THIS WEEK IN POLITICS


 


Michele Bachman suspends race for President- Iowa was her home of birth, it gave birth to the Bachman revolution with her winning the straw poll last spring  and it is now the scene for the death of her Presidential hopes after only a 5 per cent showing at the Iowa Caucus. Click Here for video from CBS News

Perry decides to go forward for Primaries -

Calling Iowa Quirky after being beaten badly in the Caucuses there, Governor Rick Perry seems like a different man the next morning back on his beloved Texas soil. He said he intended to last thru South Carolina and hinted other primary battles will be forth coming. Perry is not expected to do well in New Hampshire but is counting on Carolina since he is a son of the South.
In a defiant display of executive power, President Barack Obama on Wednesday bucked GOP opposition and name Richard Cordray as the nation's chief consumer during a public appearance in Shaker Heights, Ohio.  Click here for story from CBS news.

McCain congratulates Romney on 8 vote Landslide Victory in Iowa - Senator John McCain who failed in his Presidential bid in 2008 made it clear that as far as he is concerned mainstream Republican Values rest solely on the nomination of Mitt Romney for the President. McCain made an appearance in Manchester, NH hours after the Iowa victory for Romney leaving no doubt who he is supporting this time around. Click here for story from CBS News.
Fake Democrat Senator Retires - Newt: is he really the smartest kid on the block?- Paper Ballots in Iowa means Paul will win?

Senator Ben Nelson will not be missed- He announced the day after Christmas he will not seek another term as Senator from Nebraska.  He's played a major role in slowing down, stopping, or outright defeating some of the most important progressive reforms Democrats have tried to pass. He blocked real bank reform, stalled the fight against climate change, and killed the public option just to name a few. The country will be much better off without him so already 2012 is looking positive. 

Gingrich tried to spin his failure to get on the Republican Primary ballot in Virginia, he did not get enough signatures but it is just one more piece of evidence he is in the race to sell books, get business deals and get paid speaking fees- He loves terrorist threats so much because it gives the government so much power yet he pretends to not like big government and pushes civil liberty but really likes strict government control of its citizens--Will the public catch on to this fraud or will he outsmart himself once again and actually get the nomination for the GOP race for President? 

January 3 will see thousands of GOP faithful turn out for their caucus in Iowa. We invite you to click on this link from CBS News and see how the Caucus really works? It is obviously a prostitution of the American idea of Democratic decisions but there is some good news here- the participants write down the name of their person they want, its put in a shoe box, and then counted in front of any and everyone who is interested, so that's why Ron Paul will more than likely win this year, the GOP can't easily fix this election. 

Obama and Gingrich

Obama channels Teddy Roosevelt
A small place in Kansas was the centerpiece for Teddy Roosevelt's speech laying out the "square deal" as the trust buster of the time reflected on the problems of the time, the wealthy were not giving anyone else a chance to capture the golden ring of success in American Capitalism. 101 years later President Barack Obama used the same location for a speech showing that once again the richest in America were no longer playing fair and no opportunity was being given to the bulk of the population to grab onto the American dream. It worked for Teddy and the American People, will a 21st Century sea change occur in the financial future of most Americans under Obama's watch? 
 
Iowa might be a good test of this. The Republican Primary is coming closer and closer and more and more it looks like Newt Gingrich is going to be the darling of right. A new CBS New York Times poll gives Newt about twice the amount of support of former leader Mitt Romney. Ron Paul in this poll was behind Mitt but not by much, other polling has given Paul a second place. It is pretty obvious that the power in the Republican Party is not going to be supporting Paul but events may actually propel him higher just as it appears this new "populist" approach by Obama will serve him well in the year of the "occupy movement."
Jerry Pippin (12-6-11) 

and Gingrich gets evangelicals to forgive his sins and support him anyway
Cain leaves--Gingrich re enters- Civil Liberties Huff on Capitol Hill could give Ron Paul a last-minute surge- By Jerry Pippin (10:00 p.m. Central- December 3, 2011) President Obama has ten days to veto the Defense Spending Bill which has suddenly become the poster child for civil liberties due to strange amendments that read like something out of the Kremlin in the height of the Cold War-Holding People indefinitely and allowing the police to be replaced by military soldiers? In America? There were even far worse amendments to this bill that were defeated, one by Senators Inhofe and Sessions would allow the military to just ignore any court orders at all that would release prisoners. Meanwhile as Herman Cain said today during his withdrawal from the race, "Running for President has turned into a dirty business." I might add serving as President is not too much better these days.
 
But to whom benefits with the Cain attack and submission? Another man of questionable character seems to over ruled the field, Newt Gingrich, who left as Speaker in 1998 in ethics clouds and "dirty deals." Seems to have been chosen by those "king makers" who evidently love "dirty business." In Iowa, Newt now is polling with about 25 per cent of the vote of potential caucus attenders, passing Mitt Romney barely and Ron Paul is a third position positioned to gain because of his strong civil liberties stance in Iowa, a state known to embrace these issues over many others.  Michelle Bachman who seemed to be running for First Preacher and Rick Perry at one time the favorite of the pundits, have fallen from grace and hover around 8 per cent. Santa, New Years Parties and then the Iowa Caucus, all straight ahead within weeks. 2012 is springing upon us and it looks like a very strange year.    

Cain's speech in Atlanta on Saturday, December 3, 2011, announcing his suspension from the race for President. (courtesy of c-span)
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