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    March 16, 2010 /
    • CA-Sen: LA Mayor Villaraigosa predicts no Republican upset in California's U.S. Senate race
      Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa popped up on CNN’s "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" Tuesday afternoon and said there’s no way the California U.S. Senate race will end in a Republican upset, a la Scott Brown in Massachusetts.

      The June 8 primary features a GOP trio: multimillionaire businesswoman Carly Fiorina, Orange County Assemblyman Chuck DeVore and former Rep. Tom Campbell. But Villaraigosa said fellow Democrat Barbara Boxer is a tough campaigner and too tuned in with California voters to lose her Senate reelection bid in November, even at a time when voters have soured on incumbents.
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      Mayor Villar still thinks he is popular too.

      (tags: Antonio_Vaillaraigosa)
    • Political Junkie Watch: C-Span Puts Its Full Archives on the Web
      Researchers, political satirists and partisan mudslingers, take note: C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet.
      The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, cover 23 years of history and five presidential administrations and are sure to provide new fodder for pundits and politicians alike. The network will formally announce the completion of the C-Span Video Library on Wednesday.

      Having free online access to the more than 160,000 hours of C-Span footage is “like being able to Google political history using the ‘I Feel Lucky’ button every time,” said Rachel Maddow, the liberal MSNBC host.

      Ed Morrissey, a senior correspondent for the conservative blog Hot Air (hotair.com), said, “The geek in me wants to find an excuse to start digging.”
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      A present for political junkies

      (tags: C-Span)
  • Los Angeles Marathon

    Video: Los Angeles Marathon – Don’t Forget to Look UP!

    March 16, 2010 /

    “LA Marathon 2010 – Don’t Forget to Look Up”, is a reminder to take in the sights, sounds and people as runners traverse the wide expanse between hillsides and shoreline (a landmark every mile).Narrated by Peter Abraham, Creative Director for the LA Marathon, the film is witness to the myriad of signs and strange little monuments that we pass each and every day.

    With my proclivity to trip and fall, I will be looking DOWN alot. But, I know Selina from my LA Roadrunners group will be looking up (inside joke).

    Here is a photo of my Los Angeles Roadrunners Walk Group #5:

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  • Barbara Boxer,  Carly Fiorina,  Chuck DeVore,  Polling,  Tom Campbell

    CA-Sen Poll Watch: Senator Barbara Boxer Threatened By All GOP Candidates

    March 16, 2010 /

    Rasmussen Poll of March 11, 2010

    The poll results released above are fairly straight forward. Senator Barbara Boxer is vulnerable at this point in the election cycle no matter who her Republican challenger will be.

    Advertising has just begun in the race with an independent expenditure group attacking Tom Campbell as too liberal. But, it is early and whoever can put together the best advertising campaign will likely win the GOP June primary election.

  • Day By Day,  Obamacare

    Day By Day March 16, 2010 – Clean Sheet

    March 16, 2010 /


    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Have you heard the latest Obamacare passage machination?

    Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi may try to pass the Senate Obamacare bill without voting on it.

    After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate’s health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it.

    Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote on a more popular package of fixes to the Senate bill; under the House rule for that vote, passage would signify that lawmakers “deem” the health-care bill to be passed.

    The tactic — known as a “self-executing rule” or a “deem and pass” — has been commonly used, although never to pass legislation as momentous as the $875 billion health-care bill. It is one of three options that Pelosi said she is considering for a late-week House vote, but she added that she prefers it because it would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the measure.

    “It’s more insider and process-oriented than most people want to know,” the speaker said in a roundtable discussion with bloggers Monday. “But I like it,” she said, “because people don’t have to vote on the Senate bill.”

    Republicans quickly condemned the strategy, framing it as an effort to avoid responsibility for passing the legislation, and some suggested that Pelosi’s plan would be unconstitutional.

    “It’s very painful and troubling to see the gymnastics through which they are going to avoid accountability,” Rep. David Dreier (Calif.), the senior Republican on the House Rules Committee, told reporters. “And I hope very much that, at the end of the day, that if we are going to have a vote, we will have a clean up-or-down vote that will allow the American people to see who is supporting this Senate bill and who is not supporting this Senate bill.”

    Obviously, President Obama and the Democrat House leadership do NOT now possess the votes to pass the Senate bill. If this procedure is used there will be a court challenge of the process and Obamacare will be thrown into the federal judiciary and languish there for months.

    At this point, wouldn’t it be better for the President to just move on and concentrate on the economy and jobs?

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