Archive for October, 2010
Day By Day by Chris Muir
Chris, I somehow think National Public Radio (NPR) now has bigger problems than George Soros buying off some supposed journalists. Or should they be called JORNOLISTS?
In fact, The New York Times doesn’t even mention the left-wing ideology of the foundation that is supplying $1.8 million to NPR so it can hire political reporters across the country.
The left-wing Open Society Foundations is donating the large sum to NPR for a project being called “Impact of Government.” The project is planning to add at least 100 reporters across the country to cover local state house politics to fill the holes left by the firing of so many local reporters due to the contraction in the field of journalism over the last decade.
Did you see overnight that NPR has fired Juan Williams for voicing his concerns about Muslims?
Here is the video of Juan William’s comments on the Bill O’Reilly Show:
Wow, NPR accepting $ millions form a Far Left Radical Hack to influence the news and then firing a moderate lefty political commentator for voicing his opinion on television (talk about chilling free speech). All of this while accepting American taxpayer money for their operation.
I, somehow, foresee some Congressional hearings when the GOP takes control of the House in January – and some firings/resignations.
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Tags: George_Soros, Juan_Williams
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Sen. Barbara Boxer’s Capitol Hill staff is stonewalling a request by military mother Beverly Perlson for a copy of a reported diplomatic letter provided by the California Democrat to the leftwing group Code Pink/Global Exchange in support of the delivery of $600,000 in cash and aid to the “other side” in Fallujah, Iraq in late 2004.
Perlson, whose son has served four tours in the war on terror, is founder of the pro-troops group The Band of Mothers.
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Read it all.
BTW, the letter will miraculously appear after the election
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Bush spoke Tuesday before a sold-out crowd of 2,000 people during the 76th lecture as part of The University of Texas at Tyler's Distinguished Lecture Series.
He walked on the stage to a standing ovation. People in the audience were pumping their fists and whistling. One audience member shouted, “Bring back Bush,” at one point during the presentation.
He would receive at least two more standing ovations before the end of his speech.
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Not really a shocker……I mean compared to Obama ….really……
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Republican Nominee Carly Fiorina and California Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer
Well, it is not a scientific poll but it is better to lead this one than trail it.
Carly Fiorina topped incumbent Barbara Boxer by a wide margin in a recently completed unscientific online survey by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.
The former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO was backed by about 69 percent of those who responded to the Business Pulse survey conducted between Oct. 12 and Oct. 19.
Boxer was backed by about 31 percent.
Reader Donald R. wrote: “Both Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown should quietly exit the political scene. They’ve had their day. Let’s move California on.”
There will be more polls over the next few days and I expect them to be all over the place. Some may show a few points outside the margin of errors for either candidate.
The fact remains Carly Fiorina is within striking distance and if she turns out her voters and a Republican wave materializes, she will win this race. I subscribe to what Garry South said the other day that if the Dems are not up by 7 or 8 points by election day they will be in trouble.
And, then, there is the GOTV, Ground Operations where the GOP has a decided advantage.
So, hold onto your hat the next 12 days – it will be a wild ride.
Tags: Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina
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U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina launched a new television ad titled “Bickering” highlighting Boxer’s 28-year record of bitter partisanship and ineffective leadership in Washington.
A television ad that will appeal to the middle, independent voters, Carly paints Far Left Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer as a hyper-patisan POL – which she is.
With Boxer running vicious personal attack ads against Fiorina and with President Obama rushing out to camapign for her on Friday, painting Boxer as an agenda driven POL works.
From the press release:
In an ongoing effort to highlight Barbara Boxer’s utter failure to deliver results for the people of California, who are today facing a 12.4 percent unemployment rate with more than a half million jobs lost since the passage of the economic stimulus plan, U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina launched a new 30-second television ad titled “Bickering” highlighting Boxer’s 28-year record of bitter partisanship and ineffective leadership in Washington. This is the fourth ad in Fiorina’s statewide television advertising campaign.
“While Californians face 12.4 percent unemployment, falling incomes and devastating job losses, it’s clear Barbara Boxer is far more concerned with saving her own job and ‘delivering partisan shots’ than she is with reaching across the aisle to get something done for the people she was elected to serve,” said Carly for California Campaign Manager Marty Wilson. “The people of California deserve a representative in the U.S. Senate who will set aside partisan bickering and political games, but it’s clear Barbara Boxer is not that representative. Carly Fiorina, on the other hand, is not afraid to make the tough decisions necessary to address our state’s most pressing challenges. Changing Washington starts with changing the people we send there, and we believe the people of California will do that on November 2 when they vote to retire Barbara Boxer after her nearly three decades of failure to fight for their interests.”
Tags: Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina
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California Companies Moving Away or
Shifting Work Out Reaches New Record: 158
(for 2010 alone)
In the three weeks since my last tally, I've learned about another 14 companies that have left California completely or re-directed capital to build facilities out of state. The names of the 14 and justifications for listing them appear below. Today's entry builds upon the Sept. 21 entry 144 Companies Shrink from Calif. This Year – Three Times the Total for All of 2009.
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And, California voters want Jerry Brown for Governoir?
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"It's hard to say Democrats are facing anything less than a category four hurricane," said Peter Hart, the Democratic pollster who conducts the Journal poll with Republican pollster Bill McInturff. "And it's unlikely the Democratic House will be left standing."
Mr. McInturff said the Republican lead among likely voters, if it stood, probably would yield a pickup of 52 or 53 House seats, surpassing the net gain of 39 seats the GOP needs to claim control of the chamber.
The heightened energy among Republican-leaning voters has been a feature of public opinion for months, with many voters anxious about the economy and unhappy with the Democratic-led Congress.
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Wipe Out
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To help create jobs, Fiorina said, she favors creating "special economic zones" in the United States where the federal government could provide relief from taxes and regulations in partnership with states and local governments.
She also called for a five-year tax holiday for start-up businesses and a 10-year tax holiday for existing businesses that repatriate jobs that were exported.
"Other places have learned from us to attract jobs," Fiorina said, referring to countries that now compete with the United States in a global economy.
Fiorina on Tuesday attacked Boxer for failing to support many tax-cutting proposals during her years as a senator, and for supporting the stimulus-fund proposal last year. Fiorina said that California's unemployment rate, which rose from more than 10 to more than 12 percent was evidence of stimulus spending's failure.
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Big Government drove the jobs overseas in the first place.
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OMG, will this blithering idiot ever shut up?!
Seeking to channel the sign-bearing, flag-waving enthusiasm of the "tea party" movement into ballot-box victories, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told hundreds of supporters Monday they couldn't "party like it's 1773" until Washington was flooded with like-minded conservatives.
I mean, 1773?! WOW. Glad I wasn't the only one who caught this latest Palin gaffe:
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@Markos and @MattOrtega – OOOPS
It was 1773……
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Senator Barbara Boxer, the pro-abortion activists who leads the abortion advocacy movement in the Senate, is getting some last-minute election help from allied organizations. EMILY’s List and NARAL are throwing their weight behind Boxer in an attempt to help her defeat pro-life candidate Carly Fiorina.
The latest polls in the race have shown Fiorina trailing by anywhere from one-four percent, which is within the margin.
EMILY’s List, has launched a new independent expenditure effort that focuses on Fiorina’s former tenure as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard rather than her pro-life views.
“This race is a dead heat for one reason and one reason alone: women voters don't have the information they need about Carly Fiorina,” EMILY’s List president Stephanie Schriock said in a statement.
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Figures.
Bet they don't mention partial birth abortion either.
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Back in August, President Barack Obama came to L.A. to do some fundraising, but he ended up raising the ire of residents who got stuck behind barricades when streets were shut down to allow his motorcade to pass through.
Well, the president will be back in town to help Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer raise some money for the upcoming election.
The president is scheduled to speak to students at USC early Friday afternoon, Southern California Public Radio reports. He'll be on the same part of campus where presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon once made speeches.
But local drivers hope the traffic will flow a little better this time around.
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Yeah it will be a bad traffic day in Los Angeles
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Aerospace giant Boeing is joining the list of companies that say the new health care law could have a potential downside for their workers.
In a letter mailed to employees late last week, the company cited the overhaul as part of the reason it is asking some 90,000 nonunion workers to pay significantly more for their health plan next year. A copy of the letter was obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
"The newly enacted health care reform legislation, while intended to expand access to care for millions of uninsured Americans, is also adding cost pressure as requirements of the new law are phased in over the next several years," wrote Rick Stephens, Boeing's senior vice president for human resources.
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ObamaCare is a loser for every day working Americans and should be repealed.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday said the United States has not pressured Turkey to take part in a NATO missile defense system, but expressed hope Ankara would endorse plans for the anti-missile shield.
Gates said U.S. and Turkish officials have discussed the possibility of Turkey actively participating in the proposed missile defense system directed against Iran. "The US has engaged Turkey in political and military dialogue on its potential technical and operational contributions should NATO adopt this approach," Gates said in a speech to the American-Turkish Council in Washington. "Contrary to some press reports, we are not pressuring Turkey to make a contribution," said Gates, according to a text of the speech released by the Pentagon.
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Missile defense is on the backburner under Obama.
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Republican Nominee Carly Fiorina and California Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer
Tags: Barbara Boxer, Carly Fiorina, Michelle_Obama
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