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    • Carly Fiorina gave a very good Republican response today on health care. It cannot be denied. I am glad she is on our side.

      I do not dislike Carly Fiorina. I don’t really know her, though we’ve met a couple times. She seems like a very nice person. One day I’m sure she will be an excellent elected or appointed official.
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      Then Erick Erickson goes on to explain why he likes Chuck DeVore, a little known and poorly funded GOP Assemblyman from a grossly gerrymandered GOP district.

      Flap will have more on this later but just wondering why Erick from Macon, Georgia and Senator Jim DeMint from South Carolina want to meddle in California politics, especially a partisan primary election.

      Or do they just want to thumb their noses at GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and help elect DeMint as his replacement after the 2010 elections?

    • During a year-long gambling binge at the Caesars Palace and Rio casinos in 2007, Terrance Watanabe managed to lose nearly $127 million.

      The run is believed to be one of the biggest losing streaks by an individual in Las Vegas history. It devoured much of Mr. Watanabe's personal fortune, he says, which he built up over more than two decades running his family's party-favor import business in Omaha, Neb. It also benefitted the two casinos' parent company, Harrah's Entertainment Inc., which derived about 5.6% of its Las Vegas gambling revenue from Mr. Watanabe that year.
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      MORON of the year?

    • President Barack Obama will meet Sunday with Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill, as a group of moderate and liberal senators plan to negotiate through the weekend in hopes of striking a deal on the public option by early next week.

      The president’s visit comes at the start of what will be a critical week for the health care reform bill. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will attempt to strike a so-far elusive compromise on the public option, and begin taking the procedural steps needed to pass a bill by Christmas.

      As the Senate convened a rare Saturday session, 10 Democratic senators continued intensive talks on the public option, with the goal of agreeing on a framework that can garner 60 votes. They are considering proposals that could win the support of one Republican, Sen. Olympia Snowe on Maine.
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      Will Snowe sell out the GOP?

      (tags: Obamacare)
    • Slowly and mostly unnoticed by the major news media, the air has been going out of the global warming balloon. Global temperatures stopped rising a few years ago, much to the dismay of the climate campaigners. The U.N.'s upcoming Copenhagen conference–which was supposed to yield a binding greenhouse gas emissions reduction treaty as a successor to the failed Kyoto Protocol–collapsed weeks in advance and remains on life support pending Obama's magical intervention. Cap and trade legislation is stalled on Capitol Hill. Recent opinion polls from Gallup, Pew, Rasmussen, ABC/Washington Post, and other pollsters all find a dramatic decline in public belief in human-caused global warming. The climate campaigners continue to insist this is because they have a "communications" problem, but after Al Gore's Nobel Prize/Academy Award double play, millions of dollars in paid advertising, and the relentless doom-mongering from the media echo chamber and the political class, this excuse is prepost
    • This is not just another, “I beat cancer” testimonial. This is a calm, eloquent, and utterly damning clip. It perfectly captures the essence of the problem with the Democrats’ health care plan. Fiorina is not a partisan here. She doesn’t mention either political party by name. She also doesn’t mention that she’s a Republican or that she is a candidate for Senate in California. She’s just some woman named Carly Fiorina.

      The Dems should fear statements like these.

  • Afghanistan,  Barack Obama,  Day By Day

    Day By Day December 5, 2009 – Messengers



    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    President Obama had to announce a “LEAVE” or “WITHDRAWAL” date from the Taliban-Afghanistan War otherwise the anti-war LEFT would eat him alive after authorizing more troops.

    But, the Obama Administration policy continues to be considered a dithering, no-win approach.

    Doesn’t this remind you of Jimmy Carter-Iran-Afghanistan and LBJ-Vietnam?

    In the Spring, if this war does NOT turn around, look for Obama to cut and run before Labor Day 2010 and the November midterm elections.

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