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Over at The Hill, Mike Lillis has the story on how the proposed $15 minimum wage is dividing Democrats, in a piece auspiciously titled, "$15 minimum wage divides Democrats." The article describes how the hike to $15 is being pushed hard by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), even as many prominent party leaders, fearful of the warnings from some economists that such an increase would have an adverse effect on unemployment, are pushing for a more modest boost. Hence, the division.
One of those voices, stoking those fears of unemployment, is presented in the piece like so:
A former CBO director said this week that a hike to $15 per hour would eliminate "many more jobs … because it would cut much further into the distribution of wages."
"The effect is not linear, it rises much faster," said the ex-CBO chief, who requested anonymity.
Wait a minute. A former Congressional Budget Office director requested anonymity? That's all well and good, but the problem is that there are only 13 humans on the planet who can lay claim to the title of "former CBO director." Which means we get to play, "Who is this anonymous human: the fun process-of-elimination game," and find out which former CBO director maybe forgot to request to be referred as an "anonymous former government economist" instead.
It's very possible that Lillis even wants someone to try their hand at this, so why not?
We'll start by making a couple of generous, speculative assumptions. First, we're going to assume that Lillis would not attempt to pass off a former "acting" director of the CBO off as a "former CBO director." While this does sort of seem like something some media organizations might do, it would be a little inaccurate and a slight disservice to readers. Proper CBO directors are appointed by the speaker of the House and the president pro-tempore of the Senate, in consultation with the House and Senate budget committees, so there's just more meaning to the title when its earned by appointment.
We'll also basically assume that the two former CBO directors who are quoted on the record in the piece (Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Alice Rivlin) are not the former CBO director who has been granted anonymity. Though this happens sometimes! Often enough, in fact, that I considered it as a possibility. But here's Holtz-Eakin:
Conducted by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who headed the CBO from 2003 to 2005, the report found that a wage hike to $15 would transfer an additional $105 billion to low-wage workers, but less than 7 percent of the money would benefit those living in poverty. Meanwhile, 6.6 million jobs would be eliminated.
"The CBO said this was a misdemeanor," Holtz-Eakin said Monday by phone, referring to the CBO's 2014 report. "Why would you commit a felony? It's just not a good idea."
And here's Rivlin:
Alice Rivlin, the CBO's founding director, suggested the cautious approach from Democratic leaders is well advised.
"I think $15 is too big a jump," she said, though emphasizing her "excitement" with the move toward a $15 wage in certain high-income localities such as New York, Seattle and Portland. Those experiments, she said, will give Congress a better idea how to move on the federal level, and that, along with a hike in the earned income tax credit, would help improve the post-recession economy.
Sanders, Rivlin added, is "doing a service being out there" promoting the $15 wage hike, which might make a smaller wage hike easier to accomplish.
It would be weird for Rivlin to be cheering the politics of the $15 minimum wage hike in one breath, while characterizing it anonymously as a job-killer in the next. That sort of disassociation would be too much for most reporters to just allow to pass without interceding -- it's essentially allowing a source to lie to one's readers.
As far as Holtz-Eakin goes, usually what happens in the "on-the-record one minute, off-the-record the next" game is the source says something temperate while on the record, and drops bombs under cover of anonymity. In this case, Holtz-Eakin's quoted criticism of the wage hike is stronger than the anonymous criticism, so there'd be no real point to for Holtz-Eakin to play that game.
Like I said, these are some generous assumptions, but let's eliminate Holtz-Eakin and Rivlin. Let's also eliminate Douglas Elmendorf and June O'Neill, because both are already on the record in supporting the notion that raising the minimum wage adversely affects employment. O'Neill said as much on a 2006 broadcast of "PBS Newshour," and Elmendorf was the focus of a grueling political fight after his CBO's analysis of a $10.10 hike in the minimum wage would "lead to a decrease in total employment." Neither have any real reason to be coy about their position now.
If all of this speculation is correct, that leaves us with four possible contenders for the anonymous "former CBO director": Dan Crippen, Peter Orszag, Rudolph Penner, and Robert Reischauer. And here's where we have to start considering why someone would choose to be cited anonymously in this piece, for making what could be considered in the context of this debate to be a fairly innocuous evocation of a fairly standard position among some economists. And the general reason you'd be off the record in this situation basically boils down to, "It would be something of a controversy/embarrassment if my name were attributed to this statement."
Penner and Reischauer both have worked for the Urban Institute (Reischauer was its president for 12 years), a think tank that has fostered a lively and accepting debate on the minimum wage. It's fairly unlikely that either man, having ascended to the Kennelly–Heaviside layer of obscure wonks at this stage of their careers, would be reticent to put their name to their opinions. Who's going to be offended or embarrassed?
It's possible that Crippen, who is the current executive director of the National Governors Association, would want to be anonymous on this matter, if only to keep his personal opinion from being attributed to the association. But it's worth pointing out that Crippen has, in the past, been only too happy to cut against orthodox opinion -- he's a Reagan appointee who's alienated supply-siders by taking a dim view of dynamic scoring.
That's why my money is on Orszag, the Citigroup chairman and Bloomberg columnist from the plutocrat wing of the Democratic party, who probably subscribes to the idea that a $15 minimum wage increase would be bad, but who'd rather not have his name attached to headlines that might inject something screwball into the contest to determine his former boss' successor.
Also, it's just more likely that Lillis, having covered so many stories that intersect with Orszag's policy career -- like Obamacare implementation! -- would have Orszag's phone number at the ready, as opposed to a bunch of obscure bureaucrats from the '80s and '90s.
But, as this is purely a game of speculation, I'm prepared to be wrong about all of this! The one guy who is officially off the hook in this regard is former acting CBO head Edward Gramlich, who died in 2007. Of course, if this quote was from Gramlich, what a buried lede: The Hill opens up metaphysical communication with the afterlife. (Wow, of all the questions to ask Gramlich, too!)
UPDATE: 7:55 p.m. -- And Peter Orszag says I lose all my money!
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Some highlights from this week:
"If you're a financial professional and you're making $6,000 a year, something is wrong. If you are a client of a financial professional who makes $6,000 a year, that is probably not the right adviser for you." — Zach Carter on the lose/lose nature of Primerica
"It's a bit rocky. There are some roadblocks." — Laura Barron-Lopez on the fate of the Highway Trust Fund
"So if we're not gonna raise the gas tax, how are these guys creatively coming up with ways to even fund the trust fund?"
"They went into their offices in the Senate and started looking under the cushions of their couches. "
"Don't they mostly find hard candy and parts of their old dentures?"
"That's basically what they put in the legislation." — Jason Linkins and Arthur Delaney on the Highway Trust Fund legislative process
"I was actually talking to some people about this. They were saying how their jobs are a lot harder with John Brennan, 'cause John Brennan just looks like he wants to take you into a room and rip your fingernails off." — Ali Watkins on current CIA Director John Brennan's sunny disposition
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Back in 2005, Jim Webb -- the former Secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan -- was urged to take part in a new mission: enter the Virginia Senate race, dispatch the Democratic Party's bland establishment hopeful Harris Miller, and ride on to vanquish incumbent Sen. George Allen (R-Va.). At the back of this play was a coterie of progressive Virginia activists and bloggers who rolled out the first "Draft James Webb" website and offered fulsome encouragement from perches like the state's widely read Raising Kaine blog.
You know how this story ended. With a lot of work -- and, let's face it, a little luck in the form of a video of Allen enunciating his own career epitaph by saying "macaca" -- Webb prevailed and joined the Senate in the autumn of the Democratic Congressional takeover. Webb would serve one term before making way for Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.).
Now, nearly 10 years after Webb was drafted to embark on his political career, the former senator has set his sights on a larger prize -- the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. But some of the people who helped pave the way for Webb's electoral career won't be joining up for his presidential campaign.
"I don't support it in any way, shape, or form," says Lowell Feld, a Democratic political activist who maintains a kinetic presence on Blue Virginia, one of the state's most popular blogs for progressive politics. As recently as 2013, Feld was describing his work with the "Draft Webb" movement as the thing that made 2006 the best year of his career. As he put it, it was "undoubtedly the most wild, crazy, exhilarating, fun year I've ever had in politics." A year and a half on, whatever exhilaration he once felt working with Webb has fully diminished.
Feld's disaffection with Webb begins with a concise set of issues: "My focus is heavily on climate and clean energy," Feld says. "Webb just mostly doesn't talk about it. When he does, it's not in a compelling way. And I'm surprised he's not open to discussing it. To me, it's not an 'issue,' it's something that's game over for humanity."
But as Feld discusses Webb's recent campaign, his dissatisfaction over Webb's environmental stances -- or lack thereof -- inevitably leads to the discussion of an even deeper inconsistency with Webb as a presidential candidate: Webb's pointed break with the Democratic party at a time when the party's economic policies are seemingly swinging into greater alignment with the ones Webb articulated during his Senate run.
"One of the first things he said to me when I met him," says Feld, "was when I asked him why he had become a Democrat, he told me that the GOP had gone off the deep end, and that the Democrats were the only party with a set of viable economic policies. Now he's saying that the Democrats have gone too far to the left. In what way? This economic populism -- this is stuff you've been talking about."
Feld offers a wry chuckle, "Hey, correct me if I'm wrong here, but to run for president as a Democrat, you have to first win a Democratic nomination, right? Don't know how you get there insulting Democratic voters." (According to HuffPost Pollster's latest polling average, Webb is polling at 1.4 percent -- 57 points behind Hillary Clinton and 16 points behind Bernie Sanders.)
Lee Diamond, another veteran of the "Draft Webb" movement, echoes Feld's sentiments -- from his unhappiness with Webb's stated stances on the environment and energy ("I've prodded him on global warming, he hasn't taken it up"), to a confusion with Webb's seeming reluctance to embrace a party that has, if anything, moved in his direction on economic matters. "There is a consistency between [Elizabeth] Warren and Sanders and Webb, but he's keeping it vague," Diamond tells me. "But I don't know where he wants to go."
"Look, Jim is not a fan of class warfare," Diamond says, "I get that. I'm not either. But it's reality: Class warfare is being waged against the American people."
There was a time when Webb seemed perfectly capable of making his stance on the working class and their economic straits a lot more explicit. Take, for example, this passage from his 2004 book, Born Fighting: How The Scots-Irish Shaped America:
The ever-hungry industrialists have discovered that West Virginia, eastern Kentucky and southwest Virginia sat atop one huge vein of coal. And so the rape began. The people from the outside showed up with complicated contracts that the small-scale cattle raisers and tobacco farmers could not fully understand, asking for "rights" to mineral deposits they could not see, and soon they were treated to a sundering of their own earth as the mining companies ripped apart their way of life, so that after a time the only option was to go down into the hole and bring the Man his coal, or starve. The Man got his coal, and the profits it brought when he shipped it out. They got their wages, black lung, and the desecration of their land. ... Coal made this part of Appalachia a poverty-stricken basket case while the rest of the mountain region remained mired in isolation.
All this talk of "raping" and "sundering the earth" so that "The Man" (capital T, capital M!) might cart off profits, leaving Appalachia "desecrated" suggests that at one point, Webb at least was more florid in his class-war condemnations than either Warren or Sanders, if not bolder.
And there are certainly those who were with Webb when he launched his 2006 Senate run who remain convinced he hasn't changed. Webb's former deputy field director, Josh Chernila, is keeping the faith. "I love Senator Webb," he tells me. "I think he is a unique and powerful presence in American politics. He once said that a revolution in American politics would take place if working class whites and working class African Americans could put aside their differences and find common cause. Truer words were never spoken."
But asked for his take on when Webb might start vocalizing the urgent need for this common cause on the campaign trail, Chernila suggested that it was something that was going to slowly and subtly reveal itself: "His strategy there has not been to talk directly about institutional racism in the judicial system, but to focus on the uniform abuses in for-profit prisons and sentencing. He's not explicitly talking about race there, but everything there is about race."
"So, I don't think he'll actually speak directly to race," says Chernila, "even if it is likely he could be a powerful leader for bringing justice to communities of color."
But Webb is already off to a rough start on the common cause front. Earlier this month, while discussing his discontent with the Democratic party in an interview on "Fox News Sunday," he suggested that the reactions of those who sought to remove the Confederate flag from Southern statehouses in the wake of the Charleston shooting were not dissimilar from reality-TV star Donald Trump's comments on Mexican immigrants.
"This kind of divisive, inflammatory rhetoric by people who want to be commander in chief is not helpful. And we have seen from the liberal side as well this kind of rhetoric as it goes to Southern white cultures," said Webb, enshrining this bizarre comparison.
This didn't sit well with some of Webb's former allies. As Feld reported in the comments of Blue Virginia, Conaway Haskins, who served as Webb's state director from 2007 to 2011, took to his Facebook page to condemn his former boss: "Making false equivalencies between people who oppose Confederate nostalgia and Donald Trump's anti-Mexican comments and insulting as 'far left' the very Democrats who fueled your 2006 Senate campaign surely is a curious way to run for the Democratic presidential nomination." (Haskins could not be reached for comment.)
Feld was left similarly unimpressed. "We saw some of this in 2006. We knew Webb had Confederate ancestors and a fondness for the heritage."
"But what does this have to do with Democrats being 'too far left?'" Feld said in exasperation. "It was [South Carolina Governor] Nikki Haley and Republicans who took down those flags."
Wherever Webb goes from here, he'll go without many of the supporters that first took his "Born Fighting" persona and fashioned it into a viable political candidate. The Huffington Post reached out to many of the people who worked prominently on Webb's campaign, but didn't hear back from many of them. One source with familiarity of the situation, however, tells The Huffington Post that a number of "people who were absolutely critical to Jim Webb's U.S. Senate run don't want anything to do with him."
"He seems to be serving as his own strategist," jokes Diamond, who adds, "I don't see him as presidential material. He has an impressive resume, but he lacks the necessary broad grasp of the issues."
"My understanding," says Feld, "is that a number of [Webb's early supporters] may have been helping early in his exploratory period, but they're mostly all gone now."
"He's lost me," Feld continues. "I can't follow him anymore. I don't know where he's coming from, don't know where he's going. Jim is a complicated guy, but this is beyond complicated -- it's just incoherent."
The Webb campaign did not reply to our request for comment.
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By tradition, only grumpy, unglamorous curmudgeons consider running as independent candidates for president -- men such as George Wallace, John Anderson, Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan. They were the political equivalents of a shot and a beer.
But now we have the innovative Donald Trump. He is a glitzy global celebrity: an orange-haired, gold-plated bottle of Cristal, full of ephemeral fizz and loaded with gas. Which got us thinking here at 2016 FIRST TO LAST. What other public-spirited, somewhat political celebs, entertainers, captains of industry and Aspen-ish "thought leaders" are out there who might also qualify to be whisked through the "tough door" at Club White House and into VIP room of possible independent candidates?
Because, really, anyone would be preferable, or at least more tolerable. Our list:
Oh, hello, everyone. My, my -- it seems like only last week that we were all debating whether some candidates belong in the Entertainment section. And then it seemed like only a day later, some candidates (who belong in the Entertainment section) were opening their mouths and saying the sorts of things that finally alienated the rest of their erstwhile primary colleagues.
Truly, is this not entertaining? It's been at least as fun (and as drug-soaked) as Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream," complete with rude mechanicals pointing and laughing at the guy with the head of an ass.
But now that we no longer need to countenance the idea that a certain "short-fingered vulgarian" is going to end up the nominee, where does this leave the rest of field? Who's spent their summer productively? Which GOP apprentice might benefit from all the angry energy that's been bottled up? Who among last month's long shots have positioned themselves for a run at the top tier? The GOP's midsummer standings (now that you-know-who is headed, inevitably, for the exit) are what we'll sort out on this week's First To Last.
|JEB BUSH Looking like the Mitt Romney of 2016. Pallid but sane.
|SCOTT WALKER Looked like a dweeb on his Harley but, hey, it was a Harley.
|MARCO RUBIOStill the best candidate on paper; needs to upgrade at least to cardboard.
|TED CRUZJust as accusatory but perhaps slightly less crazy than He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.
|RAND PAULFormer maverick pre-caves on Iran deal -- looks like he really wants the nomination.
|CHRIS CHRISTIEReclaims metropolitan New York loudmouth title.
|JOHN KASICHThe latest project from John Weaver (he brought you "Huntsman 2016") is getting a late summer launch. (Like "Ant-Man.") But this moderate budget-balancer has New Hampshire intrigued.
|MIKE HUCKABEEThat "God, Guns, Grits and Gravy" train will get you to Iowa. (And not much further.)
|RICK PERRYReally fought with Jeb for the title of "Trumpslayer." Perry 1.0 set a low bar; we like Perry 2.0 a lot better.
|BOBBY JINDALRaging bull at Evangelical cattle show in Iowa and conservatives on Twitter took notice. He needed this.
|RICK SANTORUM Late to denounce you-know-who, late to pretty much everything.
|LINDSEY GRAHAMMay actually get to be the first candidate to punch out a reality television star on live television (if none of McCain's other buddies get there first.)
|CARLY FIORINAWe've done a lot of research, and Carly Fiorina is also a candidate.
|BEN CARSONStill looking for an outsider candidate who is not qualified to be president? We still have one.
|GEORGE PATAKIMeet the Lincoln Chafee of the Republican party.
|JIM GILMOREStill has the chance to make history (as a footnote).
Hillary Clinton's campaign has an office. It's in Brooklyn, a New York City borough famed for its high rents, like all New York City boroughs. People work in that office, at desks, with laptops, doing campaign stuff. When asked, those people all express a willingness to be there.
That's basically the "too long; didn't read" version of this week's important race to chase the big story, in which Bloomberg and Politico competed to be the first organization to get "exclusive" access to Clinton's campaign digs. The race ended in a draw. Why was the existence of a campaign office, and the need to be temporarily embedded within its prosaic confines, of such importance to these institutions? Therein hangs a semi-boring story!
See, a few weeks ago, a great hue and cry was raised after reporters at a Clinton campaign event in New Hampshire were corralled by Clinton campaign staff in an actual rope, held by those staffers for the purpose of keeping the press at arm's length from the campaign. This was, justly, a moment of marginal embarrassment for the Clinton campaign, as it reinforced an already existing meme about Clinton as a politician: that she is press-averse, and that this aversion has led to a toxic relationship with the media.
All of this happened over the Independence Day holiday weekend. Also happening that weekend: Hillary Clinton was meeting with the New York Times reporter and This Town author Mark Leibovich, a gifted profiler of public figures and media professionals. Leibovich's piece, which was published in the New York Times Magazine less than two weeks later, specifically burrowed into this meme, capturing Clinton as a veteran politician striving for a fresh start both with voters and with the media.
I think that part of the fun of being Mark Leibovich is getting to see what part of his article becomes the thing that everyone decides is "the big takeaway" and being amused by this decision. This time out, he was surely not disappointed. Upon the profile's publication, the hive mind of the political media, which broadcasts its collective unconsciousness on Twitter, decided there were two things worth remembering about Leibovich's story. The first thing was that Hillary Clinton had once eaten moose stew. And then there was this part:
In June, I visited Clinton's Brooklyn Heights headquarters to interview Robby Mook, her 35-year-old campaign manager. The meeting had been arranged through Jesse Ferguson, a campaign press minder, who in advance of my arrival sent me an email that said the following: "The ground rules we've had with others in our office is that the office itself is OTR," meaning off the record. "I don't want to get into a contest of people tweeting pic from our office to show they were there."
I wrote back that I was not abiding by any "office is off the record" provisions and that it was not clear to me how you could declare a 40,000-square-foot space off the record. I did agree not to tweet.
Ferguson came back asking me if I would "embargo" anything that I saw in the office until the time my article was published. He made it sound as if I were gaining access to the Situation Room. "Regardless when the story runs," he wrote, it "still means you're the first reporter who can report anything from the office."
And that's how "visiting Hillary Clinton's Brooklyn campaign office" suddenly took on paramount importance with some campaign journalists. Which is weird! As Leibovich warned in his piece, "the office ... basically resembled a large insurance company." There's a great irony there, because political reporters could probably learn a lot more about contemporary American life and the people living it if they actually did visit the offices of a large insurance company.
Unfortunately for everyone involved, Bloomberg and Politico visited the Clinton campaign office instead, where they learned that "campaign offices" are full of eager people who come ready to dispense pleasing bromides about civic duty and the importance of playing a part in a big presidential campaign. Or, as Bloomberg's Mark Halperin enthused as he began a broadcast of his show "With All Due Respect" live and exclusive from Clinton HQ, "They've got it all ... computers, telephones, partial wall dividers."
Maybe I'm wrong to say that this battle of who could care the most about something insignificant ended in a draw, because I suppose that it is objectively "cooler" to get to broadcast your Internet television show from a previously well-guarded aerie than it is to merely tour the office and shoot still photographs, as Politico did. On the other hand, no one at Politico has to work for Michael Bloomberg, who is rumored to have taken a very dim view of Halperin's antics. So I guess it's a wash either way you look at it.
Politico's Annie Karni, who drew the assignment of wandering through Clinton's office, looking for meaning, comes home with a slideshow of images, documenting the existence of several offices and three sets of cubicles into which varying "teams" of the Clinton campaign have settled themselves. Clinton's communications director, Jennifer Palmieri, tells Karni that everyone who heard that reporters were not welcome at the office just got the wrong idea:
"We want to make sure people can do their work, but otherwise we're happy to have people come check it out," Palmieri said.
The original policy of prohibiting journalists from reporting on the campaign headquarters, she said, was misinterpreted as overly controlling. "When people come in for meetings, you want the operation to continue to function and that if something is overheard, or a memo is seen, it's not going to get reported on," Palmieri said. "It seems like that was received the wrong way."
There is very little of interest that Politico discovers in the Clinton campaign office. Maybe the only interesting thing is that in campaign chairman John Podesta's office, there is "a dark painting of two suited men holding plates and silverware in preparation to eat another man, who appears to be dead."
"POLITICO was not allowed to document the memos and papers on his desk," Politico reports, in case anyone out there thought that this sort of thing would ever be tacitly allowed by anyone working in any office, anywhere.
Karni describes this visit as "part of a new effort [from the Clinton campaign] to engage with the national media that follows on the heels of Clinton's first national television interview last week." Considering that this was just a guided tour of an office, conducted by Clinton's communications director -- the only person quoted in the piece -- this would seem to be an exercise in low-bar clearance.
Halperin seems to fare better in his foray into the Clinton office, as he and his cohost Margaret Talev at least get to speak to a number of fresh-faced Clinton campaign workers (including former Winter Olympian Michelle Kwan), all of whom seem to be well-prepared (probably because they were specifically prepped) to offer cheerful homilies about working on the Clinton campaign.
The centerpiece of the "With All Due Respect" broadcast is a sit-down interview in which Halperin and Talev talk shop with Clinton political director Amanda Renteria and campaign "director of states" Marlon Marshall, each of whom capably responds to each question with an array of safe platitudes. Asked about the "ethos of this particular campaign," Renteria offers, "It's interesting, it's creative, we really are trying to push the envelope of 'give us your ideas and let's try it out.'" They "work together, not in silos." They are "very deliberate about culture."
I'll say! When Halperin asks if they require the younger members of the campaign team to follow any specific "political rules," Renteria says that everyone is told, "Don't forget why you're here" and "Look around and breathe in and enjoy it." This probably goes without saying, but these aren't "political rules" -- they're "stuff people put on motivational posters."
Halperin asks about the success Sen. Bernie Sanders has had, making headway in the primary race while Clinton's other Democratic rivals haven't. "Can he beat Clinton in either Iowa or New Hampshire or both?"
Clinton campaign states' director Marlon Marshall responds: "First of all, we always expected a competitive primary --"
Halperin cuts him off: "I've heard that line."
"I'm repeating it," said Marshall. "It's a true line."
OK, well, we're really making headway now.
Here are other things I learned, thanks to Bloomberg and Politico:
Per Politico, this is the most important thing I learned:
Clinton herself does not keep an office at the Brooklyn HQ -- she typically works out of a separate Midtown office and so far has visited the Brooklyn office just once.
So, that brown refrigerator has actually been a greater presence in this office than the candidate. Good thing all this effort was made to gain access to it. And yes, we have to thank Mark Leibovich for all of this:
Anyway, this was a nice trick. Candidate wants a fresh start with the press. The press sets terms: Let us into your office. This turns out to be the easiest, no-risk thing in the world for the candidate. So after a bit of prep and spit-shining (but not too much spit-shining -- that old brown refrigerator stands in testament to the campaign's middle-class frugality, after all!), the reporters enter, gather their quotes and depart, firm in the knowledge that they have done something special.
So what if the reader is left with no insight into the candidate or her policy preferences? So what if the content generated from these escapades ranges from poll-tested platitudes to annotated interior decoration? The point of this exercise is that the campaign press believes that they have a sacred role to play and that the Clinton campaign had sinned by not honoring that role with sufficient solemnity.
In the end, everyone got what they wanted. Quite cheaply, at that.]]>
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Some highlights from this week:
"Clearly there is responsibility on the part of the Greeks, too, in the way they've run their government and the way they've organized their society. But when in the end, those who make the loans and made them not always with great responsibility don't seem to pay much of a price." — Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on Greece's debt struggle with European banks
"We've got these big settlements. They are not unimportant, but the fact that nobody's gone to jail over this is I think disheartening to many." — Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on the Department of Justice giving big banks a free pass after the 2008 financial crisis
"This is the future. We're in the future right now and Donald Trump is the futuristic 'Biff' from the 'Back to the Future' movies. Only on a bigger scale. And it's awesome." — Arthur Delaney on the Donald Trump zeitgeist
"He's welcome to come on our podcast anytime. We'll just call him an asshole the whole time." — Jason Linkins on his special relationship with 'The Donald'
"Scott Walker is leading the 'Let Them Die' caucus." — Zach Carter on Scott Walker's arcane drug policies
"I just think it says a lot that they couldn't do it under Live Action anymore. They had to use a different name because people don't trust them anymore." — Laura Bassett on the Planned Parenthood sting video
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"Politics ain't beanbag," but the Republican race is extremely not beanbag: a mix of Tea Party rally, "Real Housewives" and "Game of Thrones." It's about who can be the most offensive, paranoid, petty, xenophobic, apocalyptic and attention-grabbing candidate. In other words, it's about Donald Trump, who tops our FIRST TO LAST list of 2016 blunt-force instruments.
How did it get this bad? There are 16 candidates and no frontrunner, so everyone is desperate to be noticed before the first debate, on Aug. 6, which is limited to the top 10 candidates in national polls. Conflict always is king on cable, but especially when GOP candidates aren't offering big new positive ideas. Campaigns and the coverage are heavily showbiz: vivid soundbites, gotcha videos and TV attack ads. Dark money is a gusher of anonymous venom.
GOP candidates are playing to Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, where two terms of Barack Obama have left Republicans fearful of cultural isolation and cynical about politics and even their own leaders. They want angry, nasty, accusatory, anti-establishment talk. But do they really want Trump? "Party leaders" don't, but that term's an oxymoron.
|DONALD TRUMPChrist Christie would have been No. 1, except Mr. Entertainment, The Donald, now controls the slot reserved for a Metropolitan New York blowhard. The Brick Tamland of 2016.
|CHRIS CHRISTIE"Sit Down and Shut Up," once so avant garde, now seems tame.
|TED CRUZTold a 3-year-old that the "world's on fire." Ted, some advice: 3-year-olds don't vote, they cry.
|MIKE HUCKABEEFormerly warm-and-fuzzy-ish evangelical who gave off a whiff of bipartisan ecumenism. Now all fire-and-brimstone for Iowa again.
|JOHN KASICHThin-skinned Ohioan known for snapping at people, though slightly less crabby than Christie.
|BOBBY JINDALNerdy Ivy Leaguer goes all pitchfork on Supreme Court over gay marriage: "If we want to save some money, let's just get rid of the court."
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If Mr. Rubio is fortunate to make it as far as the White House, there will be many perks that come with the job. Chief among them, however, might be having a driver.
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There's another set -- or at least there was -- on a private server at Clinton's house. Clinton unilaterally decided which of her emails belonged in the public domain and which were personal. Then she wiped her server clean. You can almost imagine Clinton having a good belly laugh at the scores of reporters who are now poring through the documents she handed over without a fight. Sometimes, we can't tell the difference between steak and a chew toy.
Clearly, Clinton's using a private email account in lieu of an official email was going to come out; clearly the second it did, people were going to speculate that, in said account, she will have been stupid enough to agree to some sort of actionable quid pro quo with Clinton Foundation donors despite that being the singular bone of contention at her 2009 confirmation hearings. And, perhaps even more obviously, a whole bunch of people were going to proclaim that, in using her private email server, she was just proving right the critics who have long said that the Clintons think themselves invincible.
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SAN FRANCISCO - A storm of charged particles coursing through a volcanic ash cloud sparked the spectacular green lightning seen at Chile's Chaiten Volcano in 2008, a researcher said here Dec. 9 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
The green lightning revealed an electrical dance normally hidden inside thunderclouds, Arthur Few, an atmospheric scientist at Rice University in Houston, said. "It probably occurs in all thunderstorms, but you never see it," Few said. "Because of the structure of charges in a volcano cloud, it's on the outside of the cloud."
Two spectacular photographs, snapped when Chaiten erupted in May 2008, recently caught Few's eye when he was investigating volcanic lighting. The volcano looms over the Andes about 800 miles (1,285 kilometers) south of Santiago, Chile, and erupted on May 2 of that year after lying dormant for hundreds of years. A retired professor, Few said he was driven to explain the phenomenon simply out of curiosity.
"I asked myself, 'My goodness, where does this come from and why don't we see this in lightning storms?'" he said.
Green lightning strikes as the Chaiten volcano erupts during storms in the middle of the night on May 3, 2008 in Chile. Credit: UPI Photo/Landov.
Few thinks that the volcanic green lightning strikes are what scientists call "streamers" - channels of positive charge surging from the ground to the atmosphere.
In thunderstorms, these positively charged zones hide inside the clouds, carried on ice crystals, Few said. When the channels connect with clouds of negatively charged particles, lightning results. But volcanic ash reveals the streamers because ash particles swirl on the cloud's surface.
"We rarely see that positive streamer because it's inside the cloud, but it is revealed when we look at a volcanic cloud," Few said.
The green color comes from electrically excited oxygen atoms, similar to the phenomenon that produces the Earth's green aurora, he said. "It's basically the same physics," Few said.
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