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    • The third assumption is that, backed by the Tea Party movement, Palin can win between 30 and 40 percent of the vote in many of the early multi-candidate primaries and caucuses. This doesn't seem like a reach, given the vote count for Tea Party movement candidates this year. In Nevada, for example, Sharron Angle (unfancied at first) won the Senate nomination in a three main candidate race with 40 percent of the vote. Meanwhile, across the country, Christine O'Donnell, who has never made a mark in prior campaigns, seems set to ride Tea Pary support (plus that of Palin) to a strong showing and possible primary victory, albeit in a field devoid of a true conservative option.
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      Read it all and agreed.

      Sarah can win in Iowa and South Carolina and then finish off Romney in Florida

      (tags: sarah_palin)
    • Bill Clinton flashed irritation at MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and other liberals Monday for failing to appreciate the successes of his presidency.

      “One of the leading television commentators on one of our liberal cable channels said I was the best Republican president the country ever produced, which would come [as] quite a surprise to the Republicans, half of whom still think I’m a closet communist,” Clinton said during an appearance with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
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      Think Clinton will campaign for Jerry Brown?

      Uh….No……

    • The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition have unveiled a new website to help grass-roots win the 50 races deemed critical to conservatives' efforts to seize power in the House of Representatives.

      Among the Democrats being targeted on the ElectionDayTeaParty.com site: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, and Rep. Ron Klein of Florida.

      Michael Patrick Leahy, author of “Rules for Conservative Radicals” and co-founder of the National Tea Party Coalition, tells Newsmax the ElectionDayTeaParty site is designed for use by tea party activists and supporters, and by "tea party sympathizers" who may have never attended a tea party rally.
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      A nice site that consolidates activism

      (tags: Tea_Parties)
    • There was a time in Washington when Jack Anderson was a hero, the columnist who kept unearthing Richard Nixon's dark secrets, a Pulitzer winner who revealed the administration's secret tilt toward Pakistan in its war against India.
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    • The Senate on Tuesday defeated an effort to strip a controversial tax-reporting provision from the sweeping healthcare law Congress passed earlier this year.

      In a 46-52 vote, lawmakers killed an amendment sponsored by Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) that would have saved businesses and nonprofit groups from having to report an array of small and medium-sized purchases to the Internal Revenue Service.

      A handful of Democrats voted for the Johanns proposal, including Sens. Evan Bayh (Ind.), Michael Bennet (Colo.), Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), Ben Nelson (Neb.), Mark Pryor (Ark.), Mark Warner (Va.), and Jim Webb (Va.).

      The vote puts the Senate on track to pass small-business assistance legislation this week or early next week.
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      I can see the television commercials now touting the Dems as anti-business and pro-bureaucracy

      (tags: Obamacare)
    • Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels has been holding a series of private dinners with top Republican business leaders, policy hands and donors from around the country since this spring, an indication that he’s thinking more seriously about a presidential bid than he publicly lets on.

      The dinners, which take place at the governor’s mansion in Indianapolis, are meant to introduce Daniels to a class of GOP heavy-hitters who could both finance and advise a White House campaign.
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      I think he will make the run….

    • In the Senate today, Nebraska Republican Mike Johanns will offer his amendment to scrap the new 1099 rules altogether. But the White House is opposing this because it fears it would set a precedent for repealing the larger health bill. Over the weekend the Treasury Department pronounced the Johanns amendment "not acceptable in its current form."

      Yesterday the White House endorsed a competing proposal from Florida Democrat Bill Nelson that would increase the 1099 threshold to $5,000 and exempt businesses with fewer than 25 workers. Yet this is little more than a rearguard action in favor of the status quo; the Nelson amendment leaves the basic architecture unchanged while making the problem more complex.
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      More unintended ObamaCare consequences

      (tags: Obamacare)
    • Guess what? You can be a “TRUE CONSERVATIVE,” a blogger behind a keyboard, a talk show host behind a mic, a prime-time TV host in front of a camera, a Beltway pundit, or a heartland Tea Party activist and come to different, good-faith conclusions about this race. I know people in both the Castle camp and the O’Donnell camp. I’m not going to deride or disown my friends in the blogosphere or anywhere else because we disagree. That’s, well, unhinged.

      Everyone get a grip. Take a deep breath. Fight your best fight. Make your best arguments. Wait for the votes to be counted. Then march on and move forward.
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    • There you have it. Mike Castle never voted to impeach President Bush; no such vote ever occurred on the floor of the House. He did vote to commit goofball Congressman Dennis Kucinich's impeachment resolution to the Judiciary Committee, where it died, as intended, a slow death. And Castle's office said that it opposed impeachment because "they believed there weren't any crimes committed by the Bush administration."
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      Uhhhhh No……as it seems
  • Bill Clinton,  Jerry Brown,  Meg Whitman

    CA-Gov: Bill Clinton Still Feels Sorry for Jerry Brown Endorses Him for Governor

    This video features an heated debate between Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown during the 1992 Democratic Primaries. Things get personal when Brown attacks Hillary

    Does anyone REALLY think that Bill Clinton will push this flap aside? I think Bill Clinton pathetically feels sorry for Governor Moonbeam.

    Not really but Bill knows that Obama is weak and Hillary might be able to make a come back – so he will play the game.

    Former President Bill Clinton endorsed Jerry Brown’s bid to become governor on Tuesday, saying he and Brown had put the ugliness from their 1992 primary battle behind them and that Republican Meg Whitman’s ad that featured him was misleading.

    “I strongly support Jerry Brown for governor because I believe he was a fine mayor of Oakland, he’s been a very good attorney general, and he would be an excellent governor at a time when California needs his creativity and fiscal prudence,” Clinton said in a statement to The Times.

  • Jerry Brown,  Meg Whitman

    CA-Gov Video: Jerry Brown Portrays Meg Whitman as Pinocchio

    California Democrat Attorney General Jerry Brown’s latest television ad depicting Meg Whitman as Pinocchio

    Jerry Brown is hitting back at Republican Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman after she ran television ads featuring Bill Clinton clips that call the former Governor Jerry Brown a liar on Proposition 13, raising taxes and running a California budget deficit.

    But, although some of Clinton’s assertions have been examined and clarified, not all of Whitman’s ad is false. Besides, I remember Jerry Brown, the Proposition 13 tax revolt and his blatant flip-flop. A classic Jerry Brown re-invention.

    So, Governor Moonbeam goes personally negative against Whitman highlighting issues where he has blatantly spun the truth or outright lied.

    Nice……and good luck with that Jerry.

    Here is Brown’s other television ad that also will begin on California television this evening.

  • Barbara Boxer,  Carly Fiorina

    CA-Sen Poll Watch: Barbara Boxer 46% Vs. Carly Fiorina 44% – 3% Margin of Error

    Embedded ever changing poll Boxer 46.9% Vs Fiorina 45.5% on average

    The latest Fox News Poll has this California U.S. Senate race as a virtual dead heat and within the margin of error.

    The Fox News release is here and the poll crosstabs are located here. Both pdf files.

    Yet, Pollster has a more interesting chart:

    California Job approval: Senator Barbara Boxer – Approve 41.8% Vs. Disapprove 46.3

    Senator Boxer went on television yesterday and it will be interesting if she obtains any movement in the polls. My bet is that she will until Carly Fiorina starts running television ads reminding California voters how bad the California economy really is.

    Remember my prediction: Carly Fiorina by 3 points and she will pull away a week before the election.

  • Bill Clinton,  Jerry Brown

    CA-Gov: Will Bill Clinton Campaign for Jerry Brown?

    John Burton, Chairman of the California Democratic Party

    Well, this video was made a few days ago before Jerry Brown insulted the former President by dredging up the Monica Lewinsky affiar in this video:

    My bet is that Bill will come out and campaign for San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom who is running for Lt. Governor (who endorsed Hillary when she was running for President) and stay away from his ego-challenged contemporary, Jerry Brown. But, then again, maybe Hillary feels threatened with the prospect of a Governor Meg Whitman.

  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day

    Day By Day September 14, 2010 – You Want Fries With That?



    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    The main problem President Obama has is that he campaigned as a “Hope and Change” change agent and has governed as a FAR LEFT ideologue ala George Soros. Thus, he is losing his base of political support and his Democratic Party will suffer massive loses in the upcoming November elections.

    All of the noise about Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney as possible opponents to Obama in 2012 is a smoke screen. Watch some Republican Governors like Tim Pawlenty, Bobby Jindal and Mitch Daniels – all young, accomplished, elected leaders without political baggage to run.

    If President Obama’s poll numbers continue to be in the basement, watch one of the three mentioned above start to make their move on the Sunday talk shows, in Iowa and South Carolina.

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