Paul asks "what is Romney afraid?" In the Straw Poll's PM

Texas Representative Ron Paul has been one of the most outspoken candidates in recent political history, not afraid of his own party or go back to stand up for their libertarian beliefs. His "Ready, Ames, Fire" moneybomb recently drew in hundreds of thousands of dollars for his campaign to use in its game before he does most of the "main building" he bid for and won a spot as universities where August 13th Ames Straw Poll will be held.

Now it seems Paul's sights have turned against the current leader, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Paul's campaign sent a blistering MEMO to his followers Tuesday afternoon, decrying Romney for his "flip-flopping" and saying that; because of Romneys avoidance of Iowa and the grassroots support it holds, "many GOP voters desperate for a candidate who can go toe-to-toe with Governor Romney." Romney has only set foot in Iowa a handful of times since their last election bid, where he had an expensive 9-point loss in the 2008 Iowa Caucus to former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who claimed that 34 percent of the Iowa vote, particularly thanks to his strong Evangelical draw and good standing with women voters.

Paul's message calling on his supporters to maintain the momentum he has gathered in its fundraising in the last six months, Paul has been able to report the $ 4. 5 M, well above what his own expectations by email, in the donation totals for the 2nd quarter of 2011. He notes again that the current theme among media and political analysts are looking for a Republican challenge vs. Romney, which may probably arise from the Ames Straw Poll two weeks from now, but says "with my record of never toeing the line establishment, I am the last candidate who they want to recognise as a top contender."

He points to his history, his prophecy market failure and the financial crisis, critics, some of which are his past and present presidential rivals as he says now "falling over themselves" agree with him, and highlights his campaign promises, before his call for donations in any amount, but suggests between $ 35 and $ 2500 or $ 5000 common for married couples.

"President" Ron Paul would:

"Stop the spread of Socialist, Big Government health care and instead work to repeal" obamacare "monster." "Stop the growth of government spending, restrictive, and interference in our lives." "Tax cuts and eliminate the IRS, because I believe the money you earn is yours and does not belong to the Government. ""Audit the Federal Reserve, which I believe will serve as an important first step towards finally ending Fed once and for all. ""Ensure that the Federal Government returns to its constitutional limits by eliminating departments and bodies that are permitted by the Constitution. ""Lift big government schemes such as the so-called PATRIOT Act. ""Back to the founders more humble foreign policy. U.s. troops and taxpayers deserve better than to be used for "nation building" or police the world. We cannot afford trillion dollars international boondoggles that cost us our lives, our fortunes and our freedom. "

"Paul asks, what is Mitt Romney afraid?", but Romney is still a leader and it remains to see what his avoidance of Iowa makes his campaign, as he has far out-raised all their current rivals combined, a point which candidates Paul is quick to go up against, since much of Romneys money isn't from roots Americabut from large companies and organisations uninhibited by the Supreme Court's citizens United decision in January 2010.

The necessity of Iowa is more crucial to campaigns that former u.s. Senator Rick Santorums and former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who both kept up the bottom of the pile when it comes to polling results and financial strength. It is also a bipartisan campaign-killer, in the 2008 Iowa delivered a serious blow to the Democratic campaigns by senior Chris Dodd of Connecticut and then-older Joe Biden of Delaware, who decided to abandon their White House runs after struggling in the last election cycle's Iowa Caucus. On the right side of the aisle took former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in only 4% of the vote in the Iowa caucus, when you've chosen to instead in Florida to make a hopefully impressive appearance in the Super Tuesday primaries. He finished third and withdrew his presidential bid soon after. In 2008 Paul took fifth in Iowa, United States, with 10% of the vote, behind Fred Thompson and John McCain, each with 13%. He currently is ranked consistently at the top level in many recent presidential primary polls, much better than in 2008, when he was considered a long-shot.

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Santorum: Debt Deal not balance the budget, is not enough

Former Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum this declaration attached to the debt ceiling measure, which will cut more than $ 2T in deficit and raise the country's loan limit. It is currently the President Obama's desk for signature.

"I commend speaker Boehner, Leader McConnell and the conservative leadership to move the ball in the right direction," said Senator Santorum. "Unfortunately, this agreement does not go far enough and it is not something that would have been made by a Santorum management because it does not perform the necessary objective to balance the budget. It is also disappointing that Congress members who want to be our President was not the leader of the legislative power to the Conservative cause. As President, will I be committed to passing a balanced Budget amendment, once and for all, to ensure we never again our nation fiscal health. "

Santorum has been a longtime supporter of the potential of a balanced Budget amendment to the United States Constitution. He currently makes a 3 day tour through western Iowa and has criticized Vice President Biden for their comments belonging to the tea party's role in the debt ceiling negotiations. Biden referred to reportedly Tea Party activism as a form of terrorism.

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Posted by Jillian Curtin Aug 2 2011. Filed under Republican. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

Mississippi initiative to outwit Roe v Wade, banning abortion

This year, will include a voter Mississippi ballot initiatives (26) to amend the State Constitution:
Paragraph 33.  Person defined.  Used in this article III of the State Constitution, "the term" person "or" persons "include any human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning and functional equivalent thereof.

The operation would formally to the unborn Foetus list of civil rights-bearers, which makes abortion illegal in the u.s. State of Mississippi, United States. The consequences are far-reaching and controversial for the forthcoming proposal. Obamacare would not be able to fund abortion in this State, a highly contentious issue in and of itself. Research on embryonic stem cells would be stopped. Contraceptions that prevent egg can receive sperm would be as easily obtainable, as in vitrofertilization (IVF). Appoint abortion as "murder" is no longer limited to a moral stance, but instead will hold legal weight. A challenge to Roe v. Wade (1973), the initiative is expected to reach the Supreme Court if it passed.

According to the Roe v. Wade, abortion should not be permitted if an unborn foetus has proven to be a "person" who legally defined by the 14th amendment. The following dialog is an extract from a discussion of personhood, from the case:

Justice Potter Stewart: well, if it was established that an unborn fetus is a person under the protection of the fourteenth amendment, would you almost an impossible goal here, would you not?

MS Sarah Weddington: I would have very difficult cases. [Laughter]

Justice Potter Stewart: You really should because you have the same type of thing you would have to say that this would be a counterpart to when the child was born.

MS Sarah Weddington: it is true.

Justice Potter Stewart: On modern thought it bothered her health to your child around, she could have it killed. Isn't it correct?

MS Sarah Weddington: It is correct.

So why the Court supported the abortionists then? This additional excerpt shows a deliberate focus on the rights of the mother rather than the rights that were allowed to an unborn child:

Justice Harry a. Blackmun: well, I get from this then your case is mainly due to the perception that the foetus has no constitutional rights?

MS Sarah Weddington: it depends on to say that the woman has an originator of a constitutional right, and that the State has failed to demonstrate a compelling interest to regulation in the area.

This was only possible because none of Texas or the Federal Constitutional Act had defined "person." Personhood Mississippi, the organisation behind the initiative 26, hoping to one-up Roe v. Wade by becoming the first State to define unborn Fetuses as "persons."

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Romney "I personally do not support the" debt ceiling Deal

Former Massachusetts Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said this to his supporters via his Twitter account early Monday morning in response to the news that some had come to raise the debt ceiling late Sunday evening. He, like many of his rivals, beating "lack of leadership" from President Obama, but voices its support for "the cut, the common agricultural policy and balance" measure adopted by the House but flatlined by the Senate earlier last week.

"As President, my plan would put forward a budget that is sliced, smooth and balanced – not one that opens the door to higher taxes and putting the defence cuts on the table. President Obama leadership failure has driven the economy to the brink at the eleventh hour and 59th minute. Although I appreciate the extremely difficult situation that President Obama's lack of leadership has placed Republican congressmen in support, I personally am not this settlement. "

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Santorum beats Biden over Tea Party Terrorist remarks

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum has come out strongly against Vice President Joe Biden comments Sunday describes Tea Party as "terrorists" against debt ceiling debate. Santorum has engaged in a tour of southern Iowa in the last few days working on his "little city strategy" as it is described by The Iowa Republican, an Iowa media publication.

Santorum posted Monday night on his social media sites two comments that his disgust and annoyance with Bidens remarks.

"Leaving a packed Townhall [i] n Clinton. Saw Bidens comment on Tea Party. No surprise that he did not have the right [a] bout terrorism this year. "

"Serious Joe-this is for you and your Office. Apologize and mean it. "

Biden has denied "with terrorism the word" to CBS News and reports from political to say that phrase may have been started by Republican Pennsylvania Representative Mike Doyle.

Vice President Biden may also have been the source for another series of controversial comments, this time centered on President Obama and the possibility of his invocation of the fourteenth amendment on a debt portion was not reach by the August 2 deadline. According to democratic Oregon representative Peter DeFazio, Biden expressed the President's willingness to use such a measure to the members of his own party over debt ceiling negotiations, a move that some have said may be unconstitutional.

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Cain: "American people got Shortchanged"

Former Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain slammed the President's lack of leadership over debt ceiling negotiations in a statement released Tuesday. He calls for the lack of tax hikes a victory America voice, but expresses its disappointment at the increase in the limit of liability.

From Cain's statement:

"The American people are not so easilyfooled. They have seen the President as a man who has bitten into bitter partisanship instead of serious cooperation and whose numbers have replacedmature leadership. This failure will result in further deterioration of the financial markets and, as one source put it, "chipped away at the global authority of President Obama."

Although knowledge of this period for more than a year, the Obama administration continued to battle the taxpayers ' money as spending addict, focuses its attention on Obamacare, stimulus packages, rescue packages being enforced at and produced that is not the type of results the American people need and deserve. Instead of cutting the nation's credit card and support programme for stimulating private sector growth by encouraging the production and trade and relaxing regulations, requests the President and his democratic colleagues simply a credit line increase. And they wonder why we are broke?

While both parties may claim certain political victory in this compromise, was given the American people anything. On the debt ceiling will be raised, opens the door for further debt ceilings and tax increases with no signs of treatment for the abuse of spending in Washington.

I would like to congratulate the Americans who, through their unified voice could prevent tax hikes can be surrendered, despite the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats want. Assessment of a balanced budget amendment to us Constitution is also a step in the right direction to restore fiscal sanity to the Government.

Unfortunately, as we have seen when handling "ceiling debt crisis" America is on the wrong track with this leadership. "

Cain is facing his Iowa bus tour, leaves Monday for a six-day swing music by State to Herald his "common sense solutions" platform to the likely voters who can get him on 13th August at the Ames Straw Poll.

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United States avoids default, S & P still cuts the country's AAA credit rating

Standard and poor's rating agency downgraded the U.S. score on Friday, marking the first downgrade of U.S. credit in our nation's history. U.S. rating has fallen one point, from AAA to AA-plus, issued together with a negative outlook to warn investors of a possible downgrade within the next two years. S & P said a further downgrade to AA would occur if less reduction in expenditure incurred than the President and Congress agreed to implement, interest rates are rising, or new fiscal pressures present themselves.

Credit rating agency's decision resulted from Tuesday's deficit reduction plan. S & P feels it has been unable to stabilize the United States's debt circumstances. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner urged Congress, first and foremost to raise debt ceiling to avert default. The Democrats wanted to have a "clean" bill, free of any financial plan, while Republicans withheld votes in an attempt to bring about a drastic expenditure cut agreement. But when an S & P warning Washington of a possible downgrading in April, former AAA rating was dependent on two conditions. Congress would need a) presents a long-term plan to tackle the deficit, and b) avoid U.S. standard. United States's new rating reflects a failure to complete the former.

S and P said in a statement that his perspective on "the difficulties in bridging the gap between the political parties" in the case of an effective budget reduction plan had changed. Now, the S & P says that it is "pessimistic about the Congress and administration to exploit their contracts this week in a broader fiscal consolidation and plan that stabilize Government debt dynamics anytime soon."

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Paul's vote against raising the debt ceiling, "I have never, I will never"

"It is nice to see serious debate about our debt crisis, I can support reported the deal to raise the debt ceiling. I have never voted to raise the ceiling debt, and I never will.

"This settlement will reportedly cut spending with only just over 900 billion dollars over a period of ten years. But we will have a $ 1.6 trillion deficit after only, which means that these meager cuts this year will do nothing to resolve our unsustainable spending problems.

"Indeed, this Bill will never balance the budget. Instead, it adds the untold trillions of dollars to our deficit. This implies also the cuts which are real cuts and not the same old Washington smoke and mirrors game by spending less than originally planned, so you can claim the difference as a "cut".

"The plan also calls for the formation of a deficit Commission, which will do nothing outside of Congress and the White House with another way to abdicate responsibility.

"In my many years of public service, commissions on everything from Social Security to energy policy has occurred, but not a solution has been produced by these commissions.

"By denying members the opportunity to offer amendments and only allow an up or down vote which will take place in the hectic period between Thanksgiving and Christmas, this Commission essentially depriving the vast majority of members from that meaningfully participate in the debate over to reduce spending and to balance the budget.

"In addition, despite claims by the bill's proponents, there is nothing to stop the Commission from recommending tax increases.

"One of the reasons why I humbly propose that I am the most qualified presidential candidate in my experience, see and understand the long track record of success, disappointments and bad advice from such commissions.

"Times like these require statesmanship and steady leadership, which I and the Grassroots activists who have joined my campaign, I think is unique qualified to provide.

"What should concern us most is that the scope of this debt ceiling circus, we learned from a one-time fee, recent GAO limited inspection to ensure that the Federal Reserve had secretly pumped $ 16 trillion in u.s. and foreign banks for three years. All the Fed fat cat cronies were taken care of at the expense of the American public.

"That perspective, our entire national debt is $ 14.5 trillion and our annual deficit will be about $ 1.6 trillion, which means that the Federal Reserve was created and set aside more than our entire national debt to banks around the world in a few years. We have fought in Congress these past few weeks that raise our debt ceiling by $ 2 trillion, an amount of Fed secretly gave away to only a large bank.

"For decades, politicians have promised future restraint in exchange for hikes in the debt limit. We are always told that we must act immediately to avoid a crisis. But time and time again, politicians turn out to be unreliable and we soon find ourselves in a crisis which is headed by the same fj?rrkontrollfunktion who only want to maintain the status quo.

"I believe in the great American traditions of free markets, sound money and personal freedom. But we are far away from what made us the largest nation in human history. We need to cut spending and balance our budget now, before it is too late.

"Let me be clear. The cuts, we will not be easy, and it will be difficult times in the short term. But I have the utmost confidence that if we come together as a people, work hard, and do the right things, our country will be back on track in no time and going to unprecedented prosperity. But if we continue to print money and pyramid of debt, we will destroy ourselves and lose the promise of America forever.

"These difficult times requires a President who is willing to stand against rampant spending. If elected, I will veto any spending bill that contributes to an unbalanced budget, and I will balance the budget during the first year of my term. I am not going to the Federal Reserve to destroy the value of our money by shoveling dollars in the pockets of their banker friends.

"I remain committed to working on the American people to drastically cut spending and implement fundamental changes which will reform the Government and restore our nation's prosperity."

Romney Video Slams Obama in Chicago

Just in time for President Obama's 50th birthday celebration gathering Wednesday night, the former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romneys campaign released a new campaign video stating the "change" which has come to Obama's political hometown Chicago since his election in 2008.

Spokeswoman for Romney 2012 campaign, Andrea Saul, posted the video on her Twitter feed, which was then picked up by MittRomneyCentral a "Grassroots blog/forum/community dedicated to the promotion of Mitt Romney for President in 2012, 5?.

The President is expected to attend a 50th birthday party and gathering where participants reportedly will have paid between $ 50 to $ 35,800 per person to hear the President's speech, which will be transmitted via live feed to "satellite parties" across the nation. The money will be split between Obama's re-election fund, and the Democratic National Committee, hosting his birthday celebration.

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Gingrich: "Deal is a reminder of the urgent need to replace Obama"

Former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who in his speeches and public appearances often parallel to today's struggle to overcome budget and spending issues that were flooded with Washington and the media headlines in recent weeks with the same battles he meets during his time in the mid-1990 24?0?s, issued this statement on his Facebook before the current debt deal headed to the House and the Senate early Monday evening.

From Gingrich's post:

To "avoid standard is not a solution to the United States's job and the debt crisis. This agreement merely set the stage for an enormous amount of work is progressing – over the next two years – about how to create jobs, reduce public spending, return to balanced budgets and pay off our debt.

If the final result of this settlement is an increase of tax and/or debilitative cuts in our investment in national security, it will be a destructive failure. With so much work that remains to be done, is this deal yet another reminder of the urgent need to replace President Obama and his radical commitment to big government and higher taxes.

As President, I will approach the problem solving United States's debt crisis by adhering to three principles:

Job creation must be job one. The most urgent challenge America's crisis of Obama depression. Any deficit reduction efforts must therefore be carried out within the framework of what most would return America to the robust and long-term economic growth and job creation. This means that raising taxes must be outside the table. Raising taxes in the current economic climate could permanently cripple the American economy. Tax revenues should be increased through economic growth, not by further burdening United States's job creators and kill more jobs.

Keep the policy of national security. United States national security budgets must be based on fact-based assessment of what is needed to protect Americans, not on arbitrary political considerations. Our enemies and competitors does not cease to be aggressive while we sort out our fiscal problems.

Reduce expenditures by reforming and restructuring the Government. Try to find enough savings in the context of our present bloated bureaucratic big government is impossible. Real, sustainable savings can only come from a thorough review of how Government works, including their mysterious civil service rules. We want a smaller but also much more modern and effective Government. For example, strong America now, under the direction of Michael George, believe that the 500 billion dollars per year can be saved by applying Lean Six Sigma to the Federal Government.

Gingrich has been heavily against Obama's economic policies and has criticized members of the left alignment of the same methods and practices of former President ronald Reagan, who dealt with a struggling economy early in his first term as President. Gingrich statement another earlier this week shot blasting the past economic growth numbers, which he considers to be "hallmark" of Obama's Depression.

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Scott Walker has his day

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Winston Churchill once said, “Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others,” and Wisconsin Governor Scott K. Walker’s count is up to three.

D ay 1 [Sunday]: Scott Walker signed his first two-year budget

Walker’s biennial budget eliminates the $3.6 billion dollar debt without raising taxes, in a state that previously numbered 8 on the list of states with the largest per capita deficits. The plan includes a property tax freeze estimated to save the average homeowner $700 dollars over the next two years, as well as a manufacturing tax credit and capital gains tax credit to target job growth. The business community couldn’t be happier. “Governor Walker and legislative Republicans deserve tremendous credit for making tough decisions to balance the state budget without raising taxes. The budget provides greater certainty for business executives and that should encourage job growth,” said Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce President/CEO Kurt R. Bauer.

Republicans are reminding objectors that the budget still supports BadgerCare, Medical Assistance, and SeniorCare, puts $1.2 billion into state Medicaid, and gives the majority of 2011-2013 revenue to the state’s Department of Health Services. As public K-12 schools are the largest expenditure in the budget, they will have to undergo $800 million dollars worth of cuts. But it’s not all bad for Wisconsin school districts, who will save an estimated $976 million over the biennium. MacIver News Service found that by beginning a choice program in racine, and removing both the state’s online public virtual charter schools’ enrollment caps, as well as the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program’s enrollment caps, Scott Walker ‘s budget helps Choice and Charter schools immensely. A student information system will track statewide student progress in all aspects of the education system, allowing the state to “make informed policy decisions based on data,” Walker says.

Day 2 [Tuesday]: Wisconsin Secretary of State’s office published Act 10

Governor Walker signed Act 10 on March 11th. Because Secretary of State Doug La Follette decided to wait the full 10 working days allowed by law before enrolling it, that was scheduled to happen on March 25th. The law was to be in effect by March 28th. But Dane County Judge Mary Ann Sumi’s temporary restraining order placed on the Secretary of State prohibited the administration from publishing the law. When the legislative reference bureau published the law on March 25th regardless, Judge Sumi made the restraining order permanent. The Supreme Court ruled in Walker’s favor, allowing Act 10?s publication. Tuesday marked the end of the full 10 working days that La Follette again decided to wait before enrollment.

Day 3 [Wednesday]: Act 10 goes into effect

Hundreds of thousands of teachers and union members alike protested Act 10 down the streets of Madison, surrounding the capitol for days at a time throughout the past four months. Why? Because provisions of the law will limit the power that allows public sector unions the ability to collectively bargain. On April 14, the governor attended a “State and Municipal Debt: Tough Choices Ahead” hearing concerning Act 10 in Washington. When the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform asked if he believed his actions were extreme, Walker answered, “No, because I believe fundamentally if what we’ve heard said over and over again was a fundamental right you all in Congress would be acting on it now. You do not have collective bargaining, other than postal service workers, for the vast majority of public employees who work for the federal government for wages and for benefits. If it’s a fundamental right why aren’t you debating it right here and now. It’s a government entitlement. Collective bargaining is important for the private sector, for the examples we’ve heard about the impacts it’s had on families and legacies. Private sector unions are my partners in economic development, I work with them and I hope to work with our public employees. But collective bargaining itself is not a fundamental right, rights come from the Constitution and no where in the Constitution is that clearly defined.” According to ScottWalker.org, “In Milwaukee County alone, because the union collectively bargained for paid time off, fourteen employees receive salary and benefits for doing union business. Of the fourteen, three are on full-time release for union business. Milwaukee County spent over $170,000 in salary alone for these employees to only participate in union activities such as collective bargaining.”

Many teachers feel the law is a personal attack against unions and education alike. But Walker isn’t against paying higher teacher salaries is the system were based on merit. “If we could set up a system where we rewarded based on performance and merit, I’d even be willing to pay more, but we don’t have that system currently, we have one solely based on seniority,” he said. And while unions have worked hard to promote disapproval of Walker’s bill, the majority of the state’s citizens support his decision. A poll sponsored by WisconsinReporter.com found that 71% of Wisconsin residents believe that Walker’s call for unions to pay 5.8% of their salary toward the cost of their pensions plans and double their contributions for health care premiums to 12.6% is fair. “Given the choice to reduce teacher pensions and salaries or cut sports and extra-curricular programs for students, 44% would reduce the pensions and only 34% would cut sports and extra-curricular programs. . . the poll also showed a perceived discrepancy between benefits for public and private sector employees, with 69% believing that government workers in their community have better benefits than private sector workers.” Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity is a national nonprofit journalism organization that operates WisconsinReporter.com. “This poll shows that a majority of the people in Wisconsin are standing behind aspects of Governor Walker’s budget reform proposal. Wisconsin Reporter has been on the ground floor of this story reporting from the Capitol since the budget battle began. This poll reiterates the opinions and comments that the reporting team at Wisconsin Reporter are hearing while capturing the breaking news from Madison,” said Franklin Center President Jason Stverak.

Governor Walker’s efforts to improve the state economy have not been in vain. “Wisconsin has added 26,400 private-sector jobs, including 13,100 manufacturing jobs, since Governor Walker declared Wisconsin open for business. Overall, the labor force is growing, with more people working and more people looking for work. We are on pace to meet Governor Walker’s goal of 250,000 jobs by 2015, and there is much more work to be done to get more Wisconsinites trained and in family-sustaining jobs,” Department of Workforce Development (DWD) Secretary Scott Baumbach announced this week. According to the DWD, Wisconsin gained 3,000 jobs in April alone, while reporting the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate at 7.3 percent, down from 7.4 percent in March and 8.8 percent in April 2010.”A recent survey of ‘Best & Worst States’ conducted by Chief Executive magazine showed Wisconsin jumping an incredible 17 spots higher in the past year, from No. 41 to No. 24,” HumanEvents.com reported.

In a Chicago Tribune op-ed piece, Walker was proud to make an unprecedented announcement: “Wisconsin is open for business.”

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Posted by Amelia Rufer on Jun 30 2011. Filed under U.S. News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

"They have no Plan": Obama fires back at its 2012 Republican opponent

Pres. Obama's message to his Philadelphia collection came out Friday with a little criticism against his political rivals to the Republicans. The President said that even if the 2012 presidential campaign in "his early production", he must fire back at Republican as politically detracts from him.

Republican candidates have criticized President Obama over his attitude towards restarting the struggling economy from the beginning of the debates on the stimulus plan is billions of dollars put into place in the earliest days of his term, and was most zealous in their criticism during the June 5, the presidential debate.

Obama seemed to sweep away the criticism while talking to donors in Philly. "They will do what they do, they will attack," the President told a small group of fupporters. "Here (Philadelphia), they will attack. Do not want to have a plan, but they will attack … and I understand it, it is policy that we have come to know it. "

People cannot help but link his message to previous Massachusetss Governor and 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney who visited the State of Pennsylvania, and on Friday in Allentown, PA., criticize Obama on economic guidelines.

-President is a nice guy and I know he tries, but he does not understand how the economy works, "says Romney, Governor of Massachusetts and also a successful businessman. Appears before a shuttered manufacturing plant, Allentown metal working, Romney said: "it survived the great depression. Unable to survive the Obama economy. "

The Republican presidential hopeful pledged to lay down Obama's troubled program, such as repealing the health care bill that was signed with the right last year. Romney has earned criticism for the same plan, as his Government health care plan in Massachusetss is considered "the idea" behind the individual mandate, and many other controversial aspects of the plan. In his own defense, Romney often refers to the over-reaching reform plan as a failure and asks "why President not call him to see if the plan worked" before implementing it at national level.

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Senate Democrats cancel 4th of July summer break

"The Senate will begin on Tuesday, the day after the fourth," said Reid on the Senate floor Thursday. "We'll do this because we have a job to do," he said, explaining why he interrupts Senate 4th July summer break.

Reid's decision came just a day after Obama rebuked Congress in his Wednesday press conference. "At a certain point, they need to do their job," he said, adding that members of Congress would have to make "substantial progress" on a debt-ceiling part at the end of the week or they would "start having to stop things like this" in Washington. CBS News ' Bob Schieffer said comments proclaimed "about as hard as I have ever heard this Chair come down at the Congress."

CBS News Capitol Hill correspondent Bob essence to the House of representatives has had eight weeks of recess this year, including this week, and once more takes residence July 1700. The Senate's traditional 4th of July recess would have them between sessions for all next week. From the 6th of August, the Senate has a one-month recess.

Partisanship clouds still debate about whether or not the August 2 the default date is really as serious as the administration has made it to be. "If we don't pay our bills and go into default, you know, the circumstances that could be disastrous," stressed the White House senior adviser David Plouffe. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Oh) used the word "artificial" his deadline description on Tuesday.

Congressional lawmakers have expressed dissatisfaction with executive decisions, and are weary that its purpose is to only send a message. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) felt that her stay would be necessary, as the debt negotiations contains only a fraction of congressmen, adding that her recess plans had included significant constituent meetings. "Tell me what it is that we should do – what are we to do? If there is actual work in progress, I am here to do the work. If they are here to send a message, they can send lots of messages without me. "

Republican legislators as well did not good that Obama's threats and agree that only Democrats can take responsibility for the lack of progress. Nancy Cordes of CBS News reported, "in fact they insist they are those who keep up affair limit debt is President by refusing to act knowledge tax increases will not pass in the Senate or the House."

"The President is very wrong if he thinks that a Bill to raise the ceiling debt and raising taxes would pass the House," said John Boehner in a statement after the press conference. "Votes is simply not there – and they are not going to be there, for the American people know tax hikes destroy jobs. They also know Washington has been on a spending binge for many years, and they will only tolerate a debt limit increase if we stop it. "

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The battle for Iowa

The first major electoral event of the nominating process for the President of the United States, Iowa Caucuses decide which candidates will continue their campaigns and compete in the National Convention. Caucus results serve as a good indicator of what agents will most likely win their party's nomination.

Michele Bachman declared his candidacy on Monday in the town of Waterloo, his childhood hometown. "We cannot afford to be four years of Barack Obama," she told her audience. Representative Ron Paul (R-TX), former u.s. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) and former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) was also in the State campaign.

First of all the Iowa polls for the presidential elections, The Des Moines Register poll has been considered to be an accurate indicator for potential party candidates. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney received 23 percent of the votes for most-likely caucus-goer, while Bachmann tightly by 22%. Cain had 10%, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich both tied to 7%, Tim Pawlenty took 6% and Rick Santorum was at 4%. Iowa's Caucuses are considered most crucial for candidates Bachmann and Pawlenty.

The tournament does not stop there. On Tuesday arrived in Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin in Pella, Iowa, for the premiere of her documentary, "Undefeated". Sarah Palin is still silent on the question of the candidacy, but this is her first visit to the State in 7 months, speculation sparks a surprise when one considers the RANDOM time.

The fight is not limited to Republican party candidates. Only 150 miles from Sarah Palin, President Barack Obama touring aluminium producer Alcoa Davenport works plant in Bettendorf. Iowa Governor Terry Branstad says Alcoa manufacturers are likely to suffer most from Obama's corporate tax code change. Why is an incumbent President who remain uncontested in the concerned with what the primaries seems to be the Republican battleground? "Mr. Obama is not a primary challenge in 2012, but Iowa is a hotly contested election State, which he won in 2008 and that Republicans would very much like to put in his column this time. The President's trip, suggested that the White House sees a political necessity to counter anti-Obama argument made here by the parade of Republican candidates and maintain a presence in the State for more than 16 months before election day, "wrote Mark Landler of the New York Times. The Governor gave a similar answer. "Obama knows how important Iowa was that his campaign" Branstad said.

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NRLB vs. Boeing offers Obama a 2012 predicament

Labour dispute if the Boeing Company, trade unions and the National Labor Relations Board is becoming a political situation for President Obama. Boeing is fighting a complaint from the National Labor Relations Board to the movement of
Boeing production work for its 787 Dreamliner aircraft from their normal production line in the u.s. State of Washington to South Carolina. This measure from the Boeing Co. says that punishing unionized workers from their previous work strikes.

Some Republicans on Capitol Hill and leading companies criticized strongly the action conducted by the NLRB, now controlled by the Presidential appointees. However, maintaining furious Republicans calm when it comes to the National Labor Relations Board's legal action against the world's premier aerospace company. The majority of the Republican presidential candidates have also set their side on this issue, where they can all come together and attacking Obama and his pro-Union policies, the NLRB as a group.

According to the NLRB, when Boeing Co. began a completely new production line for its 787aircraft in South Carolina the back toward its unionized workforce in Washington State for striking. Now, the NLRB wants a judge to require Boeing to send it back
work to the previous state, eliminating thousands of jobs from South Carolina.

In his press conference was Pres. Obama cautious by saying that the NLRB is an independent authority and that it would be up their judges to take a decision on the merits of the case. The President is also added, that companies Boeing, must have the greatest possible flexibility to invest in the country. He also said that companies should have the freedom to move anywhere else, especially here in the United States.

Pres. Obama stated, "and if they're (the Boeing Company) chose to move here in the United States, which is good."

Most Americans expect the fight to finally move on to court and maybe even up to the Supreme Court. The story is a big issue in South Carolina, a crucial State in the early GOP presidential race, and it leaves the President Obama in a situation as to whether he is a "Pro-Union" President, which he is established, or if he is "pro-jobs", which according to many approval polls, he is not yet convinced the American people, and would be necessary to prove if he wants to win reelection next November.

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Pawlenty: Obama pressuring makes a great attack Ad, Minnesota shut

According to former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, President Obama Wednesday press conference make perfect attack ad, view a list of the reasons why he would not seek reelection will November 2012.

Pawlenty posted under on a link to the White House YouTube account on Pawlenty's Facebook page: "here I am one hour and seven minute attack ad on why you should not vote for President Obama again." Surely that saves him potentially millions in the air time and productions costs, but dug a little deeper Palwnty in its radio and TV ad tactics and early 2012 poll results during an appearance Tuesday on Fox and Friends.

Pawlenty compared his earliest poll results that "warmups in a sports game" and confessed because these results were made public, his campaign has targeted State Iowa with new ads for television and radio, to improve the mediocre show (hovers around 6% in an IA) that he received in his neighboring state, he began the interview by pointing out that if early poll results were key indicators of who would win the presidential electionand, since former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani or the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would likely sit in the White House currently showing their displeasure at the beginning of the results that places him in the lower middle bracket of results, even though he has spent at least 26 days in Iowa recently.

The conversation then turned to his new radio that "spot targets" former Governor Mitt Romney and his Minnesotan colleague Michele Bachmann, Romney for his health care plan and Bachmann for her lack of "executive leadership." Pawlenty noted that his post was more about results than rhetoric, and that he agreed with the majority of Republican Governors who have come out to say that "experience in running one large" makes the best presidential candidate.

Convinced that his previous performance as Governor would somehow with the American public, Pawlenty said, "I must express my record and results up against someone else in the race, it's the best entry"

But Friday's shutdown of the Government of the State of Minnesota could harm to register, current Minnesota Governor, Democrat Mark Dayton blamed Republicans in his state legislature for refusing to back down over the issue of tax increases. Shutdown of economy could highlight some of the financial woes that have met with Minnesota and could be blamed on Pawlenty, as the former Governor, as the term ended in 2010.

At a press conference just hours before the closure happened, Pawlenty stated that he wanted to shutdown in 2005 during his first term had been longer, and noted similarities between the two events, blaming then-democratic state senators and now Governor Mark Dayton for demanding that taxes be raised, but according to rat, "in 2005 the Government shutdown that Pawlenty was involved in ended after he agreed to a cigarette" fee "as some critics have labeled a tax increase – a controversial feature of a GOP presidential primary where tax hikes are unpopular. "

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Obama proudly of his daughters, forget but age?

If Malia Obama is still 12, but will enable 13 July 4th, has her father mentioned several times in recent interviews with the press that his girl is 13. President Obama made a mistake about his daughter age during his press conference on Wednesday, and although it seems to be a slight mistake, his insistence makes it seems that Obama just cannot wait for his eldest daughter to become a teenager.

While lecturing Congress for the delay in raising the debt ceiling, Obama compared their productivity with his school-age children, says, "and you know, Malia and Sasha generally complete their homework each day in advance. Malia is 13, Sasha is 10. " Which reporters shout the word "Impressive," the President continued, "it is impressive. The wait is not to the night before. They do not pull all nighters. (Laughter.) They are 13 and 10. Congress can do the same. If you know you have to do something, just do
IT. "

President calls on Republicans to come up with a deal to raise the limit of the public debt before the Government's borrowing ability is exhausted on the 2nd day of August. Most of the reaction to mini-gaffe has been silence, but there are some who believe
otherwise. The latest setback for the President to recall his daughter age may be due to his hectic and fast-paced lives, especially for a President of a powerful nation, as it is typical for someone of such a situation to forget dates. Another possibility as noted by some bloggers is that Pres. Obama has lost touch with their daughters, who happen to touring Africa with his mother. A third possibility is that Obama has acknowledged his daughter, who at 12 is almost as tall as he is, as a young adult because her maturity and poise shown in the public spotlight.

Obama has often professed his pride in his daughters, offers protection to discuss them (and determent of any potential suitors), the Secret Service during an interview that aired around father's day earlier this month.

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Ohio Court judgment Obamacare constitutional

A federal appeals court in Cincinnati, Ohio, gave a preliminary ruling on the Administration's health care reform bill on Wednesday, maintaining that the individual mandate that the legislation is indeed constitutional. "We believe that minimum coverage is a valid exercise of legislative power by the Congress under the Commerce clause," said shared 6th Circuit as part of a 64-page opinion.

Two other federal appeals court ruling is expected this month if the patient protection and affordable care act that requires American citizens to buy health insurance by 2014 or pay fines. More than twenty other cases awaiting decision in lower courts, but expect to see mandate at the Supreme Court eventually. A federal judge said that because Florida mission was unconstitutional, the whole reform bill would be discarded. While several other federal courts, such as Richmond, Virginia, agreed, reigned a few has now in opposition. CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin believes that is what the Supreme Court is too. "That is why we have a United States Supreme Court, to regulate when judges disagree with each other. [The nine judges] have the final word, "Toobin said. "Nobody can tell them what to do or when to do so.."

Judge Jeffrey Sutton, responsible for writing an essential part of the Court of Justice ruling, holding that the treatment is different from other aspects of "trade." "Governing how people pay for what they already receive (health care), never quite know when they need, and in the event of serious illnesses or accidents generally will not be able to afford, have few (if any) parallels in modern life. Not all intrusive legislation is an attacking intrusive legislation. Time will finally give light policy strengths and weaknesses of using the individual mandate as part of this national legislation, allowing the people's political representatives, instead of their judges, having primary say over its tools. The Government has better arguments. Congress had a rational basis for concluding that the minimum coverage provision are significant affordable care Act's major reforms on the national markets in health care delivery and health insurance. The provision governing the active participation in the health market, and in any case the Constitution imposes no categorical bar on the regulation of inactivity, "he said. "On the exercise of power is allowed and its mandate as approved, it is difficult to see what the limits of Congress's Commerce clause authority would be. Which aspect of human activity could escape federal power? Such power is as much as the general police power that the tenth amendment reserves for the States and peoples. A structural shift of that magnitude can be done legitimately only by constitutional amendment. "

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Iowa, Ames Straw Poll looms in 2012 Radar

This last week in particular has been strong in Iowa support bases for a number of 2012 GOP presidential candidates, with the last few hours in the second fundraising quarter shrinking down and Ames Straw Poll looming on the horizon, many of the presidential contender has hit Iowa hard.

Even though the fanfare was somewhat diminished by her John Wayne gaffe, Minnesota representative Michele Bachmann announced his candidacy for the GOP nomination from his birth city of Waterloo, Iowa Wednesday, crediting its roots among the residents of Iowa and the strength seen through the story from "grassroots" levels as the driving force behind its campaign for 2012. After its announcement in Iowa, she quickly has moved on to another critical early primary State, she is currently at the beginning of his bus tour, traveling and campaigning in South Carolina, and met the town hall style, from Rock Hill SC Wednesday night.

Texas Representative Ron Paul, who has shown a knack for winning straw polls, has hit Iowa hard in recent months, and continues its focus on first in the caucus nation State while calling on his supporters to pledge that his most successful money-bomb campaign to date, raising well over its target of 3 million dollars in the last days in June, and amounted to $ 4 million early Thursday afternoon. His campaign has already branched into Iowa, more than anyone else, Facebook offers a "Iowa for Ron Paul 2012" options that are strongly linked to from his main page, his Iowa based Web site offers an outlet for them in Iowa and around the nation to help him secure the Ames Straw Poll, and his campagin was the highest bidder for the space Hilton Coliseum, where the Straw Poll is held, offers up 31 K $ for the site that Mitt Romney was held in 2007.

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum finished just a two-day tour of Iowa earlier this week, stopping in eight cities in West and Central Iowa. He then issued his political editorial supporting Amendment Budget in balance and speak out against all attempts to raise the debt ceiling Wednesday, pointing to similarities between his experiences as a new Senator in 1995 and the current debt crisis as the August 2 deadline approaching, He expected to make another tour of Iowa, 10 cities this time, just after the independence day holiday, and according to the Des Moines Register has prevented most "starts on the ground" campaigns and public appearances in Iowa by the current GOP. This new tour will reportedly have heavy focus on manufacturing and industry.

Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who together with Bachmann, will have the most close to the first in the nation caucus State over the next few months and need a good showing in Iowa if he wants to push his campaign beyond the earliest primaries, bought an aptly named web domain for straw poll, http://iowastrawpoll2011.com/, which offers his latest campaign videos, information about his candidacy, and links to his formal candidacy homepage, information on the straw poll itself and a registration form in order to attend or request more information about the event in August. The same video was launched on 22 June to encourage Iowans to participate in the upcoming poll.

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# ASKOBAMA: President to host Twitter Town Hall

In a move that shows only posted his re-election campaign, how much will rely on social media networks over the next year and a half, next week, President Barack Obama will answer questions on Twitter, the second most popular social media site next to Facebook.

Follow us elections News on Twitter!In a Twitter session, accompanied by a live streaming video feed with all the replies from the Chairman, will our Twitterer in chief to address and respond to questions centered on topics such as job creation and the U.S. economy on July 6.

While the President has answered questions on some social media sites in his previous online meetings, organized by Facebook, says the White House that it will be the first time questions appear only in Twitter.

This event online will be the President's first Tweet up a request from a online users to meet up in Twitter friends. Percentage of Twitter town hall audience coming from Twitter followers of the White House. Growing online question is whether Pres. Obama himself will tweet throughout the event Twitter Town Hall. Assistant to the President said that Pres. Obama would provide oral answers on almost all issues, if not all of them, while the whole event streamed online.

Twitter users to post questions for Pres. Obama is using the hash tag "# askobama". Also, Pres. Obama has started to tweet last week with messages sent using his Twitter account "-BO".

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remains of 2012: Barrett

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Take notes of Ames

They served as yesterday's brief strike and machinations in the room where he made goods tender roots in the survey of Ames, Kasie Hunt of political reports a little more on volunteer of Newt Gingrich.

The young man, dressed in a bow tie, was a College Group Republicans and never made an offer in a slot, the same sources.

Continue reading when asked about his presence, he said, according to the source of Kasie, "we have no money." "I am here only to take notes."

It is unclear whether "money" means that it bids, or what. A spokesman for Gingrich has not responded to an email.

Both for the history of bad luck?

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Mitt Romney's campaign is having to answer questions about a web video that apparently isn't quite what it seems, via Jonathan Weisman:

As misery goes, Ryan King appears to be pretty deep in it in the new Mitt Romney video that slams President Barack Obama’s economic stewardship through the story of a struggling, seemingly unemployed college graduate.

“Frustration is the big word,” Ryan says as somber music plays and hard-scrabble images roll by of Midland, Mich. “Anything that I’m qualified for, you know, that people are looking for, they also want experience. And I mean because of the economy and the way it is, there are so many people that are looking for jobs, at the same time my hands are tied, how can I get experience if no one is going to hire me in?”

“Am I struggling right now? Absolutely,” he says.

But in struggling Michigan, where unemployment is 10.3%, Mr. King’s story doesn’t appear to be the worst.

According to his Facebook and MySpace pages, he graduated just last month from Northwood University in Midland, where he studied accounting, was a residential adviser and mail clerk. On May 6, just as he was graduating, he announced that he “got the job, booya!!!” at Quality Marketing Enterprise, a Midland company.

On June 10, he cut the Romney video, telling his Facebook friends, “Last night went great and I hope that I make the final cut. It would be refreshing to be part of something nationwide. Off to work for the day.”

“Haha I was trying to make it in the video, I was dancing in the Honda Pilot in the drive thru lol. We didn’t know it was you until we drove away,” a friend said, commenting on the video-making outside a Starbucks in Midland.

Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul, asked for comment, said, "He's struggling right now, just like millions and millions of other Americans. The only person who apparently thinks the economy is doing well is President Obama, and no one but him believes that to be the case."

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HEE HEE HEE!

ReplyQuoteReport AbuseGOPunishAmerica Party: NAReply #2Jun. 24, 2011 - 4:17 PM EST

So the "Unemployed" guy in Mitt Romneys ad actually has a ajob and is living it up.

MITT FAIL !

ReplyQuoteReport AbuseFinn G. Party: NAReply #3Jun. 24, 2011 - 4:23 PM EST

Sounds like the struggle is for a bit of integrity.

ReplyQuoteReport AbuseOhio Citizen Party: DemocratReply #4Jun. 24, 2011 - 4:28 PM EST

This is Romney in a nutshell. There is nothing authentic about his positions. Once you penetrate the surface of his facade, you find that he's not what he's projecting to the public. This story is perfectly Romneyesque. He could have found a real unemployed student, but that would have been real. With Romney, facts don't matter, you can shape those to fit whatever.

Who would be President if he were elected? The guy who supports a health care mandate or the one who opposes it? The guy who supports a woman's right to choose, or the one who opposes it?

Will the real Mitt Romeny please stand up?

ReplyQuoteReport Abuseskint Party: IndependentReply #5Jun. 24, 2011 - 4:58 PM EST

The guy does NOT say he is unemployed, but that he is ...Struggling paycheck to paycheck in this economy.

Maggie never tells the entire story....especially in the headlines to grab your attention.

So what questions does Romney have to answer?

This is a campaign so we better get used to it for the next 17 months.

Demand that campaigns last for 6 months....Period.

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Michele Bachmann's sterling social conservative credentials are a big reason for her national following and her expected appeal in Iowa. And she's already starting to wield them as a club against one of her opponents, the Huffington Post reports:

Speaking via Skype to the National Right to Life’s Convention in Jacksonville, Fla., the Minnesota Republican did not mention former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by name. But the target of her dig was clear.

The 2012 race, she said, was "not the time for Republicans to put up a candidate who is weak on this issue and has a history of flip-flopping on this issue.”

Romney is hoping that his mixed history on abortion will be less of an issue in an economy-driven 2012 campaign. But Bachmann has the opportunity at least to make life uncomfortable for the frontrunner on this issue, which is still a dealbreaker for many on the right and has the potential to reinforce doubts about Romney's ideological core.

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Why not? Romney's banking his whole campaign on the economy and his supposedly superior skills in this area. But when you listen to all of the Republican candidates they all have the same remedy for the economy. Lower taxes and deregulate. He has no ideas that are different than any other candidate.

So how does he really set himself apart from Bachmann, or Pawlenty, or any of the others? Only in that Republicans can't trust him on the social issues. If they nominate him, they are truly suckers. They coulda had a V8. Why drink Romney's koolaid?

ReplyQuoteReport Abusemetoni Party: IndependentReply #2Jun. 24, 2011 - 11:18 PM EST

...but Bachmann must know what is the Question = It's Jobs Lady, Jobs....

IF Romney had not "Wrecked the companies (sell them off, down to zero, unfriendly forced 'takeovers,' outsourcing to China,etc) THEN maybe I would think of him as "A Business-Policy Mind" with a "stelar record" ... but ... I would always wonder what happened to all those people he hurt while gaining personal wealth ....

You can Love the sinner & Hate The Sin... You can "Be For Free-will /Right To Choose" & Hate Abortions but Never Can You Abide "The Greed Of Gain On The Pain Of Others"

Bachmann needs to "Hit" Romney's Business Record ....

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