News http://www.rightchange.com en lukerussellbaker@gmail.com Copyright 2010 2010-09-07T16:34:32+00:00 Why Nevadans do not need, and America cannot afford Harry Reid Reid has given Nevada the highest state unemployment rate in the country (14.3 percent), and our housing values throughout the state have tumbled almost 50 percent. Thanks Harry

]]> 2010-09-07T16:34:32+00:00 Democrats Run Away from Pelosi During an appearance on CBS-TV’s “Face the Nation” last week, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D.-Fla.) said that “Americans are really going to have a very clear choice set up in November, between moderate Democrats who are centrist, where the country is, and Republicans who are really off on the right wing fringe.”

]]> 2010-09-03T15:17:41+00:00 Christina Romer’s True Confessions Christina Romer, the departing chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, was at a complete loss of words when it came to explaining the state of the economy when she appeared at her valedictory lunch before her returns to her teaching sinecure at Berkley.

]]> 2010-09-03T13:45:59+00:00 “Electoral Armageddon” For Dems Gallup’s latest polling on the Generic Ballot—which measures whether registered voters would rather vote for a Republican or Democrat in the House—has media folk reaching for souped-up adjectives and congressmen reaching for Nancy Pelosi’s throat. Here are the findings from the Gallup report by Frank Newport published yesterday:

]]> 2010-09-02T01:23:20+00:00 Democrats seek separation from Nancy Pelosi Some of the Democratic Party’s most endangered lawmakers are taking steps to distance themselves from Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an attempt to inoculate themselves from charges that they are beholden to the unpopular House leader and supportive of the ambitious national Democratic agenda.

]]> 2010-08-31T14:43:31+00:00 Ind. Democrat Donnelly blasts Pelosi in new ad Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly is taking an unusual jab at his party’s leadership in a campaign ad that refers to climate change legislation as “Nancy Pelosi’s energy tax.”

The two-term Democrat is pulling a page from Republican strategists in trying to distance himself from policies that have some voters wary.

]]> 2010-08-27T16:53:04+00:00 Harry Reid faces a really stiff headwind One fascinating thing about the Nevada Senate race: Even though Sharron Angle has made some comments that would have long ago disqualified most candidates, and even though Harry Reid’s campaign has blasted those comments all over Nevada, Angle and Reid are still locked in an exceptionally close race. This shows just how stiff a headwind Reid faces.

]]> 2010-08-27T15:59:09+00:00 November Snapshot—Poll Shows a Dozen East Coast Dems in Trouble Rep. Paul Kanjorski, the 73-year-old, 13-term Democrat from eastern Pennsylvania, looks to be having a rough reelection bid and a new poll bears that out. Kanjorski is facing Hazelton, Pa. mayor Lou Barletta for the third time, and Kanjorski has been having a gaffe-prone year.

]]> 2010-08-19T17:18:58+00:00 Ground Zero Mosque Developers Deny Talk of Relocation The developers behind a proposed Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero deny there are any plans to relocate, despite claims that New York Gov. David Paterson has renewed efforts to broker a deal over the project.

]]> 2010-08-18T20:24:14+00:00 Is Nancy Pelosi Un-American? We were only kidding last week when we headlined an item “Bring Back HUAC.” The reference was to the House Committee on Un-American Activities, disbanded in 1975, and we were poking fun at the tendency of today’s liberals to label anyone who disagrees with them “un-American.” In the case of the Ground Zero mosque, that would mean the vast majority of Americans are un-American.

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