Archive for August, 2010
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Senior executives, on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and other self-identifying employees of ABC, CBS and NBC contributed more than $1 million to Democratic candidates and campaign committees in 2008, according to an analysis by The Examiner of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
The Democratic total of $1,020,816 was given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks, with an average contribution of $880.
By contrast, only 193 of the employees contributed to Republican candidates and campaign committees, for a total of $142,863. The average Republican contribution was $744.
Disclosure of the heavily Democratic contributions by influential employees of the three major broadcast networks follows on the heels of controversy last week when it was learned that media baron Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. contributed $1 million to the Republican Governors Association.
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Uh, not really shocking is it?
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Last week, Capitol Confidential reported on a new scheme being pursued by California Democrats to force out-of-state, online retailers to collect and remit California sales taxes.
But in a new development, it is now being reported that the proposal has attracted support from Republican State Sen. Roy Ashburn, making it technically bipartisan.
In addition, while proponents have been arguing that if pursued, this tax maneuver will not hurt smaller, online retailers, Capitol Confidential has learned that the preferred language of some movers and shakers in fact fails to exempt smaller retailers and would draw a surprising category of those selling to consumers online into the California sales tax net: Out-of-state small and medium-sized businesses that market through eBay.
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Yeah, this really helps the California economy.
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Note what connects these issues. In every one, liberals have lost the argument in the court of public opinion. Majorities — often lopsided majorities — oppose President Obama's social-democratic agenda (e.g., the stimulus, Obamacare), support the Arizona law, oppose gay marriage and reject a mosque near Ground Zero.
What's a liberal to do? Pull out the bigotry charge, the trump that preempts debate and gives no credit to the seriousness and substance of the contrary argument. The most venerable of these trumps is, of course, the race card. When the Tea Party arose, a spontaneous, leaderless and perfectly natural (and traditionally American) reaction to the vast expansion of government intrinsic to the president's proudly proclaimed transformational agenda, the liberal commentariat cast it as a mob of angry white yahoos disguising their antipathy to a black president by cleverly speaking in economic terms.
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Carly Fiorina at the California Republican Party Convention in San Diego – The Way We Were?
No matter what you do Babs and Babs, you will NEVER return us to the Way WE WERE. You and your friends have poisoned the economy and ruined the lives of many Californians.
Sen. Barbara Boxer is having no trouble racking up big names to lend support to her reelection campaign. Last week, Robert Redford sent out an e-mail praising her. Before that, Magic Johnson gave her props. Now, Barbra Streisand is throwing her weight behind the California Democrat.
The singer/actress is among a handful of honorees at a Boxer fundraiser taking place Thursday afternoon at the Bel Air home of “Bold and the Beautiful” executive producer Bradley Bell and his wife, Colleen.
Time to retire Barbara Boxer.
Tags: Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
No, Chris, there is nothing concealed in Naomi’s top. But, it is a pleasant view unlike the latest American economic figures.
The government is about to confirm what many people have felt for some time: The economy barely has a pulse.
The Commerce Department on Friday will revise its estimate for economic growth in the April-to-June period and Wall Street economists forecast it will be cut almost in half, to a 1.4 percent annual rate from 2.4 percent.
That’s a sharp slowdown from the first quarter, when the economy grew at a 3.7 percent annual rate, and economists say it’s a taste of the weakness to come. The current quarter isn’t expected to be much better, with many economists forecasting growth of only 1.7 percent.
Such slow growth won’t feel much like an economic recovery and won’t lead to much hiring. The unemployment rate, now at 9.5 percent, could even rise by the end of the year.
This revelation is NOT good news for the Obama Administration and the Democrats who hold a super majority in the Congress. There is an undercurrent of political change coming to America and it is NOT concealed either.
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he Obama administration claimed this week that $100 billion invested in innovative technologies under the economic stimulus law is "transforming the American economy" by putting the nation on track for technological breakthroughs in health care, energy and transportation.
But an examination of details in the 50-page report unveiled Tuesday by Vice President Joe Biden reveals something a bit different: a collection of rosy projections that ignore many of the challenges, pitfalls and economic realities in all those areas.
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Not!
Read the exaggerations at the link.
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The tie is broken for now, with Republican Meg Whitman, coming off last weekend’s state GOP Convention, moving out to her best showing yet in the race to be the next governor of California.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in California finds Whitman earning 48% support, while Democrat Jerry Brown picks up 40% of the vote. Six percent (6%) prefer some other candidate in the race, and six percent (6%) are undecided.
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Meg Whitman will win this race.
Jerry Brown is too old with OLD Left Wing Ideas.
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By considering the so-called “Amazon tax,” lawmakers in Sacramento are dangerously close to making a tough economy even tougher for many of California’s struggling tech employers.
Like many states, the California Legislature has sought to wring revenue from e-commerce many times by taxing companies with no physical presence in the state – a measure the U.S. Supreme Court prohibited in 1992. The latest scheme is an end run around the Constitution that would only chase legitimately taxable e-commerce revenue out of the state. Taxpayers, California Internet companies and their employees will certainly be worse off if this measure passes as part of the 2011 state budget.
The fact is that this proposal would not close the tax gap – it would drive ad revenue away from affiliates based in California and toward affiliates based in other states.
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And, drive away my ad revenue from my blog.
Read it all – we don't need more taxes!
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The current economic climate in California simply cannot afford to put 25,000 small businesses at risk. Yet a current proposal within the budget process will do just that. Legislators are debating an ‘Affiliate Nexus Tax’, a sales tax scheme that has enticed legislators because on the surface it looks like free money for the struggling state economy. However, in fact, it has a design flaw that will threaten thousands of small California businesses, at the same time netting the state zero dollars in new sales tax revenue. We know this for a fact because it was passed in New York, North Carolina and Rhode Island with disastrous results.
It starts with the legislature’s desire to get out-of-state Internet retailers to collect sales tax for purchases made online by California consumers.
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Top Democrats are growing markedly more pessimistic about holding the House, privately conceding that the summertime economic and political recovery they were banking on will not likely materialize by Election Day.
In conversations with more than two dozen party insiders, most of whom requested anonymity to speak candidly about the state of play, Democrats in and out of Washington say they are increasingly alarmed about the economic and polling data they have seen in recent weeks.
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The Dems will lose control of the House
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A new Franklin & Marshall poll in Pennsylvania shows Pat Toomey (R) leading Rep. Joe Sestak (D) in the U.S. Senate race among likely voters, 40% to 31%.
The contest is closer among all registered voters, with Toomey leading by only 3 points.
Said pollster Terry Madonna: "The Democratic Party's difficulty in this election is their voters do not have the same motivation and they're less likely to vote. That is a huge problem for them."
Key finding: 35% say President Obama is doing a "poor" job, while only 37% feel he is doing an "excellent" or "good" job as president.
The Hotline: "It's hard to see how Sestak wins his Senate match up against Toomey if Obama remains so unpopular."
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Wonder if Arlen Specter would have matched up better?
Probably not – just a thought.
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Los Angeles Roadrunner’s and Olympic Rod Dixon
Yes, I will be participating in the Los Angeles Roadrunner’s program again this year to prepare for the March 2011 Los Angeles Marathon.
It may feel as though you just finished the Honda Los Angeles Marathon presented by K-Swiss. You might have, and you should be proud of that. No matter, it’s now time to start training for the 2011 event, and our Roadrunners program kicks off on September 11th. This year the program runs in two locations: Venice Beach and Chino Hills. This is a terrific way to train for and complete the LA Marathon, whether it’s your first or your tenth. We provide the training plan, the guest speakers, the pace leaders an the other great folks to train with. You bring your effort and energy. For all the details, see the Roadrunners section of our website.
Why don’t you join Alice and me in Venice?
Funny, as I was writing this post, I received an e-mail from my Roadrunner Pace Leader, Leah. Here is a photo from last year:
Tags: Los_Angeles_Marathon, Los_Angeles_Roadrunners
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Democrat Bobby Bright for Congress Ad
With Rahm Emanuel in the White House, I guess he isn’t there to save these more conservative Democratic Congressmen in their re-election races. So, they have taken matters into their own hands and started to repudiate the Far Left policies of President Obama and Nancy Pelosi.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called them her “majority makers” – the moderate to conservative Democrats in right-leaning districts whose election in 2006 made her Speaker.
And now many of them – and other Democrats in competitive districts — are fighting for their political lives in a harsh environment and have found it necessary to distance themselves from their leaders and Democratic policies.
Can you blame the Democrats? I mean they are scared that President Obama who is crashing in popularity will cost them their seats.
Top Democrats are growing markedly more pessimistic about holding the House, privately conceding that the summertime economic and political recovery they were banking on will not likely materialize by Election Day.
In conversations with more than two dozen party insiders, most of whom requested anonymity to speak candidly about the state of play, Democrats in and out of Washington say they are increasingly alarmed about the economic and polling data they have seen in recent weeks.
Guess these Democrats should have done their own policy thinking and voted for their American constituents instead of the European Social Democracy that Obama is peddling as his own.
Alabama Democrat Congressman, Bobby Bright, featured in the ad above, has come up with a novel way to distance himself from Speaker Nancy Pelosi even more – HER DEATH.
U.S. Congressman Bobby Bright was heard having a little fun at U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s expense during his recent participation in the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce’s Eggs and Issues.
Bright, who is is in his first year in Congress and facing a battle against Montgomery City Councilwoman Martha Roby this fall, joked that Pelosi might lose her own election, decide not to run for the speaker’s job or otherwise not be available.
He suggested, jokingly he insisted to his audience, that Pelosi could fall ill and die in coming months. That remark drew laughter from the crowd.
Though he has a reputation as the second most independent member of Congress, he has been routinely blasted for voting for Pelosi to be speaker.
Wow!
DEMOCRAT Representative Bobby Bright REALLY wants to win.
Tags: Bobby_Bright, Nancy_Pelosi
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