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Romney out of ideas in Florida turns to sliming Gingrich.

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Once again we see the Romney campaign symbol.

Gingrich Never Fined on Ethics Matter, Records Show

Associates of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are stepping forward to rebut accusations from Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney that he resigned in “disgrace” and paid an ethics “fine.”

Sliding in the polls, Romney has opened a full broadside on Gingrich focused on the former speaker’s ethics issues. Gingrich felt the criticism was significant enough on Monday to forcefully challenge Romney’s characterization of his term as speaker.
“The Democrats had filed 84 ethics charges for a simple reason,” Gingrich said Monday. “We had taken control of the House after 40 years, and they were very bitter.”

The IRS launched a three-year probe to investigate that charge. It dropped its investigation after declaring that Gingrich’s courses were “educational in content.”

House Special Counsel James M. Cole alleged that a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization paid for two courses Gingrich taught at Georgia colleges. Cole stated that the courses, titled Renewing American Civilization, were “substantially motivated by partisan, political goals,” and therefore a violation of the organizations’ tax-exempt status.

The IRS launched a three-year probe to investigate that charge. It dropped its investigation after declaring that Gingrich’s courses were “educational in content.”

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The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds ?

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

33% of GOP Voters Say It Would Be Good If New Candidate Entered Presidential Race

While many pundits have taken to describing the race for the Republican nomination as a two-man competition, a third of all voters nationwide think it would be good for the GOP if someone else jumped into the fray.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 34% of Likely U.S. Voters think it would be good for Republicans if another candidate entered the race for the party’s presidential nomination. But nearly as many (31%) say it would be bad for the party, while 24% believe it would have no impact. Twelve percent (12%) are not sure.

TO THE 33% we have 1 thing to say, Jesus and Ronald Reagan are not going to be entering the race so get over yourself and decide on a candidate that is running.

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Herman Cain Revs up Mainstream Conservatives

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Herman Cain Revs up Mainstream Conservatives
By ERRIN HAINES

Bolstered by support from his loyal radio talk-show audience and tea party backers, businessman Herman Cain has revved up mainstream conservatives, rising recently to third place in a poll of voters in Iowa, the leadoff caucus state.

In his pursuit of the Republican presidential nomination, Cain’s views on the economy and his fiery delivery have resonated with some in the GOP. His campaign has also been marked by controversy, including his comment that he would not want a Muslim bent on killing Americans in his administration. Just this week, Cain accused comedian Jon Stewart of disliking him because he is an “American black conservative.”

Already losing some of his cachet to tea party favorite Michele Bachmann, Cain, the lone African-American GOP candidate, is trying to win over a party that hasn’t had a black nominee. Sidestepping race as an issue in his campaign may have helped him gain momentum in recent weeks, but whether he can turn vigor into votes will depend largely on voters’ ability to look past his skin color and perceive him as a serious candidate.

“He appeals to people because he doesn’t talk about race,” said South Carolina Republican strategist Chip Felkel. “I think that too often, if anyone does go into that discussion, it’s then used by other people to criticize them. I don’t think that needs to be part of his narrative. He’s a business person. He’s an American.”

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain speaks at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. Bolstered by support from his loyal radio talk-show audience and tea partyers, businessman Herman Cain has revved up mainstream conservatives, rising recently to third place in a poll of voters in Iowa, the leadoff caucus state.
Cain has been on a remarkable trajectory since entering the race more than a month ago, when a crowd of 15,000 stormed a downtown Atlanta park to cheer him on at his campaign announcement. He was received well at the Republican Leadership Conference this month in New Orleans and drew nearly 100 in Greenville, S.C., for a discussion of his economic plan.

On Saturday, his campaign released his first campaign-finance filing, showing a total of $2.5 million raised so far. Spokeswoman Ellen Carmichael said the total includes more than 27,000 nationwide online donations. Cain did put some of his own money in, but Carmichael described it as “only a fraction” of the total and “modest seed money.”

His narrative — outlined in a patriotic, four-minute video that winds across rolling hills and pastures and ends in a boardroom against the backdrop of the American flag — is that of a no-excuses, no-nonsense fighter who isn’t afraid of a challenge. On the stump, he offers simplified stances on complex issues like national defense, the federal income tax and why he thinks America should return to the gold standard. He has been compared to Republican heroes like Ronald Reagan.

“He’s fresh, he’s outspoken,” said Debbie Dooley, head of the Georgia Tea Party Patriots. “If they hear him speak, he usually wins them over. With him, what you see is what you get. People like that.”

Cain’s story of uplift is not without hints of his heritage. In a campaign video, the great-great grandson of slaves recalls his hardscrabble beginnings in the Jim Crow South, where his father worked three jobs to buy a house and stressed the importance of education to Cain, a graduate of the all-male, historically black Morehouse College.

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Herman Cain Shares “Economic Vision” in Greenville, South Carolina.

Wednesday, June 29th, 2011

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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

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Cain Shares “Economic Vision” in Greenville, South Carolina

(Greenville, SC)- Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain shared his “Economic Vision: Jobs for America” plan today at NEXT Innovation Center in Greenville, South Carolina.

Herman Cain’s plan details his three “Economic Guiding Principles”:

1.Production drives the economy.
2.Risk-taking drives growth.
3.Measurements must be dependable.
Production drives the economy.
Herman Cain believes that the federal government should ease the burdens of excessive taxation and regulation to spur economic growth to increase production. This includes lowering the top corporate and personal income tax rate to a maximum rate of 25 percent, suspending taxes on repatriated profits and making the lowered tax rates permanent. He also proposes a regulatory reduction commission that would seek to review and potentially eliminate some current regulations whose compliance costs weaken job creators.

Risk-taking drives growth.
Herman Cain believes there must be increased access to capital. To do so, he proposes eliminating taxes on capital gains and their dividends. This would also incentivize companies to invest in worker training programs, new equipment and emerging technologies. History shows that the largest beneficiaries of such a reduction on capital gains taxes are new technology investments.

“The capital gains tax represents a wall between people with money and people with ideas,” Cain said. “And people with ideas are the catalyst for new businesses and new job growth.”

Measurements must be dependable.
Herman Cain’s plan would help stabilize the value of the dollar in order to provide monetary stability by dramatically reducing the national debt through meaningful spending cuts and restructuring government assistance programs. Stabilizing the value of the dollar would help to eliminate uncertainty that impedes business expansion and job creation.

Herman Cain believes that implementing these initiatives would provide economic certainty to businesses for investment, innovation and hiring purposes. He estimates that these changes would cut the unemployment rate in half when fully implemented.

Herman Cain has held several executive roles in the private sector: as a business analyst for Coca-Cola; as Vice President of the Pillsbury Company, leading the turnaround of 450 Burger King restaurants; as Chairman and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, taking the company from the brink of bankruptcy, returning it to profitability and leading his management team in a buyout in just 14 months; and as the Chairman, President and CEO of the National Restaurant Association, leading the nation’s single largest private industry. He has served on the boards of directors of several major American and multinational corporations, including Whirlpool, Nabisco, SuperValu, AGCO, Hallmark Cards, Reader’s Digest and Aquila. Cain’s professional record as a job creator and “turnaround artist” led his peers to elect him the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, as well as a member of the late Secretary Jack Kemp’s “Economic Growth and Tax Reform Commission.”

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Another Rino enters the Republican race.

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

Huntsman joins the fray By Nia-Malika Henderson, Updated: Tuesday, June 21, 10:08 AM

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Jon M. Huntsman Jr. officially launched his White House bid here Tuesday morning, setting up a campaign for the GOP nomination that, if successful, would lead to a matchup against his former boss(Obama).

“I’ve been a governor.?.?.I’ve been a businessman, and a I’ve been a diplomat. I’m the husband of the love of my life.?.?. and the father of seven terrific kids,” Huntsman told a crowd of supporters at Liberty State Park, the Statue of Liberty rising just behind him. “I’m from the American West, where the view of America is limitless with lots of blue sky.”

Huntsman, former U.S. envoy to China and Utah governor, joins a wide-open and restless Republican field, and immediately will face some specific challenges.

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More common sense leadership from Herman Cain.

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

More common sense leadership from Herman Cain.

Private sector must lead recovery, and government must get out of the way

By Herman Cain
June 12, 2011

A senior Obama Administration official said recently that the private sector will have to lead this economic recovery. He’s right! But the private sector cannot do it unless government gets out of the way. The Obama Administration’s policies have increased the size of the federal government, increased regulatory barriers and dramatically increased the national debt.
Most Americans sitting around the kitchen table knew that we could not spend and regulate our way to prosperity. But the president and the Democrat-controlled Congress at the time did it anyway. And now, after nearly $1 trillion in government spending, the economy is still stalled. Namely, 1.8 percent growth in Gross Domestic Product in the first quarter of 2011 is anemic, and a 9.1 percent unemployment rate continues to be disappointing to the nearly 15 million people who are still unemployed.

Our national GDP could easily be growing at 5 percent or more, with the top tax rates for businesses and individuals set at 25 percent and made permanent until we replace the entire tax code mess. And taking the capital gains tax rate to zero is just the fuel that the small business part of our economic engine needs.

It sure would be nice to hear an unemployment rate report of under 5 percent again, which would mean at least 7.5 million people could be back to work again. It would be more than just music to their ears. They might even have some real hope again.

“Hope and change” became spend and regulate in the Obama Administration. And now, the president and the Democrats want us to “watch and hope”. Simply extending the tax rates for two years with a 2 percent one-year payroll tax holiday for employees is not going to tickle this economy back to prosperity.

With all due respect, Mr. President, there is no hope that this economy will turn itself around. It will remain stalled because there are no meaningful tax cuts, there is no regulatory relief and there is still the uncertainty about what tax rates will be in 2013.

The rollout of ObamaCare is adding to the uncertainty. Thousands of companies and several states have asked for waivers from trying to comply with ObamaCare, due to its adverse effect on their current health care costs. At the same time, many of the bureaucratic rules are still being written.

There’s a better way to increase access to health care and reduce costs, using patient-centered and market-driven principles. ObamaCare is the exact opposite. It must be repealed and replaced, but that will not happen with this administration.

When the National Labor Relations Board tried to intimidate Boeing Corporation into not expanding a production facility in South Carolina because it is a “right to work” state, some businesses simply put expansion plans on hold. They are not going to be bullied into expanding their businesses into union-dominated states.

The private sector is the engine of this economy, but putting more spending and regulations in the caboose of the train is not going to fuel the engine. So expecting this economy to grow faster by watching and hoping is an empty expectation.

Much of the public has been deceived into thinking that cutting tax rates reduces revenue into the Treasury, and that it only helps the rich. The experience of the 1960s and 1980s, when Kennedy and Reagan were in the White House, respectively, debunks that notion.

Watching this economy struggle over the next 18 months is going to be especially painful for the unemployed, and those businesses that are barely holding on for survival. And yes, the private sector will have to take the lead when we properly boost the engine.

Until then, we might as well watch grass grow, because that’s about all the green this economy is going to see.

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Conservatives burn over Fred Upton’s light bulb law

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

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Fred Upton (R – Mich) – Co-Sponser of Incandescent-Bulb Ban Seeks Chair of House Energy CommitteePosted by Asst Natl Dir Mellie on November 16, 2010 at 10:37am in Admin Alerts
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Conservatives burn over Fred Upton’s light bulb law
Rep. Fred Upton’s support for eco-friendly light bulbs could leave him in the dark in his bid to chair the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Conservatives on and off Capitol Hill are waging a campaign to show that the Michigan Republican isn’t conservative enough to chair the powerful committee that will be in the center over fight on health care and energy policy next year.

For proof, they’re pointing to Upton’s support for phasing out some incandescent light bulbs in favor of greener alternatives.

Right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh cited Upton’s promotion of eco-friendly light bulbs evidence that he shouldn’t take the Energy and Commerce gavel.

“This would be a tone-deaf disaster if the Republican leadership lets Fred Upton ascend to the chairmanship of the House energy committee,”
Limbaugh said this week. “This is exactly the kind of nannyism, statism, what have you, that was voted against and was defeated last week. No Republican complicit in nannyism, statism, can be rewarded this way.”

Upton (R-Mich.) teamed up with California Democratic Rep. Jane Harman on 2007 legislation aimed at phasing out the use of incandescent light bulbs in favor of more energy efficient bulbs. That language eventually became law as part of a larger energy bill. The pair co-sponsored another bill this May to establish another round of efficient light bulb standards.

Upton’s support for the 2007 light bulb regulation is also highlighted on an unsigned document circulating on Capitol Hill that questions his conservative voting record. Staff for former Energy and Commerce Chairman Joe Barton – Upton’s most vocal challenger for the post – is behind the document, GOP sources told POLITICO.

When it comes to light bulbs, Barton has bolstered his conservative credentials.

The Texas Republican introduced a bill to repeal the light bulb law this fall along with Reps. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) and Marsha Blackburn
(R-Tenn.).

“The unanticipated consequence of the ’07 act – Washington-mandated layoffs in the middle of a desperate recession – is one of many examples of what happens when politicians and activists think they know better than consumers and workers,” Barton said in September.

Other lawmakers have also assailed the light bulb regulations, including tea party favorite Rep. Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota.

“Fundamentally, it is an issue of freedom,” Bachmann said in 2008. “It’s
about whether people are able to make even the most basic decisions anymore or whether Big Brother will control every aspect of their lives.”

Upton declined to comment for this story, but at a 2009 hearing, he defended the law.

“Our work on light bulbs wasn’t an arbitrary mandate,” he said. “We didn’t just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.”

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Spelling lesson

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Spelling lesson

The last four letters in “American” = I Can

The last four letters in “Republican” = I Can
The last four letters in “Democrats”= Rats
End of Lesson.
Test to follow in November.
November will be set aside as rodent extermination month.

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It is enough to make you sick, isn’t enough to make you want to stop THEM!

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

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WHERE are OURS jobs going?

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

Where are the JOBS this Washington group of elitist have continued to promise all American? Isn’t it time the Socialist left Democratic Socialist party come clean with the American public.  Government can not create jobs but can DESTROY them!!

August with the unemployment rate increasing to 9.7 percent, the highest level since the summer of 1983. The unemployment rate for men was 10.1 percent, far exceeding the 7.6 percent unemployment rate for women. While 216,000 people lost jobs, this was the least amount of lost jobs of the year and we are suppose to think that is good news!!! Tell those 216k people the good news.  Why not report the real figure of about 17%.

Five states posted jobless rates above 12% in August, according to federal data released Friday.

1)Michigan led the nation in unemployment, with a rate of 15.2%, 

 2)Nevada was  at 13.2% 

 3)Rhode Island was  at 12.8%.

Tied 4/5th) California and Oregon each with unemployment at 12.2%.

Why are the Washington elite NOT  working to help business to create jobs?? We need to hear from the government of Obama why it has not helped the business community with the exception of favored huge businesses that are to big to fail in the words of Washington.

Why is Washington not concentrating on the economy.  Other items continue to receive ALL the attention and NOT BUSINESS and JOBS!

We have a bunch of elitist sitting back trying to change the fundamental foundation of our capitalist country with socialist reforms while letting the economy collapse and the people suffer. 

We need to ask if the drive and obsession to bring socialized medical lack of care is behind the HUGE job loses we continue to see. Is the Washington agenda for socialized healthcare helped with ever job loss??  Is this the real reason Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are selling out seniors and the American middle and lower economic classes????

WHAT are the Republicans doing about the economy? Where is the republican plan to bring back business and jobs? It is time for the Republicans to stop whinnying about what they can NOT do and start to provide solutions!! America needs a plan to bring back support for Business that will lead the recovery and provide JOBS for the American people! ENOUGH whinnying and finger pointing, The people need to see results of a recovering CAPITALIST economy NOW.

CONSERVATIVE Republican, Democrats and Independents are watching and will  no longer tolerate Elitist incompetence and attempts to destroy OUR Country in Washington and State governments.

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Read more on unemployment at this link: http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/04/the-august-jobs-report-mission-not-accomplished/

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