This video is laugh out loud funny, yet sad in how true it is.
Posted: October 16th, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2012 Presidential Politics | Tags: Barack Obama, Changes, Obama's Changes, Obama's Changes video, Steven Crowder, StevenCrowder, video | 1 Comment »The duplicity of Bob Menendez and the creation of Middle Class ghettos
During Bob Menendez’s first year in the U.S. Senate, 2006, there was a health care bill before the Senate designed to make insurance premiums more affordable for small businesses. The bill would have allowed small businesses to join together as larger groups in order to enjoy the economies of scale in their insurance purchases that large corporations enjoy. Chambers of commerce and other business associations would have been allowed to form groups to decrease the cost of health insurance so that more of the members could afford to insure the health of more of the employees and families.
At the time, I was a leader of the Northern Monmouth Chamber of Commerce and a member of the National Federation of Independent Business. The company I owned was paying 100% of the insurance premiums of its employees. Premiums were raising at about 13% per year. It was getting difficult to continue to provide health insurance. Potential hires who did not need insurance because their spouse’s employer provided it became the most attractive candidates to employ. Increasing insurance premiums consumed what would have been raises to loyal employees.
NFIB was lobbying hard for the bill. It had already passed the Republican House and President Bush had indicated he would sign the bill if it passed in the Senate. The Republican Senate majority support for the bill but the Democrats were filibustering. NFIP worked its members to contact their Democratic Senators asking that they stop the filibuster and allow the bill to be voted on.
I wrote Mendendez and Senator Frank Lautenberg asking that they support the bill. As I expected, they didn’t and the bill never made it to the Senate floor vote. Lautenberg wrote back thanking me for contacting him. Menendez wrote back telling me why he supported the bill that he voted to defeat.
Menendez’s reelection campaign is just as duplicitous as his letter to me in June of 2006.
The theme of our junior senator’s campaign is The Middle Class Is Under Attack. He says he’s fighting for the Middle Class and wants to rebuild the economy from the “middle out.”
Posted: October 8th, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2012 Presidential Politics, 2012 U.S. Senate Race | Tags: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Barney Frank, Bob Menendez, Frank Lautenberg, Joe Kyrillos, Jon Corzine, Middle Class | 8 Comments »It seems to me that Romney performed best tonight. He didn’t let Obama mischaracterized his proposals. He had a superior command of the issues. He was aggressive yet respectful.
Yet there was no knock out punch.
Obama seemed to be to be detached and disinterested. I don’t recall Obama ever having the demeanor he displayed tonight. He did not engage the camera or Romney. He and Jim Lehrer seemed to be having a nice chat.
What do you think?
Who won the debate?
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” ~ George Washington
By Matt Rooney, Cross-posted from Save Jersey
The mainstream media is gleefully parroting the results of a new Quinnipiac/CBS/NYT poll released yesterday afternoon showing Mitt Romney trailing Barack Obama in three key swing states (PA, OH and FL).
Trailing badly, Save Jerseyans.
But stop the presses! Unfortunately for Romney haters, this poll’s sample was absurdly unrealistic. In fact, an absolutely ideal, hugely historic Democrat turnout model could only exist in David Axelrod’s or Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s filthiest dreams. And we don’t need to go there, nor would we want to.
Don’t believe me? Think I’m grasping for straws? Okay, then don’t take my word for it. All you need to do is compare (1) the party id gap “assumed” in yesterday’s Quinnipiac/CBS/NYT with (2) published exit poll data from the past two presidential elections. I did; look what I found…
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PENNSYLVANIA:
2004 –> D +3
2008 –> D +7
2012 Quinnipiac/CBS/NYT Poll –> D +9.
OHIO:
2004 –> R +5
2008 –> D +8
2012 Quinnipiac/CBS/NYT Poll –> D +9
FLORIDA:
2004 –> R +4.
2008 –> D +3
2012 Quinnipiac/CBS/NYT Poll –> D +9.
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Do NOT believe the polls, Save Jerseyans! It’s a sick joke. I don’t know if it’s indicative of bias, stupidity, or a base desire to “create” big news and attract an audience. My suspicion is that they’re using 2008 or better-than 2008 turnout models to zap your enthusiasm.
Don’t let them get away with it.
This is a very close race. Very close.
Posted: September 27th, 2012 | Author: admin | Filed under: 2012 Presidential Politics, Media | Tags: Barack Obama, CBS, Matt Rooney, Mitt Romney, NY Times, Quinnipiac, Save Jersey | 3 Comments »Romney puts the 47% tape in context
Obama admits failure, asks for another term
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