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Subscribe to RSSBARBOUR: In a Yazoo City-datelined dispatch, the Boston Globe looks at Haley Barbour's opposition to the new health care law and how it's viewed by health advocates in the nation's poorest state.
CHRISTIE: A new Quinnipiac poll has Gov. Christie’s job-approval rating at 47%-46%.
DANIELS: Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels may face the prospect of signing a “birther” bill like the one Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer just vetoed in Arizona, The State Column reports. The bill was proposed by a Republican state senator but is currently stuck in committee.
GINGRICH: Newt Gingrich pens an op-ed for Human Events in which he relates Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget -- as well as his warnings of impending debt doom -- to the warnings of Paul Revere that the British were coming to arrest them. He also criticized President Obama for his “slander” of Paul during his speech last week on cutting the deficit.
HUNTSMAN: The New York Times’ Zeleny profiles Jon Huntsman. “After spending nearly two years as the top American diplomat in China, Mr. Huntsman returns to the United States next week. He has scheduled visits next month here in South Carolina and in New Hampshire, where the Tea Party and social conservatives hold significant sway and have changed the political landscape.”
“On paper, given his affiliation with Mr. Obama, Mr. Huntsman would seem to be facing a tough time in a primary where anti-Obama sentiment is expected to run high. But in a crowded field, with many Republicans signaling dissatisfaction with the candidates thus far, his supporters hope he could get beyond short-term challenges with a long-term pitch of electability.”
Real Clear Politics: “So far, the Mormon issue doesn't seem to be nagging Huntsman the way it did Romney four years ago. Did Romney's 2008 candidacy itself help allay anti-Mormon prejudice? Is there something different about the way they embrace their faith? Do the two men discuss this issue differently? All of the above?”
PALIN: Last night on FOX, per NBC's Catherine Chomiak, Sarah Palin praised Donald Trump for his candidness, and said that he is being treated unfairly by the media. She said he is simply responding to reporters’ questions about the birth certificate. As for her own potential run, she said it's too early to declare -- and an exploratory committee is not even on her radar. If she doesn’t run, she’s not sure who she would support and wants to “keep hearing their ideas.”
SANTORUM: Rick Santorum will make a speech on foreign policy later this month at the National Press Club in Washington, The State Column writes.
TRUMP: If he continues down the path of running for president, Donald Trump could refrain from filing a disclosure form on his personal finances until he officially moves from “testing the waters” to talking about himself as an actual candidate, Salon points out. “Federal rules say individuals should register as official candidates when they: explicitly refer to themselves as candidates; buy advertising to publicize their candidacy; amass money for a war chest that could be used in a campaign; or seek ballot access. Once Trump does any of these things and spends $5,000 on the effort (which presumably he already has), he must register as a candidate.”
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Medicare was part of the Great Society network that President Johnson signed into law in the 1960s, right after the Civil Rights act. When Gov. Barbour says that this is "big government," he should realize that that is a segregationist battle cry. People in the south didn't want government telling them to integrate schools, or to tell them to care for ALL the citizens. Gov. Barbour spent many years in Washington, D.C., as a lobbyist, spending his time and energy for causes he thought were important and getting a lot of money to lobby for them. Now, as governor, he can't seem to find the energy to fight for the needs of the people of his state -- he thinks that fried food and unwed mothers are the root of all evil and that Health Care Reform is too costly. The Republican party should be highly advised not to make Gov. Barbour the anti-Obama.
The Daniels/birther bill thing reminds me-
How much fun will it be when Obama lets all these nitwits on the right spend all their time and money and ad avails on this nonsense, then toward the very end of the campaign, whip that dude out for all to see? Gonna be lots and lots of fun. (of course, someone will accuse ACORN of breaking in, and planting a fake in the City Hall over in Hawaaii.....)
Finally! Someone on the left who recognizes this whole birth certificate baloney for what it is?
Thank you, thank you, thank you! It is whT I have been trying to tell people for as long as this "controversy" has existed!
Why, thank you, nj.
But- I was half in the bag the other day, and absently-mindedly wondering:
IF (IF, I say) they found out Obama was not a citizen, what would happen next? He would have to step down, of course, but what would be the disposition of all the bills he's signed and all? Would it all be null and void? What?
no joe, no bo, nj
Finally! Someone on the left who recognizes this whole birth certificate baloney for what it is?
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So then what is the explanation of why over 50% of the registered republican voters in Iowa who were polled continue to believe and say that the President was not born in the United States?
The left has been saying this is a non-treversy from the very beginning. It's the republican right, and the media, who have continued to give this thing legs.
The question I have for the republicans is this, when is your party going to lay down the law to your base constituency that there is no legitimacy to the claim that the President was not born in Hawaii?
Brrrrum, Brrrrrum, Brrrrum-pum-pum, Pum. This peanut gallery certainly does march to a different beat now don't they.
Whoever thunk up this line-up wanted a best practices group of experts and got dimwitted blowhards without anything to say but criticism. No plans except Program cuts and Tax breaks. Cuts and breaks ALONE will take US All to the national quintessential theoretical financial emergency room for extensive and extended shock therapy.
Thank you very much but I would advise the country to take Nancy Reagan's advise and JUST SAY NO to these pitiful examples of patriotism and VOTE DEMOCRATIC for the good of US All.
I agree with vote democratic for the good of the country . so says Nancy Reagan .