Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who was pushed out of her job in 2005, is running for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Democrat Barbara Boxer. "As California's senator, economic recovery and fiscal accountability will be my priorities," said Fiorina, an adviser to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign. "I will not settle for a jobless recovery."
read moreRepublican Dede Scozzafava has suspended her bid in next Tuesday's NY 23 special election, a huge development that dramatically shakes up the race. She did not endorse either of her two opponents -- Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman or Democrat Bill Owens.
read moreThe White House on Friday released a small list of visitors to the White House since President Barack Obama took office in January.
No previous administration has released such a list, though the information out so far is incomplete. Only 500 names out of the tens of thousands who have visited the Obama White House were made public. Like the Bush administration before it, Obama is arguing that any release is voluntary, not required by law, depsite two federal court rulings to the contrary.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was paid at least $1.25 million for her upcoming memoir, according to financial disclosure filed with the Alaska Public Offices Commission. The money is a retainer, an upfront payment of all the money she'll earn on the book Going Rogue: An American Life.
read moreRep. Alan Grayson (D.-Fl.) described Federal Reserve advisor and former Enron lobbyist Linda Robertson as a "K Street whore" during an interview last month on the Alex Jones Show. "Here I am the only member of Congress who actually worked as an economist, and this lobbyist, this K Street whore, is trying to teach me about economics," he said.
read moreSec. 59b (pp. 297-299) says that when you file your taxes, you must include proof that you are in a qualified plan. If not, you will be fined thousands of dollars. Illegal immigrants are exempt from this requirement.
So how do we become illegal immigrants?
And we are going to go to jail--
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Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain "acceptable health insurance coverage" and who choose not to pay the bill's new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.
In response to the JCT letter, Camp said: "This is the ultimate example of the Democrats' command-and-control style of governing buy what we tell you or go to jail. It is outrageous and it should be stopped immediately."
The recent elections are a snap of the recent elections and not necessarily something to foretell in the future.
But it's fun to talk about it.
Problem with Obama is that he may be popular personally but his policies suck.
He goes to NJ 5 times and the independents shifted 20 points from when he won in 2008 to the repub candidate.
He goes to VA twice for Deeds and he shifts the electorate 18 points from when he won in 2008.
Obama has no coat tails. He doesn't even have a coat.