Fiorina’s spokeswoman, Julie Soderlund, said Fiorina did what was necessary to ensure the long-term health of her company and was proud of her record.

“She has been very up front about the fact that politics exist in the board just as much as they do in the U.S. Senate,” she said of Fiorina’s dismissal, which the candidate wrote about in her memoirs.

Faulting Boxer for supporting tax increases and “job-killing legislation,” Soderlund said the California Democrat had been unwilling to make the same kinds of “tough choices” in her handling of taxpayer dollars over more than three decades in politics.
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Barbara Boxer will try to demonize Carly Fiorina but what about her own record?

Michael Steele, who committed the notorious “Essex Boys” gangland killings, claimed that being refused adequate treatment at Britain's highest security jails left him in pain for seven years.

He even said his suffering was made worse by being locked up all day because he had “nothing to do other than think about his toothache”.
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Gold filing for a murderer? How about a painful extraction?

WaPo blogger Dave Weigel resigned today, after a slew of his anti-conservative comments and emails from the newly-defunct JournoList were leaked to FishbowlDC and the Daily Caller. However, by focusing on his invective and profanity, most of his detractors and defenders are overlooking Weigel’s biggest offense.

Weigel used JournoList for exactly the purpose its critics suspected it would be used, i.e., to attempt to shape media coverage for the benefit of the Left.
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Read it all and indeed

A milestone on the legal front occurred in Orange County in May when a three-judge appellate panel, in a published decision, declared that red-light camera photos are hearsay, rather than direct, evidence and therefore inadmissible.

"The person or persons who maintain the system did not testify," the judges declared. "No one with personal knowledge testified about how often the system is maintained."

As word of the decision circulates, more motorists with red-light camera tickets are contesting them, cities that had been planning to install the cameras are delaying action, and the adverse reaction is taking root in the state Capitol.

The Senate has approved, 31-1, legislation by Democratic Sen. Joe Simitian of Palo Alto to impose much tighter standards on local governments that contract with the private firms for the cameras.
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A waste of government resources that protects very few

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh famously said he hoped President Obama would “fail” in January, 2009. Almost a year later, when Limbaugh was rushed to the hospital with chest pains, Washington Post reporter David Weigel had a wish of his own. “I hope he fails,” Weigel cracked to fellow liberal reporters on the “Journolist” email list-serv.

“Too soon?” he wondered.

Weigel was hired this spring by the Post to cover the conservative movement. Almost from the beginning there have been complaints that his coverage betrays a personal animus toward conservatives. E-mails obtained by the Daily Caller suggest those complaints have merit.
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Ezra Klein has taken down JournoList.

I began Journolist in February of 2007. It was an idea born from disagreement. Weeks, or maybe months, earlier, I had criticized Time's Joe Klein over some comments he made about the Iraq War. He e-mailed a long and searching reply, and the subsequent conversation was educational for us both. Taking the conversation out of the public eye made us less defensive, less interested in scoring points. I learned about his position, and why he held it, in ways that I wouldn't have if our argument had remained in front of an audience.
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But, the unintended cinsequences

The Republican National Committee chairman showed up Thursday in one of the nation's least GOP-friendly cities, expressing confidence that his party was in strong position to win a U.S. Senate seat and the governor's office in November.

"You've already begun to see here in California an enormous and I think important groundswell of support for Meg and Carly and a host of folks out there who are running," Michael Steele said, referring to Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina — the Republican nominees for governor and Senate, respectively. "We are competitive in California for the first ti

There’s word that Dave Weigel has resigned from the Washington Post.

I’ve known Dave Weigel since when he was an intern at USA Today and used to send me e-mails to the Kerry Spot on how I might be overestimating Bush’s chances.

The last time there was a big brouhaha about Weigel, it seemed that everybody noted that they liked him personally, and then tore into what he wrote.

I’m sure there are readers out there exclaiming, “so what if he’s a nice guy when you run into him?” but it’s worth noting that there are a lot of folks in this world whose political views somehow drive them to uncontrollable, overt nastiness or hostility to those with different views. The world probably could use more of Dave’s trait of being personally amiable with those with whom he disagrees.

At least to their faces; his comments on Journo-List are nasty stuff.
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A proud member of Right Blogs but you won't be seeing my vitriol there.

FishbowlDC has confirmed that WaPo conservative-beat blogger Dave Weigel has resigned after a slew of his anti-conservative comments and emails surfaced on FishbowlDC and Daily Caller over the past two days.

A spokesperson for the Post said the paper will not offer additional comments but confirmed that the writer's resignation was accepted.
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A good writer but see Althouse on why he had to go

Washington Post reporter/blogger Dave Weigel, who is tasked with covering conservatives, has come under fire in the past several days for derisive comments he's made about some conservatives on the liberal listserv JournoList. You could read more background on the story here. I should disclose at the outset of this post that I consider Dave a good friend. So you can dismiss what I have to say if you want, but I felt compelled to add some broader context to this latest media controversy.
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I know you are friends Phil but he was hired to cover the Right. Put a fork in him – He's done at WAPO – or at least should be.

Consider poor, conflicted David Weigel. Hired by the Washington Post, he had the trappings of prestige and therefore he deserved the admiration of the cool young journalists of Washington, D.C. But his assignment was to cover the conservative movement, and that threatened to make him toxic, a man to be shunned. He needed a way to wriggle — to wiggle-Weigel — into the good graces of the cool kids. He had to show that he was covering conservatives, but he was not one of them.

He could try to do that subtly, and without deviating from the good-faith performance of his assigned task, perhaps by writing in a neutral, questioning style about what was going on with the righties these days and carefully raising doubts, undermining foundations, and strategically inserting a knife blade now and then. But would they get it? Didn't he need something a little more emphatic… and a little hipper?
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So True. Read it all