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Audio: Obama-GOP Tax Deal to be Filibustered by Senator Jim DeMint
South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMint on the Hugh Hewitt ShowGuess the LEFT is NOT the only ones who do not like the Bush Era Tax Cut Deal between President Obama and the GOP Senate leadership. I don’t know of any other GOP Senator who will not vote for cloture tomorrow but there will be others from the Democrat side for sure.
Senator JimDeMint just announced on my program that he will oppose the deal as well as a vote for cloture on the deal. He is reluctant to criticize GOP Senate leadership, but believes the deal at a minimum has to be paid for, and that we need “a permanent economy” not a temporary one as well as permanent tax cuts, not temporary tax cuts.
Senator DeMint also expressed disappointment with the House GOP’s elevation of Hal Rodgers and Spencer Bachus to key committee chairmanships, noting that the revolution of 1994 failed in part when the old guard took control of committees despite the huge freshman class.
The machinations of this deal continue, including Harry Reid appending an online poker bill to it.
But, remember either it passes or taxes will increase for everyone on January 1.
Stay tuned…….
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Twitter Vs Blog Comments – Yes or NO?
Hugh Hewitt has turned off his blog comments in favor of Twitter. Flap is not so sure about doing this since not everyone has joined Twitter and may never do so.Also, there is the issue of trackbacks.
For now, Flap is NOT going down this road. For my readers, you can comment here, on Twitter or Facebook.
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John Bolton Watch: Obama – “We Haven’t Plumbed The Depths Of That Ignorance Yet”
Former Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton slammed Barack Obama for his policies of appeasement
Hugh Hewitt interviewed former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton yesterday. The key subject of discussion was Barack Obama’s inexperience and naivety in foreign policy.
The transcript is here and the Podcast is here.
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Mike Huckabee a Threat to Mitt Romney in Iowa?
Republican presidential hopeful and former Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks at the Livestrong Presidential Cancer Forum at the US Cellular Center, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in August. Partly by exploiting discontent among Christian conservatives with the Republican field, Huckabee, a witty former Arkansas governor, has powered into second place in polls in Iowa, 65 days before the state’s crucial caucuses.
Obviously, he may be a bigger threat than the polls apparently demonstrate.
Why else would Mitt Romney biographer, Hugh Hewitt, write this screed: A vote for Huckabee is a vote for Giuliani.
(1)Governor Huckabee’s record in Arkansas isn’t conservative on crucial issues like personnel and taxes, and/or (2)Governor Huckabee cannot possibly win the nomination so an endorsement or vote for Huckabee is really an assist to Rudy Giuliani as it diverts energy from the conservative most likely to stop Giuliani –Mitt Romney.
What Hewitt fails to ask his evangelical friends who will throw Rudy under the bus should he win the GOP nomination is how many conservative NON-EVANGELICAL GOP voters will abandon the GOP should Mitt Romney receive the nomination?
Flap knows the answer is MANY.
Update:
Soren Dayton details Huckabee’s strength with the Christian Right and how it further threatens Romney.
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Mitt Romney Watch: Change Begins with Us
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=32IO7tX9Co0[/youtube]
John Hinderacker has it RIGHT. Mitt Romney is TOO SLICK by half, you would say. And untrustworthy.
The ad is ok but with Mitt’s flipping positions how do you know what is next? Romney is worse than another SLICKSTER in this regard – namely, Bill Clinton.
Hugh Hewitt has it WRONG.
First, there is New Hampshire where the race is tightening.
He ignores historical polls and Presidential delegate rules in California that show Rudy with substantial leads in California Congressional districts where the delegates are chosen.
And who cares what the Los Angeles Times rag writes about anyone?
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Fred Thompson Watch: Fred Strikes Romney on “Half-Baked Cover-Up
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Mitt Romney Watch: The Phoneyfred.org Flap Part II
Mitt Romney Watch: Should Romney Fire Warren Tompkins?
Mitt Romney Watch: NO Apology from Romney on Anti-Thompson Web Site
Mitt Romney Watch: The Phoneyfred.org Flap
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UCI’s and the United States Senate’s Disgrace
Republican Presidential Rudy Giuliani, right, and his wife Judith Nathan, center, listen as former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson speaks during a news conference in Washington, Monday, March 12, 2007.
Hugh Hewitt posts a piece about the University of California, Irvine – Erwin Chemerinsky disgrace flap.
The Univesrity of California, Irvine is starting a new law school. Given its location and the resources available to it, it could have quickly entered the first ranks of American law schools. It had selected my friend and regular radio guest Duke University Law School Professor Erwin Chemerinsky as the school’s new dean. Erwin is a man of the left, of course, but a remarkably distinguished and accomplished scholar who enjoys the esteem of professors, jurists and practioners across the ideological spectrum.
UCI, for reasons not yet fully disclosed, has now dumped Erwin. Brian Leiter has the details, as does The Los Angeles Times.
This is an astonishing and disgraceful episode, which, if perpetrated against a conservative, would rightly lead to a massive outpouring of outrage directed at the university that had allowed such a purge to occur. I will be astonished if any reputable scholar agrees to take the job over Erwin’s broken contract, and many professors who would otherwise have welcomed the chance to join the UC system will be wondering about the Administration of such a place, even if they find someone to agree to be dean.
Instapundit has some great links, including to John Leo’s statement that the treatment of Chemerinsky is “a test case for conservatives who support free speech and argue vehemently against political tests for faculty and administration appointments.”
Noted constitutional law scholar Erwin Chemerinsky and Catherine Fisk, a top labor law professor, will join the Duke Law School faculty, effective July 1, 2004.
Equally disgraceful is the treatment that a presumed appointment of Theodore Olson as United States Attorney General is receiving at the hands of Senate Democrats, indirectly by Eunuch GOP Senators and the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid.
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, a former Judiciary Committee chairman, said he talked with about 10 Democrats about Olson and that some made noises, if not outright threats, about blocking his nomination.
“I have been warned by a number of Democrats that they’re not going to let that happen,” Hatch said of an Olson confirmation. If the White House thinks Olson would sail through the Senate, Hatch said, “then they don’t understand the people up here.”
Democrats, including current Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, indicated they would mount strong challenges to Olson if Bush nominates him. “He is certainly not a consensus nominee,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “He has a very political background.”
Conservatives brushed off the Democrats’ warnings, and Hatch and Sessions predicted Olson would survive the confirmation process, however rocky.
Are the left and right both being hypocritical about political litmus tests for outstanding candidates for legal positions?
Or is this the true nature of the partisan adversarial system that is American law and politics?
Disgraceful, no matter which.
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Rudy Giuliani Watch: Theodore Olson to Become Attorney General?
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Fred Thompson Watch: Thompson Loses Communication Director
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr9oujGR7BY[/youtube]
Hugh Hewitt has it RIGHT abut Fred Thompson.Not a good Monday for the NON-candidate.
Fred Thompson is starting late and the quesion is out there: Is Fred READY for prime time?
Republican presidential hopeful, former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson R-Tenn., holds a baby pig at the Iowa State Fair Friday, Aug. 17, 2007, in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Mitt Romney Watch: Surrogate Hugh Hewitt Attacks Fred Thompson on Gay Marriage
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Mitt Romney Watch: Surrogate Hugh Hewitt Attacks Fred Thompson on Gay Marriage
Republican presidential hopeful, former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson R-Tenn., holds a baby pig at the Iowa State Fair Friday, Aug. 17, 2007, in Des Moines, Iowa.
Mitt Romney has figured out that he has to compete with Fred Thompson for the social conservative faction of the GOP.
Thompson campaigns in Iowa and SURPRISE Hugh Hewitt attacks Thompson on Gay Marriage – not noting that Mitt has flipped on this issue too.
Thompson vs. Romney is going to turn down and dirty – each hoping for a knock-out blow so they can go one on one with Rudy Giuliani.
Flap thinks they will merely split the social conservative vote and deliver up the nomination to Rudy.
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Mitt Romney Watch: Romney HYPOCRITICAL on Illegal Immigration Sanctuary Cities Part Two
Mitt Romney Watch: Romney HYPOCRITICAL on Illegal Immigration Sanctuary Cities
Rudy Giuliani Watch: Rudy 38% Thompson 18% Romney 13% McCain 12% in Latest CBS GOP Poll
Mitt Romney Watch: Post Ames Mitt Takes Some Heat
Mitt Romney Watch: Faking It on Abortion
Rudy Giuliani Watch: Mitt Romney HYPOCRITICALLY Attacks Giuliani on Illegal Immigration
Mitt Romney Watch: Flipping on Immigration AGAIN
Mitt Romney Watch: Modulating on Immigration?
Technorati Tags: Mitt RomneyFred Thompson, Hugh Hewitt
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Rudy Giuliani Watch: The You Tube Debate Flap Continues
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU9U2d-2wnw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fflapsblog%2Ecom%2F%3Fcat%3D89[/youtube]
Captain Ed has a good round-up of the discussion in the RIGHT Blogosphere including the dust-up between friends High Hewitt and Patrick Ruffini.
Flap is going to take a more parochial view for the Giuliani campaign. Does this format and the debate aid the Giuliani campaign in Florida?
Obviously, NO WAY.
As it has been discussed here previously, Florida is a KEY state for Rudy prior to Super Duper Tuesday on February 5. Giuliani leads the GOP field in most Florida polls but Fred Thompson has closed the gap to around three points in the latest poll. And Fred Thompson has not announced a formal candidacy and will not until after Labor Day.
Anyone want to guess, when he will announce?
Right! – After the September 17 debate.
Let the other GOP candidates make asses out of themselves answering left-wing MORONIC questions and look un-Presidental while Thompson announces shortly afterwards and runs positive television and radio ads.
Sorry, Patrick, this is not the bell-weather of GOP vs Dems on the internet – It is a TRAP for Rudy.
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=9FnSudetYQc[/youtube]
And this MORON obviously doesn’t read Wikipedia
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Rudy Giuliani Watch: A Nationwide Electoral College Strategy
Rudy Giuliani is Electable – Obvious Statement of the Day
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Rudy Giuliani Watch: Why Rudy Will Say NO to GOP You Tube Debate; Update: The You Tube Questions Keep Rolling In
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=AU9U2d-2wnw[/youtube]
Reason #1
Why Mayor Rudy Giuliani will say NO to participation in the CNN/You Tube GOP debate.
Flap says Patrick: You REALLY have to be kidding me, RIGHT?
Reason #2
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=tOiUC3S_QaQ[/youtube]
Update:Rudy blames CNN and his campaign schedule for opting out of the debate and not the You Tube format.
“I have no problem at all with the format. My campaign informed me yesterday that CNN just went ahead and picked a date, didn’t bother to ask us, and we have six events on that date that are already scheduled, I think,†Giuliani said.
“There was a little annoyance on the part of my campaign. They just select a date and they don’t think we have anything else to do.â€
Well, if they reschedule this debate how can you make it less trivial and more substantive?
Patrick, what say you?
Update #2
Hugh Hewitt is ridiculing the idea on his KRLA radio show.
Reason#3
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydGiAKo7Py8[/youtube]
Update #3
Rudy on KGO radio in San Francisco this afternoon had this to say about the FLAP:
“It reminded me of a New York City town hall meeting,” the former New York City mayor said, with a big laugh. “I was really comfortable with it … I liked it. Yes, I thought it was an interesting way to do it.
“…If you did all the debates that way, it would be a big mistake … but a debate or two to kind of throw a curve ball — it’s a good idea.”
Hizzoner, his scheduling conflict and all, will not be participating unless his former e-campaign director Patrick Ruffini can come up with some alternative dates.
Flap KNOWS that this is not the format for the GOP front runner.
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