I didn't hear President Procrastinator's "heartfelt" sadness over the Muslim attack on our valued soldiers yesterday.  Is that true??  Was that really how he handled this situation??  You know, he does apologize to those who are responsible for our "man made disasters" a.k.a. the cowardly TERRORISTS so maybe.  Does it get anymore disgusting than that though? Surely that can't be right...

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callmelou wrote: Helllllo...this election was not about botox..it was not about leading the country..it was a state election with concerns specific to two states...I understand how needy you are to try to claim victory for anything..but..get real...., children.

LOL...charming and lusingit are truly on two different planes....that really is an oxymoron using the two in the same sentence....  Obnoxious maybe....uninformed...maybe.......simple.....most definitely....but charming...nah.

Well sadly, anything to do with either cement face Pelosi or out of touch Biden (as in out of touch with the planet), the BOTOX twins have everything to do with BOTOXINTHEBRAIN....obviously.  FOR nancyfancypants to come out today and say somehow the elections last night was a win for Dems is just insane.  The people are SPEAKING and the SPEAKER is tone deaf.  But apparently so are her minions, you don't seem to get it either.  WE THE PEOPLE still exist and WE THE PEOPLE do not want to be overtaxed, our freedoms taken from us and we still want to be in charge of our GOV not the GOV'T in charge of us. Call us radicals...LOL

And they called President George W Bush dumb....????  At least he could make a decision and stand by it. The World respects that whether they agree or disagree with the decision, but they respect a decision maker.  WE don't have one now.  It takes courage to make a solid decision and stand by it.  WE don't have any of that either. 

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Astonishing
Obama Election Defeat Termed 'Astonishing'Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:16 PM

By: David A. Patten

The Obama freight train that has been steamrolling American politics ever since his election one year ago ran squarely into a political brick wall Tuesday night, as Democrats suffered stunning setbacks in the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races.

The big surprise: New Jersey, a blue state where Obama invested significant political capital by pulling out all the stops to try to put incumbent Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine over the top.

The president personally campaigned for Corzine three times, taped "robocalls," and sent his vice president to make two more appearances.

Yet despite the president and vice president repeatedly putting their personal prestige on the line, and despite a $10 million Corzine advertising advantage, the incumbent was unable to turn back the wave of dissatisfaction with the economy and high property taxes.

"There is a reason Obama went in over and over in Virginia and New Jersey," Wall Street Journal columnist and author John Fund told Newsmax. "He was worried what this would do to spook Blue Dog Democrats on healthcare ... he was right to be worried."
TOP strategist Roger Stone told Newsmax "the bloom is off the Obama rose."

Even Democratic strategist James Carville says the results show the GOP is “all gassed up” and suggests the Republican sweep may undermine Obama’s legislative agenda, including his healthcare reform plans.

According to Fox News contributor and author Dick Morris, the result in New Jersey is "astonishing in a core Democratic state."

"It shows the apathy of the Democratic base, the erosion of the Democratic base, and the intensity of the Republican electorate," he told Newsmax.

With nearly all votes recorded, GOP challenger Chris Christie, 47, a former corruption-busting attorney general, becomes the first Republican in a dozen years to seize a statewide office in New Jersey.

Christie was declared the winner with 49 percent of the vote to Corzine's 45 percent. Corzine's defeat marked only the third time in the past 60 years that a governor in the Garden State lost re-election after only serving a single term.

Morris predicted, however, that it is the GOP sweep in Virginia of the Old Dominion's top three offices – governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general – that will have an even bigger impact on the nation's debate over healthcare and energy cap-and-trade.

In Virginia, Republican Bob McDonnell won the election over Democrat Creigh Deeds by a whopping margin of about 20 points. Obama, who handily carried both New Jersey and Virginia in November, had campaigned for Deeds as well.

"That sends a message to the 83 Democratic congressmen, who come from red states that [Sen John] McCain carried, and the 20-plus Democratic senators who come from those states. And that message is you cannot count on Obama to carry you through. If you vote for a healthcare proposal that people don't like, you are on your own. And if Obama couldn't bail out Corzine in a blue state, and he couldn't bail out Deeds in a borderline red state, he can't bail you out."

That, Morris said, will have a "big effect" on the debate over the Obama administration's big-government legislative programs. He says the election's impact could be "dramatic" on the administration, and adds: "In retrospect this really could be seen as the high water mark of the Obama administration."

Morris said the results signal the entire health care package, not just the public-option aspect of it, is in trouble.

"Obama until now has not cared what the American people think. His whole approach has been just trust me, I won the election, and all the rest of you can get lost. I think after tonight he can't say that anymore."

 

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• JOEL JANKOWSKY
  
  For the past nine months, the Obama team has waged a campaign of political convenience against lobbyists.
  
  Its policies against so-called special interests include: a refusal to accept lobbyists' campaign contributions, a ban on employing lobbyists within the administration, discouraging lobbyists' contact with government workers, new rules that will result in the public disclosure of every lobbyist who visits the White House, and a directive to exclude lobbyists from serving on department and federal agency boards and commissions.
  
  All of this is meant to give the impression of purity. But this is illusory. At the same time that the White House has demonized lobbyists, it has allowed itself to be infiltrated by a different army—one made up of campaign contributors. These individuals can breeze past defenses designed to repel lobbyists.
  
  Campaign contributors, especially those who bundled large contributions from others, have been embraced by this administration. Because they aren't formally registered or regulated in the way lobbyists are, they enjoy the benefits and privileges of serving in the heart of the administration. These contributors serve in critical foreign and domestic policy positions, as well as department and agency boards and commissions. Dozens of Obama for America National Finance Committee members have joined the administration. Most of them raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the campaign, according to the watchdog group the Center for Responsive Politics.
  
  This inconsistent treatment does a disservice to federal policy making. Talented women and men who registered themselves as lobbyists under the Lobbying Disclosure Act are being excluded from contributing their expertise at a critical time in our nation's history.
  
  The irony of this ploy is that it discriminates against those individuals with the greatest obligations of transparency: lobbyists who register and file quarterly reports on their activities, as well as biannual reports on their political contributions. These are all publicly available. Instead, the White House favors individuals such as political contributors who have no obligation whatsoever to inform the public of the interests they represent in their interactions with the administration.
  
  What's more, this administration's treatment of lobbyists has only decreased openness in the policy-making system. Lobbyists are now limiting their activities and deregistering themselves in order to avoid being stigmatized.
  
  If the administration truly wants to address its stated concerns about the influence of special interests, it should focus on what the public actually cares about: the influence of money on the policy-making process. Excluding and disadvantaging professional advocates who have not given any money to the president's campaign while giving campaign contributors a free pass is bad policy.
  
  The White House has repeatedly claimed that it wants "to change the way business is done in Washington." If the Obama administration is serious about this goal, it should apply the same rules to those who raised over $10,000 for the president's campaign that already apply to lobbyists who did not contribute a cent.
  
   

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Interesting how he states that he would not tolerate any sort of "corporate welfare" denigrating those evil people...and yet the very man he is stumping for not once but three times in New Jersey, is a BILLIONAIRE all made while working on WALLSTREET.  I thought this administration hated people like that????  But instead, President Procrastinator has flown to New Jersey to stand side by side Jon Corzine, WallStreet executive extraordinaire.  There are Obama/Corzine signs all over New Jersey.  Why is he hanging his hat on that slime ball??  Partisan politics, always trumps what is best for the folks.

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Krauthammer re: BHO's inability to stand up and take it like a President should...instead always whining - it's not my fault.  (please note that it's my paraphrasing )

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