No more time for California dreamin'

A very interesting post from http://www.hughhewitt.com/  about the California races. This follows this previous post about California and this article about  the recent news about ending the ban on offshore drilling which would encourage American energy independence This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran  and Venezuela. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE!






Hugh Hewitt: No more time for California dreamin'

By: Hugh Hewitt

Examiner Columnist

November 7, 2010 This was going to be the year that California put its political and fiscal houses in order. In Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, the state GOP had nominated two well-qualified candidates who were also well-funded and disciplined. The national political climate was favorable, and the state is teetering on the brink of a fiscal collapse.



Fiorina lost by more than 9 percent and Whitman by close to 12 percent to Barbara Boxer and Jerry Brown, respectively.



Explanations are more plentiful than roses on Jan. 1, but the short answer is that California's public employee unions play to win -- and they do. The secular tithe extracted from the paychecks of the state's more than 350,000 government employees is expertly banked and deployed against any enemy, real or perceived, of the state's public-sector bosses.



Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's now famous glass jaw was revealed when, after the drubbing the unions gave him in a special election over crucial ballot reforms in November 2005, he rolled up into a big green ball and spent the balance of his tenure in office extolling the virtues of deindustrialization under the moniker "green jobs." At the time of his beat-down, Arnold complained that no one could win a ballot race in the face of $160 million in negative advertising.



He was right, of course, and even though Whitman dug deep into her own fortune to try to match the unions, their infrastructure and ever plentiful treasury overwhelmed even that effort. Fiorina went down under the same avalanche of negative ads. A blue state went deep blue even as the rest of the country went decisively red.



Redistricting reform will fundamentally change the congressional politics of California in 2012 and beyond, but only the looming bankruptcy of the state may change the statewide lock of the unions. There just isn't any more money, and state voters on Tuesday shut the door on destructive tax hikes by installing a two-thirds approval requirement in the legislature on any new tax or fee increase. The state has a shortfall of hundreds of millions in the pension fund and already state vendors are long overdue routine payments. The state's bond rating is already downgraded from the glory years, with plenty of opportunity to fall further. Businesses and high income-earning individuals are fleeing -- and that exodus will increase.



The new Congress will hear pleas for help, but why will representatives of states with responsible governments approve a bailout for California and other profligate, government-employee dominated states like New York and Maryland? The U.S. isn't the EU, and Texas won't play Germany to California's Greece.



The one tool the new GOP majority in the House ought to propose to the Democrats in the Senate is a state version of bankruptcy: power to void the impossible-to-meet contracts with the public employee unions and other state undertakings made to special interests. This ought not to be a jam-down of a solution, but a proffer of an approach.



And there is a small chance -- a very, very small chance -- that Jerry Brown, at the end of his career and recognizing his legacy is on the line in the next 12 months, will pull a Nixon-to-China and force the unions that elected him to yield for the state's long-term good -- and their own.



That's a fantasy of course, and a happy ending for which there is no evidence.



But it is California. The state is full of dreamers. They voted their dreams on Tuesday, but the rent and the car payment are due now.



Examiner Columnist Hugh Hewitt is a law professor at Chapman University Law School and a nationally syndicated radio talk show host who blogs daily at http://www.hughhewitt.com/.







Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/No-more-time-for-California-dreamin_-1489040-106854733.html#ixzz14pNHKPVw

Closing in California

 

A very interesting post from http://www.hughhewitt.com/ about the California races. This follows this post about the likelihood of the GOP taking the Senate!  This follows this post about New York's House races and this articleabout the recent news about ending the ban on offshore drilling which would encourage American energy independence This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such asIran  and Venezuela. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE!

Closing in California


 When the Los Angeles Times published its last poll for the races between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown for governor and between Carly Fiorina and Barbara Boxer for U.S. Senate, veteran Times' watchers laughed out loud.



Like clockwork the Times had hired pollsters that found the Democrats with much larger leads than any other major polling form.



This is a ritual every two years (and sometimes more often when a recall of a failed Democratic governor requires an extra trip to the ballot box.) The Times opines on the dynamics of a political race between left and right in a decidedly upbeat fashion for the left, that result gets splashed across the Times front page and then mixed into punditry for the next two weeks. The inevitable blown call gets forgotten or explained away when the result comes in with the Republican winning or losing by a far closer margin than the Times had confidently predicted.



When the Times had real readership, this dance-of-the-lefty pollsters used to matter much more than it does today when the paper has dropped into the state's second tier of media outlets. It has been years since the Times could make a mark on a campaign, though this hasn't stopped the stable of remaining leftists embedded on Spring Street from trying. Only the Minneapolis Star Tribune has been wrong more often and in more spectacular ways than the Times, and like the Strib, the Times exists more as a memory than as a force.



The embarrassment about the gap in projection and result could be particularly acute this year, as poll after poll shows a neck-and-neck race between Fiorina and Boxer and with Whitman buoyed by late numbers which --if the Times was remotely correct-- suggest enormous momentum behind her. Whitman has built a formidable get-out-the-vote effort which dwarfs the gigged-up Brown effort that is relying on a union workforce, but one that this year doesn't have the heart it once had as the collapse of the state's finances looms ever closer and closer to reneging on the pumped-up pensions promised in years past. A Democratic governor will almost certainly lead the state into default and the loss of those retirement dreams, and even the most loyal union foot soldier knows that a Republican in the statehouse is preferable to a broken contract.



Whitman was indeed wounded among Latino voters by the Gloria Allred drive-by, but not fatally, and her powerful closing arguments in ads and earned media are resonating even as Jerry Brown has gone to ground in an effort to prevent more embarrassing gaffs in the closing 96 hours of the campaign.



Fiorina is also surging, assisted by a $3 million ad buy from the National Republican Senatorial Committee and even more by the deeply offensive visage of Barbara Boxer, forced to campaign openly for the first time in years, which makes every appearance into a reminder of her infamous "Please don't call me ma'am" meltdown. Fiorina's brief hospitalization for infection related to her reconstructive surgery last year following breast cancer did not lead to a halt in her momentum and may have even reminded a large swath of the electorate what a fighter she is, and what fighter California could use in the years ahead.



Helping morale in both Whitman and Fiorina camps are a series of polls from Congressional campaigns in deep blue districts: GOP nominee Van Tran is ahead of the always slightly ditzy Loretta Sanchez in Orange County; in the Fresno area, farmer Andy Vidak is ahead of incumbent Democrat Jim Costa who sided with Nancy Pelosi on Obamacare and didn't get the water to the central valley, cut-off because of the "endangered" Delta smelt, flowing again; and David Harmer is ahead in the burbs of San Francisco, pushing past Pelosi-clone Jerry McNerny. If one or more of these Republican challengers win, much less all three, it is hard to imagine Boxer or Brown surviving the red tide that appears to be flowing.



Many a pollster is warning that they have never seen anything like the enthusiasm gap showing up in their data, and their "likely voter screens" may be deeply warped by nature of the most unusual year we are experiencing. The returns from the early states will also no doubt establish a mood for the final four hours of voting in California.



So cut and paste that Times poll for future reference. There is no shaming the NPR west that is the dwindling band of hyper-partisans at the once-significant paper, but it is still worth a few laughs to remind everyone of the paper's "commitment to objectivity and the highest standards of journalism."

Hugh Hewitt

Hugh Hewitt is host of a nationally syndicated radio talk show. Hugh Hewitt's new book is The War On The West.

HARRY REID'S NEGRO PROBLEM *BUMPED*

An interesting post from http://www.anncoulter.com/ about relations in America. This follows this post about the consequences of recent Democratic comments. This follows this post  about Southwest pro-amnesty incumbents to TARGET! This follows this post about the Falcon Lake murder and this post  which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE!



You can get the book here from your library or by clicking the link in this previous article which I would ESPECIALLY recommend that you read if you are a Black voter or know a Black Voter!!


HARRY REID'S NEGRO PROBLEM



by Ann Coulter

The recently released book "Game Change" reports that Sen. Harry Reid said America would vote for Barack Obama because he was a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

The book also says Bill Clinton called Sen. Ted Kennedy to ask for his endorsement of Hillary over Obama, saying of Obama: "A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee."

And we already knew that Obama's own vice president, Joe Biden, called Obama "articulate" and "clean" during the campaign. (So you can see why Biden got the vice presidential nod over Reid.)

Democrats regularly say things that would end the career of any conservative who said them. And still, blacks give 90 percent of their votes to the Democrats. Reid apologized to President Obama, and Obama accepted the apology using his "white voice." So now all is forgiven. Clinton also called Obama to apologize, but ended up asking him to bring everybody some coffee. Now the only people waiting for an apology are the American people who want an apology from Nevada for giving us Harry Reid. Reid will be the guest of honor at a luncheon in Las Vegas this week hosted by a group called "African-Americans for Harry Reid." That's if you can call two people a "group." They used to be called "African-Americans for David Duke," but that was mostly a social thing. Now they're doing real political organizing. If this gets off the ground, "African-Americans for Harry Reid" will be a political juggernaut that cannot be denied. Their motto: "We Will Be Heard -- As Soon As I Get This Gentleman's Coffee." Reid has also picked up an endorsement from the United Light-Skinned Negro College Fund. And Tiger Woods is considering endorsing him. He is the one light-skinned half-black guy right now who's thrilled with Reid's comments. Reid's defenders don't have much to work with. Their best idea so far is that at least he said "Negro" and not "Nigra." Liberals are saying that since Reid was pointing out Obama's pale hue in support of his run for the presidency, it was OK to praise his skin color and non-Negro dialect. (Reid is denying reports that in 2007 he said to Obama: "You should run. You people are good at that.")

In fact, Reid didn't endorse Obama until after Hillary dropped out of the race. It turns out, he also admired Hillary for her light skin and the fact that she only uses a Negro dialect when she wants to. In the alternative, liberals are defending Reid by claiming he said nothing that wasn't true, though he may have used "an unusual set" of words -- as light-skinned Reid-defender Harold Ford Jr. put it.

As long as we're mulling the real meaning of Reid's words and not just gasping in awe at the sorts of things Democrats get away with saying, I think Reid owes America an apology for accusing the entire country of racism. A country, let us note, that just elected a manifestly unqualified, at least partially black man president.

On the other hand, Reid couldn't have been expecting Republicans to vote for a Democrat, so I gather Reid was accusing only Democratic voters of being racists. I don't disagree with that, but I'd like to get it in writing. I think the Democratic platform should include a statement that the Democrats will not vote for dark-skinned blacks with a Negro dialect. Check with Harry Reid on the precise wording, but something along the lines of "no one darker than Deepak Chopra." The "whereas" clauses can include the Democrats' history of supporting slavery, segregation, racial preferences, George Wallace and Bull Connor -- and also a precis of their treatment of dark-skinned Clarence Thomas.


BREAKING NEWS: Hoping to curry favor with the African-American community, Sen. Reid was arrested late this afternoon after breaking into his own home. Democrats couldn't win an election without the black vote, but the Democratic Party keeps treating blacks like stage props, wheeling them out for photo-ops and marches now and then but almost never putting them in charge of anything important.

President Bush appointed the first black secretary of state and then the first black female secretary of state. Meanwhile, the closest black woman to Bill Clinton was his secretary, Betty Currie. The one sitting black Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas, was appointed by a Republican.

The head of the Republican National Committee is black -- medium-skinned, but liberals treated Michael Steele like a dark-skinned black when they threw Oreo cookies at him during the Maryland gubernatorial campaign in 2002.

After the 2000 election, Democrats had a chance to make one of the rare smart Democrats, Donna Brazile, head of the Democratic National Committee. Brazile had just run a perfectly respectable campaign on behalf of that bumbling buffoon Al Gore. She also happens to be black. Again, blacks give 90 percent of their votes to the Democrats. But the Democrats skipped over Brazile and handed the DNC chairmanship to the goofy white guy in lime green pants, Howard Dean.


UPDATE: Harry Reid has just apologized to the light-skinned people of Haiti for the 7.0 earthquake that hit them Tuesday afternoon.

The single most insulting remark made about blacks in my lifetime was Bill Clinton's announcement -- after being caught in the most humiliating sex scandal in world history -- that he was "the first black president."

He did not call himself "the first black president" when liberals were dancing and singing to Fleetwood Mac at his inauguration. He did not call himself "the first black president" when he was feeling our pain and being lionized by the media. He did not call himself "the first black president" when he was trying to socialize health care or passing welfare reform. Not until he became a national embarrassment did Clinton recognize that he was "the first black president." At least he could finally get his own coffee.

Democrats Fighting Words Backfire Causing Tail Spin‏

A timely post from http://www.alipac.us/ about the consequences of recent Democratic comments. This follows this post  about Southwest pro-amnesty incumbents to TARGET! This follows this post  about the Falcon Lake murder and this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE!

Democrats Fighting Words Backfire Causing Tail Spin‏




Friends of ALIPAC,

Time is short. We have 5 days left to save America.

Here is what you need to know....



Thank you Joy Behar!



Joy Behar's use of fighting words calling Sharon Angle a '*****' and promising some kind of violent reaction from her gang banging illegal alien homies in New York City has backfired. Angle sent Behar flowers and the message "Joy, raised $150,000 online yesterday. Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Sharron Angle" Women voters are abandoning the Democratic fold in droves in response to this affront to all women. Behar has handed the election to Angle and hurt Democratic candidates nationwide.



Obama declares Americans 'enemies'...



President Obama's message to amnesty supporting Hispanic voters advocating they need to "punish our enemies" has also backfired. While his fighting words have increased the chances of sporadic violence towards Americans and possible massive civil unrest, such as we see in other nations, Americans are choosing to rebuke his comments.



It is widely seen as inappropriate for the President of the United States to declare and classify the over 200 million Americans of every race and party who oppose his radical Comprehensive Immigration Reform Amnesty as 'enemies'. Black, Hispanic, Asian, and White voters who oppose Amnesty are switching their votes to Republican or sitting this election out in protest of Obama's antagonism towards Americans who oppose his political agenda.



These recent comments, along with Obama's comments that Republicans must 'ride in the back of the bus' have opened many eyes in the last few days causing Obama to cancel most of his public speaking plans around the country. Even Bill Clinton cannot generate audiences and the word is that Hillary has left the nation to distance herself from the Democratic collapse.



Apocalyptic Poll Numbers



In 1994, the conservative backlash in America shocked most Democrats. This time they see the wave coming but are powerless to stop it.



The recent polling data coming in suggests that the 2010 backlash may dwarf the historic events of 1994! The poll readings are incredible! Each day the news gets worse for the Democrats; the negative tactics of Obama and groups like the ADL, DCCC, the Independent Media sources controlled by George Soros, and the Huffington Post have backfired! Each desperate measure they deploy appears to only escalate the backlash and feed the flames!



FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS!



Six simple steps to victory.



1. We need each of you to focus on your ballot and rally everyone you can to join you to strike back at the polls on Nov 2!



2. Keep an eye out for Black Panthers and wacky voting machines. Report any problems immediately to us and your local media and authorities. We are tracking these incidents in the interest of election integrity.



3. Get your support for ALIPAC's operations in the door as soon as possible via this link. We are very low on funds and have an immense demand for assistance from those candidates who stand with us.



WE MUST HAVE MORE SUPPORT SOON VIA...

http://www.alipac.us/content-9.html





4. Approach the federal campaigns endorsed by ALIPAC closest to you to offer your immediate help as a donor and or as a volunteer. Get those signs in your yard and get close to our candidates and help them any way you can via this link...

http://www.alipac.us/2010_campaign_endorsements.html



5. Locate the TARGETED campaigns on the Endorsements lists featured at this link and concentrate national support behind these campaigns....

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-216406.html



6. If you are within a few hours drive of Raleigh, do all you can to join us Friday night and bring others. We have just received exciting news that Congressional candidate Ilario Pantano, who is in a very close race against Democratic incumbent Mike McIntyre (D-NC-7) will be speaking at our casual attire BBQ dinner this Friday night. We have four candidates for Congress coming, including Congressman Walter Jones. We need you there, don't let us down. More details at...

http://www.alipac.us/article5764.html



Let's keep our energy and momentum high as we march to victory! Our opposition is in retreat and it is time for us to launch a final charge!



The ALIPAC Team

http://www.alipac.us/

Southwest pro-amnesty incumbents to Target - Give $5 to any or all of their opponents

A timely post from http://www.numbersusa.com/ about Southwest pro-amnesty incumbents to TARGET! This follows this post about Sharron Angle. This follows this post about the Falcon Lake murder and this post   which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso. For more that you can do to get involved click  HERE!


These pro-amnesty incumbents in trouble‏

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If you want to make a last-minute campaign donation where it can make a difference for better immigration policies . . .



HERE ARE THE HIGH-IMMIGRATION INCUMBENTS



WHO ARE IN TROUBLE AND COULD LOSE



-- and who have anti-amnesty challengers



who probably could use a contribution



The pro-amnesty vs. anti-amnesty balance of power could shift a lot in the next Congress.



A number of you have been asking where final campaign contributions might be the most helpful in pushing out high-immigration congressional incumbents in favor of low-immigration challengers.



I asked my staff to prepare the list below without regard to Party affiliations. These are the races where contributions might be helpful

(BUT DON'T GIVE TO THE INCUMBENT WHOSE NAME IS LISTED.)


Every incumbent in this email meets the following criteria:


1. Incumbent has failed to use his/her time in Congress to protect unemployed Americans from unfair competition with foreign workers (legal and illegal).


2. Incumbent is considered by the pundits to be in danger of losing his/her seat (but still close enough to keep it).


3. Incumbent has a challenger who is promising to work for less immigration. (A few of these challengers are not promising much at this point. I leave it to you whether you think they are worth supporting.



In other words, the low-immigration challenger is given a good chance to replace the high-immigration incumbent but probably needs extra money to do the job.



I am not endorsing any of the challengers, because we don't endorse anybody. But our research definitely finds that the incumbents listed on this page are the immigration bad guys and their challengers promise to be immigration good guys.



There are many more high-immigration, pro-amnesty incumbents who are in election trouble, but their challengers have not promised to fight open-borders efforts.



When you click on any of the incumbents listed below, you will see our grid that compares the immigration promises of the incumbent and of the challenger.



You can click on the name of the challenger just underneath the photo to find the campaign web page and a way to donate.



If you live in any of these jurisdictions, you may want to go to the webpage and find out how you can help with the last days of campaigning.


Take a look at these names. They are all Members of Congress who failed in the last two years to feel any urgency about protecting unemployed Americans from unfair foreign labor competition.

NOTE: IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THE LINKS BELOW, THEN GO TO THE TOP OF THIS BLOG POST WHERE IT SAYS "THESE PRO-AMNESTY INCUMBENTS.." AND CLICK THERE




ARIZONA
Raul Grijalva

Gabrielle Giffords




CALIFORNIA

Jerry McNerney
COLORADO


Sen. Bennet


Ed Perlmutter

NEVADA




Sen. Reid


Dina Titus

TEXAS


Ruben Hinojosa


Ciro Rodriguez

Lloyd Doggett

In addition, there is the amazing race for governor in Colorado.


One latest poll shows a statistical tie between pro-enforcement champion Tom Tancredo and sanctuary city Mayor Hickenlooper.


You can get to Tancredo's webpage  here.