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By Ken Blackwell
“I mean, in a way, Obama’s standing above the country, above, above the world, he’s sort of God.” That was Newsweek’s Evan Thomas’ reaction to President Obama’s visit to Normandy last June. The new president was on hand for ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of D-Day. Less than one year later, our “sort of God” has come on hard times.
At home, one of his leading congressional supporters, Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., said all of Obama’s frenetic stumping for his healthcare takeover is not changing many votes on the House floor. But The Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl may have had even worse news for the freshman president. This week, Diehl surveyed the world to see how Barack Obama is doing with other global leaders.
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The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds Blunt leading Carnahan 47% to 41%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and eight percent (8%) are undecided. Those figures are little changed from a month ago.
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So far as we know, Denny Schaffer with WGKA (920AM) – a conservative talk radio station based in Buckhead — landed the only one-on-one interview with Ralph Reed following his Wednesday decision to skip a run for Congress.
Reed said he was confident he could have run a “very competitive race” to replace U.S. Rep. John Linder, but he would have been forced to put his new organization, the Faith and Freedom Coalition, in storage. Said Reed:
“I realized that I couldn’t do both. I had to decide. I was either going to help put 50 to 100 people like me in the U.S. Senate, Congress and state houses, or I was going to spend the next eight or nine months focusing solely on me. I ultimately decided the country was more important than me having a congressional seat.”
On what might have been:
“It would be pretty exciting if I could be part of a freshman class that was back in the majority in the House. Had I done that, and had I won, I think I could have been an impact player in Congress.”
And on the temptation to engage in new enterprises:
“The Bible says if you put your hand to the plow, and then you take your eye off the task at hand, you will plow uneven furrows. And I believe my hand is on the plow of building Faith and Freedom Coalition. And you can’t get distracted, even by great opportunities. Remember, the enemy doesn’t come to you with bad ideas. It always looks good.”
Dear Friend:
I wanted you to be among the first to know of my decision regarding running for Congress in the Seventh District of Georgia. The following statement will be released to the public shortly but I wanted you to have it first:
“After much thought and prayer, I have decided not to be a candidate for Congress in Georgia’s Seventh district in 2010. I believe I can best advance conservative principles by continuing to serve as CEO of Century Strategies, LLC, and founding chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition. Century’s voter contact subsidiary and grassroots team will be involved in a number of races in 2010. FFC is growing rapidly, with over 150,000 members and supporters already, currently adding one new state chapter a week and 1,000 new members a day.
In 2010 and 2012, FFC will register an estimated one million new faith-based voters and make tens of millions of voter contacts in what may be the largest conservative get-out-the-vote effort in modern political history. These nationwide efforts offer a much better prospect for changing the direction of the country than winning a Congressional race myself. In the end, I concluded I cannot run for Congress and carry out the plans I have for Century Strategies and Faith and Freedom Coalition at the same time. I had to make a choice. I believe electing 50 to 100 men and women of character and conservative beliefs to Congress and statewide office over the next two election cycles is a more efficacious way to advance the conservative agenda than seeking public office myself in 2010.
Should that door open in the future, perhaps I will arrive at a different decision, but I know this is the right decision at this time for me and the Reed family. Jo Anne and I have been deeply moved and encouraged by the expressions of support we have received from so many. We are proud to call Georgia our home and we look forward to continuing to be involved in the civic life of our state and the nation. God bless you as we work together for an historic victory in 2010.”
Santorum may have been trounced in his 2006 re-election bid, but on Tuesday night at a suburban Des Moines church the crowd of about 500 people seemed to agree with every word as he described his journey from being a Republican congressman afraid to highlight his anti-abortion beliefs to an outspoken advocate who may be considering a run for president.
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By Dick Morris
And now the House Democrats line up at the instruction of their blind commanders for a final charge into glory as they battle to foist a health care system on a country that neither wants it nor can afford it. The charge may or may not reach its objective. But one thing is certain: The carnage among those who vote for health care will remind Civil War buffs of Pickett’s Charge on the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
As a French general who witnessed the spectacle said, “C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre.” (It is magnificent, but it’s not war.) The sight of so many Democrats throwing away their political careers may be arresting, but it is not politics.
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The Iowa Christian Alliance is hosting an event this evening at a church in Windsor Heights and what follows is a live blog of the festivities. Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is the keynote speaker. Ralph Reed, formerly of the Christian Coalition, is the emcee. Neither were able to fly into the Des Moines Airport due to fog. Both landed at airports nearby and are driving as I type to get here. Santorum’s flight to Des Moines was cancelled, so he flew into Cedar Rapids, hopped in a car and is due to arrive at about 6:15. Reed was forced to fly to Minneapolis and drive the four-plus hours to Des Moines. His arrival is pegged at 6:45 p.m.
A few moments ago a “young man” sidled up to the press table where four reporters and three laptops are positioned and left a neon yellow flier which hits Santorum for being “opposed to Right to Work.” The flier suggests Santorum has something “in common” with five “big labor chronies” who are also pictured on the flier — the five would be President Barack Obama, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, State Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, Governor Chet Culver and Iowa House Speaker Pat Murphy. There’s a “paid for by the National Right to Work Committee” line on the back of the flier in fine print, below these words in large, bold print: “On July 10, 1996, Rick Santorum joined liberal politicians like Ted Kennedy and Tom Harkin in voting against S. 1788 (National Right to Work Act) on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Please ask Senator Santorum to pledge to support Right to Work and to never support forced unionism again.”
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The former leader of the Christian Coalition was in Iowa tonight, urging members of the Iowa Christian Alliance to help launch a new, “sister” organization in the state. Ralph Reed, the former executive director of the Christian Coalition, said the “Iowa Faith and Freedom” organization will make sure “God’s people” know where the candidates stand.
“We’re going to tell people that they ought to vote for this candidate because they stand for their values,” Reed said. “We’re not going to leave the express advocacy of the election and defeat of candidates to moveon.org and the radical left and the labor unions anymore. We’re going to do it and we’re going to see people who share our values serve in positions of public trust from governor all the way down to legislature and the courthouse and school board all over the state of Iowa.”
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The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds former Republican Congressman Scott McInnis leading Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper 48% to 42%. Just three percent (3%) of Colorado voters opt for some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided at this point.
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I have watched some of the grandiosely titled “Health Care Summit” at Blair House this morning, and I have to say that while there is plenty more time to go, my initial concerns about Republican participation have largely been allayed. Obama treats the presidency as performance art. I was worried that the Republicans would allow him to out-maneuver them, as he did at the House GOP retreat a few weeks ago. But Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell and House GOP leader John Boehner, along with Senator Lamar Alexander and Senator Tom Coburn have done an excellent job tangling with President Obama and setting the record straight on his misstatements of fact, exaggerations, and obfuscations.
In truth, the summit is a sideshow. As the Democrats have already made it abundantly clear, this is a head fake. Their real plan is to have the House pass the Senate bill without changes, then do a “tweak” with a second bill using the budget reconciliation process in a clear and blatant violation of U.S. Senate rules.
My sense is that Palin has not made a decision about running for president, but as she told Chris Wallace on Fox she has not foreclosed that option. In the meantime, she is raising funds for GOP candidates (many of them in primaries), giving speeches, maintaining ongoing exposure as a Fox News contributor, and making contributions through her political action committee. All these activities will redound to the benefit of conservatives in the short term, regardless of her long-term plans.
Barack Obama was inaugurated as president one year ago today to the hosannas of the mainstream media. He strolled down Pennsylvania Avenue hand-in-hand with his wife Michelle, exuding the confidence of a man basking in sky-high poll numbers that approached 70 percent. What a difference a year makes.
Massachusetts—in a huge turnout of over 2 million voters in a special election—has sent a clear and undeniable message to Washington: defeat the Obama-backed health care reform bill, stop the spending spree, and put the brakes on the Obama agenda, from terrorism to spending to taxes. The defeat of Martha Coakley and the election of Republican Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate is the canary in the coal mine for Democrats. This is a state that, while it has elected Republicans as governor in recent years (William Weld, Mitt Romney), had not elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate in 37 years. The seat won by Brown had been held by Edward M. Kennedy for 47 years, and is currently occupied by Paul Kirk, a placeholder and longtime Kennedy family retainer. Brown will be the only Republican in the state’s congressional delegation, representing a state with only 13 percent of the voters registered Republicans. Read More…
In 2008, after splitting the Super Tuesday primaries with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton revived her flagging presidential campaign with a hard-hitting television ad in which she questioned whether Barack Obama was ready to be president. The ad’s dramatic hook was a hypothetical 3 a.m. phone call to the White House during a national security emergency. The ad dramatized existing doubts about Obama’s preparedness. At the time Obama was only four years removed from the Illinois State Senate seat representing the south side of Chicago and had been in the U.S. Senate for a little over three years. The “3 a.m. phone call ad” helped Clinton win the Texas and Ohio primaries, but it was too little, too late.
Now Obama’s real-life 3 a.m. phone call has come, and he has flunked the test. When a Nigerian national trained by al-Qaeda in Yemen boarded a flight to Detroit on Christmas Day and tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines aircraft carrying 278 passengers and 11 crew members, it was one of the most significant attempted terrorist attacks against the homeland since the war on terror began. After first claiming the foiled terrorist plot was the work of an “isolated extremist,” falsely implying that he was not part of al-Qaeda or another terrorist network, it took Obama days (while he played golf in Hawaii) to step before the cameras and acknowledge the obvious: a massive, systemic, and nearly disastrous failure of intelligence.
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