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Barbara Boxer campaigning for re-election to the United States Senate (I mean touring) still cannot get her facts straight.

Watch the video above.

Doesn’t Senator Boxer seem confused?

The facts she does NOT mention are:

As San Diego TV station KUSI reports, Senator Boxer was at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) yesterday to try to promote the stimulus’ effect on job growth. One big problem though – earlier this year, Boxer said the stimulus was needed to keep unemployment under 8% but “instead the opposite has happened” – California’s unemployment is now over 10% and the state “is still losing jobs.”

What’s more — digging past Boxer’s rhetoric yesterday, KUSI also reports that of the $45 million in stimulus money UCSD is scheduled to receive, only 15% is actually targeted to job growth and to date, only ONE job has been created and credited to the stimulus in San Diego. Probably not the type of local press coverage Boxer was expecting before scheduling this made-for-TV tour at UCSD.

Senator, don’t you know where the money is coming from?

Answer: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) NOT your beloved pork-laden Democrat PORKULUS.

The Obama Administration, including Senators like California’s Barbara Boxer have been defending the $757 billion economic stimulus bill (using borrowed money) even though it has NOT delivered new jobs like they promised. The fact is the economic stimulus has been as much a failure as Senator Boxer in passing legislation. Watch Carly Fiorina bag on her in the video above.

Time for Senator Boxer to go in 2010.

• Sarah Palin Eyeing Talk Show?
  Wouldn't give Oprah a yes/no answer, but witnesses left with the impression she was considering it.
  Sarah Palin is eyeing a talk show, according to audience members who witnessed the former VP candidate's interview with Oprah today.

  Oprah asked Palin directly whether she wanted to get into the talk show business. Palin demurred and, according to audience members interviewed outside the studio, suggested she was considering the move. Palin did not give a direct yes or no answer.

  In addition, at least one audience member noticed tension between Oprah and Palin.

  Oprah " kept on her and on her," said Lauren Espie of Oprah's inquiries into Palin's plans to host a talk show. But Palin "bluntly never responded."

  (tags: sarah_palin)
• A Year Out, Widespread Anti-Incumbent Sentiment:
  About half (52%) of registered voters would like to see their own representative re-elected next year, while 34% say that most members of Congress should be re-elected. Both measures are among the most negative in two decades of Pew Research surveys. Other low points were during the 1994 and 2006 election cycles, when the party in power suffered large losses in midterm elections.

  Support for congressional incumbents is particularly low among political independents. Only 42% of independent voters want to see their own representative re-elected and just 25% would like to see most members of Congress re-elected. Both measures are near all-time lows in Pew Research surveys.

  (tags: GOP Polling)
• Poll Watch: Is Obama taking too long on Afghanistan decision? Americans Split
  Americans are split over whether President Barack Obama is taking too long to make a decision on whether to send more U.S. troops to the war in Afghanistan, according to a new national poll.

  But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey also indicates that by a narrow margin, Americans think that in making his decision, the president should listen to the recommendations of the generals in charge of U.S. troops in Afghanistan rather than taking other matters into account as well.

  (tags: afghanistan barack_obama Polling)
• Poll Watch: Republicans Edge Ahead of Democrats in 2010 House Vote
  Republicans have moved ahead of Democrats by 48% to 44% among registered voters in the latest update on Gallup's generic congressional ballot for the 2010 House elections, after trailing by six points in July and two points last month.
  (tags: GOP Polling)
• What’s In Sarah Palin’s Book – Going Rogue?
  Nervous and curious McCain-Palin staffers have been buzzing for weeks with speculation about what Sarah Palin has chosen to include in “Going Rogue.”

  Books have begun being shipped out in advance of the November 17th release date. Last week, some of Palin's associates received copies.

  Based on discussions with various sources who have seen or been briefed on the book's contents, here's what you can expect from “Going Rogue”:

  * just five chapters—but they are very, very long.

  * some score settling with McCain aides she believes ill-served her (names will be named).

  * a hearty bashing of the national media.

  * an account of how her upbringing shaped her maverick sensibilities.

  * a testimonial to the importance of faith in her life.

  * a warm and personal tone, written in Palin's own voice, despite the involvement of a collaborator.

  (tags: sarah_palin)

• A Thumbnail Guide To Some Top Republican House Targets In 2010
  The motion of the ocean aside, here's a quick guide to some Democratic House members that Republicans believe are genuinely vulnerable in a year when President Obama isn't on the ballot. (Note: isn't it interesting how this formulation admits that, were Obama to be on the ballot, some of these folks wouldn't be as vulnerable?) Even though the NRCC hasn't recruited challengers in all of these districts, they've begun to target the incumbents in radio ads and through auto-dial calls in an effort to both test how vulnerable these Democrats are and begin to soften them up if they aren't. There are potentially vulnerable Dems not on this list, but I'm sticking to the races where the GOP has spent the most money (on TV, on polling, on recruitment) so far.
  (tags: GOP)
• Confessions of an ObamaCare Backer – New Entitlement Program
  The typical argument for ObamaCare is that it will offer better medical care for everyone and cost less to do it, but occasionally a supporter lets the mask slip and reveals the real political motivation. So let's give credit to John Cassidy, part of the left-wing stable at the New Yorker, who wrote last week on its Web site that "it's important to be clear about what the reform amounts to."

  Mr. Cassidy is more honest than the politicians whose dishonesty he supports. "The U.S. government is making a costly and open-ended commitment," he writes. "Let's not pretend that it isn't a big deal, or that it will be self-financing, or that it will work out exactly as planned. It won't. What is really unfolding, I suspect, is the scenario that many conservatives feared. The Obama Administration . . . is creating a new entitlement program, which, once established, will be virtually impossible to rescind."

  (tags: Obamacare)
• Sen. Barbara Boxer: Senate Has Votes To Block Stupak Amendment – Federal Funds for Abortion in Obamacare
  One of Congress's foremost champions of abortion rights said on Monday that the Senate did not have the votes to add a more restrictive anti-abortion amendment to health care reform legislation.

  Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said that 60 votes would be needed to strip the current health care bill of its abortion-related language and replace it with a version resembling that passed by the House of Representatives on Saturday. And, in an interview with the Huffington Post, the California Democrat predicted that pro-choice forces in the Senate would keep that from happening.

  "If someone wants to offer this very radical amendment, which would really tear apart [a decades-long] compromise, then I think at that point they would need to have 60 votes to do it," Boxer said. "And I believe in our Senate we can hold it."

  (tags: abortion)
• CA-Sen Poll: Public doesn’t know GOP Senate hopefuls
  In a new USC/LA Times poll released today neither former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina or Irvine Assemblyman Chuck DeVore are known by most in the GOP.

  Some key findings:
  Name recognition: Boxer: 88 percent; Fiorina: 29 percent; DeVore: 19 percent. Fiorina just announced her candidacy last week but it’s been known for months that she’s running.

  Who’s winning in GOP primary: Neither of them. The poll shows Fiorina and DeVore tied at 27 percent each with a whopping 40 percent undecided.

  Six in ten of voters, the LA Times reports, said they didn’t know enough about either GOP hopeful to have an impression of them.

  (tags: Chuck_DeVore carly_fiorina)
• Obamacare: Senate faces abortion rights rift – Democrats in Open Revolt
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found his health reform efforts seriously complicated Monday by the explosive issue of abortion, as key centrist senators said they wanted to see airtight language in the bill blocking federal funding for the procedure.

  Abortion threatened to derail a House health reform bill Saturday, and now it’s standing in the way of Reid’s attempts to get 60 votes as well, with Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) saying he wants to see language as restrictive as the House’s in the Senate bill.

  If the language isn’t clear in prohibiting federal funds for abortion, “you could be sure I would vote against it,” said Nelson, who met with Reid on Monday.

  (tags: abortion Obamacare)