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    January 26, 2010 /
    • CA-Sen: The Woman That Can Win – Carly Fiorina
      Carly Fiorina is a conservative and principled woman who has the know-how and the support to win in a head-to-head battle with the legendary and rough campaign tactics of Boxer.
      Carly Fiorina is high-contrast to the tolerated Boxer. She is easily one of the most accomplished women in America. She is campaigning throughout California to standing ovations. In San Diego this month, a last minute upgrade to a giant ballroom was required to handle the growing crowds that arrived to hear her. Fiorina is Barbara Boxer’s worst nightmare because she has actually done something. Senator Boxer has no answer to Fiorina’s blue chip preparation and training, her two MBA’s, and work history that spans a receptionist desk all the way to the top of AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Hewlett Packard.
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      The Author, Sonja Brown was Deputy Communications Director and spokeswoman for Yes on Proposition 8 campaign to preserve traditional marriage
      (tags: carly_fiorina)
    • Obamacare: Democrats Now See ‘No Rush’ on Health Care Bill
      With no clear path forward on major health care legislation, Democratic leaders in Congress effectively slammed the brakes on President Obama’s top domestic priority on Tuesday, saying they no longer felt pressure to move quickly on a health bill after eight months of setting deadlines and missing them.
      The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, deflected questions about health care.

      “We’re not on health care now,” Mr. Reid said. “We’ve talked a lot about it in the past.”

      He added, “There is no rush,” and noted that Congress still had most of this year to work on the health bills passed in 2009 by the Senate and the House.

      Mr. Reid said he and the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, were working to map out a way to complete a health care overhaul in coming months. “There are a number of options being discussed,” he said, emphasizing “procedural aspects” of the issue.
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      Obamacare or at least the Senate bill version has died with the election of MA Senator Scott Brown

      (tags: Obamacare)
    • CA-Sen: Carly Fiorina Remind Washington who's in charge
      Conservatism, an optimism grounded in great faith in each individual, rests on the fundamental principle that people will make better choices for themselves and their families than others can make for them.

      It is the belief that we can trust individuals to make better decisions about how to spend and invest their own money than any far-away government bureaucrat or professional politician can.

      Conservatism is really about a return to the basics that every responsible family understands. Don't spend what we can't afford; make the tough priority calls about spending and keep track of where the dollars go; invest in the security and unlimited potential of our children; don't burden them with our debts.
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      Read it all

      (tags: carly_fiorina)
    • CA-Sen: Liberal Republican Tom Campbell Joins Race for Nomination Against Boxer
      At first glance, the seasoned observer of Golden State Republican politics is tempted to shrug and say “Who cares?” A Stanford University law professor and briefly state finance director under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Campbell represents the left-of-center of the state Republican Party that has been in decline for decades. He has already made two unsuccessful Senate runs. In losing nomination for the same Senate seat he now seeks to conservative Bruce Herschensohn in 1992, Campbell took decidedly liberal stands on abortion (his television spots almost always underscored he was the “pro-choice Republican”), gay rights, gun control, and the environment. He also was for abolishing the Strategic Defense Initiative and for the quota-laden Civil Rights Act of 1991.
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      When CA voters are reminded of his past positions he will sink like a stone in the polls
      (tags: tom_campbell)
    • FL-Sen: Marco Rubio Has Best Fundraising Quarter Yet – Now Leads in Polls
      Ex-FL House Speaker Marco Rubio (R) announced this a.m. that he raised $1.75M in the 4thQ '09, nearly matching FL Gov. Charlie Crist's (R) total during the same period.

      The numbers are more good news for Rubio, whose campaign seems to be riding a wave of momentum bolstered by any number of conservative victories, from Doug Hoffman's candidacy in NY-23 to Sen.-elect Scott Brown's (R) win in MA to Rubio's own victories in straw polls across FL.

      Now, a new Quinnipiac poll out this a.m. shows Rubio leading Crist for the first time. And an endorsement by ex-FL Gov. Jeb Bush (R) could be a matter of "when," not "if," following the endorsement of Bush's son, George P. Bush, last week.

      Despite his impressive 4thQ haul, Rubio still lags far behind Crist in terms of CoH. Crist currently has a hefty $7.5M in his war chest, dwarfing Rubio's $2M. That means Crist is well-positioned going into the seven months remaining until the 8/24 GOP primary.
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      Going to get down and dirty soon.

      (tags: Marco_Rubio charlie_crist)
    • Video Flashback: Obama Ridicules McCain’s Call for Spending Freeze
      The Washington Post 1-25-10: President Barack Obama, under pressure from deficit hawks, will seek a three-year freeze on domestic spending in his 2011 budget that would save $250 billion by 2020, administration officials said on Monday.
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      After spending America blind for the past year, President Obama now proposes a spending freeze?

      What about Obamacare?

      the largest increase in domestic spedning ever/

      (tags: Obamacare barack_obama john_mccain)
  • Chuck DeVore

    CA-Sen: Chuck DeVore’s BIRTHER Repositioning

    January 26, 2010 /
    chuckdevorespeaking Chuck DeVore With Obama Birther Connections Now Associates FDRs New Deal With Mussolini Fascism

    California Republican Assemblyman Chuck DeVore and Candidate for California U.S. Senate

    Looks like Chuck DeVore is repositioning himself away from his Obama Birther connections. You remember the FLAP.

    Chuck, your Obama birther connections are bad enough.

    It draws the links between Chuck’s support last year of Floyd Brown, an architect of the famous 1988 Willie Horton campaign against Michael Dukakis. Last year, Brown created a campaign to attack then Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Said Brown: “It is absolutely critical that Obama’s negatives go up with Republicans.”

    Brown’s ad focused on a 2001 vote by then-Illinois state senator Obama. He opposed a bill that would have expanded the use of the death penalty if the perp was in a gang.

    However, Chuck’s pals at Time magazine described the ad’s “links between Obama’s vote on that issue and the deaths of three Chicago resident’s are indirect and tenuous.”

    And, I assume you do not repudiate Floyd Brown since you gave him money.

    And, remember the Devore said this:

    Nonetheless, asked what he thought of Brown’s ideas, DeVore didn’t take the chance to denounce “birther” rumors or the movement itself–which has been heavily active in California.

    “The president is doing himself no favors by spending millions of dollars to block the release of documents surrounding his birth certificate,” said DeVore. “As long as the president keeps fighting tooth and nail to prevent the release of such things, people are going to remain skeptical.” The door was left open, said DeVore, because Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign didn’t go after Obama’s qualifications when it had the chance, and because there were no statutory requirements for verifying a candidate’s citizenship.

    But, now in a profile today DeVore has apparently “repositioned himself” with the Birther issue.

    Steinhauser dismissed any correlation between Tea Partiers and birthers in the state. “That issue is a distraction,” said Steinhauser, who believes Obama was born in the United States.

    DeVore does, too. But in 2008, he led (and gave $1,000 to) Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America, a political action committee. There, DeVore teamed with high-profile birther Floyd Brown to run an ad campaign against then-presidential candidates Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton that criticized their positions on taxes and immigration.

    So, Chuck, a little flip-flop or do you simply have two sets of answers? Or is your past Obama birtherism becoming a political liability/embarassment?

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  • Animals

    CA-Sen: Carly Fiorina A Brief Interview By Flap

    January 26, 2010 /

    Yes, I am late getting this interview processed and posted from the Conejo Valley Republican Women luncheon on January 15, 2010. But, I have posted the unedited audio on You Tube and it is embedded below.

    California U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina is interviewed by Gregory Flap Cole on January 15, 2010

    Prior to Carly Fiorina’s arrival, there were a few signing carrying protesters. They did not identify themselves, were sporting a video camera taking video of me taking photos and apparently were not too fond of any of the Republican candidates for office who were going to address the luncheon.

    Conejo Valley Republican Women Lunch January 15 2010 009

    This photo was one of the basis for a question I asked former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina above

    My entire photo set from the luncheon is here.

    My initial post of the Conejo Valley Republican Women luncheon is found here.

    Fiorina said she would run on the facts of her tenure at Hewlett Packard. While there has been much praise and criticism of her tenure at now the largest computer manufacturer, there is without a doubt that today Hewlett-Packard is a thriving company. Fiorina is anything but a “FAILED” businesswoman.

    Let’s look at some of the facts:

    Carly became CEO of Hewlett-Packard in July 1999 at the age of 44. Documents obtained from HP and the SEC for the fiscal years 1998 through 2005 show that the year before she became HP’s CEO, the computer giant’s net revenue was $39.3 billion. When she left the company in February 2005, HP’s net revenues had more than doubled to $86.7 billion and continued in the years that followed.

     

    Fiscal Year

    Net Revenue (in millions)

    2008

    118,364

    2007

    104,286

    2006

    91,658

    2005

    86,696

    2004

    79,905

    2003

    73,061

    2002

    56,588

    2001

    45,226

    2000

    48,870

    1999

    42,371

    1998

    39,330

    HP’s net earnings during Carly’s time at HP tell a slightly different story. Profits increased the first few years, took a hit during the technology crash and Compaq merger, and have come roaring back in the years that followed.

    Fiscal Year

    Net Earnings (in millions)

    2008

    8,329

    2007

    7,264

    2006

    6,198

    2005

    2,398

    2004

    3,497

    2003

    2,539

    2002

    -903

    2001

    680

    2000

    3,561

    1999

    3,104

    1998

    2,678

    I will have more throughout the coming months about Fiorina’s business tenure at Hewlett-Packard and will debunk many of the myths cast about by her political opponents on the right and left.

    Stay tuned……..

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  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day,  Obamacare

    Day By Day January 26, 2009 – STFU

    January 26, 2010 /


    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    No, Chris!

    You want to keep President Obama talking and the State of the Union address is a perfect way to demonstrate how his Administration policies have been a disaster for America. Despite the hype and the rhetoric, Obama’s poll numbers are in a free fall downward and he is flailing about for ways to aid the American economy.

    Now, after spending the federal government blind and raising taxes, Obama is talking about proposing a federal budget spending freeze. What about Obamacare?

    Obamacare would be the greatest increase in entitlement spending ever and the tax increases to pay for it would be huge.

    The fact is the President does NOT know what he wants except the ability to stay in office for himself and his cronies on the LEFT.

    PLUS CA CHANGE

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