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The breakdown for the pledged votes from Your RNC is here.

First Read has a different count:

• Duncan 44
• Steele 30
• Dawson 18
• Blackwell 16
• Anuzis 16
• Saltsman 1
• Unknown 43

The vote is coming tomorrow, Friday, at the Winter RNC Meeting.

Guess not.

But, it was a plausible explanation as to why the New York Times promoted her candidacy for appointment by Governor David Paterson.

The French socialist trade unions are at it again.

Hundreds of thousands of teachers, nurses, factory workers and plumbers marched through French cities on Thursday to demand pay rises and protection for jobs.

The demonstrations were the high point of a nationwide one-day strike called by France’s eight main trade unions to try to persuade President Nicolas Sarkozy and business leaders to do more to help ordinary people overcome the economic crisis.

But the stoppage, billed as a “Black Thursday,” did not bring France to a halt as previous strikes have done. Public transport continued to run, albeit on a reduced and erratic schedule.

“The government has taken measures for banks but today it is the workers who are suffering,” said Charles Foulard, a technician at a refinery run by energy giant Total.

“This crisis comes from the United States, it’s the financial bubble that is bursting. It’s not for the workers to pay for that,” he said as crowds gathered at the Place de la Bastille in Paris, birthplace of the French Revolution.

Surprised they didn’t blame Bush.

France is just broken – a lesson as to what happens to a social democracy when the left-wing unions call the shots.

There was no bipartisan support yesterday when President Barack Obama’s Economic Stimulus Bill HR 1 passed the House with NO Republican votes.

Now, support from the American public is also falling.

Public support for the economic recovery plan crafted by President Obama and congressional Democrats has slipped a bit over the past week. At the same time, expectations that the plan will quickly become law have increased.

Forty-two percent (42%) of the nation’s likely voters now support the president’s plan, roughly one-third of which is tax cuts with the rest new government spending. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 39% are opposed to it and 19% are undecided. Liberal voters overwhelmingly support the plan while conservatives are strongly opposed.

Last week, support for the President’s plan was at 45% and opposition at 34%.

As they consider the size and scope of the $800-billion-plus economic recovery plan, 46% are worried that the government will end up doing too much while 42% worry that it will do too little.

As the U.S. Senate takes up the debate next week, there will be further examination of this pork-laden crap sandwich of a bill.

Flap bets there will be a goodly number of GOP amendments cutting spending and increasing tax cuts in the final bill. If not, the GOP Senate leadership will filibuster the bill – with American voter support.

No, the President and Alaska Governor are NOT going on Dancing With the Stars. But, they are both attending the Alfalfa Club Dinner on Saturday night in Washington.

In what could be a preview of the 2012 presidential race, Sarah Palin and Barack Obama will share a stage together this Saturday night in Washington, D.C., Politico has learned.

The Alaska governor and former GOP vice presidential nominee, making her first trip to the nation’s capital since the election, will join the President at the Alfalfa Dinner, a venerable gathering of the city’s political elite.

Palin and Obama will both address the black tie crowd at the Capital Hilton, aides to each say.

The duo will not, though, be heard by the general public. By tradition, the old world gathering, now in its 96th year, bars reporters. Quotes from the rostrum do, however, tend to find their way out to reporters in the lobby.

Will Sarah win the nomination for President?

President Barack Obama writes a letter to HOLOCAUST DENIER and Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Officials of Barack Obama’s administration have drafted a letter to Iran from the president aimed at unfreezing US-Iranian relations and opening the way for face-to-face talks, the Guardian has learned.

The US state department has been working on drafts of the letter since Obama was elected on 4 November last year. It is in reply to a lengthy letter of congratulations sent by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on 6 November.

It would be intended to allay the ­suspicions of Iran’s leaders and pave the way for Obama to engage them directly, a break with past policy.

State department officials have composed at least three drafts of the letter, which gives assurances that Washington does not want to overthrow the Islamic regime, but merely seeks a change in its behaviour. The letter would be addressed to the Iranian people and sent directly to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, or released as an open letter.

Sounds like APPEASEMENT to Flap.

But, this is par for the course, since Obama has sold out Poland and the Czech Republic by appeasing Russia over a missile defense plan.

Don’t think this will play so well in Israel – and it isn’t.

Israeli election front-runner Benjamin Netanyahu told a session of the World Economic Forum on Thursday that preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons ranks far above the global economy among the challenges facing leaders of the 21st century.