MICHAEL MOORE: Obama Is A ‘Heart-Breaking’ ‘Disappointment’
That Michael Moore is disappointed in Obama is perhaps not the biggest surprise — Moore is far-left of center, Obama is center-center — however, considering Moore’s affinity for the Occupy Wall St. movement it’s not too much of a stretch to conclude he is voicing some of their concerns with regards to the President.
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Conservatives Rediscover The Horrifying Truth: Mitt Romney Is Not One Of Them
One of the reasons conservatives are trying so hard to embrace anyone but Mitt Romney as the GOP candidate is their ongoing suspicion that Mitt Romney isn’t really a conservative.
And Romney keeps giving them material to justify this suspicion.
Today, Mitt Romney walked into a room filled with conservative activists who are trying to save Ohio Governor Jon Kaisch’s public-sector union reforms from repeal.
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Mitt Romney’s Real Record (Romney is Everything But Conservative)
Mitt Romney Praises Ted Kennedy for Securing Federal Support for Mass. Health Law
This flashback could be coming to the campaign ads of many GOP hopefuls, not to mention Obama, fairly soon:
Cain’s ‘impossible dream’ resonates with voters
JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) — Herman Cain is firing up the crowd at a tea party rally in this West Tennessee town when the generator powering his sound system shudders to a halt.
Cain stands awkwardly for a few moments then suddenly begins to sing. Slowly at first but gaining in speed, he belts out “Impossible Dream” in the rich baritone he’s honed in church choir.
“You know, when it’s your rally, you can do what you want to do!” Cain says as he finishes with a raucous laugh. The 500 or so supporters who have jammed the strip mall parking lot to hear the Republican Party’s newest star speak roar their approval.
Momentum restored, Cain launches into a pitch for his signature 9-9-9 tax plan, and the crowd is right there with him, chanting 9-9-9 along with the Georgia businessman. The plan would scrap the current tax code and replace it with a 9 percent tax on personal income and corporations as well as a new 9 percent national sales tax.
The 65-year-old’s improbable campaign for the presidency is all about momentum right now. How does he maintain the wave he’s riding in recent polls that have catapulted him from an also-ran in the GOP race to the elite top tier?
There are many reasons his bid could fade as quickly as it rose. He acknowledged Friday that he will trail former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry significantly in fundraising. Cain has never held elected office and could wilt under the rigors of the campaign trail and the withering scrutiny coming his way.
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Herman Cain Raised $2.8 Million in Third Quarter
Though Cain had already delivered his stump speech twice earlier in the day, he was more animated and passionate that he had been in earlier appearances. The atmosphere in the barn changed from campaign rally to something more resembling a old-fashioned revival meeting.
“I am gonna be in this thing to the end of the nomination,” vowed Cain, who told the crowd he had raised $2.8 million this quarter and ended with $1 million on hand. He acknowledged it wasn’t much compared to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s $14 million or Texas Gov.Rick Perry’s $17 million.
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Herman Cain:”I am gonna be in this thing to the end of the nomination”
Reporting from Waverly, Tenn.—
Some candidates tucker out as the day goes on, and some seem to draw an extra measure of strength from their adoring crowds.
By the end of the day Friday, the first of a two-day bus tour through his native Tennessee, the normally energetic Herman Cain was even more pumped up than usual. At the last of three rallies, he had women weeping and men raising their hands testifying.
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ObamaRomney.com - Obama Romney Comparison
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| Man-made global warming | check | check |
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| Ted Kennedy pal | check | check |
| Proven liar | check | check |
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| Enemy of the tea party | check | check |
| Enemy of Bush/Reagan | check | check |
| Enemy within | check | check |
| Enemy of Liberty | check | check |
| Useful idiot | check | check |
| Works across the aisle | no | yes |
The Video Of This Chinese Jet Going Down In A Ball Of Flame Today In China
A Chinese JH-7 fighter-bomber crashed Friday at an air show outside the northern city of Xi’an leaving one pilot missing and presumed dead.
According to the Associated Press the plane is common in the Chinese Air Force and powered by two extremely dependable Rolls Royce Spey Mk202 engines. Because it’s considered unlikely both engines would stall at the same time, pilot error is suspected as the cause of the crash.
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Exclusive:Old Bain Capital Photo Everyone Will Use To Attack Mitt Romney
he Boston Globe got its hands on this old photo from Mitt Romney’s days as founder of Bain Capital and it is only a matter of time before it starts showing up in attack ads everywhere.
The Globe reports that the picture was taken during a photo shoot for the company’s brochure. After the official photo was taken, Romney and his Bain associates hammed it up for this memorable shot, a decision Romney surely regrets now that he is running for president amid grim economic times and a burgeoning anti-Wall Street movement. It certainly puts his comments about being “middle-class” into a new light.
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Solyndra CEO Resigns
Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison, who refused to answer questions from Congress about his solar startup’s high-profile bankruptcy, has left the company, according to a new court filing.
Harrison stepped down on Friday, Solyndra reported in a bankruptcy court document filed late Tuesday. The company said Harrison left “as scheduled,” but didn’t elaborate. A Solyndra spokesman could not be reached for an explanation.
To replace Harrison, Solyndra wants to hire R. Todd Neilson, who served as bankruptcy trustee for boxer Mike Tyson and rap impresario Marion “Suge” Knight. Neilson has a background in forensic accounting, including a stint with the FBI as a special agent on white-collar crime cases.
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Herman Cain names Jim DeMint, Paul Ryan as possible 2012 vice presidential picks
Herman Cain named Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) as potential running mates should he secure the Republican presidential nomination for the 2012 election.
Speaking Thursday on “The Steve Gill Show,” Cain outlined the qualities he would like in a running mate, and then, unprovoked, offered specific names.
“There are some people in Congress that are very, very good, that I respect and admire and that I would love to have on my team,” Cain said. “Whether that would be in a V.P. slot or in a key Cabinet slot … I’ll give you a name — like Representative Paul Ryan. I’m not saying he would be the V.P. pick, he might be, but that’s the type of person I would want in my Cabinet. He’s the type of person. Sen. Jim DeMint — people who are not afraid to challenge the system
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Haley Barbour: Herman Cain Would Sweep The South Against Obama
“If this election is where it ought to be, and that is a referendum on how President Obama is doing, Republicans are going to win. If Herman Cain is our nominee against Barack Obama, I think he’ll sweep the south,” Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.) told Laura Ingraham today.
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GOP Empire’s Plan to Crush Tea Party Rebels
The Republican establishment is no longer terrified of the Tea Party, The New York Times‘ Matt Bai reports. It’s now figured out how to absorb them like a slow-moving but powerful star that’s swelling into a red giant. How to take these political hooligans over? There are a couple steps.
Step 1: The first rule of the establishment is: Do not admit you are part of the establishment! Bai talked to Fred Malek, a longtime Republican fundraiser who now raises money for the Republican Governors Association. He has photos of himself with various presidents on his wall.
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Rush Limbaugh: Mitt Romney Is Not A Conservative
The reason is simple: Romney is not a conservative. He’s not, folks. You can argue with me all day long on that, but he isn’t. What he has going for him is that he’s not Obama and that he is doing incredibly well in the debates because he’s done it a long time. He’s very seasoned. He never makes a mistake, and he’s going to keep winning these things if he never makes a mistake. It’s that simple. But I’m not personally ready to settle on anybody yet — and I know that neither are most of you, and I also know that most of you do not want this over now, before we’ve even had a single primary! All we’ve had are straw votes. You know that the Republican establishment’s trying to nail this down and end it. You know that that’s happening, and I know that you don’t want that to happen, and neither do I.
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Godfather of Supply-Side Economics Supports Herman Cain’s ‘9-9-9′ Plan
As businessman Herman Cain surges atop state and national polls and becomes a top-tier presidential contender, his signature “9-9-9″ plan, which calls for a nine percent tax on income, a nine percent national sales tax, and a nine percent corporate income tax, has come under scrutiny from the right and the left.
Famed supply-side economist Art Laffer told HUMAN EVENTS that Cain’s “9-9-9″ plan was a pro-growth plan that would create the proper conditions for America’s economy to grow and thrive again.
“Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan would be a vast improvement over the current tax system and a boon to the U.S. economy,” Laffer told HUMAN EVENTS in a statement. “The goal of supply-side tax reform is always a broadening of the tax base and lowering of marginal tax rates.”
Added Laffer: “Mr. Cain’s plan is simple, transparent, neutral with respect to capital and labor, and savings and consumption, and also greatly decreases the hidden costs of tax compliance. There is no doubt that economic growth would surge upon implementation of 9-9-9.”
Laffer also said that “such a system provides the least avenues to avoid paying taxes, yet also maintains the strongest incentives for work effort, production, and investment.”
At the GOP presidential debate in New Hampshire on Tuesday, Cain’s plan received criticism from many of the candidates on stage.
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman said that Americans needed a plan that was “doable-doable-doable” when asked his opinion on Cain’s “9-9-9″ plan.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R.-Minn.) said that the “9-9-9″ plan was not “a jobs plan,” but was rather “a tax plan.” Bachmann also complained of Congress getting another revenue stream from the plan and said, “you turn the 9-9-9 plan upside down, and the devil’s in the details.”
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said that the “9-9-9″ plan was not a passable solution.
Further, Cain has been criticized from the left as well, as charges that his “9-9-9″ plan is regressive have been made, charges that Cain has often refuted by citing that the payroll tax would be eliminated under his plan and used goods would not be levied sales taxes.
As Cain’s profile increases and poll numbers rise, his opponents will attack him more fiercely over his “9-9-9″ plan, but it looks like Cain has found an ally in Laffer, an economist who is more than respected by fiscal, pro-growth conservatives.
Read the whole story at Human Events
Herman Cain: “The Book Tour Is Over”, Kickoff Campaign in Early Primary States
“The book tour is over,” Cain declared Wednesday, vowing to add staff in New Hampshire and Iowa and bring his campaign bus to the Granite State in the coming weeks. He hadn’t visited New Hampshire since midsummer.
Seizing modest momentum in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, businessman Herman Cain promised to invest in additional staff and campaign more aggressively in New Hampshire and Iowa.
“We have run this very lean by design. We are now going to ramp up,” he told reporters near the New Hampshire State House Wednesday afternoon. “We now have the money to do so. I didn’t want to get out in front and commit to spending a whole lot of money before I knew that the American people were going to say, ‘You know what? This long shot may not be such a long shot.’”
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Gallup:Herman Cain Surges, Nearly Ties Romney for Lead in GOP Preferences
Mitt Romney and Herman Cain lead the field for the 2012 GOP nomination, with 20% and 18% support, respectively. A similar proportion, 20%, is undecided. Cain’s ranking reflects a surge in his support since September, while Rick Perry’s has dropped by half, from 31% to 15%.
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Second poll Shows Cain N.H. Surge
The second poll in a few days shows Herman Cain jumping into second place in New Hampshire.
A survey from the Harvard Institute of Politics and the New Hampshire Institute of Politics shows Cain with 20 percent of the vote, trailing Mitt Romney, who remains in first place with 38 percent. Ron Paul is in third place with 13 percent.
The poll comes on the heels of a WMUR/UNH poll that put Romney at 37 percent, Cain at 12 percent and Paul at 9 percent.
Both polls had Rick Perry languishing with just 4 percent of the vote.
The Harvard/NHIOP poll also puts a damper on recent surveys showing Jon Huntsman on the upswing in the state. The WMUR poll had him at 8 percent and an earlier Suffolk University poll had him at 10 percent. But the survey released today shows Huntsman with just 4 percent of the vote.
Perhaps most notable: Only 25 percent of respondents in the Harvard/NHIOP poll said they thought Huntsman could defeat Barack Obama. That compares with 72 percent who said they thought Romney could oust the president and 47 percent who said the same of Perry.
For a candidate like Huntsman, who has pinned much of his message on electability, those are disappointing numbers.
The bottom line is that there’s still been no polling at any point in the race, and certainly not in the last few weeks, that suggests Mitt Romney has a serious competitor for frontrunner status in New Hampshire.
(Excerpt) Read more at dyn.politico.com
Aimless Obama Walks Alone (New York Post)
The reports are not good, disturbing even. I have heard basically the same story four times in the last 10 days, and the people doing the talking are in New York and Washington and are spread across the political spectrum.
The gist is this: President Obama has become a lone wolf, a stranger to his own government. He talks mostly, and sometimes only, to friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett and to David Axelrod, his political strategist.
Read the whole story at NY Post