GOP pals could be 2012 rivals

Haley Barbour & Mitch Daniels: GOP Friends Could Emerge Foes In 2012
Politico: Should both Haley Barbour and Mitch Daniels seek the White House in 2012, Americans would glimpse a rare sight in the annals of Presidential Campaigns: actual friends competing against one another for the nomination. Read the whole story: Politico Get HuffPost Politics On Twitter and Facebook! Subscribe to the HuffPost Hill newsletter! Know something we don't? E-mail us at [email protected] ...

Will Friends Become Rivals in 2012?
"Should both Haley Barbour and Mitch Daniels seek the White House in 2012, Americans would glimpse a rare sight in the annals of Presidential Campaigns: actual friends competing against one another for the nomination," Politico reports. "Not 'friends' in the political sense, the way fellow senators disingenuously refer to one another during floor debate, but pals who truly like each other, and have a longstanding, personal relationship. It's a non-transactional friendship that's uncommon in the...

Jailed Miss. sisters freed with 1 condition
FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2010 photograph taken during a march in Jackson,... JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A South Dakota Governor once commuted the sentences of 36 criminals—on the condition they leave his state. In Florida, a convict was told in the 1990s to move to Maryland in order to be set free. Governors granting early releases have sometimes imposed unusual conditions. But as far as anyone can tell, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour may be the first to require an inmate to give up a kidney to...

'Conditioned on' kidney donation, sisters' prison release prompts ethics debate
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) has announced that he will grant an early release from Prison to two sisters serving unusually long sentences for armed Robbery. This Story 'Conditioned on' kidney donation, sisters' Prison release prompts ethics debate Mississippi Gov. Barbour backtracks on racial remarks Capehart: Haley Barbour's race blinders Gladys and Jamie Scott have each served 16 years of life sentences. Their case had become a cause celebre among Civil Rights groups, including the N...

Sister must donate kidney to get out of US jail
Stumble This! Chicago — A Mississippi woman must donate her kidney to her sister as a condition for their early release from jail after serving 16 years for an armed Robbery that netted 11 dollars. Jaime and Gladys Scott became symbols of the heavy-handed sentences handed to African Americans and the influential Civil Rights group NAACP engaged in a long-standing campaign to secure their release. The two sisters - who insist they were wrongfully convicted - were handed two life sentences ...

Right Turn: More on imperfect candidates
Readers chimed in to inquire about some names I did not discuss yesterday in analyzing the potential 2012 Republican Candidates' weaknesses. John Thune is an engaging, solid conservative who was one of John McCain's better surrogates during the 2008 Presidential Campaign. But, like Tim Pawlenty, his challenge is to define and distinguish himself from the crowd. In a profile this fall Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard wrote, " He has virtually no national profile. He worked briefly as ...

Mitch Daniels: Truce Directed at Liberals, Not for Social Conservatives
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has given yet another interview in which he talks about a Social Issues truce he put forward this summer that upset pro-life Conservatives. The interview with WANE follows on the one he gave the Indianapolis Star in which he appeared to shift position and suggest the truce was meant for liberals, not social conservatives concerned about issues like Abortion. In the Star interview, Daniels suggested the truce was meant for liberal Activists like those who favored re...

A Truce In Culture Wars
Back in June, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, whom many think would be an attractive 2012 Presidential Candidate, was quoted by Andrew Ferguson in The Weekly Standard as saying the next president "would have to call a truce on the so-called Social Issues." That quickly attracted some harsh criticism from opponents of Abortion and same-sex marriage. But Daniels has declined to back down, telling the Indianapolis Star the other day that such issues are secondary to The Economy and Foreign Policy. I...

Politics Scene
UNIONS Indiana GOP leaders eye right-to-work law Indianapolis | Bills filed in the Indiana House that would ban workers from being required to pay union dues could spark a debate so divisive that Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels wants to avoid the issue. The so-called right-to-work Legislation has been filed by Republicans who gained a House majority in the November election. Labor Committee Chairman Doug Gutwein of Francesville says he supports such a law, but doesn't know yet whether the commi...

Indiana Shakers
I would've sworn I felt the wee rumble of a distant Earthquake this morning. And so I did. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake struck just before 8 a.m. ET and was three miles deep. The USGS initially reported that the quake had registered a 4.2 magnitude, but later revised the estimate. Its Epicenter was located about 15 miles east-southeast of Kokomo, and 50 miles north of Indianapolis.We're about 100 miles north of there, and it was reportedly felt in four states beyond Indiana...

GOP pals could be 2012 rivals
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Barbour's freeing of Mississippi women, any political implications?
Domenico Montanaro writes: Haley Barbour , the Mississippi Governor mulling a 2012 Republican presidential run, will issue the early release of two sisters serving life sentences in his state for armed Robbery. The move came after the NAACP mounted a national campaign to free the women, who are black. About $11 was stolen off the man robbed, according to the Washington Post and the women have served 16 years each of those life sentences so far. Three men also involved served just three years of ...

Kidney parole condition raises ethical questions
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A debate is unfolding over an unusual offer from Mississippi’s Governor: He will free two sisters imprisoned for an $11 armed Robbery, but one woman’s release requires her to donate her kidney to the other. The condition is alarming some experts, who have raised legal and ethical questions. Among them: If it turns out the sisters aren’t a good tissue match, does that mean the healthy one goes back to jail? Gov. Haley Barbour’s decision to suspe...

Chris Christie, Mike Bloomberg, Haley Barbour have a very bad December
It has been a tough December for media darlings in American politics. Let’s give three examples: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) faces a barrage of criticism from New Jersey voters for choosing to continue vacationing in sunny Florida while voters were deluged with snow, ice and blizzard. His Republican lieutenant Governor was in Mexico during the blizzard, visiting an ill relative. No fault in that, but the governor should have been at his desk de

Kidney parole condition raises ethical questions
FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2010 photograph taken during a march in Jackson,... JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A debate is unfolding over an unusual offer from Mississippi's Governor: He will free two sisters imprisoned for an $11 armed Robbery, but one woman's release requires her to donate her kidney to the other. The condition is alarming some experts, who have raised legal and ethical questions. Among them: If it turns out the sisters aren't a good tissue match, does that mean the healthy one goes back...

Sister must donate kidney to get out of US jail
A Mississippi woman must donate her kidney to her sister as a condition for their early release from jail after serving 16 years for an armed Robbery that netted 11 dollars. Jaime and Gladys Scott became symbols of the heavy-handed sentences handed to African Americans and the influential civil rights group NAACP engaged in a long-standing campaign to secure their release. The two sisters - who insist they were wrongfully convicted - were handed two life sentences for acting as accomplices and...

Sister's promise to donate kidney leads to release of armed robbers
For 16 years, sisters Jamie and Gladys Scott have shared a life behind bars for their part in an $11 armed Robbery. To share freedom, they must also share a kidney. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour suspended the sisters' life sentences on Wednesday, but 36-year-old Gladys Scott's release is contingent on her giving a kidney to Jamie, her 38-year-old sister, who requires daily Dialysis. The sisters were conv ADVERTISEMENT icted in 1994 of leading two men into an ambush in Mississippi the year...

NAACP: Sisters' release makes Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour 'shining example'
Just last week, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was in hot water over his apparent approval of the all-white Citizens Council in the 1960s. But Thursday the NAACP lauded him for suspending the life sentences of two black sisters....

2012 Watch: Don't Count the 'Unknowns' Out
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Jen Rubin makes the sensible case that, because all the potential GOP Presidential Candidates have weaknesses, a newcomer could have a real opening in the 2012 Presidential Election. Among others, Rubin suggests that Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, and Mike Pence might have a chance. It's the case now in politics that one can become famous very quickly. With cable TV, the Internet, and various other lightning fast means for exchanging in...

Most Productive Congress is Actually the Most Spendthrift
Remember that “net Spending Cut” the president kept talking about a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away when he was a mere Presidential Candidate (i.e., the 2008 Presidential Campaign)?  Take note of how Tea Party critics fault us for not more aggressively challenging the spending excessed of the Bush Era? Well, seems like such folks have some explaining to do.  Via Instapundit, we learn that the “111th Congress Created More National Debt Than First 100 Combined“:...

Wael Nawara: Amr Moussa May be Offering a Safe Exit for the Egyptian Regime
Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the Arab League (AL), has made a surprising statement regarding his intentions to run as a Candidate in Egypt's presidential race. "Every qualified Egyptian has the right to run for the presidency", said Moussa at an AL conference in Cairo on Monday. "As for my candidacy, I shall address it in due time," Moussa added. Moussa's short announcement, seemingly meant to keep his options open, may indeed be carrying a coded message for Mubarak himself; "I am here if ...

Illness delays ex-IURC attorney's ethics hearing
A petition filed with the state says former Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission Chairman David Lott Hardy has been hospitalized, prompting a delayed ethics hearing for a former commission attorney. The Indianapolis Star reports former commission General Counsel and administrative law judge Scott Storms was due to appear before the State Ethics Commission on Jan. 13, but his attorney asked for the delay because Hardy's Hospitalization made him unavailable for deposition. Storms' hearing is now ...

The Fall and Rise of the Greatest Campaign Book
Politico runs a must-read piece on What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer, which "is now widely considered the greatest modern Presidential Campaign book." However, the book initially "received mediocre reviews and sales fizzled. Cramer, after a low period, turned to writing about Baseball. The best interpreter of American politicians never wrote another word about politics. He still owes Random House more than $200,000 of his advance." "In the meantime, What It Takes had been passed -- mostly sec...

Coming Attractions for 2011
My contribution to the 2011 NRO Predictions: President Obama’s Job Approval numbers neither bounce back nor plummet, but meander along in the current meh-to-disappointing range, mirroring an economy that is neither recovering strongly nor slipping much further. One of Oprah Winfrey’s first interviews on her new network, OWN, will feature the President and First Lady. Buzz about Joe Biden’s departure from the ticket grows, as he becomes more prominent in White House decision m...

Something Arkansas Ought To Do
Mississippi…yes, Mississippi…will become the first state to teach Civil Rights history in all grades.  If that’s not a sign that progress can happen anywhere, I don’t know what is. Soon, Civil Rights lessons be will required for Students from kindergarten to 12th grade all across Mississippi. A civil rights/Human Rights Curriculum becomes mandatory in all Public Schools for the 2011-2012 school year, five years after Gov. Haley Barbour signed the requirement into law...