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Will President Obama Face The Facts?

News Gatherer — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:57:21 +0000

“I think there’s no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control… This will depend on strong campaigns by Democrats. Indeed, there are four reasons why the House is up for grabs: 1) according to history, the GOP stands to pick up seats; 2) Republicans enjoy a significant enthusiasm advantage; 3) Democrats are losing the independent vote; and 4) much of the House battleground will play in white/rural districts, where Obama isn’t performing well. From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg*** House play: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs apparently made the biggest political news over the weekend, when he suggested on “Meet the Press” that Republicans could win back the House in the fall. (Imagine if Gibbs had said the GOP did NOT have a chance; the chattering class would have criticized him for being in a bubble or being delusional.) The facts are the facts: The Cook Political Report identifies 64 Democratic-held seats as either “Lean” or “Toss-up” races, and Republicans would need to win a majority of them (39) to win control of the House. And again, I think we’ve got to take the issues to them.” Gibbs, though, was just stating the obvious.

*** The GOP’s advantages and disadvantages: But we also can list another four reasons why the GOP won’t win back the House: 1) Unlike in ’94, the Republican Party has a fav/unfav score that’s no better (and sometimes event worse) than the Dem Party’s; 2) Unlike in ’94, the GOP isn’t necessarily running on new ideas or even with many new faces; 3) the National Republican Congressional Committee has a HUGE financial disadvantage compared with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the RNC’s political/fundraising troubles won’t be able to make up the difference; and 4) winning 39 seats is a tall order. The GOP will need almost 10 more than that. One thing that’s truly amazing about this cycle, historically: The fact we’re headed for a third-straight cycle where more than 20 seats change hands. After all, when Democrats won back the House in 2006 — during the height of violence in Iraq and after Hurricane Katrina — they picked up 30 House seats.

So is the individual outreach. Simply put, Washington runs this White House right now; the White House doesn’t run Washington. Whether dealing with the media, the business community, Republicans, or Congress, this White House hasn’t gotten its message across. *** When Washington runs the White House: Turning our attention away from the midterms and to the Obama White House, we’ve come to this conclusion: This White House is simply not good at handling communication and politics. (Just check out what Dem Gov. Chris Gregoire said of the White House’s communication on immigration: “They described for me a list of things that they are doing to try and help on that border,” Ms. Gregoire said. The legislative achievements are there. “And I said, ‘The public doesn’t know that.’”) Why is this surprising? The last thing so many of us thought during the presidential campaign was that these guys would have difficulties controlling the message and managing their constituents. But what’s missing is a coherent message.

On Thursday, he heads to Michigan to once again talk about the economy. He attends White House meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday. Today, at 2:10 pm ET, he meets with President Leonel Fernandez of the Dominican Republic. *** Obama’s day and week: President Obama has a pretty light week, schedule-wise. However, First Lady Michelle Obama has a pretty busy day today, addressing the NAACP’s convention to talk about combating childhood obesity, and then heading to the Gulf to inspect the oil spill. And on Friday, the First Family travels to Maine for a weekend vacation.

And Vitter got worse news right before the filing deadline on Friday, when a credible Republican decided to challenge him in the GOP primary and when a Republican decided to run in the general as an independent. David Vitter hasn’t had a good last couple weeks — with all the scrutiny over a former aide who was accused of assaulting his girlfriend in ’08 (and this aide handled women’s issues). From the AP: “Chet Traylor, from Monroe, was the last candidate to register for a congressional election before the qualifying period ended Friday. 28… Also entering the Senate race was a state lawmaker from Plaquemines Parish [Ernest Wooton] who left the GOP and registered Friday as an independent… As an independent, Wooton will bypass the party primaries and directly enter the Nov. 2 general election.”. *** Vitter gets a primary challenger: GOP Sen. He’ll face off with Vitter in the Republican primary Aug.

Other states would get to hold their primaries and caucuses no earlier than March 6. Iowa will go Feb. *** The 2012 calendar: On Friday, the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee set the dates for the “pre-window” primaries and caucuses in 2012. It’s expected that the RNC — and the real primary action will likely be on the GOP side, of course — will follow those dates. 14; Nevada will go Feb. Also at the DNC meeting, the Rules and Bylaws Committee ruled to penalize states that hold their contests earlier than they’re supposed to, and to reduce the influence of superdelegates in selecting the party’s presidential nominee. 18; and South Carolina will go Feb. 6; New Hampshire will go Feb. 28.

Each House incumbent race and to a large extent the Senate races as well will come around to one point–how did my representative treat my district during his most recent term?. While you’re looking at that chart go to tools/filter/IVR-Automated Phone and deselect Rasmussen. Also your conclusion that any election where a Democrat won by less than 14% is effectively a toss-up is pure conjecture. The same is true in any comparison of polling organizations. They’re also consistently involved in push polling. If you look here http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/jobapproval-obama.php you’ll see that Rasmussen is ALWAYS the outlier in a Conservative direction. You’ll ALWAYS see the numbers shift away from the Conservative position. You’ve already made your position suspect Roy, by declaring Rasmussen “easily the most accurate pollster”.

Both unafraid of the political bashing they will receive from both the right and the left. Barney Frank and President Obama come to mind. Both are willing to face the issues head-on and do their best to do the right thing. There are only a few politicians who have enough self-confidence to do the right thing.

I believe Democrats are afraid of unions, especially the current administration. They should be, its unions that fill their coffers every election cycle and are the most powerful lobbyists in the country. What help exactly has Congress given to main street? Main street aren’t the ones getting help from Congress, they are the ones paying for it. If Democrats are so afraid of Fox, why do they keep showing up on their network? If Fox was as bad as you claim, wouldn’t Democrats avoid them? I also disagree with your assessment of main street Americans. They don’t ignore their pocketbooks because they can’t afford to. The middle class realize that even if you tax the rich 100%, you still can’t pay for our enormous debt and they will be on the line for it. Fear is rampant in Washington on both sides. How are Republicans afraid of big oil and healthcare insurance companies? Afterall, it was Obama and Democrats who received the most campaign contributions from those industries in the last major election, not Republicans. I have to kindly disagree with some of your statements. Interesting post. Seems like the White House should be afraid of that gravy train, and from the all talk/no action against BP (They contributed more money to Obama than any other candidate) and their mandate that gives insurance companies 30 million more guaranteed clients, the White House is keeping their end of the bargain.

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Will President Obama Face The Facts?

News Gatherer — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:58:05 +0000

Under President Obama, the national debt has increased by $2.4 trillion in less than two years. Americans look at our exploding national debt and wonder if we’re going to follow in the footsteps of Greece. Furthermore, the healthcare law signed by President Obama is so confusing that many companies cannot project the costs of hiring new employees (more on this below). Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, predicts “slower economic growth than we’ve had in the first and second quarter” of 2010 and cites the uncertainty caused by the President’s healthcare law as a major reason why businesses are not hiring. (One wonders if Speaker Pelosi still defends the idea that it is OK to pass a major piece of legislation before knowing what is in the bill.) Now, job creators are wondering what destructive action the Democrats will take next. The administration is cynically using the BP oil spill to advocate for a new cap-and-trade energy tax that is estimated to kill 5.1 million jobs over the next 40 years and cost the American economy $125 billion per year. That’s over $1,000 per household. Also, the administration has in the past few months floated the idea of a value-added-tax, scaring job creators even more. All this economic uncertainty, much of it caused by the actions of the government, has caused companies to hoard a record $1.8 trillion in cash reserves. This average time figure is unprecedented in the post-war era.• The ISM non-manufacturing job index fell to a worse than expected 53.8%. • ISM’s employment index fell to 49.7% in June (below 50% means the jobs sector is declining). (Click here for a useful graphical representation of the terrible June economic numbers from the ).The core obstacle standing in the way of job creation in America is no longer the financial system or housing market – it is out of control big government. As this article by Louis Woodhill makes clear, previous steep recessions have been marked by similarly steep recoveries. What makes this recession different has been the extraordinary irresponsibility of President Obama and the left wing Democrats in Congress. Three weeks ago, I met with 24 small business owners in St. Coburn and Sen. The second phone call should be to Congressman Jim Jordan. Congressman Jordan has introduced the Economic Freedom Act, a series of bold tax cuts that would empower job creators to do what they do best. I’ve written about the Economic Freedom Act before and you can read details here. (R-Wyo.) are releasing a report today entitled, , that details problems with the new law and the punishing effect it will have on hardworking Americans. As doctors by profession, Sen. (R-Okla.) and John Barrasso, M.D. The worsening economic data will provoke calls for Congress to take action to spur job creation. In choosing how to move forward, the administration can either repeat the same mistake they made last time and let Nancy Pelosi draft another big-government spending bill. Or he can learn from the failure of the stimulus and work with Congressman Jordan to pass the Economic Freedom Act. If President Obama can summon the courage to recognize reality and change course, the left wing of the President’s party will be furious, but the country will be thankful. On Thursday, America will eclipse the 100-day mark since President Obama signed his massive, 2,700 page big government healthcare bill, and opposition continues to grow. A Rasmussen poll released this weekend shows that 60 percent of American voters want Obamacare repealed immediately, 49 percent of whom feel very strongly about it. Senators Tom Coburn, M.D. Three weeks ago, the White House promised America a government-spending-fueled “recovery summer.” What we’ve seen thus far, however, is big government’s true, destructive impact on the natural resiliency of the American economy: By spending too much, growing government too fast, and threatening to raise taxes, President Obama and the left-wing Democratic leadership in Congress have created a climate of fear and uncertainty amongst job creators that has decisively hurt the economy, not helped it.Consider the jobs data for the month of June: • 125,000 Americans lost their jobs. That means more than 3 million Americans have lost their jobs since President Obama signed the stimulus bill. • The U.S. Louis and none of them said they planned to hire any new employees in the next six months. Small businesses cite government regulation and high taxes as the top two challenges facing their companies, according to a recent American Solutions Small Business survey.President Obama and congressional Democrats must do a gut-check and recognize the destructive effect their policies and actions are having on job creation in America.To understand how to move forward, President Obama should make two phone calls. The first call should be to James Carville to ask to borrow his sign from the 1992 presidential campaign that said “It’s the economy, stupid.” President Obama should hang that sign in the Oval Office as a reminder that government policies can either help create jobs or help kill them, and every decision his administration makes going forward must favor job creation. workforce shrank by 652,000, meaning that nearly 8 people left the labor force for each private sector job created. 124,000 of those workers were simply discouraged and have given up trying to find a job. Over the past 12 months, more than 400,000 Americans gave up looking for work. • The 83,000 private-sector jobs added in June is 209,000 jobs below the “replacement level” of 292,000 new jobs a month required to get unemployment back to 5% by 2015. In fact, for every one million Americans out of work in June, only 5,600 private sector jobs were filled. • The average time needed to find a job rose to 35.2 weeks. Barrasso bring a unique understanding to their role as legislators relative to the new health care law. As they note in the report, it is a fact that millions of Americans will lose their current healthcare coverage as a result of the law. Additionally, taxes will be increased during a time of economic uncertainty and 16 million individuals will be forced into failing state Medicaid programs that are already strapped for manpower and funding.The report is very thorough and compelling, and can be found here.While Americans attempt to understand the new law and the impact it will have on them and their families, the Center for Health Transformation is helping. The Center recently released two new wall charts that detail the increased bureaucracy that the law creates and a timeline of all the deadlines contained within the 2,700 pages of text. Obamacare includes the creation of 159 new agencies, offices, and programs (most of which are housed within the Department of Health and Human Services) that are at times repetitive, and amount to an overall massive growth in power and scope of the federal government. The timeline chart was created with information compiled by the Republican staff of the House Energy and Commerce committee and shows 50 square feet of nearly 500 deadlines contained in the law through 2020. The administration has already missed some of these deadlines and has a long way to go to achieve completion of such a complex implementation timeline. These two charts simply illustrate increased government involvement in our health care system. They can be viewed and purchased at the Center’s website, www.healthtransformation.net. Your friend,.

• In his piece posted at Renewing American Leadership, Marvin Olasky explains how Matthew 25:40 is theBible’s most misused verse. You can read the piece here:• takes President Obama to task for playing politics with immigration reform. Click here.

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H. Clinton Says W H Will Sue Over Arizona Immigration Law

News Gatherer — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:25:29 +0000

"Obama voted against the bill because he believes the federal government must determine immigration policy," he said in an interview to a television station in Ecuador marked the Scoop right. And the Justice Department under his leadership to bring an action against the act .. "

Arizona law will enter into force in July, calls for immigrants in the state to bring documents to verify their immigration status, requiring police officers to question a person about their immigration status during an arrest "illegal "If there is" reasonable suspicion "that no one may be illegal in the country.

Holder said he believes that "the law is an unfortunate and is subject to abuse" and said the Justice Department is "considering an appeal." It is unclear whether Clinton made a prediction and if it was far from an expected announcement by the administration. The Justice Department today announced that it continues to review the law.

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Beck: Good News! A Blaze Is Coming That Will Burn Everything

News Gatherer — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:20:46 +0000

Politicians don’t have veto power over who gets to write about them, or how they research their stories, as long as they’re within the bounds of the law. And that’s what Palin is doing here — she has already inspired Glenn Beck to accuse McGinniss of “stalking” Palin and issuing a threat to boycott his publisher. It’s incredibly irresponsible for them to sic their fans on journalists they don’t like.

There’s nothing you can do about it. And any attempt that Palin makes at “destroying” McGinniss will only result in more unwanted attention on her. It’s called the “Streisand effect” — look it up some time. She can’t have it both ways. Furthermore, by opening her mouth on a daily basis, showing up at rallies, and thrusting herself and her family in the spotlight, Palin becomes a target for journalists to write about.

But that may just be the way these books are written: make your sources comfortable and get the info on the main character. But yes, nobody was happy when they found out there would be yet more publicity. One the other hand, one good friend of mine did have a peripheral involvement in one case McGinniss wrote about and she reported back to me that most of the innocent parties involved weren’t unhappy with the book — lots of identifying information left out, so they can still live their lives without anybody figuring out that they were, well, doing normal everyday things when the murder was being planned right next to them. But it seems McGinniss will not hang his sources out to dry.

I, myself happily, willingly unleash my “grip”, as this grip is what’s been holding righteous, faithful Americans from unleashing our visceral, bestial impulses towards a deserved enemy: a vile, slanderous news media who until now have not been held to account, but has repeatedly shielded themselves behind the ruse of “civil discourse”. My conservative brothers, as well-intentioned as they may be, have convinced themselves the only way to combat such a scourge is to take the proverbial “high ground”, turning the other cheek as one might say.

She used it when Bristol and Willow didn’t want to go to school in Juneau (she claimed that there had been threats of gang rape– threats that she never reported to the police or to other parents) and when she claimed that David Letterman was sexually harassing Willow. And now she brings her usual “stalking my daughter” argument. I wonder what it is in Palin’s past that leads her to use sexual abuse of children as her go-to argument?.

She must’ve been a VERY neglected child to STILL be this hungry!. Sarah Palin is just a nutcase who needs to make a big stink about everything like this because she doesn’t have any other life. Can you imagine being a “friend” of something like THAT?? I sure wouldn’t be able to tolerate her neediness. John McCain saved her from an obvious life of boredom.

Sarah Palin is an idiot. Freedom! Do you love your freedom? Isn’t that how her 100k speech starts? Guess what, every American enjoys freedom, even to rent houses in Wasilla. And another thing, what is with her sexual innuendos & her children? Bristol was threatened w/gang rape, David Letterman had statutory rape thoughts about Willow & now people want to peep in her 7 year old’s windows? WTH.

Thus, he intends to harass me and my adorable family, which I’ve tried so hard to shield from that nasty old “lamestream media” by appearing countless times in person with them around the country, and by turning my house into a television studio for MY kind of media, the faux kind.”. But see, “God of Hellfire”. you’re not her. She, the Princess of Paranoia, the Duchess of Deception, the Wicked Witch of Wackiness will use McGinniss’ next-door-neighborly-ness to begin the process of discrediting him: “Look at what that bad man did. He moved in next door to me, in full daylight, without hiding.

This is exactly the type of pathetic vindictiveness Palin has shown in Alaska for years – the only difference is that now she can take it national. When will her “fans” and the media get it: she and Todd are tyrannical hypocrites, interested in lots of media attention and the resulting money but angry that anyone would be so mean as to write anything they don’t have control over.

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News Gatherer — Fri, 07 May 2010 23:30:18 +0000

Napolitano said the leak of "national importance", enabling additional resources to the Gulf through the country .. The governor of Louisiana on April 29: The Coast Guard said the leak may be five times higher than the previous estimate: 5,000 barrels per day.

The company has gone from a friendly "Spiller right" to a more legalistic "responsible." The government has been running BP to play the most important task in any way to close the wells. .

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What Will It Be Like For

News Gatherer — Sat, 01 May 2010 01:30:15 +0000

They will be assigned to two sub base at Kings Bay on the east coast, and two other West Coast naval center of Bangor, Sun

. committed sailors represent about 90 percent of a submarine under 160. No timetable was given for the integration of women committed by him.

marine mechanics Mate First Class Jason Taylor, right, wait a sailor aboard the USS women to go to the submarine will be reporting to the submarine service in less than two years, ending one of the some of military barriers between the sexes. . The U.S. Navy said the first against the admiral (AP Photo / Stephen Morton). The United States must be willing to join the fleet next year or early 2012. Alaska Thursday, April 29, 2010, based in Kings Bay Naval Submarine, Ga.

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Ariz. Sheriff Says He Will Refuse To Enforce Immigration Law

News Gatherer — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:00:15 +0000

At least one Arizona sheriff agrees with an immigration bill that critics say could lead to violations of civil rights. .

30 years as sheriff. And we've done all the time he was a cop here ".." We had to do – I was a police officer here for 52 years. .

. The law allows any citizen to sue the police who do not respect the law, but Dupnik not think it will be a problem for his department.

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Will Other States Follow Arizona’s Lead On Immigration?

News Gatherer — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:15:18 +0000

. The law, however, has outraged others around the country who say that the Americans violated the constitutional rights and / or usurp federal authority to regulate immigration.

"As governor of Georgia, she would work to pass and sign similar legislation.". .

The letter asked Strickland "to use his leadership as governor for legislation to passage of the legislation in the mirror illegal immigration in Arizona and press for the adoption of other effects of immigration. "The only alternative you have is to do nothing. Is a violation of the law," he said. If a law like Arizona would impose a greater responsibility to local police, Jones was out of position. .

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Obama: As President, I Will Recognize The Armenian Genocide

News Gatherer — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:00:19 +0000

"On this solemn day of remembrance, recall that 95 years ago one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century began .." .

. Yerevan insists that the events constitute a genocide, but Turkey vehemently denies, saying that the death toll is inflated and is due to civil unrest during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Armenians took up arms for independence in eastern Anatolia .

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We Have Lady Liberty Will We

News Gatherer — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:00:26 +0000

In his article about Justice Stevens, the Washington Post had three people who have the list of potential candidates short, both candidates are women: Elena Kagan, Attorney General and the Court of Appeals Judge P. Diane other hand, Kagan is the first woman to hold the office of attorney general. . Good news, everyone.

Replace Justice Stevens with a woman slowly to ensure that our rights are protected (protected … but very little protection). .

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