Democrat elected officials and candidates just slay me sometimes. They consider themselves intellectually and morally superior than all of society, yet their political strategies are just idiotic. Now Phil Angelides, probably the worst Statewide candidate ever fielded by the Democrats, has finally found his issue – the Iraq war! Yes! That will do it! What genius!

Memo to Democrats: you ran on the Iraq war in 2004 and lost. You are running on the Iraq war in 2006 and aregoing to lose again.

The President’s poll numbers, in my judgment, are not about any one issue. His 9-11 tribute speeches, falling gas prices, and hysterical rhetoric from the left are all important, but not the main reason his approval ratings are up. Here’s the reason:

He’s on OFFENSE. Republicans are so desperate to see their elected officials on offense, rather than the usual backpedaling, that the base gets very fired up when we go on the attack. If we stay on offense through election day, the election cycle will go well.

GOP prospects across the country rise and fall beginning with what is… Read More

According to the Department of Insurance’s website, since 2002, when Garamendi was re-elected, the average insurance premium for homeowners has risen thirty-two percent. Today, California’s homeowners are paying nearly a $1000 ($919), when in 2002 they paid an average of $698. Meanwhile, the number of homes insured has increased by 200,000 every year. This isn’t due to Garamendi, it’s due to the burgeoning economy, particularly the growth in the housing market. But that’s not the whole story. Since 2002, more than fifty homeowners insurance companies have been driven out of the California market (from 166 in 2002 to 113 today).

The fact is John Garamendi has reigned over an inflexible market that is burdened by regulatory abuse. According to an Orange County Register editorial and Garamendi’s own website, he says he’s had “insurance companies in the crosshairs.” Yet, privately, Garamendi’s acted as insurance companies’… Read More

According to the Department of Insurance’s website, since 2002, when Garamendi was re-elected, the average insurance premium for homeowners has risen thirty-two percent. Today, California’s homeowners are paying nearly a $1000 ($919), when in 2002 they paid an average of $698. Meanwhile, the number of homes insured has increased by 200,000 every year. This isn’t due to Garamendi, it’s due to the burgeoning economy, particularly the growth in the housing market. But that’s not the whole story. Since 2002, more than fifty homeowners insurance companies have been driven out of the California market (from 166 in 2002 to 113 today). I have attached a .pdf file at the bottom that provides statistics.

The fact is John Garamendi has reigned over an inflexible market that is burdened by regulatory abuse. According to an Orange County Register editorial and Garamendi’s own website, he says he’s had “insurance companies in the… Read More

I usually don’t read Bill Bradley, and frankly neither of us could pick each other out of a line-up. Up until the last 10 minutes or so, I had no idea what his background was.

But I happened to check in on www.rtumble.com and noticed Bradley’s comments about the decline of partisan registration and partisanship in general. In short, he states the real fact that Decline to State Voters have increased in number, and then attributes to them a series of ideological beliefs.

Here is the problem: it’s actually much, much more complicated than that.

Here’s what I’ve gathered from my polling and voter identification of DTS and American Independent voters (they don’t think George Wallace… they think they are ‘independent voters’): there are distinct subgroups you can’t ‘average’ together unless you want to screw up voter contact.

In short, and I’m looking at data (both polling and voter ID and this is average) from 5 Assembly Districts, a Congressional District, and several cities, about 1/3 of this Independent bloc are closet Republicans who pretty much vote the ticket.… Read More

I received my afternoon update from the Sacramento Bee, in it they have their profile on Democrat Insurance Commissioner Cruz Bustamante.

There is an audio segment titled, "Bustamante says opponent Steve Poizner doesn’t understand how a bureaucracy works." I can’t listen to the file for some reason, but I don’t need too, the label says it all.

Is Cruz trying to move ahead of Phil Angelides for the worst campaign in 2006?

If this is Bustamante’s attack on Steve Poizner, Poizner should pay to put it onto television for him. Come on, what voter wants to elect a politician that defends bureaucracy.… Read More

The new PPIC poll shows Governor Schwarzenegger up 48 – 31 over Phil Angelides.

Angelides is leading among Democrats by 57-21.

Schwarzenegger is up among Republicans, 82-4.

Among independents, it’s Schwarzenegger by 42-27.

Among men: 54-27.

Among women: 41-24.

Schwarzenegger is even getting 30 percent among Latinos.

The question is, will this produce coattails for McClintock, Poochigian, Strickland and the rest of the downticket?

And, in the face of these numbers, will the unions really spend $25 million?… Read More

The Governor has signed legislation targeting one side of the political debate, but not and the other and a bill that is designed to publicly shame pharmacists that are pro-life.

The Governor will never win any awards for protecting innocent Human Life. Everyone knew that he was with the exception of possibly parental notification zealously pro-abortion. His COS Susan Kennedy was the chief political operative for the California Abortion Lobby.

In his kowtowing to the extreme pro-abortion agenda of the Democrats in the legislature he has signed three bills under the banner of benefiting "women’s health" that really target political speech and freedom of religion. See release here.

The Governor signed AB 2251, which limits the amount of personal information about abortion business people, volunteers etc. that can be placed on the web. Of course there is a free speech issue here, but let’s say it isn’t okay to put this stuff on the web. Then why are only abortion businesses protected? Dennis Hollingsworth put up an amendment that would have extended these protections to… Read More

Today, we got another startling glimpse of what the “Speaker Pelosi” (scary isn’t it) and the Democratic agenda would look like if they took over Congress. The latest revelation came from Charlie Rangel (D-NY), the ranking member of the Ways and Means Committee and the would be Democratic chairman. Congress Daily PM highlighted some of his remarks at a press conference today, “Asked whether tax increases across the income spectrum would be considered, [Rangel] replied, ‘No question about it.’" This is on the heels of remarks he made last week in another article published in Bloomberg News, “Rangel’s accession to the chairmanship of the committee would likely end six years of tax cuts by the Republican- controlled Congress. He said he ‘cannot think of one’ of President George W. Bush’s first-term tax cuts that merit renewal.”

The millions of Americans are benefiting from tax relief that has lowered marginal tax rates, reduced taxes on capitol gains and dividends, created the largest ever child tax credit, and reduced the death tax among others. These tax… Read More