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    June 30, 2010 /
    • Eric Cantor and John Boehner Don’t Really Want to Repeal Obamacare
      Eric Cantor and John Boehner — particularly Eric Cantor — have decided they don’t need or want conservatives and, more troubling, do not have any intention of trying to win at the polls by forcing Democrat hands on Obamacare.

      Our leadership is behaving badly.

      Last week and on Monday I mentioned Rep. Steve King’s effort to repeal Obamacare and start over. He’s filed a discharge petition. If he gets 218 signatures, Nancy Pelosi must hold a vote.

      At the time, I was hearing that Eric Cantor was desperate to undermine Steve King’s efforts and, sure enough, he’s trying. Worse, he has John Boehner helping him.
      ++++++
      No, they don't apparently and Erick is right on this one.

      Repeal the sucker.

      (tags: Obamacare Eric_Cantor john_boehner)
    • Journolist Aftermath: Hypocrisy, Thy Name is Andrew Sullivan
      Leave it to Andrew Sullivan. It’s been 24 hours since I offered $100,000 for the full list and contents of the Ezra Klein’s four-year experiment in political-journalist editorial collusion — the on line progressive jazz fusion station known as JournoList. A natural free for all of death-wishing upon their political enemies and other such innocuous scribblings.
      ++++++++
      So-called conservative?

      Andrew Sullivan is just a legend in his own mind and is NOT a conservative

      (tags: Journolist Andrew_Sullivan)
    • SCOTUS: Slick Elena? Kagan evades questions on abortion memo
      Before the Senate Judiciary Committee a short time ago, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan appeared reluctant to admit that she wrote a 1996 Clinton White House memo aimed at altering a key medical group’s opinion of whether partial birth abortion is medically necessary. The memo, reported yesterday by National Review, has caused a stir in conservative circles because it appeared that Kagan, then a White House policy aide, put words in the medical group’s mouth in order to soften its position on the controversial procedure. But when Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch brought the subject up with Kagan, he had a hard time getting her to admit that she did, in fact, write the document in question.
      +++++++
      Too slick for me and I would vote against Kagan.
      (tags: Elena_Kagen)
    • Why Obamanomics Has Failed
      The administration's stimulus program has failed. Growth is slow and unemployment remains high. The president, his friends and advisers talk endlessly about the circumstances they inherited as a way of avoiding responsibility for the 18 months for which they are responsible.

      But they want new stimulus measures—which is convincing evidence that they too recognize that the earlier measures failed. And so the U.S. was odd-man out at the G-20 meeting over the weekend, continuing to call for more government spending in the face of European resistance.
      +++++++
      Absolutely correct. Big government types just live in a state of denial

      (tags: barack_obama economics Obamanomics)
    • MO- Sen: 48% Roy Blunt Vs. 43% Robin Carnahan
      Rasmussen
      6/28/10; 500 likely voters, 4.5% margin of error
      Mode: Automated phone
      (Rasmussen release)

      Missouri

      2010 Senate
      48% Blunt (R), 43% Carnahan (D) (chart)

      Favorable / Unfavorable
      Roy Blunt: 54 / 33
      Robin Carnahan

      Job Approval / Disapproval
      Pres. Obama: 47 / 53 (chart)
      Gov. Nixon: 60 / 37 (chart)
      ++++++
      So far so good in this race

      (tags: Roy_Blunt Robin_Carnahan)
    • SCOTUS: A Smoking Gun in the Kagan Case?
      Unless there is some other interpretation of these documents that does not occur to me, it appears that Elena Kagan participated in a gigantic scientific deception. On behalf of the Clinton White House, she deliberately subverted what was supposed to be an objective scientific process. The ACOG report was certainly seen in that light by the federal courts. Federal Judge Richard Kopf was deeply impressed by the scientific integrity of the report; he wrote:

      "Before and during the task force meeting," he concluded, "neither ACOG nor the task force members conversed with other individuals or organizations, including congressmen and doctors who provided congressional testimony, concerning the topics addressed" in the ACOG statement.
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      Indeed she must answer

      This statement was obviously false. The federal courts were victimized by a gross deception and a perversion of both the scientific process and the judicial process, carried out, the evidence appears to show, by Elena Kagan.

      (tags: Elena_Kagen)
  • Big Brother

    Big Brother 12 Houseguests Revealed

    June 30, 2010 /
    +++++Update+++++


    Big Brother Featurette with a summary of the new houseguests for the upcoming season

    Yeah, I am a fan and will be watching the show and the feeds. I will try to attend a live show during the season but there is a lottery – i.e. The Big Brother production folks will decide.

    I get most of the poop from Dingo over at Hamster Watch and her Twitter feed @HamsterWatch.

    Check them out.

    And, from the CBS press release:

    Below are the 13 Houseguests who will compete in the new season of
    BIG BROTHER:

     

    Lane Elenburg,
    24                                                        Ragan Fox, 34

    Decatur,
    Texas                                                             Los
    Angeles, Calif.

    Oil Rig
    Salesman                                                         College
    Professor

     

    Andrew Gordon,
    39                                                     Britney Haynes,
    22

    Miami Beach,
    Fla.                                                       Huntington,
    Ark.

    Podiatrist                                                                     
    Hotel Sales Manager

     

    Kathy Hillis,
    40                                                             Matt
    Hoffman, 32

    Texarkana,
    Ark.                                                             Elgin,
    Ill.

    Deputy
    Sheriff                                                             
     Web designer

     

    Hayden Moss,
    24                                                          Enzo
    Palumbo, 32

    Tempe,
    Ariz.                                                               
     Bayonne, N.J.

    College
    Student                                                           
     Insurance Adjuster

     

    Rachel Reilly, 26                  
                                          Monet Stunson, 24

    Las Vegas,
    Nev.                                                           Glen
    Carbon, Ill.

    Chemistry Graduate Student/VIP Cocktail Waitress
       Model

     

     

    Brendon Villegas,
    30                                                    Annie Whittington,
    27

    Riverside,
    Calif.                                                            Tampa,
    Fla.

    High School Swim
    Coach                                             Bartender

     

    Kristen
    Bitting, 24

    Philadelphia, Pa.

    Shoe Boutique Manager

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    June 29, 2010 /
    • CA-Sen: Carly Fiorina: Tax breaks are best way to create jobs
      Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina said Tuesday the best way to encourage job growth is to provide tax breaks for companies that agree to build facilities in the United States.

      Fiorina, who oversaw Hewlett-Packard Co. from 1999 to 2005, has been criticized for laying off thousands of workers during her tenure and shipping some of those jobs overseas.

      Fiorina would give companies a 10-year tax break when they return manufacturing plants and other facilities to the U.S. and a five-year tax break for startups and expansions.

      "Instead of trying to punish people for outsourcing, we should reward people for insourcing. That's the fundamental aspect of my economic plan," said Fiorina, who met with reporters between fundraising events in Washington.
      +++++++
      Too simple for Barbara Boxer

      (tags: carly_fiorina barbara_boxer)
    • Live By the YouTube Clip, Die By the YouTube Clip
      Politico: “THE DNC today opens an “iReport” for politics — a website that a party official says will be ‘devoted to citizens uploading content from political events, including audio and video — a central resource to hold Republicans accountable for misleading claims, lies, and unseemly behavior … We can’t afford to depend on the media or campaign trackers to be present and capture every extreme position taken, … so this site … will increase the number of people out there who with nothing more than a smart phone at hand can hold Republicans accountable.’”

      Good idea, fellows. You never know when you’ll see something like this:
      ++++++++
      Good luck with that DNC.

      (tags: democrats DNC)
    • Andrew Breitbart Reward: $100,000 for Full ‘JournoList’ Archive; Source Fully Protected
      I’ve had $100,000 burning in my pocket for the last three months and I’d really like to spend it on a worthy cause. So how about this: in the interests of journalistic transparency, and to offer the American public a unique insight in the workings of the Democrat-Media Complex, I’m offering $100,000 for the full “JournoList” archive, source fully protected. Now there’s an offer somebody can’t refuse.
      ++++++
      Who will be the first to sell out?
      (tags: JournoList andrew_breitbart)
    • David Weigel joins MSNBC – Good Luck With This
      Former Washington Post blogger Dave Weigel has joined MSNBC as a paid contributor, the cable network announced Monday night.

      “Countdown,” host Keith Olbermann made the announcement on his show, introducing Weigel as "an MSNBC contributor…. Welcome Dave," he said."And you thought last week was fun, wait until you see what this week holds for you.”

      At the conclusion of the interview focused on a tea party candidate in Alabama, Olbermann again highlighted Weigel as an “MSNBC contributor."

      “Good luck with this,” Olbermann said.
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      Finally, a home for David Weigel with Keith Olbermann.

      Some conservative/libertarian eh?

      (tags: Dave_Weigel)
  • Barbara Boxer,  Carly Fiorina

    CA-Sen Poll Watch: Barbara Boxer 45% Vs. Carly Fiorina 41%

    June 29, 2010 /


    From Reuters

    This is not really a surprise.

    The poll of 600 registered California voters found that 78 percent believe the state is on the wrong track, with most saying the biggest problem facing California is the weak economy.

    Incumbent Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer holds a slight edge over Republican Carly Fiorina — 45 percent to 41 percent — in Boxer’s bid for a fourth term in the November 2 congressional elections.

    Former California Governor Jerry Brown leads Republican candidate Meg Whitman by 45 percent to 39 percent in their race to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor.

    Ipsos poll analyst Clifford Young said the fact that Democrats are leading is not unusual since they have better name recognition but as the campaign progresses “we should see some sort of dimunition of that advantage.”

    “What we’re finding is a very close race,” Young said.

    Both Whitman and Fiorina, former corporate CEOs, have well-financed campaigns in their bids for statewide political office.

    The country’s most populous state is suffering from a jobless rate of above 12 percent, higher than the national average, and a budget gap of around $20 billion.

    And, my bet is that as the election draws near and the television commercials begin, Carly will gradually pull away – just like in the June GOP Primary election.

    It is all about the economy and California’s sucks. In November, Californians will vote their pocketbook and vote Barbara Boxer out of office.

  • Barack Obama,  Missile Defense

    President Obama to Kill Missile Defense With New Space Treaty?

    June 29, 2010 /

    Political Cartoon by Michael Ramirez

    Well, the President and Vice President have never been fans of a National Missile Defense program and this new treaty may put a dagger in it is heart.

    The THAAD (terminal high altitude area defense) interceptor has been maligned for years as a failed, overly expensive missile defense system. That’s mostly due to the missile’s volatile initial testing phases during the mid-1990s, when the program was wrought with failure after failure — not unusual for the testing cycle of any new weapon system, particularly one as sophisticated as THAAD. In early 2000, Lockheed engineers went back to the drawing board, worked out the bugs, and were back launching the hyper-accurate interceptor by 2005. There hasn’t been a test failure since (just yesterday there was another successful intercept), a record sturdy enough for the Army to stand up two batteries of the critical system in the past two years. The launchers were designed explicitly to intercept SCUD type missiles, and are also capable of killing an ICBM payload when it’s in the terminal phase of flight. Given the widespread proliferation of ballistic missiles, the need for such a weapon is pressing.

    It’s a shame then, that President Obama could inadvertently ban the THAAD system through yet another constricting treaty — and I’m not talking about the START follow-on. Yesterday the New York Times reported that: 

    The Obama administration on Monday unveiled a space policy that renounces the unilateral stance of the Bush administration and instead emphasizes international cooperation, including the possibility of an arms control treaty that would limit the development of space weapons.

    In recent years, both China and the United States have destroyed satellites in orbit, raising fears about the start of a costly arms race that might ultimately hurt the United States because it dominates the military use of space. China smashed a satellite in January 2007, and the United States did so in February 2008.

    The new space policy explicitly says that Washington will “consider proposals and concepts for arms control measures if they are equitable, effectively verifiable and enhance the national security of the United States and its allies.”

    The State Department says details are forthcoming, but this sounds like a veiled reference to the PAROS treaty (prevention of arms race in outer space) or–at the very least–a like-minded document. Because certain types of ballistic, air-launched, and ship-launched missiles can be modified to kill satellites, such a treaty would be devastating to the national security and military capabilities of the United States (and all but kill missile defense)..

    This, in spite of successful tests of the THADD System – such as yesterday’s.

    June 29, 2010: Test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system. 100% intercept success rate, going 7 for 7.

    I doubt President Obama will be able to secure the votes to ratify this treaty but the Democrat LEFT’S intent is clear – kill the Missile Defense Agency by any means/excuse/rationale.

    Remember in the 1980’s when the Democrats ridiculed President Reagan by saying the missile defense systems were Star Wars and would not work? Now that the technology works, and is deployed, they continue to turn their backs.

    Amazing……..

  • Afghanistan,  Barack Obama,  Polling

    Poll Watch: Majority Favor Obama’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Timetable

    June 29, 2010 /


    From Gallup

    Frankly, I am not surprised.

    After almost ten years of screwing around in Afghanistan, I don’t think Americans are too keen on wasting too many more men or material on the Taliban who have now moved into Pakistan anyway. The NEW anti-Taliban and Al Qaeda War will be handled by technology and bombing the bejesus out of their training camps by drones.

    There is little support for spending billions to build roads, schools and business enterprises in a lawless and tribal Afghanistan.

  • Barack Obama,  BP Oil Spill,  Day By Day

    Day By Day June 29, 2010 – Precious Metal

    June 29, 2010 /


    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    And, you think everything President Obama does is NOT political?

    The Georrge Soros connection is a 2009 story and has been partially debunked. But, the entire issue of winners vs. losers on the BP oil spill continues.

    I don’t think the BP oil spill narrative will EVER be a winner for Obama and will call into question the massive oil company donations received by the President and Democrat Congressional members.

    Wait for the ads beginning in October.

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