Anna Sale has a big job — finding out what nonpartisans, in a partisan world, think. And she’s not doing too bad!
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The Changing Face of America’s Independent Voters (AUDIO The Takeaway) Anna Sale on the radio talks about independents and race
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The Democratic Candidate for Senator from Virginia’s 22nd District is Bert Dodson.
The Tea Party has picked the Republicn candidate to run for senator fron the 22nd district and that man is Tom Garrett. The Republicans left in the party are not happy but the Tea Party controls their direction. Here’s what the conservatives at Bearing Drift were saying about Garrett just before the election.
“Tom Garrett burst onto the scene in the 22nd without much background. Does he live in the district? This still remains unclear. His record stands on one professional accomplishment alone — turning Louisa County into the pedophile capital of Virginia. In some instances, his zeal for prosecuting these cases has resulted in the victim not even being consulted before the case went before the judge. Tom Garrett’s one-man crusade — while laudable in its own right — has often made it very difficult for Garrett to discuss his record on pedophilia among pro-family groups (or crowds involving children). Garrett’s speeches on the “four branches of government” strike the Tea Party-attuned ear as odd.”
“Lastly, Garrett’s history of not paying bills — including a ,000 bill for child care services where Garrett was found liable — renders Garrett easy prey for DPVA researchers. Garrett can be lauded for this though — repairing his marriage. If the money Garrett spent on the State Senate race was the catalyst for reuniting his family on the campaign trail, Bearing Drift sincerely wishes him all the best. That story — under reported and personal –is probably one of the best stories of the Virginia primary season. Conservatives in the 22nd District would be well served to consider alternatives without the baggage.”
The Editors at Bearing Drift have some thoughts on other republicans as well. ”Claudia Tucker, the one-time Vance Wilkins aide who became caught up in the eavesdropping scandal in the early part of last decade, fizzled on both her fundraising promises and her campaign efforts.” Looking at the results we see that Tucker ran a poor race geting about a third of the votes of the other 4 candidates and finishing dead last. She played the role of spoiler and cut the throat of the expected winner. Her future in Republican politics looks dim.
“Brian Bates, the long-time Buckingham supervisor may surprise folks on how well he may do, but his long-standing record of multiple tax increases and questionable position on life have scared off most conservatives in this race.” The Tea Party and Ultra Right Wing Republicans are now in control. The social safety net is in danger of being destroyed.
“Mark Peake of Lynchburg and Bryan Rhode from Goochland have both earned the respect and admiration of the Bearing Drift editors so The Editors endorsed both candidates.” Five greedy republicans cutting each others throats to get one job. Throw in a heaping helping of Tea Party madness and you get the modern GOP here in the state of Virginia. Is it appropriate for Bearing Drift to spread rumors about candidate Tom Garrett not living in the district, without verifying whether it is true or not. The Bearing Drift Editors brought it up so lets have an answer. Does Tom Garrett live in the district he is running to represent? Now that Garrett has won the right to represent the Republicans in the General will the matter be swept under the carpet and forgotten? Thats the GOP way.
For those of you who are partisan river rock republicans here’s the url for Bearing Drift.http://bearingdrift.com/2011/08/18/bearing-drift-endorsements-for-state-senate-republican-nominations/
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Thankfully Bert Dodson is running for Senate from the 22nd District. Normal clear headed working people have someone to vote for. The tea party has saddled the Republicans with a candidate who is just as bozo as the tea party. The “don’t tax the rich crew” want to end social security and medicare and all women’s health services.
The tea party people want to stop Pell Grants and educational programs. To these people being successful and rich means you don’t have to pay your fair share of taxes. These republicans are willing to destroy the country we live in to get their way. We need Bert Dodson in Richmond and hopefully the voters will see it that way. If not, God Help Us.
Its time for you dizzy republicans to shake the cobwebs out of your heads and cast a vote for your country, while we still have a country. If you can’t free yourself from the Tea Party your days as a major political party are over.
We gathered to watch the returns from the Republican Tea Party Primary at The Stoney Badger Tavern. The Badger has a hidden deck behind the tavern that is secluded from the roads. If you’re looking for a fun evening out try The Stoney Badger. You will be delighted.
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BANGOR, Maine — Stephen King is offering an antidote to what he sees as the biases of right-wing radio talk shows by hiring a former Green Party vice presidential candidate to co-host a morning talk show on two stations he owns.
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As Speaker of the House John Boehner prepares for a weekend fundraiser for Rep. Scott Tipton in Aspen, Tipton’s Democratic challenger, Sal Pace, went on the offensive Tuesday, saying he’s had it with a Republican Congress that publicly rails against any and all taxes while quietly working to end a small tax break enjoyed by workers for the past year.
“I can’t understand their logic and rationale at all. How can they say they support working families and not support extending this tax cut?” Pace said about Congressional Republicans in a phone interview.
That tax break, which went into effect this past January, reduced the payroll tax from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent for one year. The tax is scheduled to go back to 6.2 percent in January 2012. The payroll tax is designed to fund Social Security and is separate from income taxes. While the working poor often pay no income taxes, nearly everyone who gets a paycheck pays the payroll tax. President Obama has said he would like to extend the cut.
Republicans in Congress have said not so fast.
News flash: Congressional Republicans want to raise your taxes.
Impossible, right? GOP lawmakers are so virulently anti-tax, surely they will fight to prevent a payroll tax increase on virtually every wage-earner starting Jan. 1, right?
Apparently not.
Many of the same Republicans who fought hammer-and-tong to keep the George W. Bush-era income tax cuts from expiring on schedule are now saying a different “temporary” tax cut should end as planned. By their own definition, that amounts to a tax increase.
The tax break extension they oppose is sought by President Barack Obama. Unlike proposed changes in the income tax, this policy helps the 46 percent of all Americans who owe no federal income taxes but who pay a “payroll tax” on practically every dime they earn.
It’s not just Congress, GOP presidential candidates are busy clarifying that when they said they wouldn’t raise taxes, what they meant was that would only raise payroll taxes, because some working people just aren’t paying their fair share.
From Slate:
It’s not news when Jon Huntsman criticizes fellow Republicans. It’s news when he agrees with them. On Sunday, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Huntsman found himself in a virtual love-in with Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann over, of all things, taxes. The paper asked Huntsman if “the half of American households no longer paying income tax–mainly working poor families and seniors–should be brought onto the income tax rolls.”
He agreed, crediting the GOP’s current front-runner for vice president, Sen. Marco Rubio, with the insight that “we don’t have enough people paying taxes in this country.”
Pace said the tax cut helps 2.5 million Colorado families.
“It is shocking and appalling that with all the gridlock in Washington, House Republicans want to force a tax increase on working class families. They fight tooth and nail to cut taxes on billionaires and corporations when what we need to do is protect working people.”
Pace challenged Tipton to talk to Boehner about the need to extend the payroll tax cut for another year. “I challenge him to cross party lines for the first time in his career. I call on him to have courage and to show leadership on this issue. He has the opportunity this weekend to bend Speaker Boehner’s ear and convince him to change his position on this.”
Pace’s campaign against raising the payroll tax is part of a larger effort being launched by the Democratic Party to support the extension of the tax break.
The Memorial Day weekend traditionally marks the beginning of the summer driving season but this year Americans are looking at the prices at the pump and reconsidering the cost of a vacation via the great American highway. Four dollar a gallon gasoline has folks tightening their belts rather than loosening their collars and relaxing for a week or two this summer. There are numerous forces affecting the price of gas, including monetary policy and the war on terror premium, but the principal economic force driving these prices is future supply concerns and growing demand around the globe.
Even before the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, in April of last year, the Obama administration embarked on a policy to reduce domestic oil production. In point of fact, President Obama signed an executive order banning drilling in Bristol Bay, Alaska, fully one month before the BP disaster. Additionally, in the wake of the poorly handled BP disaster, the President signed a drilling ban in the Gulf to “assess” the safety of deep water drilling. Subsequently, that ban was lifted but the number of permits issued since the ban ended is less than a dozen due to the bureaucratic backlog, which is moving at less than half fast speed.
The loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs along the Gulf Coast is not the only result of this “permitorium.” The shut down of the offshore drilling industry means that future domestic oil production will fall at a time when global demand (from China and India) is rising. The exciting advancements of technology, like the application of horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing technology, to unleash our onshore American natural gas and crude oil simply can’t overcome a plan that cripples the fundamentals required by companies to put deals together to explore, drill, find, and produce oil and natural gas, too. When that happens, you get less of the supply to go around. It is a tried and true economic theorem that if you reduce the supply of a commodity, higher prices are the result. Once again, the American family pays the price.
Currently, 56% of the U.S. trade deficit is the result of oil imports. Two hundred billion dollars of American wealth is transferred overseas every year to countries that don’t like us very much. If current Obama Administration policies don’t change soon these numbers will only get bigger. Regardless of these numbers the Obama Administration only wants to hear about green energy.
Some activists have always dreamed of the day when the world is powered by green energy. The problem with this fantasy is that the technical challenges involved make this an impossible dream. If you include hydroelectric power, the total output of green energy is less than 3% of the total energy produced in the U.S. Wind power needs natural gas as a back up to be practical; and solar, while it sounds good, is only 20% efficient for the very best panels. The higher cost of these solar panels results in a cost per kilowatt-hour of more than twice the current value of a natural gas fired power plant. Energy security is only an empty pipe dream if you are banking on sources other than oil and natural gas to do the heavy lifting to fuel America for decades to come. Simply put, there is nothing coming down the pipe that can turn green energy into reality, unless one wants the American people to make sacrifices.
Speaking of pipelines, for more than three years the U.S. State Department has tied up the building of an oil pipeline from Canada with bureaucratic lethargy. This pipeline would bring oil to the U.S. from a dependable ally that has not had any political turmoil for more than two hundred years. Instead the administration would rather send billion to Brazil to assist them with their off shore drilling projects.
Recently, the President has been speaking out of both sides of his mouth when it comes to production of our energy resources. The message given is “let’s drill” while regulatory hurdles are placed in front of the drilling. From where or whom is this mentality derived? Is it ignorance or arrogance? The Obama Administration doesn’t have the slightest understanding of oil and gas law, contracts, and the role of geology in the process. They don’t understand how deals are done, and it is hurting America.
The reality is that there is plenty of domestic hydrocarbon energy to be produced if only the government would get out of the way and let us go and get it. According to the government’s own estimates of the technically recoverable undiscovered petroleum resources of the Gulf of Mexico and offshore Alaska totals 68 billion barrels of oil and 342 trillion cubic feet of gas, or a combined total of 128 billion barrels of oil equivalent. This does not even include the large potential reserves of the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR). Simply put, 128 billion barrels of potential oil is what the Obama administration is restraining the United States from developing. Failing to aggressively open up these resources for leasing, by moratorium or “permitorium,” the failure and delay in granting permits to drill is a total fiasco of government. Only a radical environmental ideologue could appreciate the logic of this policy that throws the energy security of our nation under the bus.
The demand for oil is not going away just because some bureaucrats have the ill-conceived or ill-informed idea that all our energy needs can be met by green energy. The Energy Information Agency (EIA) places our daily petroleum consumption at almost 21 million barrels a day. By 2030, the EIA projects that the consumption will grow to 23 million barrels a day. If we were the only country using oil this would not be a problem but we aren’t.
Global demand for oil is growing as a result of the modernization efforts underway in India and China. China is now Saudi Arabia’s biggest customer. In fact China is laying down 600 miles of four-lane concrete highway every year and to populate that highway they are producing 14,000 new cars every day. The Department of Defense (DoD) began studying the growth of these emerging economies and late last year published it’s bi-annual report called the Joint Operating Environment (JOE). In that report it states the following:
A severe energy crunch is inevitable without a massive expansion of production and refining capacity. Energy production and distribution infrastructure must see significant new investment if energy demand is to be satisfied at a cost compatible with economic growth and prosperity.
Apparently no one in the Obama White House read that report. The fact of the matter is that we need to be encouraging the oil and natural gas industry to find new sources of domestic energy; it should be a national imperative. Other countries are getting into the energy producing game, thanks to shale oil and shale natural gas. We will eat their dust if we fail to provide the energy our economy needs. We can say adios to energy and economic security and global competitiveness for generations to come.
Written by Elizabeth Ames Jones.
