Santorum: ‘Grandiosity Has Never Been a Problem With Newt Gingrich’
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(CNSNews.com) – Former Sen. Rick Santorum, seeking to distinguish himself from another conservative in the presidential race, called Newt Gingrich a “friend” Thursday night — but said he doesn’t want a nominee “that I have to worry about…what he’s going to say next.”
“Grandiosity has never been a problem with Newt Gingrich. He — he handles it very, very well” Santorum said, drawing cheers from the debate audience. “And that’s really one of the issues here, folks. I mean, a month ago, he was saying that, oh, I’m — it’s inevitable that I’m going to win the election and I’m destined to do it.
“I don’t want a nominee that I have to worry about going out and looking at the paper the next day and figuring out what is he — worrying about what he’s going to say next.”
Santorum criticized Gingrich for suggesting that Santorum (and Perry) should drop out of the race, noting that he — Santorum — “eventually won” the Iowa caucuses and finished ahead of Gingrich in New Hampshire.
“Let’s just be honest,” Santorum said. “I mean, Newt’s a friend, I love him, but at times you just got to — you know, sort of that, you know, worrisome moment that something’s going to pop. And we can’t afford that in a nominee. We need someone — I’m not the most flamboyant and I don’t get the biggest applause lines here, but I’m steady. I’m solid. I’m not going to go out and do things that you’re going to worry about. I’m going to be out there and I’m going to make Barack Obama the issue in this campaign.”
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Poll: Gingrich maintains lead in South Carolina
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Newt Gingrich leads the GOP field for a second straight day in South Carolina, according to a Public Policy daily tracking poll released Thursday night.
Gingrch leads the field with 35 percent, followed by Mitt Romney at 29 percent and Ron Paul and Rick Santorum at 15 percent each.
PPP was one of four polls released on Thursday to show Gingrich overtaking Romney, who only one week ago held a healthy lead in South Carolina.
The PPP survey was conducted before Thursday night’s debate and during one of the most tumultuous days on the campaign trail.
On Thursday the Iowa Republican Party revealed that a recount of the caucus votes showed that Santorum, not Romney, won the Hawkeye State by a slim margin; Rick Perry withdrew from the race and endoresed Gingrich; and a video leaked of an ABC News interview with Gingrich’s second wife, Marianne Gingrich, who claims he asked her for an “open marriage.”
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Will Newt Gingrich Score A South Carolina Surprise?
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Newt Gingrich clearly owned the night with a strong showing on the debate stage in Charleston, but whether he wins primary day in South Carolina remains the big question.
Even though political observers here agree that Gingrich has a shot at the top prize in the Palmetto State, Mitt Romney is still well-positioned to walk away with a victory after all the votes are counted tomorrow.
All of Romney’s remaining rivals — Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul — have vowed to carry their campaigns on in the next state to vote, Florida, but everyone knows that a Romney win in South Carolina would represent a devastating blow to the rest of the field.
Gingrich could still eke out a win here if, as some polls suggest, he is beginning to consolidate the anti-Romney vote. He will reap at least some benefits from Rick Perry’s decision to quit the race and it also appears he is finding support from other segments of the Republican Party.
“I think in South Carolina, from what I’m hearing, a lot of the Tea Party people are behind Newt,” Tea Party leader Jenny Beth Martin told The Daily Caller’s Alex Pappas in an interview after last night’s debate.
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Obama Will Give Missile Tech To Russia Despite Law
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It appears that Barack Obama has again ignored the rule of law by signing a defense appropriations bill that prohibits him sharing vital United States leading-edge strategic US missile technology with Russia, yet he has told both houses of Congress that he plans to share the US missile technology anyway. Why is this important? Because it goes light-years beyond partisan politics and into an area where our national defense will be put at unreasonable risk. It is believed that the Russians will pass this technology onto China, Iran and North Korea.
I find it bitterly ironic that this president pushes an agenda of excessive government regulation and oversight under the guise of consumer safety. Virtually everything in our homes, offices and automobiles is regulated to some extent by federal bureaucracy. Yet at the same time, he’s subjecting tens of millions of American lives to unreasonable risk by unilaterally giving away our deepest US missile technology to nations hostile to American interests.
So here’s the bottom line. There are those of us who would vote for a Republican candidate because we do not believe in the agenda of this administration. Then there is those of us who would vote again for Barack Obama under the belief that he will take care of us financially by redistributing wealth so that everyone can be more or less equal regardless of skills, talent or work ethic. There’s just one problem. If you take away the United States military’s ability to protect this great nation from a nuclear missile launched from North Korea or even someday Iran, then the concept of federal cradle-to-grave protection and enablement probably loses most of its meaning, doesn’t it?
If you’re concerned, then you might want to watch this video produced by Dick Morris. I think Dick sums it up best when he says that this president
“has defined the opinion of both houses of Congress, both political parties, in pursuit of some phantom agenda of getting the Russians to like us a little bit more…. I think we will beat this guy in November, but we may not have a country by then”.
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Credit Limit Reached: U.S. Treasury Department Suspends Pension Fund Payments
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As the US government reaches yet another historic debt ceiling, requiring an additional $1.2 trillion credit increase from Congress just to keep the system from collapsing into a chaos, the first stop for a short-term loan is federal pension funds.
The US suspended investments into a federal employee retirement fund to avoid breaching the $15.194 trillion (Dh55.8 trillion) debt limit.
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner informed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of the move in a letter yesterday. The so-called G-Fund will be “made whole once the debt limit is increased,” Geithner said. Lawmakers this week will debate a symbolic vote on the debt limit. Under legislation passed in August after months of negotiations between the Obama administration and Republican lawmakers, the president has authority to veto any disapproval resolution that clears both chambers of Congress. The limit would then be raised on January 27. House Republicans plan to adopt a resolution tomorrow rejecting President Barack Obama’s request to raise the debt limit by $1.2 trillion, though the measure will die either in the Senate or by presidential veto. That will allow Obama to lift the cap on his own after Republicans have gone on record against it.
The debt-ceiling increase is to meet commitments already made by the government. The Treasury has been relying on accounting maneuvers to ensure the limit isn’t breached.
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Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy Explained
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Presidential candidate Ron Paul’s non-interventionist foreign policy which aligns with our first president’s philosophy about foreign entanglements seems to be a thorn in the side of the established Republicans who feel Israel must be an exception even though its Prime Minister says they do not need the financial aid. Being a consummate Libertarian, Paul makes no exceptions which brings the wrath of God on his head by the evangelical community.
For decades the GOP establishment figures the sheep will vote for any Republican candidate it chooses. If Paul doesn’t win, rather than not vote at all, the least we can do is go to the polls to vote for strong conservative people to be elected to the Senate and the House of Representatives where all appropriation bills originate and we surely must believe this time around any of those running for president on the GOP ticket will be better than Obama; however, never underestimate Barack and his well-oiled campaign and all his forced union dues money.
When Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) filed once again to run for President, he found RINOs hard pressed to even mention his name not alone say they’ll vote for him if he wins. It’s such a double standard and many voters are getting tired of voting the lesser of two evils but we’ve been burned so often by the smaller government rhetoric, which is now being advocated by Obama also, that we just don’t trust them anymore but I have to admit Gingrich really kicked butt at the South Carolina debate on the 16th receiving the first-ever standing ovation. Now, if we could only believe he wouldn’t flip flop again.
Paul’s persistent message has been resonating with more and more disgruntled Republicans, Independents and Democrats. Many Republicans are former Democrats who exited that party in the 60s when it began patronizing left-wing radicalism. For example, after the Watts Riots in 1965, which the Communists admitted they spent two years to foment, the Communists brought out this pamphlet entitled: “Watts Upsurge: A Communist Appraisal” indicating the challenge of the Watts explosion could be met only by a truly massive program of more government entitlements. This created more dependency on government by the slothful and class warfare and the eventual “white guilt” that elected Obama in 2008. Nothing happens by accident in government.
After Watts, Democrat leaders apologized to the rioters and gave them whatever they wanted and now we have the spoiled Occupy “Squatters.” While I doubt Presidential candidate Ron Paul supports the movement with its chaos and disruption in our communities, he can feel their sense of frustration because he’s been there – done that with his message for years only to be rebuffed and criticized by GOP leaders, the conservative media who seem to be Paul’s worst enemies stooping so low as to call him a racist! This is why we are seeing a variety of strange bedfellows and a blending of different causes including some of his Libertarian views agreeing with the liberal American Civil Liberties Union, for instance, which we’ve known for a long time, is a front for the Communist Party.
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Oil Production Keeps Recession at Bay in North Dakota
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Oil production in the Bakken shale formation is making unemployment virtually nonexistent in North Dakota. With 200 rigs pumping 440,000 barrels of oil per day, the state’s unemployment rate is holding at 3.5 percent. Many of the jobs pay exceptionally well, with high school graduates making more than $100,000 per year.
Jobs Looking for Workers
“We have 18,000 jobs looking for people,” North Dakota Rep. Rich Berg (R) told the Hill, noting, “if our country’s GDP grew at 7 percent, as it does in [my] state, most of our problems would be over in two years.”
“The regulatory environment was already low in North Dakota, certainly better than California’s and some other oil-producing states,” said Brett Narloch, executive director of the North Dakota Policy Council. “As we move forward with oil production, I expect the business environment to get better.”
New Challenges, Opportunities
Oil production in North Dakota now rivals that of OPEC member Ecuador, which produces 485,000 barrels per day. As production keeps increasing, more workers are needed.
The North Dakota legislature is using some of the state’s oil revenue to fund $1.2 billion in infrastructure improvements, including building roads and schools to accommodate the many people bringing their families when they move to the state to work.
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Joe Miller Rocks Yale
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Disapproving hisses and supportive slaps of chairs alternated as former senatorial candidate Joe Miller LAW ’95 delivered a speech opposing federal involvement in the American education system Tuesday evening.
The Tea Party politician, who was invited to campus by the Yale Political Union, told a group of about 130 undergraduates in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall that federal involvement in education is unconstitutional and has not yielded good results for the country. Still, the majority of the crowd expressed disapproval of Miller’s position in the debate, and YPU members ultimately voted against his stance by a vote of 31 to 23.
“The government wants to control the masses,” he said in his speech, evoking strong hisses from the audience.
A former U.S. magistrate judge, Miller said constitutional law provides the strongest support for his argument, arguing that education is legally a state responsibility and pointing out that the Constitution has no mention of the words “education” or “school.”
Miller warned that ignoring the country’s constitutional foundation would damage the rule of law, setting a precedent that may result in a “tyranny of the majority.”
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