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Hidden - AltLd - Jul/14
Elaine Budden - AltLd O/S - Jul/14 with Tristan Sherlock
d_meacher - AltLd rpt - 14/Sep/13 with Gill Byrne
Hidden - AltLd O/S - 30/Jul/13
Sam Simpson - AltLd O/S - 08/Sep/12 with Christian Turford, Stuart Air
alias dave - AltLd - 08/Sep/12 with Sam.EB
Chrismoore94 - AltLd - 14/Aug/12
the 5c+ pitches felt as hard as the 6a!Dawlish - AltLd O/S - 08/Aug/12 with mike
I led pitches 1,3,5 & 8. Jeanie led pitches 2,4,6 & 7.Stuart Macfarlane - AltLd O/S - 29/Jul/12 with Jeanie
Hidden - AltLd O/S - 25/Jul/12
jonnie3430 - AltLd O/S - 21/Jul/12 with Max
Davebryant - AltLd O/S - Jul/12 with Harry Tombs, Fran Cavanagh, Bryn Mays
brynmays - AltLd O/S - Jul/12 with Dave Bryant
lead p2,4,6,8lukehodson - AltLd O/S - 27/Jun/12 with Steve
Dont remember the date. Think I've done it twiceAdam Potter - AltLd O/S - 2012
M_Payne - AltLd - 2012
Excellent enjoyable climb including the soaking!Ian JL - Lead O/S - 21/Aug/11 with Beth Frampton
Excellent climb including the soakingIan JL - Lead O/S - 21/Aug/11 with Beth Frampton
Hidden - 2nd - 21/Aug/11
Hidden - AltLd - 19/Aug/11
JV led p1,3,5 & 8. I struggled with the moves round the rib on p1 & had to resort to aid. Crossing the stream on p.4 was "interesting" as it was in full floe due to the recent rain. We both got a good soaking but soon dried out in the hot sunshine. A memorable experience and a superb route! Pete Nugent - AltLd - 22/Jul/11 with John Venier
Ed and John on route as well.jshields - AltLd - 10/Jul/11 with Steve Ebbens
Put this to bed after retreating last year. Lead final "crux" pitch, and the waterfall crossing which is a unique experience. One of our team took a good soaking, and we saw a leader refusal from a party behind.Sankey - AltLd - 10/Jul/11 with Jon (Ed and Jonathan also on route)
1 fall seconding when foot slipped. Fun route, goes through a waterfall!dave657 - AltLd O/S - 11/Jun/11 with Alys
KittyKat - AltLd - Jun/11 with Tim Rogers
Superb route, great character. Second time on it, so I led the pitches I didn't lead last time (2,4,6,8) whicih includes the main waterfall pitch. Great in such hot weather.PenJD - AltLd rpt - 04/Aug/10 with Duz Walker
nigel pearson - AltLd - 28/Aug/09 with Yoko
great route with the waterfall pitch being enjoyable in the heat of the day!mulletcocktail2000 - Lead O/S - 04/Aug/08 with ally
d_meacher - AltLd O/S - 30/Jul/08 with Trisha Murphy
Trisha Murphy - AltLd O/S - 30/Jul/08 with d_meacher
Hidden - AltLd O/S - 25/Jul/08
PenJD - AltLd O/S - 25/Jul/08 with Dave Johnson
Cardi - AltLd - Jul/08 with Andy F
Eccentric - AltLd O/S - Jul/08 with Bunchuk
Hidden - Lead O/S - 2008
Hidden - AltLd rpt - 01/Jul/07
Lev - AltLd rpt - 01/Jul/07 with Heather Baker, Emma Ross
jimjimmyjimjim - AltLd O/S - 11/Jun/07
maybe_si - AltLd O/S - Jun/07 with jim
dan gibson - Lead O/S - 29/Jul/06 with karing
Hidden - AltLd O/S - 28/Jun/06
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Lev - AltLd rpt - 28/Jun/06 with Liz Davies, Emma Ross
Enchainment with snoopy and palavaral99 - AltLd rpt - Jun/06 with Luke Thomas
Led even numbered pitches, Cabey led the rest.Stuart Macfarlane - AltLd O/S - Aug/05 with Cabey
samwelli - AltLd O/S - 03/Aug/04 with Gregor Smith
Bolt Phobia - AltLd - Aug/04 with Wil Hurford
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"I think I just got a really good idea for a new song..."4 Reviews
A band forms and Chris and Amy are together...
Best Thing that You Never Had
(#) moocow 2006-11-09 05:55:58 PMpretty in punk
oh, now i'm a whore.
Author's responsegahh you guys are so smart!! you're not a whore. i told you -- amys just jealous!! :):)
Best Thing that You Never Had
(#) pixied_secrets 2006-11-09 07:38:06 PMwhat do i get if i guess the song?
pretty in punk? "i've seen your boyfriend and i don't think he treats you right." gah, i'm so tired...
Best Thing that You Never Had
(#) FrostedGlass 2006-11-10 04:45:26 AMSmooth chapter. Digging the pasha bossy Chris. Btw, there´s a ton of "Hey Joe" songs/ cover versions out there. (Just thought I´d mention that as you had the "Hey Chris" reference in the last chapter and a "Hey Joe" in here. Ok, who cares?) Patrick and Andy are supercoolnumberone in this fic! :)
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(#) FrostedGlass 2006-11-10 05:24:11 AMSome spamming: Forgot to say how cool Amy´s ringtone is. ;) I´ve got "Boombox Generaton" as my ringtone.
Author's responsehaha i have future freaks me out as mine. boombox generations a good one too though :)


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ALBANY, GA (WALB) – The raid started as a surprise check by State Probation Officers. About 6 AM When they went to 910 Riley Street, they found marijuana on a living room table.
They called in drug agents and gang officers who found more drugs hidden under the insulation in the attic.
Drug agents found a sawed off shotgun and assault type rifle during their raid, but it was two bullet proof vests that really concerned them. Officers worry the people in the house were preparing for a shoot out.
ADDU Commander Major Bill Berry said "The guns are always a concern, a threat. But the vests is another level. That's taking it to another level."
29 year old Frederick Green cursed and threatened our photographer as he was led to a Sheriff's transport van. His 32 year old brother Derrick Green and 23 year old Erica Nixon were all led out of the home in handcuffs, charged with probation violation and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.
Agents found a little less than one half pound of marijuana, wrapped in individual baggies for sale. They also seized $6100 in cash, and three small handguns. Gang unit Officers helped in the raid, but did not find any gang evidence.
Gang Unit Commander Captain Mack Green said "Anytime we get a gun off the streets, that's great. Today we got 3 off the streets, so that's a great thing."
There were three different teams of Probation Officers scheduled to make more than 40 checks across Dougherty County. Law enforcement says they are a good way to fight crime problems.
Berry said "We are going to continue to do this. As long as we've got problems with shooting and weapons floating around, we are going to continue to rattle doors and shake leaves."
Drug agents Friday afternoon were checking the guns to see if they were stolen, or if they had been used in any recent crimes. One of the pistols' serial numbers appeared to have been altered.
Several cars loaded with expensive rims and accessories were parked in the driveway.
Investigators are checking to see who owns them.
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Weekend box office: Bruce Willis proves he still has some life in him
The fifth installment in the Die Hard franchise opens at #1
Amazing to think that a quarter century has passed since the first "Die Hard" film was released in 1988. But who knew? Where some franchises seem to wither and die on the vine, 57-year-old Bruce Willis' fifth outing as former cop John McClane came out on top this weekend in the North American box office. The film didn't fare so well with the critics, but die-hard fans (gulp!) still came out in decent if not extraordinary numbers. And it looks like the film will do significantly better internationally.
Fox's "A Good Day to Die Hard" was the #1 film this weekend, earning $24.8M (at 3,553 theaters) despite its less-than-spectacular reviews. Last week's "Identity Thief," also panned by the critics, moved to #2, with $23.6M in ticket sales (at 3,165 theaters). The #3 film, "Safe Haven," based on yet another Nicholas Sparks novel, purloined $21.4M (at 3,223 theaters) from post-Valentine's Day couples while the Weinstein Company's first animated feature, "Escape from Planet Earth," was the #4 film, bringing in $15.9M from family audiences (at 3,288 theaters). "Warm Bodies," the zombie love story, fell to #5 in its third week, adding $8.8M (at 2,897 theaters) for a new domestic total of $50M.
Warner Bros.' new "Beautiful Creatures," the #6 film, failed to ignite a Twilight-like fervor, earning only $7.5M during its first weekend (at 2,950 theaters) while Soderbergh's "Side Effects" slipped to #7 with $6.2M (at 2,605 theaters). At #8, the popular "Silver Linings Playbook" (now in its 14th week!) made another $6M (at 2,202 theaters) for a current domestic gross of $98.3M. The much-derided "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters" held on at #9 with $3.5M (at 2,103 theaters) and a domestic total of $49.7M. Bringing up the rear, the once Oscar favorite "Zero Dark Thirty," now in its ninth week, earned $3M (at 1,522 theaters) for a new domestic total of $87.9M.
The upcoming Oscar weekend will see the wide release of only two new features: the sci-fi thriller "Dark Skies" with Keri Russell and Josh Hamilton as parents who are terrorized by conniving aliens, and the action pic "Snitch" with Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson as a father who is terrorized by a drug cartel…until he starts doing the terrorizing.


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The question of how to protect your phone can be a complicated one: depending on which model you call your own, a huge number of styles and variations may be available. You may even have reservations about covering up your phone at all, and worry that a case might add to its bulk or limit access to its features.
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Hard Shell Cases:
Hard shell cases were some of the earliest to be popularized, and represent some of the most basic, intuitive solutions to phone protection. As the name suggests, hard shells cases are typically made from hard plastic or polycarbonate, form-fitted to the phone's shape and designed to snap on and off easily. Most often, and particularly in the case of smart phones, hard cases are constructed as a single piece, designed specifically to shield the back of the phone. While hard cases provide effective protection from scratches and dents, they are less effective at preventing over-all shock-resistance in substantial falls or other impacts.
Gel Skin Cases:
Gel skin cases provide a thin, flexible layer of protection for those that hope to minimize bulk but still want a soft, comfortable exterior. Gel skins are offered in a wide range of colors and are, generally speaking, a highly affordable and easy way of distinguishing your phone from others, while keeping out dirt and dust and minimizing superficial wear.
Multi-Layer Cases:
Many of the most popular cases for today's phones are multi-layer cases--meaning, simply, that they're constructed from two or more materials applied atop one another. Most often, multi-layer cases combine hard and soft shell (or "skin") materials, in order to achieve the combined protective benefits of both styles. For this reason, multi-layer cases tend to offer the most complete form of protection, both against surface level damage like scratches, nicks, and cracks, and against harder impacts sustained from drops and falls.
Popular cases for smart phones often apply an impact-absorbing layer of silicone (or other flexible, rubber-like compound) atop a hard, polycarbonate interior. In certain instances, the layers are reversed; a hard shell on the exterior allows for easy removal from a pocket or bag; a soft exterior provides a more comfortable grip. Among the most durable offerings from major brands like Otterbox and Case-Mate are triple-layer cases, which, in certain cases, apply technology borrowed from the automobile industry, like the "crunch zone"--a protective interior air pocket, offering unparalleled impact absorption.
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Slider Cases:
Slider cases are generally subtle, low-profile cases made of hard, often transparent plastic, designed to slide easily in and out of pockets, holsters and the like. A number of models from brands like Skully Candy and Incase feature an interior layer of silicone or rubber to provide additional impact protection.
If the idea of altering the look and feeling of your phone itself is unappealing, a pouch might be an ideal way to keep it safe without making any direct cosmetic changes. Pouches come in a variety of materials (various fabrics, leather, and plastics) and span the full spectrum from subtle and discreet to loud and stylish. Of course, you'll have to remove your phone from the pouch to interact with it directly, but, for the many who now employ hands-free devices for tasks like talking and listening to music, that may not be much of a concern.
Additional variations:
Holsters: Cases with holsters can add another dimension of convenience to your cell phone use, particularly if you aren't fond of carrying your phone around in your pocket or in a bag. Many popular case designs from brands like Otterbox, Case-Mate, and Body Glove are offered with holstered variations.
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Many cases, particularly those designed for smart phones, don't feature included screen protectors. And indeed many smart phone users opt to go without them, so as not to put anything between them and their touch screens. But doing so poses the obvious danger of exposing the screen to scratches and cracking--damages that can significantly degrade both the appearance and functionality of your phone. For complete protection, cases complete with screen protectors offer the easiest and simplest solution. However, screen protectors are also widely available as individual items. You can learn more about them here (link).
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I think that there is a few things you should know
a) it is not that the Major comics companies pulled out of just the philly convention, Marvel and DC both had MAJOR presences at the show, Just no Booth. Hell Dan Didio, head of DC comics, was there on both Saturday and Sunday. The major companies on average drop $10,000 easy on a weekends con booth, when you consider that they fly out the talent and pay for hotels and all the give aways. I'd be surprised to see DC/Marvel/Dark Horse booths at any shows beside the major NY and SDCC shows.
b)The show that you saw was NOT optimal. The show had been mismanaged up until about 8 weeks ago, when someone new came on board at wizard and the pile of crap they;d scraped together was dumped in his lap, and the job he did, was pretty amazing.
C)The T-shirt booth was never a View askew booth, they were Graphiti, who made the view askew merchandise. It was never Kevin's booth to begin with.
d) The wristbands were also for the fans, and I for one think the wristbands, while not popular is a SMART idea. I myself have gotten up to 10-15 people into a show, with 2 badges. Sure they could have moved to the plastic wristbands which could stand up to some showering, but.. I think they are a GOOD idea.
The other points are all valid, the costume contest was a bit of a bust to tell you the truth, and both after parties kinda sucked ( or never happened, the VG expo was horrible but all but the Costume contest were things that were out of Wizards hands, I think they definitely learned a lesson this year.


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I'm feeling much much better! Been sleeping and eating all day, just resting and getting stronger by the day. Thank you to everyone who wished me well and prayed for my Jelly Bean. If it's not too much to ask, please still include this little boy in your prayers, just a quick little breath of blessing as he's only halfway through his journey out my tummy and I wish him all the love of the universe--yours!
So just a tiny update on the preparations for the little one! One sentence: We've just about depleted our savings for him! While we haven't bought anything for the nursery yet--no crib, no changing table, and definitely no toys like foosball tables --we did splurge on these:
Li'l blue Mazda 2 that Vince named Zoom Zoom. It's blue! Vince can't wait to take his son for a spin in the blue car he bought the little guy.
Eames RAR rocker. Its curved runners are made of really hard wood that our parquet floors--made of softer wood--get marked! Hence, the rug underneath it. I guess we ought to replace the floor. Sigh.
hospital bills. Another big sigh! Thanks so much for all your concern, folks. I do want to say that TMC wasn't such a disaster--I am, after all, better so they did their job well. It was just the pulmo and the health insurance that caused us pain.
Vince and I really wanted the house to be complete before the baby arrives. Everyone warned us that when the kid's here, it's all going to be about him so we kinda rushed to make sure we've gotten everything we wanted. And now everything's ready!
Well, we haven't started with the nursery. We figured we'd wait till we meet the little guy first. After all, what if we decorate his room baby blue, then he arrives and turns out to be a brooding no-nonsense creature of the brown and black sort? Yep, we'll wait till we meet him!
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Time to work hard for the money! A baby is coming!
Filed under: car, eames rocker, furniture, Jelly Bean, mazda 2, medical city, photos of me, Vince Sales, Vito Sales
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your son is always on my prayers-- along with a good job and to hug the prof i'm crushing on. :)ReplyDelete
btw, have you chosen a name for your son?
Glam Girl,thanks, it's more cute than nice =) It really looks like a toy car!ReplyDelete
Rachel, thanks!!! Nope, no name yet. We can't decide on anything!!!
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Carpe Diem does not mean 'fish of the day'
As I relaxed under the umbrella taking in the surrounding beach activities, the wind blew my current issue of InStyle magazine to a page of celebrities wearing skinny floral pants and jeans.
In particular, the pants on the right reminded me of a pair of pants I had packed for this week at the beach …… only I bought them in 2006… and they weren't skinny legs… and they were stretched out from 6 years of constant wear….
The gang was out fishing leaving me free to get my sewing machine out of the car and remake those pants in my suitcase.
Since the fabric was a cotton/lycra blend I knew it would be easy to work with. I pinned on each side of the leg. Beginning with the outer leg I tapered the seam from the hip to the ankle. I removed most of the excess from the inner leg seam especially through the seat of the pants.
Within an hour and a half my pants were transformed from dated to magazine-pretty.
No money, little time, new pants – perfect.
Seize the day, seize the moment, seize the present opportunity…
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On its own private beach, this hotel is in San Carlos, within the vicinity of San Carlos Golf Course. Regional attractions also include Delfinario Sonora.
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Spend the day playing on Paradiso Resort & Beach Club's private beach then return to dine at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants.
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At your hotel
Simply step outside to unwind on the hotel's beach. Cool off in one of the 2 outdoor swimming pools at Paradiso Resort & Beach Club, and enjoy summer activities like volleyball and horse riding/rentals.
Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. The property also offers a snack bar/deli. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. This beach hotel also offers a sauna and a fitness center. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Direct access to private beach
- Beach sun loungers
- Number of buildings/towers - 5
- 24-hour business center
- Sauna
- Front desk (limited hours)
- On private beach
- Spa services on site
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Fitness facilities
- Conference space
- Total number of rooms - 200
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Multilingual staff
- Number of floors - 3
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Shopping on site
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Tennis on site
- Bar/lounge
- Wedding services
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Snack bar/deli
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
- Number of restaurants - 2
- Free self parking
- Free Wi-Fi
Stay connected
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
Park your car
Free self parking
In your room
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Satellite TV service
- Climate control
- Access via exterior corridors
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Complimentary toiletries
- Shower only
- Desk
- In-room safe
Eat and drink
Sahuaro - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
La Carreta - This buffet restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
La Isla Snack Palapa - This bar serves light fare only.
2 outdoor swimming pools are on site along with a private beach and a sauna. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Snorkeling nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Basketball on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Hiking/biking trails on site
- Horse riding/rental on site
- Racquetball/squash on site
- Volleyball on site
- Massages
- Massages on beach
- Sauna in spa
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible path of travel
- Accessible parking
The fine print for Paradiso Resort & Beach Club
When you arrive
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-in time ends at 11 PM
When you leave
Check-out time is noon
How you can pay
Accepted at this hotel: MasterCard, Visa
Your pets
Pets allowed, Pet maximum weight in kg is 7
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
No rollaway/extra beds available
Debit cards not accepted
No elevators
- Breakfast fee: MXN 170 per person (approximately)
We should mention
Children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.


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One of the first Christmas songs David Archuleta sang was "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," a song he admits he has always hated.
The idea that his mother would ever kiss someone else besides him offended the preschooler's sensibility. "I was super-protective of my mom," Archuleta said. "Even when I was 3, no one could touch my mommy. I would sing that song in a jealous way."
So, when Archuleta headlines Abravanel Hall during his "My Kind of Christmas" tour, suffice to say that song will not be on the set list.
To read the rest of the story, go to: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/53087025-81/archuleta-christmas-songs-says.html.csp
Utah singer David Archuleta performs with Jeff LeBlanc.
When » Monday, Dec. 19, at 8 p.m.
Where » Abravanel Hall, 123 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City.
Tickets » $35 at ArtTix.org; the show is sold out as of Friday afternoon, but you call ArtTix to see if any seats have opened up


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MS. IFILL: Mitt Romney and Barack Obama square off. The primaries may not be over, but the general election has begun. We examine the battle lines tonight, on Washington Week.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: The Republicans running Congress right now have doubled down and proposed a budget so far to the right; it makes the Contract with America look like the New Deal.
FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY (R): What exactly does President Obama intend to do differently once he's no longer accountable to the voters?
MS. IFILL: Fighting words as the leading candidates for president visibly shift tactics. Mitt Romney is no longer running against Republicans.
SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ): Mitt Romney has already pivoted to the general election campaign. Whether Rick Santorum stays on or not is now basically irrelevant.
MS. IFILL: And President Obama, like all incumbents, is defending his own policies.
NARRATOR: Under President Obama, domestic oil production's at an eight-year high. So why is Big Oil attacking him? Because he's fighting to end their tax breaks.
MS. IFILL: The economy, the voters, the Supreme Court, the candidates, all caught up in one big political stew.
Covering the week: Jackie Calmes of the New York Times, John Dickerson of Slate Magazine and CBS News, Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post, and David Wessel of the Wall Street Journal.
ANNOUNCER: Award-winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens, from our nation's capital this is Washington Week with Gwen Ifill, produced in association with National Journal.
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ANNOUNCER: Once again, from Washington, moderator Gwen Ifill.
MS. IFILL: Good evening. We had a severe case of political overlap this week as the president took on the Supreme Court, Mitt Romney took on the president, Rick Santorum took on Mitt Romney, and all the while the economy continued its slow recovery. We'll tackle it all on a special roundtable tonight, beginning with a sudden jumpstart for the general election.
From now on, almost everything that happens in policy and politics will have to be viewed through that lens. But don't tell Rick Santorum. He says the fat lady has not yet sung.
FORMER SENATOR RICK SANTORUM (R-PA): We've got a strong base of support here and we're going to work very, very hard. And then we're going to get into May and May looks very, very good. There's a move in Texas to make Texas a winner-take-all state. You throw those 154 delegates on our ballot and all of a sudden this race becomes a very different race.
MS. IFILL: Perhaps, but Romney has already moved on to other things, hasn't he, John?
MR. DICKERSON: I'm sorry. Who's Rick Santorum?
MS. IFILL: Yes.
MS. IFILL: That's so with the Romney campaign's view of things, although it's interesting. I mean, Mitt Romney has a kind of a two-front war he's fighting. Publicly he's not paying attention to Rick Santorum. Why is that? He's ahead by hundreds more delegate. He's also gotten a lot of endorsements or sort of quasi-endorsements from different parts of the party, from Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, who said Romney would be a fine nominee, although he didn't exactly endorse him; Marco Rubio, senator from Florida. He's gotten sort of everybody running behind him saying let's unify as a party, let's take on Barack Obama.
So it looks like it's over, but on the other hand you talk privately to Romney aides and they are angry that Santorum is still in the race. They say, look what kind of a future does he want to have in the Republican Party if he's going to keep beating up on the nominee for two more months, drawing this out, and ruining our chance to take on Barack Obama. So privately they're a little bit more angry about that, and even a little bit towards Newt Gingrich, who really isn't much of a factor at all.
So Romney kind of has to still manage that while moving on to deal with Barack Obama. And if you look at the numbers, his numbers in the general election with key swing groups are in really bad shape. He wants to begin that repair job.
MS. IFILL: Karen, one of the things that Romney is trying to do is accuse – and he did it pretty nakedly – both of them had pretty nakedly political speeches in front of newspapers editors this week – was to accuse President Obama running a hide-and-seek campaign. What does that mean?
MS. TUMULTY: Basically what he – he went back to this moment a month ago, where the president was caught on a hot – what they call a hot microphone. He didn't know his microphone –
MS. IFILL: Yes, one of these is a hot microphone, yes.
MS. TUMULTY: Right. And told the Russian president that he'd have more flexibility after the election. So Romney used this as a jumping-off point. And what else isn't he telling us? But I thought those two speeches, they were a day apart in front of the exact same audience, a bunch of newspaper editors and reporters, were really interesting because they really kind of framed the contrast that these two candidates are going to make this fall.
Obama's message was a very populist message accusing the Republicans of being extremists, using words like "social Darwinism" to describe the House Republican budget that the president – that Mitt Romney has now endorsed. The next day, you have Mitt Romney come back as a direct rebuttal to that speech and say, basically, not only accusing the president of running a hide-and-seek campaign, but basically saying that the Democrats are these kind of hapless believers in big government who really don't have either the expertise or the vision to deal with the economy.
MS. IFILL: David, today we saw new job numbers, the jobless numbers, I suppose. And two things happened. One is the unemployment rate went down by a tenth of a percent to 8.3 percent, 8.2 percent –
MR. WESSEL: Eight point two, yes.
MS. IFILL: And at the same time, the expected job creation level was not what it was expected. It fell short.
MR. WESSEL: Right. Well, there're basically two different surveys. One talks to employers and one talks to households. So they often don't match up. The unemployment rate fell not because more people said they were working, because more people dropped out of the labor force. And if you're not in the labor force, you're not looking for work; you're not counted as unemployed. So that's why the unemployment rate fell.
But the big surprise was all the other signals in the economy lately have been very positive. Car sales are up. The retailers, Macy's, Gap, and others, reported strong sales. The warm weather seemed to be making for a little bit more activity in construction, and so there was this big hope that this would be the fourth month in a row that employers added more than 200,000 jobs. And those hopes were dashed this morning, and so it's got people scratching their heads worrying that maybe the economic recovery isn't quite as strong as they hoped.
MS. IFILL: I'm very curious in a week like this to watch all the different pieces fall into place. And one of them – and Jackie, you were at the White House, covering this week – was this interesting and almost out of left field fight with the Supreme Court, which I wasn't sure if the administration meant to pick or not. Let's listen to a little bit of what the president had to say about the Supreme Court.
PRES. OBAMA: Ultimately I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.
MS. IFILL: So Jackie, let's parse that because the very next day he had to come out and say, well, what I had meant to say was this. And the word "unprecedented" was the one that got people's hackles up.
MS. CALMES: Right. There were actually two things about what he said that got people's hackles up and justifiably. I mean, we all know President Obama is a former constitutional law instructor at the University of Chicago, so it's really befuddling to a lot of people, including some of his aides, that he would have this self-inflicted wound at the beginning of the week, and he was just trying to convey the idea that the court is going to uphold – to show optimism about the court upholding his signal significant domestic achievement, the health care law and also to make the case as to why they should, so that if it does go down, he's sort of planted in people's minds the idea that the court is wrong if it strikes it down.
But by saying that it's unprecedented, every school kid who's been taught Marbury v. Madison, 1803, knows that that case established that the court can strike down a law and is the ultimate arbiter of constitutionality. And he said it was passed – the law was passed by a strong congressional majority, when it wasn't. In both houses, it was a close vote and without a single Republican vote.
So you know, that just has persisted to today. The Republicans have jumped on that. And so like you said, he cleaned it up the next day.
MS. IFILL: But I wonder how much of this – the reaction or the overreaction, depending on how you look at this – has to do with the nature of the argument, whether it's about health care, which crosses all of these different issues we're talking about. It certainly speaks to the economy.
MS. CALMES: Right.
MR. WESSEL: Well, sure. I mean, I think it's obvious, as Jackie said, that he said more than he intended to say, and that's always difficult. It's just like the open mike. When you have to explain "what I meant was," you're never in good shape. But it is one of the hot button issues. I mean, the president is very frustrated that he got health care reform through and it has a lot of elements that people say they want, but as a whole, the package is not very popular. And he is stuck with health care reform. I think the White House bets that it'll be hard to make it an issue in a general election if the opponent is Mitt Romney, who basically did something very similar in Massachusetts, but it goes to the – it goes to all these issues about economic security, about taxes, about whether we're going to have more jobs – that the Republicans paint this as a job killer. It's going to be very difficult for the president to fight back.
MS. TUMULTY: I'm also not sure how wise it is to be running against the Supreme Court. We in Washington, I think, probably think of it as a very, you know – there's a hard right and a hard left to it. But for most people in the country, I think they look at the Supreme Court, and they really do see it as the arbiters of what the Constitution is supposed to say. I mean, the fact is most people in the country probably couldn't name very many members of the Supreme Court.
MS. IFILL: I can't tell you how many campaigns I've covered where I've seen mostly Democrats make the case vote for my guy because the court matters. And that's not really how people end up voting.
MR. DICKERSON: It depends. It matters to the bases, who pay very close attention to the court. And that's true on both the left and the right because they care about the hot button issues that the court adjudicates. But I think Karen's point is interesting for the swing voters in the middle who aren't – who don't care about those hot button issues that the court rules on, but who might see the court as a kind of seal of approval one way or the other. And if the court doesn't go the president's way, then they sort of see, okay, maybe there was something wrong with the law.
And now the president, a person who came to office talking about changing politics, removing the negativity, not fighting, is suddenly picking a fight with another branch of government. That is counter to the Barack Obama of 2008, in a way that's different than – he's had to different than the 2008 candidate because he's in a fight with Republicans. But now, he would be a guy who's picking a fight with new opponents. And that just seems very counter to the Barack Obama of old.
MS. CALMES: But you know, it is interesting that the court has become less popular in both parties and it remained – it's got a lower favorability rating right now with Republicans than with Democrats, but that's because it's Barack Obama who's president. They've seen the news. He's named two Supreme Court justices. Throughout the Bush years, it was Democrats who had a lower favorability rating. There was a 32-point spread between Republicans and Democrats in 2006, which was – happened to be right after George Bush had named his second conservative justice to the court. But there is a – the polls show a growing sense that the court is more partisan. And I think that's what Democrats are picking up on as going to their base, trying to rally them in the way the Republicans often have.
MS. IFILL: Well, let's talk about the base and the swing voters that we've been talking about, because the one other little fight that's really blown up this week has been over women voters and over women's votes and over gender gaps. There's a remarkable new poll showing the president leading Mitt Romney in a head to head with 19 points or something like that –
MR. WESSEL: Among women.
MS. IFILL: Among women. And as a result now, we see everybody trying to figure out how to fight back or get into this. Earlier this week, we heard Ann Romney, Mitt Romney's wife, speaking to women voters.
ANN ROMNEY: Women are talking about jobs. Women are talking about deficit spending. Thank you, women. We need you. We all need you in November, too. We have to remember why we're upset and what we've got to do to fix things.
MS. IFILL: And earlier today, we saw Barack Obama in the Rose Garden at the White House – or not in the Rose Garden, but at the White House, talking to a women's economic conference and obviously trying to make that same appeal in a different way.
PRES. OBAMA: There's been a lot of talk about women and women's issue lately, as there should be. But I do think that the conversation has been oversimplified. Women are not some monolithic bloc. Women are not an interest group. You shouldn't be treated that way. (Applause.)
MS. IFILL: They liked that – that they are not an interest group, but I wonder who got invited to –
MS. TUMULTY: Right. (Laughter.) It is interesting. The Republicans have long suffered from a – what is known as the gender gap. They get much stronger support from men than they do from women. But what we have seen in the polling is that the size of that gap has opened dramatically and especially it is opened in what appears to be a big shift of independent women who were at the end of the year favoring Mitt Romney slightly, and now, as you said, the president is 14 points ahead in this latest Gallup-USA Today poll.
And those are really the women, I think, who both parties realize they have to do well with. So we've seen – you know – part of it could be because the economy is getting better. Part of it could be because they're suddenly hearing all this talk about contraception. And then it took – really jumped the shark, I think, in a lot of people's minds this week when suddenly the two parties were arguing over – they weren't arguing, but there was a lot of talk about whether women should be admitted to Augusta Country Club, where the Masters is played, where the Republican chairman said that talking about a war on women is like talking about a war on caterpillars.
MS. IFILL: It was an interesting comparison.
MS. TUMULTY: But I think –
MR. WESSEL: You can't make the stuff up.
MS. TUMULTY: But back to Ann Romney's point, women are, in fact, most concerned – all the polling shows it – about what is going on in the economy.
MS. IFILL: And not so much about whether they get to golf at Augusta. It should be said that Mitt Romney and Barack Obama and even Newt Gingrich said they don't see any problem – they don't have any problem with that.
MR. DICKERSON: They should be allowed in the club, yes. The Republican – what's interesting here is trying to figure out where this problem is because Barack Obama has done – with independent men, he's also done well. He made up about 12 points. So the question may be – contraception may be part of what's certainly offending certain groups of women, but it may also be that for a while the Republican Party's been eating itself up in its primary process. And people look at this, independent voters in particular, and they look at the process and they say this has nothing to do with my life. Even contraception, as important as it is, it's not – people care about the economy, their jobs, their college loans, and those kinds of issues. And if they see one party obsessed about that, that's – so the question then is once that ends, once that process is over for Mitt Romney – another reason he wants it to be over immediately – what's the baseline? What's the new level that will go back to, without Romney having to do a real programmatic effort to try and get women's votes?
MS. IFILL: Well, David, I'm interested, is it true, as these – both of these candidates try to compete for women's votes that women care mostly about the economy? Can women be almost ghettoized wise and said we'll just talk about women's issues over here? Or is it the same common –
MR. WESSEL: I don't think they're – I think that the people care about the economy and for good reason, because the economy's moving like a tortoise, very slowly in the right direction. And you know, if you're husband's laid off, your life suffers whether you have a job or not. So I think that that's – the notion that men or women care more about the economy, I don't see that in the polls and it doesn't make any sense. It is true, though, that men fared much worse in the recession than women and in the recovery, the opposite is true. So the unemployment rate for men has fallen more than a full percentage point. The unemployment rate for women has fallen only half a percentage point. So to that extent, women may be feeling for their individual situation that they haven't felt any of this recovery that we keep writing about.
MS. IFILL: Are both parties at this stage still – even though, I started this by saying we're in the general election pivot – are they both still trying to unite their base? It's interesting to see the president at the White House with an interest group, as it were, or at least women who are interested in him being reelected, and listening to Mitt Romney try to unite the conservatives who are still off secretly meeting with Rick Santorum.
MR. DICKERSON: Well, I think what President Obama is doing is locking in gains. I mean, he – there was this contraception battle, which first started out being bad for the president. Then it switched and the politics started working well for him. There's been an attention on a series of fronts of the White House to say, hey, remember, we're on your side at this flashpoint moment. It may be harder to kind of remind everybody of this, two months from now. So locking those gains is slightly different than what Romney has to do, which is unite his party. He's still working on that. Fortunately, he's got the president helping him in that regard. And there're a lot of ways in which Barack Obama helps unite the Republican Party, both with the hot mike comment, which has Republicans riled up, and this Supreme Court thing.
MS. CALMES: Bui we all talk about that like 5 to 10-percent margin of independent or swing voters that are – that decide an election. But any election that's decided goes to the person, the party that gets more of their own voters out than the other. In 2010, Republicans took the House back and made Senate gains and state houses all over the country because conservatives turned out; 2008, more Democrats and Democrat leaners turned out.
MS. IFILL: How does the debate we've had this week – because it's been lost and part of the president's big speech at the newspaper editors was about the Paul Ryan budget, Republican budget that passed the House. How much of that speaks to all – crosses all of these lines? Does it?
MR. WESSEL: It ought to. I mean, frankly, there is a choice. Paul Ryan's budget is a much smaller government than Barack Obama's budget. Barack Obama's budget has higher taxes than Paul Ryan's. And the president, I think, has done a good job at draping Mitt Romney in the Paul Ryan budget. I think that Romney might have been trying – it might have been in Romney's interest to put a little distance between him and Paul Ryan, but the president made it very difficult for him to do that. So to the extent that there's a choice here, it's not about who said what about the Supreme Court, though that matters to a lot of people, but there's a very different vision for how we shrink the deficit when both parties agree that that's going to be high on the agenda after the election.
MS. IFILL: Do you agree that the president successfully tangled Mitt Romney up in the Paul Ryan budget?
MR. DICKERSON: We'll see. I mean, yes. You know, as a candidate, you want to be vague. You want to say, I'm for lower taxes and for a smaller federal government, but you want to stop at that. But the problem, the reason the president wants to staple Ryan and Romney together is to make – put Romney on the hook for every piece of specificity in a quite specific Ryan budget so that he can say, answer for this and that. And the other thing, the biggest thing, of course, being the changes in Medicare.
MS. CALMES: Well, and Barack Obama's side – Romney got caught up with embraced Ryan so fulsomely because it was – it shows that he can't quite get into the general election because the Wisconsin primary this week was what he was in. And Paul Ryan's from Wisconsin. He needed Paul Ryan's endorsement. And so they were, you know, joined at the hip. So it just shows the extent to which Mitt Romney continues to be in a primary battle even though everybody thinks he's going to be the nominee.
MS. IFILL: How successful can the Republican – whoever it is – nominee be in targeting the president's – the fear of an Obama second term? How much is that central to what a part of all these arguments are about?
MS. TUMULTY: Well, the argument that Mitt Romney made in front of the newspaper editors was that the president, in his first two years, did a lot of really aggressive things. He spent a lot. He passed big programs that he sort of trimmed his sails going into this election and sort of moved a little bit toward the center. What Mitt Romney – the doubt he is trying to plant in voters' minds is once this election is over with, which Barack Obama would show up?
MS. IFILL: And where's the party establishment on both sides in all of these arguments? We know where they are with Romney, for instance.
MR. DICKERSON: Well, the establishment on the Republican side is basically let's get this fight going. On the Democratic side, the establishment's pretty much behind the president. They've had plenty of gripes and grumbles, but as we were talking about earlier, it's a choice. And so the Democratic establishment recognizes what kind of a choice it is and sees that this would be quite a different world with a Republican president.
One thing that's interesting about the point Karen makes is that if this is a choice between who is the more authentic candidate, Mitt Romney making a case about the president not telling you the truth about his true core beliefs is a little rich, the Democrats would say, because Mitt Romney has that problem. But if it's a referendum, what Mitt Romney – which is what Mitt Romney is hoping it is, then it's a comparison of Barack Obama today to Barack Obama of 2008. And that's more favorable for Mitt Romney because he hopes there's not going to be talk about his authenticity, but about this presidency.
MS. CALMES: I think John's right that the – what Mitt Romney's trying to do is blur this idea that he, Mitt Romney, is the one who no one knows what he would actually do or which direction he would tack if he were elected president. I think it's a little bit difficult to sell that argument about Barack Obama when he's a president who's already served three years. He's in his fourth year –
MS. IFILL: For better or worse, he's running on –
MS. CALMES: Right. You either you like it or you don't. And the fact is that much of his second term would be given over to just implementing the big things he's done in this term. Yes, he would go on to try to do more on maybe an overhauled immigration law, more on energy, but he's going to have his hands full just implementing health care law if it's sustained or finding an alternative if it's not and the programs he's put in place.
MS. IFILL: Is it true that the White House does not have a plan B on the health care law?
MS. CALMES: I think that's probably largely true. It's hard to know what it would be and it would take a lot – they have enough – there's only so many things you can do, right, David? I mean, but if you don't have an individual mandate, it's just hard to see how you can have these other things sustained.
MS. IFILL: And is there a plan B if the economy keeps moving as slowly as it is?
MR. WESSEL: I don't think there is. I think that a lot of the election's going to turn on two economic numbers: unemployment and gas prices. If unemployment falls and gas prices fall, that's good for the president. If they go up, that's good for Mitt Romney and everything else is detail.
MS. IFILL: And any plan Bs over in the political side? For instance, if Santorum does stay in all the way through Texas.
MR. DICKERSON: Well, it's just to try and marginalize him and keep – I mean, Romney's benefit is he can take on the president and that's good for him in the primaries and good in the general. But it does create some static and they would rather that static get out of the way because they got to move on.
MS. TUMULTY: And I did talk to someone who talked to Santorum this week, who also said he's very fearful of losing his own home state.
MS. IFILL: Okay. That will be Pennsylvania, April 24. Thank you everyone. We have to go for now, but the conversation continues online, where we'll pick up where we left off in the "Washington Week Webcast Extra," where we may or may not talk about the vice presidential sweepstakes. You can find us and find links to everything else our panelists are writing at pbs.org/washingtonweek. And then we'll see you next week on Washington Week. Have a blessed Passover and a Happy Easter. Goodnight.
David Wessel | economy | Election 2012 | Jackie Calmes | John Dickerson | Karen Tumulty | Mitt Romney | Rick Santorum | Supreme Court | unemployment |


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We're happy to announce that new art show has just landed in Atelier Kreslo.
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BLP exits continue as finance partner heads to Mayer Brown
Readers' comments (3)
all the Mayers banking clients have walk out the door to Cadwaladers following Bloomingdale and Wagner, so Mayers need to shore up their partner numbers + replenish their clients fast!
The firm is imploding. It's not a fun place to be anymore. It's in dire need of clear and decisive leadership. Time for a change at the top. Before it's too late.
No Banking business and a dwindling corporate practice.
Connolly's a genuinely charming guy. He's great to be around. Most the London partners love him. The fact he's retained the top job for so long is testament to his personality. He's very intelligent, one of the most talented litigators i've ever come across. But he isn't a CEO and it is imperative a senior partner has the qualities of a CEO these days. Especially at a firm like Mayer.
Mayer Brown is at a cross roads. It can be a great law firm again if the right strategy is adopted. On the other hand, if poor decisions are made now the office may just implode.