And who benefits from the amazing generosity of Rex, who graciously took time out of his busy schedule of trying to privatize everything in Missouri to magically start caring about this issue last year? Why, St. Louis “Democrats” of course! One of the biggest beneficiaries was Martin Casas, former President of the St. Louis Young Dems and a current candidate for the Missouri House of Representatives. Casas, if you recall, previously said that he had no position on the disastrous Everything Tax, which should be enough to disqualify anyone from calling themselves a Democrat, asked people to sign a petition from the right-wing front group United for Missouri while working for Rex, and also claimed that he had “no idea” if signing up for A Safer Missouri would help build Rex’s email list. Read more…

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Could one of the reason why Missouri’s economy ranked DEAD LAST out of the 9 states in the Mid-America region in 2011 is because of the sorry people he’s appointed to head the department of economic development? Remember what a disaster his first appointment Linda Martinez was?

The next disaster was David Kerr. On his watch, the city of Moberly was left on the hook for $39 million dollars after being scammed by the Chinese.  To shore up his base who are clearly leery of him, we now have Jason Hall, a 36 year old gay rights St. Louis attorney who is clearly unqualified for the position – the reason why his nomination will die in the senate tomorrow. Don’t the people of Missouri deserve better Mr. Governor?Similar Posts:

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Liberal national blog Talking Points Memo has our worst liberal spin of the day:

“In Missouri, a new survey from Public Policy Polling shows incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill in a dead heat with her Republican challengers, mainly because her challengers are both unknown and have high unfavorables.”

WTF!!!!! That sure isn’t how we see it. Shouldn’t she be running away with this thing if her potential opponents are unknown and have high unfavorables???? The former state treasurer is unknown? No, Claire is in a dead heat due to her embrace of Obama’s disastrous liberal policies, coupled with the people of Missouri seeing through her “moderate” charade.

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Obama bundler Tom Carnahan

The Democrats have had for years a great scheme going that uses your money to fund their campaigns. A great example is their ardent support for public sector unions. We all know they really don’t give a rip about the “little guy”, it’s all about stealing the poor sap’s money (in the form of union dues) and then funneling that money back to the DNC to fund campaigns. Another great example is chronicled below:

Bloomberg Businessweek:

Obama also reported that the number of fundraisers bringing in at least $50,000 increased to 445, from 351 at the end of September. He named 61 bundlers, supporters who tap their own networks to help generate donations to the campaign, who raised more than $500,000, up from 41 in September. Obama is the only presidential candidate to publicly identify backers who are bundling donations.

New $500,000 bundlers include Bruce Heyman, a managing director of New York-based Goldman Sachs Group Inc.; Tom Carnahan, chairman of Exelon Corp.’s St. Louis-based Wind Capital Group LLC, an alternative-energy company and brother of Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and U.S. Representative Russ Carnahan. Read more…

Taxpayer subsidies to the tune of $100 million taxpayer dollars goes to Mr. Carnahan’s wind farm, and in return, he gives and raises Obama $500,000. That’s a pretty good return on Obama’s investment if you ask us! Especially when the money you’re giving away is not your own.

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Today brought even more news it’s obvious that President Obama would prefer not to discuss. The Hill reports, “The Congressional Budget Office on Tuesday predicted the budget deficit will rise to $1.08 trillion in 2012. CBO also projected the jobless rate would rise to 8.9 percent by the end of 2012, and to 9.2 percent in 2013. . . . If the CBO estimate is correct, it would mean that the United States recorded a deficit of more than $1 trillion for every year of Obama’s first term. The deficit was $1.4 trillion in 2009, $1.3 trillion in 2010 and $1.3 trillion in 2011. The largest deficit recorded before that was $458 billion in 2008.”

Meanwhile the AP reports, “A private research group says that consumer confidence retreated in January after two straight months of big gains. The Conference Board is reporting Tuesday that its Consumer Confidence Index now stands at 61.1, down from a revised 64.8 in December. Economists had expected a reading of 68. . . . A reading of 90 indicates a healthy economy, a level the index hasn’t approached since December 2007 when the recession began.”

And according to The Wall Street Journal, “U.S. home prices fell again in November, according to the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller indexes, which reported Tuesday that the majority of metropolitan markets posted declines. The U.S. housing market has remained sluggish despite lower prices and interest rates . . . .”

Yet given all these facts, Democrats continue to claim “we are in great shape.” That’s precisely what Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said last week at a press conference of Democrat Senate leaders. And in a recent weekly address, President Obama said, “[T]he most important thing we need to do is get more Americans back to work.  … We’re heading in the right direction.”

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St. Louis businessman John Brunner was the only announced candidate running for US Senate that elected not to attend The Conversation with the Candidates at Branson High School – but that doesn’t mean he didn’t listen online to what his two opponents had to say during the nearly two hour program.

HometownDailyNews.com has learned that Mr. Brunner sent a text message to Sarah Steelman about an hour into the debate, saying quote – Your (sp) doing a good job. Read more…

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Yet Ener1 isn’t even the latest problem for a so-called “green energy” company that received millions in taxpayer dollars from the Obama administration. The Las Vegas Sun reported last week, “Just seven months after California-based solar power company Amonix Inc. opened its largest manufacturing plant, in North Las Vegas, the company’s contractor has laid off nearly two-thirds of its workforce. Flextronics Industrial, the Singapore solar panel manufacturer that partnered with Amonix to staff the new $18 million, 214,000-square-foot plant, laid off about 200 of its 300-plus employees Tuesday. . . . Amonix received a $5.9 million investment tax credit through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act in 2010, and another $12 million in private capital helped finance the plant.”

The WSJ adds, “Mr. Obama is undeterred. In last week’s speech, he defended his taxpayer ‘investments’ in private commercial companies, noting that ‘some technologies don’t pan out, some companies fail.’” He would know. Though perhaps if Mr. Obama weren’t throwing hundreds of millions down the green sinkhole, he wouldn’t have to target the nation’s real job creators for higher taxes to foot his losses.”

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Senate Democrats think “we are in great shape”?

Currently, over 13 million Americans are unemployed. There are fewer jobs in America than when President Obama took office in 2009, and the unemployment rate is still more than 8%. And Sen. Schumer thinks “we are in great shape”?

On Thursday, the AP reported, “Fewer people bought new homes in December. The decline made 2011 the worst year for new -homes sales on records dating back nearly half a century. The Commerce Department said Thursday new-home sales fell 2.2 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 307,000. The pace is less than half the 700,000 that economists say must be sold in a healthy economy. About 302,000 new homes were sold last year. That’s less than the 323,000 sold in 2010, making last year’s sales the worst on records dating back to 1963. And it coincides with a report last week that said 2011 was the weakest year for single-family home construction on record.” In December, Standard & Poor’s announced, “The Fourth Quarter Starts with Broad-based Declines in Home Prices”. And there have been 7.7 million foreclosure filings since President Obama took office. But Sen. Schumer thinks “we are in great shape”?

Today, National Journal writes, “Real Gross Domestic Product rose by just 1.7 percent in 2011, the Commerce Department reported on Friday. That’s not great news for President Obama, who oversaw 3 percent GDP growth in 2010 and cannot use the latest GDP data to support a narrative of economic turnaround.” The AP notes, “The Commerce Department said Friday that the economy grew just 1.7 percent last year, roughly half of the growth in 2010 and the worst since the recession.” And University of Pennsylvania economist Justin Wolfers tells The New York Times, “At this rate, we’ll never reduce unemployment. . . . The recovery has been postponed, again.” But Sen. Schumer says “we are in great shape”?Similar Posts:

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County Executive Charlie A. Dooley said Wednesday that he was laying off 20 full-time employees in the parks department and six in public works. “It’s unfortunate and disappointing but it’s what we had to do with the budget costraints,” Dooley said Wednesday. He said the cuts would save the county about $4 million. Of that amount, $3.6 million comes out of the parks budget.

Council Chairman Mike O’Mara, who played a key role in ending the impasse in December, reacted angrily Wednesday to news of the layoffs. “Charlie and I had an agreement that there would not be any layoffs this year, and he broke it,” O’Mara, D-Florissant, said Wednesday. “His promise was part of my sell (of the budget compromise) to my fellow council members. I don’t know what happened since last month, but now I’ve lost my trust with my council members.” Dooley denied making such a promise. Read more…

We know of at least  two positions in county government Mr. Dooley could cut that would save taxpayers $200,000 a year in salary and benefits:

“First, the day after Dooley’s re-election mind you, St. Louis County taxpayers learned that the taxes on their homes was going up. Next, we learned that Dooley consiglieri John Temporiti’s son was awarded a no bid, $70,000 a year job that was created just for him – during a three year hiring freeze!

And this week, we learn that arguably the worst spokesperson to ever work on a campaign, was rewarded for her services with a nice cushy $88,000 year job in county government.” Read more….

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The Democratically controlled United States Senate passed a dubious milestone the other day. Incredibly, 1,000 days has passes since the senate passed a budget. One thousand days folks! That’s almost three years! Can you believe that one of the president’s campaign themes this year will be a “do nothing Congress?” Right there supporting this irresponsibility – along with President Obama – is ‘moderate’ Claire McCaskill. The same Claire McCaskill who was recently named as one of Washington’s worst porkers because of her reckless spending.

According to this CBS news report from last summer, “The latest posting by the Treasury Department shows the national debt has now increased $4 trillion on President Obama’s watch. The debt was $10.626 trillion on the day Mr. Obama took office. The latest calculation from Treasury shows the debt has now hit $14.639 trillion. It’s the most rapid increase in the debt under any U.S. president.”

“Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.” (Sen. Obama, Congressional Record, S.2237-8, 3/16/06)

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The Martin for Congress campaign announced this morning that Mr. Martin is switching gears. Instead of running against former Ambassador Ann Wagner for the second congressional Republican nomination, Martin will set his sights on attorney general Chris Koster. One could say that this race will be contest of one ambitious opportunist against another ambitious opportunist. Koster is deeply flawed and if he didn’t have a lap dog press protecting him, would be very vulnerable to defeat this year in an increasingly red state.

With this decision to switch races, Martin’s ardent supporters will claim his switcheroo was orchestrated by the ‘party establishment’ to clear the path to Washington for Ambassador Wagner. We posted his trial balloon late last year that he was running for lt. governor and we were castigated by his supporters and accused of ‘being tools of the establishment.’ We’re sure Mr. Martin factored all this in his decision, but what do you do when you get an offer from powerful forces that you can’t refuse?

Here’s a partial list of heavy hitter endorsements from today’s announcement:

David Cole, Chairman of the Missouri Republican Party: “As he has demonstrated throughout his career in public service, including his near-defeat of an entrenchedDemocrat incumbent in 2010, Ed Martin is a respected attorney, a staunch conservative, a tireless campaigner, and he will make an outstanding Attorney General.  At a time when the federal government is out-of-control, Chris Koster refuses to aggressively stand up for Missourians.  Ed will fight against job-killing federal mandates such as Obamacare, and he will vigorously defend laws passed by the Missouri General Assembly.”

Matt Blunt, former Missouri Governor: “Missourians need an Attorney General who will respect our state’s constitution, ensure that politics never overshadow the rule of law and stand up for our shared Missouri values. Ed Martin will bring these qualities combined with tremendous integrity and an unmatched work ethic to the Attorney General’s office. It is a pleasure to support Ed Martin and to endorse his campaign to be Missouri’s next Attorney General.”

US Senator Roy Blunt: “I’ve had the chance to work with Ed over the course of many years, and during that time, I’ve always been impressed by his unwavering commitment to smaller government and fiscal responsibility. Those values are especially important today, as our state and our nation continue to struggle to jumpstart private sector job creation and rein in out-of-control government spending. I believe Ed Martin represents the kind of fiscally conservative leader who we need in Missouri, and that’s why I’m proud to endorse his candidacy for Attorney General.”

Jim Talent, former US Senator: “Ed Martin will be a superb Attorney General for Missouri. Ed has the integrity, energy and judgment to serve our state well as its chief legal officer. I enthusiastically support Ed Martin’s campaign and am encouraging Missourians to join me in helping elect an Attorney General who will serve their interests, not the political interests.”

Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson: “Ed Martin will be a great Attorney General for our state. He is smart, energetic and relentless — all great qualities to have in an AG. I wish him all the best of luck as he aspires to serve Missourians.”

Gene McNary, former President of Missouri Prosecutors Association and St. Louis County Prosecutor: “Ed is an excellent lawyer, a hard worker, and knows how to run an office. He would be an excellent Attorney General.”

Bill Hennessy, President of the St. Louis Tea Party “Ed Martin Jr. of St. Louis has redirected his fire to the Attorney General race, and this is great news for everyone except Chris Koster.”Similar Posts:

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