Archive for October, 2009
Day By Day by Chris Muir
But, doesn’t Newt Gingrich have a point, especially with regard to splitting the Republican Party and local choices of candidates?
Listen to Gingrich and you decide.
The Wilkow Majority: Newt explains his support of Scozzafava
An ideological party or one which includes candidates with differing opinions and wins elections?
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Early in the interview, DeVore was asked if he had always planned to run for Senate, to which he replied:
I’ve never had a desire to be anything.
Inspirational stuff, really.
The best line of the entire interview, however, was the next sentence:
Offices are tools from which you do things with.
Also, too.
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The table below compares the White House's February 2009 projection of the number of jobs that would be created by the 2009 stimulus law (through the end of 2010) with the actual change in state payroll employment through September 2009 (the latest figures available). According to the data, 49 States and the District of Columbia have lost jobs since stimulus was enacted. Only North Dakota has seen net job creation following the February 2009 stimulus. While President Obama claimed the result of his stimulus bill would be the creation of 3.5 million jobs, the Nation has already lost a total of 2.7 million – a difference of 6.2 million jobs.
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October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and as one of millions of breast cancer survivors across the country, I wanted to take a few moments to share some thoughts with the BlogHer community regarding my experiences battling the disease andmore importantlywhat I learned along the way.
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In Gallup Daily tracking that spans Barack Obama's third quarter in office (July 20 through Oct. 19), the president averaged a 53% job approval rating. That is down sharply from his prior quarterly averages, which were both above 60%.
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Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) accused the White House on Wednesday of "street-brawling" with opponents, and said the West Wing's strategy of freezing out opponents amounts to a latter-day "enemies list," a reference to an infamous practice of President Richard Nixon.
"An 'enemies list' only denigrates the Presidency and the Republic itself," Alexander said on the Senate floor. "These are unusually difficult times, with plenty of forces encouraging us to disagree. Lets not start calling people out and compiling an enemies list. Lets push the street-brawling out of the White House and work together on the truly presidential issues: creating jobs, reducing health care costs, reducing the debt, creating clean energy."
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has told colleagues that he was given bad information by the American Medical Association (AMA), which will result in a significant setback to Democrats healthcare reform strategy.
Democrats are not expected to have the votes to pass a 10-year freeze of scheduled cuts to doctors' Medicare payments, according to sources in both parties. Reid had offered to pass the "doctors' fix" in return for support from the doctors on President Barack Obama's broader healthcare initiative, which is slated for the Senate floor later this year.
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Carly Fiorina, a likely Republican candidate for Senate in California, made public on Tuesday what her GOP primary opponent Chuck DeVore has long claimed: that the national party is supporting her bid to take out Sen. Barbara Boxer next year.
"The chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee has encouraged me to enter the race, reaffirming my belief that Chuck DeVore can not beat Barbara Boxer," Fiorina said Tuesday, according to SanDiegoNewsRoom.com.
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NRSC is denying the endorsement though.
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SDNR: If and when Carly Fiorina officially enters the race, how will your campaign change?
CD: It won’t change a dang thing. I look forward to her being in the race. It will put the spotlight on the race and it will give my campaign more name ID. She’s going to bring more interest into this race that would otherwise be a cakewalk for me in the primary. If I can’t beat Carly Fiorina, there’s no way in hell I can beat Barbara Boxer—she’ll be a great tune-up.
SDNR: Were your plans always to run for the Senate?
CD: I’ve never had a desire to be anything. Offices are tools from which you do things with. It just appeared to me that the intellectual vigor of my party had been spent under George W. Bush. There was just no enthusiasm there.
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The following are derived from FEC filings for the 2010 cycle ending 9/30/09.
California BOXER (D) 1,645,191 688,696 176,586 0 6,351,426
DeVore (R) 382,680 309,673 10,300 88,314 144,733
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Note the last figures of Cash on Hand Boxer 6.3 M vs DeVore 144K. Not even close
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Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid discuss the recovery act at the University of Nevada in Reno, Friday, Oct. 16, 2009. Biden visited economically troubled Nevada to promote the progress of the federal stimulus program and boost the re-election campaign of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
Another poll which looms over the head of Dingy Harry’s re-election prospects.
Progressive Change Campaign Committee (D) / Research 2000
10/17-19/09; 600 likely voters, 4% margin of error
Mode: Live telephone interviews
(PCCC release)
Favorable / Unfavorable
2010 Senate
- Tarkanian 46%, Reid 41%
- Lowden 47%, Reid 42%
Nevada Republicans have a real opportunity to take this seat away from the Democrats. But, only if they can avoid a costly and divisive primary between Tarkanian and Lowden.
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Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina yesterday evening
Sounds like Carly Fiorina is running for United States Senate.
It was a very different Carly Fiorina who took the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit dinner tonight to discuss her potential run for the U.S. Senate.
Just as it was typical when she was the first female chief executive of Hewlett Packard, part of the conversation with Web 2.0 co-host John Battelle covered her appearance. But in this case it was relevant in the discussion about her political reviews.
Fiorina’s hair was a mix of dark brown and gray and it looked as if it had been recently shaved. She said that her close-shorn look was a result of her eight-month battle with breast cancer.
“I have seen the best and the worst of our healthcare system,†she said, with her voice shaking slightly with the emotional moment that focused on her own health. But she told the audience at the dinner that she was healthy. She was there to talk about her possible bid as a Republican candidate to take on Democrat Barbara Boxer. Fiorina didn’t outright declare her candidacy, but she said she was exploring the idea.
What was the most interesting during her talk last night was the angst on Twitter from left-wing tech folks bemoaning a possible Fiorina candidacy. There were not many of these folks and after all it was San Francisco.
Also, interesting was GOP California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore pathetically re-tweeting negative comments about Fiorina. I mean doesn’t DeVore who will possibly oppose Fiorina in a contested Republican Party primary election in June 2010 have anything better to do than be pathetic. How about fundraising, where DeVore has been an abysmal failure? Or criticizing the vulnerable, incumbent, Democrat U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer?
But, whatever. Carly Fiorina is tough enough to withstand the LEFT and RIGHT.
The question is: Will Fiorina be able to WIN?
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
Chris, I never quite thought of former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich as a RINO – Republican in Name ONLY.
Perhaps Gingrich has some personal political history with New York Assemblywoman Scozzafava which allows him to accept her more moderate political stances. But, who knows?
Political parties MUST be a larger tent on both the LEFT and RIGHT – if they wish to survive. This is the American two party system whether we like it or not.
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We wrote in Saturday’s paper that the GOP appears to be building fund-raising momentum heading into the 2010 elections.
Here’s another data point: the Democratic National Committee said it raised about $8 million in September. That’s less than the Republican National Committee, which raised $8.8 million in the same time period, and the second month running the RNC has pulled ahead.
Overall, the Democrats are still ahead, with $139.4 million raised to date compared to $125 million for the GOP.
That edge is attributable in part to the Democratic fund-raising arms for House and Senate candidates, both of which out-raised their Republican counterparts by nearly two-to-one margins last month.
The GOP resurrection, meanwhile, is being aided by a rise in small donors. In some of the most competitive 2010 Senate races, Republican candidates raised more than the Democrats did in the most-recent quarter.
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Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman — who disputed media reports that she had never voted in the 1980's — was a registered Republican voter in San Francisco during that decade, the Chronicle has learned.
Whitman registered to vote in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 1982, and was still on the city voter rolls as of 1985, according to elections data microfiche stored in the San Francisco Public Library and obtained through a public records act request.
The records from the San Francisco Dept. of Elections were recovered last week from storage and obtained by the Chronicle today.
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Alarmed by the spread of the H1N1 flu, local hospitals restricted visitors this week, barring children and capping the number of visitors a patient can see at once.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center this week raised the minimum age for visitors from 12 to 18 and restricted the number of visitors for patients at greatest risk of becoming infected with H1N1, including those in labor and delivery, or in pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, according to Dr. Rekha Murthy, medical director of hospital epidemiology at Cedars-Sinai.
Murthy said restrictions on younger visitors make sense because children are at greater risk of catching the H1N1 flu, and may infect others before they show symptoms.
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CHICAGO, IL – In a world exclusive, Oprah Winfrey will interview former Alaska
governor Sarah Palin for an episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to air
Monday, November 16, 2009. Winfrey and Palin will meet for the very first
time on the episode, which will mark Palin's first interview to discuss her
upcoming book, "Going Rogue: An American Life" and her first-ever
appearance on the "Oprah" show.
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin burst onto the national political scene as
running mate for Senator John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. Now,
following her decision to step down as governor of her home state of Alaska,
and on the eve of the release of her first book, Palin will speak first to Oprah
in a world exclusive interview.
"The Oprah Winfrey Show: Exclusive – Oprah Talks to Sarah Palin" airs on
Monday, November 16, 2009
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The White House and Democratic leaders are offering doctors a deal: They’ll freeze cuts in Medicare payments to doctors in exchange for doctors’ support of healthcare reform.
At a meeting on Capitol Hill last week with nearly a dozen doctors groups, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said the Senate would take up separate legislation to halt scheduled Medicare cuts in doctor payments over the next 10 years. In return, Reid made it clear that he expected their support for the broader healthcare bill, according to four sources in the meeting.
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Obamacare – quid pro quo
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But I do wonder if it’s the Scozzafava campaign that’s in trouble–with a candidate who supports card check, who is unwilling to say she’d oppose a health care bill that raises taxes or includes abortion coverage, and who is so reluctant to answer questions that she has someone with her campaign call the cops when she’s questioned by a reporter who is (if I may say so) polite–if a bit persistent.
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The United States cannot wait for problems surrounding the legitimacy of the Afghan government to be resolved before making a decision on troops, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said.
Gates, speaking to reporters on board a plane traveling to Tokyo, described the situation in Afghanistan as an evolutionary process that would not improve dramatically overnight, regardless of what course is taken following the country's flawed August election.
"I see this as a process, not something that's going to happen all of the sudden," Gates said.
"I believe that the president will have to make his decisions in the context of that evolutionary process."
Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell added that Gates believed the issue of the Afghan government's legitimacy went well beyond the question of whoever would be declared winner of the election,
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Vic Mizzy, the songwriter who wrote the catchy theme songs to "The Addams Family" and "Green Acres" television shows, has died. He was 93.
His manager Jonathan Wolfson says Mizzy died Saturday at his home in Bel Air. He didn't know the cause of death.
Mizzy got his start in vaudeville and wrote songs that were recorded by Dean Martin, Doris Day, Perry Como and Billie Holiday in the 1940s and '50s.
His hits included "The Whole World Is Singing My Song" and "With a Hey and a Hi and a Ho-Ho-Ho."
Mizzy has said that he didn't mind if people only remember him for the finger snaps at the start of the "Addams Family" theme song. After all, he said, "two snaps got me a mansion in Bel Air."
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Loved both shows and both themes.
RIP
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Former mayor Rudy Giuliani, seated right, reacts as mayor Michael Bloomberg, standing at the podium, speaks during the Borough Park Jewish Community Council Legislative Breakfast Sunday Oct. 18, 2009 in the Borough Park section in the Brooklyn borough of New York
Well, the polls are all over the place for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Favorable / Unfavorable
- David Paterson: 27 / 61 (chart)
- Rick Lazio: 23 / 27
- Andrew Cuomo: 67 / 20
- Rudy Giuliani: 60 / 35
- Kirsten Gillibrand: 28 / 26 (chart)
- George Pataki: 53 / 34
- Barack Obama: 65 / 31 (chart)
2010 Governor: General Election
- Paterson 39%, Lazio 37% (chart)
- Giuliani 56%, Paterson 33% (chart)
- Cuomo 50%, Giuliani 43% (chart)
- Cuomo 66%, Lazio 21% (chart)
2010 Senate: General Election (trends)
- 53% Giuliani, 36% Gillibrand
- 46% Pataki, 41% Gillibrand (chart)
Then, there is this:
Would you like Rudy Giuliani to run for Governor of New York in 2010, United States Senator, or would you prefer that he not run for Governor or Senator in 2010?
Flap supposes this will be a lifestyle decision for Rudy Giuliani. He can win either race and would be a slam dunk for New York Governor if Andrew Cuomo decides NOT to run against David Paterson.
Exit question: Will Rudy climb back into the arena?
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