Dizzy City's 'Washington Puss' spinners trying to paint Repubs as being in dissarry...... (..Don't count on it, you Libbo BS'rs..)
GOP watch: The elephant in the room
Posted: Monday, November 09, 2009 9:10 AM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: Republicans
The Washington Post has launched a new series looking at GOP’s political condition -- “The Elephant in the Room: Examining the State of the Republican Party.” Dan Balz opened the series yesterday. “One year after hitting bottom in the aftermath of President Obama's election, Republicans have taken their first concrete steps toward recovery. But they remain an embattled and divided force, facing an electorate still skeptical about their capacity to govern and embroiled in a struggle between party regulars and populist conservative forces over how to return to power.”
Pawlenty was in Iowa over the weekend. "Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty criticized health care legislation in Congress as he appeared in what may be an early audition for a 2012 presidential bid," Bloomberg writes. "'We’ve got Congress -- Democratic-controlled Congress -- messing around with a miserable health care bill,' he said. 'They should be focused like a laser on jobs, not acting like a manure-spreader in a wind storm.' Pawlenty’s speech at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines is the first high-profile event of the early try out season in the state that holds the nation’s first presidential caucuses. 'They can’t even get us, in a reasonable time, a vaccine for the H1N1 virus,' said Pawlenty, 48. 'How are they going to manage our health care?'"
So was Mike Huckabee. “2008 Iowa Republican caucuses winner Mike Huckabee spent his Sunday in Davenport, Cedar Rapids and West Des Moines, signing copies of his new book, ‘A Simple Christmas: Twelve Stories That Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit.’ But many of the 300 people who turned out for his book-signing in West Des Moines weren't focused on a holiday that's seven weeks away. Their minds were on 2012.”
As for Sarah Palin, she was firing up some Facebook "Notes" over the weekend, crediting Ronald Reagan in part for the fall of the Berlin Wall; blasting House Democrats for the health care vote; and telling the press again to "quit making things up" because of an event in Wisconsin in which cameras weren't allowed.
firstread.msnbc.msn.com
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