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Day By Day by Chris Muir
A ZED twin?
Now, this makes life interesting for the bar construction.
Speaking of twins or clones, it looks like President Obama is reviving Obamacare from its death bed. This will be a major resurrection and there is even discussion of passing the public option in the Senate using budget reconciliation.
Does Obama want to kill off the reamainder of his Democrat collegaues in the Congress?
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California Assemblyman and U.S. Senate candidate Chuck DeVore at CPAC today
Probably just HOT AIR from you, Chuck.
But, if those around you say your breath is toxic, I suggest you find another dentist and FAST.
Come on, this GEEK wants to be a United States Senator?
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The United Nations' nuclear watchdog for the first time Thursday explicitly voiced concern that Iran is trying to make a nuclear bomb, amid signs of fraying relations between the agency's inspectors and authorities in the Islamic Republic.
The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran last week produced its first batch of 20% enriched uranium, based on scientific data it was given by Iranian officials who plan to use the more highly purified nuclear fuel at a Tehran medical reactor.
The IAEA also said it had not yet resolved questions about documents that suggest Iran was engaged in experiments consistent with a clandestine nuclear program. Iran has called the documents forgeries.
"The information . . . raises concerns about the possible existence in Iran of past or current undisclosed activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile," the report said.
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Well, no shit Sherlock – Iran ha been developing a nuclear weapon for years
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Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina may now be running against a former congressman in the California Senate GOP primary, but she's still the one receiving the active backing of some high-powered Republicans back in Washington.
Fiorina is heading back to D.C. for a Feb. 25 fundraiser hosted by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Assistant Minority Leader Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), according to an invitation obtained by CQ-Roll Call. Also on the host committee for the cocktail reception at Johnny's Half Shell are longtime GOP strategist and lobbyist Charlie Black and wife Judy; and leading Washington lobbyists Kirk Blalock, Phil Anderson and Wayne Berman.
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A welter of Bay Area lawmakers led by Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez, and others from Oregon and Washington state wrote Sen. Dianne Feinstein today to urge her to back off her controversial plan to increase water deliveries to farms in the San Joaquin Valley, citing plummeting salmon populations.
"The Feinstein plan will put thousands of families out of work from the fishing industry and local economies of the Pacific Coast," Miller charged. He accused Feinstein of trying to "legislatively override" endangered species protections and "legislate the salmon into extinction."
The Sacramento River's Chinook salmon population has dropped from 750,000 in 2002 to 40,000 last year and North Coast commercial fishing has been shut down for three years.
Bay Area Democrats arrayed against Feinstein are: Napa's Mike Thompson, San Jose's Zoe Lofgren, Marin's Lynn Woolsey, and Walnut Creek's John Garamendi.
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Rasmussen
2/16-17/10; 500 likely voters, 4.5% margin of error
Mode: Automated phone
(Rasmussen release)
Indiana
2010 Senate
48% Coats (R). 32% Hill (D)
49% Hostettler (R), 31% Hill (D)
41% Stutzman (R), 33% Hill (D)
46% Coats (R), 32% Ellsworth (D)
46% Hostettler (R), 27% Ellsworth (D)
40% Stutzman (R), 30% Ellsworth (D)
Favorable / Unfavorable
Dan Coats: 54 / 27
Baron Hill: 39 / 35
Marlin Stutzman: 35 / 25
John Hostettler: 48 / 22
Brad Ellsworth: 35 / 29
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Dan Coats should be able to handle any Dem candidates
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Fourteen and counting.
Senators Barbara Boxer, Jack Reed and Tom Udall have all now signed the letter pushing for a reconcilation vote on the public option, the group organizing the push confirms, bringing the total of Senators now pushing for the vote to roughly a fourth of the Dem caucus.
That means the number of signatories to the letter, which calls on Harry Reid to allow a vote on the public option under reconcilation rules, has more than tripled in two days.
“Going from 0 to 4 to 14 senators on the record in 2 days?†Adam Green, a spokesman for the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, emails. “This is what momentum looks like.â€
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Jam it through…….
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The society had been founded in 1958 by an earnest and capable entrepreneur named Robert Welch, a candy man, who brought together little clusters of American conservatives, most of them businessmen. He demanded two undistracted days in exchange for his willingness to give his seminar on the Communist menace to the United States, which he believed was more thoroughgoing and far-reaching than anyone else in America could have conceived. His influence was near-hypnotic, and his ideas wild. He said Dwight D. Eisenhower was a “dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy,†and that the government of the United States was “under operational control of the Communist party.†It was, he said in the summer of 1961, “50-70 percent†Communist-controlled.
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Read it all.
CPAC should NOT have allowed a remade JBS to be a co-sponsor.
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Since Richard Nixon was president, the Conservative Political Action Conference has provided the American Right with an annual occasion for self-evaluation. On Thursday, when some 10,000 activists gather in Washington for this year’s conference, they will find themselves part of a conservative movement significantly different than it was during the Bush administration, or even in 2009.
A jolt of anti-Obama populist energy has upended the movement’s traditional hierarchy, lifting some new or previously low profile groups to unprecedented heights while leaving traditional powers struggling to adapt.
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Seizing on a roiling national security debate, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina on Tuesday called on the Obama administration to try suspects in the Sept. 11 terror attacks in military tribunals rather than civilian courts.
At a news conference at San Francisco International Airport, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO appeared with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who has spearheaded a Republican effort to bar terrorism suspects from federal courts, where they generally are afforded more legal rights than before military commissions.
Attorney General Eric Holder had proposed trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, one of the alleged co-conspirators in the 9/11 attacks, in federal court in Manhattan.
But President Barack Obama is now looking for another trial venue after facing resistance from New York City officials and Republican critics.
Graham in November proposed a measure to bar federal funding for civilian trials of Sept. 11 terror suspects, but it was shelved by Dems
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Make no mistake where Zed’s attentions are focused – not on the bar partner.
However, the Afghanistan and military call might be another matter.
Stay tuned…….as the bar continues its construction and Zed continues to “DRILL.”
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has filed initial paperwork to run for lieutenant governor.
According to forms filed with the Secretary of State's office Wednesday, Newsom took the first steps to becoming a statewide candidate again.
Newsom has said he is keeping his options open after dropping out of the gubernatorial race. He faced tough odds against Attorney General Jerry Brown, who is expected to declare his candidacy in the next few weeks.
Newsom is best known for approving same-sex marriages in his famously liberal hometown.
He would compete against state Sen. Dean Florez and Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn for the Democratic nomination.
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The GOP better shore up its candidates
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Yesterday, I reminded you about the pan-terrorist “record†of liberal Republican Tom Campbell, a very wealthy man who is running for the U.S. Senate from California. I’ve been on the case of Campbell–an open supporter of a ton of Islamic terrorists and terrorist groups, and an avowed enemy of Israel–for years. Unfortunately, he keeps rearing his ugly head because Republicans and Jewish Republicans continue to look the other way and even promote him.
After I posted the item, I heard from a friend, who is very much a person in the know. I can’t say more other than the person is eminently reliable and informed. This is a MUST-READ for anyone considering voting for Tom Campbell in the event he is the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer.
I have just finished reading your posting on Tom Campbell.
On or about August 30, 2000, the American Muslim Association had a convention in Irvine, Ca. at a hotel.
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As backers of Jerry Brown gear up their efforts to take on Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, more of Whitman's backers are urging Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner to fold his gubernatorial campaign in the name of "unity."
An e-mail released this morning from three state lawmakers who were backing Whitman said the time had come for Poizner to step aside.
"Democrats have made it clear they will do whatever it takes to help the faltering campaign of Steve Poizner, but we cannot let that happen," said the e-mail, signed by Assembly members Jim Nielsen (R-Yuba City), Connie Conway (R-Tulare) and Sen. Mark Wyland (R-Escondido). "It's time for Steve to do the right thing, step aside and join us in supporting Meg Whitman so we can stop Jerry Brown in November and end business as usual in Sacramento."
The e-mail was met with an angry response from Poizner's campaign.
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GOP leaders in Washington are pushing the Senate candidacy of Carly Fiorina, former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, in California, where they hope Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer is vulnerable.
Ms. Fiorina is opposed in the GOP primary by former Rep. Tom Campbell and State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore. Party leaders say privately they wonder if Mr. DeVore, a staunch conservative, in particular would have the funds or the appeal to win statewide. Mr. DeVore, in an interview, strongly disputed that view.
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Chuck DeVore and Tom Campbell have a decided financial disadvantage as compared to Carly Fiorina
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CPAC hasn’t even officially started and already its making news. Mediaite has learned that leading center-right web site Hot Air has been acquired by Salem Communications for an undisclosed sum. Sources close to the deal claim that Michelle Malkin, the conservative pundit and sole owner of Hot Air, has been in talks with Salem for some time, but the announcement was timed to coincide with the Conservative Political Action Conference, which opens tomorrow in Washington D.C.
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Good for Michelle and good for Salem Communications
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Nothing official yet, but San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is putting together a campaign team for a possible run for lieutenant governor and will probably submit a ballot statement today to go in the state voter guide.
Expected onboard the new effort: Sacramento consultant Jason Kinney, Internet organizer Theo Yedinksy and former mayoral spokesman Peter Ragone.
As in his aborted campaign for governor, Newsom's biggest challenges would be raising money – not his strong suit – and selling himself to a statewide voting public more centrist than he's accustomed to in San Francisco.
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Teamed up with Ol' Crusty Jerry Brown it will be the young and the old. And, all left all of the time.
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In its first on-air foray — a 30-second radio ad attacking Meg Whitman — an independent Democratic group is being accused of meddling in the Republican gubernatorial primary and favoring Whitman's GOP opponent Steve Poizner.
The group, Level The Playing Field 2010, released the radio ad Tuesday that directly attacks Whitman for planning to spend her personal fortune to win the governorship.
"She's threatening to spend one hundred and fifty million dollars to crown herself governor," a woman's voice intones.
The ad, and where it was placed — stations that cater to conservative listeners — convinced Whitman's campaign that Brown's supporters are trying to pick sides in the GOP primary.
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Just like the Dems did with Riordan and Simon years ago. They realize Whitman is a stronger candidate against ol Crusty Jerry Brown and his likely partner Gavin Newsom
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"The fact that Boxer's support has been stuck in the mid-40s for several surveys no matter which Republican she is matched against continues to suggest that the race for now is about her rather than about those who are running against her," Rasmussen Reports states.
Boxer's been there before, running poorly in pre-election polls but has always managed to win, sometimes by a little, sometimes by a lot. What puts her on the endangered list this year is the very sour attitude of voters toward all incumbents, regardless of party.
"All national and state incumbents are in trouble with registered voters in California, but incumbents in California are especially held in low regard," another polling outfit, El Cajon-based Datamar, says in its analysis of recent data. "More than half of all respondents want incumbents in California voted out of office in the next election, with Republicans and independents leading the charge."
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Independent voters will decide this race.
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