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In the Politico story Perry makes a good point. Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry lambasted Sen. Barbara Boxer on Tuesday over her comments that Republicans are “acting like” domestic abusers by shutting down the government. “That’s not the type of positive, intellectually engaged debate that you want to see on the Senate floor for sure,” Perry said on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends.” “I think it’s very offensive to individuals who have worked hard across this country to stop domestic violence,” he continued. Perry also mentioned the work of his wife, Anita, on the issue and said Boxer (D-Calif.) will most likely walk back her comments. “My wife works for the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault. I would suggest to you that Sen. Boxer would be reeling that comment back in before the week’s up,” Perry said. ... I doubt she has the intellectual integrity to comprehend her own insults.  But it is a reflection of the Democrats style of argument over the funding of Obamacare and ...

Mark Steyn: The Democratic Party, never inclined to look a gift horse in the mouth, does have a tendency to flog him to death. So it is with a fellow called Todd Akin, a GOP Senate candidate who unburdened himself of some ill-advised thoughts on abortion and "legitimate rape," and put Missouri back in play for the Democrats. Less ambitious political parties would be content with that little windfall, but the Dems have decided to make — what's his name again? Oh, yeah — this guy Akin the face of the Republican Party. I mean, Mitt pretty much sees "venture capitalism" as a fancy term for legitimate rape, right? California's Barbara Boxer opened the bidding this week in her familiar low-key style. "There is a war against women, and Romney and Ryan — if they are elected — would become its top generals," Boxer told a Planned Parenthood meeting. "There is a sickness out there in the Republican Party, and I'm not kidding. Maybe they don't l...

It is an interesting message in a state where Democrats have higher registration numbers.

Image by Getty Images via @daylife The Hill: Campaigning for former adviser Carly Fiorina Saturday in San Diego , Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) ripped into fellow Sen. Barbara Boxer (D- Calif. ), calling her the "most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense Senator in the United States Senate today." McCain told the crowd at a rally for Fiorina that he has had "the unpleasant experience" of serving with Boxer in the Senate, according to the Los Angeles Times. "When you hear her say that she supports the men and women in the military, my friends, she does not," McCain said, according to the Times. "Because she has never supported the mission, she has never supported victory whether it be in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or anywhere else in the world. Barbara Boxer wants to wave the white flag of surrender and endanger this nation’s national security. It’s time she went back to San Francisco with Nancy Pelosi .” ... He is right, but it is seldom that you ...

The Chamber of Commerce says Boxer is more interested in protecting the three inch smelt than California jobs lost because of water being cut off. Related articles Job Creators Back Carly Fiorina (gaypatriot.net)

Fiorina's ads get better and better.

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IBD: Might California's Central Valley, long treated as a environmental-policy dumping ground by Democrats, end up a change agent in election 2010? New polls there show a collapse in Sen. Barbara Boxer's prospects. The Senate race in California has gotten far tighter in the past month, with the Real Clear Politics poll average showing Boxer, the entrenched incumbent, leading her opponent, Republican Carly Fiorina, by just 1.4 points. The latest Rasmussen poll has Boxer up by 2. A month ago she was up by 5, and a month before that by 7. Much of the tightening has come in the state's water-deprived Central Valley, which Democrats have turned into an economic and literal wasteland in the name of saving the environment. A month ago, Fiorina was ahead there by 7 points. Today the gap has widened to 21 (56%-35%). Fiorina "has made more visits to the valley than anyone I can remember," said her friend, Rep. Devin Nunes, a Republican who grew up on a farm in the C...

Washington Time: After Carly Fiorina won California's Republican Senate primary, many analysts expected her to shake off her conservative mantle and make a lunge for the moderate middle in the general election against liberal incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer. That's not how it has played out. Mrs. Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO who's seeking public office for the first time, hasn't tweaked her positions in the slightest. She's still as pro-life, anti-tax and anti-illegal-immigration as she was when she defeated two Republican challengers in June. "Carly, unlike a normal Republican, who would track to the right in the primary and then go to the center, isn't doing that," said Los Angeles-based Republican political analyst Allan Hoffenblum. "She's all over Fox News and [conservative talk show host Sean] Hannity. She's really running a hard-core conservative campaign, not giving an inch." This may be the year of the Republ...

B.A. Patty: California's Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer is not much of a pragmatist when it comes to the U.S. military. She consistently voted to end the war in Iraq long before the outcome was at all certain, supporting numerous measures to put rigid timelines for withdrawal of our troops in place regardless of conditions on the ground. She tried to thwart President Obama's attempts to win the war in Afghanistan, opposing his efforts to put enough troops in the theater to accomplish the job. She famously berated a general who had the temerity to fail address her as "Senator," instead following common military protocol and calling her "Ma'am." But there is one area where she has developed an affinity for the military and wants to ensure it has all the equipment she thinks it needs, and that is military air transport. She is a firm supporter of building as many Boeing C-17 Globemaster aircraft as she can get funded. Given her proclivity for opposing ...

Image via Wikipedia IBD: California's Senate debate was between someone who knows how to pull a wagon and someone who wants everyone to ride. The choice is creating wealth and jobs or redistributing wealth while destroying jobs. ... The debate wasn't so much conservative vs. liberal as between freedom and dependency, with incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer attacking former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as serving the interests of "billionaires, millionaires and companies that outsource jobs," as if California's 12.3% unemployment rate is the fault of someone who created jobs in the private sector. Fiorina responded to Boxer, who at last report had not taken a vow of poverty, by noting that with 28 years in the Senate, she's part of the problem, not the solution: "If you look at Sen. Boxer's long track record of 28 years in Washington, D.C., you will see this: She is for more taxes, she is for more spending, she is for more regulation and she is...

From the San Francisco Chronicle : ... Boxer told me: "I asked her how many people had died and she did not know the answer to that question. And since we had lost a lot of Californians, I was concerned. And I said, you and I don't have, we haven't paid a person price, I said, you and I, I said, myself, my grandkids are too young, my husband too old, and as far as I know you don't have anybody in the war. So I tried to use it to bring us together, but the right-wing press said that I questioned, that I turned on her because she wasn't married which was a little silly." My thanks to Shaky Hands Productions. Boxer also said: "I was criticizing the fact that she didn't know how many people died in Iraq. Absolutely I was." There's just one problem. Boxer never asked Rice how many U.S. troops had died in Iraq when she began her "personal price" remarks. In fact, Boxer had not asked Rice a single question. She was engaged i...

Reuters: ... "This seat is much more competitive than any previous election that Boxer has faced," he said. "I think it's a toss-up state." Boxer's campaign said on Wednesday that Obama for the first time planned to come to California to campaign for the senator. Boxer's unfavorable rating has shot up to 51 percent from 39 percent in two months and she is in a statistical dead heat when compared with the two leading candidates for the Republican nomination, former Congressman Tom Campbell and former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chief Executive Carly Fiorina. "Voters are really recoiling at what is going on in Washington with health reform," DiCamillo said. "Whether you are a supporter of health reform or not, you don't like the way the process has been handled." ... Democrats continue to try to fool themselves that the process they are using to ram through health care does not matter. I think Boxer is also reeling from the effec...

This may be one of the best ads this year. There are no Demon Sheep this time, but the Demon Boxer Blimp is not to be missed.

Roger L. Simon: ... Of course, it’s more than an unpleasant personality that makes me react so strongly to Boxer (we’re none of us perfect in that regard, right?). It’s also her uncanny ability to mix willful ignorance and guilt-free dishonesty. That combination was on display at Tuesday’s meeting of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, which she chairs and at which Senator Inhofe made an interesting minority report. At that meeting, according to Pajamas Media’s own Charlie Martin, Boxer and the EPA’s Lisa Jackson “ threw the IPCC under the bus ,” ostensibly by denying they had been influenced by that UN organization, its officers like Rajendra Pachauri or other tarnished foreign sources (the East Anglia CRU) in their conclusions about climate and AGW. (Boxer: “In my opening statement, I didn’t quote one international scientist or IPCC report. … We are quoting the American scientific community here.”) Boxer lied. According to the perspicacious climatequotes.com, “ Bar...

Charlie Martin , PJM: During the review of the Environmental Protection Agency budget in today’s Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing, both Senator Barbara Boxer — the chair of the committee — and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson distanced themselves from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). Boxer and Jackson’s statements, in addition to being a striking change in policy, are problematic because U.S. climate science is very closely tied to the IPCC reports (as Christopher Horner showed in his recent PJM series on the NASA FOIA emails.) The statements by Boxer and Jackson followed Senator Inhofe’s release (see the PJM exclusive report ) in his opening statement of a minority staff report documenting many flaws in the IPCC report and the other evidence revealed in the Climategate files. (See the full hearing on CSPAN here ; the exchanges with Senator Boxer and Inhofe, and Administrator Jackson begin at about 56 minutes int...

LA Times: ... "I think every state is now in play, absolutely,"' she said. "You have to make the case that you're the one that's on the people's side. And people have to get it."' Asked if Senate Democrats were to blame for the results in Massachusetts, where state Sen. Scott Brown scored a big win for Republicans by winning a longtime Democratic seat, Boxer said, "I would take it to the campaign itself. ... Never, ever, ever take an election for granted. … People have to know you're in their corner, you're with them, you're on their side. You have to make the case. You can't presume." ... It still does not sound like she gets it. It was the health care bill and the way the Democrats put it together that brought down Coakley who had no input on the bill. Boxer should be held direct responsible for the health care bill and the taxes it will impose on voters as well as her awful cap and trade tax bill. When you add the...