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☆ Dean Phillips says he doesn't agree with the Kamala Harris gossip, but felt a need to pass along that lots of people say she 'doesn't have the right disposition' to be president
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Phillips recently told The Atlantic that "others" told him Harris doesn't have the chops to be president. But Phillips told CNN he's been "impressed" by Harris and believes she is "well-prepared." "She is not well prepared, doesn't have the right disposition and the right competencies to execute that office," Phillips told Leibovich. And the congressman also told Phillip he didn't "recall" making comments critical of the vice president. (The president's name isn't on the ballot due to the state's defiance of the DNC presidential primary calendar.)

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☆ Opinion | The Idea That Biden Should Just Give Up Political Power Is Preposterous
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The basic premise of a voluntary one-term presidency rests on a fundamental misconception of the role of re-election in presidential politics and presidential governance. Re-election — or rather the act of running for re-election — isn’t an unexpected treat or something ancillary to the position. It is one of the ways presidents seek to preserve their influence, whether or not they ultimately win another term of office. “Among the many hats the president wears, none is more important to his long-term success than that of party leader,” the political scientist James W. Davis writes in a 1992 book on presidential leadership. The promise of a second term, and thus another four years to achieve their political and ideological goals, is a critical incentive that binds lawmakers to the president in the present.

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☆ Gretchen Whitmer says The Big Lebowski's credo of 'The Dude abides' is 'a really wise philosophy'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Gretchen Whitmer's love for "The Big Lebowski" is well documented. Gretchen Whitmer's love for "The Big Lebowski" is well documented. "You know, it's funny; 'The Dude abides'—it's a really wise philosophy," Whitmer told The Atlantic's Mark Leibovich as he followed her around the state last week for a brief profile that was published on Thursday. Whitmer, who Biden reportedly vetted as a possible running mate in 2020, repeatedly reiterated her support for the president. Along the way, Whitmer picked up "the Big Gretch" nickname that she has embraced, though she cautioned that was not her initial response.

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☆ Opinion | Requiem for the Newsroom
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-29 | by ( Maureen Dowd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

WASHINGTON — I don’t want this to be one of those pieces that bangs on about how things used to be better, and they’ll never be as good again. But, when it comes to newsrooms, it happens to be true. “What would a newspaper movie look like today?” wondered my New York Times colleague Jim Rutenberg. Now we sit at home alone staring at our computers. There’s a reason they made all those newspaper movies, ‘All the President’s Men,’ ‘Spotlight,’ ‘The Paper.’

☆ Former House Speaker Paul Ryan says he won't attend the 2024 Republican National Convention if Trump is the party's presidential nominee: 'I'm not interested in participating in that'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Paul Ryan said he won't attend the RNC in 2024 if Donald Trump is the party's presidential nominee. Ryan told WISN-TV that he the convention being held in his home state didn't affect his decision. "I think some people would like me to start a civil war in our party and achieve nothing," Ryan told Leibovich. During an October 2022 interview on the Fox Business Network, Ryan reiterated his opposition to a third Trump White House campaign. "I think anybody not named Trump, I think is so much more likely to win the White House for us.

☆ 'It's clear that Mark Zuckerberg idolizes Elon Musk,' Wall Street analyst says
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Asia Martin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Mark Zuckerberg said Meta is adding a verification subscription service to Facebook and Instagram. Meta Verified "sounds awfully like Twitter Blue," Bernstein analyst Mark Schilsky said in a note to clients this week. "I think it's clear that Mark Zuckerberg idolizes Elon Musk." Other analysts on Wall Street more optimistically believe that Meta Verified could add $2 billion per year in revenue, as Insider recently reported. Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been publicly criticizing each other for years — at least since a SpaceX rocket exploded on the launchpad in 2016, destroying a Facebook satellite.

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