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Lunchtime Links

By | 07.02.10 | 12:00 pm

Orrin Hatch announces he will vote against Elena Kagan’s confirmation.

Michael Steele says he doesn’t think we should be fighting in Afghanistan.

Republicans weren’t convinced by Obama’s speech to support immigration reform.

The House approved another $37 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan More…

In Virginia, a GOP Stimulus Critic Calls for Stimulus Funds

By | 03.02.10 | 2:11 pm

Add Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) to the growing list of conservative state officials who are preaching fiscal restraint while also vying for federal stimulus dollars to address state budget problems. The Washington Post reports that McDonnell — who just last week told the More…

The Week in Immigration News

By | 02.26.10 | 3:00 pm

-To reduce the state debt in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-Calif.) wants to make a drastic cut in public assistance for legal immigrants. The cut would mostly affect new immigrants, who are not yet eligible for welfare, by eliminating More…

In Spending Debate, Local Officials Split With Washington GOP

By | 02.23.10 | 6:00 am

To hear Republicans in Congress tell it, the Grand Old Party is pretty much united against the deficit-spending approach to economic recovery.

Don’t tell that to local GOP officials.

Faced with the most severe budget crises in decades, state and local policymakers from across the country — including a growing More…

Schwarzenegger Calls Out GOP Stimulus Hypocrisy

By | 02.22.10 | 9:39 am

Here’s a profound idea from California GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who went after congressional Republicans yesterday for criticizing the Democrats’ stimulus bill one moment, then taking credit for the money the legislation is providing their districts the next. From ABC’s “This Week:”

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A Fiorina Opportunity in California?

By | 01.12.10 | 7:58 pm

California Republican Chuck DeVore’s aggressive strategy to be seen by conservative activists as a RINO-slaying hero seemed to get a boost today when former Rep. Tom Campbell (R-Calif.), whose run for governor had been flagging, switched over to the Senate primary. It was certainly a vote of no-confidence More…

Schwarzenegger Wants A Sweetheart Medicaid Deal, Too

By | 01.06.10 | 5:43 pm

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman (R) might be balking at the deal Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb) secured to have Washington pick up Nebraska’s entire tab for a proposed Medicaid expansion, but California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) said today that he’d gladly accept the same arrangement for his More…

California Introduces Cap-and-Trade Blueprint

By | 11.24.09 | 6:06 pm

As national climate legislation slowly simmers on the back burner of the Senate and expectations are lowered for the international climate conference in Copenhagen, environmentalists can take solace in the efforts of California, which this afternoon issued the country’s first broad-based cap-and-trade blueprint to reduce greenhouse emissions.

The Los Angeles More…

GOP Upset in California Special Election Looking Unlikely

By | 10.30.09 | 12:35 pm

The NY-23 special election has gotten so much attention that a special election in California, for the seat of now-Undersecretary of State Ellen Tauscher, has fallen off the the radar. There are Republicans who look at the race in CA-10 as a possible back-breaker for Democrats — former Arkansas Gov. More…

MEGa McCain

By | 05.29.09 | 11:02 am

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) will traipse through the California heartland today to lend his support to former eBay President and CEO Meg Whitman, a candidate in California’s Republican gubernatorial primary next year.

Whitman is hosting a townhall meeting in Fresno today — and you know McCain can’t resist a More…