Things got a little testy last night between candidates presently in second and third place, respectively, during the Republican Presidential Candidate debate in Las Vegas.

Per thehill.com:

In an already testy debate, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry got into a fight over Romney’s hiring of a lawn-mowing company that had hired undocumented immigrants in the past.

“Those people that hire illegals ought to be penalized, and Mitt, you lose all of your standing in my perspective because you hired illegals in your home and you knew about it for a year.” Perry said. “The idea that you stand here before us and talk about that you’re strong on immigration is on its face the height of hypocrisy,” he said at the CNN debate in Las Vegas, Nev., an early voting state that Romney won big in 2008.

Romney tried to deny the charges, of course, and asked Perry for the evidence.

Perry responded and things quickly dissolved into into a scene reminiscent of  two kiddies playing in a sandbox:

Romney:

This has been a tough couple of debates for Rick and I understand that you’re going to get testy, but I’ll tell you what — let me take my time and then you can take your time.

Perry:

You stood here in front of the American people and did not tell the truth that you had illegals working on your property and the newspaper came to you, brought it to your attention and you still a year later had those individuals working for you. The idea that you can sit here and talk about any of us having an immigration issue is beyond me.

Of course, this charge was made against Romney during the 2008 presidential debates.

Perry then interrupted Romney as he was starting to respond and the brylcreemed one got a little hot under the collar:

You have a problem with allowing someone to finish speaking. And I would suggest that if you want to become president of the United States you’ve got to let both people speak.

Of course, all the candidates jumped on frontrunner Herman Cain.  His recent meteoric rise in the polls has placed him in the number one position on everyone’s (Democrats and Republicans) hit parade:

Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota led the verbal assault moments after the debate began, saying his call for a 9 percent federal sales tax would only be the beginning, with the rate rising later.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania wasn’t nearly as gentle, citing one analysis that found that taxes would go up for 84 percent of the nation’s households if Cain’s proposal went into effect. “We’re talking about major increases in taxes,” he said, adding that a single person and a couple with children with the same income would pay the same tax under Cain’s proposal.

Undeterred, Cain insisted the charges were untrue. He said he was being criticized because lobbyists, accountants and others “want to continue to be able to manipulate the American people with a 10-million- word mess,” the current tax code.

Cain’s proposal is for a 9 percent personal income tax, a 9 percent corporate tax and a 9 percent national sales tax.

The former pizza company CEO is the latest and unlikeliest phenomenon in the race to pick a Republican rival for President Barack Obama. A black man in a party that draws few votes from Africans Americans, he had bumped along with little notice as Romney sought to fend off one fast-rising rival after another.

That all changed in the past few weeks, after Perry burst into the race and then fell back in the polls. However unlikely Cain’s rise, Tuesday night’s debate made clear that none of his rivals are willing to let him go unchallenged.

“Herman, I love you, brother, but let me tell you something, you don’t need to have a big analysis to figure this thing out,” Perry said to Cain. “Go to New Hampshire where they don’t have a sales tax and you’re fixing to give them one,” he said, referring to the state that will hold the first primary early next year.

As Gov. Perry and his fellow Republican Candidates were eviscerating Perry in Las Vegas, the only Democratic Candidate for President, Barack Hussein Obama, was joining in with their cacophonous chorus last night during an interview with ABC News:

President Barack Obama says GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan would be a “huge burden” on middle-class and working families.

The president says Cain’s plan would make sure that the wealthiest pay less – and replace the revenue with a sales tax hitting the less well-off.

Obama said that approach isn’t new. And he said that across the board he hasn’t heard any new ideas on helping the economy from Republicans, either in Congress or the candidates.

Excuse me, Mr. President.  I have a question:

How about some new ideas from you, first, Scooter?

I agree with something Former Speaker of the House and current Republican Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich said in response to all the sniping at last night’s debate:

Let me just point out for a second that maximizing bickering is probably not the road to the White House.

And the audience applauded…because the Candidate that all the Republicans should be attacking, lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC.

You’re the Democratic Party.  The president whom you thought was going to make the oceans rise and fall, can’t  seem to muster the leadership ability to handle the daily duties of the office.  What do you do?  Do you beg Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run against him in the primary?

Well, you can forget that idea.

From nationaljournal.com:

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton once again quashed rumors that she’s still interested in running for president, this time in an interview with NBC’s Today on Monday.

“I’m really old-fashioned. I feel I have made my contribution,” Clinton said. “I’m very grateful I’ve had a chance to serve, but I think it’s time for others to step up.” Writing, teaching, and working on issues that affect women and girls will be in her future, Clinton assured NBC’s Savannah Guthrie; that and relaxing at home.

Clinton shrugged off speculation that she should run against President Obama in 2012—or that she should have been elected instead of him in 2008. “It feels irrelevant to me,” Clinton said. She praised Obama for doing “an excellent job under the most difficult circumstances.”

Clinton acknowledged that serving under Obama was initially awkward. Obama did, after all, beat her for the Democratic presidential nomination.

“It was a hard-fought election. I wanted to beat him, and he ended up beating me,” Clinton said. “But he asked me to serve.” She added, “at the end of the day, you have to be bigger than politics.”

Clinton said she gives Obama political advice “every so often,” but declined to elaborate.

Clinton attributed her current popularity simply to her two decades in the public eye. “Because I have been on the public consciousness for so long and on the television screens and people’s homes, I think there is a comfort,” Clinton said.

A comfort, huh?

I would call it desperation.

Heck, there’s even been a rumor floating around that Hillary and Sheriff Joe Biden would switch jobs, with Ms. Clinton becoming VP in the next Obama Administration and Biden would be demoted to Secretary of State.

According to Jonathan Alter (former host for MSNBC), writing for businessweek.com, it’s a compelling argument:

Obama would swallow his pride and try to use wit to disarm attacks that he’s acting desperate, cynical and weak. He would admit publicly that he needs the help of both Clintons to restore the good economic times of the 1990s. The Democrats’ message would be: “Vote for Obama if you want the Clinton economy back. Vote for Romney if you want the Bush economy back.” That’s a compelling enough argument to make an imperiled president do something he would hate — let Bill Clinton drag him over the finish line.

Biden would reluctantly agree because his consolation prize is a job he can truthfully argue he has coveted for 20 years. It would leave him less humiliated than incumbent vice presidents like Henry Wallace, whom Franklin D. Roosevelt dumped from the ticket in favor of Harry Truman in 1944, and Nelson Rockefeller, booted by Gerald Ford to make room for Bob Dole in 1976.

Clinton would say yes because she is dutiful to a fault and because everyone asked to be on the ticket for the last 40 years has accepted, with the exception of Colin Powell turning down Dole in 1996 and John McCain rebuffing John Kerry in 2004 (that’s how liberal McCain was then).

Job switches of this kind are hardly unprecedented. In 1985, Ronald Reagan arranged for Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and White House Chief of Staff James Baker to swap positions. In 1992, Baker reluctantly resigned as secretary of state and returned to the White House as George H.W. Bush’s chief of staff in an unsuccessful effort to save Bush’s foundering re-election campaign. All of these guys do what it takes.

A job swap at this point probably wouldn’t help anyway.  Per gallup.com, Democrats aren’t that thrilled about the upcoming 2012 elections to begin with:

In thinking about the 2012 presidential election, 45% of Democrats and independents who lean Democratic say they are more enthusiastic about voting than usual, while nearly as many, 44%, are less enthusiastic. This is in sharp contrast to 2008 and, to a lesser extent, 2004, when the great majority of Democrats expressed heightened enthusiasm about voting.

Democrats’ muted response to voting in 2012 also contrasts with Republicans’ eagerness. Nearly 6 in 10 Republicans, 58%, describe themselves as more enthusiastic about voting. That is nearly identical to Republicans’ average level of enthusiasm in 2004 (59%) and higher than it was at most points in 2008.

That apathy extends to other potential Democratic Primary opponents, too, evidently.  None of the Democrats seem to want to run against Obama.

Eleanor Clift, writing for thedailybeast.com says that running against Obama is a useless exercise:

So what’s the point? For Ted Kennedy and the progressive challenge to Carter in 1980, it was about reasserting the liberal Democratic agenda that Carter, a Southern moderate focused on fiscal discipline, seemed to be eroding. The discontent then was not unlike what progressives are experiencing today. It’s the passionate base, hear me roar! The difference now there is no Kennedy heir-apparent figure on the horizon, and we’re talking about the first African-American occupant of the White House in a party identified with civil rights. “Who wants to feel responsible for costing the first African-American president his reelection?” says Cook. What’s more, blacks vote heavily in key primary states.

Anyone contemplating a run against Obama must consider the consequences of not only defeating the president, but the likely repercussions to his or her own career. “If he were white, he would have a progressive challenger,” says Bill Schneider of the Democratic group Third Way. Because Obama is this historic figure, challenging him would hamper the prospects of anyone who wants a future in elective Democratic politics. “Blacks would be deeply offended by a challenge, and that’s no way to score points in the Democratic Party,” says Schneider. African-Americans are the Democrats’ most loyal constituency, and while they too are disappointed in what Obama has been able to accomplish, they are not going to abandon him.

Well, Eleanor, even if blacks ignore the plight of all of their friends and family who are suffering unemployment at the highest rate in America under of this president, you can bet your chair at NPR that the rest of Americans won’t forget who is responsible for this unholy economic mess when they step into the voting booth on November 6, 2012.

As Harry Truman said:  The buck stops here.

If you are old enough, you, like I, have memories of the iconic scenes of the Civil Rights Struggle in America and the symbolic leader of that movement, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

Yesterday, a monument featuring a 30 foot statue of the slain Civil Rights Leader was dedicated in Washington, DC.

In a speech given at the dedication, United States President Barack Hussein Obama likened his failed economic plan and the fight to pass Obamacare over the wishes of the American people, to the hard-fought struggle by Black Americans to gain their Civil Rights:

On this day, in which we celebrate a man and a movement that did so much for this country, let us draw strength from those earlier struggles…

…When met with hardship, when confronting disappointment, Dr. King refused to accept what he called the ‘is-ness’ of today. He kept pushing for the ‘ought-ness’ of tomorrow.

…And so, as we think about all the work that we must do — rebuilding an economy that can compete on a global stage, and fixing our schools so that every child … gets a world-class education, and making sure that our health care system is affordable and accessible to all, and that our economic system is one in which everybody gets a fair shake and everybody does their fair share, let us not be trapped by what is,” he shouted into the microphone.

…If he were alive today, I believe he would remind us that the unemployed worker can rightly challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing all who work there; that the businessman can enter tough negotiations with his company’s union without vilifying the right to collectively bargain. He would want us to know we can argue fiercely about the proper size and role of government without questioning each other’s love for this country — (applause) — with the knowledge that in this democracy, government is no distant object but is rather an expression of our common commitments to one another. He would call on us to assume the best in each other rather than the worst, and challenge one another in ways that ultimately heal rather than wound.

I am not shocked that the president of the United States of America took this inappropriate moment to push his politically socialist agenda.  We Conservatives have come to expect this type of Class Warfare rhetoric from President Obama.

However,this one will blindside you.  Ladies and Gentlemen, courtesy of  foxnews.com, I give you…Eric Cantor?

Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., said Sunday that he gets the growing frustration of too many unemployed and underemployed Americans and the need to encourage people at the top of the income scale to “actually put their money to work to create more jobs so that we can see a closing of the gap.”

“We know in this country right now that there is a complaint about folks at the top end of the income scale, if they make too much, and too many don’t make enough,” Cantor told “Fox News Sunday.”

“We are about income mobility and that’s what we should be focused on to take care of the income disparity in this country,” he said.

Ignoring criticism that he referred to recent protesters across the country as “mobs,” Cantor said that more important than his vocabulary is the effort by some Democrats in Washington “to blame others rather than focus on the policies that have brought about the current situation.”

“A lot of folks on the other side of the aisle want to boil this down to personality,” Cantor said. “Let’s take some of the credit or blame here in Washington. … I mean, these are policies that they put into place and there’s a lot that can be done here in this town to turn the economy around, and promote against income mobility and not go in and excoriate some who have been successful. We want success for everybody.”

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

-Karl Marx

So, now the GOP Elite wants to split America up into the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat, also?

Criminently.  No wonder they’re trying to hand Mitt Romney the Presidential Nomination as quickly as possible.

Mitt Romney was interviewed shortly after Gen. Colin Powell endorsed Obama for president in 2008. The McCain/Palin ticket had already labelled Obama as a socialist. According to an article posted October 20, 2008, on boston.com, “Mittens” was asked if he believed that Obama was a socialist.  Romney replied:

I’d say he’s a real liberal. He’s not in the mainstream of the Democratic Party. I think he’s more liberal than that. I don’t think mainstream Democrats like Hillary Clinton, would be excited about the proposals he’s made. And I think his comment about redistributing income is one which would certainly scare a lot of people. Certainly scare away a lot of jobs, hurt the creation of small businesses, which is of course, been the source of job growth in our country.

So, I think he’s off of the left wing of the party. And after all, that’s how his votes have also lined up.

How…brave.

As Norman Matoon Thomas, Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party of America, said in 1948:

The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

A NOTE FROM KJ:  Back in 2007, Dr. Thomas Sowell wrote an article using the term “income mobility” to decribe how America allows a hard working individual to change their own economic status.  However, Eric Cantor and the Republicans are beginning to attack the Wall Street Fat Cats, the people who generate American jobs.  Without jobs, there is no “income mobility.”

When I break for lunch at my 9 to 5 job, I go out to my car with whatever is in my lunchbox and spend my time clicking between Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham on the car stereo.

Yesterday, I got my money’s worth.

During a capitalism break on Rush’s program, I tuned into Laura’s show, and heard the familiar Southern drawl of my state’s (Mississippi) Governor, Haley Barbour.

The word has been out for years that Barbour is a member of the Republican Elite, so, what I heard yesterday was quite a surprise:

If this election is where it ought to be, and that is a referendum on how President Obama is doing, Republicans are going to win. If Herman Cain is our nominee against Barack Obama, I think he’ll sweep the south.

I think if it were today my wife would vote for Herman Cain. One of my sons, I have grown children, you know, from the first day said ‘Dad, do you know Herman Cain?’ I said sure, I’ve known him since I was Chairman. He said “Man, I like him, I like what he says,” and that is one of his great strengths Laura. He is likable. He does not give you the impression that he is full of himself, but rather than he is a straight-talkin’ person who, will tell you, he call it like he sees them. He’s not trying to sugar coat anything and at the same time he is not trying to be shrill and a chest beater. He’s a straight talker and I think that makes him very, very attractive to people.

Herman Cain?  But Governor, your friends in the Republican Elite are trying to ram Mitt Romney down our collective throats.  Just ask Rush Limbaugh:

Romney is not a conservative. He’s not, folks. You can argue with me all day long on that, but he isn’t. What he has going for him is that he’s not Obama and that he is doing incredibly well in the debates because he’s done it a long time.

…. I’m not personally ready to settle on anybody yet — and I know that neither are most of you, and I also know that most of you do not want this over now, before we’ve even had a single primary! All we’ve had are straw votes. You know that the Republican establishment’s trying to nail this down and end it.

And Republican Candidate Rick Santorum is not exactly thrilled about the situation:

Republican Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum is speaking out against his fellow GOP Presidential Candidates who he accuses of trying to frontload the primary schedule. In an interview for ABC News’ “Subway Series with Jonathon Karl” Santorum described the early primaries and caucuses as “a travesty.”

“This is clearly Mitt Romney and Rick Perry I’m sure, who are very interested in running the clock out and trying to get this vote out as quickly as possible because they’re in a position right now where they have resources and name recognition and the shorter the time frame the less opportunity for other candidates to come up and catch them from behind,” said Santorum.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney successful lobbied Nevada Republicans to break Republican National Committee Rules and move up their states caucus. On Wednesday, the Nevada GOP announced the state’s caucus will be held on January 14.

Former Nevada Gov. Bob List told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that “Romney’s people were pushing for us to move into January.” However, List said that’s not why the final date was chosen.

According to the latest polls, Romney is a front-runner in the Nevada caucus. Winning Nevada in mid-January could help offset a lost in one of the other early states.

Florida’s GOP recently voted to move that state’s primary to January 31. As more states seek earlier primaries, it becomes increasingly difficult for an outside candidate to compete. A 2012 hopeful like Santorum, with relatively little campaign cash and organizational capacity compared to the top tier candidates, will have little chance to compete. (Sticking up for the traditional early primary states can’t hurt his chances their, either).

New Hampshire and Iowa are considering holding their primary elections and caucuses in December. Santorum is concerned that a caucus the day after Christmas would have a negative impact on the holiday season.

Santorum firmly believes that Christmas is a time to be focused “on the birth of our savior” and not on” someone’s political games that could help them get elected.”

“It undermines the elections by having this very important decision as to who our nominee will be, being done over a period of time when the American public is legitimately distracted from these types of activities,” said Santorum.

By moving the primaries forward, Romney and the Republican Elite are trying to secure the Presidential Nomination for him as soon as possible, before the rest of Republicans figure out what Governor Barbour has, and what Rush Limbaugh and a lot of us already knew:

Mitt Romney is not a Conservative.

And since the majority of Americans are Conservative in political ideology, the longer Romney campaigns, the worse his chances for the nomination will be.

After all, Familiarity Breeds Contempt.

The oath to be taken by the president on first entering office is specified in Article II, Section 1, of the Constitution. It reads as follows:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Nowhere does it read:

I will apologize to every nation in the world for any actions taken by America against them, even if the action saved American lives.

From investors.com:

Leaked cables show Japan nixed a presidential apology to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for using nukes to end the overseas contingency operation known as World War II. Will the next president apologize for the current one?

The obsessive need of this president to apologize for American exceptionalism and our defense of freedom continued recently when Barack Obama’s State Department (run by Hillary Clinton) contacted the family of al-Qaida propagandist and recruiter Samir Khan to “express its condolences” to his family.

Khan, a right-hand man to Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed along with Awlaki in an airstrike in Yemen on Sept. 30. We apologized for killing a terrorist before he could help kill any more of us.

It’s yet another part of the world apology tour that began with Obama taking the oath of office to protect and defend the United States and its Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic, something he immediately felt sorry for.

One stop on his tour was Prague in August 2009. There he spoke of “America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,” ignoring that before 1945 we lived in such a world and it was neither peaceful nor secure.

Another stop on the tour was in Japan, where Obama in November 2009 bowed to the emperor, something no American president had ever done. It could have been worse if plans to visit Nagasaki and Hiroshima to apologize for winning the war with the atom bombs had come to pass.

A heretofore secret cable dated Sept. 3, 2009, was recently released by WikiLeaks. Sent to Secretary of State Clinton, it reported Japan’s Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka telling U.S. Ambassador John Roos that “the idea of President Obama visiting Hiroshima to apologize for the atomic bombing during World War II is a ‘nonstarter.'”

There were two Theaters of War during World War II. The Pacific Theater, and the European Theater, where one of the largest invasions ever recorded occurred on June 6, 1944.

There has never been an exact count of the sacrifices made on D-Day. Although, it is estimated that more than 425,000 Allied and German troops were killed, wounded, or went missing during the battle. 209,000 of those who lost their lives were Allied forces. In addition to almost 200,000 German troops killed or wounded, the Allies also captured 200,000 soldiers. Captured Germans were sent to American prisoner-of-war camps at the rate of 30,000 per month, from D-Day until Christmas 1944. Between 15,000 and 20,000 French civilians were killed during the battle.

Basically, the invasion of Normandy was a success, due to sheer force of numbers. By July 1944, some one million Allied troops, mostly American, British, and Canadian, were entrenched in Normandy. During the great invasion, the Allies assembled nearly three million men and stored 16 million tons of arms, munitions, and supplies in Britain.

Among the young men who stepped off those boats, in a hail of gunfire, was a fellow named Edward, whom everyone called Ned, from the small town of Helena, Arkansas. Already in his young life, Ned had been forced to drop out of school in the sixth grade, in order to work at the local movie theater to help support his mother, brother, and sister faced with the ravages of the Great Depression.

He was a gentle man who loved to laugh and sing, having recorded several 78 rpm records in the do-it-yourself booths of the day. And now, he found himself, a Master Sergeant in an Army Engineering Unit, stepping off a boat into the unknown, watching his comrades being mercilessly gunned down around him.

Ned, along with the rest of his unit who survived the initial assault, would go on to assist in the cleaning out of the Concentration Camps, bearing witness to man’s inhumanity to man.

The horrors he saw had a profound effect on Ned. One that he would keep to himself for the remainder of his life. While his children knew that he served with an Engineering Unit in World War II, they did not know the full extent of his service, until they found his medal, honoring his participation in the Invasion of Normandy, going through his belongings after he passed away on December 29, 1997.

How do I know so much about Ned? He was my Daddy. You see, my love of Christ and, of this country, comes from my Earthly father, 40 years my senior.

I was raised by members of the Greatest Generation.

Just the thought of this proposed action by the 44th President of the United States dishonors all those who served our country and worked so hard and sacrificed so much to win World War II, at home and abroad.

President Obama should be ashamed of himself for attempting to apologize for an act that saved countless untold American lives.

But, he’s not.

Politicians being politicians, the only non-politician in the Republican Presidential Primary, who happens to be surging right now, was the focus of an attack by the professional politicians last night, in a debate held at Dartmouth College:

Fox News tells the story:

Businessman Herman Cain, rising fast in the polls, absorbed several blows from his fellow Republican presidential contenders on Tuesday, as they went on the attack over his 9-9-9 plan, which has sucked up much of the conversation about ways to restore the economy.

Most aggressive in their criticisms of the plan for a 9 percent sales tax, 9 percent income tax and 9 percent corporate tax were Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who said it will never come to pass.

When you turn 999 over, “the devil is in the details,” quipped Bachmann, who said the proposal is a tax plan, not a jobs plan, and dangerous because it gives Congress a “pipeline to a new revenue stream.”

Raising his arm and directing his question toward the audience, Santorum asked how many believed Congress would keep the income tax at 9 percent or who wants to pay a 9 percent sales tax.

The Bloomberg-Washington Post presidential debate at Dartmouth University in Hanover, N.H., was focused solely on economics. The eight candidates appearing in the roundtable forum also slammed President Obama’s health care law, with Santorum again offering an aggressive approach for preventing it from being enforceable law.

Separately, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney defended the 2008 bailout of Wall Street banks, saying it was essential to preserving the nation’s currency and financial system from collapse.

Romney said the U.S. could have had a “complete meltdown of our entire financial system.” He said “action had to be taken. Was it perfect? No.”

Asked if he would support another bailout, Romney said that if he thought the entire financial system would collapse, “you take action to keep that from happening.”

I wonder why the other candidates did not attack the Former Massachusetts Governor about his favorite invention, Romneycare?  Especially, since Fox News revealed this little tidbit of information, just hours before the debate:

Three of Mitt Romney’s advisers went to the White House at least a dozen times in 2009 to consult on the former Massachusetts governor’s health care plan that President Obama used as a model for his initiative — now a federal law that all the Republican presidential candidates want to repeal.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Tuesday he was “not in a position to comment on specific meetings.” But in a remark that won’t help Romney in his pursuit for the 2012 Republican nomination, Earnest repeated that Obama took cues from the Massachusetts legislation.

“You’ve certainly heard the president himself say that there were a number of very good ideas included in the health care plan that then-Gov. Romney put in place in Massachusetts that were incorporated into the Affordable Care Act and so it’s clear that these are some ideas that we were interested in incorporating and we did incorporate.

“But in terms of individual meetings and who participated and what the goal of them was, I don’t have that information,” he said.

NBC News first reported that Romney health care advisers and experts Jon Kingsdale, Jon Gruber and John McDonough all met with Obama officials in 2009, including one meeting with President Obama on July 20.

I’m shocked, I tell you.  Shocked!

But hey, no worries.  A buddy of Mittens came to his defense over Roneycare yesterday and threw his weight behind his campaign as well.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie endorsed frontrunner Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, sending yet another signal that the former Massachusetts governor is solidifying his support across the GOP establishment.

With characteristic frankness, Christie stood alongside Romney in a hotel conference room here and said the governor is not only the most qualified Republican in the race but also the one best positioned to defeat President Obama next year.

“People run for president of the United States and say, ‘I think I can win, I hope I am ready – which is what the president did four years ago,’” Christie said. “Mitt Romney said, ‘I hope I can win, I know I am ready.’”

…Christie’s insistence that Romney was the most qualified Republican running for president was a tacit dig at Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whom Christie was alluding to when he described the decision of other candidates to enter the race whether they’re ready to be president or not.

In addition, both Christie and Romney took direct shots at Perry when they criticized his choice of Pastor Robert Jeffress at the Values Voter conference in Washington a few days ago, when Jeffress criticized Mormonism, Romney’s religion, as a “cult.”

“Any campaign that associates itself with that type of conduct is beneath the office of the present of the United States,” Christie said.

Added Romney: “Gov Perry selected an individual to introduce him … and Perry then said that introduction just hit it out of the park,” Romney said. “I just don’t believe that kind of divisiveness has a place in this country.”

…In recent days, many additional Republican donors who had been encouraging Christie to run, announced that they were supporting Romney, creating a bridge between the two governors.

“The fact that they came together was serendipity,” a Romney adviser said.

In addition to his penchant for feisty language, Christie will bring to the campaign a willingness to defend Romney in his areas of greatest weakness with the GOP conservative base.

On Tuesday, Christie did just that, offering an unqualified defense of Romney’s advocacy while Massachusetts governor for health-reform legislation that became a model for President Obama’s plan.

“Any attempt to try to compare what happened in Massachusetts and what the president has done with his plan is completely, intellectually dishonest,” Christie said.

How cute.  I knew that they herded together in the wild, but to watch RINOs herding together domestically is truly special, isn’t it?

It’s Dole/McCain Deja Vu…all over again.

In yesterday’s blog, I wrote about the spoiled brat aspect of the protests popping up around the country, known as the Occupy Wall Street Movement.

Two of the hottest Republican Presidential Primary Candidates added their views concerning these useful idiots yesterday morning as well:

Republican presidential contender Herman Cain amplified his criticism Sunday of the growing Occupy Wall Street movement, calling the protesters “jealous’ Americans who “play the victim card” and want to “take somebody else’s” Cadillac.

Cain’s remarks, on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” came amidst an escalating war of words between Republicans and Democrats over the merits of the movement, which has spread from New York to other cities across the nation, including Washington and Los Angeles.

GOP politicians in recent days have stepped up their criticism of the protesters, with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) calling them “mobs” who have pitted “Americans against Americans.”

But Cain, surging in popularity among many conservatives, seems to have had among the most virulent responses to the protests.

On CBS, Cain suggested that the rallies had been organized by labor unions to serve as a “distraction so that many people won’t focus on the failed policies of the Obama administration.”

The banking and financial services industries aren’t responsible for those policies, Cain said. “To protest Wall Street and the bankers is basically saying you’re anti-capitalism,” he said.

Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, who appeared on the program with Cain, offered a more measured response, but blamed the White House for the discord.

“There a lot of people in America who are angry,” Gingrich said. “This is the natural product of President Obama’s class warfare.”

Friday night, Citizen Cain asked a very good question:

Republican presidential nominee candidate Herman Cain called for the Occupy Wall Street protestors to relocate to the White House, in remarks he made Friday at the Family Research Council’s annual Values Voter Summit, in Washington, D.C.

“When a reporter asked me the other day, well, what do you think about those demonstrations up on Wall Street, I said, first of all, Wall Street didn’t write these failed economic policies — the White House did,” said Cain.

He then added, “Why don’t you move the demonstrations to the White House?”

Because, Citizen Cain, as I chronicled yesterday, the Alinsky-ite in Chief is behind these spoiled brats one hundred percent.

Obama and the Democrats seriously believe that the majority of Americans blame their economic suffering on capitalism, which Wall Street represents in the feeble minds of the protestors.

It’s another “Oh, look! A puppy!” moment from the Democratic powers-that-be.

Our enemies, foreign and domestic, are enjoying these protests.

Per the Associated Press:

An Iranian military commander said Sunday that the protests spreading from New York’s Wall Street to other U.S. cities are the beginning of an “American Spring,” likening them to the uprisings that toppled Arab autocrats in the Middle East.

Gen. Masoud Jazayeri of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said the protests against corporate greed and the gap between rich and poor are a revolution in the making that will topple what he called the Western capitalist system.

The Occupy Wall Street movement started in New York City last month and is spreading to other parts of the country. The loosely affiliated movement is peacefully protesting the power of the financial and political sectors.

Jazayeri said President Barack Obama’s election promises of change have reached a dead end.

“The failure of the U.S. president to resolve the Wall Street crisis will turn this economic movement into a political and social movement protesting the very structure of the U.S. government,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Jazayeri as saying Sunday.

“A revolution and a comprehensive movement against corruption in the U.S. is in the making. The last phase will be the collapse of the Western capitalist system,” he said, according to IRNA.

Meanwhile, back in the U.S.A., James P Hoffa, leader of the Teamsters Union, which represents 1.4m workers, is, of course, standing with the useful idiots:

No one should be surprised that Occupy Wall Street is gaining support and spreading quickly around the country. The American Dream has disappeared for students, whose reality is debt and unemployment. The dream disappeared for workers forced to take wage cuts by employers sitting on billions of dollars in profits. The dream disappeared for working families who paid too steep a price for Wall Street’s greed, stupidity and fraud.

It’s clear what this movement is all about. It’s about taking America back from the CEOs and billionaires on Wall Street who have destroyed our nation’s economy. It’s about creating good jobs. It’s about corporate America treating its workers and customers with honesty and fairness and paying its fair share to stimulate the economy.

Teamsters all over the country are participating in Occupy Wall Street events, and I support and encourage them. We stand in solidarity with Americans who want better lives for themselves and for future generations.

Karl Marx said:

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

It appears that the current oppressing class are using these spoiled brat protesters to make up Americans’ minds for them...and America’s enemies, foreign and domestic, are cheering them on.