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• CA-Sen DEBATE FACT CHECK #5: Carly’s Record at Hewlett-Packard
  Boxer Attacked On…

  Carly’s Record At Hewlett-Packard

  But Carly’s Record Shows…

  Since Carly Fiorina’s Departure From HP, Experts Have Credited Her With Making HP A Stronger Company:

  Industry Experts Have Claimed That HP “Desperately Needed Someone Like” Fiorina. “But while analysts praise Hurd’s low-key style, many are quick to credit Fiorina for laying the groundwork. She was the biggest proponent of changing HP’s culture, and although her hard-charging style ultimately worked against her, HP desperately needed someone like her, said Roger L. Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies Associates.” (Rachel Konrad, “HP Is Hurd’s Now, But Ousted Fiorina Gets Some Credit For Revival,” The Associated Press, 8/17/06)

  (tags: carly_fiorina barbara_boxer)
• CA-Sen: DEBATE FACT CHECK #1: Boxer’s Legislative Record
  Boxer Mentioned…
  Her Legislative Record

  But The Record Shows…
  Boxer Is Nationally Recognized For Her Sparse Record In The Senate:

  “[Boxer’s] Press Clippings Are Many, Her Ceremonial Bill-Signing Pens Few.” (Adriel Bettelheim, “Wage Hike Fight One Of Many For A Leading Liberal,” Congressional Quarterly, 4/5/04)

  Boxer Acts As “Unremitting Activist” Pushing Ideological Proposals With Little Chance Of Passing Into Law. “While some politicians pride themselves on their ability to horse-trade and compromise in pursuit of legislation, she usually operates as an unremitting activist, offering proposals that have no chance of adoption just to make a point about how things ought to be.” (Adriel Bettelheim, “Wage Hike Fight One Of Many For A Leading Liberal,” Congressional Quarterly, 4/5/04)

  (tags: carly_fiorina barbara_boxer)
• Does November Depend on Sarah Palin?
  It is important to remember that Palin doesn’t discriminate against establishment Republicans when picking who she endorses. For instance, Carly Fiorina received Palin’s endorsement late in the California primary race. For Fiorina, who wasn’t the Tea Party backed candidate, it was a huge boost to receive Palin’s endorsement, especially since many people didn’t realize or were misinformed over Fiorina’s conservative credentials.

  Thanks to Palin, Fiorina garnered enough of the conservative vote to win the primary and now has the general race with the leftist Barbara Boxer polling inside the margin of error. In the very liberal state of California, that is some pull from the Mama Grizzly.

  Out of all the Republican political players, Palin has to be the queen of the ball right now. Endorsements from Mike Huckabees, Mitt Romneys, and Newt Gingrichs of the world just don’t garner the same media buzz or scrutiny the way Palin’s endorsements do.

  (tags: sarah_palin carly_fiorina)
• CA-Sen: John McCain, Scott Brown raising cash for Carly Fiorina Senate bid
  Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina is getting a hand from her could-be GOP colleagues in various forms this week.

  GOP Sen. John McCain hosted a fundraiser for Fiorina last night, Fiorina spokeswoman Andrea Saul confirmed today. Saul declined to comment on where the fundraiser was held or how much the Arizona senator raised for Fiorina, who served as an economic adviser during McCain's 2008 presidential bid, and said there are no plans for joint appearances on the campaign trail.

  Later this week, Fiorina's bank account is scheduled to get a boost from Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown.

  Brown, who became a symbol of momentum for Republicans in the wake of his special election victory, is listed as a special guest for a Thursday fundraiser in Newport Beach. Tickets for the evening cocktail reception and dinner range from $250 to $30,400.
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  This race is bound to be expensive as the Dems pour all of their resources into defending Barbara Boxer

  (tags: john_mccain Scott_Brown carly_fiorina)
• California Liberal Judicial Activism: Serrano v. Priest
  Ah, the unintended consequences of liberal judicial activism: According to experts, the Serrano decision “overlooked the fact that 75% of poor children lived in high spending districts,” and it thus “actually led to lower school spending for most poor children” and to “equalized mediocrity.” Further, Serrano and its follow-on rulings are credited with triggering the property-tax revolt that culminated in California’s Proposition 13—“After all, the logic goes, if increased property taxes don’t help our schools, why should we be for increased property taxes”—and helped lead to Ronald Reagan’s election as president in 1980.
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  The begining of the end of California's then excellent public school system.
  (tags: judicial_activism)
• Illegal immigration declines sharply in California, across the country, report says
  The study, which is drawn largely from Census data and labor statistics, cited the recession and increased border enforcement as possible reasons for the slowdown. Several South Atlantic states between Delaware and Georgia that have become new immigrant magnets in recent years have also seen a decline in its illegal migrant population, according to the study.

  California still has the largest concentration of illegal immigrants in the nation with 2.6 million, which is about 1 million more living in the state than in 1990, according to the report.

  The study echoes the findings of a report issued earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which concluded that illegal immigration had declined by nearly 1 million between 2008 and 2009. This was the second consecutive year of decline and sharpest decrease in at least three decades.
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  Well, perhaps.

  But, statistics can be manipulated and I do not trust the Pew Hispanic Center.

  (tags: illegal_immigration)
• Mexican Drug Cartels Literally Do Control Parts of Arizona – Pinai County Sheriff
  The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state.

  The signs were posted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, a major east-west corridor linking Tucson and Phoenix with San Diego.
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  Where is President Obama?

  Right! Having his Department of Justice taking Arizona to court.

  (tags: illegal_immigration)

The debate between Barbara Boxer and Carly Fiorina will start in less than an hour.

I will be tweeting up my thoughts, observations and opinions during the Smackdown ————> in the right sidebar or Follow @Flap on Twitter.

Physicans are not going to accept ObamaCare, and lay in wait for the demise of their profession and private American medicine. They will take/make their case to their patients.

Facing a nationwide backlash, Democratic congressional candidates have a new message for voters: We know you don’t like ObamaCare, so we’ll fix it.

This was the line offered by Democrat Mark Critz, who won a special election in Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district after expressing opposition to the law and promising to mend it—but not to repeal it. As a doctor I know something about unexpected recoveries, and this latest attempt to rescue ObamaCare from repeal needs to be taken seriously.

For Democrats who voted for ObamaCare, this tactic is an escape route, a chance to distance themselves from the president with a vague promise to fix health-care reform in the next Congress.

To counter this election-year ruse, my colleagues and I at Docs4PatientCare are enlisting thousands of doctors in an unorthodox and unprecedented action. Our patients have always expected a certain standard of care from their doctors, which includes providing them with pertinent information that may affect their quality of life. Because the issue this election is so stark—literally life and death for millions of Americans in the years ahead—we are this week posting a “Dear Patient” letter in our waiting rooms.

Here is Dr. Hal Scherz’s plea:

Here is the letter:

To My Patients,Section 1311 of the new health care legislation gives the US Secretary of Health and Human Services and her appointees the power to establish careguidelines that your doctor must abide by or face penalties and fines. In making doctors answerable in the federal bureaucracy this bill effectively makes them government employees and means that you and your doctor are no longer in charge of your health care decisions.

This new law politicizes medicine and in my opinion destroys the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship that makes the American health care system the best in the world.

In addition to also badly exacerbating the current doctor short age, the law will bring major cost increases, rising insur ance premiums, higher taxes, a decline in new medical techniques, a fall-off in the development of miracle drugs as well as rationing by government panels and bureaucrats like passionate rationing advocate Donald Berwick forcing delays of months or sometimes years for hospitalization or surgery. Finally, studies show the legislation will adversely affect the elderly, the poor and rural residents.

Despite countless protests by doctors and overwhelming public opposition — up to 60% of Americans opposed this bill — the current party in control of Congress pushed this bill through with legal bribes and Chicagostyle threats and is determined now to resist any “repeal and replace” efforts.

This doctor’s office is non-partisan — always has been, always will be. But the fact is that every Republican voted against this bad bill while the Democratic Party leadership and the White House completely dismissed the will of the people in ruthlessly pushing through this legislati on.

In the face of voter anger some Democratic candidates are now trying to make a cosmetic retreat, calling for minor modifications or pret ending they are opposed to government-run medicine. Once the election is over, however, they will vote with their party bosses against repealing this bill. Please rememberwhen  you vote this November that unless the Democratic party receives a strong negative message about this power grab our health care system will never be fixed and the doctor patient relationship will be ruined forever.

I will be glad to discuss this with you at the end of our consultation.

Your Doctor

I would say this is a fairly profoundly partisan statement which most physicians will be reluctant to pursue but WILL out of a sense of duty to their fellow Americans and patients.

After watching the interview above, remember the first Barbara Boxer Vs. Carly Fiorina debate is tonight.

Apparently, as Debra Saunders has the goods.

Boxer also said: “I was criticizing the fact that she didn’t know how many people died in Iraq. Absolutely I was.”

There’s just one problem. Boxer never asked Rice how many U.S. troops had died in Iraq when she began her “personal price” remarks. In fact, Boxer had not asked Rice a single question. She was engaged in her usual filibustering.

You can watch the exchange on C-SPAN, starting at about 01:42:48.

I can see why Boxer would want to believe that she put her foot in her mouth — and somehow it was Rice’s fault, but the tale turns out to be a figment of Barbara Boxer’s self-aggrandizing imagination.

Nice to know that Boxer’s foreign policy decisions/votes will be based on whether her children or grandchildren have a stake in the matter rather than what is best for the United Sates and/or California.

Time for Boxer to go and elect Carly Fiorina.