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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"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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