Dems want debate question barred

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Politico:

 

Dems want debate question barred

By TOMER OVADIA | 8/14/12 4:01 PM EDT

 

Some Democratic lawmakers want to make sure that one question does not get asked at the upcoming first presidential debate - about Simpson-Bowles.

Three Democratic House members objected Tuesday to a request by four senators that President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney be asked which of the commission’s proposals to address the debt they support. The Democrats said such a question would force “candidates to choose solutions from one menu of options.”

In the original letter, Sens. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Joe Lieberman, (I-Conn.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) asked the debate commission to devote “specific and extensive attention to the question of how the candidates would get our nation’s fiscal house in order read more

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79718.html#ixzz23YgQpoJx

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House Dems: It’s totally unfair to have a debate question on the deficit commission Obama created and then ignored

 

posted at 10:01 am on August 15, 2012 by Ed Morrissey

 

Man, I love the smell of panic in the morning … at least when it comes from the other side:

Some Democratic lawmakers want to make sure that one question does not get asked at the upcoming first presidential debate – about Simpson-Bowles.

Three Democratic House members objected Tuesday to a request by four senators that President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney be asked which of the commission’s proposals to address the debt they support. The Democrats said such a question would force “candidates to choose solutions from one menu of options.” …

But that caused Reps. Mike Honda (D-Calif.), Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) to cry foul, writing in their own letter to the debate commission on Tuesday that although the Simpson-Bowles commission’s plan “may contain proposals helpful to our recovery…to hold it out as the only pathway to fiscal responsibility and economic success is foolish and wrong.”

“We urge the [Debate] Commission to fight any effort to unnecessarily narrow such an important debate by placing disproportionate attention on one set of proposals over another,” they wrote, adding that such a question would “cheapen the debate” and “thwart the candidates’ ability to explain alternative proposals.”

On the face of it, this is a ridiculous assertion. Asking one question about read more http://hotair.com/archives/2012/08/15/house-dems-its-totally-unfair-to-have-a-debate-question-on-obamas-deficit-commission-which-he-ignored/

[Pepper]

Let's not talk about Obama's record either. Let's focused on the worst depression since Noah and how a fool useful Leftist tool from Kenya Pakistan Indonesia Hawaii saved us all.

[pollyannaish]

Bwahahahahaha! This is rich.

[clearvision]

Why are Senate critters even involved in the Presidential debates?

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Brady Campaign Presses Jim Lehrer To Ask About Gun Violence In Presidential Debate

 

(84) Comments | Posted August 13, 2012 | 5:20 PM

WASHINGTON -- The Brady Campaign is putting pressure on PBS NewsHour host Jim Lehrer to ask about gun violence when he leads the first presidential debate on Oct. 3.

In a petition launched Monday, the gun control group says Lehrer should ask President Barack Obama and Republican presumptive presidential nominee...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/13/brady-campaign-gun-violence_n_1773898.html