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Given the continual loss of jobs in the (once-)Golden State since Barbara Boxer heralded the passage of the “stimulus,” promising it would (save or) create 400,000 new jobs, it’s no wonder the 28-year Washington veteran is running away from her record.
She’s also running away from debates. Take a look at this clip. And while it was posted by the Carly Fiorina campaign, it was produced by a local Los Angeles television station (KCAL, the local CBS affiliate). Seems California media are wising up to Mrs. Boxer’s tricks:
Note Mrs. Boxer’s pause at 1:26. So, Ma’am, why the trouble answering?
Anchor Laura Diaz reminds us that while “Boxer says she wants to have more debates with her Republican challenger Carly Fiorina, but right now she has agreed to only one more debate and you probably won’t be able to watch it live.”
Reporter Dave Bryan reminds us that Boxer had accepted none of six proposed debates to be broadcast statewide, yet “in contrast . . ., Carly Fiorina has accepted all 12 proposed Senate debates, half of them including live statewide or national TV coverage.”
Seems Boxer isn’t much interested in defending her record, but instead attacking her opponent. Wonder why that is.
Damnnnnnnnnn. I’m not sure King Barack I has ever been dressed down like this since maybe prep school in Indonesia.
Damnnnnnnnnn! Too bad the video doesn’t show how he answered. My guess is that it went something like this… “well, uhhhhhhh…..aaaaaand…. I inherited this mess….uhhhhhhhh…. hope and change…. aaaaaaaaand….. uhhhhhh…. Republicans are evil.”
“Barbara Boxer,” Jim Geraghty informs us, “is going to have a bad week.” Seems fitting. Thanks to the 28-year Washington veteran’s policies, Californians have had a very bad twenty months.
Boxer has been sending large amounts of cash to [Rep. Maxine] Waters’s daughter for the past two cycles, and in exchange, Waters has been featuring Boxer prominently on her “slate mailer,” a sample ballot used by many voters in Waters’s South Central district.
In 2004, Boxer paid Rep. Waters’s daughter, Karen Waters, $25,000 to ensure her spot on the mailer; on June 2, Boxer’s campaign sent “Citizens for Waters” $5,000.
Waters, you may recall, is “under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for allegations that she used her position in Congress to ensure the U.S. Treasury Department would help out a bank where her husband was a stockholder and former director.”
Guess Mrs. Boxer wanted to do for Waters’s daughter what she does for her own son:
Indeed, Boxer has been called out for steering about $500,000 in contributions made to her political action committee to her son’s consulting firm between 2001 and 2009. Like Waters’ scheme, this arrangement has attracted the attention of CREW [Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington], which focused on Boxer in a 2007 exposé entitled “Family Affair.”
And this lady chairs the Senate Ethics Committee.
This reason seems to be turning against Boxer due, in large part to the steady drip-drip of bad news for the three term Senator. She shows her arrogance by demanding to be called Senator. She is astounded that a black businessman would have views different from those of the NAACP. One of her aides gets caught trying to bring a dime bag into her office. And now this. Seems candidates who see such errors accumulate in the course of their campaigns find themselves falling a few votes short when election day rolls ’round.
You can support Carly Fiorina, Boxer’s replacement, here.
On CNBC, [Bernie Marcus] the founder of Home Depot blasted Barack Obama and his administration as a collection of tenured dilettantes who have never had to meet a payroll in their lives. Greg Hengler offers a couple of juicy excerpts from his appearance, especially when Marcus starts “apologizing” for having created over 300,000 jobs through the kind of entrepeneurship that the current White House wants to discourage.
So, the founder of a company that earns the ire of extreme social conservatives for offering domestic partnership benefits also dares to stand up for the free market principles which have helped make this country great, while undergirding the basic domestic policy of the Republican Party, at least since Ronald Reagan.
So, the New York Times reports, the White House is mulling an idea surely culled from reading papers like that Old Gray Lady:
President Obama’s political advisers, looking for ways to help Democrats and alter the course of the midterm elections in the final weeks, are considering a range of ideas, including national advertisements, to cast the Republican Party as all but taken over by Tea Party extremists, people involved in the discussion said. . . .
“We need to get out the message that it’s now really dangerous to re-empower the Republican Party,” said one Democratic strategist who has spoken with White House advisers but requested anonymity to discuss private strategy talks.
More dangerous than a Democratic Congress that has been on a spending and regulating spree? No wonder R.S. McCain cautions:
If Democrats were smart, they’d ignore that kind of advice. Polls have shown that the Tea Party is more popular than Obama and if there is one thing the American people have gotten sick and tired of hearing in the past 18 months, it’s that anyone who disagrees with the president’s policies is a racist kook.
The incumbent party can only get so much mileage this year in demonizing the opposition. Perhaps had the president laid off the blame game in the 20 months preceding the fall campaigns, he might (just might) be able to get this dog to hunt.
Or maybe not.
People are not just voting against the Democrats because they’re the party in power, but also because we don’t like what this party has done with its power. (more…)
She has become the 2010 version of Sarah Palin, suddenly catapulting into the national spotlight.
When I first read about her past communion with crooked covens, it seemed the media were trying to hold her up as the new poster child of the Tea Party (as if such tea party favorites as Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio, Joe Miller and other thoughtful conservatives did not exist). With Miss O’Donnell as the face of the movement, they hope contend, it’ll be discredited in no time.
The media is going to help the Democratic Party’s national messaging, which is that the GOP is a party full of Christine O’Donnells, a party that wants to take away your Social Security and your right to masturbate. Well, maybe not that last part, but then again, the implicit message of the party is that the GOP is about to elect a slate of hard social rightists to Congress.
While he’s on the money on this one, I think he’s off the mark on several other points. (After this week, I don’t think the O’Donnell race will register much with voters outside Delaware.)
I think this tack will fail, indeed, backfire. When voters look at such sterling Republican candidates as Toomey, Miller, Rubio, Carly Fiorina, Rob Portman, Kelly Ayotte, Ron Johnson and Dino Rossi, they’ll see Republicans don’t fly around on broomsticks, but instead have backgrounds in business and public policy as well as a genuine commitment to sound conservative principles and real reform.
Last week, the junior Senator from California rolled out her first campaign ads. The first was soft and fuzzy with high production values. Debra J. Saunders took note of the “two words you won’t hear watching [the] ad: Senator and Democrat.”
A few days later, Ma’am got nasty with an ad that looked like it was produced on a laptop, making up facts about Carly Fiorina in order to smear her successor. So, now Carly’s people are reminding Californians of the cost of the big-government policies Boxer backs:
Don’t think this will play too well in Alaska, particularly given the mood of the year. With this action so close to Murkowski’s announcement, it makes it look like her real loyalty is to Washington lobbyists.
What happened in my particular race, you had the Tea Party Express, this California-based group, come in at the last minute in a campaign, run a mudslinging, smear – just a terrible, terrible – campaign with lies and fabrications and mischaracterizations. . . . They came in, dumped $600,000 into a small market here in Alaska, and they absolutely clearly influenced the outcome.
Wonder how much non-Alaska money Murkowski was hoping those lobbyists were going to help her rake in. Over at protein wisdom, Darleen Click wondered what the Senator was whining about, after all, she “spent $2 million dollars during her primary campaign.” Is she just mad that someone would dare campaign against here?
Not a good way to start your campaign when we get a report of a conference call between the Senator and lobbyists followed by the her acting like a sore loser on national television.
If this race were about more than her own ego, she would be able to discuss the issues driving her decision instead of some pabulum about “listening to my constituents.” Perhaps, if she said they want her to fight for this or that issue, say, opening up ANWR or repealing Obamacare, then maybe people might take her seriously.
My sense is that her write-in roll-out will hurt her among Alaska voters and her poll numbers will plunge even further.
“The president also has to, I think, shift the way in which he has been doing things,” Powell said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I think the American people feel that too many programs have come down. There are so many rocks in our knapsack now that we’re having trouble carrying it.”
Powell said the president needed to focus “like a razor blade” on employment, giving the same level of attention to jobs as he did to passing bills overhauling health care and education.
(H/t: Reader ILoveCapitalism.)
I agree. If the president had devoted as much attention to the jobs situation as he has to health care, I think people would view him more favorably than they do now — even if said focus prevented a strong recovery, that is, if the economic situation looked as bleak as it does. It’s almost as if he assumed that passing the “stimulus” would be enough, then he could move on to those projects really near and dear to his heart.
Senator Boxer said, “In the face of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the Congress has acted today to save or create jobs in California and across the nation. With so many Californians anxious about the economy, this legislation offers help and hope. This bill will put Californians to work now building the highways, bridges, transit and rail systems, and renewable energy sources of the 21st century.”
The White House predicts that the legislation will save or create approximately 400,000 jobs in California.
California’s deeply troubled labor market took another hit in August as employers laid off more workers than expected, renewing fears that the state’s economic recovery has stalled.
Employers cut 33,500 jobs, marking the third straight month of losses and pushing the state’s unemployment rate to 12.4%, up from 12.3% in July, according to data released Friday by the Employment Development Department. California has lost 113,100 jobs since August 2009.
Emphasis added.
Third straight month of losses, all in the summer. So, ma’am, is this what they call a “summer of recovery“?
In the course of the Democratic summer of recovery, the Golden State lost more than one-quarter of the amount of jobs Mrs. Boxer assured us the near-trillion dollar “stimulus” would create.
“Despite Barbara Boxer’s promises and lofty rhetoric about fighting for California,” Carly Fiorina said, “the people of this state have suffered a knockout punch under her watch.” Knockout punch pretty much sums up what Boxer’s policies have done to the economy.
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First, some of our critics have suggested that I have endorsed Christine O’Donnell for the U.S. Senate. I have not, have merely indicated that if I had to choose between her and her Democratic opponent, Chris Coons, I would vote for her, the candidate less likely to support Obama’s big-government agenda and more likely to vote to cut the size and scope of the federal leviathan.
It’s not that evangelical Christian leanings per se are a bad thing. In many cases, they are not, but some evangelicals often have some pretty narrow views of “homosexuals” (as they like to call us).
Since posting that piece, I have learned that the nominee said some pretty odd (and even mean) things in the 1990s (when she was in her 20s) and had some, shall we say, strange associations, as we learn from a former ex-gay, once her associate. But, from our reader Firelight, I learned that the Delaware Republican has a lesbian sister who supports her Senate bid.
Perhaps, her views have changed in the intervening years. Right now, I don’t have enough information to weigh in on how her thinking has evolved — and what impact her sister’s coming out has had on her views.
I have reached out to her sister who lives near me so I can ask more directly. Until I hear back, I will refrain from commenting about this particular election, save how the victory helps us understand the dynamics of the current election year. (more…)
Un-effin-believeable. THIS is the “most educated” President evah?
Some may say it was an accident that he left out “Creator”. But… and this is important, people… by ignoring that our unalienable rights come from Our Creator, he completely misses the mark on what makes America great! Before 1776, rights were seen to have been granted by Man (Kings, Queens, etc.) Our Founding Fathers’ brilliance was that they put a new stake in the ground of mankind.
Obama, our President, is a complete dope. I guess they forgot to teach the Declaration of Independence to him in his prep schools in Indonesia and at Harvard.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Good heavens. Can’t everyone but the utmost Bush-haters now see what a complete buffoon America has in the Oval Office?
So is he just stupid, or is he removing God from the DofI because his political philosophy is that rights come from the State, not the Creator? If we had a responsible media — we’d have known the answer to that question…. in 2007.
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As many of you know, our humble abode was one of many victims last night of a massive malware attack on our servers at GoDaddy.com. I wanted to assure everyone that we are back on-line and SAFE. We have added a couple of new layers of protections (think: “blogging with condoms”) to help avoid a future problem.
So to get things started… what the hell is up with Lisa Murkowski? *idiot*
Murkowski’s decision will set up a 3-way battle between the incumbent, Miller and Sitka Mayor Scott McAdams (D), potentially turning the race on its head. Private 3-way polling has shown Miller leading, but by a narrow margin.
Why is it that certain politicians just can’t admit defeat, as if their seat is their sinecure. She claims she’s doing this because of the concerns of her constituents:
“Believe you me, the easier path would be to pack it all up and go do something different,” she said. “If I had not heard this call from Alaskans, I would not be deliberating as I am.”
Um, Lisa didn’t you hear that call of Alaskans in last month’s primary? They preferred Miller.
This seat doesn’t belong to you. It’s not yours by right, as perhaps you assumed when your father appointed you to serve.
What is it, I wonder, asking again and again and yet again, that gives a politician such a sense of entitlement?
“Professional Republicans” whose partisanship is a function of career interest. Perhaps they’ve been in the game so long they can no longer distinguish between political principle and personal ambition, but they certainly never let the former get in the way of the latter.
The primary effect of Murkowski’s temper tantrum will be to force Republicans to spend more resources in Alaska than would otherwise be necessary, and effectively end any chance she may have had for a political future. (more…)
