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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (58141)	11/1/2012 12:19:06 AM
From: greatplains_guy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Wisconsin Senate race a ‘bellwether’ for Romney, Ryan By: John Gizzi 10/31/2012 06:05 AM With less than a week to go before Wisconsin voters decide where to send their state’s ten electoral votes, there is a growing sense in the Badger State that its choice for president may well depend on who its voters support in the heated race for the U.S. Senate. Even with favorite son Paul Ryan as the Republican vice presidential nominee, news in the closing days of the election year in Wisconsin, in fact, seems focused less on the presidential race and more on the Senate contest between liberal Democratic Rep. Tammy Baldwin and former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson. A recently released Rasmussen Poll showed Thompson taking the lead over Baldwin for the first time in weeks, with the GOP nominee leading the Democrat among likely voters 48 to 46 percent statewide. The same survey showed Mitt Romney in a dead heat with Barack Obama, each with 49 percent of the vote. “We have here in Wisconsin one of those rare situations in which a second-tier race can actually help the top of ticket,” Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus, himself a native Wisconsinite, told Human Events Tuesday night. Priebus, who spoke to us shortly before appearing at a rally in Hudson, Wisc. with Thompson and Ryan, added that “here, Tommy Thompson is like Miller Lite and Harley Davidson.” “If Tommy wins, you can go to the bank on Mitt Romney carrying Wisconsin,” Wisconsin’s veteran Republican consultant Scott Becher told Human Events. “But if he loses, let’s just say it will be a long night for Romney and Ryan.” Becher called the Baldwin-Thompson race a “bellwether race” for Wisconsin in 2012. The Senate contest is the second race on the statewide ballot after that for president. Moreover, with all 10 U.S. House races pretty much decided for the party that now holds the congressional seat, the Baldwin-Thompson bout is “where all the action is.” Since he narrowly overcame three opponents in the primary earlier this year — including the runner-up, who spent more than $5 million of his own money — an exhausted Thompson trailed Baldwin in most polls. Baldwin (lifetime American Conservative Union rating: 4 percent), who was unopposed in her primary, drew big dollars from left-of-center sources nationwide and seemed better-than-even money to retain the seat of retiring Democratic Sen. Herb Kohl. But in the last few weeks, Thompson seems to have caught fire and campaigned with a vigor of a man much younger than his 70 years. He has put a six-figure amount of his own money in the race and hit hard at Baldwin’s support of the Obama agenda and especially Obamacare. “And in the last debate, held in Milwaukee (Oct. 26), Tommy shined about as well as Romney did in his first debate,” said Becher. “He showed a clear difference between himself and Baldwin on issues from Iran to deficits and reminded us why we elected him four times as governor: because he’s a plain-spoken and feisty guy who can articulate a conservative message.” Perhaps taking a cue from his mentor Thompson, Paul Ryan came back to his homestate earlier this week to stump in Hudson and Eau Claire. Ann Romney appeared at a rally in Green Bay. While Mitt Romney, who postponed a weekend rally in Milwaukee because of Hurricane Sandy, has just announced it is rescheduled for this coming Friday. It seems a good bet that he will be joined on stage by Tommy Thompson. RNC Chairman Priebus recalled to us how Republicans swept the governorship, a U.S. Senate seat and won control of both houses of the legislature when he was state party leader in 2010 and how Gov. Scott Walker handily won a nationally-watched recall election earlier this year. As he put it, “how many times do Republicans have to win in Wisconsin before people realize we can do it?” humanevents.com

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (58141)	11/1/2012 8:58:28 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71588

Don't forget that Obama used his executive powers to block layoff notices from being sent by government contractors due to the impending sequester. The unemployment rate will balloon after the ObamaCare taxes and sequester hits. Mitt Romney will be left with a deepening Obama Recession to deal with. The impending expiration of the Bush tax cuts makes business owners less likely to invest in new business or expansion. The incoming government will have a huge amount of work to do just to undo the worst of OBama's screw ups.

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (58141)	3/23/2013 8:48:41 AM
From: greatplains_guy	Respond to of 71588

Their Own Devices The Senate repeals one ObamaCare tax among many, 79 to 20. March 22, 2013, 7:01 p.m. ET. The Affordable Care Act has been a running series of nasty non-surprises, with many more on the way—gird yourself for 116% insurance premium increases—but sometimes the surprises are real. Take the amazing bipartisan turn against the 2.3% tax on medical device makers, even among liberals who still evince no remorse for voting for the overall bill three years ago. Not that the media noticed, but on Thursday night ObamaCare's $29 billion excise tax on device sales (not profits) lost on the Senate floor in a rout. The vote was 79 to 20, well over the two-thirds supermajority required to override President Obama's threatened veto. More amazing still, the 33 Democratic and one independent defectors didn't merely come from device-making states like Massachusetts (Elizabeth Warren and Mo Cowan) or Minnesota (Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar, the main cosponsor of the amendment with Utah's Orrin Hatch). They included the Senate Budget Chairman, Patty Murray of Washington, and Illinois's Dick Durbin, the Senate's No. 2 leader. New York's Chuck Schumer—Majority Leader in waiting—climbed aboard, as did otherwise conventional progressives like Maryland's Barbara Mikulski and Connecticut's Richard Blumenthal. Before the vote, some of these stalwarts denounced the Affordable Care Act in terms even we might consider excessive. Here's Mr. Franken: "The industry is being punished for its innovation and growth." Or as Ms. Klobuchar put it, "The tax is a burden on medical device businesses but, most importantly, it is a disincentive for jobs. It stifles innovation, and it makes it more difficult for the next generation of lifesaving devices to make it to the market." All of this isn't so much a change of heart as it is a full cardiac transplant. But the amendment was attached to the nonbinding Senate budget resolution. If these penitents really are serious about the damage they're about to cause in the life sciences, the next step is to send a real bill to the House. Last June that chamber voted 270 to 146 to repeal the tax, also close to the 290 veto override threshold. Then dare Mr. Obama to try to defend an anticompetitive, antigrowth tax. Back then the usual media suspects said it would never come to that because the House repeal was DOA in the Senate, but the conventional ObamaCare wisdom is usually false and so it has proven to be again. What the Senate vote shows is that the newest entitlement is far more vulnerable than the political class claims to believe, especially once people see its consequences in practice. There will be many more such reversals. online.wsj.com