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    • Looking ahead to the general election, Boxer’s campaign is wagering that Palin’s endorsement will be a drag on Fiorina as she tries to woo Democrats and Independent voters to overcome her party’s registration disadvantage. On Monday, the Boxer campaign launched a web video on their anti-Fiorina website that splices together clips of Palin and Fiorina with criticism of their positions on guns, oil drilling and abortion. The closing message: “Sarah Palin and Carly Fiorina. Wrong for California.” (Fiorina's campaign, by the way, posts their objections to the California Democrat's record on their anti-Boxer website).
      Fiorina’s spokeswoman Amy Thoma said the Palin video was evidence that Boxer “is trying to shore up a base of voters that should already be supporting her," underscoring "just how endangered she really is.”
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      Boxer running against Sarah Palin now? This might get real interesting……
    • People who buy their own health insurance have been hit lately with premium hikes that far exceed increases in premiums for employer-sponsored coverage, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

      The nonprofit foundation, which is separate from health insurer Kaiser Permanente, said recent premium hikes requested by insurers for individual coverage averaged 20 percent. Some customers were able to switch plans and pay less, so people paying on their own actually wound up paying 13 percent more on average.
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      Well, someone has to pay for ObamaCare

      (tags: Obamacare)
    • About two weeks ago, following June 8 primary night, the big meme in political media was “The Year of the (Republican) Woman.” Primary victories by the likes of Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina in California, and a strong performance by Nikki Haley in South Carolina, followed on the back of victory the week prior by Susana Martinez in New Mexico.

      But since then, another narrative seems to be taking hold in some quarters—that these women aren’t really women, they’re men in skirts. That is so because they a) didn’t emphasize their gender at every turn in the course of their respective primary races or b) don’t focus, or toe the line, on “women’s issues”—or both. In particular, objections have been raised that these women either are not pro-choice or are insufficiently vocal about being pro-choice, and therefore—the subtext seems to be—they’re more akin to men in skirts than “real women.”
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    • Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, broke ground in American corporate leadership and is now being heralded as a pioneer again – the vanguard of a new breed of "pro-woman, pro-life" feminists in the mold of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

      Darcy Linn, 51, a Contra Costa business executive who sees herself as conservative, proudly pro-life – and a feminist – said it's one reason she's drawn to Fiorina, who is running against three-term incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer.
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      How will Barbara Boxer try to use the abortion issue to defeat Carly Fiorina?

  • Barack Obama,  BP Oil Spill,  Day By Day,  Joe Barton

    Day By Day June 21, 2010 – Make a Stand



    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    But, Chris, GOP Representative Joe Barton was ill-timed with his remarks and should have concentrated on the role of government. Americans have to remember that “Big Government” is not the end all, be all. Joe Barton did not make the argument and instead looked like an apologist for BP.

    It is NOT about making a stand for BP. BP has made their bed and now must lie in it.

    However, the Obama Administration is not making matters better and Rep. Joe Barton should concentrate on the cleanup and let BP take care of themselves.

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