NY G.O.P. in Trouble: Is it the Message or the Messengers?

June 1st, 2010   (319 views )

New York's Republican Party will gather in Manhattan starting today to choose candidates for the November election.
The top races are fractious, with a crowded field of would-be U.S. Senate candidates and four men contending for the nod to run for governor.
The candidates who emerge from the convention already know who most of their Democratic Party opponents will be: Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has a strong lead in race for governor and Republicans face an uphill challenge against incumbent U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.

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Comment from: DOUG [Visitor] Email
In trouble???I hope not.I just can't wait to get into a voting booth and vote against Kristin 'aka Kiryas Joel' Gillibrand and Chuckie 'never had a real job in his life' Schumer
As for Cuomo I had enough of the Cuomo's after his father.

I've had enough of the Democrats and would give Charlie Manson a vote if he was running!!!!!!!!!
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Comment from: DOUG [Visitor] Email
Your ONE SHOT president

He Was Supposed to Be Competent
http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html
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Comment from: mags [Visitor] Email
In trouble??? Liberal RNN wants people to believe so. NYers have had enough of Paterson and his Democratic cohorts.
PermalinkPermalink 06/02/10 @ 12:52
Comment from: DOUG [Visitor] Email



Great going BO or BP whatever the presidents name is:

Congressman Joe Sestak beat Senator Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary. The Conrressman said in February that he was offered a "high ranking position" in the Obama administration to get out of the race.


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PermalinkPermalink 06/02/10 @ 17:37
Comment from: DOUG [Visitor] Email
LOL--this typical weasel Liberal
Nancy Pelosi Blames Bush for Oil Spill
PermalinkPermalink 06/02/10 @ 17:40
Comment from: DOUG [Visitor] Email
Why doesn't RNN put up questions that people care about
How about:
How many are disgusted in the way the president and congress are running this country
OR
How many are real sorry they voted for BO
PermalinkPermalink 06/02/10 @ 17:42
Comment from: DOUG [Visitor] Email
Yet more BS from your talking suit

President Barack Obama said it is time to roll back billions of dollars in tax breaks for oil companies and use the money for clean energy research and development.
PermalinkPermalink 06/02/10 @ 21:08
Comment from: DOUG [Visitor] Email
We got the president we elected
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/06/02/borger.obama.spill.image/index.html?hpt=T2
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Comment from: Caspian [Visitor] Email · http://tinyurl.com/2cpzm36
BUSH REPUBLICANS AND BLUE DOG DEMOCRATS DESTROYED AMERICA FOR THE LAST 8 YEARS.

ELECT ANOTHER REPUBLICAN?

ARE YOU INSANE?

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McCartney Is Honored at White House
June 2, 2010 / http://tinyurl.com/2cpzm36
A few minutes after the concert, Mr. McCartney returned to the microphone, thanking the Library of Congress and adding, “After the last eight years, it’s great to have a president who knows what a library is.”
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PermalinkPermalink 06/03/10 @ 10:03
Comment from: DOUG [Visitor] Email
Bush was just a 4 letter word to me.Wife knew to turn to another TV channel when he came on before I threw a hammer at the TV
ANYHOW--when are we going to get some choices of people to elect--you know the one that is a stand out--not the guy that is just a little less worse then the other candidate.
PermalinkPermalink 06/03/10 @ 11:20
Comment from: Maggie Mama [Visitor]
OBAMA IS GOING TO DRAG ALL THE DEMS DOWN .... READ THIS:

Poof Goes the Myth by Jennifer Rubin

"Politico is running a symposium: “Is Obama’s brand ‘irrevocably shattered’?” OK, not the discussion the White House wants to see raging. That tells you something right there: the media-Obama love fest is over. The pretext is the Andrew Romanoff scandal. But it could easily have been triggered by the president’s all-time low weekly approval rating (46%) in Gallup or the BP spill or the Joe Sestak flap.

This take, by Stuart Gottlieb of Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, I found quite compelling:

From the earliest days of the campaign, the Obama “movement” contained two political time bombs: First, the curse of absurdly high expectations (”first we’re going to change Iowa! Then we’re going to change America! Then we’re going to change the world!”) And second, electing to office a president with no governing or leadership experience. . . And now the chickens are also coming home to roost on the leadership and competency question. The White House is continually slow-off-the-mark, reactive, defensive, and unsure of its footing, i.e., it appears in over its head.

It will be difficult (if not impossible) to re-build the Obama “brand,” because it never really existed as a tangible thing in the first place.

If Obama isn’t going to get his 2008 marketing brand back, what does he do next? He’s never had to answer that because he’s never stayed in any political position long enough with enough coverage to be held accountable for his results. And he’s never been forced to deviate from his ultra-liberal ideological agenda. It’s also not clear that he is capable of changing his tune or even wants to. One term would be fine, he told us."

ONE OBAMA TERM IS JUST FINE WITH ME....AND HE'LL BE TAKING ALOT OF DEMS DOWN WITH HIM ... EVEN HERE IN NY.
PermalinkPermalink 06/04/10 @ 19:20
Comment from: robert [Visitor] Email
An interesting take:

Suddenly, Republicans want an active federal government
By John Farmer
June 06, 2010, 6:15AM
For a while there it seemed we were going to be treated to a real debate over the proper size of the federal government, especially how big a role it should have in the national economy. It’s long overdue.

Everyone understood that Democrats (or most of them) want an activist, expansionist federal government capable of tackling everything from teenage acne to nuclear Armageddon. Likewise, it was widely accepted that Republicans (just about all of them) want to reduce government to a permanent vegetative state. Their differences provided a reassuring sense of certainty — the feeling that no matter how volatile the times, some things never change.

But that’s all fallen apart in recent days.

As problems pile up — unemployment, a weak economy, oil in the Gulf of Mexico, a deteriorating Arab-Israeli situation — Republicans are suddenly tripping over each other in the rush to demand not less federal intervention, but more.

Who’d have guessed it? Especially after watching for a year and a half as Republicans stamped their feet and held their breath (and their votes as well) whenever the Obama administration tried to tackle any problem. Now that’s all changed, it seems.

The oil flood in the Gulf provides the most dramatic case in point. Before the BP derrick took a swan dive, Republicans were adamant about two things: first, that government keep its regulatory hands off the oil industry and, second, that it should stop blocking the drilling for oil off the coasts. All of them — East, West and Gulf, plus Alaska.

Remember “drill, baby drill?” It was the mantra of the 2008 Republican National Convention.

That was then. Now the GOP is in full cry demanding the federales step in, take charge, halt all such drilling and immediately stem the oil flood — as if it could. Only BP and the oil giants have the technology and know-how to handle the crisis. But Republicans, after decades of coddling the oil industry and celebrating its technical skills, have lost faith in their old favorite.

(AP File Photo)Sarah PalinHow soon they forget. Especially Sarah Palin. Palin, the Barbie doll of American politics, actually attacked President Obama the other day for permitting offshore drilling, only to have television replay her shouted demands — several times — for drilling on land and sea. (A woman’s privilege to change her mind?)

Job creation is yet another example of how events have tripped up the Grand Old Partisans.
It’s been received wisdom among Republicans for decades that government doesn’t create jobs, only private enterprise creates jobs. Remember that one?

They’re correct of course; the private sector, not the federal government, is the real job engine. But that’s an inconvenient idea politically at the moment. So Republicans are busy berating the Obama administration for — brace yourself — not doing enough to create jobs.

It’s true. Washington hasn’t done enough to gin up the job market. But that’s largely because Congressional Republicans (and some Democrats) oppose providing more of the kind of stimulus money that took some of the early sting out of the Great Recession.

The demand for a larger presidential role is not limited to domestic problems. Republicans are insisting Obama crack down on Iran and North Korea, but don’t say how that’s possible without significant international cooperation, currently nonexistent. War maybe? And he damn well better solve that Arab-Israeli thing soon, too.

The need to switch tactics from denying Obama authority to do much of anything — nullifying the 2008 election, in effect — to demanding he do everything has driven some Republicans ’round the bend. Sen. John McCain, desperate to save his Arizona Senate seat, went so far as to blame Obama for the ill-advised Israeli decision to board relief ships bound for Gaza. Now where’d he get that one?

We’re in a new political environment driven by a spreading sense of national powerlessness. Thus the new Republican demand that Obama act presidential, even that he “take charge,” whether in the Gulf or on jobs.

They’ve got it right, finally.

The question is, what took them so long?
PermalinkPermalink 06/06/10 @ 10:52
Obama's voodoo economics:

President can no longer blame predecessor for bad numbers

June 14, 2010

President Obama hyped Friday's job-report numbers, claiming a slight drop in the unemployment rate as evidence that things were "moving in the right direction." The numbers hardly represent good news as Mr. Obama continues to ignore the creeping indications that his debt-fueled economic policies are hurling the country toward a historic collapse.

Non-farm payrolls grew by 431,000 jobs, but more than 90 percent of the increase was from temporary Census Bureau hires; these people can expect to rejoin the ranks of the unemployed when the counting is finished. Private-sector job growth accounted for just 41,000 jobs, far below the expected 190,000. The drop in the unemployment rate from 9.9 percent to 9.7 percent looks good on the surface, but it occurred mainly because 322,000 people gave up their job search and exited the labor force.

Those lucky enough to land a position aren't necessarily happy. In Mr. Obama's economy, more than 40 percent of workers have low-paying service-oriented "burger flipper" jobs as the underemployment rate soars. Last week, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. touted the success of the 2009 stimulus package, saying it would create 700,000 to 1.4 million jobs by the end of 2010. But that was a significant downgrade from the 4 million jobs Mr. Obama had promised last year, and it does not account for the 2.6 million jobs already lost. Because "stimulus" jobs are created through government deficit spending, Mr. Biden's "progress" is as illusory as trying to pay off a home mortgage with a credit card.

On Friday, the president proclaimed that "the economy is getting stronger by the day." The math suggests otherwise. Under his policies, government debt is accumulating at three times the rate it did under President George W. Bush, who was no budget hawk. Annual deficits are around 90 percent of gross domestic product and rising. This year, the U.S. government will issue 45 percent of the world's new debt - in other words, almost as much new debt as the rest of the world's governments combined.

Home foreclosures also hit a record high in Mr. Obama's first year in office, and they are set to break more records in his second year. First-quarter 2010 foreclosures were 35 percent over the first quarter of 2009. Foreclosures in March 2010 were the highest monthly total since RealtyTrac began reporting those data in January 2005. Personal bankruptcy filings in 2009 were up 32 percent over 2008, and 6,673 people filed per day in May 2010, 10 percent above filings a year earlier.

Hours after Mr. Obama's optimistic speech, the broad stock indexes were all down more than 3 percent. Since April 26, the Dow has dropped 10 percent, giving up all its gains since October 2009. Last month was the worst May for the Dow since 1940. With Mr. Obama in his 18th month in office, the White House can no longer credibly blame these dismal numbers on his predecessors. President Reagan's attempt to get out of the Carter recession was called "voodoo economics" - but it worked. Mr. Obama's economic plan, by contrast, is leaving the country debt-ridden, underemployed and awaiting foreclosure.
PermalinkPermalink 06/06/10 @ 20:42
Dubya speaks:

June 5, 2010

Former President George W. Bush, who's kept a dignified low profile in the year and a half since he left office, made a splash this week with a vigorous defense of some of the most contentious decisions of his incumbency.

And good for him.

Asked at a Grand Rapids, Mich., forum Wednesday night about his decision to authorize the waterboarding of al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Bush said he'd "do it again to save lives."

The invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein? It "was the right thing to do, and the world is a better place without him."

The 43rd president himself has admirably refrained from criticizing his successor, but his tone provides a refreshing contrast to Barack Obama's frequent equivocations.

Bush understood the threat from radical Islam that the country faced and was dogged in his response to it.

That's the kind of resolve that can overcome a litany of mistakes.

The former president clearly also understands that a confident and honorable nation doesn't need to apologize for the hard calls it makes to keep itself safe.

Keep talking sense, Dubya.
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