Archive for September, 2009
San Francisco Mayor Gavin “Whether You Like it or Not” Newsom
Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner must be dancing this morning.
Former President Bill Clinton is backing San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom for California governor over state Attorney Gen. Jerry Brown, potentially upending next year’s Democratic race to succeed Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Clinton’s decision to appear on Oct. 5 alongside one of his wife’s top backers in her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination comes at a critical time for the San Franciso mayor: Although Newsom has built a substantial Facebook and Twitter following among younger voters, Brown, a former two-term governor, has raised more than twice as much money as he has.
Clinton’s trip to California next month is expected to include an event in predominantly Latino East Los Angeles as well as a high-dollar fundraiser.
While the endorsement of a former president is big news in any state, the former chairman of the California Democratic Party thinks it could be especially significant in California, a state where Clinton has had a strong following ever since he beat Brown in the state’s 1992 presidential primary.
These are delusions of grandeur on the part of Newsom and the California Far Left. Jerry Brown has the support of mainstream labor and will pillage Newsom with television ads next Spring before the June 2010 Democrat Primary election.
California voters are disgruntled in any event(tired of decades of Democrat control of the Legislature) and the REAL race for California Governor is between the two Republicans, Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner. Californians will not vote for an old man retread pol or a young morally challenged San Francisco Mayor.
Flap looks forward to the divisive Democrat primary though.
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So says the latest Rasmussen poll.
Following President Obama’s speech to Congress last week, support for his health care reform plan increased steadily to a peak of 51% yesterday. However, the bounce appears to be over. The latest daily tracking shows that support has fallen all the way back to pre-speech levels.
Forty-five percent (45%) of all voters nationwide now favor the plan while 52% are opposed. A week ago, 44% supported the proposal and 53% were opposed.
What I wonder is why the Democrats who have massive majorities in the congress, don’t just get on with it and pass Obamacare?
Of course, we know why.
The White House does NOT have the votes and need Republicans to provide political cover.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
Chris, there will be plenty of Obama CANNON FODDER for the 2010 and 2012 elections – if and only if the GOP nominates someone who will use it.
John McCain would NOT and lost.
Flap cannot say the same for Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin.
We will get an inkling of what is to come by the Spring of next year when the Nevada Senate race of Harry Reid begins to heat up.
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Rep. Joe Wilson, the Republican from South Carolina who shouted "You lie" during President Obama's health-care address to Congress, has already apologized at least twice: once in a statement issued by his office and once in a phone call to the White House. He tried to reach the president and had to settle for Rahm Emanuel — not, by all accounts, one of the more forgiving souls in politics. But some Democrats are not satisfied. They want Wilson to apologize on the House floor. Presumably this means during an official House session, and not actually while lying prostrate on the carpet. If he won't apologize on the floor, they want a resolution officially declaring that he's "it" or he has cooties — or whatever the appropriate language is under House rules.
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From Michael Kinsley no less!
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In the message bin Laden says that US President Barack Obama is "powerless" to halt the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and must rethink his policy on Israel, accusing "neo-conservatives" of maintaining a grip on the White House.
Analysts said the latest message appeared to be less strident than the Al-Qaeda leader's previous diatribes against the West, and the United States in particular.
"There is a relatively new change, there is a transformation … He is not giving any warnings and is seeking to justify the September 11 attacks," said Diaa Rashwan, a leading expert on militant groups.
"For the first time, he didn't mention or praise the martyrs who perpetrated the September 11 attacks," said Rashwan, who is deputy head of Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo.
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In the process of reporting on remarks by President Obama that were made during a CNBC interview, ABC News employees prematurely tweeted a portion of those remarks that turned out to be from an off-the-record portion of the interview. This was done before our editorial process had been completed. That was wrong. We apologize to the White House and CNBC and are taking steps to ensure that it will not happen again.
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The public’s assessment of the accuracy of news stories is now at its lowest level in more than two decades of Pew Research surveys, and Americans’ views of media bias and independence now match previous lows.
Just 29% of Americans say that news organizations generally get the facts straight, while 63% say that news stories are often inaccurate. In the initial survey in this series about the news media’s performance in 1985, 55% said news stories were accurate while 34% said they were inaccurate. That percentage had fallen sharply by the late 1990s and has remained low over the last decade.
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LGF's Charles Johnson pursues his idee fixe, for the benefit of those few readers who have yet to be banned. I won't link him, but again he recycles familiar smears against me. Two cases in particular require discussion:
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Charles Johnson’s gone completely off his rocker. I wondered, when I started writing at my own site, where all the commenters were coming from accusing Stacy McCain of being a neo-Nazi crypto-racist, and now I’m pretty sure I know, because Charles has made that accusation towards Stacy. All of those visitors had one thing in common: when I pressed them for evidence, they didn’t have any.
Dan Riehl writes about this invidious libel here. Meanwhile, Charles has apparently swallowed hook, line and sinker the view that resistance to the policies of The One is prima facie evidence of racism, a canard voiced by pothead pseudo-intellectual Bill Maher, for which he’s receiving kudos from the sycophantic worshippers of Baracky (scroll down at News Busters for more allegations of racism).
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Despite sweeping Democratic successes in the past two national elections, continuing job losses and President Barack Obama's slipping support could lead to double-digit losses for the party in next year's congressional races and may even threaten their House control.
Fifty-four new Democrats were swept into the House in 2006 and 2008, helping the party claim a decisive majority as voters soured on a Republican president and embraced Obama's message of hope and change. Many of the new Democrats are in districts carried by Republican John McCain in last year's presidential contest; others are in traditional swing districts that have proved tough for either party to hold.
From New Hampshire to Nevada, House Democrats also will be forced to defend votes on Obama's $787 billion economic recovery package and on energy legislation viewed by many as a job killer in an already weak economy.
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Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden told Americans in a new message that their support for Israel had prompted him to launch the September 11, 2001 attacks, a US-based terror monitoring group said.
Al-Qaeda's As-Sahab media released a video titled "Message to the American People," which features a still image of bin Laden and an audio statement, said IntelCenter.
The release came two days after the United States marked the eighth anniversary of the Al-Qaeda-sponsored attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people.
According to the center, Bin Laden said that among "some other injustices," US support to Israel motivated Al-Qaeda to launch the 9/11 attacks.
He also stated that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were driven by the pro-Israeli lobby in the White House and corporate interests, not Islamic militants.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
Remember when Ronald Reagan used the example of the “Welfare Queen” when he was running for office?
ACORN may very well be the GOP’s new “Welfare Queen” as an example of what happens when government grows too large.
ACORN’s involvement with the census to subvert the elctoral process will also be an issue in the upcoming 2010 midterm Congressional elections – watch what happens in Nevada with the Harry Reid re-election race.
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So say the folks at Pollster.com
An ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted Sept. 10-12 shows no statistically significant change in Obama’s approval on health care or support for health care reform compared with a poll conducted August 10-12 (via Kaus). At best, Obama might have regained the ground he lost in late August — a CBS News poll (PDF) conducted Sept. 10 showed a 12 point increase in approval of the president on health care compared with a poll conducted August 27-31, but that poll also showed no change in the percentage of Americans who think health care reform would help them personally.
Flap thinks the Obamacare plan with the “public option” is indeed dead. The President may dance around the issue or ram his nationalization plan through the Congress.
Both at his political peril from the LEFT and RIGHT.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
Now, President Obama is declaring that “I Own” that health care bill and agrees that he will accept full responsibility for Obamacare.
You know, I intend to be President for a while and once this– bill passes, I own it. And if people look and say, “You know what? This hasn’t reduced my costs. My premiums are still going up 25 percent, insurance companies are still jerkin’ me around,” I’m the one who’s going to be held responsible.
And, that is why the idea is being floated around Washington to apply triggers so that a public option does not become in full effect until way into an Obama second term. He can take credit but when it crashes and burns he will be on the way out to the golf course.
If Obamacare passes the United States Senate as it is propsoed by Obama with a public option it may never be fully implemented because the voters will vote out Democrat majorities in the House in November 2010.
Then, the GOP will go after Obama himself in 2012.
Obama will OWN not only socialized health care with Obamacare but also the collapse of the Democrat Party majorities in the Congress.
Does anyone think he will roll the dice?
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