NRCC: Travis Childers, Just The Facts

The National Republican Congressional Committee has a greatest hits web page up called ChildersFacts.com with video and various items including the following.

•The Daily Journal (Tupelo, MS) said Travis Childers’ campaign made “a serious misjudgment” in one of its attack ads. The premise of Childers’ ad is “simply not true,” and the campaign “should pull the…ad” because it “lowers the quality of debate.” Further, the Commercial Dispatch (Columbus, MS) called claims made in the same ad “unfair,” “lame,” and “misleading.” (Additional Information)

•Travis Childers voted for Barack Obama’s $787 billion dollar stimulus plan that has left the nation deeper in debt while Mississippi unemployment hit a 23-year high. Even worse, his vote helped give tax breaks to foreign companies creating jobs in China. (Additional Information)

•Travis Childers wrote a letter to a judge asking for leniency in the sentencing of disgraced lawyer Joey Langston, who pleaded guilty to trying to bribe a judge on behalf of his client Dickie Scruggs. Less than one month after Childers wrote the leniency letter for Joey Langston, Childers took a twenty-three hundred dollar campaign check from Langston’s lawyer, the maximum allowable contribution. (Additional Information)

•Travis Childers has supported higher taxes. He voted for a permanent extension of the current death tax rate, which the Wall Street Journal calls “the largest increase in the death tax in U.S. history,” and he voted for an increase in carried interest and enterprise value taxes. But Travis Childers has been delinquent in paying his property taxes six times since getting elected to Congress, and late a total of 221 times since 1999 – even as he served as a county official in charge of collecting other people’s property taxes. (You may find additional information here. You may find additional information about his tax delinquency here and here.)

Gene Taylor All Smiles For Nancy Pelosi

The Mississippi Republican Party (hattip Majority) has posted a CSPAN clip showing how happy Gene Taylor was to vote for Nancy Pelosi. It speaks for itself. NotMyRep.com

Capital City Young Republicans Kick-Off with Senator Roger Wicker

The Capital Area Young Republicans filed their national charter papers and kicked-off the club's activities with a visit by U.S. Senator Roger Wicker at Hal & Mal's in Jackson. Mississipp Republican Party Chairman Brad White introduced Wicker at the event.

The group "will foster active participation in the political process for conservatives ages 18 through 40 from Hinds, Madison, and Rankin Counties."

“I am pleased to announce the official establishment of the Capital Area Young Republicans, which will provide young adults with an opportunity to network with like-minded individuals in the Metro Area,” said Matt Allen, CAYR chairman. “As a young conservative, I realize the importance of engaging our elected leaders on issues that affect all of us, no matter what age. CAYR will provide a forum for individuals to come together to learn more about the Republican Party, candidates, and relevant news.”

According to its governing charter, the Capital Area Young Republicans will promote and encourage support for and participation in the Republican Party at the local, state, and national level; provide information about news, elections, candidates, and activity updates; and foster active participation in the political process, particularly among young adult in the tri-county area.

Obama Needs a Mulligan in the Gulf

Majority in Mississippi notes that while President Obama urges Americans to visit and vacation on the Gulf Coast, it is all too much of do what I say not what I do. He is going to Maine: 1750 miles away.

GOP.com invites Republicans to use a widget to list their personal choices for "The Top 5 Most Ridiculous Things Obama Has Done Since the Oil Spill." The choices at Play Golf or Save the Gulf:

Instead of attending a memorial service for the eleven workers killed, Obama flew to California to raise funds for Barbara Boxer

Obama went golfing ten times since the explosion in the Gulf

Obama turned down 13 countries that offered to help us clean up the Gulf

President Obama has refused to return BP's contributions; he is the largest recipient of their campaign donations over the past twenty years

Obama announced a job-killing drilling moratorium that could cost Louisiana $2.97 billion in revenue and 7,590 jobs directly related to the oil industry

Obama repeatedly denied requests from Gulf Coast lawmakers for necessary cleanup items like oil-blocking booms and skimmers

Obama originally denied Louisiana officials permission to build up barrier islands between the coast's marshes and the gulf

Obama let 10 days pass before sending any Cabinet-level officials to Louisiana's coast

Obama's Interior Department Chief of Staff rafted with wife on "work-focused" trip in Grand Canyon during the spill

Obama said that the Gulf disaster "echoes 9/11"

Obama attended private concerts by Paul McCartney and Kelly ClarksonObama took two vacations (one to his hometown Chicago and one to Asheville, North Carolina)
The liberal think tank Center for American Progress appears to have more influence on spill policy than the president's in-house advisers

MSGOP: "Mr. Franks presents no ideas, no vision, and no solution to Mississippi’s budget challenges"

Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Brad White put the smackdown on Jamie Franks. As we mentioned yesterday, the Mississippi Democratic Party's reaction to Governor Haley Barbour's budget proposal was essentially: "No". Rather than suggest ideas, they only attacked.

GOP Chairman Brad White responded (ht Y'all):

“Jamie Franks shows us the difference between big government, big spending Democrats and the prudent reforms presented by Governor Haley Barbour.”

“Governor Barbour presented a comprehensive recommendation to balance the budget, improve the delivery of services, and not raise taxes. That's real leadership. And the Governor said he's willing to listen to other proposals and work with other perspectives, but Mr. Franks offers no constructive proposals, only negative attacks and tired political rhetoric. Mr. Franks presents no ideas, no vision, and no solution to Mississippi’s budget challenges. I’m sure Governor Barbour fully expects to work with a number of Democrats to hammer out a balanced budget and recognizes that Mr. Franks does not speak for them."

“The governor will have to make more cuts to our current budget, next year’s budget will be even tighter, and 2012 looks to be even worse. His reforms will balance our budget during these tough years, and when the recession ends, Mississippi will be better positioned to grow faster and stronger as a result - but not if we listen to Jamie Franks. His same old, tired, broken-down political rhetoric won’t pay the bills or balance the budget. He needs to sell his Obama-Pelosi style policies somewhere else because Mississippi is simply not buying them.”

Booya.

Majority in Mississippi also has some thoughts on this.

Flowchart of Obamacare

This flowchart is from the U.S. House Republican Conference

Reforma

President Barack Obama's Health Care Plan: Reforma

Uneducated Knee Jerk

Andy Taggart and Jere Nash discuss Delbert Hosemann's "uneducated knee-jerk" comments on WLBT's Red-Blue Review.

Spend, Tax, Borrow, Repeat

From a recent fundraising email from Michael Steele for the RNC. He nails it.

There is just one page in the Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid instruction manual for running the government.

It reads like this:

Step 1: Spend
Step 2: Tax
Step 3: Borrow
Step 4: Repeat Steps 1 through 3

In the first 50 days of the Obama Administration, the Pelosi-Reid Democrat-controlled Congress voted for $1.2 trillion in new government spending.

Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell had the best take on the Democrats' runaway spending, "To put that in perspective, that's about $24 billion a day, or about $1 billion an hour -- most of it borrowed."

And exactly how do the liberal Democrats propose to pay for all this new spending? Higher taxes and borrowing, of course.

Obama's budget proposal calls for a massive tax increase of $1.4 trillion and at least $646 billion in new energy taxes that will be paid by every American family as companies pass on the cost to consumers.

Since tax hikes won't cover the entire cost of this boondoggle, our government will have to borrow more from foreign governments and creditors. This will lead to our national debt tripling over the next ten years to $23.1 trillion and gives our foreign creditors like China a greater say in the America we leave for our children and grandchildren.

Mississippi Republican Party endorses Lamar, Pierce, Smith, Chandler

Yesterday, the Mississippi Republican party endorsed Ann Lamar, Randy Pierce, Jim Smith, and David Chandler for the Mississippi Supreme Court. From the release:

“These four individuals have demonstrated experience, integrity, fairness and a commitment to the Mississippi values the Republican Party supports,” said Republican Chairman Brad White.

In the Central District, the Republican Party endorsed Chief Justice Jim Smith for reelection. “As Chief Justice, Jim Smith has led the Supreme Court to timely hearings and has cleared judicial backlogs. With a proven record of fair leadership as Chief Justice, we endorse him for reelection.”

The GOP endorsed Chancery Judge Randy “Bubba” Pierce for the Southern District post currently held by Oliver Diaz. White said, “Judge Pierce represented his constituents with honor and integrity as Chairman of the Education Committee in the House of Representatives. The Democrats there started giving him the cold shoulder when he showed his independence and voted with his fellow conservatives for tort reform. And after being appointed by Governor Haley Barbour to the judiciary, Judge Pierce continues to demonstrate fairness, integrity, and a commitment to Mississippi values.”

“When Governor Barbour appointed Ann Lamar to the Supreme Court, he made a wise choice,” White said of the Republican’s endorsement in the Northern District, Place One. He continued, “As a prosecutor, Ann Lamar put criminals in jail. As a circuit judge she demonstrated fairness to all parties. Now she serves with distinction as the only woman on the Mississippi Supreme Court, and with her decisions she demonstrates integrity and a commitment to being fair and unbiased.”

For Post Two in the Northern District, the Mississippi GOP chose Appeals Court Justice David Chandler over the incumbent Chuck Easley. “There is no question, no doubt that David Chandler will make a better Supreme Court Justice than has Chuck Easley. Chandler’s professionalism and competence outshines Easley’s record in every respect,” White said.

In 1998, the Mississippi legislature changed election laws to require judicial candidates to be nonpartisan. In 2002, the federal court ruled in response to a case filed by the Mississippi Republican Party “that a state may not directly suppress core political speech of a political party concerning the merits of judicial candidates by prohibiting the party from endorsing or financially supporting judicial candidates.”

“Ever since the federal courts returned our freedom of political speech, the Mississippi Republican Party has made endorsements of judicial candidates. We will communicate our endorsements to Mississippians and encourage voters who agree with the principals of the Mississippi Republican Party to support and vote for these candidates,” White said.