Obama Blasts GOP Proposals as Threat to the Elderly and Middle Class

President Obama outlined his own proposal for reducing the nation's deficit by $4 trillion over the next 12 years, calling it a "more balanced approach" than the one championed by Congressional Republicans, and emphasized that everything in the budget must be up for discussion. In a lengthy speech that included very few specific targeted cuts but many broad objectives, Obama said that in order to reach his deficit reduction goals, he would focus on four key areas: keeping domestic spending low; cuts to the Pentagon budget; health care savings in Medicare and Medicaid and taxes.

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Fla. Republicans make it harder for ex-felons to vote

Florida Gov. Rick Scott and other Cabinet-level officials voted unanimously Wednesday to roll back state rules enacted four years ago that made it easier for many ex-felons to regain the right to vote.

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Lax Internal Revenue Service rules help groups shield campaign donor identities

American Crossroads GPS, an advocacy group that reported spending about $17 million on advertising before the midterm elections, generated controversy by using its nonprofit status to shield donors' identities.

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Trent Franks' 'Defending Marriage' hearing, building his case for impeachment?

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This is certainly a critical use of congressional time and taxpayer dollars:
The U.S. House Subcommittee on the Constitution is scheduled to hold a hearing Friday titled "Defending Marriage," called by subcommittee chairman Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), who has recently called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama because of his decision to order his administration to no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)....

People For the American Way Senior Fellow Peter Montgomery predicts Franks? hearing will be a parade of "extremists."

Montgomery told TAI during a phone interview that Rep. Franks is "at the far-right fringe of the far right." Montgomery also assumed the only purpose of the Franks Defending Marriage hearing would be "To promote that far-right agenda and provide them propaganda against the administration from here until 2012."

Franks is the founder of an official Focus on the Family affiliate called the Center for Arizona Policy (CAP). Formerly known as the Arizona Family Research Institute, the CAP was instrumental in the passage of Arizona?s Prop 102 adding an amendment to Arizona?s constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

Montgomery told TAI he experienced Franks? views first hand at the Take Back America conference in St. Louis in 2009. In a speech at the event, Franks called President Obama, "An enemy of humanity."  During the conference, Franks also staked claim on his belief in the "birther" conspiracy.

How depressing is it that the Subcommittee on the Constitution is chaired by "the far-right fringe of the far right"? Maybe Franks is going to try to build his case for impeachment with this hearing. Because there really is nothing more critical to the country than the president defending bigotry with the full force of the Justice Department. "Humanity" (i.e. white, male, Christian racists and homophobes) demands nothing less than keeping people who love each other apart.


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