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Speaker John Boehner Assails Obama Over 4,257 New Regulatory Actions
Yeah, the Obama’s Administration lame ateempt to cover their tracks on business and job killing regulations is laughable.
And, Speaker Boehner is happy to call out the President.
That 4,257 in the headline looks like a made-up number but, it isn’t. It is the actual number of new regulatory actions underway at the moment. The number comes from the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs web site. Speaker Boehner’s letter requesting information about these 4,257 regulatory actions comes as the Obama administration is publicly claiming that it is cutting red tape to save Americans money and reduce the government’s footprint. That claim does not square up very well with the fact that the administration has 4,257 new regulatory actions in the works. And of that staggering number, more than 200 may have an impact of $100 million or more.
Wonder if the Obama Administration will EVER respond?
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Day By Day August 26, 2011 – Kulture King
Day By Day by Chris MuirThe ridicule of Mitt Romney as a “weird” Mormon and Rick Perry as a “stupid” Texan has already started in the Lamestream Media. The LEFT hopes for the same result as with Sarah Palin.The Alinsky tactic is becoming worn…..
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Flap’s Links and Comments for August 25th through August 26th
These are my links for August 25th through August 26th:
- President 2012: My Rick Perry Problem — and Ours – Let’s cut through the clutter: A lot of people on the East and West coasts are bigots and snobs about “flyover types.” They equate funny accents with stupidity, and they automatically assume someone who went to Texas A&M must be dumber than someone who went to Yale. Overt displays of religion trigger their fight-or-flight instincts, causing them to lash out irrationally.
My favorite example? When John McCain picked Palin as his running mate, University of Chicago professor Wendy Doniger wrote that Palin’s “greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.”
When I read such idiocy, it’s impossible for me not to love Bush, Perry, Palin, et al. for their enemies.
But here’s my problem: I find the prospect of another four or eight years of defending these cultural distinctions to be intensely wearying.
My weariness is hardly a major consideration for anybody, but I think it reflects a larger problem. Conservatism is starting to have an identity-politics problem all its own. I think conservatism needs to spend less time defending candidates for who they are, and more time supporting candidates for what they intend to do.
Bush’s inability to articulate arguments had nothing to do with his Texan-ness or his Christianity, but a lot of folks on the right defended him as if that were the case. “He speaks American, don’t you get it?”
To which I’d reply: “No, he speaks badly.”
Perry’s not a bad speaker, and I’m trying to keep an open mind. I suspect I agree with him more than I did with Bush, whose compassionate conservatism I loathed.
Nor do I mind folksiness per se. Mississippi governor Haley Barbour can talk seriously and colorfully at the same time. But this time around, folksiness isn’t a substitute for seriousness, and I have very little patience for those who pretend otherwise.
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Well said.
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-08-26 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-08-26 #tcot #catcot
- President 2012: The Problem With RomneyCare | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: The Problem With RomneyCare #tcot #catcot
- President 2012: Conservative Bloggers Feud Over Perry and Palin – The presidential politics angle to the spat started to become apparent when Erickson wrote an additional blog post, in which he accused conservative blogger Dan Riehl of leaking the email to Politico. As evidence, he noted that Riehl had taken issue with RedState over its disparagement of conservative commentator Michelle Malkin’s condemnation of Perry’s 2007 push, as Texas governor, to mandate the vaccination of young girls with Gardasil — which was developed to prevent HPV, the most common sexually transmitted disease in the U.S.
“I get he’s upset and/or jealous of RedState and thinks, I suppose, that we should be in the tank for Palin or should not have let Perry announce at the RedState Gathering or whatever the reason du jour is,” Erickson wrote of Riehl in an update to his post.
Less than 20 minutes after the original Politico story was published, Erickson also posted an item in which he pointed to recent polling to suggest that Palin’s potential entry into the GOP field “would not shake up the race terribly at this point.”
“All of the above suggests, if Palin got in, it would not be hers for the taking as many of her supporters might think,” Erickson wrote. “Instead, she’d struggle for third place and not be guaranteed, even in Iowa, of a strong finish.”
Eighteen minutes after Erickson’s post went up, Riehl published his own blog item, which he titled “Perry Versus Palin,” and observed “how various voices and forces seem to be aligning themselves as relates to their support for Rick Perry or Sarah Palin.”
“For what it's worth, I'm getting a sense that, within the conservative movement, Perry may come to more represent the old line conservative movement, much of which is seriously compromised as a result of having been established in Washington for so long,” Riehl wrote. “At the same time, I'm getting a sense that if the movement is to truly be re-energized and move forward from something it's been for decades — something already bound up in Washington — it may take a Sarah Palin to move forward along that path. If that does become the case, the two paths do lead to a different place.”
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Read it all.
First thing is Sarah Palin has to enter the arean. Otherwise, this is all just noise.
- For When You Have Too Much to Say – No chance for this tennis coach RT @FlashReport: RT @udrawthelines: New Candidate for Ventura congressional seat
- California Bureau of State Audits Releases Report: Investigations of Improper Activities by State Agencies and Employees – July 2010 Through March 2011 » Flap’s California Blog – California Bureau of State Audits Releases Report: Investigations of Improper Activities by State Agencies and E…
- RealClearPolitics – Rick Perry Assembles Iowa Team – RT @RealClearScott: Rick Perry assembles Iowa team, nabs longtime GOP operative Bob Haus & WH vet Ruth Haus:
- President 2012 GOP Florida Poll Watch: Romney 51% Vs. Obama 43% Or Perry 46% Vs. Obama 45% | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 GOP Florida Poll Watch: Romney 51% Vs. Obama 43% Or Perry 46% Vs. Obama 45% #tcot #catcot
- California Legislators Push New Internet Sales Tax Bill to Thwart Amazon.com Referendum | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – California Legislators Push New Internet Sales Tax Bill to Thwart Amazon.com Referendum #tcot #catcot
- President 2012 GOP Iowa Poll Watch: Perry 24% Bachmann 22% Romney 19% | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 GOP Iowa Poll Watch: Perry 24% Bachmann 22% Romney 19% #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: 91 Year Old U.K. Dentist/Athlete Seeks Olympic Bid – 91 Year Old U.K. Dentist/Athlete Seeks Olympic Bid
- American Obesity Rates Remain Higher Than 20% in ALL States | Smiles For A Lifetime – Temporary (Locum Tenens) Dentistry – American Obesity Rates Remain Higher Than 20% in ALL States
- President 2012: GOP Primary Election Calendar Still NOT Set | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: GOP Primary Election Calendar Still NOT Set #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s California Morning Collection: August 25, 2011 » Flap’s California Blog – Flap’s California Morning Collection: August 25, 2011
- Flap’s Links and Comments for August 25th on 08:58 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for August 25th on 08:58 #tcot #catcot
- President 2012: My Rick Perry Problem — and Ours – Let’s cut through the clutter: A lot of people on the East and West coasts are bigots and snobs about “flyover types.” They equate funny accents with stupidity, and they automatically assume someone who went to Texas A&M must be dumber than someone who went to Yale. Overt displays of religion trigger their fight-or-flight instincts, causing them to lash out irrationally.
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@Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-08-26
- RT @KQED_CapNotes: Group called "Taxpayers 4 Justice" says it'll file Nov 2012 initiative to overturn #deathpenalty after delay of #SB490 #
- Yawn RT @CapitolAlert: Anti death penalty advocates say they'll pursue 2012 ballot initiative in wake of SB 490 being shelved 4 this year #
- President 2012: Conservative Bloggers Feud Over Perry and Palin http://t.co/SdkdOQ9 #
- No chance for this tennis coach RT @FlashReport: RT @udrawthelines: New Candidate for Ventura congressional seat http://t.co/0c0JxZw #
- California Bureau of State Audits Releases Report: Investigations of Improper Activities by State Agencies and E… http://t.co/Lsb8Vlh #
- RT @RealClearScott: Rick Perry assembles Iowa team, nabs longtime GOP operative Bob Haus & WH vet Ruth Haus: http://t.co/agebNI2 #
- Hold Forever RT @KQED_CapNotes: Assembly Approps Cmte. makes #SB490 (Hancock), to abolish CA #deathpenalty put on hold until 2012. #
- President 2012 GOP Florida Poll Watch: Romney 51% Vs. Obama 43% Or Perry 46% Vs. Obama 45% http://t.co/CyoTWtR #tcot #catcot #
- California Legislators Push New Internet Sales Tax Bill to Thwart Amazon.com Referendum http://t.co/z58eabo #tcot #catcot #
- Calif Bureau of State Audits Releases Report: Investigations of Improper Activities by State Agencies/Employees http://t.co/qPSUXBt #
- California Legislators Push New Internet Sales Tax Bill to Thwart Amazon.com Referendum #tcot #catcot http://t.co/IOIqwne #
- What Republican Legisltaors are going to vote for this tax increase? Inquiring minds want to know? http://t.co/Eqj0Qwu #
- President 2012 GOP Iowa Poll Watch: Perry 24% Bachmann 22% Romney 19% http://t.co/epDi3XU #tcot #catcot #
- Flap's Dentistry Blog: 91 Year Old U.K. Dentist/Athlete Seeks Olympic Bid http://t.co/RKVm7rE #
- American Obesity Rates Remain Higher Than 20% in ALL States | Smiles For A Lifetime – Temporary (Locum Tenens) D… http://t.co/V0gIkg4 #
- President 2012: GOP Primary Election Calendar Still NOT Set | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/D9zzNGG #
- California Bureau of State Audits Releases Report: Investigations of Improper Activities by State Agencies and E… http://t.co/NcghxE0 #
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry Announces Participation in CNN/Tampa Tea Party Express Debate – Sept 12 #tcot #teaparty #
- 91 Year Old U.K. Dentist/Athlete Seeks Olympic Bid http://t.co/jVXYcWX #
- American Obesity Rates Remain Higher Than 20% in ALL States http://t.co/HBtwRdG #
- President 2012: GOP Primary Election Calendar Still NOT Set http://t.co/mcEP9Tb #tcot #catcot #
- Flap’s California Morning Collection: August 25, 2011 http://t.co/7kwKyPr #
- Texas Railroad Commission urges AG to challenge EPA cross-state pollution rule http://t.co/xxBUWKJ #
- EPA's Looming Blackouts http://t.co/o6YUTs3 #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for August 25th on 08:58 http://t.co/dFVGQAb #tcot #catcot #
- The Morning Drill: August 25, 2011 http://t.co/MQvoK6X #
- Obama’s Big Labor problem http://t.co/Q1jmhdd #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for August 24th through August 25th http://t.co/oWV52pA #tcot #catcot #
- Day By Day August 25, 2011 – Prince http://t.co/x5lXWx8 #tcot #catcot #
- RT @MattMackowiak: Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) is on Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) now. Listen live here — http://t.co/yt73cYh #tcot #RS #
- Dilbert August 25, 2011 – Changes http://t.co/7D8nBC6 #
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-08-25 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/Us9ES9c #
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-08-25 http://t.co/1A2AeJJ #tcot #catcot #
- RT @RobStutzman: 8.5 months into term RT @KQED_CapNotes: Gov. Brown's ofc says he'll announce a #cajobs plan tomorrow morning in Sac. #
- Video: Will A Cavity-Filling Fluid Replace the Dental Drill? | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/hnHOznv #
- California Falls to 50th in New Business Startups | FlashReport http://t.co/Yaejw6P #
- Hookah Use on the Rise as Fewer Californians Smoke Cigarettes » Flap's California Blog http://t.co/skJpOBj #
- Gallup GOP Poll: Ron Paul leading voters 18-29, Rick Perry beats Romney and Paul in all of the other age brackets http://t.co/rrbKeBy #tcot #
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President 2012: The Problem With RomneyCare
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney delivers his annual State of the Commonwealth, January 18, 2006. Massachusetts lawmakers overwhelmingly approved an ambitious health-care bill on Tuesday that would make it the first U.S. state to require nearly all residents to be insured or face penalties
I was reading a tweet from Washington Examiner’s Phil Klein about cleaning out his old G-Mail box and discovering an old Google Chat about Mitt Romney and RomneyCare. Then, I remembered I had written a post many years ago (April 5, 2006 to be precise) criticizing Romney and his Massachusett’s health care plan.
Here is the old post (some of the links are bad) and it rings true today as it did then.++++++ASSociated Press: Clinton Praises Romney Health Care Plan
A Massachusetts plan that blends the Democratic goal of universal health care with the Republican philosophy of personal responsibility could be a model for politicians nationwide — and a presidential launching pad for its chief sponsor, GOP Gov. Mitt Romney.
The proposal, approved Tuesday by Massachusetts’ Democratic-led Legislature, won Romney cautious praise from Democrats, including a longtime champion of health care overhaul: Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.“To come up with a bipartisan plan in this polarized environment is commendable,” said the former first lady, who led President Clinton’s failed health care campaign.
She embraced the Massachusetts measure’s most striking aspect ” requiring people to purchase health insurance ” but questioned Romney’s plans to eliminate a fee on companies that do not provide health insurance for employees.
“That would unravel the plan,” Clinton said.
Of course, the LEFT and Clinton like this compulsory state sponsored plan – they want national universal care and this is a step toward their goal.
Hugh Hewitt calls this bill a “Home Run” for Governor Mitt Romney.
Flap says Hugh Hewitt has it WRONG.
Romney STRIKES OUT with this proposal.
Romney’s health care plan is another socialistic attempt to nationalize medicine. Why would ANY conservative support this fiasco?
Sally C. Pipes over at National Review has Unhealthy in Massachusetts, The Romney plan doesn’t cut it.
READ IT ALL.
As for Hillary……she will have to debate health care with Rudy Giuliani in the 2008 Presidential debates not a light weight (who has decided to NOT run for re-election) like Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney has a RomneyCare problem which will likely be exploited by Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry. If he gets by them, then he will have to convince the American people that Sally Pipes is wrong and that ObamaCare is different than RomneyCare.
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President 2012 GOP Florida Poll Watch: Romney 51% Vs. Obama 43% Or Perry 46% Vs. Obama 45%
The 2008 Presidential Electoral College Results
According to the latest Sachs/Masson-Dixon Florida Poll.A new Sachs/Mason-Dixon Florida Poll finds Barack Obama trailing Mitt Romney in America’s biggest battleground and in a dead heat with Texas Gov. Rick Perry among Republicans.
“Unlike 2008, if the election were held today, President Obama would face a stiffer headwind to hold onto Florida and its 29 electoral votes against a top-tier Republican challenger – and that could cost him reelection,” said Ron Sachs, President of Ron Sachs Communications. “Judging by the poll, President Obama’s success in 2008 will be more difficult to duplicate in 2012. The Presidency will go to the candidate with the message that resonates with Florida’s unique and diverse population and the resources to ensure that message is received by voters across the state.”
Among the findings of the August Sachs/Mason-Dixon Florida Poll:
- 51 percent of Floridians would vote for Governor Romney compared to 43 percent for President Obama;
- In a hypothetical matchup with Texas Governor Rick Perry, Perry leads with 46 percent to Obama’s 45 percent
- President Obama leads Congresswoman Michele Bachmann 46 percent to 44 percent
- 41 percent of Floridians approve of President Obama’s job performance while 56 percent disapprove. Fifty five percent of independents disapprove
The GOP Presidential field is looking good in Florida. If they can avoid a messy primary election, then it looks likely for a 29 vote pick up in the Electoral College.
Here is the primary breakdown:
- Mitt Romney 28%
- Rick Perry 21%
- Michelle Bachman 13%
- Herman Cain 7%
- Newt Gingrich 5%
- Ron Paul 4%
- Rick Santorum 2%
- Jon Huntsman –
- Someone else 3%
- Undecided 17%
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California Legislators Push New Internet Sales Tax Bill to Thwart Amazon.com Referendum
What games the Democrats in the California Legislature play to impose or collect new taxes.A group of California legislators plans to pass a new online sales tax bill in a move to thwart tax opponent Amazon.com.
Lawmakers today used a “gut-and-amend” procedure that takes an existing bill and substitutes an online sales tax measure. The bill passed the Senate Appropriations Committee today.
In late June, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill requiring Amazon and other online retailers to begin collecting sales tax on California transactions. The bill passed on a regular, majority vote. Amazon has refused to collect the tax and launched a referendum to have it overturned.
But Larry Levin, a spokesman for Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Oakland, said the new legislation would be different. It would pass on a two-thirds supermajority and would carry an “urgency” clause. That means it can’t be subject to ballot referendum, Levin said.
I would urge my fellow Republicans in the California Legislature to BLOCK this tax increase on California taxpayers and allow the referendum process sort out the law.
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President 2012 GOP Iowa Poll Watch: Perry 24% Bachmann 22% Romney 19%
According to the latest Magellan Strategies Poll.
Magellan Strategies today released the results of an autodial survey of 676 likely 2012 Iowa Republican Presidential Caucus voters. The survey finds Rick Perry leading Michele Bachmann by 2 points, a statistical tie. Among all voters, Rick Perry has 24%, Michele Bachmann has 22% and Mitt Romney is a close third with 19%. The rest of the Republican field rounds out with Ron Paul with 9%, Herman Cain with 6%, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich with 4%, “Other Candidate” with 3%, Jon Huntsman with 1%, and 8% undecided.
A pretty close race in Iowa.
The CW was Iowa = a Michele Bachmann win.
Looks like Rick Perry will be playing there and may force Romney into a third position.
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President 2012: GOP Primary Election Calendar Still NOT Set
Good Grief.
The GOP POLS are ready – well almost ready, but the states who are all maneuvering for position to attract Republican campaign cash to their states from the campaigns are not ready.
RNC sanctioned scenario:
- Iowa – February 6th
- New Hampshire – February 14th
- Nevada – February 18
- South Carolina – February 28th
- Super Tuesday – March 6 (Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Massachusetts,Vermont)
Or…..
States like Arizona and Florida — risking losing half their delegates and other penalties — set their primaries early, pushing Iowa, New Hampshire, and other states into January or earlier.
What to watch:
- Arizona and Governor Jan Brewer who must announce her state’s primary 150 days in advance has until September 2 to set a January 31, 2012 primary date.
- Florida has until October 1 to announce their date. The RNC’s deadline for a state changing its primary or caucus date is October 1.
Mitt Romney will want an early Florida primary to give him momentum going into Super Tuesday. Rick Perry will like the schedule as it is certainly set, since it is front loaded with Southern states where he polls the best.
But, is the field even set?
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Flap’s Links and Comments for August 25th on 08:58
These are my links for August 25th from 08:58 to 09:02:
- Texas Railroad Commission urges AG to challenge EPA cross-state pollution rule – The Texas Railroad Commission is asking Attorney General Greg Abbott to "bring a prompt legal action" to delay implementation of a new Environmental Protection Agency rule that state officials say would jeopardize electric reliability in the state.
Luminant, the Dallas-based power generator, maintains that the planned Jan. 1 implementation of the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, designed to curb air pollution from power plants, would force it to mothball some operations and would significantly lower revenue as a result of reduced electricity generation and wholesale power sales.
The biggest impact is expected to be at Luminant plants in East Texas that burn lignite coal, which the company also mines in the region.
The Railroad Commission, in a letter to Abbott dated Tuesday, said the rule "will have serious adverse economic consequences for Texas without demonstrable environmental and health benefits."
The commission said the rule "threatens the viability of the Texas lignite mining industry, its jobs and associated economic activity" and "many coal-fired power plants may be forced to limit or shut down operations" as a result of the regulation.
The commission noted that it regulates the surface mining of lignite coal.
"About 45 percent of the electric power generated in Texas comes from coal, and almost 40 percent of that coal is Texas lignite, which provides Texans with jobs and a low-cost fuel," the commission said in the letter.
The "potential loss of lignite for power significantly threatens electric reliability in Texas" and is needed "to keep the lights on," the commission added. The chairwoman of the Public Utility Commission and officials who run the state's power grid have expressed similar concerns.
EPA officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
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But, the Feds don;t care. It is the environment and to hell with Texas and Texas business.
- EPA’s Looming Blackouts – Energy: It won't matter which light bulbs we use as the administration's implementation of cross-state pollution rules shuts down coal plants across the country. Where will the jobs be when the lights go out?
It's called the Cross-State Pollution Rule, announced last month, and its implementation over the next 18 months will likely result in the loss of a fifth of the nation's electricity-generating capacity.
The result will be likely power shortages, skyrocketing rates and inevitable brownouts and rolling blackouts.
Based on Bush-era EPA proposals that the federal courts threw out in 2008, this latest example of legislation is designed to usurp state powers to regulate their in-state emissions by making it a federal issue on the grounds pollution crosses state lines.
The rule requires coal companies in 27 states to slash emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide by 73% and 54%, respectively, from 2005 levels by 2014. "Just because wind and weather will carry air pollution away from its source at a local power plant doesn't mean that pollution is no longer that plant's responsibility," says Environmental Protection Agency Chief Lisa Jackson.
The targets are states such as Texas that not only resist federal encroachment on their powers but dare to try to balance environmental quality. The EPA claims huge health gains as its justification, but those claims are in doubt. Poverty and joblessness, which this and other EPA rules will create, carry their own health risks.
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Read it all
- Texas Railroad Commission urges AG to challenge EPA cross-state pollution rule – The Texas Railroad Commission is asking Attorney General Greg Abbott to "bring a prompt legal action" to delay implementation of a new Environmental Protection Agency rule that state officials say would jeopardize electric reliability in the state.