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One Bush is back on the campaign trail [ Bush family campaigns for Rand Paul ]
Post Date: 2010-07-26 15:20:20 by WhiteSands
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One Bush is back on the campaign trail By Sean J. Miller - 07/26/10 07:59 AM ET George W. Bush may not be interested in campaigning this cycle, but his brother seems to be. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) is in Louisville, Ky., Monday for a private fundraiser for Senate candidate Rand Paul (R). Democratic Senate candidate Jack Conway’s camp hit Paul for bringing in Bush, but interestingly made no mention of the “Bush agenda,” a popular Democratic epithet, in its attack. Conway’s camp instead sent out a release that contained “a list of things both Jeb and Paul still need to learn about the Commonwealth.” The list included issues such as agriculture and drug ...
They Don’t Have George W. Bush to Kick Around Anymore
Post Date: 2010-07-26 15:13:22 by no gnu taxes
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To a greater extent than any administration that preceded it, the Obama team has obsessively blamed its predecessor for everything and anything. The public, however, has not been distracted. Americans have a president, only one, who is responsible for domestic and foreign policy. Regardless of whether they consider George W. Bush at fault for some of our current ills, they are no less annoyed with Obama’s performance. (Similarly, blaming BP for the Gulf oil spill hasn’t gotten Obama a free pass from the voters. They can be mad at both.) Recent polling shows that there is no mileage left in the “Bush did it” strategy: New polling shows that Bush’s standing among ...
Tom Tancredo will run for governor as American Constitution Party candidate
Post Date: 2010-07-26 13:00:08 by Brian S
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Former Congressman Tom Tancredo is in the race for Colorado governor, he said this morning. “I will officially announce at noon that I will seek the nomination of the constitution party,” Tancredo told The Denver Post. The Littleton Republican must file some papers with the Colorado Secretary of State and register as a member of the American Constitution Party, but then “he’s ready to go,” raising money, disclosing his platform and launching a website that is already put together. Tancredo gave Republican candidates Scott McInnis and Dan Maes an ultimatum last week: Promise to get out of the race after the primary if polls showed the winner lagging behind ...
Chris Christie’s Reagan-Style Governance Raising His 2012 Profile
Post Date: 2010-07-26 12:46:16 by no gnu taxes
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When Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president in January 1981, the country was at low ebb. Jimmy Carter had spent the four previous years running the nation into the ground, leaving unemployment above 10%, inflation above 15%, Communist operatives laughing at our perceived weakness, and Iranians holding 53 of our fellow citizens hostage for 444 days. When Republican Chris Christie was sworn into office as governor of New Jersey earlier this year, the situation he faced was somewhat similar. His predecessors, among them Democrat Jon Corzine, had run the state into the ground. Because of this, Christie literally inherited one of the highest combined tax rates in the nation and a state ...
Don’t Let The Lies Of The Left Or Right Dilute The Patriot Message.
Post Date: 2010-07-26 12:36:21 by Skip MacLure
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Whether from within or without, the Tea Party/Conservative message must not be permitted to be preempted by malcontents within the movement, or the minions of the DeMarxist press who have proven themselves to be enemies of freedom. With a scarce 100 days until the day of reckoning, we cannot be distracted from the task at hand. Recently, there have been some stories out there purported to be from ‘leadership’ elements of some of the ‘Tea Party’ groups, claiming to speak for entire regions of Tea Party/Patriot activists. I don’t know who or what David Webb is or who he claims to speak for, but as far as I know he doesn’t represent any groups that I’m ...
Sarah Palin Has a Bunch of Vile Idiots for Critics
Post Date: 2010-07-26 12:24:32 by no gnu taxes
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Joe Fitzgerald, who certainly doesn't seem like a partisan Republican judging from his past work in the Boston Herald, writes the following editorial in the Boston Herald: If you wonder why so many Americans are attracted to Sarah Palin, just take a look at the crowd now nipping at her heels, doing its best to derail her appeal through personal attacks that are scurrilous. She’s been a mayor and a governor, yet they say she lacks experience, though they remain enthralled by a loquacious president whose own resume was barren by comparison. She’s a happily married mother of five, one a soldier who served in harm’s way, another a son born with Down syndrome, meaning she ...
Election 2010: Arizona Republican Primary for Senate
Post Date: 2010-07-26 11:55:33 by go65
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Senator John McCain has opened a 20-point lead over former Congressman J.D. Hayworth in Arizona’s Republican Senate Primary race. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely GOP Primary Voters in the state shows McCain attracting 54% of the vote, while Hayworth earns 34%. For Hayworth, this represents another decline in support. In April, he picked up 42% of the vote. That fell to 40% in May, 36% in June and 34% in July. For McCain, the 54% level of support is his highest yet. “Some other candidate” picks up seven percent (7%) support, and six percent (6%) are undecided. Last month, McCain led 47% to 36%. Arizona Republicans will pick their Senate nominee in ...
Oil Cleanup Brings Strangers, Tension To Towns
Post Date: 2010-07-26 11:36:16 by Brian S
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(07-26) 03:02 PDT Grand Isle, La. (AP) -- The women of Grand Isle are nervous. Used to be, they say, they could walk the streets of their beachside town alone, getting a little exercise after the hottest part of the day or setting out the trash after midnight. Now, a waitress won't let her 14-year-old daughter stroll to the store for a Coke, a souvenir shop owner is afraid to sit on her porch after dark and a bartender deadbolts her door, a newly purchased gun nearby. The vacationing families and sport fishermen who make this tourist town of 1,500 what it is are absent this summer, replaced by an army of workers brought in by BP to clean up the massive Gulf Coast oil spill. The ...
Dumbass President Tarball: Things could be worse
Post Date: 2010-07-26 11:11:59 by no gnu taxes
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Things could be worse. Heckuva campaign slogan, Barry. It’s right up there with Jimmy Carter’s “I promise to do better in my second term,” Gerald Ford’s “There are no former presidents left to pardon” and Mike Dukakis in a tank. Things could be worse. Other suggested slogans: Prosperity is around the corner. Maybe. At least we’re not Iceland. Anybody for another round of Funemployment. And they said George Walker Bush was out of touch. From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama, who rocketed to the White House promising “change you can believe in,” is now telling voters they shouldn’t change a thing. ...
Where are protests of Obama's wars?
Post Date: 2010-07-26 11:06:52 by no gnu taxes
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A record 60 Americans were killed in Afghanistan in June – the most ever in the nearly decade-long war that is not winding down, but rather intensifying under the leadership of Barack Obama, the "peace candidate" in 2008. Worse yet, U.S. soldiers, no doubt demoralized by seemingly interminable wars on two fronts, neither of which has any clear definition of victory, are taking their own lives in record numbers – 32 just last month and 145 since Jan. 1. My question: Where are the anti-war protests? What happened to them? Do those protesters from earlier this decade think the wars are over? Or did they really not care about these conflicts in the first place? Were they ...
Ken Buck: Tea Partiers Questioning Obama's Citizenship Are 'Dumbasses'
Post Date: 2010-07-26 11:02:57 by Skip Intro
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A Tea Party-backed Senate candidate in Colorado was caught on tape Friday referring to 'birthers' who question President Obama's citizenship as "dumbasses." Republican Ken Buck, who has harnessed Tea Party support to become the front-runner for the GOP Senate nomination, made the comment unsolicited to a Democratic staffer after an event in Pueblo, Colorado. He was unaware that the conversation was being recorded. "Will you tell those dumbasses at the Tea Party to stop asking questions about birth certificates while I'm on the camera," Buck said to the staffer. "God, what am I supposed to do?" Buck told the Denver Post he regretted the ...
New Home Sales: Worst June on Record (+24% from a small number War)
Post Date: 2010-07-26 10:51:38 by Nebuchadnezzar
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New Home Sales: Worst June on Record by CalculatedRisk on 7/26/2010 10:00:00 AM Ignore all the month to previous month comparisons. May was revised down sharply and that makes the increase look significant. Here is the bottom line: this was the worst June for new home sales on record. The Census Bureau reports New Home Sales in June were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 330 thousand. This is an increase from the record low of 267 thousand in May (revised from 300 thousand). New Home Sales Monthly Not Seasonally Adjusted Click on graph for larger image in new window. The first graph shows monthly new home sales (NSA - Not Seasonally Adjusted). Note the Red columns for 2010 ...
Green Sharts! Chicago Fed Index -0.63
Post Date: 2010-07-26 10:42:22 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Green Sharts! Chicago Fed Index -0.63 Oops.... Led by deterioration in production- and employment-related indicators, the Chicago Fed National Activity Index declined to –0.63 in June, down from +0.31 in May. Three of the four broad categories of indicators that make up the index made negative contributions in June, while the sales, orders, and inventories category made the lone positive contribution. Well now let's see... we add this to the ECRI leading index (which is now recording a -10% number) and you have yet more indications of the dreaded "double dip." Or is it? Naw. We simply never left recession, and now the Federal Government's attempts to prop up the ...
Words I Never Expected To Type (I miss the fiscal discipline of the Bush era!)
Post Date: 2010-07-26 10:06:59 by no gnu taxes
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Man, I miss the fiscal discipline of the Bush era! Gulp. I never expected to write those words. The Bush-era Republicans were out-of-control big spenders, fiending for appropriations, handing out largesse, creating giant new health-care entitlements here, building nations there, all with a devil-may-care attitude about where the money would come from. They were all carrot and no stick, cutting taxes but not doing a thing about spending. And then: A mid-year budget review by the Obama administration forecasts the deficit will be $1.47 trillion this year and $1.42 trillion next year as the U.S. struggles to recover from the recession. This year’s budget shortfall is $84 billion less ...
Everyone is a racist ... except Sherrod.
Post Date: 2010-07-26 09:56:49 by no gnu taxes
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Just in the few days that Sherrod has talked to the media, we have been enlightened about how she manages to find racism in America...She identified the following racists in quotes over the last week: Andrew Brietbart is a racist. Glenn Beck is a racist. Fox News is racist. Bill O'Reilly is a racist. The Republian Party is racist. Those who opposed Obamacare are racist. Most whites at the USDA are racists. President Obama may not be a racist, but he's not 'down for the struggle', so he's basically in bed with Whitey. And Shirley Sherrod, the only person to publicly admit she discriminated against someone based on ther race...is the only non-racist in her ...
If the Obama Administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with Iranians?
Post Date: 2010-07-26 09:35:50 by no gnu taxes
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It really hurts me to say that I agree with Newt Gingrich, but I agree with him in calling Obama administration being “incompetent,” with respect to firing Shirley Sherrod. It hurts me even more to agree with Fix News: “The fact is, Obama Administration forced Sherrod to quit.” True. Based on what? Based on some fringe elements taking her video-taped comments about a white farmer summer out of context. Mr. President, if you can’t even stand for your own people, what do you stand for? You are really afraid of that lunatic Glenn Beck, aren’t you? It shows, sir! “If Obama Administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with Iranians?” ...
We have a President who is INANE IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD!
Post Date: 2010-07-26 08:48:30 by no gnu taxes
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Americans today don’t embarrass very easily. Just ask MTV progeny Heidi Montag-Pratt-Montag, Rod Blagojevich or the Salahis. Tiger Woods had no problem showing his face at the U.S. Open less than a year after ruining his squeaky-clean image (and perhaps his marriage). Eliot Spitzer could become the next Larry King. As for me, I’m a cable news pundit, so clearly my standards of dignity are fairly low. But two years into his first term, President Obama is proving we are not entirely without shame. Thanks to a slew of gaffes, blunders, miscalculations and alarming personality revelations, Obama has become a surprising liability where our reputation abroad is concerned – ...
Link to article about the American justice system
Post Date: 2010-07-26 08:05:38 by Biff Tannen
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Here's a link to an article about the prison system in America. www.economist.com/node/16...027&fsrc=scn/tw/te/rss/pe (This post violates no known or unknown copyright laws) Click for Full Text!
GOP's Kirk On Defensive After Discrepancy In Childhood Story Prompts New Honesty Questions
Post Date: 2010-07-25 21:30:19 by Brian S
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Since Republican Senate candidate Mark Kirk acknowledged embellishing his military record, the slightest discrepancy in his life story prompts another round of news coverage questioning his honesty as he makes a bid for President Barack Obama's old Senate seat. FILE - In this June 29, 2010 file photo, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kirk speaks at a news conference in Northbrook, Ill. Since Kirk acknowledged embellishing his military record, the slightest discrepancy in his life story prompts another round of news coverage questioning his honesty as he makes... The focus this time is a defining story of Kirk's youth that he tells frequently, about nearly drowning when his ...
Some Oil Spill Events From Sunday, July 25, 2010
Post Date: 2010-07-25 19:59:10 by Brian S
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A summary of events Sunday, July 25, Day 96 of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that began with the April 20 explosion and fire on the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, owned by Transocean Ltd. and leased by BP PLC, which is in charge of cleanup and containment. The blast killed 11 workers. Since then, oil poured into the Gulf from a blown-out undersea well until BP managed to stanch the leak - at least temporarily - with a massive cap. BACK ON TRACK The effort to plug BP's leaky oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was back on track Sunday as the skies cleared and crews raced to stop the gusher for good before another storm halts the operation again. A drill rig was reconnecting to the relief ...
Lament of a voter who knows he was a dumbass for voting for President Tarball
Post Date: 2010-07-25 18:49:16 by no gnu taxes
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I was one of the biggest supporters...I'm sorry to say I bought his lies hook, line, and sinker. I wasn't a huge Bush hater but I was not happy with him either...and now as I watch oil flowing unimpeded into the gulf for 3 months...I miss Bush. I miss having a president who does SOMETHING, ANYTHING. As a president, Obama has not done ONE SINGLE THING for the betterment of our country. The healthcare "victory" was simply a place-holder bill that will NEVER EVER EVER come to fruition, and probably for the best. If any of us did so little at work we would have been fired by now. He's a thinker, and that's good, but you have to take action at some point. He's a ...
Dean Calls Fox News 'Absolutely Racist' For Aiding Sherrod Ouster
Post Date: 2010-07-25 13:05:43 by Brian S
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Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean accused Fox News of promoting racism, including in the recent fracas over the Obama administration’s forced resignation of Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod. “Let’s just be blunt about this … I think Fox News did something that was absolutely racist,” Dean charged on "Fox News Sunday." Dean said Fox helped promote the charges that Sherrod – who is black – made racist comments about white farmers, which led to her forced resignation Monday. The fervor was built around a video of Sherrod speaking at an event hosted by the NAACP shown online by conservative blogger Andrew ...
Tom Coburn gives feds e-mails on John Ensign
Post Date: 2010-07-25 10:01:08 by go65
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Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has turned over e-mails to federal authorities investigating Sen. John Ensign’s extramarital affair with a campaign aide, the latest sign that the criminal probe into the embattled Nevada Republican is picking up steam. Coburn told POLITICO that he is cooperating with the Justice Department in the investigation of Ensign, and says he’s willing to submit himself to an interview with the FBI or Senate Select Committee on Ethics, which is conducting a parallel investigation into whether Ensign broke Senate rules. “We’ve given them everything they wanted,” Coburn said, referring to the Justice Department. Coburn would not reveal what was in ...
The New Axis Of Evil: The Fruit Of Obama’s Cowardice.
Post Date: 2010-07-25 07:46:44 by Skip MacLure
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Our nation reels from the economic and fiscal disasters created by Barack Hussein Obama’s Marxist redistributionist agenda. Unemployment reaches new heights as the government ‘stimulus’ programs record failure after failure, while at the same time Obama claims three million jobs created or ‘saved’, even as private sector economists show incontrovertible proof that well over four million jobs have been lost since the Anointed One took office. Obama’s supporters are falling away like autumn leaves in a brisk wind. His lying prevarication hasn’t been lost on the world stage either. His limp-wristed pandering to countries who, if not our sworn enemies, are ...
Kyra Phillips and John Roberts Hate The First Amendment. Tell them to FUCK OFF!
Post Date: 2010-07-24 17:42:57 by A K A Stone
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Should there be a "gatekeeper" regulating internet bloggers? In the aftermath of the Shirley Sherrod incident, that's what CNN promoted on July 23. Anchors Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discussed the "mixed blessing of the internet," and agreed that there should be a crackdown on anonymous bloggers who disparage others on the internet. "There are so many great things that the internet does and has to offer, but at the same time, Kyra, as you know, there is this dark side," Roberts said. "Imagine what would have happened if we hadn't taken a look at what happened with Shirley Sherrod and plumbed the depths further and found out that what had been ...
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