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    • Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today said on The Jay Leno Show that he would appoint Republican state Sen. Abel Maldonado to fill the vacant lieutenant governor's job, perhaps setting off a partisan squabble over his confirmation.

      Maldonado, 42, of Santa Maria, has been one of the few GOP allies the Republican governor has in the Legislature. He provided a key vote this year to help Democrats and Schwarzenegger push through tax increases and a budget plan over the objections of most Republican lawmakers.

      Leno asked the governor who he was going to appoint. Schwarzenegger said Maldonado "makes decisions based on what's best for the people rather than what's best for the party," according to an NBC transcript. "He has helped us, many times, pass a budget, which was very important."
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      But, will Republicans vote to confirm him?

    • $12,000 for Chuck DeVore's race in California pays for postage stamps, but not for a mailing itself. And two Senators just as conservative as DeMint — Sen. James Inhofe and Coburn, both of Oklahoma, are backing the NRSC-backed Carly Fiorina. In Politico, though anti-establishment Republican challenger Patrick Hughes has picked up some grassroots support as of late, he is still virtually unknown, even to Republicans, and he has virtually no money to spend. He may wind up becoming the next anti-establishment It Boy, but he has less than 70 days to go from zero to hero. DeMint is reportedly considering an endorsement.

      "In the wake of the special election in New York's 23 CD, it's become fashionable to push a GOP civil war narrative, but the reality — if you take a close look at these races on a race-by-race basis — is more prosaic," a GOP strategist who follows these races closely says.

    • Well, today, she gets her facts right in a piece on Carly Fiorina, but makes a very poor comparison, contending that that conservative woman is channeling in “her Dede Scozzafava” when she levels (what Malkin calls) her “strongest argument against DeVore [that he's] a white man and she’s not.“

      While I support Carly, I agree that this was not the best argument for her to make. Fiorina is as much a mainstream conservative as DeVore. Indeed, to compare the former HP CEO to Scozzafava only shows how different the two women are. Fiorina opposed the “stimulus” and is against “card check” legislation, two items on the Democratic agenda the New York Republican backed. On every major issue on which the Californian has offered an opinion, she has shown herself to be in the mainstream of American conservatism, even, alas, in her support for Proposition 8.

      No wonder such Senate conservatives as Tom Coburn, Jon Kyl and James Inhofe I have backed her.

    • I depart from Michelle Malkin on this particular point.

      I think it's perfectly acceptable to play the "gender card" as regards electability. Whether or not electability matters all that much, and whether someone's gender really has a big influence on electability, is a side question, which people can figure out for themselves.

      But to merely make mention of it? That's dirty pool?

      I don't think it is. Fiorina isn't exactly playing identity politics. She's not saying, as Sotomayor did, that she's better qualified due to her sex. Instead, she's saying that her sex might make her more appealing to female voters. That's not claiming superiority in the way we usually speak of it. She's saying that people vote for candidates for all sorts of reasons — being "just like me" being one of them — and that this will be helpful.

    • Grass-roots conservatives, your attention, please: The NRCC and GOP dumped $1 million of your hard-earned money into radical Leftist Republican Dede Scozzafava’s NY-23’s campaign — money that was squandered trashing mainstream conservative candidate Doug Hoffman, who lost the race by less than 3,400 votes.

      Now, the GOP elite Senate candidate in California, Carly Fiorina, is running against Democrat Barbara Boxer by…trashing mainstream conservative GOP rival Chuck DeVore.

      Fiorina’s strongest argument against DeVore? He’s a white man and she’s not.
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      I'll have more on this tomorrow but Michelle Malkin plain and simple is wrong on this one.

    • The powerful chairman of the House Appropriations Committee has a stark message for President Obama about Afghanistan — sending more troops would be a mistake that could "wipe out every initiative we have to rebuild our own economy."
      "There ain't going to be no money for nothing if we pour it all into Afghanistan," House Appropriations Chairman David Obey told ABC News in an exclusive interview. "If they ask for an increased troop commitment in Afghanistan, I am going to ask them to pay for it."
    • The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true.
      But that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, may not last much longer.

      Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a balloon of short-term borrowings that come due in the months ahead, and interest rates that are sure to climb back to normal as soon as the Federal Reserve decides that the emergency has passed.

      Even as Treasury officials are racing to lock in today’s low rates by exchanging short-term borrowings for long-term bonds, the government faces a payment shock similar to those that sent legions of overstretched homeowners into default on their mortgages.

    • Not that it matters politically because obviously she's a female Republican dunce and he's a male Democrat genius.

      But Sarah Palin's poll numbers are strengthening.

      And Barack Obama's are sliding.

      Guess what? They're about to meet in the 40's.

      Depending, of course, on which recent set of numbers you peruse and how the questions are phrased, 307 days into his allotted 1,461 the 44th president's approval rating among Americans has slid to 49% or 48%, showing no popularity bounce from his many happy trips, foreign and domestic.
      Riding the wave of immense publicity and symbiotic media interest over her new book, "Going Rogue," and the accompanying promotional tour, Palin's favorable ratings are now at 43%, according to ABC. That's up from 40% in July.
      One poll even gives her a 47% favorable.

  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day,  Obamacare,  Saturday Night Live

    Day By Day November 23, 2009 – Born Again



    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Damon, after the first of the year, you and Jan will need all of the tax credits you can receive. The Obama “Hope and Change” massive tax hikes will begin to take effect. Surprisingly, America is NOT out of its recession yet and the Obama Administration is warning of a double dip recession.

    Fancy that.

    The fact is the massive Obama and Democrat Party Economic Stimuilus Bill (remember the $757 Billion) or PORKULUS has failed to solve the emplyment problem or stimulate the economy. So, they want to spend more even with a $ 2 Trillion Obamacare bill looming?

    No wonder EVEN Saturday Night Live is roasting Obama about foreign debt owed to China.

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