posted November 12, 2010 12:00 PM            

The only thing Palin and Zoellick at the World Band have in common is the recognition of the need for a sound currency. One way to get that is to peg the value of the dollar to gold.

The other way, Palin's way...since the chances of America ever going back on the "gold standard" are nil...is to only issue sufficient currency to keep pace with the value of goods and services in the American economy AND not monetize the US debt. That way, the value of the dollar in the US economy stays constant...sound money.

posted November 12, 2010 12:14 PM            

The chart clearly shows the Center for Responsive Politics...your source...was a source for the chart I posted.

The facts are undeniable, Republicans did not outspend demoscats 2 to 1.

Of course we're talking about mostly television advertising here acoustic.

What? You thought we were talking about advertising printed on swizzle sticks?

Obviously, the numbers you posted are not current and were produced way, way, way back in the campaign cycle.

posted November 12, 2010 05:15 PM            

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Well acoustic, this isn't the first time you've had to jettison one of your sources.

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There you go with that crazy talk again. What source did I jettison, pray tell?

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The chart clearly shows the Center for Responsive Politics...your source...was a source for the chart I posted.

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Just how many times do I have to acknowledge that I know this before you get it?

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Obviously, the numbers you posted are not current and were produced way, way, way back in the campaign cycle.

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Nope. There's no data set that supports that idea.

Once again, the CRP chart shows advertising spending by groups outside of the DNC and RNC. What part of this do you not understand?

posted November 12, 2010 05:44 PM            

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Your chart doesn't show advertising spending by outside groups....acoustic

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Stop it acoustic. You're embarrassing yourself!

The chart I posted lists ONLY outside groups. Unions, the Chamber of Commerce and Rove's group ARE NOT any part of the DNC or the RNC.

You've jettisoned so many sources I've given up keeping track of them.

posted November 12, 2010 05:51 PM            

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Stop it acoustic. You're embarrassing yourself!

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Quite the opposite. I understand what I'm talking about.

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The chart I posted lists ONLY outside groups. Unions, the Chamber of Commerce and Rove's group ARE NOT any part of the DNC or the RNC.

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I know. What it doesn't show is the portion of money raised that was spent by them on advertising.

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You've jettisoned so many sources I've given up keeping track of them.

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I can't think of a single source I've jettisoned. If I had you shouldn't have any trouble keeping track of them.

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Obviously the numbers at CRP are old, old, old numbers which do not jibe with the more current numbers in the chart I posted...of which the CRP was a source.

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Once again, false. There is NO evidence that their numbers are old.

posted November 12, 2010 08:38 PM            

Thanks for posting that opensecrets page.
The break down for out of state spending is phenomenal, as well as many of the other figures. The figures tell pretty much the whole story, to include the ones with a 0-Zero-0

They even have a Follow the Ads button. Very cool.

posted November 12, 2010 09:17 PM            

I haven't looked at SarahPac in awhile...when last I reported I talked about the thousands of dollars spent on copies of Sister Sarah's own book to distribute to lucky fans who give her dough to gas the jet.

It is amazing to note that for the mighty mid-terms Sarah actually parted w/ $192,000 of her PAC's money to deserving stumper's out stumping.

That is a personal best for Ms. P. Out of nearly 5 mil that is.

posted November 12, 2010 11:15 PM            

The numbers don't lie. Even your own source contributed as a source of the chart I posted which clearly shows your blather is total bullshiiit and republican groups did not outspend demoscats 2 to 1.

But, that's not really what's behind all the bullshiiit coming out of demoscats about losing a historic election on every front.

We've heard O'Bomber say the people didn't understand how wonderful his Marxist agenda was for America. We've heard John Traitor Kerry say Americans are stupid..in effect and didn't understand the issues. We've heard all the caterwauling about demoscats being outspent.

We've heard all the excuses for losing the midterm elections but we haven't heard a word to suggest demoscats understand the real reason Americans repudiated the demoscats and O'Bomber's Marxist agenda.

It wasn't a misunderstanding. It wasn't that Americans are stupid. It wasn't that Republicans outspent demoscats 2 to 1.

O'Bomber's far left Marxist agenda made Americans want to throw up and they pulled the levers for Republicans to put a stop to O'Bomber's nonsense...at their earliest opportunity.

As for me, I hope the demoscat minority elects Nancy Pee-Lousy as Minority Leader of the House and Hairy Reid as Majority Leader of the Senate.

posted November 13, 2010 10:28 AM              

funny, i remember a psychic friend saying about 18 months ago when we were talking politics, that obama's job was "to hold them"...at the time i wondered what she meant and she didn't elaborate, but watching how the man acts as if his hands are tied i am beginning to see that - with all the paradigm-shift talk and everything that is going on in the world, not just the US, - it looks like he is treading water for some reason.

posted November 15, 2010 11:22 AM            

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I clarified this issue for you two days ago, Jwhop.....acoustic

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You're totally confused acoustic.

Obfuscation IS NOT "clarification".

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there you go again, jwhop, wishing for the country to come to a standstill just to get the so-called "socialists" out of office....katatonic

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You're totally confused too katatonic.

It's not me...or conservatives or business people who are bringing the country to a standstill. It's O'Bomber and his Socialist pals in Congress who passed the the most far left agenda in American history, retarded any hope for an economic recovery, blathered about raising taxes on those who hire new employees..and retain existing employees, raised the cost of health care and health insurance, blathered about bankrupting utility companies, closed off large areas to energy exploration and production, destroying the value of the dollar...causing prices to rise without a corresponding rise in wages, expanded the government workforce at the expense of the private sector, passed a labor union bill to force employers to unionize, passed a carbon tax bill which will skyrocket energy costs and everything else in our economy to consumers and spent more than $3 Trillion attacking the United States economy, businesses and our citizens.

In short katatonic, this stupid Marxist bast@rd and his Socialist comrades in Congress did exactly what I said he and they would do. It's what Socialists always do when they gain control of a nation's government....destroy the economy and try to convert the nation into a Socialist mecca/Utopian gulag.

America spoke on November 2nd. No Sale!

posted November 15, 2010 04:37 PM            

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the most far left agenda in American history.... destroy the economy

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your parroting of the "left socialist agenda" has been wrong since day one, and Obama's agenda has more similarities to the moderate Conservatives
than the far left.
And what happened to Carter in your grand scheme? He used to be your fave.

The destruction of the economy goes way back, to include Clinton's body bagging the Glass Steigal act.

The nails were pounded into the coffin by W.

JW you must have the Texas school system history books next to the comp again.

:edited to add James Earl

posted November 15, 2010 04:39 PM              

don't forget this guy has the same "minders" gw had...gates, geitner and co just toddling along in a socialist government? i don't think so they are players for the OLIGARCHS who decide who gets to be president - ever since eisenhower - and literally will SHOOT DOWN anyone who tries to buck the game.

there's an interesting new book out i believe the title is FAMILY OF SECRETS..(?) which connects the dots and shows just how important the bush family has been over the decades...funnily from about the time YOU think the socialists got a hold of the country, they have been manipulating the field through the CIA and the white house...and don't let's forget where granpa prescott made his money, supporting and trading with the nazis coming into and during WWII.

you are the willing recipient and perp of smear tactics the like of which have hardly been seen since the 30s. congratulations.

if you think sarah palin is "the real deal" go on and vote for her...if she IS the real deal, however, she will either a) not get the nomination or b) be coopted as fast as you can say "martini with an olive". you'll be wanting plenty of those to see you through the following years.

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giving the insurance companies what they asked for

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posted November 15, 2010 05:32 PM              

if palin gets in jwhop, watch for the left to play *** -for-tat until SHE looks like a member of bader-meinhof to the general public. nice game isn't it? i'm not playing anymore.

posted November 17, 2010 11:31 PM            

Btw, disingenuous is another word...a nicer word for liar.

You claim to be anti-establishment. Yet, you defend every action of the establishment.

The number one enemy of the "establishment" both left and right is Sarah Palin. As I told you some time ago, the right fears Palin as much as leftists. One only need look at the numerous establishment figures in the so called republican establishment who have defamed Palin.

Yet, you have lied about Palin and never miss an opportunity to disparage or nit pick.

It would seem Palin...as I have told you before....is someone you would support. There is no figure in politics who is more anti-establishment than Sarah Palin who makes no bones about bringing the establishment under the control of citizens.

How do you account for your hostility to Sarah Palin...from your oft stated anti-establishment positions?

posted November 17, 2010 11:52 PM            

This past weekend, I traveled to Chicago to speak at the Conservatives4Palin meetup, where Mama Grizzlies, Palinistas and "ordinary barbarians," as she's now taken to calling her followers, gathered to hear speeches, talk about conservative issues, celebrate a hypothetical Palin 2012 campaign and generally worship at the altar of Sarah Palin.

At one point during the program, Palin made a surprise phone call to the group, patched through one of the organizer's cell phones and played over a loudspeaker. The room burst into spontaneous applause and frenzied yelping as she launched into a warm and cheery 20-minute "thanks for all your hard work" chat.

I returned to New York from the Chicago gathering to find Palin again, not in my ear but on my television screen, bouncing gleefully around Alaska on her new TLC documentary series, "Sarah Palin's Alaska." She and Todd (her "neat husband," as Phyllis Schlafly put it recently) went fishing, rock climbing and bear spotting in between appearing on Fox News and ducking from their nosy new neighbor, who moved in just to write about Alaska's former first family.

It seems everyone wants a piece of Palin these days. Some are fans, some are hostile foes. But regardless, we just can't stop talking about her. Will there ever be a time when we decide that we've figured her out and there's nothing else to say?

And then it hit me. The reason Palin has become such a lightening rod, a kingmaker and a punching bag, a celebrity and a power player, is simple. It's because she's so gosh darn happy.

For her fans, like the ones I had the pleasure of meeting in Chicago, she's refreshingly upbeat and resilient, the bubbly friend from childhood who was always great at cheering you up and cheerleading you on.

But for her detractors, nothing raises the ire of cynical liberals more than a happy-go-lucky, totally unburdened, freethinking and self-assured conservative woman who has everything she wants and then some. And without anyone's help.

Sure, she'll tell you that Todd, her parents and her children are an invaluable support system. But after eight years of hearing that George W. Bush was a nepotism experiment gone wrong, Sarah Palin has made it here (wherever this is) on her own. John McCain's imprimatur certainly launched her into the national spotlight, but she became the youngest and first female governor of Alaska all on her own.
How dare she?

Liberalism, after all, needs to imagine an unhappy populace. Passing sweeping entitlement programs and convincing voters that big government is the answer only works if people are frustrated with their stations in life.

Thus Palin is a real threat to front-office operations.

And Sarah Palin, more than almost any other public political figure, represents the "can do" rugged individualism and self-reliance that liberals fear most. She's not just running her household. She ran her state! And in her new documentary series, we see that independent streak clear as glacier water. Whether she's casting for salmon or scaling the rockface at Denali, she's smiling - and just won't quit.

It isn't the angry, antiquated feminism of a Barbara Boxer. Or the pushy defiance of a Nancy Pelosi, who refuses to go quietly into that dark night. Or even the brash "I can make you regret being born" argumentativeness of an Ann Coulter.

It's the kind of ambition that comes from confidence in her convictions and the security of knowing that no matter what happens to her in the press, she's got a happy home life and everything she needs to survive in the wild - the Washington wild, that is.

If Palin's critics really want her to go away, they don't have to worry about her politics, her faith or her folksy rhetoric. They need to worry about her boundless happiness which, like her favorite hunting weapon, is poised to be a warm gun for anyone who dares cross her path.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/11/17/2010-11-17_sarah_palins_happiness_is_what_really_irks_liberals.html?page=1

posted November 19, 2010 08:11 AM            

While on a United Airlines flight from New York City to Los Angeles this week, a fellow passenger handed me a copy of the The Wall Street Journal Nov. 15 op-ed by Alan Blinder—"In Defense of Ben Bernanke"—and suggested that I write a letter to the editor if I disagreed with the Princeton University professor's claims. Having read the piece, I told the passenger over my shoulder, "You bet I will."

Prof. Blinder seems blind to the clear and present dangers of QE2. Instead of seriously discussing these dangers, he takes us on an excursion to a Keynesian utopia, a mythical land in which endless government spending is an amazingly effective job creator and investors' confidence in U.S. Treasury bonds somehow increases as we sink ever deeper into debt while the Fed has its printing presses working overtime.

Here are some cold, hard facts from the real world: The first is the 8.7% 2012 unemployment rate predicted by the Survey of Professional Forecasters of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. It seems the Obama administration's record spending binge won't result in job creation, but in unacceptably high long-term unemployment. The second fact is that long-term interest rates have actually gone up following the Fed's recent QE2 announcement. The markets took one look at the Fed's pump-priming plans and decided they had to increase interest rates—probably in order to compensate for the expected rise in inflation.

None of this should come as a surprise. Blinders off , common sense engaged, it's time for us to "refudiate" the notion that this dangerous experiment in printing $600 billion out of thin air, with nothing to back it up, will magically fix economic problems that were caused in large part by the government's interfering with our free market system in the first place, and then made worse by the government's reckless spending experiments with our children's fiscal future. Instead of the tired, old Keynesian ideas behind Obamanomics, we need to turn to time-tested practices that are pro-free market rather than pro-big government. Some call this "free-market populism." It's based on the realization that the best way to get the economy moving again is to get government out of the way, let the free market dictate winners and losers, and allow the private sector to grow our economy one job, one paycheck and one American dream at a time. It's the only way we can restore much needed confidence and certainty in our economy. This is the only way we will all be able to soar from New York to Los Angeles and throughout the heartland.

Sarah Palin

Wasilla, Alaska

posted November 29, 2010 07:49 PM            

Sarah Palin, whose intellectual brilliance outshines O'Bomber's by several orders of magnitude...is deemed "an empty intellect".

Of course, there's something very wrong with that leftist picture.

Let's chalk it up to viewing the world through the foggy lens of leftist ideology.

Serious Questions about the Obama Administration's Incompetence in the Wikileaks Fiasco
.by Sarah Palin on Monday, November 29, 2010 at 12:17pm.

We all applaud the successful thwarting of the Christmas-Tree Bomber and hope our government continues to do all it can to keep us safe. However, the latest round of publications of leaked classified U.S. documents through the shady organization called Wikileaks raises serious questions about the Obama administration’s incompetent handling of this whole fiasco.

First and foremost, what steps were taken to stop Wikileaks director Julian Assange from distributing this highly sensitive classified material especially after he had already published material not once but twice in the previous months? Assange is not a “journalist,” any more than the “editor” of al Qaeda’s new English-language magazine Inspire is a “journalist.” He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. His past posting of classified documents revealed the identity of more than 100 Afghan sources to the Taliban. Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al Qaeda and Taliban leaders?

What if any diplomatic pressure was brought to bear on NATO, EU, and other allies to disrupt Wikileaks’ technical infrastructure? Did we use all the cyber tools at our disposal to permanently dismantle Wikileaks? Were individuals working for Wikileaks on these document leaks investigated? Shouldn’t they at least have had their financial assets frozen just as we do to individuals who provide material support for terrorist organizations?

Most importantly, serious questions must also be asked of the U.S. intelligence system. How was it possible that a 22-year-old Private First Class could get unrestricted access to so much highly sensitive information? And how was it possible that he could copy and distribute these files without anyone noticing that security was compromised?

The White House has now issued orders to federal departments and agencies asking them to take immediate steps to ensure that no more leaks like this happen again. It’s of course important that we do all we can to prevent similar massive document leaks in the future. But why did the White House not publish these orders after the first leak back in July? What explains this strange lack of urgency on their part?

We are at war. American soldiers are in Afghanistan fighting to protect our freedoms. They are serious about keeping America safe. It would be great if they could count on their government being equally serious about that vital task.

- Sarah Palin

posted December 01, 2010 10:12 AM            

In “America By Heart” folks will get a feel for some of my favorite writers and thinkers. One of them is the great economist Thomas Sowell. Some of you may recall that in “Going Rogue” I mentioned Sowell’s famous book “A Conflict of Visions” to explain the way the liberal or “progressive” world view and philosophy differs from the conservative view. Sowell’s articles are always worth reading, and his most recent column is no exception. He reminds us where our attention needs to be during this lame-duck session of Congress. He notes that the Democrats have articulated their tired class warfare argument about “tax cuts for the rich,” but conservatives have still not articulated our proven time-tested argument that tax cuts spur economic growth, which in turn helps everyone from all income levels and increases tax revenue as the economy grows. Sowell reminds us:

“These are not new arguments on either side. They go back more than 80 years. Over that long span of time, there have been many sharp cuts in tax rates under presidents Calvin Coolidge, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush. So we don’t need to argue in a vacuum. There is a track record.

“What does that record say? It says, loud and clear, that cuts in tax rates do not mean cuts in tax revenues. In all four of these administrations, of both parties, so-called “tax cuts for the rich” led to increased tax revenues — with people earning high incomes paying not only a larger sum total of tax revenues, but even a higher proportion of all tax revenues.

“Most important of all, these tax-rate reductions spurred economic activity, which we definitely need today.”

But as Sowell later points out, having a proven time-tested policy isn’t enough if we don’t articulate it. We need to remind people that tax cuts help everyone. And we should also remind the Democrats that many of the so-called “rich” they’re dismissing are our small business owners who account for 70% of all job creation in this country. At a time when we need job growth, we should not target job creators with tax hikes. Closing our deficit gap requires us to cut spending, but we also need to spur economic growth. With that in mind, the last thing we should do is hamper our economic innovators and entrepreneurs with excessive taxes, overly burdensome regulation, and more uncertainty. This is not a difficult argument to make. It’s common sense.

- Sarah Palin

posted December 01, 2010 11:20 AM              

never mind that stopping unemployment extensions saves a whopping $65 billion, and repealing the tax cuts for the rich WHO CAN AFFORD TO PAY would save, by YOUR RECKONING, $750 BILLION...

math 1a...750-65= 685 BILLION difference. but the REAL difference is that the 65 BILLION puts money to SPEND in the pockets of those who have none, while the 750 BILLION relieves the rich of some extra CHANGE that will hardly crimp their style.