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Watch the entire video but the pertinent Obamacare criticisms from Carly Fiorina are around the 7 minute mark. Cost based medicine and rationing is part and parcel with socialized medicine.

This IS Obamacare in both the House and Senate versions.

And, when they start saying that Flap will NOT have coverage for PSA tests for prostate cancer. Well, like Fiorina and breast cancer this goes right to MY survival.

And, it makes me angry.

My California U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer voted for the Senate Obamacare bill and I will be voting her out of office next year and replacing her with Carly Fiorina.

• CA-Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger picks Sen. Abel Maldonado for lieutenant governor
  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today said on The Jay Leno Show that he would appoint Republican state Sen. Abel Maldonado to fill the vacant lieutenant governor's job, perhaps setting off a partisan squabble over his confirmation.

  Maldonado, 42, of Santa Maria, has been one of the few GOP allies the Republican governor has in the Legislature. He provided a key vote this year to help Democrats and Schwarzenegger push through tax increases and a budget plan over the objections of most Republican lawmakers.

  Leno asked the governor who he was going to appoint. Schwarzenegger said Maldonado "makes decisions based on what's best for the people rather than what's best for the party," according to an NBC transcript. "He has helped us, many times, pass a budget, which was very important."
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  But, will Republicans vote to confirm him?

  (tags: abel_Maldonado Arnold_Schwarzenegger)
• Will The DeMint Revolution Amount To Much?
  $12,000 for Chuck DeVore's race in California pays for postage stamps, but not for a mailing itself. And two Senators just as conservative as DeMint — Sen. James Inhofe and Coburn, both of Oklahoma, are backing the NRSC-backed Carly Fiorina. In Politico, though anti-establishment Republican challenger Patrick Hughes has picked up some grassroots support as of late, he is still virtually unknown, even to Republicans, and he has virtually no money to spend. He may wind up becoming the next anti-establishment It Boy, but he has less than 70 days to go from zero to hero. DeMint is reportedly considering an endorsement.

  "In the wake of the special election in New York's 23 CD, it's become fashionable to push a GOP civil war narrative, but the reality — if you take a close look at these races on a race-by-race basis — is more prosaic," a GOP strategist who follows these races closely says.

  (tags: jim_demint carly_fiorina)
• Carly Fiorina: Mainstream Conservative – Why Michelle Malkin is WRONG
  Well, today, she gets her facts right in a piece on Carly Fiorina, but makes a very poor comparison, contending that that conservative woman is channeling in “her Dede Scozzafava” when she levels (what Malkin calls) her “strongest argument against DeVore [that he's] a white man and she’s not.“

  While I support Carly, I agree that this was not the best argument for her to make. Fiorina is as much a mainstream conservative as DeVore. Indeed, to compare the former HP CEO to Scozzafava only shows how different the two women are. Fiorina opposed the “stimulus” and is against “card check” legislation, two items on the Democratic agenda the New York Republican backed. On every major issue on which the Californian has offered an opinion, she has shown herself to be in the mainstream of American conservatism, even, alas, in her support for Proposition 8.

  No wonder such Senate conservatives as Tom Coburn, Jon Kyl and James Inhofe I have backed her.

  (tags: carly_fiorina michelle_malkin)
• Ace of Spades: Carly Fiorina Isn't Exactly Playing Identity Politics With Chuck DeVore
  I depart from Michelle Malkin on this particular point.

  I think it's perfectly acceptable to play the "gender card" as regards electability. Whether or not electability matters all that much, and whether someone's gender really has a big influence on electability, is a side question, which people can figure out for themselves.

  But to merely make mention of it? That's dirty pool?

  I don't think it is. Fiorina isn't exactly playing identity politics. She's not saying, as Sotomayor did, that she's better qualified due to her sex. Instead, she's saying that her sex might make her more appealing to female voters. That's not claiming superiority in the way we usually speak of it. She's saying that people vote for candidates for all sorts of reasons — being "just like me" being one of them — and that this will be helpful.

  (tags: Ace_of _Spades carly_fiorina Chuck_DeVore)
• Michelle Malkin Says Carly Fiorina channels Dede Scozzafava – Flap Disagrees
  Grass-roots conservatives, your attention, please: The NRCC and GOP dumped $1 million of your hard-earned money into radical Leftist Republican Dede Scozzafava’s NY-23’s campaign — money that was squandered trashing mainstream conservative candidate Doug Hoffman, who lost the race by less than 3,400 votes.

  Now, the GOP elite Senate candidate in California, Carly Fiorina, is running against Democrat Barbara Boxer by…trashing mainstream conservative GOP rival Chuck DeVore.

  Fiorina’s strongest argument against DeVore? He’s a white man and she’s not.
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  I'll have more on this tomorrow but Michelle Malkin plain and simple is wrong on this one.

  (tags: carly_fiorina Dede_Scozzafava)
• Dem. Rep. David Obey Warns President Obama of Afghanistan War Surtax
  The powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee has a stark message for President Obama about Afghanistan — sending more troops would be a mistake that could "wipe out every initiative we have to rebuild our own economy."
  "There ain't going to be no money for nothing if we pour it all into Afghanistan," House Appropriations Chairman David Obey told ABC News in an exclusive interview. "If they ask for an increased troop commitment in Afghanistan, I am going to ask them to pay for it."
  (tags: David_Obey barack_obama afghanistan)
• Shocker: Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government – Payback Time
  The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true.
  But that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, may not last much longer.

  Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a balloon of short-term borrowings that come due in the months ahead, and interest rates that are sure to climb back to normal as soon as the Federal Reserve decides that the emergency has passed.

  Even as Treasury officials are racing to lock in today’s low rates by exchanging short-term borrowings for long-term bonds, the government faces a payment shock similar to those that sent legions of overstretched homeowners into default on their mortgages.

  (tags: barack_obama economic_stimulus economics)
• Sarah Palin vs Barack Obama: The approval gap silently shrinks to a few points
  Not that it matters politically because obviously she's a female Republican dunce and he's a male Democrat genius.

  But Sarah Palin's poll numbers are strengthening.

  And Barack Obama's are sliding.

  Guess what? They're about to meet in the 40's.

  Depending, of course, on which recent set of numbers you peruse and how the questions are phrased, 307 days into his allotted 1,461 the 44th president's approval rating among Americans has slid to 49% or 48%, showing no popularity bounce from his many happy trips, foreign and domestic.
  Riding the wave of immense publicity and symbiotic media interest over her new book, "Going Rogue," and the accompanying promotional tour, Palin's favorable ratings are now at 43%, according to ABC. That's up from 40% in July.
  One poll even gives her a 47% favorable.

  (tags: sarah_palin barack_obama)

United States Senate candidate Carly Fiorina says, “I would have voted no.”

A day after the fragile Senate Democratic Caucus rallied to move the Democrats’ health care reform bill to the Senate floor for debate, the woman who wants to replace Sen. Barbara Boxer said Sunday that President Obama will have to “eat his words” on health care reform if the bill becomes law.

After telling CNN Chief National Correspondent John King that she does not support the health care reform bill crafted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Republican Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina took on President Obama over his top domestic agenda item during the first year of his administration.

“If you listen to what the President Obama said about this health care proposal, even he agreed with me. He said he wouldn’t sign into law a bill that increased the deficit. He said he wouldn’t sign into law a bill that increased the cost of health care. If this bill goes through, President Obama will have to eat his words or break his promise.”

Depending on what time frame is used to analyze the costs and revenues associated with the bill, Republicans and Democrats dispute whether the Reid bill is deficit-neutral. And Fiorina’s assertion that the Reid bill would increase health care costs is the criticism often leveled by conservatives against the new taxes that would be levied in order to pay for some of the bill’s costs, and to an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office which found that premiums in the public health insurance option would be higher than average because people taking advantage of the public option would be sicker than the rest of the population.

“I agree with the goals of health care reform,” Fiorina also told King. “What I strenuously disagree with is [the idea] that this bill, or the one that made it through the House, solves the problem in any way.”

Fiorina, a breast cancer survivor, also took issue with new recommendations from an independent task force as to when and how often women should get mammograms.

“Had I followed these recommendations… I could well not be sitting here,” Fiorina told King.

“The truth is all of these preventative techniques… are saving lives. Who is to say that a nameless, faceless government bureaucrat in Washington, D.C. should determine that my life is too expensive to save?”

In response to the report, Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the guidelines do not set federal policy and don’t determine what services are covered by the federal government. “Keep doing what you have been doing for years – talk to your doctor about your individual history, ask questions, and make the decision that is right for you,” Sebelius said in a statement.

Pressed on how health care reform could achieve cost containment, Fiorina responded that the focus should be on providing quality care.

Why, of course, it is just common sense that mandatory coverage of tens of millions more Americans with health care is going to cost more. Who is going to pay for it has always been the main question. The cost factor is what sunk Hillarycare back in the 1990′s only this time the Democrats have a super majority in the House and Senate.

The Democrats in the Congress, including Californai Senator Barbara Boxer will own Obamacare if this Obama legislative package becomes law. Then, Boxer will have to defend it ALL when she runs against Carly Fiorina in November 2010.

Employment, Cap and Trade, plus health care reform will be the main issues in the Boxer vs. Fiorina face off coming up soon.

Stay tuned…….

• Carly Fiorina's Cancer Warning – New Breast Cancer Advice "Defies Common Sense"
  Carly Fiorina, once the most powerful businesswoman in America and now a Republican candidate for the California Senate seat now held by Barbara Boxer, no longer sports her trademark, playful blond pixie cut. Fiorina learned she had breast cancer last February and underwent surgery in March. Just a month after finishing chemotherapy in early October, she announced her Senate run, hitting the campaign trail with a stylish buzz cut. So when the U.S. Preventive Task Force, a government-appointed panel of medical experts, announced Monday that it no longer recommends routine mammograms and breast self-exams for women under 50—and that even women over 50 should have the procedure only every other year—Fiorina, 55, had a lot to say. Had she followed those guidelines, “I’m not quite sure I’d be alive today,” Fiorina told The Daily Beast.
  (tags: carly_fiorina)
• Obamacare: Senators to Watch
  * Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) — According to Politico, she's already told Reid how she'll vote but she hasn't made her intentions public yet. A new poll shows her vote may be critical to her re-election prospects next year.
  * Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) — She's voiced opposition to the public option, but Bloomberg notes there was a $100 million addition to the bill to win her support
  * Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) — We've already documented his threats to block the public option, but he's stated publicly he'll at least vote to bring the bill to the Senate floor.
  * Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) — She was the only Republican senator to vote the bill out of the Senate Finance Committee, but she's also voiced opposition to the public option.
  (tags: Obamacare)
• Obamacare: Tell Your Senator to Vote NO on Cloture
  Call your Senator. Tell your Senator to vote NO on cloture on the motion to proceed. Tell your Senator that you consider a yes vote, a vote in favor of health care.
  (tags: Obamacare)
• How Sarah Palin Will Help John McCain Win Re-Election to the Senate
  The new Rasmussen poll for the 2010 Arizona GOP Primary—John McCain 45%, J. D. Hayworth 43%—will generate a fair amount of buzz. But August is a long way away, and I assume that when McCain gets back to Arizona and campaigns, he’ll pull it out.

  Still, who could help McCain beat back a populist conservative challenger? Sarah Palin. I predict that Palin will come to Arizona next summer to campaign for McCain, will make an impassioned case for him, and will help him win. She will thereby repay McCain for his confidence in picking her last year, help keep McCain as a crucial voice in the Senate for a strong foreign policy, and get credit for being a different kind of populist conservative—a Reaganite, not a Buchananite, populist—than the immigration-obsessed, voter-alienating (he was ousted in 2006 in a Republican district) Hayworth.

  (tags: sarah_palin john_mccain)
• Poll Watch: Rudy Giuliani Leads Favorable/Unfavorable in New York Senate Race
  Favorable / Unfavorable
  George Pataki: 51 / 44
  Kirsten Gillibrand: 40 / 37 (chart)
  David Paterson: 36 / 59 (chart)
  Rudy Giuliani: 58 / 38
  Rick Lazio: 36 / 44
  Andrew Cuomo: 56 / 34
  (tags: rudy_giuliani)
• Tea partyers turn on each other – Will the Movement Collapse?
  After emerging out of nowhere over the summer as a seemingly potent and growing political force, the tea party movement has become embroiled in internal feuding over philosophy, strategy and money and is at risk of losing its momentum.

  The grass-roots activists driving the movement have become increasingly divided on such core questions as whether to focus their efforts on shaping policy debates or elections, work on a local, regional, state or national level or closely align themselves with the Republican Party, POLITICO found in interviews with tea party organizers in Washington and across the country.

  (tags: Tea_Parties)