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Bombs Away

The GOP race has been on fire in a number of ways since last week when Marianne (Newt Gingrich’s second wife) came out to remind the country of what happened when Newt Gingrich was in a position of power back in the 1990′s as Speaker of the House.

If you need that spelled out, he went after Bill Clinton for infidelity while he practiced it himself which hurt the GOP. And if you think it’s all about infidelity, think of it this way, it’s like he went after the president for tax evasion while cheating on his taxes himself.

Gingrich has said told his followers that he is the outside the beltway candidate  which is the furthest thing from the truth. He has lived inside the beltway the longest of anyone as evidenced by his work with Freddie Mac. He has called himself a Reagan republican and then The Drudge Report revealed that he had actually called the former president’s policy on the Soviet Union – a failure.

Gingrich also said the former president  was failing in 1986. He, in fact, had a history of insulting the president during Reagan’s time in office.

National Review Picture

 Oh, the curse of long Washington, DC memories. And that curse plays into his current problems. Many many people were friends with his first wife and second wife here in town and around the country. They may have made friends with Calista Gingrich but they haven’t forgotten the first two wives.

Furthermore, just this week Mr. Gingrich went on to talk about putting a colony on the moon by 2020 and making the 51st state there which, supports the idea that Mr. Gingrich spends too much time reading science fiction. Sure, he’s full of ideas as Bill Clinton put it. On a side note: Bill Clinton would love it if Mr. Gingrich was the nominee, it would ensure a win for the Democrats.

And after Newt Gingrich’s attacks on Mitt Romney, Romney is now getting hit with mud. At times, one almost starts to wonder if Newt is working for the Democratic party because he’s ruining the opportunities the party’s one viable candidate has in the race.

Is it bitterness? One sightedness? Who knows. But one thing is certain, this writer is not alone in her thoughts as she might be the last of the conservative media to come out against him.

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A Time As This?

Normally, this blogger does not totally identify with Tea Party posts, they have some interest but are not 100 percent interesting, but this post from Tea Party Nation was very thoughtful and insightful.

The writer struck me because he focused on how much people in the younger generation have lost and how important it is for a presidential candidate to grasp that loss.

I don’t want to disparage them for their age, because they all seem to be healthy and energetic. I wonder, however, if their perspective allows them to empathize with the challenges this generation faces, and the need for dramatic change, or if they are wedded to safe, incremental and ultimately small ideas that won’t work. I wonder if they have the vision to grasp the fundamental decisions we have to make on what we expect from our government and ourselves, decisions without which we cannot move forward to find solutions.

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Blog Regular

It’s interesting being a blogger/writer. This blogger has to admit that because in the process of writing this blog, I am also looking for regular work. Oftentimes, people assume that the blog is my work. Well, the truth is no blog can really provide that much income in the early stages – even a blog like this one that gets around 370,000 hits a month at peak. Due to the time this writer took away from blogging in order to focus on a regular career, the site gets over 170,000 a month and will probably go over 200,000 this month, so some hits were lost.

But that line of thought is a digression. Blogs are essentially an extra tool to help a person move forward in their career or even seek out work. They are not in their early years an income source. One should never be discouraged from blogging, blog – blog away.

But this blogger is still seeking regular work.

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Interesting TV Clip

The presidential race on the GOP side is getting a bit too much for this blogger. However, this video with Newt Gingrich declaring himself a Rockefeller Republican is very very interesting to watch and it says a lot.

This article from NRO adequately expresses why Bill Clinton supports Gingrich moving forward in the GOP race. Gingrich would be good for Obama’s re-election.

There is no hurry one could suppose to pick a candidate for president, especially not when people seem to be so torn on the issue.

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The Year of the Dragon

The Chinese New Year has passed and this blogger has grown increasingly concerned that the whole country is just going to get more wound up and angry coming up to the election. Rhetoric and attitudes keep getting worse with everything from Debbie Wasserman Schultz claiming again falsely that Jared Lee Loughner was a Tea Party upon Rep. Gabby Giffords retirement which is a shameful hurtful lie to well everyone.

Newt Gingrich won the primary in South Carolina 44 percent to Mitt Romney’s 22 percent. Clearly the debates influenced the party as a whole against Mitt Romney in favor of Newt Gingrich, and 66 percent say so according to ABC News. Now, Newt Gingrich is ahead in Florida for their primary at 34.4 percent against Mitt Romney’s 25.6 percent. And guess who is happy about that? The Democrats and Liberals.

The Washington Post cover above with President Obama’s picture says it all. According to most reports, the Obama team still expects to fight Romney, but this blogger is starting to wonder. There are many on the right who really don’t like Romney because he is a mormen and for some reason the bad media for Newt last week through his ex-wife’s confessions  seems to have made him more popular. The right is literally arguing about it for all kinds of reasons that don’t make sense.

It almost makes one wonder if many of the men just like  defending a man who has cheated for some weird reason. But the polls showed South Carolina female Republicans really liked Newt Gingrich. You can imagine the kind of jokes that information has produced. In the end, it would seem that Republican voters don’t care about winning the White House because Newt is not good for winning the general electorate. They just like the idea of sending someone to the mat who can thoroughly spank, ear pummel and punch President Obama before letting him win another election.

That’s not good enough for anyone who is thoroughly focused on the long game. Newt Gingrich has been inside the beltway longer than any other GOP candidate for president. Think about none of the old members of Congress who worked with Newt Gingrich in the 90′s stepped up to defend him last week. And that factor should give people pause.

Now, some are asking Mitch Daniels if he will reconsider and get into the race for president.

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Friday Fry Up

Happy Friday Fry Up! The site has just been jamming along with higher and higher numbers of visitors again.

This week Rick Perry nicely exited the GOP presidential race while Newt Gingrich stayed in it with a bang. If that’s possible. Newt’s ex-wife Marianne unleashed a series of  media interviews on the end of their marriage and Newt’s decision to divorce her. Basically, she made a point that everyone knew he had Calista while he was still married to her. It was a rather painful ABC interview to watch. Afterwards, the public was left with a reminder of what everyone already knew from the 90′s or apparently some people forgot. Worse, many people in town just seem to be debating endlessly about it.

(Everyone knows sooner or later this issue, the issue of his ex wives and marital choices was going to come to the front.)

One friend pointed out this Mr. Gingrich’s book “To Renew America” starts with the dedication “To Marianne, who made it all worthwhile.” Oh, it is moments like that where this blogger hates being an adult! One could suppose she is bitter or thinks the public needs a reminder of the past. But, the question which struck this writer is: why this year? Why THIS race?

The end of that marriage happened in the 1990′s. Why did Marianne do this during the race of 2012?

As for Rick Perry, he seemed like a great contender until he started the debates. Apparently, many people in town suspected he would falter, but apparently many more did not think he would actually fall out of the race as he did in the end. Still, one has got to love the shot of him telling Ron Paul to behave after one of the debates.

Farewell Etta James

The singer whose music inspired people and gave everyone a song to dance to at their wedding  - “At Last” – has passed on to a better place. Of course, this writer gets a humorous twinge what if someone used that song “At Last” for their 2nd, 3rd or fourth wedding party. Don’t think it hasn’t happened!

XL Pipeline

The Keystone XL pipeline project died this week. Obama rejected the project and blamed Republicans, ooookay, for his decision. The pipeline would have created 20,000 jobs. (sigh). Really? Really? We need jobs in the U.S., we need to use our natural resources, the pipeline didn’t even go through any densely populated areas. It’s a pipeline, not an oil tanker in the ocean.

And now the oil is going to ASIA.

Music 

This blogger is going to give Lana Del Rey another chance. She didn’t have the greatest performance on Saturday Night Live. But she creates good music, very high quality music compared to general pop. She legitimately came off like someone who just needed more practice performing live music. And it should be noted that she basically performs aerial gymnastics with her voice. Of course after Mariah Carey and Florence (of Florence and the Machine), those types of stunts are not appreciated much by audiences anymore. Brian Williams of NBC’s critique of her performance was a  little too negative. SNL tends to get people when they are on their way up or just starting out.

Local Culture 

This short film making light of DC culture is pretty much on point and really funny.  It’s called “Sh*t DC People Say.” The video came to me through Christine Hall of CEI. Factually, this blogger is pretty sure she has heard people make the almost exact same comments as the ones in the film short.

And there is this video for Republicans and conservatives from MRC, it does strike a point as well. And yes, the comments are also ones this writer has heard. Would it be too optimistic for this writer to think

And Finally 

This blogger has mixed feelings about the new Underworld: Awakening with Kate Beckinsale. The first two films were passable, the second was better than the first. But this blogger just has a hard time imagining that the plot of the third will be that great. Who knows?

That’s all have a great week-end!

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ANTI-SOPA DAY

NO POST. NO TO SOPA LEGISLATION.

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Madison Rising – Tonight!

Tonight, the band Madison Rising will perform at the Capitol Hill Club from 6-8 pm in Washington, DC. The band, notably, tried to perform their pro America songs before OWS in a tribute (recently) to the hardworking police force of New York city. They were denied a permit while the band Third Eye Blind was allowed to perform without a permit on the same day for OWS’ benefit.

Madison Rising’s concert is being sponsored by www.deborahcorey.com, GOP Rockstars and DCYRs. The “Take Back Congress” concert is free. You can see a short interview with the band on Fox News. The band’s debut album was released in October 2011 and went all the way to #29 on the record charts.

Hope you can make it out tonight!

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Monday Mania

‎” Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Happy Martin Luther King Jr. day here in the capitol area! 

Jon Huntsman

Jon Huntsman has decided to drop out of the presidential race to be GOP Contender today. He had good reasons to drop out. Huntsman did not do well in Iowa (he didn’t even spend time in Iowa) or New Hampshire and he was polling behind STEPHEN COLBERT in South Carolina. Factually, he was coming in last among the major contenders or close to last.

And he went out now on a positive note before anything weird happened like in the case of Rick Perry or some of the other contenders. He gave Mitt Romney a strong endorsement to run against Barack Obama. Some critics want to point out that he attacked Romney in the past which is a moot point. All politicians in campaigns today make attacks on their opponents and especially the strongest (Romney), what matters is what a contender says when they exit the race. In fact, Huntsman’s endorsement of Romney means more because he attacked him as well as the other opponents in the past.

Over the Summer, this writer had a chance to listen to Jon Huntsman in person.

You can see me on the edge of the picture. Huntsman is a good speaker in person and he is talented at dealing with the Chinese. However, he in some ways compared too closely with Romney who had been fighting to be in the race for a longer stretch. He also grappled with the issue that conservatives didn’t like him because he worked for Obama and liberals didn’t like him because he was a Republican. In a sense he couldn’t win due to those attitudes in this race combined with well his own mix of attitudes. He never seemed comfortable in his campaign, as one writer put he “has appeared sea sick” in debates. And he never sparked a following for his nomination to the position.

It would be an understatement to say he is a talented, affable and intelligent individual who will probably do just fine after this point. As for the race, this writer welcomes all events that bring clarification.

The Daily Show

This bit posted below from The Daily Show with the head of the National Conference of Editorial Writers is great. John Stewart tends to be fairly liberal but in this era of confused and angry politics which has led to general frustration in the American public – the segment is genius. Froma Harrop is probably performing some kind of mea culpa after realizing she can’t ask for better behavior from the other side of the spectrum if she doesn’t behave well either.

Or she has no self awareness. 

 Andrew Sullivan

This article from Andrew Sullivan defending Barack Obama saying that our president has never raised taxes is incorrect. This link takes you to the exact spot in the article where he says the president has not raised taxes. BALONEY. He has most definitely raised taxes and he gets in fights with the U.S. House all the time over wanting to raise them to even higher levels.

The irony of our president wanting to raise taxes is that the economy is poor so revenues are low even with high percentage rates. If the president would simply get out of the way of businesses and stop scaring them as well as individuals, the amount of revenue would be higher. And the need to raise taxes would be removed. Does that make sense? Here is an example that is very very easy to understand 10 percent of say $100 in tax revenue is less than 10 percent of $400 in revenue. Now, multiple those numbers by millions and you have the current tax revenue situation under Obama. Of course, he wants to raise taxes, he doesn’t understand economics well enough to get higher revenues.

How Andrew Sullivan, an alum of  The Washington Times Editorial Board ever sunk to the kind of pandering which has mostly been engaged in by hardcore Obama fans is beyond anyone.

Madison Rising

Tomorrow the band Madison Rising is having a concert in Washington, DC. This site and GOP Rockstars are sponsors for the event. Hope you can make it to the Capitol Hill Club!

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Friday Fry Up

Today is the Friday Fry Up and it is rather cold compared to the weather otherwise this week in Washington, DC. Or shall we say – normal weather for January? This writer must start this week by thanking her readers. The site has gone back up in numbers rather quickly and is well on it’s way to being up and over the peak of 370,00 that it hit last Summer before this writer decided to shut it down.  And this writer has to thank the Arlington community for their overwhelming support of the blog as it has been relaunched. It would appear the number of fans in the area has grown despite the blog being shut down for a few months.

Although, this writer is still adjusting to the way some fans just come up and stare at her in public. Let’s just say the happy fans who smile are preferable to the people who just act weird. Ehem.

New Hampshire

Funny thing, The Ballot Access blog pointed out that Ron Paul came in second in New Hampshire for the Democrat primary. Now that’s an interesting bit of information.

The S&P

The S&P is going to downgrade Italy, Spain, Portugal, France and Austria. Remember a few months ago when this blogger said it would be funny if the whole civilized world got a downgrade when the U.S. was downgraded? And it was obvious that this downgrade might occur for a number of different countries in the future? What happens when everyone has a low grade? “Attention: The S&P has just downgraded your mother. No one knows why, she makes lovely cookies and is very nice, but the S&P thinks her credit is terrible. That is just the state of the world. Have a nice day!”

Love

Love is sort of a disturbing experience, it’s fun early in life and a headache later in life. Unrequited love just makes a person feel pathetic. A friend sent this to me today, not because they love me, but because they love someone who does not love them.

The White House

Obama has no business bashing anyone on where they worked in the financial industry while he hires people from the private equity industry to work for the administration.

That’s all, have a good week-end, be nice to each other!