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"content": "\u003ctable>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\">\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201108020900\">Radio segment, message board\u003c/a>: Obama, the debt ceiling, and the left\u003c/em>\u003c/a> - will liberal dissatisfaction over the compromise pose a political problem for the president? \u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/capitoldome2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/capitoldome2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"capitoldome\" width=\"125\" height=\"161\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35911\">\u003c/a>Here's the final \u003ca href=\"http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll690.xml\">\u003cstrong>roll call\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> from yesterday's House vote on raising the debt ceiling while mandating about $2 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years, legislation that many liberals consider a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/opinion/the-president-surrenders-on-debt-ceiling.html\">capitulation\u003c/a> to Republican priorities. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From our neck of the woods:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Yes votes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Pelosi\u003cbr>\nAnna Eshoo (\u003ca href=\"http://eshoo.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1039:rep-eshoo-statement-on-debt-ceiling-vote-washington-dc-today-rep-anna-g-eshoo-d-palo-alto-released-the-following-statement-after-voting-for-passage-of-s365-the-budget-control-act-of-2011-legislation-to-raise-the-debt-ceiling-of-the-united-sta&catid=51:2011-press-releases\">statement\u003c/a>)\u003cbr>\nJohn Garamendi (\u003ca href=\"http://garamendi.house.gov/2011/08/congressman-garamendi-votes-for-compromise-that-at-minimum-protects-social-security-medicare-medicai.shtml\">statement\u003c/a>)\u003cbr>\nJackie Speier (\u003ca href=\"http://speier.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=435:speier-statement-on-debt-bill&catid=1:press-releases&Itemid=14\">statement\u003c/a>)\u003cbr>\nMike Thompson (\u003ca href=\"http://mikethompson.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=254770\">statement\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>No votes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sam Farr (\u003ca href=\"http://www.farr.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=836:statement-house-passage-of-debt-ceiling-deal&catid=35:2011-press-releases\">statement\u003c/a>)\u003cbr>\nMike Honda (\u003ca href=\"http://honda.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1094:debt-ceiling-crisis-politically-engineered&catid=16:blog-posts&Itemid=357\">earlier statement\u003c/a>)\u003cbr>\nBarbara Lee (\u003ca href=\"http://lee.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=57§iontree=35,57&itemid=2406\">statement\u003c/a>)\u003cbr>\nZoe Lofgren (\u003ca href=\"http://lofgren.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=648&Itemid=125\">earlier statement\u003c/a>)\u003cbr>\nDoris Matsui (\u003ca href=\"http://matsui.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3096&Itemid=120\">statement\u003c/a>)\u003cbr>\nJerry McNerney (\u003ca href=\"http://mcnerney.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=569&Itemid=36\">statement\u003c/a>)\u003cbr>\nGeorge Miller (\u003ca href=\"http://georgemiller.house.gov/2011/08/miller-statement-on-debt-ceiling-vote.shtml\">statement\u003c/a>)\u003cbr>\nPete Stark (\u003ca href=\"http://www.stark.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2270:floor-statement-opposing-the-debt-deal&catid=82:press-releases-2011&Itemid=62\">statement\u003c/a>)\u003cbr>\nLynn Woolsey (\u003ca href=\"http://woolsey.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=18§iontree=6,18&itemid=1073\">statement\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carolyn Lochhead in the Chronicle's \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=94395\">\u003cstrong>Politics Blog\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> reported yesterday on Pelosi's role in lining up both Democratic votes and Republican concessions in the final deal. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Top White House economic adviser Gene Sperling said Pelosi won significant concessions, including protecting Medicare providers from a possible four percent cut should a super committee fail to agree on $1.5 trillion in further cuts to entitlements and tax increases by Nov. 23, just in time for Thanksgiving. At that point, programs would be cut across the board. Pelosi also won a 50/50 split on cuts to defense and domestic programs in the event that across-the-board cuts are triggered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelosi also insisted that there be no cuts to the beneficiaries of any entitlement programs. All the cuts would occur to hospitals and doctors...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liberals are outraged over the deal, but have reasons to support it. One key is Pelosi's win of a 50/50 defense to domestic spending-cut ratio if the super committee deadlock. Republicans would face the choice of preserving corporate tax subsidies for such things as ethanol or submitting to automatic spending cuts that slash defense equally with domestic programs.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nRespected polling and political analyst Nate Silver of the Times' \u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/the-fine-print-on-the-debt-deal/\">\u003cstrong>FiveThirtyEight blog\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> had a similar take yesterday on the deal component that calls for defense cuts:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>(B)y any reasonable standard, this deal was a “win” for Republicans on the policy merits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But given that Democrats were willing to accede to the constraints demanded by Republicans, they were able to exert a lot of control over the substance of the cuts. In particular, the first round of cuts will include $350 billion in defense savings, while the second round would include between $500 and $600 billion in defense cuts if no bipartisan agreement is reached...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a Democrat and you must accede to $1.5 trillion in cuts — and that’s literally the situation that Democrats will find themselves in if the deal passes through Congress — it’s going to be hard to do better than this $1.5 trillion in cuts. They are very heavily loaded with defense cuts, while containing few changes to entitlement programs or to programs which benefit the poor.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Today, however, \u003ca href=\"http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/what-the-white-house-left-on-the-table/\">\u003cstrong>Silver writes\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> that when taking into account who voted for and against the bill yesterday, the terms of the deal could have shifted \"tangibly toward the left\" while still managing to get it passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Specifically, it seems likely that Mr. Obama could have gotten an extension of the payroll tax cut included in the bill, or unemployment benefits, either of which would have had a stimulative effect...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that payroll tax cut, the deal becomes a much easier sell to Democrats — and perhaps also to swing voters, particularly given that nobody spent much time during this debate talking about jobs. Plus, it would have improved growth in 2012 and, depending on how literally you take the economic models, improved Mr. Obama’s re-election chances.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Another take: Liberal blogger and commentator \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/08/01/debt_ceiling/index.html\">\u003cstrong>Glenn Greenwald\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> in Salon argues that the narrative of Obama as a weak negotiator is misplaced, and that he actually desired the cuts that were in the bill:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It appears to be true that the President wanted tax revenues to be part of this deal. But it is absolutely false that he did not want these brutal budget cuts and was simply forced -- either by his own strategic \"blunders\" or the \"weakness\" of his office -- into accepting them. 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"content": "\u003cp>(Bay City News Service) A man who gained fame when he was fired from his job as Santa Claus at Macy’s Union Square last year for telling off-color jokes and then rehired to preside over a local toy drive has died. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Toomey was found dead in his room at a Market Street residential hotel today, said Nick Bovis, owner of Lefty O’Doul’s. Police said the 69-year-old was found by neighbors at 2:25 p.m. The cause was not immediately known. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all really emotional here,” said Bovis, who hired Toomey as his in-house Santa following his famous falling-out with Macy’s. “He was a great person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toomey had been playing Santa Claus at Macy’s for around 20 years when he was fired. The incident drew nationwide attention including a television appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his stint at Lefty O’Doul’s, Toomey posed for photos in a specially constructed North Pole Winter Wonderland at $10 a shot to raise money for the Firefighters Toy Program. His presence gave the toy drive and fundraising program a major boost, Bovis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The toy drive, which had set a goal of collecting 10,000 toys, instead collected around 15,000. The photos raised around $10,000, which was also donated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are 12,000 kids in San Francisco that wouldn’t have had a Christmas without Santa John last year,” said publicist Lee Houskeeper, who works with Lefty O’Doul’s. “We’re just devastated by his passing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Houskeeper said Bovis had helped Toomey get medical care for respiratory issues when he hired him at Lefty’s, but that “Santa John” would work himself into exhaustion if allowed to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would sit there until the last child left,” Houskeeper said. “I would have to come down and tell them to stop because he would work until he was really tired.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toomey had a lifetime contract to return to Lefty O’Doul’s as Santa Claus and was looking forward to this Christmas, Houskeeper said. He said the restaurant has no plans to replace him because he was “irreplaceable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Santa Claus, Toomey’s age remains somewhat in doubt. On his job application, Bovis said Toomey had written under “age”: “My tongue is slightly older than my teeth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The application, after a bit of a hunt, was found filed away under “Kris Kringle.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/29/BACO1KH0PU.DTL\">More at the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2010/12/10/the-san-francisco-santa-controversy/\">\u003cstrong>Video: Watch John Toomey tell jokes on The Tonight Show\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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