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    • It is in this light that we view the conflict between the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the Senatorial campaign of California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore on which I am privileged to serve as communications director. Enough has been written about it here at RedState and elsewhere, and it’s sufficient to note two things: first, that the conflict was consciously chosen by the NRSC when it decided to recruit and sustain Carly Fiorina as a moderate-pragmatist alternative to the conservative stalwart; and second, that this conflict is not the foundation for conservative victory in California in 2010.

      It is therefore over as far as we’re concerned.
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      The war was one of diminishing returns for the DeVore campaign anyway. Did it buy DeVore any more votes and any more fundraising dollars?

      Doubtful……

    • Ben Nelson’s “Cornhusker Kickback,” as the GOP is calling it, got all the attention Saturday, but other senators lined up for deals as Majority Leader Harry Reid corralled the last few votes for a health reform package.

      Nelson’s might be the most blatant – a deal carved out for a single state, a permanent exemption from the state share of Medicaid expansion for Nebraska, meaning federal taxpayers have to kick in an additional $45 million in the first decade.

      But another Democratic holdout, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), took credit for $10 billion in new funding for community health centers, while denying it was a “sweetheart deal.” He was clearly more enthusiastic about a bill he said he couldn’t support just three days ago.

    • I am a baby boomer, which is to say my life has coincided with turbulent and awesome times. From the Cold War to Vietnam, from Watergate to Monicagate, through the horrors of 9/11 and the stunning lifestyle advances, my generation's era has been historic and exciting.

      Yet for all the drama and change, the years only occasionally instilled in me the sensation I feel almost constantly now. I am afraid for my country.

      I am afraid — actually, certain — we are losing the heart and soul that made America unique in human history. Yes, we have enemies, but the greatest danger comes from within.
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      Either America corrects the mistake of Obama and the LEFT in 2010 or we continue to sink into the abyss of socialism.

      (tags: LEFT Socialism)
    • With Obamacare, you get the good, the bad, and the ugly — except for the first part.

      The Congressional Budget Office's score is in for the final Senate health bill, and it's amazing how little Americans would get for so much.

      The Democrats are irresponsibly and disingenuously claiming that the bill would cost $871 billion over 10 years. But that's not what the CBO says. Rather, the CBO says that $871 billion would be the costs from 2010 to 2019 for expansions in insurance coverage alone. But less than 2 percent of those "10-year costs" would kick in before the fifth year of that span. In its real first 10 years (2014 to 2023), the CBO says that the bill would cost $1.8 trillion — for insurance coverage expansions alone. Other parts of the bill would cost approximately $700 billion more, bringing the bill's full 10-year tab to approximately $2.5 trillion — according to the CBO.

      (tags: Obamacare CBO)
    • The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) corrected its estimate of the Senate health bill's costs on Sunday, saying it would reduce deficits slightly less than they'd predicted.

      In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf said that the nonpartisan budget office had overestimated the extent to which the legislation's new Independent Payment Advisory Board would bring down the deficit.

      While the CBO's estimates of the board's and overall bill's impact in its first 10 years of the legislation are correct, Elmendorf wrote, the program's effects on deficit reduction during the second decade of the program were overestimated.

      (tags: Obamacare CBO)
  • Day By Day

    Day By Day December 20, 2009 – Avatars



    Day by Day by Chris Muir

    I have seen the Avatar trailer over and over at the films I did care to see and the story line looked like the typical big corporate business or country, plus military against the poor indigenous peoples being exploited for their resources, etc etc. theme.

    So, unless Flap Jr. wants to see the special effects and the 3D, I will pass.

    Hollywood is so predictable even when they spend $500 million.

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