GOP plan to get America back to work
CBS News Poll: Nov. 11, 2011
In the Republican race for the presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich’s support continues to slowly grow, and he is now tied with Mitt Romney for second place, while Herman Cain just edges both of them out for the top spot. Both Cain and Romney have lost support since late October.
In a new CBS News Poll, 61 percent of Republican primary voters say the sexual harassment accusations against Cain won’t make any difference in their vote, but 30 percent say the charges make them less likely to back him, and that rises to 38 percent among women. Cain has lost support among women since last month – from 28 percent in October to 15 percent now. He has lost ground with conservatives and Tea Party supporters as well.
‘Deadbeat dad’ Joe Walsh has a meltdown
After several constituents accurately pointed out that bank lobbyists occupy key positions within Congress, the SEC, and other oversight bodies that are supposed to supervise bank practices, Walsh began sticking his finger close to his constituent’s faces, yelling, “quiet for a minute or I’ll have to ask you to leave.”
Remember this is the guy who owes over $100K in child support to his ex-wife.
Get to the 1:22 mark, it gets pretty interesting…
Lawrence O’Donnell on the FRC honoring ‘deadbeat dad’ Congressman Joe Walsh
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Said O’Donnell: “They (Family Research Council) have now publicly announced that yes, this whole FRC thing is a complete joke. They chose to do that at the end of last week by giving an award to the most famous deadbeat dad in America.”
(via Towleroad)
Recap of the Herman Cain harassment debacle to date
1. Herman Cain was apparently accused of sexual harassment by two women during his stint with the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.
2. Cain revealed his flair for the dramatic during an appearance in Washington Wednesday morning, telling an audience of tech executives that anonymous “factions” are waging war against his campaign.
3. Cain initially blamed the mainstream media and liberals for spreading the “baseless lies” about him.
4. Then Cain lost it on a bunch of reporters in Virginia and his bodyguards started a melee that ended with a father and his kid being pushed up against a wall.
5. Then, the AP came out with a report that a third woman who worked for the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s came forward to accuse Cain of making “inappropriate” and sexually suggestive behavior.
6. A lawyer for one of Cain’s two initial accusers filed a request for his client to be released from her confidentiality agreement so she could share her side of the story. But by the end of the day, the woman had changed her mind and decided not to go public for fear of becoming “another Anita Hill.”
7. The Cain campaign shifted the blame game by accusing Rick Perry’s campaign of leaking the sexual harassment story in some kind of professional political hit job.
8. Perry’s media team went into overdrive, flatly denying that the Texas Governor’s presidential campaign was behind the incendiary Cain story.
9. Donald Trump weighed in on the debacle, telling Cain to sue the women who accused him.
10. Newt Gingrich, a 2012 presidential hopeful who has seen his fair share of sex scandals, had some words of wisdom for his Republican rival: “My first advice is to do what he hasn’t done, which is say nothing until you sit down with your lawyers and with the people who know the facts.”
11. Mark Block, Herman Cain’s now famous chief of staff, doubled down on the campaign’s accusations against the Perry campaign, and demanded an apology from the Texas Governor.
12. At the end of the day, Herman Cain – speaking in the third person – declared “”Herman Cain is in it to win it. And why is Herman Cain in it to win it? Because Herman Cain is inspired.”
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Florida GOP primary moved – chaos affects other states
The Florida GOP has decided to hold it’s primary a month earlier than previously authorized, thereby throwing the rest of the early states – Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina – into a turmoil due to specific rules.
GOP officials in the early states — New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina and Nevada — delivered strong denunciations of Florida’s leap-frogging act but were coy Friday about when they will announce the dates of their own contests. Still, it’s easy to work backwards from Florida’s Jan. 31 primary to figure out how the new calendar might play out.
Iowa will hold its caucuses the week before the New Hampshire vote. New Hampshire’s constitution requires it votes a week before any other state’s primary. Nevada’s GOP rules require a state caucus on the Saturday after the New Hampshire primary. And South Carolina will hold a primary on a Tuesday or a Saturday, sometime between the Nevada caucus and the Florida primary.
New Hampshire Secretary of State William Gardner speculated this week that he may schedule a primary in December 2011. Gardner said he won’t announce his state’s primary date until next week “at the earliest.”
Read more at Politico
NJ Gov. Chris Christie keeps saying ‘no’ to running for Prez
Clearly the bulk of the GOP primary voters are not “thrilled” with their choices of candidates, which must make Mitt Romney grind his teeth at night.
As speculation continues as to whether NJ Governor Chris Christie may or may not go ahead and jump in the race – or be “drafted,” this video will clearly provide fodder for the Obama campaign should Christie get in the race after saying over and over again “I’m not ready.”
“First, in your heart, you’ve got to want it more than anything else. I don’t want it that badly.”
“You have to believe in your heart and your mind that you are ready, and I don’t.”
Those could come back to haunt him in some strong political ads should he decide to change his mind…
VP Joe Biden Calls Booing Of Gay Soldier ‘Reprehensible’
From Towleroad: The boos during the question from the gay soldier during last week’s GOP debate are still resonating.
Today, VP Joe Biden appeared on The View and called the booing “reprehensible” and Joy Behar scolded the panel for not speaking up or chastising the audience.
Meanwhile, the Democratic National Committee is making hay of the incident in a new attack ad against the GOP.
DNC ad: “Not One Candidate”
I hope people see this. I had the exact same thoughts.
Alec Baldwin opens the new season of “Saturday Night Live” with spoof of GOP debates
Very funny.