[Breitbart] Wendy Davis must be dizzy from all the spinning she's done this week on the question of abortion. Meet Dizzy and her other evil twin Dizzier.
Tuesday morning the Dallas Morning News reported that Davis had said she could support a 20-week ban on abortion, just not the specific one included in the bill she filibustered last June. Davis said "I would have and could have voted to allow that to go through, if I felt like we had tightly defined the ability for a woman and a doctor to be making this decision together and not have the Legislature get too deep in the weeds of how we would describe when that was appropriate." Texas winds out of the east, no the west, no the northeast.
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Nytimes darling. I hope she wins the Dimocrats nomination, makes Texas even more of a landslide GOP wave state, allows that money to be put elsewhere into a tight race
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The NYTs one again aiding and abetting the Donk Party. Further spinning by the NYTs--"Davis was nuanced in her remarks." The Donks have trouble with principles and so they spin, hold nuanced positions, lie, and flip-flop.
The nominee for ambassador to Norway, for example, prompted outrage in Oslo by characterizing one of the nation's ruling parties as extremist. A soap- opera producer slated for Hungary appeared to have little knowledge of the country she would be living in. A prominent Obama bundler nominated to be ambassador to Argentina acknowledged that he had never set foot in the country and isn't fluent in Spanish. Maybe he's seen some photographs?
Colleen Bell, the nominee for ambassador to Hungary and a producer of "The Bold and the Beautiful" soap opera, raised or contributed about $800,000 to Obama in the last election. She stammered her way through testimony about U.S. strategic interests in the country, which is the focus of growing international alarm over far-right lawmakers' attitude toward Jews and other minorities. "I have no more questions for this incredibly highly qualified group of nominees," McCain said sarcastically during the hearing for several of the nominees.
The stumbles have highlighted the perils of rewarding well-heeled donors and well-connected politicos with plum overseas assignments and have provided political fodder for Republicans eager to attack the White House. The cases also underscore how a president who WaPo thinks once infuriated donors by denying them perks has now come into line with his predecessors, doling out prominent diplomatic jobs by the dozens to supporters.
For several decades, presidents have generally followed a "70-30" rule when it comes to such appointments, nominating career foreign service officers for roughly 70 percent of U.S. missions abroad and reserving the rest for political allies. But the 30% aren't supposed to be stoopid. See Norway, above.
Political appointees account for 37 percent of the ambassadorships filled so far during Obama's tenure, according to the American Foreign Service Association. Well, that's not so bad.
The rate for his second term so far stands at 53 percent, the group said. OK, so that's pretty bad. We need a 'Lame Duck' foto.
Obama administration officials say the number has been inflated by a surge of second-term openings in posts typically given to non-diplomats. The rate is sure to fall in coming months, they said. Shirley, it'll be quite low once all the posts are filled.
However Even then, it's a notable turnaround from Obama's first year in office, when he gave only about 10 percent of ambassadorships to political donors -- angering many of those who were left out. Ya s'pose they reminded Champ about The Chicago Way, and promised to hold off their 'pay' until they got to 'play'?
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The stumbles have highlighted the perils of rewarding well-heeled donors and well-connected politicos with plum overseas assignments and have provided political fodder for Republicans eager to attack the White House. The cases also underscore how a president who 
