Monday, December 31, 2012

Former New Hampshire Sen. Warren Rudman dies at 82 | Redux

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Former New Hampshire Sen. Warren Rudman dies at 82

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Former Sen. Warren B. Rudman, who co-authored a ground-breaking budget balancing law, championed ethics and led a commission that predicted the danger of homeland terrorist attacks before 9/11, has died. He was 82. He died Monday night, according to his Washington, D.C., firm, the Albright Stonebridge Group. The feisty New Hampshire Republican went to the Senate in 1981 with a reputation as a tough prosecutor, and was called on by Senate leaders, and later by presidents of both parties, to tackle tough assignments. He is perhaps most well-known from his Senate years as co-sponsor of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget-cutting law. He left the Senate in 1993, frustrated that the law never reached its potential because Congress, President Ronald Reagan and the President George H.W. Bush played politics instead of insisting on spending cuts.

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0"No one seemed to take it seriously, and no one in the media seemed to care," Rudman said ...
0"No one seemed to take it seriously, and no one in the media seemed to care," Rudman said in 2007. "The report went into a dustbin in the White House."
0.278167"Had we stuck to that plan, had the Congress not failed to follow it through -- in fact, had presidents not failed to follow through -- we would not be where we are today," Rudman said. ...
-0.19496Rudman called the defense "arrogant, unrepentant, and a smear on this institution."
0.145484"It isn't a vote I'm proud of, but it's a textbook example of how our system works," Rudman wrote ...
0.0605668"It isn't a vote I'm proud of, but it's a textbook example of how our system works," Rudman wrote in "Combat: Twelve Years in the U.S. Senate."
0He said he didn't think Thomas was "even close to being" ...
0"Finally, I grabbed his shoulders," Rudman wrote. ...
0"The architects had no idea the building would be in Senator Rudman's name or they wouldn't have built such a small building," he joked. ...
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  • Number of Quotes: 9
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.2892578
  • Mean: 0.032139755555556
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731
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George H.W. Bush

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Relevance: 0.190583

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-0.177578"People are willing to risk their lives for their country in times of war," he said ...
-0.168801"People are willing to risk their lives for their country in times of war," he said at the time. "They ought to be able to risk an election in a time of economic trouble."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.346379
  • Mean: -0.1731895
  • Standard Deviation: 0
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Relevance: 0.18944

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Ronald Reagan

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Relevance: 0.173106

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Clarence Thomas

Overall Sentiment: 0.0796898

Relevance: 0.17267

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0"If my vote had been the deciding one, I would have voted against Thomas, no matter what the consequences," he wrote. ...
0.0602552"If my vote had been the deciding one, I would have voted against Thomas, no matter what the consequences," he wrote. "But once it was clear that he would be confirmed, I made a political decision."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.0602552
  • Mean: 0.0301276
  • Standard Deviation: 0

President Bill Clinton

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Relevance: 0.136403

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Sen. Gary Hart

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Relevance: 0.132758

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Alan Cranston

Overall Sentiment: -0.17703

Relevance: 0.126708

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Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North

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Relevance: 0.122026

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-0.269049"The American people have the constitutional right to be wrong," he told ...
-0.0837233"The American people have the constitutional right to be wrong," he told North. "And what Ronald Reagan thinks or Oliver North thinks or what I think or what anybody else thinks makes not a whit."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.3527723
  • Mean: -0.17638615
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Charles Keating Jr

Overall Sentiment: -0.167192

Relevance: 0.118705

John Durkin

Overall Sentiment: -0.135205

Relevance: 0.116175

Sen. Paul Tsongas

Overall Sentiment: 0.195065

Relevance: 0.115375

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Anita Hill

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Relevance: 0.112322

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Overall Sentiment: -0.0458326

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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Facing terminal illness: Financial planning for his survivors | Synopsis

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Facing terminal illness: Financial planning for his survivors

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Steve West spends mornings with his granddaughter, Gracie, 2, who has learned to hug him even though he can't hug back. Steve West cheated death once. In the summer of 1969, when he was 17, Steve and a friend were camping in Tennessee when they wandered down a nearby path. The trail hugged the side of a cliff on one side, with a 100-foot drop on the other. This story is part of a three-part series on the financial challenges families face when a loved one is dying. Part One tackled funeral costs, Part Two, the costs and options to make the end of life as comfortable as possible. Steve lost his footing. The fall would have killed him if some branches hadn't broken his descent. As it was, it took 10 hours for rescue workers to reach him.

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Steve

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Relevance: 0.824821

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-0.513513Steve began to feel that his left leg wasn't quite right -- he had "tingling sensations," ...
0"The distances kept getting shorter and shorter," he says. ...
0"I can whip their asses," he says. ...
0"There were hundreds of decisions to make," Steve recalls. ...
-0.305031"There was sadness early on, in recognizing what it meant, but it didn't really last that long," he says. ...
-0.209246"There was sadness early on, in recognizing what it meant, but it didn't really last that long," he says. "There was also anxiety, not so much over the prospect of dying, as getting things situated for the rest of our lives."
-0.0410844"With a ventilator and a feeding tube, your life can be significantly prolonged," says Steve.
-0.243992"With a ventilator and a feeding tube, your life can be significantly prolonged," says Steve. "But it's not very pleasant for anybody, family or patient."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 8
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -1.3128664
  • Mean: -0.1641083
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Pam

Overall Sentiment: 0.018841

Relevance: 0.550801

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0Pam recalls, "It was so mild I said to him, 'You're just getting old. Start walking.'"
-0.248649"I would wrap my arms around him, and I could feel these little chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi movements in his muscles," says Pam.
-0.228237"I would wrap my arms around him, and I could feel these little chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi movements in his muscles," says Pam. "It was like holding twinkling stars."
0.0510167Pam would respond, "There is no cure."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.4258693
  • Mean: -0.106467325
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Steve West

Overall Sentiment: -0.0488892

Relevance: 0.323772

Pamela Learned

Overall Sentiment: -0.033859

Relevance: 0.163651

Lou Gehrig

Overall Sentiment: 0.187762

Relevance: 0.156035

Gracie

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.152643

Pam.

Overall Sentiment: -0.344993

Relevance: 0.110229

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-0.468474"Doing battle with insurance was the biggest nightmare until we got into Medicare," says Pam. ...
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  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.468474
  • Mean: -0.468474
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Mark

Overall Sentiment: 0.15054

Relevance: 0.104796

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Overall Sentiment: -0.144924

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Brazile: GOP, break Grover Norquist's grip on you | Essentials

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Brazile: GOP, break Grover Norquist's grip on you

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Editor's note: Donna Brazile, a CNN contributor and a Democratic strategist, is vice chairwoman for voter registration and participation at the Democratic National Committee. She is a nationally syndicated columnist, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and author of "Cooking with Grease." She was manager for the Gore-Lieberman presidential campaign in 2000. (CNN) -- Who is Grover Norquist? He's a private citizen, a conservative lobbyist, the author of the Taxpayer's Protection Pledge and president of Americans for Tax Reform. His idea of tax reform is no more tax increases ever again. And no closed loopholes unless matched by cuts in government spending. In the 113th Congress, the one just elected that will begin in January, 219 of 234 Republicans in the House signed his tax pledge; in the Senate, nine of 41 Republican senators signed it.

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Grover Norquist

Overall Sentiment: 0.186779

Relevance: 0.774559

Barack Obama

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Relevance: 0.529379

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Overall Sentiment: 0.199682

Relevance: 0.367854

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-0.431593King replied that Norquist was "being a lowlife," ...
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  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.431593
  • Mean: -0.431593
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

John Boehner

Overall Sentiment: 0.320669

Relevance: 0.350453

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Donna Brazile

Overall Sentiment: 0.0761111

Relevance: 0.34398

Mitch McConnell

Overall Sentiment: 0.122831

Relevance: 0.290844

Lindsey Graham

Overall Sentiment: 0.6397

Relevance: 0.260962

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Rep. Tom Cole

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.248806

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Harry Truman

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.244562

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0Harry Truman used to say, "The president is the only elected official who represents all the people."
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  • Mean: 0
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731
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Cole

Overall Sentiment: 0.256757

Relevance: 0.238768

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0.314305Cole said, "It's the right thing to do."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.314305
  • Mean: 0.314305
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731
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President Bill Clinton

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.222838

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John Podesta

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.220932

SentimentQuote
-0.153976John Podesta, President Bill Clinton's chief of staff, in writing about the fiscal cliff, said, "Obama didn't win just because of demographics: He won on the economy. ... The electorate understood that a vote for Obama was a vote for policies that would help the middle class and the working poor."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 1
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.153976
  • Mean: -0.153976
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731
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Peter Kings

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.196627

Lindsey Grahams

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.186204

Tom Coles

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.179836

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  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

Organization: Senate

Overall Sentiment: 0.0490467

Relevance: 0.334253

Organization: House

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.320984

Company: Twitter

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.315603

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