Dean drops out of DNC chairmanship race

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DENVER — Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean dropped out of the race to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday.

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Dean, who served as DNC chairman from 2005 to 2009, announced in a pre-recorded video to a conference of state Democratic chairs that he would step aside to allow for a new face to lead the party as it seeks to rebuild.

That reduces the field of candidates to three.

The front-runner is Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), who has racked up endorsements from Washington lawmakers and national labor unions.

South Carolina Democratic Chairman Jaime Harrison and New Hampshire Chairman Ray Buckley are also in the race.

President Obama’s allies are trying to recruit Labor Secretary Tom Perez for the role, and NARAL President Ilyse Hogue is also considering a bid. 

Dean did not say whom he would support. 

But he said the chairmanship must be a full-time job, a hurdle to Ellison's bid.

“I know this job better than anyone in this room,” Dean said. “It requires 80 hours of work a week and constant travel across the country to fundraise. … This is a full-time job.”

Dean also said the fight to be the next chairman can not develop into a proxy war between supporters of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Ellison is backed by Sanders. Harrison backed Clinton during the Democratic presidential primary. Buckley remained neutral.

 

During an interview on MSNBC minutes after his video announcement, Dean reiterated that he does not support Ellison's bid unless he was willing to give up his seat, noting that while Ellison has support from many high-profile Democrats, none of those politicians are DNC members who can vote in the chair's race. 

 

And he said that the party should not only have a strategy to win every state, but to win younger voters.

 

"I made this decision two or three weeks ago. Once I was in, I got a quick lay of the land. I think I would have and could have won," he said.

 

"I really feel strongly our party needs to turn itself over to the next generation. I'm happy to stay in the background and help coach the next chair." 

 

The former Vermont governor moved quickly to jump into the race to lead the party after a disastrous Election Day. Democrats still credit him with much of the work done to grow the party after George W. Bush's 2000 presidential victory. 

 

The Democrats won the House, Senate and ultimately the presidency under Dean’s leadership, after the GOP controlled all three when he took over in 2005. 

 

But in recent weeks, he began to lag behind the other candidates in the race to woo the more than 400 voting DNC members. 

 

- Updated at 4:57 p.m.

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I’m Brave Enough to Put Myself in a Position Where I’m Going to be Attacked By The Glenn Beck

Tomi Lahren: I’m Brave Enough to Put Myself in a Position Where I’m Going to be Attacked By The Glenn Beck Program Updated 12/01/2016 | 3:06 PM EST Share This Tweet This A ridiculously-titled article from GQ Magazine labe

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Tomi Lahren: I’m Brave Enough to Put Myself in a Position Where I’m Going to be Attacked By The Glenn Beck Program Updated 12/01/2016 | 3:06 PM EST Share This Tweet This A ridiculously-titled article from GQ Magazine labels Tomi Lahren of TheBlaze the ‘queen of the alt-right.’ The article follows an on-air interview Tomi did as a guest on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. “That is a ridiculous title for her. She was a Marco Rubio supporter. There’s no evidence of that at all,” Co-host Stu Burguiere said Thursday on The Glenn Beck Program. Additionally, during the interview with Noah, the host deliberately misinterpreted Tomi’s comments about the Ku Klux Klan, painting her as downplaying or being ignorant of the group’s horrific activities. “This is what I’m trying desperately to beg the press not to do. Please, no one will listen to who the alt-right is. This is five percent of the right. No one will listen to who those people are if you paint the brush that everyone is alt-right. Because they’re not. Tomi Lahren is not,” Glenn said. Tomi joined Glenn on air to discuss the interview with Trevor Noah and how she’s ready, willing and able to take the heat. Listen to this segment from The Glenn Beck Program: Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors: GLENN: Listen to the first hour of the podcast today, where we showed you what happened with Tomi Lahren last night in GQ, based on a Trevor Noah interview on The Daily Show. Which, he is just horrible. But she was denounced as the queen of the alt-right. Tomi Lahren is not an alt-righter. She is not. And — she is a Marco Rubio supporter, for the love of Pete. And while we disagree on a lot of things, this is why Donald Trump won. Because people are so sick of the press getting away, editing, and saying whatever they want. The big gotcha moment was her saying — and I’m just going to give it to you like the press is, “So what did the KKK do?” What did the KKK — well, if you don’t know, I can’t help you. That’s the way the press is reporting it. Let me give it to you in context. Look at what Black Lives Matter is doing. They’re calling for the death of a group of people. They are terrorizing people. They are setting cities on fire. Well, tell me, what did the KKK do? Well, gee, now, that’s different, isn’t it? STU: Yeah. GLENN: And that’s why the press is despised. And until the press corrals themselves and starts looking at themselves, nobody is going to listen to them when they say, “This person is good. This person is bad.” Tomi Lahren is with us now from the Blaze. Hello, Tomi, how are you? TOMI: I’m doing well. Thank you, Glenn. You know, we’re used to this as conservatives. We’re used to this as being outside of the mainstream idea. So I knew — I had an idea that this was probably going happen. But at least we put ourselves out there, right? GLENN: No. And I actually thought you did well. PAT: Yeah. GLENN: And actually so did GQ. I mean, GQ wanted to hate you. You know, they took their typical shots, but they couldn’t even hate you. In fact, they said you didn’t give them the stereotypical angry, you know, right-wing hatemonger that they were obviously wanting. TOMI: Well, I smiled through the whole thing. And I have to say, the way that some of Trevor Noah’s fans and others on the left and what have you are responding to me is vile in many ways. I’ve seen Twitter. But Trevor himself, after the show, I was actually very impressed with the way he handled me. He said, “Hey, you know, I know we disagree on a lot of things, but I’m glad we could have the conversation.” Same thing happened with a few folks from the left today saying, “Hey, I think you did a good job. We disagree, but you held your own.” I smiled through the whole thing. I was in obviously a tough crowd. I don’t think that there was a conservative or a supporter in the crowd. GLENN: Oh, no. PAT: No way. TOMI: And I just smiled and — and took it. Because at least I’m brave enough to put myself in a position where I’m going to be attacked. And I think I held my own. And I’m happy with it. GLENN: Oh, I think you did more than hold your own, myself. And Trevor Noah was — I mean, he’s just horrible. And I’m sure he’s a nice guy and everything else. But he was just horrible. And when it came to you — we seem to feel this way. Did you feel this way? It was like he wasn’t even looking at you. He couldn’t make eye contact with you. TOMI: He — I think — and I don’t want to speak for him because I don’t know what’s in his heart and his mind. But I feel that a lot of times — and you know this better than anyone, Glenn: The liberals, they want to come at you. They want to demonize you. And so they don’t want to humanize you. They don’t want to look at you and say, “Hey, you’re an actual person.” They want to look at you and say, “You’re a racist. You’re a bigot. You’re the alt-right.” And if they look at you and actually engage with you, it makes it harder for them to put you in that pigeonhole. So I think there’s some of that going on. PAT: Yeah. Yeah. GLENN: Wow. TOMI: I tried to laugh. I tried to have a good conversation. On the outset, I was told it was supposed to be late night comedy. We were supposed to have fun and disagree. And then sat down, and right in with, “Why are you so angry?” And I sat down thinking, “I’m not angry. I’m typically a pretty happy person. But I guess if we want to go there right off the bat, that’s fine. I’ll play that game.” PAT: Tomi, did you ever ask anybody on the staff when did Trevor Noah ever engage in comedy? (laughter) PAT: Did you ever ask that question? Because that’s a legitimate — GLENN: Yeah, because we haven’t seen any comedy coming from him. And neither has America. Neither did GQ. They said, “It wasn’t funny. But that was okay.” Yeah, it’s only okay because it’s Trevor Noah. That’s what you expect. But anyway… TOMI: But to disagree with a liberal or you disagree with anyone on the left or anyone in Black Lives Matter or whatever, you disagree with them, and you’re automatically a racist. They disagree with you, and they’re a social justice warrior. And they really came at you, and they did, you know, some kind of a great deed for their cause. But as soon as I open my mouth — it doesn’t matter what I would have said. If I would have went out there and said, “I love the Black Lives Matter movement,” it wouldn’t have mattered. I mean, they were already determined to paint me the way that they wanted to. And at the end of the day, we’re used to it. So I’m not going to cry myself to sleep. STU: Tomi, I know that they heavily edited the interview. I think it was 26 minutes long, and they only aired maybe six minutes of it. GLENN: What a surprise. STU: So there was a lot taken out of it. But one of the more amazing parts of what they showed on TV was he repeatedly said to you he could not understand your point. He — and he kept saying it. I can’t understand it. I’ve tried so many times to understand your point, that Colin Kaepernick, the NFL quarterback who kneeled during the national anthem to protest it, your point was, he has a First Amendment right to do it, but I disagree with him doing it. How can you be for speech and against speech? He legitimately could not comprehend that point. Did he ever at any point clarify, or did you ever get to an understanding on what seems to be a pretty basic First Amendment point? TOMI: Well, he wouldn’t listen to me. And that’s the thing, he kept saying — and everyone still says today, “You didn’t answer his question. How is a black man supposed to protest?” Again, I was telling him, I’m not talking about his right to protest. I’m saying, I think the way he did it and the outlet in which he chose to express it, being our flag and our anthem, was wrong in my opinion, and I voiced that. But he didn’t want to listen to what I said. And then he just kept continuing, “How should a black man protest?” Well, Trevor, quite honestly, Colin Kaepernick didn’t vote, so there is one way that a black man can protest in an appropriate way. I mean, that would be a start, right? But it’s all — it’s all their narrative. I don’t think it would have mattered what I would have said. PAT: Uh-huh. TOMI: Because the left, they fail to understand because they don’t want to understand. I — you and I both have this in common: We legitimately want to understand the worldview of the left, of the liberals, of opposing views. We want to put ourselves in that position to strengthen our own arguments. The left doesn’t seem concerned with doing that. They are happy where they sit. They are happy and comfortable, and they feel like they’re martyrs for the cause. But I think like you said at the beginning, that’s changing now. You know, we’ve got Donald Trump as president. Love him or hate him, you’ve got a lot of Americans that voted for him and, like you said, that are just sick and tired of this crap. PAT: Uh-huh. TOMI: We are tired of being labeled. We are tired of being scapegoated for everything. And we’re tired of not being listened to. So the times are changing. And I think that the Trevor Noahs of the world are going to start seeing that. GLENN: Well, here’s the thing: I was really impressed with Penn Jillette when he went to the atheist, what was that? Reason rally. TOMI: Yeah. PAT: Yeah. They do every year. GLENN: And it’s all these atheists. And he got up. And what he said was really, I thought, impressive. He said, “We cannot hate or treat people the way we feel we’ve been treated. We feel that we were yelled at, called names, and everything else. We can’t do that to anyone.” In other words, let’s love our Christian brothers and our Hindu brothers and everybody else who said, you know, atheists are bad people. Let’s show them how we should react. Do you feel you did that last night with Trevor Noah? TOMI: Right. I think I smiled through it. We had a good conversation after the fact. I don’t have any beef with the guy. I expected it to be that way. And, you know what, at least they were kind enough to have me on the show. I appreciate that much. Sometimes, as you know, they attack us, and they don’t even bring us on. And they just want to attack us. So at least he brought me on. I hope to do more of these things. I hope that they — GLENN: You realize, though, Tomi — TOMI: What’s that? GLENN: You realize — you realize that you don’t need them. They need you. You know that, right? TOMI: Well, and there was a part — if you look at the extended interview, where he tried to tell me that I was now the mainstream because I pulled big numbers on Facebook. That doesn’t make me the mainstream. It means that I’m more viewed than you are, but that doesn’t mean I’m the mainstream. GLENN: Right. TOMI: I’ve been able to dupe the mainstream. So that doesn’t make me a part of it. It makes me smarter than it. (laughter) GLENN: Tomi, was it worth doing? TOMI: It was. Any time you’re able to have these conversations, it’s worth doing. At least it got people talking. Like I told him last night, I could have gone on Fox News and then watched them kiss my butt. I chose not to do that. I chose to put myself in an environment where I knew I’d be challenged, and I will never regret that. GLENN: Okay. Tomi Lahren, thank you so much. Appreciate it. PAT: That’s great. TOMI: Thanks, Glenn. GLENN: Tomi Lahren. You bet. From TheBlaze. An up-and-coming, I mean, media powerhouse. Featured Image: Screenshot of Tomi Lahren with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show. 

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Chip and Joanna Gaines under fire

Let’s begin with this disclosure: Chip and Joanna Gaines are my favorite television personalities. Their HGTV show, Fixer Upper, is one of the most popular shows on the network. They are smart, funny, and entertaining. And the good they do in helping couples renovate houses into homes is terrific.

Now they’re in the news for something they have neither done nor said. A BuzzFeed reporter wanted to know what these devout Christians think about same-sex marriage and whether they would ever feature a same-sex couple on their show. She emailed their company, then called and sent emails to HGTV, but they were not returned.

(HGTV later responded by stating, “We don’t discriminate against members of the LGBT community in any of our shows. HGTV is proud to have a crystal clear, consistent record of including people from all walks of life in its series.”)

The BuzzFeed reporter then turned to Chip and Joanna’s pastor, Jimmy Seibert of Antioch Community Church in Waco. When she called the church, she was referred to its website which states, “Marriage is the uniting of one man and one woman in covenant commitment for a lifetime.” Then she watched Rev. Seibert’s online sermon from the Sunday after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage. She proceeded to excerpt parts of the sermon she found most offensive and provided her critical commentary along the way.

One commentator called her treatment of Chip and Joanna Gaines and their church “harassment” and noted that her article has no journalistic content. The writer never spoke with the couple or their pastor. To the degree that her article harms Fixer Upper and its hosts, the reporter will have reinforced the message that those who affirm biblical marriage are fair game for whatever vitriol they receive.

Christians facing persecution is an escalating theme today. According to Christian Solidarity Network (CSN), about 2,000 Assemblies of God churches in Cuba were declared illegal and marked for seizure by the government last year. In the first six months of 2016, CSN recorded more than 1,600 religious freedom abuses in Cuba. Four large Cuban churches have been demolished and their sound equipment stolen this year.

Open Doors notes that the persecution of Christians has increased across every region where their ministry operates. They report that more than 100 million Christians are being persecuted globally.

Of course, it is unfair to compare believers facing execution and/or confiscation of their churches and property with believers being ridiculed for their biblical beliefs regarding marriage. What the two kinds of persecution have in common is that both intend to pressure Christians to change their convictions. If believers in the Middle East would convert to ISIS-brand Islam, they would be spared. If believers in America would abandon their biblical beliefs regarding marriage, they would be celebrated.

Here’s the decision we each must make: What price will we pay to follow Jesus? Is there anywhere you will not go? Any person you will not serve? Any witness you will not give? Any sacrifice you will not make? Remembering what Jesus gave up in heaven to become an infant on earth, how can we refuse the One who loves us so?

Remembering what Jesus gave up in heaven to become an infant on earth, how can we refuse the One who loves us so?

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In his sermon on same-sex marriage, Rev. Seibert told his congregation, “We’re being called to a higher calling. A greater compassion and love, but a greater clarity than ever before.” How will you answer this call?

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Republicans raise red flags about ObamaCare repeal strategy

BY SARAH FERRIS AND SCOTT WONG - 12/02/16 01:12 PM EST 3,916

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Several House Republicans are raising red flags about the GOP’s repeal-and-delay plan for ObamaCare in the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency.

At least three centrist GOP lawmakers voiced concerns about the “repeal first, replace later” plan during a closed-door meeting on Friday, three lawmakers in the room told The Hill.

Members who voiced concerns about the longer-term repeal strategy included Reps. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), Ryan Costello (R-Pa.) and John Katko (R-N.Y.), sources said.

All three are members of the Tuesday Group, a caucus of centrist House Republicans. Dent is co-chair of the caucus.

One lawmaker said the moderates were “getting skittish” about leadership’s plan to replace the sprawling healthcare law within about a year of Trump’s inauguration, which they said would run too close to the 2018 midterms.  

“It’s going to be technical, all the insurance stuff. It’s hard work, putting that in play. But that’s the beginning of the next election cycle,” the lawmaker said.

GOP leaders in the House and Senate are aiming to pass legislation dismantling most parts of ObamaCare using a budget tactic called reconciliation in Trump’s first 100 days. The tactic would allow legislation to be approved in the Senate to avoid procedural vote filibusters.

Top lawmakers have acknowledged it would not go into effect immediately because Congress needs a transition period to pass a replacement. But that plan has spurred an intra-party battle among some conservative lawmakers and groups that argue it should be repealed immediately.

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) spent much of Friday morning’s meeting outlining the broad logistics for the legislatively difficult move to repeal the law, which would require close coordination with the Senate.

Ryan confirmed that using reconciliation to repeal ObamaCare would be one of the chamber’s first acts in the new Congress, according to a readout of the meeting.

Another lawmaker in the room, Rep. Tim Murphy (R-Pa.), said he believed there was an appetite for spending more time on working to replace the law.

“This whole process will be done thoughtfully. We do not want to move in haste,” said Murphy, who is vying to lead the health subpanel of the Energy and Commerce Committee next year. “Just as a surgeon does not jump to surgery without doing a proper diagnosis with x-rays, the same thing here.”

The repeal-and-delay strategy — which has gained traction since Trump’s election — will also require a separate strategy to replace the law. It will likely involve cooperation from Senate Democrats, which could drag out the replacement process.

“We know we can do a lot of repeal through reconciliation but you can’t do replace through reconciliation,” said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a member of the House Budget Committee.

He said working with Democrats on a replacement would be one of GOP’s toughest issues: “There will be a lot of drama with this over the next year.”

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