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With Carly Fiorina likely to announce her candidacy for the California U.S. Senate tomorrow, Senator Boxer’s cap and trade legislation markup this afternoon will certainly be scrutinized.
As Sen. Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, oversees the markup of her centerpiece cap-and-trade legislation Tuesday morning, it’s a sure bet that Carly Fiorina will be taking notes.
Although the Republican Fiorina has yet to announce her candidacy for California’s 2010 Senate race, Mrs. Fiorina has been drawing attention to Mrs. Boxer’s management of the legislation. Mrs. Fiorina’s Twitter account, for example, has been linking news stories from the New York Times, Politico and Gay Patriot that highlight Mrs. Boxer’s lack of success gaining support for bill among moderate Democrats and the GOP, often with the phrase “ineffective Boxer.”
Stay tuned……
Update:
Flap has been informed that Carly Fiorina will be hosting a blogger conference call tomorrow at 12:30 PM PST. Will this be a follow-up or a prelude to her formal announcement of candidacy?
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
The GOP leadership and Newt Gingrich made a mistake in upstate New York in supporting a marginal Republican Dede Scozzafava. But, does this mean purging the GOP of all non-ideologically pure Congressional candidates?
No and the Tea Party, Dick Army and Red State based RIGHT had better take pause in aligning themselves with marginal FAR RIGHT parties, Libertarians and Ron Paulites in supporting candidates. If the GOP hopes to regain seats in 2010, each race MUST be locally based and NOT one based on a nationally set ideology on blogs and Twitter.
This is not to say that better candidates should not be chosen. But, ultimately it is the candidate that can marshall the most votes, isn’t it?
Let’s watch the anti-Obama referendum play out in today’s New York, New Jersey and Virginia elections.
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The healthcare reform proposals before Congress threaten the existence of the two-party system, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) alleged Monday morning.
Hatch asserted that the health bills, which he believes represent a "step-by-step approach to socialized medicine," will lead to Americans' dependence on Democrats for their health and other issues.
"And if they get there, of course, you're going to have a very rough time having a two-party system in this country, because almost everybody's going to say, 'All we ever were, all we ever are, all we ever hope to be depends on the Democratic Party,' " Hatch said during an interview with the conservative CNSNews.com.
"That's their goal," Hatch added. "That's what keeps Democrats in power."
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New Jersey political blogs MoreMonmouthMusings and Save Jersey have been all over this story, which we mentioned last night. The first clue was that the number used to make the robocalls had also been used for robocalls for Maryland Democrat Governor candidate Martin O’Malley in 2006. Of course, the Daggett campaign could have just hired a Democrat firm to make the calls, Today, however, we have definitive proof that the New Jersey Democratic State Committee is paying for ads attacking GOP candidate Chris Christie and promoting Independent candidate Chris Daggett.
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n the see-saw New Jersey Governor's race, Republican challenger Christopher Christie has 42 percent to Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine's 40 points, with 12 percent for independent candidate Christopher Daggett, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Six percent remain undecided.
This compares to a 43 – 38 percent Gov. Corzine lead, with 13 percent for Daggett, in an October 28 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University.
Among Daggett supporters, 38 percent say they might change their mind: 39 percent say Corzine is their second choice, while 29 percent say Christie is number two.
Only 10 percent of Christie voters and 13 percent of Corzine backers say they might change their mind
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has taken several steps in recent months that have bolstered his popularity among liberal Democrats back home.
Most prominently, Reid this past week announced his intention to include a government-run health insurance plan in the Senate healthcare reform bill, winning plaudits from prominent liberals in D.C. and Nevada.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she's prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that's what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The health bill she unwrapped last Thursday, which President Obama hailed as a "critical milestone," may well be the worst piece of post-New Deal legislation ever introduced.
In a rational political world, this 1,990-page runaway train would have been derailed months ago. With spending and debt already at record peacetime levels, the bill creates a new and probably unrepealable middle-class entitlement that is designed to expand over time. Taxes will need to rise precipitously, even as ObamaCare so dramatically expands government control of health care that eventually all medicine will be rationed via politics.
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The climate-change bill that has been moving slowly through the Senate will face a stark political reality when it emerges for committee debate on Tuesday: With Democrats deeply divided on the issue, unless some Republican lawmakers risk the backlash for signing on to the legislation, there is almost no hope for passage.
"I think at the end of the day, the people who turn the switch on at home will be disadvantaged," Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) told CNBC on Friday, explaining why he did not think the bill Kerry had sponsored along with Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) could pass.
So Democratic leaders, with the support of the Obama administration, are trying to sway at least half a dozen Republicans by offering amendments to speed along their top priority: building nuclear power plants.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
After tomorrow’s Virginia and New Jersey more than a Battleship will be sunk for President Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Congressional Democrats.
The sound you will hear will be the air leaking out of their super majorities going into the 2010 midterm Congressional elections.
The perception will affect everything from Afghanistan troop deployments, the War on Terror and Obamacare with a public option. The LEFT will continue to push for their agenda and Obama will need to move to the RIGHT because political cover from the GOP will be non-existent.
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Posted by Flap in GOP, Polling
Going into 2010, the GOP may be in better shape than anyone would have imagined after the 2006 and 2008 elections that erased Republican majorities and replaced them with Democrat super majorities and a Democrat President.
Watch tomorrow’s elections in Virginia and New Jersey. If the GOP sweeps those two governorships by repectable majorities, next year could spell massive gains for the Republicans.
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Looks like the GOP Senate Caucus (conservatives and moderates alike) will be helping Carly Fiorina raise funds for an upcoming campaign against incumbent Democrat California U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer.
First, Fiorina will have to get past California Assemblyman Chcuk DeVore who has been moaning lately that the GOP party establishment has been unfairly supporting Fiorina over his cash-starved year long fledgling campaign.
But, with less than $ 60K on hand to spend on a campaign can DeVore even be considered serious or viable?
Here are the details of the fundraiser.
Fiorina will be feted by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) — among other GOP senators — along with big-name GOP lobbyists Charlie Black and Fred Malek at the $500/person soiree at Bistro Bis on November 17.
Notably absent from the list of GOP Senate guests on the invitation is Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Cornyn has been criticized by conservative activists for supporting Fiorina even as a more-conservative Republican candidate, state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, is running.
Flap has it on good authority that Carly Fiorina will announce her candidacy this week and fundraising will be in full swing by this November 17th event. An online fundraising push will soon follow.
Fiorina will probably need to raise anywhere from $six to ten million to run a credible television media campaign in California.
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Senator Boxer as she retreated DID say no more troops but who knows what she meant? As Carly Fiorina gets ready to announce her candidacy this week, Boxer will likely be called on to explain what she meant.
Patriot Axiom tracked down Senator Boxer on the streets of Oakland and asked some very simple questions.
Senator Boxer can run but she cannot hide. With Carly Fiorina ready to announce her candidacy against Boxer next week, the Senator will have to answer about her less than mediocre record for California in the U.S. Senate.
If Sen. Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, is successful in passing her bill to reduce carbon emissions, commonly called cap and trade, it would only be the fourth bill she’s championed that’s signed into law during her three terms as a U.S. senator.
When Mrs. Boxer, joined by former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, brought their 821-page Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act to the floor Wednesday, critics noted that only three of the nearly 400 bills she has sponsored have ever been passed.
Brian Walsh, a spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said in an e-mail that Mrs. Boxer’s record could be summed up in three words: “Ineffective, polarizing and partisan.”
Mr. Walsh, looking ahead to that cycle, also said, “While her colleague Sen. [Dianne] Feinstein has had four times as many bills signed into law, Boxer has been content berating decorated generals and serving as the darling for the radical left. When you consider the many serious issues facing California right now, including the current fiscal crisis, you can bet Boxer’s ineffective and partisan record will be a central issue in her re-election bid next year.”
Indeed, Senator Boxer’s Senate record is fairly dismal – no matter how you count the tally.
Maybe this is the REAL reason why the Senator is running away.
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