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Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner said Tuesday the state should bridge an estimated $20.7 billion budget deficit in part by freezing government hiring, borrowing and spending.
Poizner's plan would include not issuing new bonds, even those approved by voters, and not replacing some 9,300 general fund-supported employees who he estimated would leave their jobs of their own volition by the end of the next fiscal year.
The plan comes on top of Poizner's previously announced initiatives, such as 10 percent cuts in both taxes and state spending and a $10 billion rainy-day fund.
In total, the freezes, which would last through fiscal year 2010-11, and the previous initiatives would cover the entire projected deficit, he said in a meeting with reporters.
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Barack Obama is under pressure to disclose what information MI5 passed to the American authorities about the Detroit bomber after Downing Street disclosed that a file had been "shared" with the CIA in 2008.
After initially denying that they had received British intelligence, senior American sources confirmed last night that they were "reviewing" what British information had been received on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.The admission is embarrassing for the White House and threatens to provoke a rift with Gordon Brown. The conflicting briefing over the shared intelligence also suggests that the transatlantic relationship may have weakened in recent months.
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America's relationship with the UK has soured since the Bush-Blair association.Was it the DVD's? or the i-Pod?
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, piqued with White House pressure to accept the Senate health reform bill, threw a rare rhetorical elbow Tuesday at President Barack Obama, questioning his commitment to his 2008 campaign promises.
A leadership aide said it was no accident.
Pelosi emerged from a meeting with her leadership team and committee chairs in the Capitol to face an aggressive throng of reporters who immediately hit her with C-SPAN’s request that she permit closed-door final talks on the bill to be televised.
A reporter reminded the San Francisco Democrat that in 2008, then-candidate Obama opined that all such negotiations be open to C-SPAN cameras.
“There are a number of things he was for on the campaign trail,†quipped Pelosi, who has no intention of making the deliberations public.
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Well, Obama is a typical politician. Shocking NOT.
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Video: President Obama Promises Televised Healthcare Negotiations – Liar Liar Pants on Fire
The C-span Lie VideoWhat? Obama is not an ordinary poltician who will LIE to get himself elected?
Well, the emperor has NO clothes as Congressional Democrats meet in secret to craft the final Obamacare bill.
Technorati Tags: Obamacare, Barack_Obama
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Day By Day January 6, 2009 – Rhinoceros Rex
Chris, I would not be so quick to shoot the messenger in RNC Chairman Michael Steele. Political machinations, including the opening of the North Dakota Senate seat are happening quickly and there are not unlimited resources to run campaigns.Political parties are strange organizations in that they are not quick to adapt to change – especially the donors who must be persuaded that your candidate can help them in the future.
If anything the national GOP is looking up as compared to a year ago when all of the Left pundits were saying the Republican Party was irrelevant and a regional only party.
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@Flap Twitter Updates for 2010-01-06
- RT @chucktodd: NBC has confirmed @thefix's scoop about Chris Dodd's decision to retire rather than face a tough re-election battle. #tcot #
- Sen. Chris Dodd is out = going to retire according to @latimestot #tcot #
- @FightTheSmears Clarence Ray Allen was executed at San Quentin on January 16, 2006 = last California execution in reply to FightTheSmears #
- @MichaelTurk Call my friend an oral surgeon Dr. Dan Orr and get a recommendation. He is a dentist and MD and knows everyone in reply to MichaelTurk #
- links for 2010-01-05 http://bit.ly/4Imv1N #tcot #
- California proposes lethal injection revisions, a step toward resuming executions #catcot #cagop http://icio.us/j5ppys #
- Update: CA-Sen: Carly Fiorina to Address Conejo Valley Republican Women Along With California Insurance Commi… http://bit.ly/4GkGBb #tcot #
- CA-Sen: Tom Campbell may be near switch to Senate run #tcot #catcot #cagop http://icio.us/5yzric #
- Jane Wells For California Governor: The Final Nail In California's Coffin! #catcot #cagop http://icio.us/xntrw5 #
- France to introduce new law banning 'psychological violence' in marriages http://icio.us/202mcv #
- Nancy Pelosi Notes Obama's Flip-Flop on Health-Care Transparency, Etc. #tcot http://icio.us/wbwhk0 #
- In Shocker to Democrats Sen Dorgan of North Dakota to retire http://icio.us/ifqttk #
- CO – Sen: Tough Climb in Colorado Puts Michael Bennet in a Tossup – Opportunity for GOP Pickup #tcot http://icio.us/ljkqls #
- Video: Redstate’s Erick Erickson Gives As Good As He Gets With Stephen Colbert – Goat and all #tcot #rs http://icio.us/sr2ief #
- Meg Whitman raises $3.5 million in second half of 2009 – 3 Times Steve Poizner #cagop #catcot http://icio.us/l2aino #
- California Prop. 34 was designed for campaign money laundering #catcot #cagop http://icio.us/aoji34 #
- Obama Surprise: Dozens of Names Shifted to No-Fly List #tcot http://icio.us/fqpbth #
- Obamacare: Democrats Considering Health Care-Illegal Immigration Deal #tcot http://icio.us/wqlfx5 #
- Trying to watch last night Colbert Report without gagging. Sorry folks what a moron – even for a supposed comedian #tcot #
- Swing states may be on the move for the GOP #tcot #cagop #catcot http://icio.us/nk4lhs #
- Good Tuesday morning/afternoon/evening Flapsblog.com, Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook friends: http://bit.ly/17ucG0 #
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