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Michele Bachmann Response

January 26, 2011 by · Comments Off on Michele Bachmann Response 

Michele Bachmann Response, (AFP) – Fired-up U.S. Republican Party papered over crack on the measure to cut spending, Tuesday, they mounted a frontal attack on the hours of the policies of President Barack Obama before his State of the Union speech.

Enemies of the White House in the House of Representatives have rallied nearly 20 Democrats voted with the chamber of 256-165 for a bill calling non-binding on the government to do with what it spent in 2008.

“The American people rejected the idea that we can spend and borrow the path to prosperity,” Speaker of the House Republican John Boehner said, referring to November 2 routs of the Democrats by Obama Voters angry against high unemployment.

“We listened, and tonight the American people whether Obama did the same,” Boehner said after the House approved a symbolic measure, which reflects a Republican campaign promise.

Moreover, the Republican House majority leader Eric Cantor said the House would vote the week of Feb. 14 – when Obama is due to unveil its annual budget – the renewal of a spending bill stopgap expires in March 4.

“So we are serious in achieving our commitment to reduce expenses,” Cantor told reporters.

Republicans also preemptively rejected the word of the White House, Obama proposes a five-year freeze in non-security discretionary spending in order to contain the runaway deficit of the United States and deflate the rising debt of the United States.

Boehner spokesman Michael Steel has called Obama’s approach “insufficient” and warned it would “lock” the Democrats ‘job killer’ political past two years, unlike the “more serious” Republican approach.

In the Senate, Mitch McConnell top Republican supported Obama to use his annual agenda setting – mid-way through his re-election in 2012 – to do more than simply a change of rhetoric in politics.

“We all have noticed with great interest that the president seems to want to go in a different direction. We hope this is not only a change in rhetoric at the center, but also a real change in the center, “said McConnell.

But the Republicans face their own trouble spots, including a push by many party members of the House’s most conservative to cut spending more deeply than their leaders were planning to do so, amid dire warnings that the Democrats the cuts will stall rather than the speed of economic sputtering U.S. recovery.

And party leaders laughed about the internal dissent that archconservative “Tea Party” movement initiated a firebrand legislator, Republican Representative Michele Bachmann, offer their own televised rebuttal of Obama’s speech.

Senior Republicans – Bachmann and itself – insisted his remarks were not in competition with the official Republican answer to be offered by the House Budget Commission Chairman Paul Ryan.

“We are all on the same page,” House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier, adding: “. Most of us who can get the message out there, the better”

“Paul Ryan is our official response to the GOP,” itself would have said Bachmann, on Monday morning in his home state of Minnesota. “I’m just reacting to what Obama said … This is not supposed to compete in any way. ”

And Steel noted that it was common for legislators to comment on annual speech of the President’s agenda setting.

“Whether through a press release, Twitter, Internet, television, radio, via Facebook or by other means, almost all members of Congress will share their thoughts,” he said.

Republican support also noted that Obama gave his own answer to the predecessor of George W. Bush ‘s State of the Union in 2008, while it fell to another Democrat formal objection to the party.

Bachmann, who has fueled rumors she may run for president in 2012, is known for heated rhetorical attacks on Obama and his politics: She called last week for a “revocation” and denounced the president’s state of health care signing the Law Review as “the crown jewel of socialism.”

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What Is The Tea Party

September 15, 2010 by · Comments Off on What Is The Tea Party 

What Is The Tea Party, Forty-four percent of Americans now see the upstart “tea party” movement in a favorable light, according to a new Christian Science Monitor / TIPP poll.

Moreover, about 40 percent of the tea party supporters say they will attend a tea party event, which means they are essentially “closet fan” of small-government movement, says Raghavan Mayur TIPP pollster.

“The general line of the party said that the tea party is marginal, but I think most people did not buy this point of view … and see the tea party movement in a positive light neutral” says Mr. Mayur, president of TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence in Ramsey, NJ, who oversaw the weekend survey of 908 American adults. “The message here is that the Democrats have been in denial about the tea party] [phenomenon … and I think coming back to haunt them.”

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But the poorly organized “enough taxes already,” a movement that has now gained 18 wins and special primary elections to support Republican candidates in the most conservative, remains a polarizing force, with 41 percent of Americans viewing it unfavorably . In March, a Gallup poll showed 37 percent of Americans saw the movement favorably compared with 40 percent who did not, but this survey used a different issue and can not be compared directly with the Monitor / TIPP survey.

It has been debated for months about whether the movement Tea Party 18 months of age, that helps or hurts the GOP in the midterm elections. In Tuesday’s primary Republican Party-backed candidate snack Christine O’Donnell, a candidate for U.S. Senator from Delaware, long surpassed Rep. Mike Castle on a come-from-behind victory. Mr. Castillo had been favored to flip the seat former Vice President Joe Biden the Republican column, but the success of Ms. O’Donnell could give his Democratic rival in the general election, Chris Coons, a new beginning.

“If Mike Castle is not welcome in the Republican Party of Delaware, the GOP just hang a sign saying that the moderates do not apply,” said Dan Pfeiffer, head of the White House communications, in a statement.

It is not the first time that Democratic officials have tried to link the Republican Party – and the Republican candidates – with the tea party, with the expectation that the connection lead independent and moderate voters of the Republican Party candidates.

And it has a certain amount of sense, given high ratings unfavorability tea party in the polls. However, by linking the Republican Party and the tea party, Democrats are also taking tea activists who helped the party candidates win in the style of a series of victories, including key GOP Senate primary in Utah , Kentucky, Nevada, Alaska and South Carolina, as well as the surprise victory Tuesday in Delaware O’Donnell, prompting the conservative daily calls to exclaim: “It’s official: the inauguration of the Tea Party Republican is in full effect. ”

“[Partyers tea] are, in general, … more active and politically committed people who are not compatible with the tea party,” says pollster Christopher Parker of the University of Washington. “So this is not a mirage, is the real deal.”

In fact, for some, the move gives voice to the general feeling of disappointment and outrage at the bad economy and the focus of Washington’s economic recovery.

As for bonds GOP-tea? Parker’s recent analysis shows that the two are not ideological twins. Instead, he says, “Tea Party ideas on the margins of conservative political discourse,” for example, topics such as conspiracy if President Obama is a socialist. Moreover, a segment of the tea party can, in fact, be traced to reactionary – as well as xenophobic and even racist – citizens’ movements through the history of America, said.

Tea party supporters, however, say that the conclusion of TIPP poll of fans of the “closet” shows that what many Americans find attractive or interesting about the movement is its focus on reducing taxes and the size of government.

“What unites the movement is the commitment to get government under control,” says Adam Brandon, a spokesman for Cato in Washington, a player in the tea party scene. “It reflects a change in the U.S. where there is a significant shift to decentralization, and where both parties are losing control over the two-party system.”

Not surprisingly, among those respondents who have low favorability toward the tea party, 73 percent want to maintain Democratic control of Congress. Furthermore, among respondents who see the tea party favorably, 87 percent want Republicans to win in November. More interesting, for those who come to the tea party with moderate favorability (rank 5 or 6 on a scale of 10 points), 70 percent want to see Republican control of Congress, according to the TIPP / Monitor survey.

University of Wisconsin political scientist Charles Franklin, who co-founded the pollster.com website, said that the tea party movement, if successful in November, could force a showdown in Congress, especially in the Senate.

“The tea party does not like to hear it, but it will be difficult, given the rhetoric of the members of the tea party, to reconcile with the reality of the federal government will hold [which runs the risk] of being seen as a bunch of treachery “he says. “Or have a dramatic revolution in the government, if they succeed?”

Monitor / TIPP poll was conducted September 9-12 is 3.3. Percentage of error.

Louisiana Lottery

April 15, 2010 by · Comments Off on Louisiana Lottery 

Louisiana LotteryLouisiana Lottery:Draw-style games March earnings including two Lotto jackpots totaling $ 975,000, 5 Easy prize worth $ 143,702, a “match-5 Powerball prize of $ 200,000 and seven awards of $ 10,000 Powerball each. Pick 3 prizes totaled $ 1,680,590 and Pick 4 prizes totaled $ 1,143,800.

Easy 5 prizes totaled $ 315,076 an additional $ ? 229.169 EZmatch prize. For an additional $ 1, players can add to your EZmatch Easy 5 tickets for a chance to win up to $ 250 instantly.

Louisiana Lottery, Louisiana Lottery paid more than $ 6.6 million in January to draw-style games, while players scratch tickets raised $ 6.1 million, according to lottery officials today.

The proceeds of the lottery in January fell from $ 14.1 million in December and $ 14.4 million in January 2009.

Lottery allocates at least 50 percent of sales to fund prizes, while at least 35 percent of sales transferred to the state treasury to finance public education in the state. Retailers are paid at least 5 percent in commission and the Lottery retains less than 10 percent of sales to operate.

Louisiana Lottery numbers Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Pick 3:
9-8-8

(Nine, eight, eight)

Pick 4:

9-7-5-0

(Nine, seven, five, zero)

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