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Old Huck Looking Towards 2012?

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Mike HuckabeeMike HuckabeeIs old Huck (Mike Huckabee, the past and future pres contender ) now looking towards 2012? Maybe. Reading The Washington Post newsletter, "The Fix", this morning, I see  that Old Huck is getting a little active. How? He  has hired  Hogan Gidley, a former executive director of the South Carolina Republican party, to run Huck PAC and he has poked his nose into what will be  a key state, by putting his thumb into Michigan gubernatorial primary, by endorsing state Attorney General Mike Cox "in a competitive four-way race, "  with the hope of getting a loyal supporter for his possible run in the big race in 2012. Read more

Bunning Backed Down

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Senator Jim BunningSenator Jim BunningLast night, (March 2) after Senator Bunning backed down to frantic pressure from his own party, the Senate passed stopgap legislation to extend help benefits for the jobless and to keep federal highway dollars flowing. The vote was 78-19. Bunning's actions shamed a slim majority of GOP Senators into supporting the measure. Read more

Senator No Says: No!

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Senator Jim BunningSenator Jim BunningSenator Jim Bunning, Senator "No!"  of the Party of No, is  the face of the Republican Party. He is one mean, finger showing, rude, crude,  defiant obstructionist. By himself, due to the Senate rules that require  unanimous consent  for  an emergency 30-day  bill extending unemployment benefits, highway projects and more, he  blocked and stopped  unemployment benefits,. and caused 400,000 people to be  laid off today.  He sent a clear message to the American people that the GOP could care less about working and unemployed people. Read more

Showdown at Blair House or What?

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Blair HouseBlair HouseThe event: The Health Care Showdown or Snowdown.

Time: Today,  10AM - 4PM ET.

The venue:  Blair House, across the street from the White House.

The champions: President Obama and the Democratic  Team.

The challengers & chumps: The Party of No-sayers.

Wild Card: Some dissention among the Dems,  fighting could break out between the reformers and the performers.

For six hours-- while oversees Terrorists are plotting America's demise, the POTUS will be tied up in a meeting with Repub No-sayers who are plotting his demise-- and what will come out of it? Event TV!  With wall-to-wall coverage. Not the size of audience Tiger Woods confession got, but respectable numbers -- may be. But definitely, the cable talking heads will get  something to talk about. Read more

Wall Street Giving Its Love To The GOP

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political love!political love!In politics showing love is showing the money. In politics love is money -- or is the closest thing to love that you are going to get.

 This morning Washington Post has an article called, "Wall Street shifting political contributions to Republicans."  You can read the article at this link: (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/23/AR201002...). Read more

Not A Repub Zombie

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Shortly after his election, Scott Brown, the new Massachusetts senator, who won the late Edward Kennedy' s seat in a special election, that many took as a referendum  on President Obama and the Democratic Party,  warned GOP leaders that he would vote his beliefs and not the party line?  America needs more Senators to vote that way. Earlier this evening, Senator Brown,  joined by five other Republicans, in a show of  bipartisanship, voted against a GOP attempt to filibuster a much needed jobs bills, a measure needed to spur job creation. The tally was 62-30.

Right wing nuts wasted no time to start spinning a wuzzy fit on the Internet, denouncing Senator Brown, whose vote helps Democrats advance the  $15 Billion Jobs Bill, pass a  GOP supported procedural hurdle. Read more

Master Minds of the Party of No.

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Money!!Money!!The Masters, the boys who pass out the bags of money for the rich  boys and gals who rule by gaming the system, The K Street Lobbyists, consistently, pull the strings that make the 'Party of No dance'.  On every issue  -- the GOP leadership, like little school boys, huddle with The K Street Lobbyists to learn the order of the dance.

The Democrats propose legislation and the GOP leadership  huddle in meetings with a hundred or more  Lobbyists , and they practice the same old steps,  run the same old routines of the dance of "No". Read more

Responsibility and Spending Reform

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Alan SimpsonAlan SimpsonThe shameless Party of No, the GOP, loving the political milage its has gained among the rubes by blaming the huge deficits and the huge growth of the national debt on the Democrats and on President Obama, blocked the President's efforts for Congress to create a bipartisan deficit commission to deal with the problem of deficits. The GOP has no deficit of guile. From the GOP  point of view, the national deficit problem isn't going to be fixed before this November, or next, but if the Party of No had said "Yes" to a commission, it might have looked as if the President and the Democratic majority Congress were working on the issue, and the Party of No, wants that issue alive for this November races. Yes, Party before country, with the "No" crowd. Read more

The "Party of No" Says No, Unless

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John A. Boehner, the Republican leader in the House of Representatives,   sent a letter to the White House Monday night stating that the GOP may not participate in the  health care summit, unless  the President  junks the existing reform bills and starts over. (Source: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/02/top-house-republicans-throw-...) Oh yes  -- unless Mr. Obama throws in his cards, the GOP says it won't play. I expected this.

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Obama to GOP: Show Up, Put Up Or Shut Up!

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President Obama had a successful, televised Q&A session with GOP House members. Now he has invited Republicans in Congress to participate in a bipartisan, half-day TELEVISED summit on on health care this month. Note my emphasis on TELEVISED! A televised event offers the public the opportunity to see the "Party of No" in action. If the GOP shows up,  their leaders will have to come to the table with something, and not with their hands folded, their faces in frowns, offering absolutely nothing, but scorn.

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