Liz Cheney jokes about her Dad running for President in 2012

Cheney/Palin 2012?

Palin/Cheney 2010?

* Blank stare *

Should those who don't vote run for political office?

I'm just asking because the 53-year-old woman running to become California's next governor reportedly never bothered to vote until just a couple of years ago.

Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO, is running on the Republican ticket. Sure, she's a successful business woman, but what about being a responsible citizen?

Whitman apparently didn't vote until 2002, when she was well into middle-age, according to a report in the Sacramento Bee.

In other words, she didn't participate in the most basic act of citizenship for most of her adult life.

Naturally, Whitman's GOP opponent, Steve Poizner, is having a field day with the report, reminding Republicans that in failing to show up at the polls she didn't vote for such party giants as Ronald Reagan.

In a statement, Whitman didn't challenge the report and took responsibility for her failure to vote -- before changing the subject to, of course, her opponent.

"I have repeatedly said that my voting record is inexcusable," Whitman said.   "I failed to register and vote on numerous occasions throughout my life. That is simply wrong and I have taken responsibility for my mistake."

The pivot...

"California needs leaders who are accountable for their actions. I take responsibility for mine, while my opponent, Steve Poizner, runs from his. On everything from his position on taxes to his political contributions, Steve hides behind others or misrepresents himself."

Further, Whitman aides point out that Poizner himself, another rich former business type, has a less than impressive voting record.

Poizner has missed nearly 1 in 4  (23%) of all votes since 1992, according to Whitman oppo.

The up-shot...

Should we take the time to vote for people who wouldn't do the same?



VOTE FOR ME!

Conservatives Cast Obama as ‘Reluctant, Timid’

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-000003207575
In a preview of campaign refrains to come, prominent conservatives are saying President Obama’s foreign policy is hurting our allies and helping our enemies.

The “Obama as Carter” motif dominated the conservative Foreign Policy Institute’s annual conference, held in Washington Monday and Tuesday, with GOP headliners making unflattering comparisons to the 39th president to warn of a decline in U.S. international standing.

Obama’s stance on the presidential crisis in Honduras, willingness to engage Iran in nuclear talks and decision to scrap the Bush administration’s missile defense plans in Eastern Europe were popular targets.

“I think the president is communicating he is a reluctant and timid defender of freedom . . . time and time again,” said former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a 2008 Republican presidential contender and a leading potential candidate in 2012.

“Neutrality has an inevitable corollary . . . you draw more close to your foes and create distances from your friends,” Romney said.

Michelle Shot Down Hillary as VP?

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/09/20/2009-09-20_obama_didnt_think_so_on_his_yes_we_can.html
“Yes we can” almost wasn’t: According to a new book, President Obama didn’t originally like his campaign slogan when David Axelrod introduced it during his Senate race in 2004 and almost nixed it, until Michelle intervened. “Trust me,” she said, “It will work.” Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage also alleges that Michelle was a crucial voice in convincing Barack to choose someone other than Hillary Clinton as his running mate. "Do you really want Bill and Hillary just down the hall from you in the White House?" she reportedly told her husband. "Could you live with that?"

Texas Gov. Rick Perry On Recession: "We're In One?"

You gotta LOVE Texas.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R), facing a tough primary challenge from Sen. Kay Baily Hutchison (R), left many puzzled when he declared his state was recession proof.

Said Perry: "As a matter of fact ... someone had put a report out that the first state that's coming out of the recession is going to be the state of Texas ... I said, 'We're in one?'"

Paul Burka of the Texas Monthly: "This gaffe is going to stick. It is going to be national news. It will come back to haunt him in a campaign spot. If Hutchison can't make something of it, the Democrats can. You cannot be callous and cavalier when people are losing their jobs and their homes. I don't care how ideological the Republican base is. Unemployment in Texas just reached the 8% mark. Everybody knows someone who is suffering in these times. Everybody has lost part of their life savings. It could cost him the race."

Here's a video of Perry's remarks:

Sotomayor Issues Challenge to a Century of Corporate Law - WSJ.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125314088285517643.html?mod=wsj_share_facebook
I will be in prison all day, so I won't be around handing out mental ass-whuppins (*grin*) But I found this VERY interesting. A shape of things to come from Sotomayor? I HOPE SO!

IMNSH uneducated (legal) opinion, it's about time the SCOTUS has questioned the wisdom of its 19th century predecessor in imbuing a creature of state law with human characteristics including constitutional rights. The proliferation and growth of corporations and their influence in modern society has resulted in the evolution of an entity that is "more than equal" to their flesh and blood human counterparts.

WEPA!

Free Speech and Hillary The Movie

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear rearguments on a case that could up-end campaign finance laws restricting corporate contributions going back to 1907. The case concerns a scathing documentary about Hillary Rodham Clinton, called “Hillary: The Movie,” which was produced by Citizens United, a conservative nonprofit group.

The group wanted to broadcast commercials for the film and to run it on a cable video-on-demand service, but in 2008 a federal district court ruled that the commercials violated a provision in the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law banning the broadcast or cable transmission of “electioneering communications” paid for by corporations in the 30 days before a presidential primary and in the 60 days before the general election. Opponents of the law argue that restrictions on corporate speech in elections violates the First Amendment.

Does the application of campaign finance laws to “Hillary: The Movie” violate free speech rights? What are the implications for electoral politics if the Supreme Court rules in favor of Citizens United?
 

See what legal scholars have to say, click here and scroll down.

Could Kennedy’s Successor Be A Republican?

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=news-000003196818&mp=Most_Viewed
Republicans are largely an afterthought in the ongoing discussions over who will succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in heavily Democratic Massachusetts.

Yet members of the state's GOP think that if they play their cards right, a Republican could have a legitimate shot at winning the special Senate election on Jan. 19.

Really?

Cheney In 2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/01/cheney-in-2012-some-key-g_n_273470.html
Oh say it ain't so!!!

Experts see double-digit Dem losses

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26393.html
Not good news at all for the president's party.

President Obama's One Term Nightmare

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/president-obamas-one-term_b_265800.html
In an interview on NBC's Today Show two weeks after he was sworn in, President Obama was blunt. He said that if he didn't deliver he'd be "a one term proposition." Put this in the category of what did he know and when did he know it. The way he put it, he's under the white hot glare of the public to deliver the goods, or be quickly dumped in the presidential has-been bin. Polls back up this hard political reality about Obama. A mid-August Washington Post-ABC News survey found that his approval ratings continue to plunge. Part of that can be chalked up to inevitability.

On this day in 2004: The Republican party nominates George W. Bush as its presidential candidate

Start:	Aug 31, '09
Location:	New York City, NY and Chicago, Illinois

Then Ohio happened, and the rest is history.

Also in 1955, the first solar automobile was demonstrated in Chicago, Illinois.

Only In Texas

Texas seems to be replacing Florida as the political lauginhstock. First secession talk and tea baggings, now this: Sen. Hutchison Forgets Her School's History | Media Matters Action Network

While announcing her campaign for governor of Texas from the high school she attended, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison said, "I want to help to create an education system like I had." The only problem? Sen. Hutchison attended a "segregated white school."

Oooops! Oh well, KBH will make a nice first president for the Republic of Texas. And her Lieutenant Governor can be Texas Tom

Kennedy Seeks Rule Change for Appointing His Successor

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003193014
Sounds pretty ominous.

Sharpton, Gingrich push Obama's school reforms

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jVf6ZQg6sAlQ0H7BspbfOERBwtBAD9A2KQ7O3
Is Gingrich working hard for the GOP 2012 nomination or what????