Story #1 asks what the 2012 election will be like and finds two
scenarios. #2 has some of the reasons
leftists are giving for supporting BHO.
It’s getting really strange out there.
#3 relates a superpac for the Republicans appears to be on its way to gathering
$250 million for this year’s election.
#4 is another look at the budget-less Senate. #5 shows that even six months from the
election, we are seeing democrats beginning to dump Obamacare. #6 has an article about Alan Dershowitz and
his condemnation of the indictment of George Zimmerman. #7 tells that Mia Love
is a name you will be hearing a lot more about.
Finally #8 shows the stupidity of the green movement in this country.
Today’s thoughts
There’s a lot of speculation that Joe
Manchin, the Senator from West Virginia, may be looking to switch parties. Obama has taken the Democrats so far to the
right, that this may be imperative if he wants to hang on to his job.
If you wonder why John Corzine is
not under arrest, I think we know why. I
appears he is still bundling funds for BHO’s reelection campaign.
The CBO has warned us that Obama’s
2013 budget would hurt the economy. They
estimate in 5 years growth would be .5 to 2.2 percent less as a result of it.
1. What will 2012 Election be like?
Here’s how Reuters recently summed
up the race for the White House: “The
2012 presidential election is more than six months away, but here is what we
know so far: It is going to be close, it is going to be nasty, and the outcome
could turn on a series of unpredictable events.” The argument that followed
was balanced and intelligent, and nicely captured today’s conventional wisdom.
But the conventional wisdom may well
be wrong. We don’t in fact “know” that
the election will be close. Nor do we know that it will be nasty, or that it
will turn on unpredictable events. To the contrary, if I had to put money
down now, I’d bet that Mitt Romney will
win an easy victory after a relatively predictable, issue-focused, and
not-too-nasty campaign. Indeed, I’d bet Romney will win precisely if he
runs such a campaign. But if he allows the race to degenerate into name-calling
and gotcha gimmicks, he could lose. Democrats are better than Republicans at
the small and nasty stuff.
I do think it will be nasty on the Democrats side. But I agree with Kristol that if Romney stays
on message using ads highlighting Obama’s words, he wins by at least as much as
Obama did in 2008.
2.
Support for Obama Turning Bizarre
Without any actual accomplishments to tout for President Barack Obama and with attacks on his rival, Mitt Romney, backfiring, the dwindling group of supporters of the president is starting to come up with bizarre reasons to re-election him.
Chris Matthews, the MSNBC
host who used to get leg tingles thinking about Obama, suggests we should ignore the advice of Martin
Luther King Jr. and judge him by the color of his skin
and not the content of his character, according to Real
Clear Politics.
Sen.
Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., adds we
should vote for the re-election of the president for the sake of the ladies, according to
Breitbart.
Former
Republican Gov. of Florida Charlie Crist says the president is a
"centrist worthy of admiration," as reported by Buzzfeed.
On the other hand, current Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin
of West Virginia is reported by the
Washington Post as unsure whether he will vote for the president of
his own party. Meanwhile the president is facing an open revolt from his
own party on the Keystone XL pipeline, according to the
Washington Examiner. Rep. Barney
Frank, D-Mass., who is retiring, has opined that on second
thought, health care reform was not such a great idea after all, Forbes reports.
Political prognostication is a tricky
business for a pundit who lacks psychic powers. But all of this seems to point toward impending doom for the president's
chances of reelection. If Obama has not done anything that merits four more
years and if Romney is not convincingly the anti-Christ, what is there left? …
I think these past two articles tell a story that will
become more evident as we get closer to November. Obama will not win reelection.
3. Crossroad
group on track for $250 million in 2012
American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS have combined to
raise $100 million since the beginning of 2011, a group spokesman told The Hill
on Friday.
It's a huge haul for the
GOP-affiliated outside groups that makes even most presidential fundraising
look paltry by comparison, and highlights the influence the two groups are
likely to have in this year's election.
The figure includes $49 million raised in the last three
months, a sign that the groups should have
no problem hitting their targeted goal of raising and spending $250 million on
the election.
American Crossroads, the super-PAC
side of the group, has nearly $25 million cash on hand, more than double the
amount Mitt Romney has in the bank. Crossroads GPS, which is technically an
issue advocacy group that does not have to say who its donors are, did not
divulge how much money it has saved…
This isn’t good news if you are in a battleground
state. Stand by for political
commercials from morning til night in September and October.
4.
Conrad, the Senate,
and a Budget
Sen. Kent Conrad of
North Dakota is the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. That means he’s the Democratic point man for the
absolutely essential work of not coming up with a budget.
Conrad has occasionally gone wobbly. Sometimes he has sounded
dangerously close to betraying the cause that his party has entrusted to him.
A couple of weeks ago, the senator went on national TV to say he
was going to have his committee “mark up” what he called a “10-year plan” —
i.e., a budget. After briefly flirting with this treachery, Conrad came back to
his senses and recommitted himself to his duty to remain resolutely
budget-less.
He didn’t hold a
markup at all, which is the time-honored process by which a bill is debated,
amended and voted on. Conrad dispensed with all such fluff and minutiae. He offered his
own plan, loosely based on the work of the Bowles-Simpson deficit-reduction
commission, shot down any foolishness about amending or voting, and pronounced
himself well-pleased. Despite the angst he had caused with his loose talk, Conrad had delivered yet again — by not delivering a budget.
If this seems an easy, almost no-show job to you, think again.
There are two
varieties of budgetary boldness. There’s bold like Republican House Budget
Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. This involves passing out of committee detailed budget
resolutions that go on to pass the entire chamber and to spark a full and frank
debate about the nation’s fiscal future.
Then there’s Kent
Conrad boldness. This involves having the fortitude to defend doing nothing
with threadbare rationalizations and weaselly misdirections….
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/boldly_doing_nothing_WivIgOCcKyQmZPkPv6s6yI#ixzz1smHXd6Zv
The
democrats hope to demonize the Republicans for having a plan they don’t like,
while avoiding holding any position themselves.
Generally this works in congress, but with trillion dollar deficits, I
don’t think this is a winning strategy.
5.
Democrats begin to desert Obamacare
Perhaps
Democrats know something the rest of us don't about Barack Obama's political
fortunes. What else explains the
increasing numbers who are openly defying the president on two key election
issues?
The
notoriously thin-skinned Obama could not have been happy with the news last
week that, as the Hill newspaper put it,
"an increasing number of Democrats are taking potshots at President
Obama's health care law."
North
Carolina's Brad Miller, who voted for the law, now laments that "we would all have been better
off" if Congress had dealt with more pressing issues "and then came
back to health care."
Barney
Frank complained that the Democrats "paid a terrible price for health
care." And Virginia's outgoing Sen. Jim Webb said the law would be Obama's
"biggest downside" in the election and had cost him "a lot of credibility as a leader."
Meanwhile,
stalwart Massachusetts liberal Elizabeth
Warren is now calling to repeal a piece of ObamaCare — the 2.3% tax on
medical devices — because, she says, it "disproportionately impacts the
small companies with the narrowest financial margins."
Warren,
by the way, is running for the Senate seat occupied by Republican Scott Brown,
whose victory in 2010 was a result of the public's intense opposition to
ObamaCare.
Former Alabama Rep. Artur Davis went furthest. "I think the Affordable Care Act is
the single least popular piece of major domestic legislation in the last 70
years," he said. "It was not popular when it passed; it's less
popular now." Ouch….
When this starts happening, Obama should be looking at where he wants to
retire to.
6. Dershowitz Blasts Zimmerman Prosecution
With ABC News’ release of the George Zimmerman photo
showing blood flowing freely from his head, the question becomes whether Angela
Corey, the prosecutor in the case, had access to the photo before charging
Zimmerman with second-degree murder.
The arrest affidavit did not mention the photograph, or the bleeding,
gashes, and bruises on Zimmermans’ head. Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School stated upon release of the arrest affidavit that it was “so thin
that it won’t make it past a judge on a second degree murder charge …
everything in the affidavit is completely consistent with a defense of
self-defense.”
After the release of the photo, however, Dershowitz went much further, telling
Breitbart News that if the prosecutors did have the photo and didn’t mention it in the affidavit, that would
constitute a “grave ethical violation,” since affidavits are supposed to
contain “all relevant information.”
Dershowitz continued, “An affidavit that willfully misstates undisputed evidence known to the
prosecution is not only unethical but borders on perjury because an affiant
swears to tell not only the truth, but the whole truth, and suppressing an
important part of the whole truth is a lie."
Trayvon Martin’s case is one that is probably going to end
up with riots. The left leaning press is
setting that up if Zimmerman is found not guilty.
7. Mia Love
Wins Republican Nomination in Utha’s 4th District
Mia Love
pulled a major upset on Saturday,
winning the Republican Party nomination in Utah’s 4th District,
advancing to face U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson in November.
“Today we
have an opportunity to do something very special. Today we can start breaking a
pattern,” Love exhorted delegates before the final vote. “Today we can start bringing Jim Matheson home. Elect one
nominee today, so we can take this fight to Jim Matheson tomorrow.”
Love won
70.4 percent of the vote from the delegates
while Wimmer captured 29.6 percent.
Wimmer, a co-founder of the Patrick Henry Caucus, focused on
states rights, had campaign for the office for more than a year, resigning his
legislative seat to make his bid. He had broad legislative backing, the
endorsement of Sen. Mike Lee, and the backing of legislators and Attorney
General Mark Shurtleff.
But Love, the mayor of Saratoga Springs, had said coming
into the convention that she was the front-runner.
With the endorsement of her competitors — former Rep.
Stephen Sandstrom and attorney Jay Cobb — and the backing of Mitt Romney’s son,
Josh Romney, she managed to muster the 60 percent threshold needed to avoid a
primary.
If elected
to Congress, Love, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, would be the only black
Republican woman in Congress…
I expect
the Democrats to pour money into Matheson’s campaign. The Democrats can’t afford to have an
articulate black woman who is the daughter of immigrants as a Republican in
Congress. It sends to wrong message to
other black Americans, that is, that there are alternatives to the Democratic
Party.
8. Stupidity
and the Green Movement
Writing for
Forbes Magazine, climate change alarmist Steve Zwick calls for skeptics of
man-made global warming to be tracked, hunted down and have their homes burned
to the ground, yet another shocking illustration of how eco-fascism is rife
within the environmentalist lobby.
Comparing climate change skeptics to residents in
Tennessee who refused to pay a $75 fee, resulting in firemen sitting back and
watching their houses burn down, Zwick rants that anyone who actively questions
global warming propaganda should face the same treatment.
“We know who
the active denialists are – not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the
people who create the lies. Let’s start keeping track of them now, and when
the famines come, let’s make them pay.
Let’s let their houses burn. Let’s swap their safe land for submerged
islands. Let’s force them to bear the cost of rising food prices,” write Zwick,
adding, “They broke the climate. Why should the rest of us have to pay for it?”…
It appears
this warmist feels he is qualified to be judge, jury and executioner. These people are dangerous.
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