links for 2010-10-11

A mushrooming political battle over ObamaCare involving the White House, two incumbent Pennsylvania congressmen, three Catholic hospitals and a nun has just exploded in, of all places, Scranton, Pennsylvania. Charges from the Scranton medical community of intimidation by the Obama White House and its allies are filling the air.

All of this just as Vice President Joe Biden arrives in Scranton today to raise money for one of the participants.
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Republicans maintain a substantial advantage over Democrats among likely voters in Gallup's generic ballot for Congress — in both lower- and higher-turnout scenarios — fueled in part by the GOP's strong showing among independents.
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Big GOP gains on the horizon.

Americans are saying help is on the way as they throw incumbent Democrats out of office.

Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor, often compares California's business climate, unfavorably, to that of Texas, and she's correct, says a new study for the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Laffer said, "A comparison between Texas and California is not only valid but vital for our country. Both are large, strategically located states, with strong demographics and bountiful natural resources. But California's regulatory and tax costs, coupled with budgetary and policy instability, render it an impotent competitor when standing next to low-tax, business-friendly Texas, which levies no capital gains or income taxes to support its affordable government."
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Unless California changes its tax and regulatory policy, it will continue to slide down into an economic abyss

Fox News is claiming it has sources whom have identified the person in Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown's campaign who called Republican challenger Meg Whitman a "whore."

The comment was accidentally recorded on voice mail after Brown thought he hung up the phone after leaving a message for the Los Angeles Police Union.

Fox News says people with knowledge of what happened say it was Brown's wife who suggested calling Whitman a "whore," for cutting a deal to get the union's endorsement.
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And, Jerry Brown agreed.

On the campaign trail at a recent "tea party" event, Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina dropped a reference to her husband's guns, chided her Democratic opponent for vilifying backers of Arizona's tough immigration law and renewed her commitment to offshore drilling and to suspending the state's global warming law.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has argued that her position on illegal immigration isn't very different from that of her Democratic rival, Jerry Brown. She recently pushed back against a hostile questioner by noting her support for abortion rights. And she announced that she would oppose a ballot measure that would roll back the state's climate change law.

Those diverging messages have been secondary to the topic both women talk about most about: jobs. But they also illustrate the markedly different strategies they have chosen this year in a state where Democrats significantly outnumber Republicans
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President Obama’s baseless attack on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce underscores the routine hyper-partisan attacks his administration has become known for. Obama’s allegation was that the Chamber has been using money from foreign members to influence this election.

Karl Rove, another target of the agitator/community-organizer-turned President of the United States, strongly refuted the accusations on Fox News Sunday yesterday.

If the president and the Center for American Progress, which initially leveled the “foreign money” charge, were serious, they’d investigate the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), a brass knuckles, take-no-prisoners pro-Obama union that admitted in 2008 that it had an avenue to accept funds from “foreign nationals,” allowing them to have a voice in the American political process.
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And, isn't the SEIU a big contributor to the Dems and Obama?

In their latest attempt to distract voters from their job-killing policies, President Obama, his White House and senior Democrats in Congress have added to their long list of bogeymen the outside groups that seek to help elect Republicans in November. They threaten congressional investigations, leak private tax information and level baseless accusations of criminal activity against those who have been public in seeking to defeat Democratic candidates and their liberal agenda. Without a trace of irony, powerful Democratic officeholders lament that many who support these groups wish to remain anonymous.

None of these Democrats expressed concern about such outside spending in 2008, when more than $400 million was spent to help elect Barack Obama
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Dems are trying to divert attention from their disastrous policy decisions which voters so not support. Hide the ball – foreigners are buying are elections.
Oh the Humanity!