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**Written by Doug Powers After a few days of positioning, John Boehner announced a little earlier today that House Republicans planned to accept a two-month payroll tax cut extension instead of the year-long deal they sought. Learn all about it on MSNBC’s holiday special, “How Obama Saved Family Friday Pizza Night.” From ABC News: House [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Last I heard, the House vote on the Senate-approved plan that would extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment for two months (which also includes a provision for the job creator that dare not speak its name) was to take place this evening. At this time, the odds of House passage [...]

Swan song in Sioux City

One more time

Fired?

Anybody who answers “you’re fired” is fired

Significant?

The GOP ate it all

National security

National security and foreign policy

Scroll for updates… En fuego. Big Government’s John Nolte has a term for Rick Perry’s devout adherents — “Perrykrishnas.” Tonight, after Perry’s latest mortifying GOP debate gaffe in which he can’t remember the name of the third government agency he would cut and gazes helplessly at Ron Paul to bail him out, Nolte tweeted: “Currently [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The date for the New Hampshire primary was set today. The NH vote will be one week after the Iowa Caucuses and will be followed in January by South Carolina and Nevada. From CNN: At long last, New Hampshire’s secretary of state has set the first-in-the-nation primary for Jan. 10, restoring [...]

Could happen

**Written by Doug Powers This falls into the “nice try” category, but ultimately it probably won’t fly. From The Hill: President Obama and Democrats on Capitol Hill are increasingly referring to the Congress as “Republican” even though their party controls one-half of the unpopular institution. Obama and his allies have started to deploy the phrase [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Karl Rove stuck a fork in him, Hillary Clinton mocked him, much has been made of a couple of statements that needed clarifying, other GOP candidates as well as those who make a good living off the current bloated tax code have blasted 999, and his Chief of Staff is a [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The start time for the latest GOP debate is 8 p.m. eastern on CNN. Heading into the debate, the big story is the Herman Cain surge: The spotlight will be on Herman Cain during the eighth Republican presidential debate Tuesday night, the first since the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO’s surprise first-place [...]

Don’t forget “grandma will get pushed off a cliff”

Photoshop: Reader Jimmy D. Yes, I’m still struggling. Like many of you, I am still carefully weighing all the costs and benefits of each declared GOP candidate. As the candidates continue highlighting each other’s unsavory left-wing alliances, I thought it might be helpful to compile a Hold Your Nose Tracker of the current top four [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The apparently futile efforts to make it easier for Warren Buffett and some other guilt-ridden wealthy people to give the government more money continue: Republican lawmakers have introduced their own “Buffett Rule” that would allow billionaire investors like Warren Buffett who say they’re not paying enough taxes to voluntarily give more [...]

Amped up about illegals

Newt scoot?

Photo credit: Cumberland County GOP Not that it’s any surprise. Back in May, Gov Chris Christie gave Romney cover after his Obamneycare walk-back speech. In May 2009, Romney campaigned for Christie in NJ. Now: Just making it official today: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, just one week after definitively announcing he will not run for [...]

Sarah Palin will continue to be one of the nation’s most powerfully effective voices for grass-roots conservatism. She is at her best when challenging the Beltway GOP establishment and taking on the corruption and profligacy in both parties. More power to her. *** Gov. Palin broke the news on the Mark Levin radio show — [...]

This is a gimme. Seriously. I mentioned Rick Perry’s DREAM Act debate blunder in my round-up post. It gets second place. The cringe-worthiest moment, by a hair, was when Perry botched what should have been his most potent attack on Mitt Romney’s chronic flip-flopping. As I noted on Twitter when it happened, any random high [...]

Graphic via FoxNews.com The latest GOP 2012 debate starts at 9pm Eastern tonight on Fox news. GOP Rep. Thad McCotter dropped his quixotic, redundant bid today (really, how many pro-bailout, pro-health care entitlement expansion Republicans do we need in the race), so he’s off the schedule. Taking his place: Libertarian Gary Johnson. Yep, another quixotic, [...]

**Written by Doug Powers From the “Imagine the media reaction if Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann had said this” file we find the transcript from President Obama’s “jobs speech” Thursday evening in which he briefly strayed from his teleprompter to add five words: We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney will tee it up at 8 p.m. ET at the Reagan Presidential Library. The debate is on MSNBC or you can watch it online here. If you can’t watch the debate but want to [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Not-so-bold prediction: History will record this “Super Committee” plan as the worst “great idea” to come from Washington since their last great idea. Mitch McConnell has said Republicans on the Committee should be open to compromise, all six Democrats on the Committee earned an “F” from the National Taxpayers Union, and [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Watching the results being announced right now. Here’s how it played out: Michele Bachmann wins with 4,823 votes. Ron Paul 2nd with 4,671. Tim Pawlenty 3rd with 2,293. Rick Santorum 4th with 1,657. Herman Cain 5th with 1,456. Rick Perry (write-in) 6th with 718. Mitt Romney 7th with 567. Newt Gingrich [...]