Paula Deen meet the Truett family but for different 'sinful' reasons.
America has become so P.C. afflicted if carried to its logical extreme PC'ism could flush the entire 'sinful' white population, along with black comedians and rappers, from our shores or, at the very least, get them unemployed.
I thought Obama's policies were designed to accomplish high unemployment.
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Col. West and Gabriel Gomez are two candidates who deserved support from 'Republican Big Wigs,' because they exemplify the essence of conservative principles.
They are role models who also happen to be excellent examples of diversity and self sacrifice which are both personal characteristics Republicans constantly embrace.
So why are Republican fat cats acting wimpy? Why, Karl Rove are you and your 'fat cats' selectively ducking potentially winnable and completely worthy fights? (See 1 below.)
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Obama's obeisance to The Greens and his continued policy of maintaining our energy dependence. (See 2 below.)
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What will a Hillary Presidential Campaign be like? Very much like Obama's in several respects.
First and foremost, any criticism of her will be deemed an attack on women. Anyone asking her about her many lies will be accused of making slurs on women. Anyone asking her about her participation and role in Obama's failed foreign policy initiatives and Benghazi will be accused of engaging in a war on women.
Second, as with Obama, the press and media will circle the wagons and virtually everything of a searching and piercing nature will be off limits. The press and media, who helped her lose to Obama the first time, will rally to her defense and will shield and fawn over her.
Third, Hillary, on the other hand, will do her best to dance away from any connection with Obama's failed and inept foreign policy. It will be as if she was never his Secretary of State. She could be asked what advice she give Obama that differed from his own and why, if he did not take it and she vehemently disagreed, did she not offer her resignation. She will reply loyalty to my country and quit attacking me because I am a woman running for the presidency. As with the IRS attacks on Conservatives that response should shut up most opposition.
Then there will be Ole Bill out there running interference in his inimitable style, comparing Hillary to Joan of Arc, making all the women in the country and audiences swoon at his very presence while encouraging them to cast for Hillary because of the prospect of having one of their own sex elected.
Eight years of Obama proves the judgement and common sense of our nation's voters is so badly damaged Hillary could be a shoo in. After all, she will have the women, the blacks, who will do whatever their preachers and Jesse Jackson tell them, the Hispanics won't even count though they will follow along dutifully and money will be no object because the unions will kick in whatever is needed.
The only thing that can stop Hillary is her health. Cosmetically speaking, she just took care of her wrinkles in a New York hospital.
Whomever the Republicans will run is likely to prove a non event. Stay tuned!
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Dick
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1)GOP Donors Are Sitting Out Massachusetts Senate Race
By NEIL KING JR.
Next week's special Senate election in Massachusetts is offering a stark contrast to a similar contest three years ago that came to symbolize a newly emboldened Republican Party.
In 2010, a bevy of conservative groups and outside supporters surged in to help the Republican candidate, Scott Brown, pull off an upset victory that shocked Democrats and complicated their quest to overhaul the country's health-care laws.
This time, such groups are giving scant help to the Republican nominee, Gabriel Gomez, in his uphill battle against veteran U.S. Rep. Ed Markey for the seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry. The dearth of outside support has left Mr. Gomez exposed to a wave of ads from the Markey campaign and its allies, stirring anger in some Republican circles that the party is being too hesitant and too timid.
"This is proof-positive that the party would rather conduct blue-ribbon studies on the sort of candidates we'd like to have instead of actually supporting those candidates," said Brad Todd, a GOP strategist who is advising the Gomez campaign.
Mr. Gomez fits the profile that many in the party see as desirable: He is young, at 47 years old, a first-generation American and a Latino. A former Navy SEAL, he worked as a private-equity investor.
John Jordan, a wealthy GOP donor from California, has moved in the past two weeks to pour more than $1.2 million of his own money into TV ads supporting Mr. Gomez, largely out of frustration that established Republican groups are doing little. In an interview,
Mr. Jordan said the party had developed a "fear of losing" and had slipped into "a fit of navel-gazing" since its setbacks in the 2012 elections.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee has chipped in about $900,000 for the Gomez campaign, and the Republican National Committee has sent in teams to target voters and get people to the polls on Tuesday.
But high-powered conservative groups like American Crossroads and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, both of which poured hundreds of millions into congressional races last year, have decided to stay out of the Massachusetts race.
American Crossroads President Steven Law explained why in an email to donors on June 10, citing the group's private polling to argue there was little "potential for a pro-Gomez surge.
" Mr. Markey, Mr. Law said, "can win by standing still." As a result, Mr. Law concluded, there was little reason for Republican donors to "go all-in" to help Mr. Gomez.
A raft of recent polls have shown Mr. Markey with a lead of anywhere from seven to as many as 20 percentage points. But operatives on both sides caution that the expected low turnout for an election in the early days of summer makes the outcome of the race hard to predict.
In 2010, Mr. Brown raised $18 million to fuel his come-from-behind win over Democrat Martha Coakley, not counting the nearly $2 million more that outside groups, including the Chamber of Commerce, spent to advertise on his behalf and to target likely voters.
As of June 5, the most recent reporting date, Mr. Gomez had raised $3.3 million, compared with Mr. Markey's nearly $8 million. The 66-year-old Democrat also has received far more help from outside liberal groups.
While Mr. Jordan joins a small band of outside groups assisting Mr. Gomez, the Markey campaign has benefited from more than $4 million in ads paid for by groups that include national labor unions, Democratic super PACs, the League of Conservation Voters and Planned Parenthood.
Gomez supporters say they have encountered significant pushback when trying to raise large sums for the candidate from Republican donors. A political-action committee formed to back Mr. Gomez, Committee for a Better Massachusetts, took in just $90,000 from eight donors leading up to the April primary.
Since the group began to seek funds again in June, "the money just hasn't been forthcoming," said Eric Fehrnstrom, a spokesman for the group and a top adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential bid last year.
He said the group has a set of TV ads that are ready to go but won't air for a lack of funds. Big Republican donors "are looking at their win/loss record" from the last election, he said, "and just don't want to add another mark to their loss side."
Brad Dayspring, spokesman for the NRSC, the GOP's national Senate campaign arm, said the group was "extremely proud to have invested so heavily—and worked so hard—to elect" Mr. Gomez.
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2) Obama Administration Cuts Oil Development on Federal Land
By Sandy Fitzgerald
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The Obama administration is calling for cutting the amount of federal lands open for oil shale and tars sands development in the Western states, a plan that industry officials say may force companies to look overseas for opportunities.
A new Bureau of Land Management plan calls for allowing 700,000 acres of land for development, reports Fox News. This is a drastic cut from the Bush administration, which had set aside 1.3 million acres, and the oil industry is outraged by the change.
"What they basically did was make it so that nobody is going to want to spend money going after oil shale on federal government lands," said Dan Kish, Senior Vice President of Institute for Energy Research.
Oil shale drilling is different from the hydraulic fracking process being used in places like the Bakken shale region in North Dakota or the Niobrara in Colorado. Fracking breaks through lwyers of shale rock and pumps out oil.
But oil shale refers to the rock itself. When companies subject the rock to pressure or high temperatures, either by leaving it in place or removing it, oil develops.
Colorado Wildlife Federation Spokesman Todd Malmsbury said the process raises a great deal of concerns about the impact on the region's water and land.
"Water is the most important resource we have in the West," Malmsbury said. "If we pollute that water, if we deplete that water, it's going to hurt everyone out here."
The Bureau of Land Management said it is not against the oil shale and tar sands development, but is restricting the amount of public lands until the processes prove safe, and may release more federal lands in coming years if it is safe to do so.
But Kish said the reduction will force the energy industry to look elsewhere, even in other countries, for development.
"The Chinese are inviting companies in, companies that may have done business in the United States if we'd had a better approach," said Kish. "And we don't even know the total extent (of the potential for oil from shale in America) but it's basically around a trillion barrels...which would be as much as the world has used since the first oil well was drilled 150 years ago.
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But conversation groups applaud the decision, saying that drilling can damage the land and its natural resources.
"Why in the world risk our heritage, our hunting and fishing traditions and all of the sustainable economy that comes from that on something that's speculative? said Malmsbury. "It doesn't make sense from a dollars and cents standpoint.
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However, seven different environmental groups plan to sue over the issue, reports KSL.com in Utah, saying BLM did not consider the impact of oil development on endangered species in the area.
“The Colorado River has nothing left to give, and it’s not in the public interest to allow water-guzzling mining projects to mangle and pollute the productivity of this vital watershed any further,” said John Weisheit, Living Rivers’ conservation director.
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