• Dream Act

    Call Your Rep. Now! House DREAM Act Vote Expected on Thursday

    December 1, 2010 /

    Call Your Rep. Now! House DREAM Act Vote Expected on Thursday

    Hill sources tell us that Speaker Pelosi plans to hold a vote on the DREAM Act (H.R. 1751) on Thursday, December 2nd. Please call your Rep. NOW and ask him/her to vote NO on the DREAM Act. Capitol Hill switchboard: 202-224-3121.

    This will likely pass the House (Democrats will vote in lock step) but will never come to a vote in the Senate.

    But, MELT THE PHONES and call your Representative tomorrow morning.

  • Meg Whitman

    CA-Gov: Meg Whitman Advisors Unlikely to Take Part in Traditional Campaign Rehash

    December 1, 2010 /

    CA-Gov: Meg Whitman advisors unlikely to take part in traditional campaign rehash

    Meg Whitman’s campaign for governor set a national spending record, and now looks like it will reach another milestone – becoming the first campaign not to participate in a traditional postelection conference where winning and losing strategists dissect their work and spill secrets about the machinations behind the scenes.

    The conference has been held by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies after every gubernatorial contest since 1990. The 2010 Governor’s Race: The Inside Story is scheduled for Jan. 21-22. 

    I don’t think we’re going to go, said Rob Stutzman, a senior adviser to Whitman. It’s self-indulgent, by self-important scholars and journalists. It is what it is.

    Stutzman said Whitman’s chief strategist Mike Murphy will definitely not attend, and he and other senior staffers don’t feel a need to participate.

    Organizers, who could not recall a prior campaign declining to participate in the conference, said they had not heard back from any Whitman representatives and remained hopeful that someone would attend. Two representatives from Gov.-elect Jerry Brown’s team will participate – campaign manager Steve Glazer and senior adviser Joe Trippi.

    ++++++++++

    Pretty bad form by Rob Stutzman and Mike Murphy. They should go and take their lumps – lumps they deserve as the campaign they ran was one of the most cataclysmic campaigns in California history.

  • Colin Powell,  START

    Colin Powell Urges Senate Ratification of Obama START Treaty with Russia

    December 1, 2010 /

    Political cartoon from Michael Ramirez

    Now, I know the U.S. Senate does not wish to rush ratification of the START Treaty during the lame duck session of the Congress.

    Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says a stalled nuclear treaty with Russia gives the U.S. the tools it needs to verify Russian nuclear activities and should be ratified by the Senate as soon as possible.

    Meeting at the White House with President Obama, the retired four-star Army general and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman lent his clout to treaty backers. Powell said Wednesday that senators with doubts about the treaty had raised appropriate concerns, but that Obama had addressed them.

    Obama renewed his call for the Senate to act on the treaty during the current post-election congressional session.

    There are too many new Senators that will take office in January and some Senators have complained that the treaty has not been given a full debate. Colin Powell’s endorsement is really the icing on the cake – remember all of those WMD’s they found in Iraq?

    The U.S. Senate should defer this matter for the next Congress and with a full floor debate.

  • Dream Act

    Update: The DREAM Act: Estimating the Impact – Now There is a New Version

    December 1, 2010 /
    ++++++Update+++++++

    Michelle Malkin has the latest machinations in passing the DREAM Act.

    I told you this morning that the Dems were cooking up a new version of the DREAM Act to lure squishy Republicans and fence-sitting Democrats.

    Here it is in full. Note: There are now four versions of the bill on the legislative calendar. None have been reviewed in the Senate judiciary committee. Once again, the Dems are rushing to cram ill-conceived entitlements down Americans’ throats and subverting the deliberative process.

    In this version, they’ve extended the conditional residency period from six to ten years to make the amnesty look more palatable (see Section 5). They also have added an obligatory health exclusion (which will no doubt be abandoned as soon as the DHS Secretary starts issuing “public-interest” waivers built into the legislation). The waiver authority has also been expanded in this version of the bill. This bill also expands what qualifies as an “educational institution.” Bottom line: They can tweak all they want, but this warped-priority political pay-off is still a reckless, tone-deaf down payment on a broader illegal alien amnesty at a time of near-double-digit unemployment and border chaos.

    The Center for Immigration Studies has a pretty revealing piece out today about the DREAM ACT.

    Read it all and download a pdf file here.

    I understand (a rumor) that Democrat Senator Harry Reid is holding up CBO Scoring of the DREAM Act due to the fact it would cost taxpayers $20-30 Billion. In any case, with the GOP Caucus refusing to take up any matter until the Bush Tax Rates and the Continuing Resolution (to keep the government running) are disposed of, I doubt, with only 18 days reamining before the Christmas recess, the DREAM Act will be  brought up for a vote.

    But, I could be wrong and we should remain vigilant to melt the phones to assure the DREAM Act does not become law.

  • Dream Act

    The DREAM Act: Estimating the Impact

    December 1, 2010 /

    The Center for Immigration Studies has a pretty revealing piece out today about the DREAM ACT.

    Read it all and download a pdf file here.

    I understand (a rumor) that Democrat Senator Harry Reid is holding up CBO Scoring of the DREAM Act due to the fact it would cost taxpayers $20-30 Billion. In any case, with the GOP Caucus refusing to take up any matter until the Bush Tax Rates and the Continuing Resolution (to keep the government running) are disposed of, I doubt, with only 18 days reamining before the Christmas recess, the DREAM Act will be  brought up for a vote.

    But, I could be wrong and we should remain vigilant to melt the phones to assure the DREAM Act does not become law.

  • Mitch McConnell,  Taxes

    GOP Senators to Block All Bills Until Tax Cuts Are Addressed

    December 1, 2010 /

    Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., left, accompanied by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., center, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.

    As they should.

    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will announce this morning that Republicans will block any legislation from coming to the Senate floor until two key economic issues are addressed: funding the government (the “continuing resolution” which must pass to prevent a government shutdown) and the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts.

    McConnell will say that members of his caucus are united in the pledge to use procedural votes to prevent any other non-economic issues — including the new START treaty, the DREAM Act, or the defense authorization bill that contains a potential repeal of the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy – from coming to the floor for debate.

    Power politics to force Obama and the Democrat’s hand on the Bush era tax rates. If they expire, then the GOP will re-enact them in January (the next Congress) and force Obama to either sign the bill or use his veto.

    Believe me, Americans care about jobs and taxes – not whether gays can serve in the military and amnesty for illegal aliens.

  • Sarah Palin

    Sarah Palin’s Alaska Ratings Up 17 Per Cent

    December 1, 2010 /

    The LEFT was all over Sarah Palin for her television show apparently losing viewership last week. What do you hear now?
    Crickets.

    After falling to 3 million average viewers in its second episode (from 4.96m in the premiere), the third episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska
    on Sunday averaged 3.5 million viewers, a 17% increase. After dipping
    to a 0.7 adults 18-49 rating in the second episode, the third episode
    increased 42% to a 1.0 rating with adults 18-49.

    Sarah Palin’s Alaska (9pm)
    – 3.486 million viewers
    – 2.1/3 HH
    – 1.0/2 A18-49

    The fact is the television show is already a success and a boon to her future – whether she runs for the Presidency or not in 2012.

  • Day By Day,  Jeb Bush,  Karl Rove,  Sarah Palin

    Day By Day December 1, 2010 – Spin

    December 1, 2010 /

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Chris, what Americans have to remember is that Karl Rove is a stalking horse for Jeb Bush and the Bush family “Blue Blood” GOP dynasty. President George W. Bush, as his father did, drove the Republican Party off of a cliff and should NEVER be allowed to have any real power within the party again.

    I don’t think Sarah Palin spends too much time worrying about what Karl Rove and his minions say. Her basis is support are grass roots Republicans who will vote in GOP Primary caucuses and elections.

    The voters will decide the next Republican nominee for President – not Karl Rove and the Bushes.

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