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Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele Says He’s Open to Cut Off Specter, Collins and Snow from GOP Funds
RNC Chairman Michael Steele told Neil Cavuto that he is open to cutting GOP funding for the 3 Senate traitors who voted for the largest spending bill in US history. Steele says he will wait and see what the state GOP parties decide about the traitors. Senators Specter, Snowe and Collins voted in favor of the trillion dollar pork-bloated bill.Good bloviating by Steele but when the rubber meets the road, it is ONLY the 8o year old Specter who is up in 2010 that this really affects. The GOP will eventually lose these three sets in the Northeast unless they rebuild the party and recruit some better candidates.
So, the GOP has a dilemma.
Exit Question: Does the RNC support moderate U.S.Senators who are meeting the needs of their blue state constituents and vote GOP most of the time or do they throw incumbent and long-time Senators over the side because of a few votes?
Technorati Tags: Michael Steele, Arlen Specter, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Republican National Committee
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Secret Admirers for Ventura County Supervisor Peter Foy
Ventura County Supervisor and Businessman Peter Foy
MORE nonsense about Simi Valley County Supervisor Peter Foy running for California Governor.
The ONLY folks that believe Foy is a credible candidate is Foy and the Ventura County Pols who want to replace him as Ventura County Supervisor.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir February 24, 2009 – Bullitt Babe
Sam, you had better pull over. President Obama is delivering his big speech tonight before a joint session of Congress and you better not miss it.Has anyone been watching the DJIA and the S & P 500 lately?
Apparently, the equity markets already “GET IT.”
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Technorati Tags: Barack Obama, Day By Day
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links for 2009-02-24
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J. Edgar Hoover is necessary to square the soaring liberal rhetoric on civil liberties with the atrocious civil liberties records of liberal presidents. With an ideology extolling civil liberties crashing into its record of smashing civil liberties, ideologues reshape the facts to fit the ideology. The blame-Hoover template asks readers to believe that the president takes orders from the director of the FBI rather than the reverse. It portrays the world-class arm-twister Lyndon Johnson as a man prone to crying uncle, Woodrow Wilson as secretly opposing his administration's policies, and the Kennedys acceding to electronic surveillance on Martin Luther King only for his own protection.
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As he did with the Mayors on Friday, President Obama in the State Dining Room just told the nation's governors that he would not hesitate to call them out if they push wasteful programs from their stimulus dollars.
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Congress would bestow the status of federal civil unions on same-sex marriages and civil unions granted at the state level, thereby conferring upon them most or all of the federal benefits and rights of marriage. But there would be a condition: Washington would recognize only those unions licensed in states with robust religious-conscience exceptions, which provide that religious organizations need not recognize same-sex unions against their will. The federal government would also enact religious-conscience protections of its own. All of these changes would be enacted in the same bill.
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The religious portion would be ruled unconstitutional paving the way for federally accepted gay marriage.
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And as noted Friday, the markets have been heading down, pretty sharply. Since Obama's election, there's been quite a bit of ominous news for the markets coming from the administration — probably not sufficient to drive down stock prices by themselves, but clearly incapable to mitigate other bad economic factors. We've seen anxiety about the lack of detail in Geithner's plan, massive government borrowing squeezing out capital that would otherwise be available to the private sector, a dread of future tax hikes, and an overall sense that those running Washington see corporate America as a scapegoat/villain/punching bag, not a partner in building prosperity. Oh, and in order to build support for his plan, the president is declaring the economy is on the verge of "catastrophe."
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President Obama is eager to seek a bipartisan solution to ensure the long-term solvency of Social Security, people who have spoken with him say, but he is running into opposition from his party’s left and from Democratic Congressional leaders who contend that his political capital would be better spent on health care and other priorities.
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Republicans are hatching a political comeback by dusting off a strategic playbook written nearly two decades ago.
Its themes: Unite against Democrats’ economic policy, block and counter health care reform and tar them with spending scandals.
Those represent the political trifecta that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich bet on in 1994 to produce a historic Republican takeover of Congress.
Now, some Republicans believe President Barack Obama’s one-two push on the economy and health care reform is setting the stage for a new round of significant gains, if not a total takeover.
“There are two models that Republicans are looking at,†said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.
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Lou Correa, a Democratic state senator from Santa Ana, refused to vote for the budget package that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders fashioned until a relatively tiny amendment was made that would give Orange County an injection of $35 million a year in state funds.
Meanwhile, another budget vote, that of Assemblyman Anthony Adams, R-Hesperia, was nailed down after another provision was inserted, allowing Glendora, a city in his district, to retain about $2.6 million a year in redevelopment project property taxes that otherwise would go to other local governments and schools in Los Angeles County.
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And, the leadership from the Governor has been where?
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Considered Leaving the Republican Party
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger,right, huddles with Florida Gov. Charlie Crist as President Barack Obama addressed the National Governors Association regarding the economic stimulus package, Monday, Feb. 23, 2009, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington
The Governator may as well have pulled the switch because after the latest California State Budget with it’s massive ($14 Billion) tax hikes, his credibility with California Republicans is ZERO.A few months ago, Arnold Schwarzenegger and a few close associates discussed whether he should leave the Republican Party, according to two people familiar with the conversation. His friend Mike Bloomberg, the New York mayor, had become an independent. Maybe Schwarzenegger should, too. But the governor and his people quickly concluded that Californians already saw him as independent of the Republican Party. So what would be the point of a switch? (A spokesman for the governor declined comment.)
To people outside the state, Schwarzenegger’s recent battles with Republican legislators over a budget and his criticism of GOP governors and Congressmen for their opposition to President Obama’s stimulus package might sound jarring. Schwarzenegger once was “Conan the Republican†(the first President Bush’s nickname for him), a politician who declared in his 2004 convention speech, “I’m proud to belong to the party of Abraham Lincoln, the party of Teddy Roosevelt, the party of Ronald Reagan and the party of George W. Bush.†Now he is on ABC News saying that “it doesn’t really mater if you’re a Republican or a Democrat.â€
Arnold has the ego of a movie star celeb and has a crying need to be popular. Popularity has served him well in bodybuilding and movies. In politics – not so much
Making difficult decisions as California Governor has placed Arnold in a situation he abhors – making some voters dislike him. Thus, he doesn’t make any decisions unless pressed and then the Republican Party be damned. IT is all about Arnold.
Flap hopes the California GOP has learned a lesson. You can take a popular figure from Hollywood and make him governor. But, if he does not have the requisite skill set to actually govern, then you have a problem.
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The Mitt Romney Response: Democratic Congressional Campaign Commttee Begins Anti-GOP ROBOCALLS About Economic Stimulus
The DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Commitee) has gone on the attack in an opening theme for the 2010 elections.
Mitt Romney who undoubtedly is running for President in 2012 writes some checks today in response to the DCCC.Former Governor Mitt Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC today sent $1,000 checks to a group of House Republicans targeted by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) for their votes against the wasteful $800 billion stimulus bill.
Said Romney: “What Republicans wanted was a bill to strengthen the economy. What the Democrats passed was a bill to stimulate government. We are committed to helping these courageous Republicans defend their position and fend off political attacks.â€
Romney called the President’s stimulus package “a missed opportunity to make this country stronger.†Referring to the 12 House Republicans as the “Undaunted Dozen,†Romney praised them for “standing up for fiscal responsibility and saying no to spending abuse.â€
Mitt is trying to be the good party man and ingratiating himself to threatened GOP House members:
The GOP List:
- Rep. Judy Biggert of Illinois
- Rep. Ken Calvert of California
- Rep. Michael Castle of Delaware
- Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania
- Rep. Jim Gerlach of Pennsylvania
- Rep. Mark Kirk of Illinois
- Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer of Missouri
- Rep. Dan Lungren of California
- Rep. Thad McCotter of Michigan
- Rep. Adam Putnam of Florida
- Rep. Dave Reichert of Washington
- Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas
Now, will SarahPac do likewise?
Technorati Tags: Mitt Romney, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
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Bobby Jindal, Exorcism, Creationism and the GOP
Louisiana GOP Governor Bobby Jindal’s exorcismThis is NOT good for the GOP.
Everything the media tried to pin on Sarah Palin, [Bobby] Jindal actually did: he promoted and signed a creationism bill (with help from the Discovery Institute), he took part in an amateur exorcism and claimed it cured a woman of cancer, and possibly worst of all, he pals around with people on the extreme edges of fundamentalist Christianity, and at least one person who has associated with outright neo-Nazis.
Flap had the creationism worry earlier today re: Mark Sanford, Tim Pawlenty, and Bobby Jindal.
And, to think, Flap was worried about Sarah Palin and her equivocation on creationism in the schools. Hell, Sarah looks pretty good compared to the others.
And, Jindal?
He will be eaten alive in a national campaign.
Next……
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Democratic Congressional Campaign Commttee Begins Anti-GOP ROBOCALLS About Economic Stimulus
The DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Commitee) has gone on the attack in an opening theme for the 2010 elections.A dozen House Republicans are targeted in a new House Democratic political campaign that criticizes the GOP lawmakers for opposing the $787 billion stimulus package.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will contact voters this week by telephone with a recorded message saying that their Republican congressman voted “against the largest tax cut in history,†and against a stimulus bill that the business friendly U.S. Chamber of Commerce supported.
The campaign also includes “emails and text messages directly to targeted Republicans’ constituents,†a DCCC official tells CNN. House Democrats have also created a Web site to explain how they believe the stimulus bill will affect individual congressional districts.
Only three congressional Republicans, all senators, voted for the final passage of the stimulus bill.
The script (for Congressman Pete Sessions):
Hello, I’m calling on behalf of House Democrats with an important message about the economy.
Did you know Congressman Pete Sessions voted against President Obama’s economic recovery plan, endorsed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce? Sessions’s empty rhetoric can’t hide that he voted to raise the AMT tax on 22 million middle class Americans and against the largest tax cut in history.
Call Sessions at XXX-XXX-XXXX to ask why he voted to raise taxes on middle class families.
The GOP List:
- Rep. Judy Biggert of Illinois
- Rep. Ken Calvert of California
- Rep. Michael Castle of Delaware
- Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania
- Rep. Jim Gerlach of Pennsylvania
- Rep. Mark Kirk of Illinois
- Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer of Missouri
- Rep. Dan Lungren of California
- Rep. Thad McCotter of Michigan
- Rep. Adam Putnam of Florida
- Rep. Dave Reichert of Washington
- Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas
But, there is a risk coming out early by the DCCC even though they have the money to do so. The Democrats own the Obama Economic Stimulus Bill and if it fails to stimulate in time for the 2010 election cycle the GOP will hit them over the head with it.
A bold move this early but risky and for minimal gain.
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Creationism and the Further Sinking of the Republican Party
Charles has a definite point.Here’s an Associated Press article on three Republican governors who are being looked at as front runners in the 2012 presidential election: Mark Sanford, Tim Pawlenty, and Bobby Jindal.
All creationists
The GOP should LOSE the New Creationism nonsense and concentrate on other issues.
40 years in the wilderness will be just the start if the Republican Party doesn’t lose another issue that “ALIENATES” voters.
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Video: Why Chris Matthews Won’t Run for U.S. Senate Against Arlen Specter
Ellen explains how dancing with MSNBC’s host of Hardball Chris Matthews got out of hand.Why did MSNBC Hardball Host Chris Matthews decide NOT to run against Republican Senator Arlen Specter for Pennsylvania U.S. Senate?
Lack of focus?
Guess so….Exit Answer: What are you going to do when you get there?
Flap sticks with his original reasons.
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