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January 30, 2012Gingrich: Establishment "Very Comfortable Presiding Over" Country's Decay
"They'll say and do virtually anything to keep the system alive, and I think they recognize that I'm a genuine outsider. I know a lot about Washington having served as Speaker. I have none of the establishment ties, and I will shake the system up. They don't want to be shaken up. They're very comfortable presiding over the decay as long as they get to keep playing their games," Newt Gingrich said on the CBS morning show today. 
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| Early Show - Monday January 30th, 2012 | Send to a Friend
Plouffe On SOTU: Happy To Have Referendum On What Obama's Done
"Well, listen, we're happy to have this [be] a referendum on what we've done," Obama senior adviser David Plouffe said on CBS this morning. "Let's remember we were in something that rivaled the Great Depression, and that wasn't just an accident. There were policies that caused it. So do you want to go back to those policies? Do you want to let Wall Street write its own rules, have your entire tax and economy polices skewed towards the wealthy and somehow hope magically that it 'trickles down'? There were policies that caused it, and people don't want to go back to that." Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Early Show - Tuesday January 24th, 2012 | Send to a Friend
Newt Gingrich: Obama Has "Failed" Blacks
"The original statement, however, was in the context of saying I would love to be invited by the NAACP to come to their convention, because the President has particularly failed to pay attention to the tremendous unemployment -- we've had 43% black teenage unemployment. That is a disaster, because it sets up a social pattern that's very hard for young people to go out and get jobs -- get into the job market," Newt Gingrich told CBS News today. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Early Show - Tuesday January 17th, 2012 | Send to a Friend
Michelle Obama: "I'm A 112-Percenter"
MICHELLE OBAMA: Absolutely. For my own sanity, I just have to turn it off. Because, you know, it just, I want to be happy in this job, because...
GAYLE KING, CBS News: Are you happy in this job?
MICHELLE OBAMA: I am so happy in this job. And I get a lot of good energy from the people that I meet. And that's how I measure what's happening. ... And I learned to do that on the campaign trail. I joked all the time that there would be two Iowas, right? There would be the Iowa experience that I would listen to on the news, which always had Barack losing, right? It was miserable. And nothing was gonna work. And then I'd go to Iowa and I felt a whole different experience, you know? People were open. They were, they were listening. They hadn't made decisions yet. They were curious. They were receptive. And I sort of thought, "Well, I'm living in this world. The real world." And measuring my responses to people by the responses they give to me. ... I do -- I've said this before about myself. I'm a 112 percenter. And I don't feel satisfied unless I'm putting in 112 percent into anything that I'm doing. Send to a Friend | Permalink
| Early Show - Monday January 16th, 2012 | Send to a Friend
CBS News: 11 More Solyndras In Obama Energy Program
CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson takes a look at 11 more Solyndras that were part of Obama's Energy program. Attkisson was one of the original reporters that uncovered the Solyndra scandal.
CBS News counted 12 clean energy companies that are having trouble after collectively being approved for more than $6.5 billion in federal assistance. Five have filed for bankruptcy: The junk bond-rated Beacon, Evergreen Solar, SpectraWatt, AES' subsidiary Eastern Energy and Solyndra.
According to CBS News, Beacon Power, a "green energy storage company," recieved $43 million from the government. Standard and Poor's had given the project a rating of "CCC-plus." Send to a Friend | Permalink
