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Republican Women Federated of Simi Valley said in a statement Sunday that Palin is scheduled to attend the group’s 50th anniversary gala at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Aug. 8.

Republican Women Federated of Simi Valley spokeswoman Pat Saraceno said the invitation-only event will be closed to the media. Several hundred people have already confirmed they plan to attend the gala, which costs $100 for members and $150 for invited nonmembers.

The group expects no more than 900 people at the event, which will be held at the cavernous pavilion that houses the former president’s jet, Air Force One.

The master of ceremonies for the event will be conservative radio talk-show host and filmmaker John Ziegler.

Unfortunately, I have already made plans to be in Las Vegas this weekend and will miss the event.

But, I am positive Sarah will be back in Ventura County soon and often.

President Obama has the votes in Congress.

President Barack Obama may rely only on Democrats to push health-care legislation through the U.S. Congress if Republican opposition doesn’t yield soon, two of the president’s top advisers said.

“Ultimately, this is not about a process, it’s about results,” David Axelrod, Obama’s senior political strategist, said during an interview in his White House office. “If we’re going to get this thing done, obviously time is a-wasting.”

Both Axelrod and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said taking a partisan route to enacting major health-care legislation isn’t the president’s preferred choice. Yet in separate interviews, each man left that option open.

“We’d like to do it with the votes of members of both parties,” Axelrod said. “But the worst result would be to not get health-care reform done.”

House Democrats today unveiled legislation totaling about $1 trillion that would expand health care to millions of Americans over the next decade by raising taxes on the wealthiest households. The Senate has yet to agree on a bill as Democratic lawmakers struggle to get Republican support.

Emanuel, making a theoretical case for a party-line vote, offered a definition of bipartisanship based not on roll-call votes but on whether Democrats have accepted Republican ideas during the process of negotiations.

And he said Democrats already have passed that test, pointing to Republican amendments that the Democratic-controlled Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has adopted.

But, of course, there is political risk for the Democrats, particularly in the U.S. Senate.

I do not see a bipartisan, nationalization of health care and the demise of the health insurance industry on the horizon. The Democrats will blog and blather but political cover is all most of them are seeking.

Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi may ram the bill through but with little or NO GOP support. Thus, creating an issue for Republicans upon which to run in the 2010 midterm Congressional elections.

Republican must be licking their chops for a strong arm from Rahm Emanuel to keep Democrats in line with Obama.

U.S. Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-CA) was appointed to the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission today by House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio.

Gallegly authored the bill that created the commission and is the second person assigned to the 11-member commission. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar was named to the commission in the bill.

“Elton Gallegly was instrumental to the creation of this commission and it’s terrific that he’ll be actively involved in the celebration of Ronald Reagan’s centennial,” said Frederick J. Ryan, Jr., Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.

The 11-member Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act will plan and carry out activities deemed fitting to honor Ronald Reagan on his 100th birthday, which falls on Feb. 6, 2011.

 â€œI appreciate Leader Boehner’s appointment,” Gallegly said. “I look forward to working with my fellow commissioners to create appropriate activities to honor President Reagan and to celebrate his life and accomplishments on behalf of the country he loved.”

The commission will make recommendations and provide necessary assistance for federal, state and local governmental agencies and civic groups to honor President Reagan. Such activities could include special stamps or coins. In addition, the commission will recommend to Congress activities to honor his 100th birthday, including the possible convening of a Joint Session of Congress.

In addition to Gallegly and Secretary Salazar, nine more members need to be appointed: President Obama will appoint four members; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will appoint two; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will appoint two; and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will appoint one. They have 90 days from enactment of the bill to make their appointments.

No federal money can be spent on the commission or its activities.

Gallegly’s bill attracted wide bipartisan support. The Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent on May 20 and the House passed it on a 371-19 vote on March 9. President Obama signed Gallegly’s bill during a June 2 White House ceremony attended by Gallegly and former First Lady Nancy Reagan.

Previous commissions have been instituted to honor Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Abraham Lincoln.

The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum is in Simi Valley, CA, Gallegly’s hometown.

I am looking forward to next year’s event at the Reagan Library. A gathering of conservatives, young and old, the world has probably never seen before.

Stay tuned…….

President Barack Obama conceded Tuesday that the unemployment rate will keep growing for “several months” as he prepared to head to battered Michigan to unveil a plan to help train people for the next generation of jobs.

Obama is proposing a multibillion-dollar investment in the nation’s community colleges, a $12 billion effort to help the two-year institutions reach, teach and train more people for “the jobs of the future.” He was to outline his program in a speech Tuesday afternoon at Macomb Community College in Warren, Mich.

Before leaving town, Obama was pressed on how high the unemployment rate might climb. In Michigan, the jobless rate is 14.1 percent, worst in the nation.

“How employment numbers are going to respond is not yet clear,” Obama said after a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende.

“My expectation is, is that we will probably continue to see unemployment tick up for several months,” Obama said. “And the challenge for this administration is to make sure that even as we are stabilizing the financial system … are people able to find good jobs that pay good wages?”

More than 2 million jobs have been lost since Congress passed Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus package. Without that government intervention, Obama said, states like Michigan would be in even worse shape because they would have had to lay off more teachers, firefighters and other workers.

Obama said renewed hiring tends to lag behind other signs of economic recovery. The White House has been criticized for being overly rosy in its projections of the economic rebound, particularly in terms of employment.

Huh?

I thought economic stimulus was to stimulate the economy to employ people – not to bailout states to NOT layoff school teachers and other unionized public employees.

What a mess but at least Obama is consistent in his disdain for the private economy.

Obama can urge patience but the unemployed voters will hold him and his party accountable beginning NOW.

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