• Day By Day,  Obamacare

    Day By Day March 26, 2010 – Call It

    March 26, 2010 /

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    The LEFT and the Democratic Party NEED a health care reform narrative that demonizes someone or something because Obamacare is a disaster. The worst, including massive tax increases, bureaucracy and government waste are yet to come.

    And, come it WILL.

    The Easter recess will demonstrate as to how disastrous Obamacare has been to the Democrat Congressional majority. Watch the district protests and the number of incumbent retirements.

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

    CA-Sen: Carly Fiorina Gains in Latest PPIC Poll

    March 25, 2010 /

    California U.S. Senate candidates Tom Campbell, Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore

    Graphic courtesy of Calbuzz

    The latest PPIC (Public Policy Institute of California) poll has been released. And, it is all good news for Carly Fiorina.

    The Republican primary race for U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer’s seat has tightened since January, when Tom Campbell led both Carly Fiorina and Chuck DeVore among Republican likely voters (27% Campbell, 16% Fiorina, 8% DeVore). Today, Campbell and Fiorina are in a close race (24% Fiorina, 23% Campbell), and DeVore’s level of support is unchanged (8%). In this campaign—which has seen little advertising—the largest percentage of likely voters (44%) is undecided, similar to January (48%).

    In hypothetical November matchups, incumbent Boxer is deadlocked with Campbell (43% to 44%), with 13 percent undecided. A plurality of independents support Campbell (48% Campbell, 32% Boxer, 20% undecided). Since January, support for Boxer has dropped 10 points among independents, and Campbell’s support has increased 11 points. Half of women support Boxer (50% vs. 38% Campbell) and half of men favor Campbell (51% vs. 36% Boxer).

    Boxer is in a similarly tight race with Fiorina (44% to 43%), with 13 percent undecided. Among independents, Fiorina leads Boxer (41% Fiorina, 35% Boxer, 24% undecided). Women favor Boxer by 14 points (51% Boxer, 37% Fiorina) and men favor Fiorina by 13 points (49% Fiorina, 36% Boxer).

    In a potential race with DeVore, Boxer has a slight lead (46% Boxer, 40% DeVore, 14% undecided). Boxer holds a sizable lead over DeVore among women (53% to 34%) and younger voters (52% to 30%), while DeVore leads among men (47% to 39%).

    I will have more comments either later today or tomorrow when I can see more of the cross tabs of the poll. But, the short summary is that Carly Fiorina is pulling up, Tom Campbell is starting to fade and the question is why Chuck DeVore continues in this race with so little support.

    And…..Democrat Senator Barabara Boxer is extremely vulnerable.

  • Day By Day,  Obamacare

    Day By Day March 25, 2010 – White Noise

    March 25, 2010 /

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Poiitical violence regarding Obamacare is NOT acceptable and should be rejected in all circumstances. Obamacare will be repealed and revised at the ballot box and the Congress. There is little doubt.

    John Hinderaker over at Powerline has an excellent piece.

    Today’s big news story, along with the epic debate on health care taking place in the Senate, is the Democrats’ claim that some of their Congressmen have been threatened with violence after voting for the government’s takeover of health care. Steny Hoyer claims that more than ten House members “have reported incidents of threats or other forms of harassment.” He also admits that figure is “just an estimate,” which I guess means he made it up. Nor is it clear what “other forms of harassment” means; angry phone calls from constituents, perhaps.

    We condemn political violence in virtually all circumstances; certainly in all circumstances that could arise in our democracy. Threats of violence, sadly, are not uncommon in politics; let alone “harassment.” Even insignificant conservatives like us have been threatened with violence on several occasions, and the linked article notes that Jim Bunning received threats after he temporarily held up the extension of unemployment benefits a few weeks ago.

    The current threats (assuming they are real, as I assume some of them are) are being played up in the press because the Democrats want to dampen the anger that has erupted over their adoption of a government medicine program through a series of legislative maneuvers that are in some respects unprecedented. It is important for the Democrats and their press minions to understand that there are many millions of Americans who regard Obamacare not just as misguided public policy, but as an illegitimate usurpation of power. I am one of the many millions who are outraged at the Left’s attempt to destroy the private health care system that has served my family so well, and who regard Obamacare as illegitimate.

    Read it all……

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    March 24, 2010 /
    • CA-Sen: Should legislative Chuck DeVore's staffers be allowed to volunteer for their bosses’ campaigns?
      DeVore’s Chief of Staff in the Assembly, Leisa Brug Kline, doubles as his campaign manager. She runs her own public relations firm, Van der Brug, but was paid only $4,299.78 for campaign work in 2009, according to campaign finance records. Meanwhile, she’s considered a full-time employee of the State Assembly, which pays her $8,125 a month, according to state payroll records.

      DeVore’s campaign communications director, Joshua Trevino, also worked part-time as a senior consultant for DeVore’s Assembly office. Trevino started with DeVore’s Assembly office as press secretary in September 2008. Back then, he earned $2,084 a month for working a part-time schedule that required him to be on the job for 50 percent of the work week. Trevino left DeVore’s Assembly office the next month, but returned in March 2009 as a “senior consultant” earning $5,000 a month on a 60 percent schedule. At the same time, Trevino wrote on his Facebook page that he joined the DeVore for Senate campaign in 3/2009..

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    • CA-Sen: Poll says GOP voters don’t know Tom Campbell favors gay marriage
      The vast majority of Tom Campbell’s supporters in his bid for the GOP nomination to take on U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer don’t know that he supports gay marriage, according to a new poll by a national anti-gay marriage group.

      Only 2 percent of current Campbell supporters were aware that he explicitly supports same-sex marriage and opposed Proposition 8, the 2008 initiative that ended these marriages in California.

      The poll was commissioned by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a Washington, D.C., based group that has been working to defeat and repeal gay marriage bids in several states. They commissioned the poll of 500 likely GOP voters, conducted March 12-15 by the firm QEV Analytics. NOM is also working to make sure GOP voters know Campbell’s position.
      ++++++
      A contrast ad closer to the election will make the distinction.

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  • Day By Day,  Obamacare

    Day By Day March 24, 2010 – The Crutch

    March 24, 2010 /


    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Enough of the name calling and demonizing of Obamacare. Obama’s health care reform legislation is bad for the country and I doubt that the worst parts of it will ever be implemented. Plus, the national Republican Party will be able to run against it in the 2010 and 2012 elections and win a goodly number of seats in Congress back from the Democrats.

    Is there any wonder why the LEFT wants to brand Tea Party activists and other Obamcare opponents as racist? Maybe they can salvage some seats in November.

    Remember the worst parts of Obamacare, including the cuts in Medicare and tax increases do not take effect until after the Presidential re-election campaign of Obama in 2012. Unfortunately, the economic malaise the country is in will not improve with Obamacare looming in the future.

    Look for massive revisions in the legislation starting in February 2011.

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    • RT @SarahPalinUSA: "With Healthcare Law Finished, Democrats Turn Their Attention to Cap-and-Trade Tax" http://ow.ly/1pZWF #tcot #
    • RT @SteveCooley4AG:Cooley Out Raises Harman & Eastman Combined – generates Almost $400K in few weeks http://tinyurl.com/ylkr4a8 #CAGOP #TCOT #
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    • RT @MelissaTweets: RT @HowardKurtz: This is turning into quite the pep rally. These Dems are fired up. Well, they own it now. #tcot #
    • Obama keeps talking about "FREE" preventive care. Free? Hardly.. What about the Medicare cuts and tax increases? #tcot #
    • Obama mentions the tax credits first – first the sugar and later the vinegar when Obama is out of office #tcot #
    • President Obama takes the podium and teleprompter – shocker #tcot #
    • Obamacare warm-up act = Slow Joe Biden #tcot #
    • Dems chant "Fired Up! Ready to Go!" – Out the door in November 2010 and 2012 is more like it. #tcot #
    • No political cover for Obama and Dems – Obamacare for what it is worth is ALL yours, baby. #tcot #
    • Fox News: Not a single Republican lawmaker in the East Room of the White House for Health Care Reform Bill signing #tcot #
    • RT @MelissaTweets: RT @dmataconis: So this is how liberty dies, with an overly ostentatious bill signing ceremony in the East Room. #tcot #
    • President Obama set to sign the American Socialized Medicine Act #tcot #
    • CA-Sen: Former Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice endorses @CarlyforCA Carly Fiorina for U.S. Senate #
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  • Day By Day,  Obamacare

    Day By Day March 23, 2010 – Darwin’d

    March 23, 2010 /


    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Obamacare as envisioned in the Senate Bill has now been signed into law. President Obama and the Democrat Congressional leaders had a pep rally style bill signing in the East Room of the White House. Not one Republican member of the Congress was invited to attend. Of course, NOT ONE Republican voted for this monstrous increase in government entitlement spending.

    The American health care debate will now continue as state’s Attorney General’s sue in the courts to stop implementation of the law and as the Congress will undoubtedly change in November.

    Stay tuned……

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    March 23, 2010 /
    • Flap’s 2010 Los Angeles Marathon http://bit.ly/d336N3 #tcot #catcot #
    • My Garmin race watch is finally charged after a few hours of decharging yesterday. Does that mean I have to begin training? #LAMarathon 2011 #
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