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WASHINGTON — Democrats in Congress are using the recent shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado to once again put pressure on Republicans to disband a select committee tasked with investigating the women's health organization.
Returning to Washington after Thanksgiving break on Monday, some Democrats more forcefully called for ending the committee, which was formed by House Republicans after the release of a series of undercover videos accusing Planned Parenthood of selling aborted fetuses’ organs and tissues. Democrats also referred to the shooting on Friday, which killed three people, as an act of terror — language that abortion rights supporters have pushed lawmakers to use to suggest that a network of anti-abortion groups and advocates have helped fuel violence.
"Since the attacks on Planned Parenthood, there's been this uptick in attacks on clinics — vandalism and attempted arson and now three murders," said Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a Democratic member of the select committee who also called the shooting a "terrorist attack" in an interview with BuzzFeed News.
"I don't know what they want," she said. "I don't know what they're looking for."
Schakowsky said the Democratic members of select committee will meet Tuesday to come up with a broader plan moving forward on how to counter Republicans on the issue. "We're absolutely planning a strategy," she said, adding that they will be ready to grill Republicans on funding for the committee "and other mechanics" if they don't disband the group.
In a speech on the Senate floor Monday afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid also called for an end to committee in the aftermath of the shooting, which he described as an act of "domestic terrorism."
"Last summer, a right-wing group began releasing a series of heavily edited videos with unsubstantiated allegations," Reid said. "And since that time, Republicans in Congress have made it their mission to defund Planned Parenthood, which would irreparably damage this health provider’s care."
The Nevada Democrat continued: "Republicans are also leading politically-motivated investigations into Planned Parenthood... Republicans should give up before they match the millions of dollars they’ve wasted on the so-called Benghazi Select Committee — another politically motivated and ultimately fruitless attack."
The comments on Monday come as some Democrats have been reluctant to politicize the shooting without law enforcement first establishing a clear motive.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, who released a statement over the weekend urging Speaker Paul Ryan to disband the Planned Parenthood committee, said the motive of the shooter is irrelevant because attacks on abortion providers are not new and lawmakers have to be careful about targeting such groups.
"The shooter whether he mentioned ['baby parts'] or not, we've seen killings of doctors who provide abortions," Boxer told BuzzFeed News.
The full Planned Parenthood Select Committee has yet to meet and is currently in the process of hiring staff, said Rep. Diane Black, a Republican member appointed to the committee, in an interview.
The Tennessee Republican criticized Democrats for connecting Republicans' efforts to defund and investigate Planned Parenthood to the Colorado shooting.
"It's irresponsible to make that connection," she said. "This gentlemen was deranged and committed a heinous activity. This has nothing to do with the select committee or pro-life movement. The pro-life moment is a compassionate movement that cares about the dignity of life of the born and unborn. And to connect those two is total irresponsible behavior."
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At the height of the 2012 Republican primary — four years after losing her first campaign on insufficient caucus organizing, and two before launching her second committed to rectifying that mistake — Hillary Clinton still felt disdain for the voting process known as caucusing.
In an email, sent on Jan. 22, 2012 and made public on Monday, Clinton described the caucuses as "creatures of the parties' extremes."
The candidate and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, have long expressed private frustration with the caucus process. In caucus states, including crucial early states such as Iowa and Nevada, voters cannot simply cast a ballot: They're asked to attend a caucus site at a designated time and place and express their preference for a candidate in an extended group process.
In the email, sent to longtime adviser Sidney Blumenthal, Clinton handicapped the GOP race in Florida: If Mitt Romney ("Mittens") can't beat Newt Gingrich ("Grinch"), Clinton ventures, "there will be pressure on state Republican parties to open or liberalize ballot access especially in the caucuses, which as we know are creatures of the parties' extremes."
A technical upgrade caused the popular food- and activity-tracking app and website to go glitchy on Thanksgiving, of all days.
Jennifer Hudson speaks at the opening of The Weight Watchers Jennifer Hudson Center in 2011 in Chicago.
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Weight Watchers has a loyal digital following: About 1.5 million people pay to use the weight-loss program's website and app. And on Thursday — Thanksgiving — the company introduced an upgrade that included a new design and streamlined features.
But the website and app have since been glitchy to the point of being unusable, according to customers who are unhappy that the service went down during arguably the most food-centric time of year.
Users normally log their food and exercise in the program, which then calculates points (rather than calories) and tells people how many points they've used on a given day and how many they have left. Amber Kowalski, a 25-year-old from Fishkill, New York, who's been a paying subscriber at $45 a month since March, told BuzzFeed News that the app has been deleting her entries, recording them multiple times, or entering them incorrectly.
"I literally depend on it for everything," Kowalski said. "Anything that goes in my mouth or I think about eating, I do. When you're doing this it literally is a lifestyle change and you need to depend on this. The biggest thing that people are upset about is it's the holiday season. Thanksgiving is when it was down — that's one of the biggest times of the year. It's not good for someone trying to diet or eat better, and you couldn't even keep track of what you're eating."
XXIII. That Flatterers Should Be Shunned
ONE error into which Princes, unless very prudent or very fortunate in their choice of friends, are apt to fall, is of so great importance that I must not pass it over. I mean in respect of flatterers. These abound in Courts, because men take such pleasure in their own concerns, and so deceive themselves with regard to them, that they can hardly escape this plague; while even in the effort to escape it there is risk of their incurring contempt.
For there is no way to guard against flattery but by letting it be seen that you take no offense in hearing the truth: but when every one is free to tell you the truth respect falls short. Wherefore a prudent Prince should follow a middle course, by choosing certain discreet men from among his subjects, and allowing them alone free leave to speak their minds on any matter on which he asks their opinion, and on none other. But he ought to ask their opinion on everything, and after hearing what they have to say, should reflect and judge for himself. And with these counsellors collectively, and with each of them separately, his bearing should be such, that each and all of them may know that the more freely they declare their thoughts the better they will be liked. Besides these, the Prince should hearken to no others, but should follow the course determined on, and afterwards adhere firmly to his resolves. Whoever acts otherwise is either undone by flatterers, or from continually vacillating as opinions vary, comes to be held in light esteem.
With reference to this matter, I shall cite a recent instance. Father Luke, who is attached to the Court of the present Emperor Maximilian, in speaking of his Majesty told me, that he seeks advice from none, yet never has his own way; and this from his following a course contrary to that above recommended. For being of a secret disposition, he never discloses his intentions to any, nor asks their opinion; and it is only when his plans are to be carried out that they begin to be discovered and known, and at the same time they begin to be thwarted by those he has about him, when he being facile gives way. Hence it happens that what he does one day, he undoes the next; that his wishes and designs are never fully ascertained; and that it is impossible to build on his resolves.
A Prince, therefore, ought always to take counsel, but at such times and reasons only as he himself pleases, and not when it pleases others; nay, he should discourage every one from obtruding advice on matters on which it is not sought. But he should be free in asking advice, and afterwards as regards the matters on which he has asked it, a patient hearer of the truth, and even displeased should he perceive that any one, from whatever motive, keeps it back.
But those who think that every Prince who has a name for prudence owes it to the wise counsellors he has around him, and not to any merit of his own, are certainly mistaken; since it is an unerring rule and of universal application that a Prince who is not wise himself cannot be well advised by others, unless by chance he surrender himself to be wholly governed by some one adviser who happens to be supremely prudent; in which case he may, indeed, be well advised; but not for long, since such an adviser will soon deprive him of his Government. If he listen to a multitude of advisers, the Prince who is not wise will never have consistent counsels, nor will he know of himself how to reconcile them. Each of his counsellors will study his own advantage, and the Prince will be unable to detect or correct them. Nor could it well be otherwise, for men will always grow rogues on your hands unless they find themselves under a necessity to be honest.
Hence it follows that good counsels, whencesoever they come, have their origin in the prudence of the Prince, and not the prudence of the Prince in wise counsels.
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“If Trump is the nominee, we lose – as Republicans, we lose the Senate, we lose most of the House, and we lose the presidency.”
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Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu says that Republicans will "lose everything" if they elect Donald Trump as their nominee.
Asked in an interview with Steve Malzberg of Newsmax TV why he thought the New Hampshire Union Leader had given its highly-coveted endorsement to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie last week, Sununu said, "I think they want to influence this process, and I think they're looking at the Trump phenomena, and really understanding how disastrous it is."
"Look, let me give a context to what's happening with Trump," continued Sununu. "People want to get policies changed – I assume that even the Trump supporters want this country to move in a different direction. If Trump is the nominee, we lose – as Republicans, we lose the Senate, we lose most of the House, and we lose the presidency."
"It is nice to go for somebody that has got hot rhetoric that makes you feel good, but this is someone who has turned off eighty percent of America," he added. "He may have the support of twenty-five percent of the Republicans, which is about twelve percent of America, but eighty percent of America really does not like this man."
Sununu also served as chief of staff to President George H.W. Bush. His son, who is also named John, is the chairman Ohio Gov. John Kasich's New Hampshire campaign.
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