bons mots Apr. 12, 2012

Barbara Bush Not Totally Interested in Escalating the ‘War on Women’ Debate

By Dan Amira

Barbara Bush talks with Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at Former President George H. W. Bush's office on March 29, 2012 in Houston, Texas. Mitt Romney received an endorsement from Former President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush during the meeting.

HOUSTON, TX - MARCH 29: Barbara Bush talks with Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at Former President George H. W. Bush’s office on March 29, 2012 in Houston, Texas. Mitt Romney received an endorsement from Former President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush during the meeting. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) Photo: Tom Pennington/Getty Images

“Forget it. Women who stay at home are wonderful. Women who go to work are wonderful. Whatever.” —Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on Fox News today.

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THE FEED

11:24 a.m.

A dreadful poll for Trump and Ernst

🚨New Monmouth poll of IOWA (change from 9/18-22):

Trump 47 (-2)
Biden 50 (+4)

Senate
Ernst (R-inc) 47 (+1)
Greenfield (D) 49 (-)

(Oct. 15-19, High turnout LVs)https://t.co/pNpBVKsOGL

—@JacobRubashkin

9:37 a.m.

fake news

Trump Team Keeps Whining About 60 Minutes Interview Two Weeks Out From Election

By Matt Stieb and Benjamin Hart

After cutting short an interview with Lesley Stahl, the president threatened to publish his own video from the “fake and biased” encounter.

9:34 a.m.

More details in the Ghislaine Maxwell case are coming on Tuesday

Transcripts of interviews lawyers conducted with the ex-girlfriend of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein must be released by Thursday morning, a judge said Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska’s order allows the public release of transcripts of two days of depositions in 2016 of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and related documents, along with the deposition transcript of an anonymous accuser.

Judge OKs release of Ghislaine Maxwell transcripts

—Ap

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9:02 a.m.

This is Obama’s first in-person campaign event for Biden

Former president Barack Obama is hitting the campaign trail Wednesday, with plans to appeal to Black voters in Philadelphia on behalf of Democratic nominee Joe Biden. President Trump is scheduled to return to the battleground state of North Carolina.

Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.), is also campaigning in the Tar Heel State, while Vice President Pence has stops planned in New Hampshire and Ohio. Biden has advertised no events of his own as he prepares for Thursday’s final debate with Trump.

Obama hitting campaign trail for Biden; Trump returning to North Carolina

—Washington Post

8:29 a.m.

Trump’s absurd attack on Democratic officials may wind up hurting the most vulnerable

The White House is considering slashing millions of dollars for coronavirus relief, HIV treatment, screenings for newborns and other programs in Democratic-led cities that President Donald Trump has deemed “anarchist jurisdictions,” according to documents obtained by POLITICO.

New York, Portland, Ore., Washington, D.C., and Seattle could lose funding for a wide swath of programs that serve their poorest, sickest residents after the president moved last month to restrict funding, escalating his political battle against liberal cities he’s sought to use as a campaign foil.

The Department of Health and Human Services has identified federal grants covering those services, which are among the nearly 200 health programs that could be in line for cuts as part of a sweeping government-wide directive the administration is advancing during the final weeks of the presidential campaign and amid an intensifying pandemic Trump has downplayed.

… The HHS list offers the most detailed picture yet of the administration’s efforts to quickly comply with the Trump directive and the potentially large cuts facing these cities even as the pandemic strains local budgets. It isn’t immediately clear what criteria the budget office will use to evaluate the grants — or how or when cuts may be made.

White House looks at cutting Covid funds, newborn screenings in ‘anarchist’ cities

—Politico

7:00 a.m.

trump country

The Mask Backlash That Could Oust a Democratic Congressman

By Miranda Green

Why the pandemic might be a winner for Republicans in Orange County, California.

10/20/2020

covid-19

New Studies Show Major Drop in COVID-19 Mortality Rates

By Matt Stieb

Two studies shared ahead of print publication show that mortality rates of hospitalized patients dropped by around 20 points between March and June.

10/20/2020

the national interest

Alleged China-Fighter Donald Trump Has Secret Chinese Bank Account

By Jonathan Chait

Another big scandal — and huge conflict of interest — has surfaced from the tax returns obtained by the New York Times.

10/20/2020

vision 2020

What Is Biden’s Actual Position on Court-Packing?

By Matt Stieb

Biden has been reluctant to say if he is considering expanding the Supreme Court, though he claimed he would provide an answer before the election.

10/20/2020

vision 2020

GOP Hopes That Amy Coney Barrett Would Fire Up the Base Fizzled

By Ed Kilgore

It’s unclear that killing Garland’s confirmation or forcing Kavanaugh’s did electoral magic for the GOP. The non-fight over Barrett sure won’t.

10/20/2020

the top line

The Pandemic Has Men Shaving Less, But Not Women

By Josh Barro

Proctor & Gamble sales — and beards — have grown during the pandemic.

10/20/2020

Tentative good news as hospitalizations spike around the country

Two new peer-reviewed studies are showing a sharp drop in mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The drop is seen in all groups, including older patients and those with underlying conditions, suggesting that physicians are getting better at helping patients survive their illness.

“We find that the death rate has gone down substantially,” says Leora Horwitz, a doctor who studies population health at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine and an author on one of the studies, which looked at thousands of patients from March to August.

The study, which was of a single health system, finds that mortality has dropped among hospitalized patients by 18 percentage points since the pandemic began. Patients in the study had a 25.6% chance of dying at the start of the pandemic; they now have a 7.6% chance. That’s a big improvement, but 7.6% is still a high risk compared with other diseases, and Horwitz and other researchers caution that COVID-19 remains dangerous.

Studies Point To Big Drop In COVID-19 Death Rates

—NPR

10/20/2020

Klain played a key role in the Obama administration’s economic recovery efforts and its response to the Ebola crisis

Longtime Democratic aide Ron Klain is the leading candidate to be presidential nominee Joe Biden’s chief of staff if Biden wins the election, according to several people familiar with the situation. …

He’s widely respected by Democrats across the party’s ideological spectrum and progressives say they would be comfortable with him in that role.

Others under consideration include Steve Ricchetti, also a former Biden vice presidential chief of staff and chairman of his presidential campaign, and Jeff Zients, a co-chair of Biden’s transition team. But Klain, who first worked for Biden during his short-lived 1987 presidential campaign, has the candidate’s trust and more pertinent experience than anyone else who might be considered for the job, the people said. Another name that has been floated is Louisiana Congressman Cedric Richmond, an early Biden endorser and campaign co-chair.

Biden Looking to Longtime Aide Ron Klain for Chief of Staff

—Bloomberg

10/20/2020

breonna taylor

What Really Happened with the Breonna Taylor Grand Jury?

By Bridget Read and Angelina Chapin

Suspicions are mounting that the attorney general lied about what happened during deliberations.

10/20/2020

poll position

The Three States With Both Close Presidential and Senate Races

By Ed Kilgore

In Georgia, North Carolina, and Iowa, Biden and Trump are virtually tied, and so too are Senate candidates.

10/20/2020

politics

Trump Donors Blew $1 Billion on the QVC President

By Sarah Jones

You buy garbage, you get garbage.

10/20/2020

vision 2020

What We Know About the Final Trump-Biden Debate: Time & How to Watch

By Margaret Hartmann

A brief guide to watching the final presidential debate, plus the latest batch of controversies.

10/20/2020

coronavirus stimulus

Why Trump Should Just Cave to Pelosi on Stimulus Deal

By Ed Kilgore

Trump is losing his advantage over Biden in managing the economy. A last-minute stimulus deal may be the only way to get it back.

10/20/2020

The First Lady has not recovered entirely from Covid

From Melania Trump chief of staff Stephanie Grisham: “Mrs. Trump continues to feel better every day following her recovery from COVID-19, but with a lingering cough, and out of an abundance of caution, she will not be traveling today.”

—@steveholland1

10/20/2020

antitrust

DOJ Launches First Major Antitrust Case Against Google

By Eric Levitz

The search giant pays mobile companies and browsers to make Google their preset search engine. The Justice Department says that’s illegal.

10/20/2020

pivot

China Is Now the Amazon of Geopolitics

By Intelligencer Staff

Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway discuss how the patient zero of the pandemic has emerged in a stronger economic position than ever.

10/20/2020

Quite a statistic

More people have now early voted in TX than the number of people who voted for Donald Trump in TX in 2016.

—@Redistrict

10/20/2020

the national interest

Why Trump Ended the Task Force and Put a Kook in Charge of the Coronavirus

By Jonathan Chait

The last two GOP administrations have self-immolated by ignoring experts.

10/20/2020

Barr is definitely going to hop right on this

Two weeks before the election, President Trump says on Fox News that Attorney General Bill Barr should “appoint somebody” to investigate Joe Biden. “We’ve gotta get the attorney general to act. He’s gotta act. And he’s gotta act fast. He’s gotta appoint somebody.”

—@kaitlancollins

10/20/2020

Joe Biden picked up a few unusual endorsements today

Axios reports:

USA Today, one of the largest newspapers by circulation in America, gave Joe Biden its first-ever presidential endorsement on Tuesday.

“This is not something we do lightly or do eagerly,” said Bill Sternberg, head of USA Today’s editorial board.

… The newspaper, which published its first endorsement in 1982, posted a “dis-endorsement” of President Trump in 2016, but fell short of actually endorsing Hillary Clinton.

The Hill reports:

Michael Steele, who led the Republican National Committee (RNC) during the first years of Joe Biden’s vice presidency, formally endorsed him Tuesday morning after joining a “Never Trump” GOP group in August.

Steele made his announcement on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” shortly before starring in an advertisement paid for by the anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project.

USA Today breaks tradition by endorsing Joe Biden

—Axios

10/20/2020

encounter