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Sunday, February 5, 2012

News Sunday Morning News

Posted by Riya Bhattacharjee on Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:00 AM

Yawn, it's the Mitt again: Romney cruises to an easy win in the Nevada Republican caucuses. He secured 47.6% of the votes with just over 70% of the votes counted. His nearest rival Newt Gingrich got 22.6%. Romney's victory is his second in a week and cements his position as the Republican presidential front-runner.

Still fighting: Gingrich is not giving up until his party's convention in August, says he had expected Romney to win in Nevada because of the state's high Mormon population. "I'm actually pretty happy with where we are, and I think the contrast between Governor Romney and me is going to get wider and wider and clearer and clearer over the next few weeks," Gingrich said.

Any friend of Newt is a friend of Romney's?: It looks like even if Gingrich drops out of the race, his top donor Sheldon Adelson will devote his time, energy and billions to the overriding issue: beating Barack.

"Uni-dimensional": That's what Santorum called Romney. What should Romney call Santorum?

"A travesty": Is what Hillary Clinton called Russia and China's veto of a UN resolution condemning Syria's crackdown against anti-government protesters. Human rights groups say that more than 7,000 people have been killed in Syria by the country's security forces since the uprising began in March.

Soccer riot: Continues for the third day in Egypt. The death toll from street fights grew to 12. The "ultras," a group of soccer fans, are now the vanguard of the Egyptian uprising.

Damage Control:: Komen for the Cure is seeking help from Ogilvy Public Relations and possibly former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer to deal with its PR fiasco.

Brady vs Manning: Here's some Super Bowl trivia. Looks like even the NFL uses standardized tests to evaluate whether athletes are smart enough to draft.

Tax breaks: A new proposal in Olympia would force lawmakers to take a closer look at hundreds of state tax breaks currently on the books.

$975K: Money a jury awarded a mentally-ill woman who gave birth all alone in a King County jail cell 14 years ago.

And finally, it's not as nice today as it was yesterday, but it could be worse.

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The WaPo's assertion that Ari Fleischer was not involved in the initial funding decision is misleading in the extreme.

He's in it up to his eyeballs, having directly recruited VP Karen Handel and probably having conceived, Rove-like, of the whole Planned Parenthood-defunding strategy to begin with:

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/0…

Posted by rob!

on February 5, 2012 at 9:44 AM

The gap between Gingrich and Romney is going to get wider? I am sure it is Gingrich..in money..in votes...in states won and in delegates.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on February 5, 2012 at 9:47 AM

@1 holy mackerel. Thanks.

Posted by gloomy gus on February 5, 2012 at 9:53 AM

With regards to Gingrich, a lot depends on when and whether Santorum drops out. In the past few contests Santorum has been getting half as many votes as Gingrich; if he drops out this would allow Gingrich to consolidate all the not-Romney voters who don't like Ron Paul.

Right now I think Santorum is holding on because this race has been so volatile so far and he's hoping for a second surge. If Gingrich could get a second surge, why can't he?

Posted by I have always been... east coaster on February 5, 2012 at 10:07 AM

"Whose smarter"? Really?

Posted by disintegrator

on February 5, 2012 at 10:19 AM

I think China has a great deal to lose having placed it's bet on Assad. When, not if, the people regain control of their country, they won't be forgetting or forgiving what China has done. As for Russia, they never fucking learn.

Posted by Vince on February 5, 2012 at 10:23 AM

Santorum won't drop out. The xtians will keep paying him until another candidate pretends to care what they think.

Posted by six shooter on February 5, 2012 at 10:44 AM

Slog needs more butts. This is a good start. Please continue.

Posted by MacCrocodile on February 5, 2012 at 11:04 AM

I was expecting to see some peen. Bullshit that they didn't run back.

Posted by Confluence on February 5, 2012 at 11:14 AM

I don't know about you but it is nice a sunny right now. And the day has just gotten started.

Posted by Simone on February 5, 2012 at 11:38 AM

I you are going to post bare bottoms on Slog, how about featuring that delightful boy from Washington Bus?

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay

on February 5, 2012 at 11:50 AM

Whenever they have the argument over how great a 8.3% unemployment rate is, I keep thinking of Eddie Murphy:

If you're starving and somebody throw you a cracker, you gonna be like this: Goddamn, that's the best cracker I ever ate in my life!

http://www.hark.com/clips/pdcnhzgvlq-sta…

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on February 5, 2012 at 12:00 PM

@ 4, by this point voters are resigning themselves to Romney. If Santorum drops out (which will happen, I predict before March), what will actually happen is that Gingrich will only get the hardcore of not-Romney voters; of the rest, some will go to Romney for pragmatic reasons, while the rest will just stay home.

Posted by Matt from Denver on February 5, 2012 at 12:01 PM

Gee, I just don't understand why Russia and China are not aggressively pursuing World War 3 like we are. I'm sure Hil-dog and NATO have only the best of intentions with regards to Syria.

Posted by Spindles on February 5, 2012 at 12:20 PM

If you are interested in the Syria situation, you should read this article, sheds a very interesting light on the situation.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East…

Posted by treacle on February 5, 2012 at 12:24 PM

Re: Southern Exposure. Can we say shrinkage?

Posted by Weekilter on February 5, 2012 at 1:11 PM

@9, see @16. Even if they'd run back at us, there'd scarcely be anything to see.

Posted by piminnowcheez on February 5, 2012 at 1:28 PM

"vangaurd of the egyptian revolution" :) I'm gonna pretend its a quote of me in the last thread about the soccer riots ...

As for the UN debacle... This is what ALLOT of nations have talked about for a while the fact that the UN is neutered by the security council and its countries veto-rights stemming from the cold war political arena.
So allot of smaller countries are just not giving a fuck about the UN since its considered a puppet of the US, Russia, England, China and France and all you do is offer one of those five some money, power or oil and you can do what you want. Syria being just the lastest in a string of such cock-ups. Which is a shame for such a great project.

Posted by JensR

on February 5, 2012 at 4:33 PM

Actually, the really fun run at the South Pole is the 300 degree challenge. In June or July, when the outside temperature gets to -100F, you get in the sauna and crank it up to 200F, roast for a bit, then head out for a loop around the ceremonial pole.

It's pitch black then, of course, so it'd be a really boring film.

Posted by BigHank53 on February 6, 2012 at 9:24 AM