CenterLine 1/16: CenterLine: Bruuuuuuuuce, Tea Party denied, and an awesome personality quiz
Welcome to this week's CenterLine. Send your favorite reads, videos, tweets and news to cfindlay@centristproject.org if you'd like to help us write next week's issue.
Too bad, so sad: The score for yesterday's bipartisan spending bill? Political bravery 1, far-Right activists 0. The NYT's Jonathan Weisman says the vote showed both parties "shrugging off the angry threats of Tea Party activists and other conservative groups whose power has ebbed as Congress has moved toward fiscal cooperation." Weisman gets some great quotes from Republican leaders who stood up against bullying by Club for Growth and Heritage Foundation:
Awww, snap! Christie's musical idol, Bruce Springsteen, does this.
Even Congress Hates Congress (h/t Ian T. Davidson): BuzzFeed has a great piece today linking the wave of House retirements to partisan gridlock.
Um ....... now that y'all have more time on your hands, might we suggest joining The Centrist Project?
What We're Reading: Getting Congress to Yes: I had lunch yesterday with Jeff Burnam, visiting professor of American Government at Georgetown, who was part of the American Political Science Association's recent task force report on Negotiating Agreements in Politics. The task force examined explores negotiation myopia vs deliberative negotiating — where both sides focus on the positive-sum possibilities (rather than getting bogged down by zero-sum conflicts). The Clean Air Act, for example.
Today's contest: Take the Time political personality quiz, and post your score on our Facebook page. We'll send one random winner an author-signed copy of "The Centrist Manifesto."
Top Tweets
@RockefellerFdn: A Chief Resilience Officer is... http://ow.ly/sBY1B #ResilientCities
@TheFix: Want to see what the electoral map will look like in 2060? http://ow.ly/sEzuB
@ChuckTodd: Great new word alert! MT @cmarinucci Could an emerging crop of "conservatarian" Republicans be CA GOP best hope? http://ow.ly/sEDSk
That's all for today. Thanks, and see you next week.
Christie
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