• Dick Armey,  Mitch Daniels,  President 2012,  Tea Party

    President 2012 Video: Tea Party’s Dick Armey – Mitch Daniels Would Be Perfect Pick for Us

    April 29, 2011 /

    Watch around 6:30 for former Rep. Dick Armey’s comments on Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels

    Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels with his expressed intent today to sign legislation cutting Indiana Planned Parenthood funding has risen to the top of Presidential candidate discussion.

    Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) would be the “perfect pick” for the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, said Tea Party figurehead and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas).

    Armey, in a video posted Friday to the website of the conservative magazine Newsmax, effused praise for Daniels and expressed a preference for one of the other former governors expected to join the race as a possible alternative.

    “I think Mitch Daniels would be the perfect pick for us; he’s exactly the man with the proven record that we’re looking for,” Armey said. “He has no need for sensation, but he knows how to get focused on the work and get it done.”

    If not Daniels, Armey said, one of the other governors should get the nod.

    The GOP establishment likes Mitch Daniels as the anti-Romney as does the Bush organization. Daniels should decide in the next day or so and then Mike Huckabee will make his intentions known.

    The race for 2012 will be heating up this next week or so.

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    Flap’s Links and Comments for April 29th on 10:20

    April 29, 2011 /

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  • Paul Ryan

    Astrofail: Rep. Paul Ryan Exposes Astro-Turf Anti-Ryan Activist as Fraud

    April 29, 2011 /
    Rep Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin)at Town Hall


    Astrfail is right.

    USA Today exposes the fraud that is activist-organized protest at Republican town halls this recess. Their story opens with Paul Ryan calling on a man in the front row before recognizing him, “You changed clothes!” USA Today reports that the man had been at a separate event six hours earlier. Politico reports that “Citizens Action of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Labor Council have enlisted a traveling band of seniors to follow Paul Ryan’s every move.” But the leftist activists have been unable to match genuine support for Ryan. The Weekly Standard‘s John McCormack posts video of constituents giving Ryan a standing ovation after a town hall near Milwaukee.

    When the protests are NOT sincere, it is easy to expose them.

  • Mitch Daniels,  Planned Parenthood,  President 2012

    President 2012: Mitch Daniels Will Sign Indiana Legislation Cutting Planned Parenthood Funding

    April 29, 2011 /

    Not really a surprise.

    Gov. Mitch Daniels says he will sign into law a tough anti-abortion measure that would block government dollars from going to Planned Parenthood.

    The move means Medicaid recipients who use the agency’s clinics – including the 400 per year who use the one in Evansville – will be separated from their doctors.

    But Daniels said in a statement that reproductive health care will still be readily available in the areas those clinics serve.

    “I have ordered the Family and Social Services Administration to see that Medicaid recipients receive prompt notice of nearby care options. We will take any actions necessary to ensure that vital medical care is, if anything, more widely available than before,” he said.

    The governor’s office said the bill will block government dollars from going to all 28 of Planned Parenthood’s clinics in Indiana, as well as six clinics operated by other agencies.

    Those dollars – about $3 million per year for Planned Parenthood of Indiana – do not directly cover abortions. But proponents of the measure said no taxpayer dollars should go to agencies that offer the procedure.

    “Any organization affected by this provision can resume receiving taxpayer dollars immediately by ceasing or separating its operations that perform abortions,” Daniels said.

    The governor’s decision comes on the last day of this year’s legislative session. He has said that after the session, he will decide whether to enter the Republican presidential primary.

    Next, Planned Parenthood will go to federal court and fight the defunding and Mitch Daniels may or may not announce he will be a candidate for the Presidency.

    Stay tuned…..

  • Government Spending,  Polling,  Texas

    Poll Watch: Americans Blame Wasteful Government Spending for Deficit – Favor Spending Cuts

    April 29, 2011 /

    According to the latest Gallup Poll.

    The large majority of Americans say spending too much money on unneeded or wasteful federal programs is to blame for the federal budget deficit, while 22% say the deficit is a consequence of not raising enough in taxes to pay for needed programs.

    These results are based on an April 20-23 USA Today/Gallup poll. Given a forced choice, Republicans almost uniformly place blame for the deficit on too much federal spending, rather than a shortage of tax revenue. Majorities of independents and Democrats agree, albeit by somewhat smaller margins.

    And, Americans generally favor government spending cuts versus increasing taxes as a way to reduce budget deficits.

    Here is the poll chart.

    This is not surprising and why the Tea Party has been so successful in framing the economic issues, particularly during the 2010 elections. Americans WANT government spending cuts and prefer that to taxes.

    End of story.

    This question asks Americans to choose among five ways of reducing the federal deficit, ranging from a total reliance on spending cuts to a total reliance on tax increases. The responses cluster at the “spending cuts” end of the spectrum. About half (48%) of Americans say reducing the deficit should be done mostly or only with spending cuts. Another 37% say it should be done equally with spending cuts and tax increases. Eleven percent say mostly or only with tax increases.

    Thus, overall, 85% of Americans explicitly favor spending cuts as at least part of the solution to reducing the federal deficit, with more than half of these favoring only or mostly using cuts. This compares with 48% who explicitly favor tax increases as at least part of a deficit reduction strategy — a number consisting mostly of those who want an equal emphasis on spending cuts and tax increases.

    The major partisan distinctions in response to this question reflect the choice between mostly/only spending cuts versus the equal use of spending cuts and tax increases. Republicans are most likely to favor the former; Democrats, the latter. Independents’ views are between these two extremes. Relatively few Americans of any partisan identification favor mostly or only using tax increases to reduce the deficit.

    What does this all mean?

    Americans are likely to tell their elected representatives to cut spending rather than rely on increasing taxes. And, it seems the Democrats in Congress can read the polls and are veering away from the tax increase mentality of the Obama Administration.

  • Mitch Daniels,  President 2012

    President 2012: Mitch Daniels Will NOT Announce This Weekend

    April 29, 2011 /

    Gov Mitch Daniels speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, February 11, 2011. Daniels is nearing a self-imposed deadline for declaring whether he will run for president as the Indiana Legislature wraps up a session that has given him big victories fiscal conservatives are likely to favor.

    No decision yet for Mitch Daniels.

    Indiana governor Mitch Daniels said Thursday that supporters will have to wait through the weekend for his decision regarding the 2012 Republican presidential campaign.

    The Indiana Republican says he will wait until next month to announce his decision.

    Mr. Daniels told The Indianapolis Star that “it absolutely won’t be (announced this weekend) because you can’t announce a decision you haven’t made.”

    The Indiana governor said he remains focused on the current legislative session, where he may face a decision concerning a controversial abortion measure that is making its way through the legislature.

    Mr. Daniels acknowledged concerns over the timeline, noting that he “feels some responsibility not to just keep [supporters] dangling.”

    The abortion legislation will tip the scales, if Daniels vetoes the bill. But, I doubt he will and I bet he runs.

    Stay tuned…..

  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day

    Day By Day April 29, 2011 – Man of Steal

    April 29, 2011 /

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Chris, the vulnerability to Palinite is pretty funny. Although Sarah is not matching up that well against President Obama in the polls, some of the other GOP Presidential contenders do and that has to worry the Man of Steal.

    It appears in many key battleground states’ polls, Obama is sinking like a stone, as the economy fails to rebound and inflation grips gasoline and food prices.

    Should the GOP nominate anyone, who can articulate a coherent program of limited government, Obama will be limited to one term.

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    Flap’s Links and Comments for April 29th on 00:31

    April 29, 2011 /

    These are my links for April 29th from 00:31 to 07:59:

    • Former Obama aides launch independent fundraising groups with unlimited and undisclosed donors – Two former White House aides launched a pair of independent groups Friday to defend President Obama and fight the array of conservative efforts that poured money into the last elections, adopting the same tactics that have been condemned by the White House.

      Former White House Press Secretary Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney, who served as a top aide to former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, said they were moved to create their own outside groups to fend off efforts by conservatives such as the Koch brothers and the groups American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, co-founded by Karl Rove. Veteran Democratic strategist Paul Begala will serve as a senior advisor to the Democratic efforts.

      Priorities USA has been formed as a 501(c)(4) organization – a nonprofit social welfare group that can raise unlimited amounts of money without disclosing the identity of its donors. It putatively is designed to focus on issues – in this case, “to preserve, protect and promote the middle class” – but can spend up to half its money on political activities. The use of such undisclosed money in elections was vehemently criticized by Obama last year, as well as by Burton, then his spokesman.

      But in a statement Friday, Burton said the decision by the Supreme Court in Citizens United that opened the door to unlimited corporate and union spending on elections created a new playing field on which Democrats have to engage.

      “While we agree that fundamental campaign finance reforms are needed, Karl Rove and the Koch brothers cannot live by one set of rules as our values and our candidates are overrun with their hundreds of millions of dollars,” Burton said. “We will follow the rules as the Supreme Court has laid them out, but the days of the double standard are over.”

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      Read it all.

      Love the LEFT's Hypocrisy

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