Archive for January, 2010
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A new poll in Boston:
“It’s a Brown-out,†said Paleologos, director of Suffolk’s Political Research Center. “It’s a massive change in the political landscape.â€
The poll shows Brown, a state senator from Wrentham, besting Coakley, the state’s attorney general, by 50 percent to 46 percent, the first major survey to show Brown in the lead. Unenrolled long-shot Joseph L. Kennedy, an information technology executive with no relation to the famous family, gets 3 percent of the vote. Only 1 percent of voters were undecided.
Even if you're a Democrat, somewhere deep down you know that Martha Coakley wasn't what your party needed at this stage in the political cycle – a grim hack career pol embarrassingly stupid
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The communications director for California Republican Senate candidate Chuck DeVore tweeted on Thursday that America, the world and even charity organizations should immediately leave the island once immediate and limited recovery is done.
"[T]he best thing the int'l community can do is tend the wounded, bury the dead, and then LEAVE. That includes all UN and charity," wrote Josh Trevino.
This seems a bit blunt, even for the most non-interventionist of Republican candidates (DeVore is a Tea Party favorite). But it also is a reflection of Americans' widespread skepticism about the prospects of building a functioning and stable Haitian society.
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A crass statement that will bite DeVore in the ass.
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Back when he was taken seriously as a politician, John Edwards used to talk about there being two Americas. Well it turns out, that's a good description of life under President Obama. If you're part of one America, you have to pay a tax if you receive generous health benefits. But if you're part of the other America that has contributed handily to Democratic campaigns and has access to the White House, you can receive those same benefits without paying a tax.
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A former chief United Nations weapons inspector is accused of contacting what he thought was a 15-year-old girl in an Internet chat room, engaging in a sexual conversation and showing himself masturbating on a Web camera.
Scott Ritter of Delmar, N.Y., who served as chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-98 and who was an outspoken critic of the second Bush administration in the run-up to the war in Iraq, is accused of contacting what turned out to be a Barrett Township police officer posing undercover as a teen girl.
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What a creep.
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Democratic desperation and other compelling evidence strongly suggest that Democrats may well lose the late Senator Edward Kennedy’s Senate seat in Tuesday’s special election. Because of this, we are moving our rating of the race from Narrow Advantage for the Incumbent Party to Toss-Up.
Whatever the shortcomings of the Coakley campaign (and they certainly exist), this race has become about change, President Obama and Democratic control of all of the levers of power in Washington, D.C. Brown has “won†the “free media†over the past few days, and if he continues to do so, he will win the election.
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The Ventura County Democratic Party is planning to disrupt a major candidate forum hosted by a Republican women's group on Friday that will feature gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner and senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina, as well as a bevy of hopefuls for lower offices.
Interestingly, it's the Democrats who derided self-generated local Tea Party protests as "Astroturf," so I wonder what they call it when their party carefully organizes a demonstration down to the details of the appropriate size of the protest signs to use and what to write on them. (They are unknowingly instructing their members to incorrectly spell the name of Afghanistan veteran Jeff Gorell–at least grant him the respect of getting his name right if you're going to disparage him.)
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Flap will be there and hopefully be able to interview Carly Fiorina and Steve Poizner
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Hindsight's 20-20, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid now thinks he and leading Democrats, at the behest of the White House, flushed months down the toilet courting Sen. Olympia Snowe's (R-ME) support for health care reform.
"As I look back it was a waste of time dealing with [Snowe]," Reid is quoted as saying about the White House in a forthcoming New York Times Magazine piece, "because she had no intention of ever working anything out."
That's a harsh but understandable assessment. The White House was banking on Snowe's support for months, both as a means of securing conservative Democrats' support for the bill, and as a failsafe, in case Reid came up short on votes in the Democratic caucus..
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Trying to provide political cover for your fellow Democrats comes at a price, Dingy Harry.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
The Democrats and the Martha Coakley campaign are getting desperate to retain Ted Kennedy’s United States Senate seat in Massachusetts.
In the final days of the race for Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s seat, Ms. Coakley — the Democratic candidate, state attorney general and onetime shoo-in for victory — is on the defensive. Polls have suggested that Scott Brown, her Republican opponent and until recently a little-known state senator, is gaining traction with unaffiliated voters and even some Democrats, electrifying a race that had seemed blandly predictable.
With a crucial 60th vote in the Senate at stake, the perceived tightening has sent Democratic operatives scrambling to Massachusetts to help the Coakley campaign and has prompted groups on both sides of the aisle to bombard the state with advertising. Ms. Coakley forcefully attacked Mr. Brown this week, an unusual step for a front-runner, painting him as an acolyte of former President George W. Bush who is out of touch with the state’s values.
And, how about the Coakley aide shoving down the conservative journalist from The Weekly Standard?
Anatomy of a spin job gone bad. First, McCormack gets shoved — on video, with a photo showing Coakley standing right there. The Democrats’ Senate campaign arm then issues a statement calling it, surreally, some sort of Republican “dirty trick.†The AP duly answers the call of the home team by putting out a whitewashed account of what happened, insisting that McCormack merely stumbled before being helped to his feet by the kindly Democrat looming over him. Then it’s Coakley’s turn to insist that she’s “not privy to the facts†of what happened despite the photo showing her looking right at McCormack as he hit the ground.
Finally, inevitably, with all spin angles crushed by the documentary evidence, the obligatory apology is issued.
You know what they say about ABSOLUTE power….. and the LEFT’S attempt to hold it.
Obviously, it is get out of our way.
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According to Lyle Denniston on SCOTUSblog, the Supreme Court, following up on its earlier interim order, has just issued an order barring broadcasting of the anti-Proposition 8 trial in California. The vote was 5 to 4.
The majority (the Chief Justice and Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito) rules that Judge Walker’s broadcast order should be stayed “because it appears the courts below did not follow the appropriate procedures set forth in federal law before changing their rules to allow such broadcasting†and because irreparable harm would result from the denial of the stay
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No show trial for Proposition 8.
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As a result of culture and geography, Mr. Obama's Afghan surge will likely fall short of its objectives while spending $40 billion per year. Employing conventional forces in pursuit of terrorists and guerrilla forces is always an expensive proposition. Attempting to build nations on soil not yet fertile to the concepts of democracy and national unity is even more problematic. Neither is needed to produce the result we want: deadly consequences for attacking Americans. This can be done with special forces, drones and better human intelligence.
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Sounds like Pat Buchanan's America First foreign policy or maybe a combination of Buchanan and Ron Paul with open ended questions as to not appear extreme.
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Given DeVore's support from the conservative grassroots, his non-interventionist position could indicate a switch in party position as President Obama is approaching a year of ownership of this war. Liberal Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer also opposes the Afghan surge. His primary opponent, Carly Fiorina — who is often called a "RINO" — supports the president's surge. The Republican consensus thus far has been to support the surge.
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An isolationist Ron Paul type stance which is dangerous. And, strikingly similar to Senator Barbara Boxer's position.
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76. Jeb Bush (86)
Jeb Bush; The most influential US conservatives
Former Florida Governor
With the slow but steady rehabilitation of the Bush name, the Bush brother who many say was the one who should have been President remains a potential national candidate. A very popular former governor of a major swing state and with proper conservative credentials, if his name hadn’t been Bush, he might have been the ideal candidate for the party in 2008.
Since leaving office in 2007, Bush toyed with running for the Senate seat to be vacated by Mel Martinez and has been active in the think tank Project for the New American Century. Along with Mitt Romney and Eric Cantor he launched the National Council for a New America, designed for Republican leaders with to listen to voters across the country and will remain a powerful voice behind the scenes. Whether he moves to the front of the stage again remains to be seen.
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A new Rasmussen survey finds Sen. Harry Reid's (D-NV) support among Nevada voters plummeting since his remarks about President Obama were reported in Game Change.
Reid gets just 36% of the vote against his two top Republican challengers. That's a seven-point drop from 43% a month ago.
However, the poll also shows that neither of the Republicans — Sue Lowden (R) and Danny Tarkanian (R) — gained any ground in the new survey, "highlighting the fact that the race continues to be a referendum on Reid rather than an outpouring of support for either of the top GOP hopefuls."
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Look for the GOP to coalesce around one candidate to run against Reid
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Las Vegas and alcohol probably aren't the first two things that come to mind at the mention of Sarah Palin, but the former vice presidential candidate is about to change that.
At least that's according to Craig Wolf, the president and CEO of the Wine and Liquor Wholesalers of America, who announced Tuesday that Palin will keynote the group's annual convention and and expo in Las Vegas in early April.
"Governor Palin is a great supporter of America's free enterprise system and understands that industries like the beverage alcohol industry play a key role in driving our national economy. We're proud and honored to welcome her as a speaker," Wolf said in a statement. "We expect she will share with the convention attendees her analysis of the current political environment and her vision for America's future."
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On the road with Sarah Palin
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California Assemblyman and U.S. Senate candidate Chuck DeVore Tweeting
Oops Josh Trevino, Chuck DeVore’s spokeshole has done it again.
Campaign spokesman Josh Trevino alerted Chuck DeVore’s legions of followers and fans to a piece in the Washington Independent on the entry of Tom Campbell into the U.S. Senate race that seemingly provides ammunition to Carly Fiorina’s camp.
Trevino latched onto reporter Dave Weigel’s characterization of Campbell’s Senate candidacy as a “vote of no-confidence” in the Fiorina campaign.
The piece notes that Campbell, as finance director for Arnold Schwarzenegger, “helped muscle through” the 2005 budget. Legislative analysis noted, “that expenditures are projected to grow from $81.7 billion in 2004-05 to $90 billion in 2005-06, an increase of over 10 percent.”
So naturally one would assume DeVore stood opposed in all his conservative glory. But he actually joined with the Democrats and voted for the budget that also included funding for abortion.
This is pretty funny stuff. Chuck DeVore’s campaign bolstering the argument that Carly Fiorina is better on the issue of fiscal responsibility than himself. Every California voter knows the last few California budgets have been a disaster for the economy here.
It is almost as funny as DeVore’s op-ed today in the Washington Times on the issue of Afghanistan – where he flip-flops.
“As a result of culture and geography, Mr. Obama’s Afghan surge will likely fall short of its objectives while spending $40 billion per year. Employing conventional forces in pursuit of terrorists and guerrilla forces is always an expensive proposition. Attempting to build nations on soil not yet fertile to the concepts of democracy and national unity is even more problematic. Neither is needed to produce the result we want: deadly consequences for attacking Americans. This can be done with special forces, drones and better human intelligence.” (emphasis added)
Remember what DeVore said previously in a statement where he bashed President Obama speaking at West Point:
“The first reason is that the number of Americans is insufficient for the task at hand and added incrementally as to give the Taliban a chance to adjust.”
Gee, I am no foreign policy expert but I know a flip when I read one. Or, was Chuck simply dancing around the issue to see if an Afghan “surge” would be successful, then he could claim being right on the issue. So, what is it Chuck?
Want to bet whether Carly Fiorina will be using this DeVore OPPO research?
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
Creating the “politically correct” ambience in the new bar environment is important in a new business enterprise. Senator Harry Reid with his “Negro dialect” talk will not win you many friends – unless they need you to pass health care entitlement expansion.
On the other hand, a big drinker like Senator Max Baucus who then will publicly show his inebriation on the floor of the U.S. Senate might be good marketing. But, you are correct in making sure he pays his bar tab up front and be sure to keep some of the ladies away.
Then, there is Bill Clinton…….
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