ARIZONA: “Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) does not intend to appear before a Senate immigration panel to defend her support of the state’s controversial and far-reaching anti-illegal immigration law,” Roll Call writes. Brewer also didn’t attend last night’s White House dinner for the nation’s sitting governors. “Brewer, whose finger-pointing confrontation with Obama last month has become a symbol for political polarization, told NBC's Meet the Press that she has prior engagements. When NBC's David Gregory asked ‘are you showing disrespect for the office of the president?’ Brewer replied: ‘Well, I hope that it isn't disrespect.’ ‘I would not disrespect the president of the United States,’ Brewer said. ‘I have other commitments.’”
MASSACHUSETTS: “Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) has asked Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) to pull a radio ad off the air that invokes the name of his late father, former Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.). But Brown's campaign says he won't oblige,” The Hill writes.
MISSOURI: Claire McCaskill began running her first ad Thursday. It includes the tag line, “Claire says, ‘Make it in Missoura.’” Roll Call has more.
NEW YORK: The cover of the New York Daily News Sunday is about Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm with the headline: “The crook and the pol.” The story’s lede: “Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm urged a federal judge to spare a New York-based developer with three bribery-related convictions from serving a day in prison, the Daily News has learned. Grimm sought leniency for Thomas Kontogiannis in 2008, before Grimm entered Congress as a Republican and after he had left a career as an FBI agent. Kontogiannis then faced sentencing on his third conviction — for helping funnel $1 million in bribe money to former Rep. Randy (Duke) Cunningham (R-Calif).”
Grimm said in a written statement: “I can say unequivocally that I performed all such duties — including interactions with witnesses, cooperators and informants — in full conformance with FBI and (Justice Department) policies and applicable law. The reality is that undercover officers and agents, as I was, have to work with criminals and deal with bad people regularly in the course of effectively investigating and ultimately enforcing the law.”


Gov. Brewer obviously consulted with Speaker Boehner, who never attends State Dinners, either. Way to show respect for the office, Gov.
I have other commitments
She should BE committed to an Arizona state asylum... How do these people get into the office of Governor? Just looking at her I feel sorry for her...
I have never in my life seen the office of the president of the united states so disrespected as a number of republicans have with president Obama... Just makes me want to support him that much more...
“Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) does not intend to appear before a Senate immigration panel to defend her support of the state’s controversial and far-reaching anti-illegal immigration law,”
Come on Gov Brewer....Defend your 'papers please' legislation!.....
Wag your finger at President Obama .....but you get a 'brain freeze' otherwise!
Why should Governor Brewer appear in front of a Senate panel on immigration when it would only be used the the democratic controlled Senate for political purposes.
The case is in front of the Supreme Court and the Senate should postpone any hearings on the Arizona Law until the courts have had their say. BTW, the state of Arizona has defended their law in front of the federal courts.
Difficult for me to understand why Brewer's staying home to wash her undies is a sign of disrespect. I would consider it a salute of respect.
What a phony.
She has already disrespected him on the tarmac, so that statement is BOGUS.
What could she possibly have to do that's more important? ZERO. NADA. NOTHING. In return, she must be awarded the exact amount of respect SHE has earned. NONE.
When NBC Obama-poodle Brian Williams was wagging his finger in President Bush's face in an interview, did you lefties care? When an Iraqi journalist threw a shoe at Bush, why did you lefties cheer?
As can be said of most liberals, "What a phony"
bob in virginia When I seen the Iraqi journalist throw his shoes at jr. bush all I could think was How could you miss? After what bush did to his country how could you blame him?
Good reply bob.
This vile idiot has no place on the national scene. It was a grand error in judgement to afford her national exposure on Meet the Press. She has nothing of value to share with the country, and would do well to crawl back under the rock from which she emerged. If the good people of Arizona re-elect her I will stay away from that lovely State until she is gone.
I don't avoid AZ but I carry my passport, just in case.
Did anyone ask her what "other" commitments she had? What happened to follow-up questions? Why would anyone let her off the hook with this LAME excuse?
Maybe she's got to wash her hair - or get a frontal lobotomy
What a pinhead!
All I see posting on this subject is a bunch of left wing nuts that don't even live in Arizona. She was elected Governor in Nov 2010 by 55% of the votes. Maybe you lefties should worry about your own state instead of worrying about Governor Brewer.
ILLEGAL ALIENS, TAXPAYERS AND UNFUNDED MANDATES ORDERED BY U.S. COURTS
The American people have never censured the majority of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS? The People are not discriminating against any race, creed, color or nationality; they are in opposition to unlawful foreign nationals. The Liberal Vendetta has surpassed the rationality of blaming the Constitutionalists. Far from it; we need engineers, scientists and highly skilled professional in computer technology. What is not wanted is unfettered poverty that seems we are getting more of every day? The top classes of potential immigrants already have been sponsored by companies waiting for them, and its ascertained they are unlikely to be paying a visit to the welfare offices? Guest Workers for the farming industry should be well regulated and only on a temporary basis, with no path to citizenship. Anybody caught illegally in this nation, must face a felony charge. Annually the cost for this paramount immigration issue has climbed to a hundred billion and still rising.
The United States is at odds over illegal immigration. On the right side crave that tens of millions should be deported yesterday, as they have driven down wages and consume federal and state assistance services, while the majority evade taxes and at the same time wiring some $46 billion to support families in other countries. On the opposite side of the coin, as with the Liberals and Democrats who identify illegal aliens as future voters and model themselves as open border zealots that want no immigration enforcement whatsoever The Liberal Progressives want this country to forfeit its right, to define itself as a nation of laws and thus would commit financial suicide. The left does not care that the 20 to 30 million illegal immigrants and migrants do not pay enough taxes, to cover the overload of welfare and public services that they use.
It’s not adequate to say they pay gas, food, household goods and other sales tax. Because it no way covers the Heritage Foundation and American Federation Immigration reform report of $113 Billion dollars a year, going in free health, schooling for children and welfare and subsidiary cash payments, that are absorbed every year. A further estimate is that over 500.000 and use some means to illegally enter America, either by foreign flights or slipping past the undermanned border agents. Not all Presidential candidates have committed to building the real double parallel fences at the Southwest border. A promise of enforcing the fence has only come from the mouths of Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich. Ron Paul has remained mainly negative on the subject of border control.
President Obama has expressed to the Democratic majority, that in the next five years following his inauguration, that he will pass a nation comprehensive immigration reform, containing a Dream Act legislation, unfettered chain migration for immediate family members and millions of agricultural jobs, that taxpayers will be forced to pay. Robert Rectors analysts at the Heritage Foundation have spoken in another report, that to complete this tyranny of action cost to taxpayers of $2.4 Trillion dollars to complete, adding even incendiary spending of Congress. Our only hope of getting out of this mess should be to unseat all pro-illegal immigrant incumbents, at all levels of government. Any elected official who says illegal aliens should have drivers licenses (Police chief Beck in California.) The Mayor of New Haven DeStefano, who issued Identity cards to foreigners, Governor Jerry Brown of California insisting there should be a path to citizenship, while dollars are rolled out for the millions of nationals their and citizens are forgotten and the hundreds of Governors, Mayors, Judges, Police and public officials in councils who run cities and towns have to be elected out of office. Strong mind Governors as Arizona’s Governors Jan Brewer, and other who are on the right side of the fence, should be reelected and moderate Democrats, should also join this financial battle.
The cost for assimilating illegal aliens on top of the flood of legal immigrants is unprecedented. These are further expenses we don’t need on the rising federal deficit in paying for two wars and Obama’s cronyism. The man has already bypassed the requirements of the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli Immigration Act, and through presidential orders allowed backdoor amnesties for unlawful people. Many are now walking on our streets, thinking that after the 2012 election they will be granted a path to citizenship. You have already the years of abuse of criminals advancing there heinous occupations, leaving innocent victims blood in home invasion robberies, the murders and in the endless spotlight the drunken driving madness. Ice has been intimidated by radical organizations, who belief illegal aliens should have the same rights as citizens. Their determination to overturn the “Rule of Law” that has governed us, since the founding fathers first penned their signature on the U.S. Constitution. Both political parties are guilty of eroding this precious document. All are guilty of giving lip service to the oath of allegiance and abusing their positions.
Those of us that see this unapologetic corrosion in Washington can either turn a blind eye or find a place for themselves in the rising membership of the TEA PARTY. These tens of millions of ordinary folk spread out in thousands of chapters throughout America have realized that under the roots of either Democrats, Liberals or Republicans the Congress will follow the same old route as before. They will keep on printing money and the spending will continue. By overhauling the Senate and more of the House of Representative seats with Tea Party leadership, the same old favoritism will end. There will be a revolution in the Congress, as never seen before. Laws on Immigration will be enforced. Until green Power is further advanced, we will drill for oil, of which we have an ample supply to last a hundred years. Lou Dobbs tonight had a very excellent idea that all supplies of oil found on federal land, placing the funds appropriated by the government to end up who knows where, and placed in the people’s bank; fossil fuels should not be sold to foreign countries, when it belongs to all Americans.
The tea Party will approve our pipeline from Canada, to reduce the need for foreign supplies. Federal election regulations will be amended, so prove of who you really are by possessing a voter ID. This will disrupt non citizens from voting in future election cycles, that Democrats have specifically overlooked. This Tuesday Arizona will be put to the test with an election, thus millions of illegal aliens settled there are likely to scorn the law, if official picture ID is not evident for voting. Our freedoms have been jeopardized, unless we have a political party we can depend on, as our country is straining towards the wrong direction in our future. We have seen this with the harassment of Border States of Arizona, Alabama, Georgia, Utah, Indiana, South Carolina and newly joined state of Mississippi under considerable pressure from unfunded mandates from Washington.
All 50 States have been trying desperately to save their legal population into paying for illegal aliens, but have been intense bombardment for decades and initiated by religion, unions and radical minority groups. This will not happen under TEA PARTY legislation and in fact they will pass bills, as the mandatory E-Verify “THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT” (H.R.2885) Placing federal enforcement obstacles to halt illegal workers being hired, the “BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ACT” (H.R.140) to right a wrong by amendment to a law that says no child gains instant citizenship if both parent owes allegiance to a foreign country. Soon as (H.R.2885) is enacted self-deportation or ATTRITION THROUGH ENFORCEMENT will commence as with jobs unavailable, they will leave. This has been a huge mockery of our laws, as 300 thousand females annually will intentionally cross our border or enters as a tourist from another country, to have her baby here free of charge and then apply for a green card. If you are not aware of “The Legal Workforce Act” that directly affects millions of citizens-residents jobs or the “Birthright Citizenship Act” that will contain billions of dollars in your revenue, then Google NUMBERSUSA for much in depth description and then report this fiasco to your prominent federal or state politician and demand they pass these laws. GET RID OF ALL THESE POLITICAL IDIOTS BEFORE THEY GIVE YOUR COUNTRY AWAY.
If you really want the truth about the illegal alien invasion and many other problematic issues that cause Americans unnecessary pain and suffering, then you need to view the uncensored pages, not suppressed by the Leftist media at (Google) AMERICAN PATROL. For information about the corruption in Washington and state congressional seats of power, check the web site of the (Google) JUDICIAL WATCH.
Casca:
Off topic. Take it somewhere else.
Nationally, Santorum beats Mr. Obama 49 percent to 46 percent, the poll shows, while Romney ties with the president at 47 percent. The national survey, conducted February 20-21, has a four-point margin of error, meaning both GOP candidates are statistically tied with Mr. Obama.
In a survey of voters in 12 swing states by USA Today and Gallup, Santorum's lead against Mr. Obama widens. He beats the president 50 percent to 45 percent. The swing state survey, conducted February 14-21, also has a four-point margin of error. In this poll, Romney bests Mr. Obama 48 percent to 46 percent.
from CBS NEWS:
Nationally, Santorum beats Mr. Obama 49 percent to 46 percent, the poll shows, while Romney ties with the president at 47 percent. The national survey, conducted February 20-21, has a four-point margin of error, meaning both GOP candidates are statistically tied with Mr. Obama.
In a survey of voters in 12 swing states by USA Today and Gallup, Santorum's lead against Mr. Obama widens. He beats the president 50 percent to 45 percent. The swing state survey, conducted February 14-21, also has a four-point margin of error. In this poll, Romney bests Mr. Obama 48 percent to 46 percent.
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Go for it. I hope your guy has the opportunity to confront Pres. Obama.
2012 will stay grim for most folks in the SWING STATES due to oil prices. The oil companies will not let up on Obama between now and the election. THink-MISERY INDEX!
Newt will do great in OK, TN, GA, LA, MS, AL, and OH. Obama will be pinned down this whole year by gas prices. Big oil has not forgotten the Gulf Drilling shutdown or the Keystone Pipeline. They will make the country pay for the folly of electing Obama in 08. Seniors are just now starting to realize the the 1/2 transfer of their medicare funds to indigents and illegals will be reflected in a 185% medicare part A and B premium increase in 2014 under Obamacare. They are getting madder by the minute. They food, fuel, and medicare are costing them a whole lot more under Obama plus they are not earning anything on their money i.e. 1% interest due to quantitative easing by the Fed.
LOL! Obama has more control over oil prices than the oil companies.