CNN is hosting the 2nd 2012 GOP Presidential debate. The location is Manchester, New Hampshire, site of the nation’s first primary in 2012. Present will be Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Herman Cain and Rick Santorum.
Here’s the live stream.
Treat this as an open thread.
Former Republican Governor George Pataki has no odds of winning the 2012 GOP nomination. He’s a Liberal Republican who drove NY into the ground. This isn’t stopping him from airing ads attacking Obama. Clearly it seems reports he’s planning on running for President are true!
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: PATAKI ON THE AIR. Former New York Gov. George Pataki hit the television airwaves in New Hampshire today with a new ad for his nonprofit advocacy group, “No American Debt.”
“Both parties got us here,” Pataki says in the ad, “reckless spending, record debt.”
But he then targets only President Barack Obama, accusing him of ignoring both his own bipartisan commission’s suggestions for reducing the deficit as well as attacking the GOP plan put forward by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan.
Pataki charges that Obama’s proposal is to “raise taxes and cut spending _ somewhere, someday.
“That’s no plan,” Pataki says, urging viewers to join his group.
No word yet is Bob Dole or Johnson McCain have announced their intentions of running.
The where of this is more surprising than the what. You have bloviating unionists whining that people will surely die if any budget cuts go through, chaniting public employees (I’m convinced we need to fire all public employees and start over. It isn’t like there is a labor shortage out there), and the whole nine yards. But it is happening in New Hampshire. Who knew they had Republicans there? Excerpt:
CONCORD, N.H. — Amid chants from the gallery and thousands of demonstrators in the Statehouse plaza, New Hampshire’s Republican-dominated House approved a $10.2 billion budget yesterday that makes deep cuts to social programs and strips public unions of much of their bargaining power.
The House debated the budget for five hours before Republicans pushed it through, 243-124. Early in the debate, chants of “Shame On You!” rained down from a raucous crowd in the gallery, which was temporarily cleared but reopened before the final vote. Outside the Statehouse, thousands more gathered to voice their opposition.
Republican House Speaker William O’Brien called it a historic achievement to pass a spending plan to the Senate that raises no taxes or fees or borrows for operating costs. The loud voices outside weren’t the ones speaking to him, O’Brien said.
“The voices that speak to me are the taxpayers who say (the spending is) too much,” he told reporters.
Good for them. I hope we see more of this. We really cannot afford these bloated budgets anymore.
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