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Iowa and New Hamp don’t like it when a lying wannabe phones it in.
New PPP poll shows Gingrich support dropping in Iowa; Paul takes lead You go geezer!
Maybe it does take a ground game to win Iowa? Seems Newt the “historian” would be smart enough to know that, but then again there’s no telling Newt nothin’.
I’d rather see Newt as the nominee. Romney is milquetoast enough to be seen as a “reasonable” alternative to Obama, which I still think is laughable.
I think the reason for Newt’s nosedive is that he is seen as not authentic, while Paul is seen as being authentic.
Is how quickly the Republican
primaryspeed dating process works pushing someone up to front runner status, then abandoning them a month laterThis pattern was really obvious to everyone else a month ago with all the other candidates. I don’t know why anyone imagined it would be different with Gingrich.
Looking forward to the rise of Rick Santorum though.
Of course, Paul doesn’t spout the party line when it comes to aggressive war, but he’s the real deal in financial and small government politics. He could win Iowa and maybe even Libertarian-minded New Hampshire, but he has little chance beyond that.
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It’s time for the Trump and the half-gov to make the comeback.
Trump can’t even get four Republicans to agree to come on stage for a debate he’s hosting.
Pawlenty has to be kicking himself right now for getting out of the race before all the other incompetents took themselves out.
but I don’t think she’s begun to sing. Keep in mind the winner in Iowa is usually not the one to win the primary race.
those numbers look a lot like the numbers in Iowa two weeks ago. And also coincidentally, the South Carolina primary is two weeks after the Iowa caucus. The same ads that have killed Gingrich in Iowa will start getting aired there too. He’s over.
He isn’t running to actually become our President any more than Cain was. He isn’t doing any of the kind of fund raising or boots on the ground organizing a real campaign would require. This is about raising his profile to sell books, get speaking engagements, continuing paying positions, etc. Got to keep the celebrity status fed or it fades.
Wonder if his crazy talk about plans to arrest judges whose decisions he disagrees with once he’s in the WH wasn’t a reaction to a level of success that was freaking him out a little. Just to be on the safe side? Attract even more dismay from serious conservative pundits?
Since there’s no copyright notice, I’ll post the whole press release:
We need a scorecard to keep track the next several months.
I heard that State Rep Randy Baumgardner (R-Grand County) plans to primary incumbent Republican Senator Jean White in the new SD8. After all the work that Grand County residents did to keep Grand disconnected from Boulder County for its House District, Grand ultimately landed in a House District with western Boulder County. So I guess Baumgardner would rather run in northwest Colorado – and primary moderate Senator White – to keep his political ties to the conservative northwest part of the state. This is the same Rep Baumgardner, by the way, who for a time said he had moved to Jackson County (he hadn’t) to stay connected to what he thought was going to be a northwest District.
Did you? Anyone? I hadn’t heard any rumblings at all.
Thirty-nine Republican Senators voted in favor of the payroll tax cut extension – but now the House GOP is about to raise our taxes. Lamborn and Gardner are among the extremists, while Coffman appears silent.
They even call it “relief” but claim that extending it by a year is needed, and a 2-month extension isn’t long enough. The claim is that a 2-month extension will harm “job creators” who abhor “uncertainty.”
The reality is that they want to sabotage the economy to hurt Obama’s re-election chances.
I have a brilliant idea: extend the payroll tax cut by 2 months and then start using the time to work on a year’s extension.
You want certainty? OK, here’s yer certainty: Vote against this bipartisan measure, feeble as it is, and you’ll make certain that fed-up middle-class people like me will move heaven and earth to vote you out next year.
The tax holiday is on the employee contribution only. So passing/not passing this has no impact on what a business has to pay per employee.
It does have an indirect impact for business as it will increase consumer spending. But there are so many other things impacting spending that businesses won’t measure this, they’ll just measure sales.
that the impact is in payroll processing – that’s the “uncertainty”.
It’s still hooey…
Almost everyone uses ADP or Paychek and they’ll just change a number in their system. Companies won’t even know it happened.
House Republicans have blocked any vote on the Senate payroll tax cut (and unemployment, and Medicare doc fix) extension.
Apparently, enough House Republicans support the extension that it would pass the House with Democratic support. But a majority of Republican House members do not support the bill, so House GOP leadership has instead killed the bill by refusing to schedule an up or down vote on it.
Instead, the House will vote tomorrow on a “sense of the House” resolution stating that they wish they could do something about extending these measures…
Oh, Onion, how we lament your inability to outpace reality with your satiric wit.
and there’s plenty of unsettling news to give one pause, then this becomes oh so much worse:
Costs of Iraq War:
Spent & Approved War-Spending – About $1 trillion of US taxpayers’ funds spent or approved for spending through 2011.
Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq – $9 billion of US taxpayers’ money and $549.7 milion in spare parts shipped in 2004 to US contractors. Also, per ABC News, 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47 rifles.
Lost and Reported Stolen – $6.6 billion of U.S. taxpayers’ money earmarked for Iraq reconstruction, reported on June 14, 2011 by Special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction Stuart Bowen who called it “the largest theft of funds in national history.” (Source – CBS News) Last known holder of the $6.6 billion lost: the U.S. government.
…though it hasn’t been a total loss for everyone…
Mismanaged & Wasted in Iraq – $10 billion, per Feb 2007 Congressional hearings
Halliburton Overcharges Classified by the Pentagon as Unreasonable and Unsupported – $1.4 billion
Amount paid to KBR, a former Halliburton division, to supply U.S. military in Iraq with food, fuel, housing and other items – $20 billion
Portion of the $20 billion paid to KBR that Pentagon auditors deem “questionable or supportable” – $3.2 billion
…especially those LTFAO,
all the way to the bank.
This obviously dishonest, indeed criminal and anti-humanitarian behavior NEVER gets a rise out of the morally blind and spiritually bereft righties.
There will be NO DOUBT that GW Bush destroyed a generations (or more) ability to further the cause of a civilized and sustainable world.