It's safe to say that $40 doesn't cover the gas it takes for Obama's multi-car, fossil-fuel-burning motorcade to leave Washington for a 25 minute trip to Vermillion restaurant for a Valentine's dinner.
Especially since the price has climbed by 83 percent under this President.
At that time the national price average for a gallon of gas was $2.91 and the Dummycrat controlled CONgress did nothing as it reached nearly $4 per gallon.
Gingrich was at the University of Iowa medical campus to talk about brain research and the Occupy-errs were the perfect example of the negative control group and the scientific community is united in that fact.
"...open up a window to loan money to treasury plus 2 percent, and people want to come in and borrow the money and the responsibility of a workout not a bailout, and those people want to work their way out over the next three to five years.
I'm comfortable saying this is a liquidity crisis; let's meet it; let's loan the money. But let's make sure they are responsible for their bad debt, and they're going to work their way out.
Gingrich also suggests...
* Replace the current snapshot to market with a rolling three-year average.
* Change the current loan reserve pattern so it's not pro-cyclical.
Mitt Romney was smoothest, Newt Gingrich again was spot on, Rick Perry looked lost, Jon Huntsman was somewhat better, Rick Santorum fumbled a wee bit, Ron Paul had his moments, Herman Cain was classic and Michele Bachmann remains a lightweight.
Some other sights and sounds from our day included...
Jennifer Jacobs of the Ragister was standing near our Pawlenty shuttle when we got off. Jacobs asked where we were from and I told her Des Moines. She asked if the whole bus had come from Des Moines and I told her it was a shuttle from the Ames Wal Mart.
It's not the first time Jacobs has gotten the facts wrong.
I did not sign any pledge and our bus captain asked if everyone was supporting the Governor, but he stated they'd be able to ride to the Straw Poll either way.
T-Paw greeted us while his staff handed out those now historic shirts.
While waiting in the long line to vote, Michael Barone (Washington Examiner) walked by and I mentioned I read his writing. Barone commented on my Viva La Reagan Revolucion shirt and said something in Spanish, to which I replied -- Si.
After voting, we headed to The Iowa Republican's tent and along the way passed Newt Gingrich.
Cal shook his hand and told him what a great job he had done at the debate.
Kevin said some nice things about the Liter and I reciprocated about his writing.
Listened to my current, and next, Congressman Tom Latham before wondering off.
We were nearly run down by Ron Paul's golf carts, complete with suited up goon squad.
I was disappointed the Party used a Warren County Dummycrat, Steve Mathews, as their voice talent(?) during the program inside Hilton.
I sure hope they didn't pay him, as Mathews gave $200 to Staci Appel-sauce for brains last August, $100 to Mark Davitt in 2008 (both lost to Kent Sorenson) and $175 to Steve Richardson in 2000. I'm sure there have been other contributions, especially to the county party.
It will be interesting to see how the next few months play out.
I guess I'll support Rick Santorum, if he can hang in there, and wait for the oncoming Michele Bachmann melt down (she's been close already) and Ron Paul's continued devolution.
Without a doubt yesterdays mailings were the most Chris and I have ever received in one day and that includes general elections.
10 mailings were addressed to my wife; 6 from Restore Our Future Inc. and all targeted Newt Gingrich, 3 from Make Us Great Again supporting Rick Perry and 1 from Rick Perry's campaign.
I only received 7 mailings; 3 from Make Us Great Again, 2 from Strong America Now Super PAC, 1 from Rick Perry and 1 from Mitt Romney.
I loved Newt Gingrich, you can never go wrong attacking the media at a Republican event.
Rick Santorum was fantastic, up until he mentioned beating 3 Dummycrat incumbents. As an incumbent, Santorum was soundly beaten in 2006.
Ron Paul continues to be an embarrassment, especially with his foolish belief that if we just focus solely on our borders everything else in the world will be hunky dory.
Herman Cain remains a great speaker, Mitt Romney lost me in 2006 and will only get me back if he is the nominee.
Frey, allegedly, just happened to be in Borders (or Boarders) Bookstore when Newt Gingrich was there signing copies of his latest book.
Frey thought it would be fun to have Gingrich sign a copy of "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer - And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class", the title of which sounds like some conspiracy theory and might read like one per Michael Barone's review.
Gingrich refused to sign the book and I say good for Gingrich.
Frey, upon further review, is a sociologist (and probably a socialist) at the University of Tennessee who supposedly specializes in social development, but must have been absent when learning about being polite.
I loved what some of his students say about his class, and by that we mean what he teaches versus qualities he bestows, from Rate My Professors...
He is not too terribly engaging
Don't take it if you're looking for a stimulating class
Nice guy. Kind of goofy.
you will want to kill yourself during his lectures and i'm almost positive that some of the stuff we covered isn't even sociology.
Really boring class. I personally didn't like Dr. Frey... He came across as arrogant to me.
Supply and demand would shoot that price through the roof.
If you thought your heating bill was high last winter, you'll root for Gore-BULL warming to offset future natural gas bills and the scientific community is united in that fact.
Feel free to have fun with Bubba's PEOPLE Magazine interview.
On Chelsea after Hellary lost the Iowa Caucus...
She was upset, bawled, went to her employer and said, 'Look, you got to let me go or give me an indefinite leave of absence. I'm not letting my mother go down like this.'"
OR
Telling PEOPLE he speaks to his wife "probably three times a day"
Because
"I got in the habit of not being an e-mailer when I was president because we had Newt Gingrich, who wanted to subpoena every e-mail ever written in the White House."
That last one may be a little harder and the scientific community is united in that fact.
Can't Innuendo by itself be an innuendo? Or does that make it a double entendre?
"This movie is sparking a valuable debate about our national priorities in government spending, personal responsibility and liberty," said Will Rogers, Polk County Republican Co-chair. "We hope that showing this movie in Des Moines will help promote that debate here in Central Iowa!"
I WANT YOUR MONEY is an engaging, controversial new documentary film from Director Ray Griggs about the competing economic visions championed by Presidents Reagan and Obama - a duel of speeches, wit, animation and narrative that has audiences laughing, cheering, yelling . . . leaving them in the middle of the national conversation about mounting government debt and deficits, and why it matters. Screenings to date have been described as "raucus" with an atypical amount of audience participation.
"The immense amount of support we have been receiving from organizations across the country and the attention that I WANT YOUR MONEY has been receiving is showing that this film is hitting a nerve for a lot of Americans," says film director and producer Ray Griggs. "We hope that those attending these screenings will share the central message of the film 'to limit government spending' and have a great impact on this election season. After all, it's our money they are spending."
By utilizing interviews with key leaders of America's conservative movement - Newt Gingrich, Steve Forbes, Mike Huckabee - movie clips, dramatic portrayals, music, archival footage, graphics and even comedic animation, I WANT YOUR MONEY tells the story in the plainest terms that big government programs have been tried in the past at great moral and financial cost to the nation. California is offered as a case study of the perils America will face should there be no change to our government's current policies.
WHEN: Sunday, October 3, 2010 TIME: 3:45 PM LOCATION: The Varsity Theatre, 1207 25th Street, Des Moines, Iowa TICKET PRICE: FREE. Register online at www.polkgop.com
Event Contact: Art Smith, 515-491-8747, arthursmith@polkgop.com
A Free Will Offering Will Be Taken At The Event To Benefit Polk County Republicans.
From The Washington Times Inside Politics column....
"Asked by a reporter about how 'President Bush today blamed the surge of violence in Iraq on al Qaeda,' incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded with a disjointed answer about how 'the 9/11 commission dismissed that notion a long time ago, and I feel sad that the president is resorting to it again,' " the Media Research Center's Brent Baker reports at www.mrc.org.
"Though al-Qaeda is clearly in Iraq and responsible for deadly bombings, and the 9/11 commission conclusion was about links before September 11, on Tuesday's 'NBC Nightly News' reporter David Gregory treated Pelosi's off-base retort as credible and relevant.
Without suggesting any miscue by her, Gregory segued to Pelosi's sound bite with a bewildering set up of his own about how incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi disagreed, warning that such rhetoric about al Qaeda will make it harder for Democrats to work with the White House.
"On [Fox News Channel's] 'Special Report with Brit Hume,' after panelist Mara Liasson characterized Pelosi as 'confused' and Morton Kondrake suggested she was just 'mixed up,' Fred Barnes maintained that 'she clearly screwed up here.' ...
"Barnes argued the media wouldn't let a Republican get away with such a flub, telling Kondrake: 'If some Republican had done this, if Bush had done this at a press conference, if Newt Gingrich had said it, if John Boehner had said it, if Roy Blunt had said it, you'd have been all over it. It would be inexcusable.'
"Neither ABC's 'World News Tonight' or 'The CBS Evening News' played the Pelosi sound bite."
SURPRISE! SURPRISE! SURPRISE!
SanFranNan Pa-LOSER is off to a rousing start.
I can't wait to see how smooth her first 100 hours as Speaker will be.
*****UPDATE*****
The Dummycrats are already backing away from a key election promise!
Here's what the Washington Post is reporting....
It was a solemn pledge, repeated by Democratic leaders and candidates over and over: If elected to the majority in Congress, Democrats would implement all of the recommendations of the bipartisan commission that examined the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
But with control of Congress now secured, Democratic leaders have decided for now against implementing the one measure that would affect them most directly: a wholesale reorganization of Congress to improve oversight and funding of the nation's intelligence agencies. Instead, Democratic leaders may create a panel to look at the issue and produce recommendations, according to congressional aides and lawmakers.
....aides on the House and Senate appropriations, armed services and intelligence committees confirmed this week that a reorganization of Congress would not be part of the package of homeland-security changes up for passage in the "first 100 hours" of the Democratic Congress.
The 9/11 Commission was unequivocal about the need.
"Of all our recommendations, strengthening congressional oversight may be among the most difficult and important," the panel wrote. "So long as oversight is governed by current congressional rules and resolutions, we believe the American people will not get the security they want and need."
Sufferin' Succotash Sylvester score another swing and a miss for Pa-LOSER!
This is from The Washington Times/Inside the Beltway column....
New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer, on behalf of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, scolds Republicans on every front in his latest fundraising letter that reached the mailbox of Darren McKinney of Washington. As a Democrat, Mr. McKinney has heard it all before, and now writes back: "Dear Chuck: You may recall I was a House communications director back in the mid-90s just after we Dems got swamped by Newt [Gingrich's] tsunami. As such, I participated in countless morning message meetings wherein you and Rosa [DeLauro] and George [Miller] and Dick [Gephardt] and Sheila [Jackson Lee] and Alcee [Hastings] would sit around concocting lies about GOP intentions. "From 'Medi-scare' and 'they're gutting student loans' to 'privatizing' Social Security and 'America is less safe,' you've been lying like rugs ever since, and the left-wing media have aided and abetted you at every turn. If the Republicans have to spend millions or billions on some dirty politics of their own to counterbalance all that, it seems only fair. "When you're willing to tell the trial lawyers, lazy no-good union bums and out-of-wedlock breeding machines to go get lost, I'll again take you and your party seriously. Until then, save your breath and postage, I'll have nothing to do with you."
I'm sure he'll be labeled "disgruntled".
A "Gruntled" Charles Schumer is pictured getting orders from Hillary Rodham Clinton.
A "Gruntled" Sheila Jackson Lee is pictured celebrating a championship for the Houston Comets of the WNBA (?)
