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CPAC Friday Afternoon
Feb 10th
I went downstairs to Woodley Market to get some lunch and my goodness there are a lot of people here. Tons of young people. Tons!
Apparently OWS has arrived in baseball uniforms saying “Tax Dodgers” and carrying baseball bats. I suspect they are being thrown out as I write this.
Here comes Mitt!
Big big reception – the biggest so far I think. The head of the ACU introduced him and everyone is asking if that is an endorsement.
Romney congratulates Obama on organizing this community, conservatives. Defeating Obama is just one step we also need to save the country. It will be easy to beat Obama (silence). History will record Obana will record Obama as the last gasp of liberalism. (Mitt makes me want to take a nap, even in person).
We don’t just cling to our guns and religion we also cling to our constitution. America doesn’t just exist for the people, it’s been made great by the people.
BO is the poster child for the arrogance of government. Are we a nation of and by Washington, or a nation of and by free people.
Huge ovation when Romney says he is not going to apologize for Bain capital. Now he talks about his MA experience. My recollection is that he had no impact which might be the best thing you can say about anyone in office.
He brags about prohibiting couples from coming to MA to marry (gay marriage). Why think of the profit we could make.
On with social issues, he brags about his conservative cred. I think he is exaggerating.
What distinguishes us from Obama is our life experiece. Touts his business cred, the Olympics,- it’s like he is still introducing himself. Leadership is about taking spreading credit when times are good, and taking responsibility when they are not.
I haven’t spent a day in Washington and I owe nothing. Any politician that tries to tell you they hated Washinton so much they couldn’t leave is a ….
DO pols generally criticize each other at CPAC?
In the weeds….
No raising taxes, or sacrificing military I will balance the budget and that will start with the easiest cut of all, I will eliminate Obamacare – standing ovation.
I will reduce the size of the federal workforce and I will tie condensation to the private workforce because government should not get a better deal than the people paying for them.
Medicare and social security are unsustainable. I’ll fix. We will raise the retirement age and not give rich people as many benefits.
Obama will not lecture to us on values after so much ineptitude and pain on Americans. Standing O from some.
Americans are yearning for the truth. I will cut off funding for UN for 1 child china policy, no federal support for planned parenthghood and will get rid of regulations that attack religion.
We will be the greatest military power on the earth. If you do not want America to be the strongest nation on earth, I am not your president.
Exit to twitter: follow me at YouTooCongress
CPAC Day 2
Feb 10th
On Day 1, the Marriott lost its wifi. I love this “press thing” but sheesh you spend more time on logistics than you do on anything like reporting. Bob McDonnell is on the stage now. We are in the balcony. (We being “the press”). Not the Brian Williams type press, but all the little guys who you have never seen or met, but hopefully will read one of thses days. Yesterday we were on the legitimate side of the balcony. This morning it was full so I hijacked another spot and coerced a bunch of people to come with me. I can actually see the stage today.
The room is huge, with 2 massive screens flanking the stage.People clap for the screen. It’s very funny.
Pastor Freeze: 3 people, a liberal a conservative and a moderate walked into a bar. The bartender said: “Hi Mitt”.
Introducing Rick Santorum.
Santorum’s son has on his sweater vest. He brings the family up on stage with them, except for Bella who is doing just fine.
Conservatives failed conservatism. We have kerned our lesson. We will no longer apologize for our principles.
We (conservatives and tea par tiers) are not wings of the republican party, we are the republican party.
Supply side economics for the working man. We will balance the budget.
The entire family looks exhausted.
Rights don’t come from the government they come from a much higher authority. We see what happens when gov gives you rights – if gov gives your rights, gov can take them away. I’m in this race because I think Obamacare is a game changer for America. Margaret Thatcher said it was the British health care system that kept her from accomplishing everything. (Meryl Streep would differ.)
Government control of your lives has got to stop. (Standing ovation).
Obama scares you by saying the earth is in peril. They did it with this thing called man-made global warming. (My God I feel sorry for his kids, they have to stand there and just listen over and over)
Now he is talking about hydro-franking.
I’m missing a lot of this answering endless text messages, but the audience is yelling for Rick. Now he is bashing Romney.
Huge standing ovation for Santorum.
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Jim Inhofe
4 things most dangerous to the country
1. Budget/debt
2. Disarming america
3. destroy domestic energy in American thru overregulation
4. regulating CO2 3-400b a year at a cost of $3k plus to every person.Inhofe is trying to say too much too fast/ good stuff but too much of it.
Carly Fiorina: She looks pretty good.
Having traveled all over the world, I know that my story is only possible in America. We are founded on a radical idea – that we all have god given gifts and can use them to fill our potential, and only Gpod can take them away.
I have just asked the guy from Reuters if he thinks there is a problem with the media. Stay tuned:
Back to Fiorina: we are making the dream too hard for too many people. And as a cancer survivor I know how bad Obamacaare is for the people.
We need to make the senate candidates win.
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Problem with the media: My neighbor agrees that the media is in Obama’s hand and suggests that if anyone turns on Obama all their sources (lobbyists) will dry up. I tell him that the media is responsible for everything bad going on in this country and someone has to stand up and risk it all for the truth. He agrees.
Ann Coulter:
“Greetings 1%ers! Michale Moore is only one person and he controls 33% of the world’s cholesterol. title of my next book is Nancy Pelosi moves to Luxemberg.
You can’t love a child with nuclear arms. What does that mean and why is that bumper sticker all over Gerry Sandusky’s car.
The Jugeared in teh WH has spent 4 trillion and made no jobs. When he asks for the next trillion republicans should say “what happened to the last trillion?”
Obama would make a lovely next door neighbor as long as you are not chinese because then he would be constantly borrowing stuff.
When is it going to be okay to say we elected a man based on the color of his skin (applause)
I’m talking about John Boehner.
CHris Christie -takes on the evil empire of our day – the public sector unions. Christie no longer returns my calls. In the llsat year Obama has gotten worse and Romney has gotten better.
Independents are fleeing Obama, and rigfght now based on his approvals he is not headed for re-election. Obama has to run on his record this time and the only people calling for hope and change is us.
This is the most immportant election of our life time because it is the only chance to repeal Obamacare. Who are you willing to stake your future on. On election day, every woman will be sobbing on the way to the polls because they are afraid of Newt Gingrich. To stake everything on annoying independents, women and something else is really dumb.
Re Mitt: you can’t call himj dumb, you can’t call him crazy but you can call him square. Haven’t we had enough of hip?
questions: “I’m in college and people always ask me how you can be female and conservative’?
All good looking woman are conservative. And from Weiner, Clinton, and DSK we know how liberal men treat woman.
Free birth control helps Bill Clinton, Anthony Weiner and DSK.
How confident are you that ROmney will do what he says if he gets elected?
You would have to be insane to think Mitt won’t repeal Obamacare. There are no more Rockefeller republicans running anymore. We have won. (she is stretching). It’s not about ginning up the audience. Romney is the most conservative, has the strongest position on illegal immigration (the most important thing after Obamacare).
Gingrich is not more conservative.
GM, the Treasury, and You.
Feb 8th
By James Kahn
A recent article J. Mark Ramseyer and Eric Rasmusen in Cato’s new Papers on Public Policy series details how the Treasury, in the course of its acquisition of GM stock, conveniently exempted itself from a provision that would normally have eliminated (through bankruptcy and resulting changes in ownership) some $45 billion (with a book value of $18 billion) in tax loss carry-forwards. In doing so, it gave itself a nice capital gain, making it seem that the government’s involvement was less costly to taxpayers. Of course higher value of GM stock for the Treasury and other new shareholders (including the UAW) is exactly offset by the loss in tax revenues. It is as if the Treasury took funds from other sources and put them into GM to conceal the real loss to the taxpayers of the government’s participation in GM’s “rebirth.”
The bigger issue this highlights is the apparent freedom with which government agencies can make arbitrary decisions that laws and regulations do not apply to them, and potentially distribute the benefits to politically favored groups, or conceal the true costs of their policies. There is little doubt but that the GM case is just one blatant example.
Update: Link to the Cato article added.
“Continuing the Conversation” debate recap
Jan 24th
Brian Williams:
Before we start, the ground rules: To the the peanut gallery: no clapping, standing, booing or showing your displeasure with the media in any way. You must be quiet and listen. To the candidates: There will be no mention of the President – His Fantasticness, unless of course you intend to praise him. This debate is solely about why none of you are fit to hold office. Now let’s begin:
Tonite, in an effort to inform the voters of Florida, let’s continue the conversation with the 1998 Terry Schaivo case. As you know, this is the number one issue on the minds of voters tonite. Senator Santorum?
As the conversation lingers we will pretend that Castro has died, and now all the Cubans want to come to the US. (Isn’t that backward Brian? If Castro goes away wouldn’t the Cubans celebrate getting their country back and stop trying to flee to the US?) What would you do about that Newt?
And now a conversation with Representative Ron Paul: We know your son was detained by the unconstitutional actions of the TSA this morning but I would prefer to get you to commit to running as a third party candidate. Your country needs you Rep Paul, and so does your president and his posse, the media. Can you promise you won’t let us down? And why don’t you dream about the White House?
And now lets turn the conversation to Governor Romney’s taxes. Is there anything you wish to apologize for Mitt?
And as we continue the conversation I note that the audience has left and the only TV’s still tuned to the debate are in the White House.
My job here is done.
I want people fired, don’t you?
Jan 10th
The left, plus Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman and who knows who else are relentlessly going after Romney for saying: “I like firing people”. They cut off the context (and the rest of the sentence) in the hopes that it will make Romney look like a heartless capitalist.
Really?
I don’t think I am the only person out there who absolutely wants people fired. The threat alone is music to my ears. Let’s start with Obama and his merry band of Czars, recess appointments, Cabinet members he doesn’t talk to, aides and whoever else he is paying to hang around. And then let’s get serious.
I’d fire complete departments – Education, Energy and that third one Perry can’t remember – to start. I’d fire the bloat of federal employees who sit around all day doing nothing. I’d fire anyone who, on merit, should be fired. I’d be firing people for months after I took office and I hope Romney will too. There is a lot of waste out there that needs to be attended to.
Message to Newt and Perry: I’m a capitalist. I thought you were too. I’m sick of cronyism. It’s time to fire a whole lot of people and if you aren’t up to it, Romney is.
