size, unconstrained by the two parties, interest groups and orthodoxies that have tied our politics in knots." The radical center, Friedman continued, "advocates: raising taxes to close our budgetary shortfalls, but doing so with a spirit of equity and social justice; guaranteeing that every American is covered by health insurance, but with market reforms to really bring down costs; legally expanding immigration to attract more job-creators to America's shores; increasing corporate tax credits for research and lowering corporate taxes if companies will move more manufacturing jobs back onshore; investing more in our public schools, while insisting on rising national education standards and greater accountability for teachers, principals and parents; massively investing in clean energy, including nuclear, while allowing more offshore drilling in the transition."
Then, in July of last year, Friedman returned to the topic to report that he'd discovered a vehicle for his fellow centrist malcontents—Americans Elect.
But are the viewpoints of Friedman's radical center and, by extension, Americans Elect without a home in American politics? Do they lack a champion under the current political system? Consider Friedman's list of radical-centrist positions: increased but equitable taxes, universal health insurance that cuts costs, more money and accountability for schools, more generous research-and-development tax credits and lower taxes for companies that inshore, major investments in clean energy. Aren't those precisely the positions taken by Barack Obama, president and Democrat? Aren't these positions backed by congressional Democrats and, in the 2009–2010 session of Congress, positions that in greater or lesser degree became law? And when they didn't become law or were watered down, wasn't that because Republicans opposed virtually everything Obama brought before them, even when those proposals, such as universal health care through private insurance or environmental advances achieved through cap-and-trade, had a Republican pedigree? Didn't Obama propose to House Speaker John Boehner major cuts in entitlement outlays, exceeding those in the Bowles-Simpson proposals, in return for raising the debt ceiling and enacting a second stimulus? Wasn't Obama the very model of a split-the-difference president until the Republicans rejected his every overture?
If so—and it is so—what's Americans Elect's beef? Why would their president succeed at the task at which Obama failed? They argue that a president elected on an Americans Elect ticket would have a demonstrable mandate for bipartisanship that Congress could ignore only at its own peril. All new presidents have mandates, however, which congresses have shown themselves eminently capable of ignoring.
But to concede that Obama has reached out to Republicans and been rebuffed undercuts Americans Elect's analysis of what's happened to our politics. Underpinning the group's cherished myth of the disempowered center is the belief that not only has the Republican Party been moving inexorably rightward but that the Democrats have also marched steadily leftward. Retired Admiral Dennis Blair, who was director of national intelligence in the first year of the Obama administration and now sits with Cutler and Ackerman on Americans Elect's board of directors, complains that "the extreme wings have captured both parties," and notes, correctly, that there's unprecedentedly little overlap in the voting behavior of the two parties' House members. As examples of this polarization, he points to immigration; polling shows that most Americans "believe we have to strengthen our borders but also deal humanely with those already here. Somehow, our political system defines this as doing one thing or the other but not both."
Never mind that the position of Obama and the congressional Democrats is that of most Americans and that it's the Republicans, not the "political system," who pit border security against immigrant legalization.
Pressed for an example of how the Democrats, like the Republicans, have been captured by extremists, Blair cites "the way candidate Obama had to say that free trade was a terrible idea, because of the unions. Everybody knows that the country benefits hugely from free trade, though we certainly have to help workers who lose jobs."
Never mind that Obama has successfully pushed Congress to ratify trade treaties with South Korea, Panama, and Colombia since becoming president. Never mind that the "everybody" who believes in the huge benefits of free trade doesn't include the majority of the American people (by the evidence of any poll taken in recent years), for whom globalization has chiefly meant wage stagnation or decline.
Americans Elect, and Friedmanism more generally, are premised on a misdiagnosis of what ails American politics. It's not that the Democrats have been shifting leftward. Rather, as political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson demonstrate in their book Off Center, it's that the Republicans, based increasingly in the white South, have been galloping rightward to the point where any governmental endeavor poses an affront to their anti-statist ideology.
Nor has the center in American politics been historically the creation of the kind of split-the-difference politicians for whom Americans Elect yearns. Rather, the center is periodically redefined by presidents of non-centrist ideologies—Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, for instance—who shape a whole generation of political thought and practice around their own beliefs.
At least some leaders of Americans Elect acknowledge that their pox-on-both-your-houses diagnosis is politically useful for their purposes. Americans experienced in rapid succession the debt-ceiling debate and the failure of the Super Committee to resolve it, says Kahlil Byrd, a Massachusetts Republican political consultant who's worked for the state's Democratic governor and is now Americans Elect's CEO. "Then they didn't see a jobs program," he says, "but instead a debate on a two-month extension of the payroll tax. The American people are exhausted by it all. They know we can do better."
"Wasn't that the fault of House Republicans?" I ask him.
"The American people don't cut the apple that fine," he replies.
The failure to assign blame to the increasingly radical Republican Party isn't the only misdiagnosis that Americans Elect makes. To the extent that the health-care reform act failed to rein in rising costs, for instance, that was chiefly a function not of a missing center in American politics but of the political clout of the pharmaceutical and other health-care industries—that is, of sway that money holds over Congress. But rather than seeking to diminish money's role in politics, Americans Elect has given money a new point of entry into the political system.
Initially, the organization claimed the tax status of a 527—an independent political organization that was required to report its contributors. Once Ackerman began soliciting donations, however, it claimed the status of a 501(c)(4)—primarily a social-welfare organization and thus not obliged to make public the names of its donors and the amounts of their donations. (It's a status also claimed by the new super PACs, which are the largest spenders in this year's Republican primaries.) Longtime campaign-finance reformer Fred Wertheimer has requested that the Internal Revenue Service review Americans Elect's tax status, since "it is actually qualifying itself as a political party for state ballot access laws" and parties are not entitled to tax-exempt status.
If the bulk of Americans Elect's funding came from small donations made on its website, that would be one thing. But most of the $22 million the organization had raised by mid-December, according to Elliot Ackerman, the group's COO and Peter's son, came from about 55 people who gave more than $100,000 apiece. A couple of donors—the senior Ackerman, who's anted up $5 million, and John Burbank, managing member and CIO of Passport Capital LLC, who's given $2.5 million—have identified themselves. The rest have not. "Retribution in politics is real," Elliot Ackerman says. Actually, repercussions for political donations in America are few and far between. Pressed for details, Ackerman adds, "People were told they were not welcome at parties."
Americans Elect may not have published a list of its donors, but it does post on its website, right below the board of directors, a list of names it calls "Leadership." According to Elliot Ackerman, the people on the list "are intimately involved in the effort inasmuch as they've been supportive." Ackerman didn't reveal any more explicit criteria for getting on the list, but it certainly reads as if one plausible path to membership is to become a major donor. Of the 69 people on the list (not counting the 11 who are either American Elect staffers or consultants working for the group), 20 either head or are senior executives of financial institutions, chiefly private-equity firms or hedge funds—far more than come from any other sector or profession. The leaders also include attorneys, academics, think-tank officials, the heads of a few retail and media companies, and a smattering of politically homeless former elected officials—Cutler and former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman. No one from labor, the clergy, the environmental community, civil or women's rights groups, anti-tax organizations, or any political activist group of any persuasion is on the list. Demographically, says someone who's met with the group, "there's no diversity. It's mainly white men in their sixties and seventies."
Americans Elect isn't eager to explain the overrepresentation of Wall Streeters among its leaders, but three hypotheses spring to mind: First, that these are the people who are Peter Ackerman's colleagues and friends; second, that Ackerman went to Wall Street for the same reason that Willie Sutton robbed banks: That's where the money is. The third is sheer speculation: that a stratum of financial executives, too liberal on cultural issues to back Romney, are among those angry at Obama for singling out Wall Street for causing the Great Recession and targeting the rich for higher taxes.
On January 1, the organization posted 15 questions that candidates must answer, but the list failed to include any questions about the rise in economic inequality or the stagnation of most Americans' incomes. "We get to it by talking about jobs," Byrd explains when I ask him about the omission.
Of course, it's possible that the financial executives are listed as leaders solely because they provide advice, not funding, to the organization. But that would be even more disquieting: With all the distinguished Americans from whom the group could seek counsel, why concentrate on such a narrow and unrepresentative stratum?
Created to carry out two distinct missions—inventing an online platform to democratize the nomination process and creating a political home for its own brand of centrism—Americans Elect came into the world with a congenital birth defect: Its first mission could well subvert its second. Other than the requirement that its candidates select a running mate from the opposite party, there's no guarantee that its eventual nominee will fit the political profile its founders are seeking. The rules stipulate that current or former elected officials, corporate CEOs, university presidents, and labor leaders will automatically pass muster. Other candidates must be cleared by the Candidate Certification Committee, lest Kim Kardashian or Tim Tebow build an online following.
Still, the possibility that a Ron Paul or, worse, a Joe Arpaio could mobilize his followers and win the nomination has evidently vexed Americans Elect's founders. Initially, the board of directors—which includes the senior Ackerman, three Americans Elect functionaries, Blair, Cutler, Whitman, retired Hallmark Cards CEO Irvine O. Hockaday Jr., and Dean Stephen Bosworth of Tufts University's Fletcher School of Diplomacy—reserved for itself the right to nullify a nomination unless the members overturned the nullification by a two-thirds vote. Attacked for this abrogation of democracy, the organization changed the rules so that a majority of voting members could overrule the board's decision.
Still, the conflict between the process and the political content to which Americans Elect is committed points to the problems of a third party created from the top down. In a democratic political organization, the board of directors would be selected by the members, rather than by its founder. But Americans Elect, while professing to expand American democracy and creating a platform for a different kind of plebiscite, is neither internally democratic nor inclined to grapple with the main impediment to democracy in America: the role of money. Indeed, by its reliance on a narrow stratum of major donors, the group only exacerbates the hold that Wall Street has on Washington.
To date, the four political leaders for whom Americans Elect's online members have expressed the greatest preference in their comments—in order, Paul, Obama, Romney, and Vermont socialist Senator Bernie Sanders—suggest that getting the kind of candidate that the organization's officers want may prove trickier than they had envisioned. Clearly, the one politician whose followers are most inclined to a third-party run is Paul. If the Texas congressman finds himself a left-libertarian running mate and cinches Americans Elect's nomination, one can imagine the likes of Ackerman, Whitman, and Blair chasing after their creation, like Dr. Frankenstein after his monster, trying to run him to ground.
Paul would surely bring Romney (or any other Republican nominee) down: A mid-January poll from the Greenberg Quinlan Rosner firm shows that in a three-way Obama-Romney-Paul race, Obama would beat Romney by 9 percentage points. Romney didn't fare any better in the poll if New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a candidate more to Ackerman's liking, also joined the fray, but the poll doesn't predict what would happen if Bloomberg dropped a couple of billion dollars of his own fortune, which he could easily afford, on his campaign.
The more likely scenario is that neither Paul nor Bloomberg will opt to run. Out of deference to the political prospects of his son, Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, the elder Paul may not make the race. Should Romney be the GOP nominee, Bloomberg has to ask himself how many Wall Street gazillionaires can run in a single election. Should Newt Gingrich be the nominee, Bloomberg or someone with politics close to his might just run. The consequences would be difficult to predict: Such a candidate would likely attract upscale voters from both Gingrich's and Obama's columns. Then again, if more than one white candidate is on the ballot in a state with a large minority electorate, Obama might carry the state on the strength of the black, Latino, and white liberal vote.
Who knows? A disgruntled American electorate has been known to cast its votes for some dubious third-party candidates. By November 1992, the American people knew Ross Perot was a little loony, and they gave him 19 percent of the vote anyway. They're in a worse mood today than they were then.
Thu, 2012-02-09 11:14
I really do believe that we need more choices in the presidential elections but on further reflection, I don't believe that this coming election is the time to start. I believe that President Obama is a very good president and he needs another term to continue with all the work that he has started. Only in that way will this country continue to move forward.
Very importantly, I don't want to see the votes going to another candidate that may very well be Mr. Obama's votes. This country needs to get behind our President with respect, understanding and support. We need to let him finish his job and we need to start doing all that we can to help him. He's a very good president and he could be a great president if only the American people and Congress would let him.
Thu, 2012-02-09 18:57
With "Anonymous" and its band of multi-national hacker elites, (who have already hacked Russian e-mails to demonstrate how the Putin government is buying favorable coverage and events in the face of mounting opposition, and posted the audio of an FBI conference call about how to deal with Anonymous) methinks that cracking the American's Elect voting system might be a dandy way to throw a monkey wrench in this bizarre effort at non-democracy.
In the first place, whatever the vote, how do we know that the results are real and valid? All we'd have to go on would be the word of a group of folks who clearly have their own agenda.
Thu, 2012-02-09 19:24
Americans Elect is a Rove-style Trojan horse designed to siphon votes from President Obama. You watch -- their candidate will be a sort-of Democrat, a Joe Lieberman type who will campaign only in states that Obama absolutely needs to be re-elected. He'll be the 2012 version of Ralph Nader and may well push the election to Romney ( who WILL be the GOP nominee).
Lazlo Hollyfeld
Fri, 2012-02-10 19:20
The simpler issue of the funding of Americans Elect to date is never thoroughly considered. What is the $22 million buying its donors? Not a particular candidate, not even more than a single voice on who they want their candidates to be. They are simply putting up money for a process to create ballot access -- thus equalizing the one area republicans and democrats have utilized to keep politics in the U.S. a two-party system -- and a vehicle for others to come together to vote.
Even taking the common assumption that money corrupts, just exactly what could the donors of Americans Elect be attempting to corrupt? In fact it's more than likely several donors will be dissatisfied with the presidential choice of the delegates. Certainly the candidates gain nothing from the donors other than ballot access and a branded name. So how is giving what republicans and democrats always have worthy of any concern?
The ideal behind Americans Elect is to have the delegates run the show, not the donors. Leading this story with the question on donors is like writing a story about the funders of Facebook rather than writing about how its members transformed social networking.
Fri, 2012-02-10 21:09
Brad M
Fri, 2012-02-10 22:58
Mr Meyerson,
Like a movie review I prefer sometimes to read only the first and last paragraphs to get a vibe of the flick without being exposed to salient details of the movie that might spoil it for me. Taking that approach with your article would hint that Americans Elect had raised nefarious gobs of money...more than almost the entire GOP field!!!...and that 20% of Americans can be delusional enough to vote for a lunatic for president.
Firstly, you are a bit disingenuous with your comment that AE had raised more money than the entire GOP presidential field (except Romney). In fact, the entire GOP field that had been running had raised $90 million up until Q3 2011. That doesn't even take into Q4 2011's haul. Or to say the least all the Superpac GOP funding raised and spent.
And Perot's significant popular vote obviously shows an incredible appetite by voters for non-Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. If that type of non-majority party candidate can get ballot access and into the debates it is always going to be a race. Unfortunately with the Dems and Reps gaming the system it remains elusively an expensive and labyrinthian process.
As for the rest of the article, where to begin? Firstly I get it...you are a self-avowed democratic socialist and you have angst at the possible threat to Obama's re-election. Tough cookies. Americans Elect is using existing election law to get on to the field. All legal and straight forward. I will admit that the funding transparency for Americans Elect is distasteful, but perfection doesn't exist in politics. Ask your friend Obama who will be using hundreds of millions in Superpac $$$ in the general election with no revelation of who the funders are.
You are certainly going to tailor your argument against the Republicans as the troublemakers and extremists (which might be true for the most part). And that if Americans Elect turns out to be what it purports, an organization that wants to put in the race a reasonable, pragmatic, common-sensical, bi-partisan, statesman focused ticket then the only threat can possibly be to Obama who you now believe represents that space in government leadership. Unfortunately the 89% of Americans who disapprove of government leadership are certainly aware that it is the Republicans and Democrats who represent 99.5% of our federally elected officials. Bad math for Reps and Dems, but good for Americans Elect.
Now, would you really be upset if Bernie Sanders won the Americans Elect nomination? He's in third place right now. I've already clicked my support for Bernie!
Sat, 2012-02-11 04:22
This is clearly a thinly disguised and clumsy way to introduce a third party candidate into the Presidential race, one whose platform is almost exactly that of Obama's, and designed to split the progressive vote.
I can't decide whether Ackerman is really a closet conservative or is serious about his campaign, but -- like Ralph Nader in the last election -- a competitor to Obama will steal votes from Obama, and ensure a GOP victory.
Is he really serious? Can he hope to get his unnamed candidate on 51 ballots and win enough votes to pose a serious threat to Obama?
Tue, 2012-02-14 08:20
I'm slightly persuaded by the argument this is a naked attempt to split the center-left vote and help Romney. I'm more inclined to believe this is
Wall Street's Plan B, to be used if the GOP goes down the tubes. Wall Street has lost control of their party. Their coalition is falling apart and the likes of Ackerman can't stand sharing a moderate-to-conservative party like the Democrats with environmentalists, feminists, minorities, and especially not labor. I predict Romney gets the nomination, but the party becomes so damaged in the process he's labeled a sure loser and that's when Libertarians (Paul) and Americans Elect (Bloomberg), with their ballot access, will make their move. We're witnessing the death of the GOP and birth of a new opposition party.
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Don Baldomero Espartero, Count of Luchana, Duke of the Victoria, Prince of Vergara (Don Joaquín Baldomero Fernández Espartero Álvarez de Toro, conde de Luchana, duque de la Victoria y príncipe de Vergara) (February 27, 1793 - January 8, 1879) was a Spanish general and political figure. He was associated with the radical (or progressive) wing of Spanish liberalism and would become their symbol and champion after taking credit for the victory over the Carlists in 1839. His noble titles, Duke of La Victoria and Prince of Vergara, were granted by Isabella II to him as a result.
Espartero was soon at his heels, and obliged him to hurry northwards, after several defeats. Espartero won the Battle of Ramales on May 12, 1839, earning him the title of Duke de la Victoria.
In 1839 Espartero carefully opened up negotiations with Maroto and the principal Carlist chiefs of the Basque provinces. These ended in their accepting his terms under the convention of Vergara, which secured the recognition of their ranks and titles for nearly 1,000 Carlist officers. Twenty thousand Carlist volunteers laid down their arms at Vergara; only the irreconcilables led by Cabrera held out for a while in the central provinces of Spain. Espartero soon, however, in 1840, stamped out the last embers of the rising, which had lasted seven years. He was styled El pacificador de España, was made a grandee of the first class, and received two dukedoms.
It was against this backdrop that Espartero's political opponents, the moderates, mobilised support to amend the progressive Constitution of 1837. In particular, the moderates' proposal to abolish democratically-elected local councils threatened to destroy the powerbase of the progressives. This threat was checked by the radical revolution of 1840, after which the conservatives were sidelined and Espartero became the master of the destiny of Spain.
During the last three years of the war, Espartero, who had been elected a deputy, exercised from his distant headquarters such influence over Madrid politics that he twice hastened the fall of the cabinet, and obtained office for his own friends. At the close of the war the queen regent and her ministers attempted to elbow out Espartero and his followers, but a pronunciamiento ensued in Madrid and other large towns which culminated in the marshal's accepting the post of prime minister. He soon became virtually a dictator, as Queen Christina took offence at his popularity and resigned, leaving the kingdom very soon afterwards. Directly the Cortes met and they elected Espartero regent by 179 votes to 103 over Argüelles, who was appointed guardian of the young queen.
Forcing the regent, Maria Cristina, into exile for her conspiracy with the moderates, Espartero himself became regent with the intention of remaining so until the future Queen Isabella II came of age. Espartero's popular support enabled him to crush moderate military uprisings across Spain in 1841. Yet his ruthless execution of dozens of the conspirators, including many popular fellow war heroes like Diego de Leon, as well as his hasty and ungrateful dissolution of the radical junta that had crushed the risings, marked the start of the decline in support for his regency.
Although Espartero's regime (1840-1843) in reality had done little for Spain's poor, the anti-radical reaction of the moderates made the former regent a folk-hero amongst many of the workers. Therefore, it was logical that he should become head of the short-lived "progressive Biennium" of 1854–1856. But, as Karl Marx observed, the progressive caudillo was a man whose time had passed. The old marshal vainly endeavoured to keep his own Progressists within bounds in the Cortes of 1854–1856, and in the great towns, but their excessive demands for reforms and liberties played into the hands of a clerical and reactionary court and of the equally retrograde governing classes. The growing ambition of General O'Donnell constantly clashed with the views of Espartero, until the latter, in sheer disgust, resigned his premiership and left for Logroño, after warning the queen that a conflict was imminent between O'Donnell and the Cortes, backed by the Progressist militia. O'Donnell's pronunciamiento in 1856 put an end to the Cortes, and the militia was disarmed, after a sharp struggle in the streets of the capital. Spanish political power swung once more back towards the moderates in 1856.

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I didn't get to watch the premiere of HBO's new series Girls before witnessing the amazing amount of hype that managed to create a backlash before the show even aired. Having now watched it, I really wish I could have gone back in time and done so without reading so much about what the show says about TV, women, Brooklyn, education, the economy, and sex. I think I would have liked it more being free to watch it as I do shows about a group of male characters—a show about unique people doing stuff and being relatable because they are individuals.
This is not to say that the pressure put on Girls as an emissary of single women has been all bad. It's opened up discussions about the lack of racial diversity on television in a way that shows about white men seem to resist. But overall, the burden placed on this single show has been frustrating, especially when it comes to representations of sex. That one character has soulless, delusional sex with a guy who doesn't share her expectations about the relationship has instigated articles in The New York Times and The New Yorker bemoaning the sexual revolution and the supposed failures of feminism. Another character considering dumping her infantilizing boyfriend has already given Katie Roiphe another shot at her lifelong project of declaring feminist demands for egalitarian relationships a failure, because women just don't like nice guys. (The possibility that a man could be nice to you without baby-talking never occurs to the concern trolls of feminism.)
Of course, on Louie—the show that non-sexists can see inspired Girls far more than Sex and the City ever could—you also have a main character who, just like Hannah on Girls, keeps having really bad sex for inscrutable reasons and only longs for someone who sends strong signals of disinterest. So far, I have yet to see a single article arguing that the bad sex and broken hearts on Louie suggest that modernity has failed men in their forties. Louie is a male character, and that means he can stand for himself. The audience doesn't need him to have our exact personalities, sexual choices, and view of relationships to find him entertaining and relatable.
So why is there the expectation of this for Girls? It's tempting to blame the lack of female characters on TV, which would definitely increase the need for the ones that slip through to stand in for Everywoman. The problem with that theory is that while women are far from reaching parity on TV, many fully fleshed-out female sitcom characters exist without having to becomes symbols of their generation. Liz Lemon isn't expected to be an Every TV Writer, much less an Everywoman. Leslie Knope is beloved for being an oddball. Britta on Community has never once inspired an essay lamenting the promiscuity of the younger generation. Two Broke Girls has a very similar setup to Girls (they both kick off with a young, spoiled Brooklyn woman getting cut off from her parents) and even has the same creator as Sex and the City, but no one looks to its characters as the standard-bearers for their generation. Really, we haven't seen such inflated expectations on a female-centric show since Sex and the City.
Even though Girls and Sex and the City really don't have much in common, they do have one thing that all these other shows don't have: The female characters aren't under direct male supervision. It seems that if a TV writer wants a prophylactic shielding for her characters from "voice of a generation" expectations, the quickest way to do it is to put that character in a subservient position to a man. Liz Lemon and Leslie Knope both work under lovable curmudgeons, Britta is second banana to Jeff, and the two broke girls answer to a male boss.
Giving a female lead a man to look over her is in fact, one of the longest-standing sitcom traditions there is, going back to I Love Lucy. TV creators only tweaked the formula a bit for single women. Mary Richards, the first single career woman to hold down her own show on TV, had Lou Grant standing over her, creating the mold for all never-married urban female characters after.
Except, of course, for Sex and the City and now Girls. It seems that once you remove the reassuring figure standing in for patriarchal authority, the levels of audience anxiety about what this all means for women expand dramatically. Suddenly it's not enough for the characters to be characters. Now they must be role models, to assuage lingering fears about what it means to release single women into the world without male authority to protect and guide them. So when these characters make mistakes or even just make choices that differ from exactly what the audience members feel they would, it's felt keenly.
Can Girls break the mold, allowing audiences to learn how to watch female characters just be, without having to be perfectly self-actualized? The marketing push of HBO certainly suggests the network brass thinks so. Now it's time to lay back and see if audiences are truly ready yet.
Deborah P.
Tue, 2012-04-17 17:06
Oh my goodness, the amount of left-field analysis generated from a 30 minute television show created by a very young woman. Guess what, when 18-25 year old men and women are released out into the real world without any male or female authority figures to guide them, they make mistakes. It's called being young. I make it a priority to mentor new hires at my place of employment, where I am a female authority figure, and encourage my colleagues to do the same. The more-experienced helping the less-experienced is a corner-stone of a functioning society. I must say though, I feel particular sympathy for this generation of young men. Our society has forced them into a no-win situation: They are being deemed sexist for doing what is to them biologically natural, protecting and caring for women.
The Pint
Tue, 2012-04-17 18:25
"I feel particular sympathy for this generation of young men. Our society has forced them into a no-win situation: They are being deemed sexist for doing what is to them biologically natural, protecting and caring for women. "
Well, if they're "protecting and caring" for women because they think women are incapable of protecting and caring for themselves, yes, they are being sexist.
Men are no more hardwired to "protect and care for women" in a biological sense than women are hardwired to want "protection and care" from males. This sort of gender essentialism on further entrenches sexist attitudes about "proper" male and female behavior for which there is no biological basis, although there's plenty of social conditioning that goes into shaping what we think of as stereotypical "male" and "female" behavior.
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Wed, 2012-04-18 00:43
Can I blame parenthood, middle-age, and fatigue? Seriously, most people's sex lives blow, and it's not because of feminism, religion, patriarchy or any other -ism or -archy. Rather, it's because regular sex is, by and large, for the young and childless. Or so I would like to believe. Otherwise, maybe it's just me.
Anyway, how is the show? Any good?
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What's wrong with someone modifying their OS to their liking?
and get rid of all those nice Metro transition effects when going into your start screen. Just use the darn OS like it was intended or stay with Windows 7, it really is that simple, and if you like the enhancements that come with Windows 8, simply use it.
I myself, am on Windows 7, I cannot for the life of me get a hold of a license, otherwise I would likely get rid of Windows 7, and just use Windows 8.
Posted 18 September 2012 - 19:33
I searched the hole web to find an answer how to bypass Metro UI after Logon.
Metro can be nice, but as a 'Poweruser' you don't need it in the first place.
Microsofts last statement is there is no way to avoid Metro UI while login.
Right. Becaus they have some kind of policy in the System which doesen't allow the user to login directly to Desktop.
In result I only found the known workarounds like
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They all have three things in common
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- splash Metro UI for at least a second
- desktop keeps loading the interface
It all works in some way, but... not in the way it could be.
It's all nice, and also credit for all of you, but as we can see Windows Server 2012 has this 'fast and fluid' logon experience many of us want to have.
Now, I think I found a/the nativ way and (very best) solution.
(IMHO it only can be better if Microsoft releases some kind of undocumented/secret registry value to skip Metro UI)
It's no patch, no editing of files, no replacement from any other Windows System.
Just a script with pretty normal actions and many kinds of errorhandling.
After it's running, it just feels like the Windows Server 2012 login experience.
Please pause the video at the beginning and read the in-description. You can than still skip to 2:45 to see the real sign-in experience.
In addition to the Metro UI bypass script I may will provide some more nice registry tweaks which might be interessting.
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finaly some positiv feedback. therefore it bothers nearly every power user... it seems that nobody cares about (imho) the real deal.
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Does your solution involve patching any files or replacing them? MS included a complex license checking scheme to make sure that only Windows Server can skip the Start screen.


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Remember how Florida Congressman Alan Grayson revealed to the world his shade of psycho during the ObamaCare debate when he said Republicans health care plan was to just "die?" Well, get a load of what he did to his Republican opponent Daniel Webster (you have to watch both videos)....
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By Claire Walla
When Joe and Liza Tremblay opened Bay Burger on the Bridgehampton/Sag Harbor Turnpike in 2007, they knew they wouldn't just be flipping burgers.
From the get-go, the Tremblay's launched Joe and Liza's Ice Cream alongside the burger business, dolling out scoops of sweet cream as well as burgers and fries. A winning combination, some sweet/salty connoisseurs might say. The only problem?
"We were trying to manufacture the ice cream in the restaurant," Joe Tremblay explained.
As it currently stands, the ice cream is whipped up in the same kitchen space used for cooking the beef patties. Tremblay said they've been able to serve up enough ice cream to order, but the relatively small kitchen space has prevented the ice cream chain from expanding — wholesale had always been their goal.
"In the summer, the ice cream would get put on the back burner" — so to speak — "and we could only serve a certain count," Tremblay continued. "The next thing we know, we have a line out the door, and we're in the kitchen as they're preparing the burgers!"
This clash of culinary tastes will finally be mitigated this year, as the Tremblay's have finalized a lease on a new kitchen space right on the turnpike, where they will relocate their ice cream business and focus on expanding for the wholesale market.
"We'd like to really give the ice cream a real go on its own," Tremblay continued.
Currently sold in the standard variety, chocolate, strawberry and vanilla, the Tremblays also sell more adventurous flavors like pistachio and "cookie jar." The Tremblays won't go into details on intended plans for the future, other than they'd like to get their product into markets and restaurants out here on the East End.
While Joe and Liza's Ice Cream will get a kitchen all its own, it won't be moving very far. The space in question is a former garage on the Sag Harbor Industries site on the turnpike — right next to Bay Burger.
"The summer is such a scramble," Tremblay continued. "It just wasn't getting anywhere trying to [make ice cream] out of the restaurant."
According to Tremblay, the new facility — which has been permitted by Southampton Town — should be up and running in another few weeks.
Considering the prospect of giving the ice cream biz room to grow, as well as its proximity to Bay Burger, Tremblay said of the move: "It's going to be perfect."


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My wife and I have been discussing wanting to drink a glass of wine every now and again. (Guess we are old and want to act like we are more sophisticated than we really are ).
We have no idea where to start. Anyone have any good suggestions to start with?
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Polyphony Digital updates sales info for long-running racing series; PS2 game Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec the top performer at 14.89 million.
Gran Turismo 5 may have taken a while to come to market, but the wait appears to have paid off. Polyphony Digital updated sales figures for the entire franchise recently, revealing the series has shifted 67.89 million units since it launched in the late 90s with the original Gran Turismo.
he newest entry in the series--Gran Turismo 5--has sold 9.1 million units to date, but it was not the top performer of all games in the franchise. That award goes to PlayStation 2 game Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec, which has sold 14.89 million copies to date.
The Gran Turismo series does not seem to be slowing down. Not only isGran Turismo 6 rumored to be in development, but also a PlayStation Vita version.
The full franchise sales breakdown, ordered by release, is below:
- Gran Turismo - 10.85 million
- Gran Turismo 2 - 9.37 million
- Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec - 14.89 million
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Jan Van Quirm wrote:OK! OK!! 54 all-characters decks are an option - depending on how long people want to wait to have something to play with?
Seriously - we could do several sets and still not run out of options so I'll get a poll going over the weekend; the creatively gifted can maybe look at existing work they'd like to contribute if it fits or do from scratch and I'll get a very basic template going
Perhaps what we could do is set up a catalog to fit the template and people can use set decks as we formulate them, or make up their own altogether from a mix of what's been produced?
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In 2007, Lavazza acquired Barista Coffee Company limited and post the completion of the brand integration process, all Barista Espresso and Barista Crème outlets across India are known as Barista Lavazza and Barista Crème Lavazza respectively. At present, Barista Lavazza has over 160 cafes in India. Besides, it also has cafes in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Oman and the UAE.
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Millennials are starting to transition into family roles, and U.S. grocery brands are fighting for a share of their buying power.
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- Millennials (the oldest are about 35 years old now) have 21 percent of direct consumer discretionary purchasing power, or $1.3 trillion annually.
- About 40 million millennials are already parents and 9,000 millennial moms give birth every day.
- Millennials influence food trends among older generations.
- With the prevalence of tags #foodstagram and #foodporn across all social media, millennials are using food to contribute to their own social images.
- Groceries are an untouchable category for consumers. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, consumer spending on food and beverages remained stable during the most recent recession.
There are two unique battles taking place. Battle No. 1 involves the price war between Costco, Target and Walmart.
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The other battle features Trader Joe's and Whole Foods, which occupy a growing consumer niche — a trend driven by millennials — of organic, non-processed, ethically sourced foods.
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When it comes to the grocery discount battle, Walmart remains the king. With 55 percent of Walmart's annual revenue coming from grocery sales, the brand is the biggest grocer in the U.S.
Many mistakenly assume that Target would be chief among millennials when it comes to grocery retailers. In fact, Walmart remains the most popular choice among millennial parents among retail visits overall. According to Barkley's most recent study, when given the choice to shop at only one store (Amazon, Target or Walmart) for the rest of their life, millennial parents chose Walmart. Why?


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Using state-of-the-art underwater photography, scuba divers travel the world's oceans, lakes, and wateways on intriguing journeys to rarely seen strange and unusual underwater kingdoms. Using state-of-the-art underwater photography, scuba divers travel the world's oceans, lakes, and wateways on intriguing journeys to rarely seen strange and unusual underwater kingdoms.
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Undersea Explorer 3 - The Cayman Challenge
April 5, 2003
Divers use new dive technologies in exploring reefs in the Cayman Islands: a personal propulsion system and passenger submarines for tourists.
Undersea Explorer 3 - The Yongola
March 29, 2003
The Yongola sank with no survivors off northeast Australia in March 1911. Found in 1958, the wreck is a protected site so only the outside can be filmed. A local museum features a major exhibit about the ship.
Undersea Explorer 3 - Tek Wrecks
March 22, 2003
Extended range diving, or technical diving, goes to depths below 60 metres. Divers off Key West explore the wreck of the USS Wilkes Barre, a WWII cruiser sunk in explosives testing in 1972. It is now an artificial reef. They also explore wrecks in the St. Lawrence River and Lake Erie.
Undersea Explorer 3 - The Florida Keys
March 15, 2003
The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary protects North America's only barrier reef. Shipwrecks were once common, and now serve as artificial reefs and dive destinations.
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Research divers swim among the sharks at South Africa's Cape of Good Hope, which is a major gathering place for seals, a favourite in the Great White's diet.
Undersea Explorer 3 - Bonaire
March 1, 2003
Bonaire, in the Netherland Antilles, is the world leader in coral reef conservation. The marine park is an underwater sanctuary.
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February 8, 2003
Divers use rebreathers, a technology until recently reserved for the military, to study sharks near Cocos Island, in the Pacific. Once a haven for pirates and others in need of fresh water, the island is now a Costa Rican national park.
Undersea Explorer 3 - Bermuda: Isle of Devils
February 1, 2003
Volcanically created caverns filled with sea water and dry caves with tidal pools attract divers to Bermuda. Its shallow reefs have caused many famous shipwrecks.
Undersea Explorer 3 - The Graveyard Coast
January 25, 2003
Why has Canada's Pacific coast been the scene of more than 1200 shipwrecks in 200 years? Members of the Underwater Archaeological Society of BC help to locate, log, and preserve as many as they can.
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January 18, 2003
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A New Port Richey man faces multiple charges after a Florida Highway Patrol trooper noted he was not wearing a seatbelt.
According to an arrest report, the trooper could see the seatbelt dangling in the retracted position while driving near the intersection of Grand Boulevard and Mile Stretch Drive at 12:49 p.m. in New Port Richey on Thursday. But things took a strange turn as the driver passed his patrol vehicle.
The driver, Isidro Martinez, stared at the trooper and "began to laugh uncontrollably," pointing at him.
When the trooper attempted to pull him over, Martinez continued to drive, then suddenly stopped "in an attempt for me to crash my patrol vehicle into his vehicle," according to the FHP trooper's report.
Martinez then threw a bag of food out of his window toward the patrol vehicle and continued driving, the report stated.
As the pursuit continued, Martinez began waving a knife out of the driver's side window, then threw it at the patrol car. He then ran a red light in his continued attempt to flee the trooper. He stopped briefly and rummaged in his car, then threw "what appeared to be a pack of cans" at a person sitting on a bench, then continued driving, running another red light on State Road 54, the report stated.
Martinez continued to drive erratically, with "wanton and willful disregard for human life and property," according to the report. As the trooper continued pursuit, Martinez attempted to run him off the road and continued running red lights and traveling on the wrong side of the roadway on Troublecreek Boulevard.
The trooper eventually performed a successful immobilization technique near the intersection of Troublecreek and Vorhees Road, stopping Martinez's white four-door vehicle. Martinez crawled out of the driver's side window and approached the trooper—who had his gun drawn—in a threatening manner, the report stated.
After noting that Martinez did not have a weapon in his hands, the trooper drew back his gun and pushed Martinez back toward his vehicle, where two responding Pasco Sheriff's deputies tased him, the report stated.
Martinez continued to resist arrest after being tased, according to the report.
Martinez, 38, of 4601 Rowe Drive in New Port Richey, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, DUI, throwing a deadly missile, obstructing an officer without violence and fleeing/eluding at high speed. He remained in the Land O' Lakes jail on Friday in lieu of $30,150 bond.


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One Size:Label says one size 90-160 pounds.
About 24 inches stretch at the cuff and a little more in the body of the stocking. The cuffs on these do tend to roll.
At about 25 inches long from toe to top of cuff. Depending on the dimensions of your leg, they can be worn as thigh highs or OTK!
Plus Size: Currently only available in Black & White. About 29 inches of stretch in the wide, slightly ribbed cuff, this size does not want to roll down like the One Size does. At about 24 inches long from end to end, they rely more on their awesome stretch to end up over your knees, but they happily went over the knees on most of us and thigh high on some of us!
Tube style, should fit most feet.
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We hope Leg Avenue introduces the Plus Size in more colors, but right now it is only available in Black & White. So far it looks like they do take dye pretty well, just not as vibrantly as a higher nylon content stocking. We've got some DIY dyeing tips in our Sock Journal for a how-to if you want to give it a try!
This style is labeled as a thigh high, but these tend to be more of an OTK on most legs. They do reach the thighs, they just don't always stay there—sock glue or garters and suspender belts may help. They do stay above the knees without assistance. The longer your legs and the wider your calves, the lower these will reach.
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What's the difference between your one size socks and plus size socks?
The only Plus Sized I saw is in the black and white. Are there any others? If not, I'm not sure these should really be advertised as Plus Sized.
I am looking for plus sized yellow/black striped socks and am not having much luck. If I buy the black/white ones, can they be dyed?
Will these be coming in the "Plus Size" size anytime soon? Possibly before Halloween??
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There's no option above for plus size -just one size. Does that mean they're not in stock?...
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