GOP Candidates in Lockstep EXCEPT....

All of the GOP Candidates were in Lockstep in the following Areas:
1. Lower Taxes for the Rich
2. Reduce or End Regulations for Big Business
3. No New Jobs Ideas
4. Repeal Obamacare
5. No Gay Marriage
6. No Pro Choice

After that, NOT ALL were asked the same questions. Their answers as follows:
No Auto Bailout: Romney, Bachmann, Santorum
Privatize Space Program (No NASA): Romney, Pawlenty, Gingrich
Do Not Continue Medicare: Pawlenty, Paul, Santorum Gingrich, Cain
Support Teaparty: Bachman & Santorum
Return Offshore Jobs: Paul

ANTI Immigration Reform: Pawlenty, Santorum; Gingrich said Path to citizenship

The Winners: American People for Seeing the Republican Agenda for themselves
Who Came out on Top:
1. Romney: although Detroit will hate him for his ANTI-Auto Bailout Comments.
2. Bachmann & Santorum: Someone took away their "Crazy Juice" last night.

The Losers:
1. Pawlenty: What a Wimp! On Sunday, he coined the term "Obamneycare," YET when given the chance to 'splain and challenge Romney on his MA Healthcare plan, Pawlenty WIMPED OUT!
2. Paul: As in 2008, Paul looks like the token kook. He hates Government period. The more and more he talks, the more the rest of the pack distances themselves from his craaaazzzy ideas!
3. CNN -- NO TOUGH QUESTIONS! No follow through. They made it a Fan's Q&A -- "NO Debate" Last night!
4. Gingrich & Cain: Were they even there last night? If so, they went unnoticed.

LIVE BLOGGING REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE

I'm LIVE BLOGGING the GOP Presidential Debate tonight. Look for LIVE updates from me as the Debate Continues!
The Candidates:
Romney, Pawlenty, Bachmann, Ron Paul, Santorum, Gingrich, Cain.
Question: What would you do about Jobs?
Cain: Lower taxes; lower capital gains tax (Sold to Big Business)
Santorum: Bashing Obama. Oppressiveness of THAT Bill, what it will do to BIG BUSINESS. REGULATION is wrong. WE NEED TO DRILL.
Pawlenty: Cut TAXES, REDUCE REGULATION. We need a PRO Growth agenda. We are NOT an average nation. Cut spending. Reduce Regulation. End Healthcare.Cut spending.
Romney: President slowed economy. long term unemployment. Housing Crisis. Foreclosures. President Failed. Need Jobs in this country.
Gingrich: Reagan recovery (I participated) created 25M new jobs. raised revenue. Obama anti business, anti jobs. Should repeal sarbains oxley, dodd-frank.
Bachmann: repeal dodd-frank. i introduced it. make an announcement: filed paperwork to seek presidency of the US. want you to be first to know.
Paul: (asked has obama done one thing right?) cant answer that question. we need to unwind a keynsian bubble we need to liquidate bad debt. need new jobs. 30M new people and no new jobs. people don't understand monetary policy and free markets.
Audience Question: Concerned about overage of Healthcare legislation. What would each candidate do to repeal and defund obamacare.
Bachmann: promise - i will not rest til i repeal obamacare if i'm elected prez. obamacare kills 800K jobs. Seniors get this. Took 500K - shifted to obamacare. Seniors most to lose.
Romney: Obamneycare? - I will repeal Obamacare. Grant waiver to all 50 states obamacare. Spends 50M. Raises 500B in taxes. Takes 500B in medicare. Romneycare was a state plan, state solution. Replace it with state centered solutions.
Pawlenty: Obama broke promise. (didn't answer obamneycare question) Then re-asked: prez obama - looked to MA - blueprint - obamney care reflected on obama's words. (Pawlenty CHICKENED OUT!!)
Romney: I would FACE the President and ask him directly. Obamacare would NOT work.
Gingrich: Should NOT Have a mandate. This campaign not only about Prez. Need to pick up seats in Senate and House. It's about American People.
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Audience Question: Convince me - How will you solve problems.
Sanctorum: Look at my record. Drafted welfare reform bill. End Federal Entitlement. Like Paul Ryan's plan. Tea Party is great backstop for america. Backbone to republican party.
Bachmann: I'm chairman of teaparty caucus. Wants to take country back. Create jobs. Turn economy around. Prez obama can't tell that story. Failed. Republicans have awesome story to tell. Prez Obama 1 term Prez. (All White Audience applauds)
Cain: Talks about his career as businessman. Sez he will surround himself with good people. Get people involved.
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Audience Question: Return manufacturing jobs to US.
PAUL: Important. We've exported jobs in the past. Have to invite capital. Have strong currency. Entice individuals to repatriate offshore money back into the US.
Pawlenty: Restore manufacturing. Fair Trade. Don't be stupid or chump. Lots not following rules. We need strong prez. Takes rocks out - end Obamacare. Taxes too high. Regulations too heavy. Get government off BIG BUSINESS' back.
Bachmann: Lower Taxes. Bring tax rate down. Get rid of job killing regulations. Get rid of EPA.

THEY ARE TAKING A BREAK. -- OMG.
IT IS OBVIOUS. THESE GOP'ERS ARE PANDERING TO BIG BUSINESS. ALL THEY ARE SAYING IS:
. CUT TAXES, END REGULATION, HATE OBAMA. (WHAT A BUNCH OF ....)
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QUESTION: What standards do you have for govt assistance to private enterprise?
Paul: None.
Cain: Didn't agree with Tarp. Does not agree with Too Big to Fail. Should not have helped car companies.
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Question: Auto Industry - was bail of auto industry a success?
Romney: No. It was not a success. We should have let the car companies fail.
Santorum: No Tarp. No Bailout. Let them FAIL.
Bachmann: Wrong Vote! No Tarp. No Bailout. Let them Fail.
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Question: Space Program - What role gov't play in Space Program?
Gingrich: Do not support it. No more bureaucracy! NASA in the way. Encourage the private sector. Decentralize it.
Pawlenty: Partner with private sector.
Romeny: Private sector.
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Question: Homes - Right the housing shift?
Pawlenty: Get government out of capitalism. Market will adjust. Obama programs didn't work. Get economy moving again. His way failed.
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Paul Chose Blackberry vs iPhone (LOL -- Old Guy!)
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Question: Medicare Solvent?
Paul: Won't be solvent. We need competition so people can opt out of Medicare.
Pawlenty: Not Solvent. Need to fix it. Have my OWN plan. DIFFERENT than Paul Ryan's. Medicare WILL BE AN OPTION.
Gingrich: I supported Ryan's plan. Words taken out of context. "Maybe it's not a good idea." Maybe things I would do different on Medicare. Outside current system.
Santorum: We have a big deficit. Wholeheartedly support Paul Ryan's plan. (Then he went crazy and said Ryan's plan was IDENTICAL to Medicare Part D -- the Prescription Drug program-- )
Cain: You won't get money back Doctor (questioner). We got to restructure those programs. I support Paul Ryan program. You know those mediscare programs.. it's going to be our grandkids in those commercials and we will be throwing our kids off that cliff.
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Question: What is your Social Security plan.
Cain: Restructure social security.
Raise retirement age?
Cain: I don't have to. Congress decides to do that. WE've got to restructure program.
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Question: Credit Limit August 2.
Romney: We won't have to raise the debt limit. We have ideas here. But what are the Presidents ideas? No job creation or scale of government. That's the problem.
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Question: Price Tag - Cuts
Bachmann: No. Raise debt ceiling is failure of leadership.
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Question: Sep Church & State
Pawlenty: blah blah blah
Santorum: Faith & Reason - same place.
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Questions: Muslims in Admin?
Cain: I don't believe in Shariah law in America. Need Loyalty Test. But won't ask Christian or Jew. Look at their work record/resume.
Romney: No shariah law in american courts. Muslims accepted.
Gingrich: If you are not loyal to US you won't serve in my admin period.
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Question: Gays Marry?
Bachmann: Believe in marriage man and woman. Children - believe in man and woman marriage. Nothing. Nada. Not Fed issue.
Cain: State
Pawlenty: Marriage man and woman.
Paul: Church.
Romney: Constitutional
Gingrich: Constitutional
Santorum: Constitutional
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Question: Don't Ask Don't Tell
Cain: Never overturn don't ask don't tell. Won't turn it over though.
Pawlenty: take queues from military commanders
Paul: Shouldn't take it away
Romney: should have been kept in place but won't change it
Gingrich: up to military.
Bachmann: leave it.
Santorum: should be repealed.
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Question: Pro Life
Santorum: Look at authenticity of their view. (dig at Romney) Taking pledge/bullets. I am strongly PRO LIFE. All life respected.
Romney: Pro Life.
Case Closed.
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Question: Abortion - Abortion even if Raped?
Bachmann: 100% pro life. 23 foster children. Conception to natural death. Govt cannot take those rights away. Stand for LIFE! Conception to natural death.
Pawlenty: Look at records. I'm pro-life.
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Question: Illegal Immigrants - Stop Them!
Santorum: Son of legal immigrant. Cannot continue to provide govt services. Voted against it. Not guaranteed govt benefit. Not offering to people gov't benefits.
Paul: Shouldn't have mandates. No easy benefits. Protect our borders, not iraq, afghanistan. No care. Shouldn't penalize Catholic Church, that is wrong. Related to economy. Ecomonic issue. If you have an understanding, No.
Cain: Birthright citizenship - NO. Solve real problem - secure borders, enforce laws, promote path to citizenship by cleaning up bureaucracy, empower the states to do what feds can't do. Of course care - but fix problems.
Pawlenty: sb1070? each state decide? if feds won't do it, let states do it. they will. State Guard reinforce the border. Birthright citizenship: appointing conservatives to supreme court. NO birthright citizenship. Question: those here - path to citizenship?
Gingrich: never pass comprehensive bill. didn't even try. First control the border. 2nd: take half of homeland security, transplant to border states, have more than enough people to control the border. No serious person should be asked yes or no answer. need humane answer. not mass deportation vs legalization.
Question: bill - restrict power to seize private land - emminent domain - for oil.
Paul: No, No emminent domain for this purpose. Property should be owned by people.
Romney: Do not believe in emminent domain. We need to develop own energy in our country. Need prez who cares.
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Question: Abolish ethanol tax.
Santorum: Phase out ethanol tax. Voted against ethanol subsidies.
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Question: Afghanistan. Bombing in Yemen?
Romney: Get out. Wait for Generals to say when.
Paul: No Wars. As commander in chief, get them out NOW! Security not enhanced by being there. No bombing in Yemen.
Pawlenty: Yemen bombing yes.
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Question: Libya
Bachmann: No. Flawed Policy. Bad Intelligence. Don't know how many al qaeda.
Gingrich: Price tag always a factor. Bad Intelligence. Don't know how many al qaeda. Talk to generals. Need to strategy. Bad intelligence.
Cain: Understand the problem. Is it in vital interest. Paraphrase grandmother: "It's a Mess."
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Question: Support Military, but in debt. Shut down unvital military bases?
Santorum: Failure of leadership. no strategy. Need ability to confront threats. Need bases. Allies need to know we have thier back. (Israel) "Americas Fecklessness" Question: Polls bad for Republicans
Cain: As they get to know us, this is a good field.
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Question: Who made best choice for VP in 2008?
Pawlenty: Obama. Likes Palin. Hates Biden.
Romney: Anyone better than Obama. Failed! No foreign policies. Throw friends under bus.
Bachmann: who would be your VP. Need American Idol contest. Let audience decide.
Paul: All. Need more quizzing.
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Question: What have you learned?
Santorum: Great field of candidates.
Bachmann: Learned more about American People.
Gingrich: 1st in nation as primary.
Romney: NH proven need to get economy growing again
Paul: We can talk and be civil.
Pawlenty: Future is bright.
Cain: All candidates share -- its about the children and grandchildren. Not that far apart on issues.

School Has Amazing Success! Teacher and Blogger Nick Contreraz Educates Students and helps them to "Code Switch" (The Value of Both Worlds!)

Nick Contreraz is a Latino, Role-Model Teacher and a Blogger. Recently, Minnesota Public Radio News (MPR) did a story on the school where Nick teaches. He was interviewed for the story. Here are some excerpts:
MPRNews.com reports: St. Paul, Minn. — Minnesota's first Jesuit high school graduates its first class on Saturday. Minneapolis' Cristo Rey High School puts low-income, inner-city youth through an education based on faith, diligent school work and a mandatory corporate job. Administrators say that combination has resulted in nearly all of this year's graduates going on to college. Cristo Rey credits its success to the combination of school and work, which they say breeds confidence... Cristo Rey is part of a national network of more than 20 high schools. They recruit low-income, urban kids, putting them through a rigorous high school experience with long school days and long school years. Each student must work after school one day a week in professional settings, like law firms and hospitals. The jobs come from the schools' corporate partners. The students' earnings go directly to the schools and pay for about half their tuition. The schools also put an emphasis on faith, although all faiths are accepted...

Cristo Rey High School opened four years ago in the diverse Phillips neighborhood About 270 students are enrolled. Of the 60 students in its first graduating class, more than half plan to attend a four-year college. Luis Nava Torres received a full scholarship to attend the University of St Thomas. Most other graduates will attend two-year schools. Four students joined the Marine Corps...

Religious studies teacher Nick Contreraz said kids also worry the school's asking them to be something they're not. He said they call it "acting white." "I think one of the key successes we have here is to show that it's not a matter of 'acting white,' it's how to navigate the professional world and how to be successful in the professional world, while also being true to yourself."

Contreraz said it's important for students to understand different behaviors work in different environments. Principal Jeb Myers said businesses are looking for diverse candidates who can move between both worlds. "For them, it's a win," Myers said. "They know they're getting someone who's worked before. They know they're getting somebody that's college-educated and then they know that they're diverse. I know it sounds kind of utopian but really, if we can keep this rolling, it can really change what's happening in the United States." Myers said the school is on strong financial footing, with several major benefactors committed long-term. He said Cristo Rey will soon add a position to help guide graduates who've gone on to college. Myers hopes in another four years, Cristo Rey will be there to help its first class of graduates find permanent jobs.

Nick is one of those very special teachers that truly believes in and supports his students, teaching from his heart, with conviction, gaining their trust, thereby enabling them to want to learn and want to be a success. He helps them understand their own personal value, the importance of appreciating your home life/heritage while understanding the importance of understanding and adapting to your working environment. BOTH HAVE VALUE! And this is ALL discussed Openly!
I read Nick's blog which led me to the MPR article. His Blog is funny, honest and risky in the sense he is not afraid to tell the truth. Here are some excerpts from his Blog. I'm including a link to his Blog. I'm sure some of the ANTIs will be offended because they are not reading the intent of his words. Humanitarian readers will clearly understand Nick's very positive message:
Nick's Blog: Are You Sure You're Mexican?
Topic: I Lean Like a Cholo, But Talk Like A Guerro
Big topic of conversation this week: "Talking White." Since I have been at my predominantly Latino school, teaching, this has been a claim not only against myself, by students, but also a claim against the school that we are trying to make our students talk and act white. Now, to be fair to my educated readers, I will refer to "talking white" as such, as this is the terminology my students use not realizing the potential danger of *gasp* offending a white person.
Racial identity, as I have said in an earlier blog, is something I often times obsess about. Sure, its always been an issue, growing up in the state of Montana where I felt like a raisin in a box of corn flakes, but didn't become a serious point of contention until recently. My first year at my current school, my students caught on right away to the fact my last name was Latino, so wanted to know what my first name was. Now, we have a lot of Joses, Luis's, Eduardos and the like. They didn't expect for me to say my name is Nick. This then naturally lead to questions about my middle name. I told them it is Jerome. Then the laughter ensued. They asked so eloquently, "What the hell are you Maestro (this is the Spanish word for teacher)?" I asked what they meant. And one brave student said, You have a white first name. A black middle name. A Mexican last name. What are you? Another student then chimed in: Well he looks sorta Mexican. He listens to black music. He talks like a guerro. He's Mr. Globo (translates to globe). So for about a week, this was my nick-name. Also, this was the start of a roller-coaster ride of emotion over the issue of language vs. racial identity...

So, ultimately, the difference between teaching our students to "act white" and to code switch, is that we are teaching them that there is value in both systems. To teach our students to act white, would mean that we are negating not just their culture and experience, but who they are as human beings. To code switch offers value to both systems (professional/white & their home/street life). It teaches them there is an appropriate way to act in both settings.
(read the rest of Nick's Blog here)

Guest Voz - Immigration Clearinghouse: Alabama Passes Repressive State Immigration Law

Guest Voz - Porter Corn from Immigration Clearinghouse: La Ley de Jaime Cuervo alive in Alabama as State passes repressive immigration law
Alabama’s xenophobic governor on Thursday signed a tough and repressive new illegal immigration crackdown that contains provisions requiring public schools to determine students’ immigration status (in violation of Federal Law) and making it a crime to knowingly give an illegal immigrant a ride, or for that matter, being “brown” and alive in Alabama. George Wallace must be dancing a jig in hell over this one.

Earlier in this legislative session, the Republican-led Alabama Legislature — with the help of some white Democrats — passed the bill that guarantees trial lawyers will be employed in future litigation in Alabama, with many of them working at taxpayer expense. There’s no telling how many trial lawyers that legislation will affect.

Then, after making Alabama businesses happy with reforms that would limit people’s ability to sue companies, the Republican-led Alabama Legislature — again with the help of a few Democrats — passed this bill that would further burden companies with regulations that must be followed if they intend to do business in this state.

So once again, the state of Alabama comes from behind to declare itself king of regression last week. Alabama legislators often get really antsy when other states are stealing the spotlight over being the most racist in America.

The societal misfits at ALIPAC, and their leader, the reprehensible William Gheen, is claiming this so-called “victory” as his own, as he is scrambling to find money to support his lifestyle from supporters who are increasingly becoming fedup with his fraudulent claims. Hearing him beat his chest, you would think he ushered this racist piece of legislation through all on his own, from his donor provided McMansion in Youngsville North Carolina.

Let’s see how long it takes for the lawsuits to fly and the injunctions given against this law.

I’m going to be in Alabama this weekend and I think I’ll look for an illegal immigrant to give a ride to. It’d be my own little protest against the terrible immigration bill passed by a xenophobic Legislature and signed by an equally xenophobic Gov. Robert Bentley.

Statistics Show: Latino, Youth & Minority Votes will be a HUGE FACTOR in the 2012 Election! Right Wing Extremists DON'T STAND A CHANCE!

Demographics are changing and statistics make it abundantly clear that the Latino, Youth and Minority Votes will be a HUGE Factor in determining who will be elected President in 2012.

Leading Republican Pundit Mike Murphy agrees: "As I wrote in this space two years ago, Republicans need to learn that we no longer hold our presidential elections in Ronald Reagan's America. Here are the numbers: in 1980, white voters cast 88% of the total presidential vote; by 2008, the percentage had shrunk to 74%. Which is why, though George W. Bush in 2000 and John McCain in 2008 both won 55% of the white vote, McCain lost by 7 points and Bush essentially tied Al Gore. Worse for the GOP, the proportion of overall votes cast by white voters will decline even more in 2012. Latinos are rapidly redrawing the demographic playing field. In 2008, Obama won the Latino vote by 36 points. His massive fundraising machine is preparing to spend millions registering even more Latinos to vote. This will have a powerful impact in the vital Western swing states of Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, all of which have rapidly growing Latino populations. Obama carried three of these states in 2008, losing only McCain's Arizona."
The Pew Research organization said, "Hispanics voted for Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden over Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin by a margin of more than two-to-one in the 2008 presidential election, 67% versus 31%, according to an analysis by the Pew Hispanic Center of exit polls from Edison Media Research as published by CNN. The Center's analysis also finds that 9% of the electorate was Latino, as indicated by the national exit poll. This is higher, by one percentage point, than the share in the 2004 national exit poll."
Both Murphy's analysis and the Pew statistics make it very clear. Latino Votes will have a major impact on the election. So who will win in 2012? If the Republicans hope to have a shred of chance, they must do as Murphy suggests: they MUST SHED their Nativism and attract more Latinos, or the Electoral College math becomes prohibitive."
Looking at the the Republican Candidate field, the Tea Party Favorites, the extreme right wing candidates, DO NOT HAVE A HOPE of attracting a single Latino Vote! Look at them! Look at their agendas! Republican's only hope is a Centrist Republican. However, the Tea Party calls the Centrists RINOs and refuse to back them. Instead, they stand behind the far right wing extremists who don't stand a shadow (or white hood) of a chance!

2011 Cheech Marin Singing Mexican American

David Vitter Allows Me to LAUGH In the Face of ALL Republicans Who PRETEND They are Outraged by Anthony Weiner's CyberSexting!

David Vitter. What can I say! Senator David Vitter. The guy caught with his pants down, fornicating and paying for Prostitutes. The guy who likes it when the Prostitutes Dressed him in Diapers! The guy who HUMILIATED his WIFE by Forcing Her to STAND BY HIS SIDE AS he apologized to the Public!

His party is demading Anthony Weiner resign. Weiner, regardless of his name, did NOT do the deed. He did not have Sex, as Vitter DID with Prostitutes. He only texted and sent pictures from his phone. He did NOT do the deed like Vitter. Vitter with the Fetish... to have the Prostitutes allow HIM to wear Diapers.

And Vitter is Still in the Senate! As the Family Values Guy!

NO ONE IS ASKING FOR REPUBLICAN VITTER TO RESIGN.
YET....
HOW MANY REPUBLICANS ARE ASKING FOR WEINER TO RESIGN.

MANY!
WEINER DID NOT DO THE DEED.
VITTER DID!
FOR ALL YOU WHO ASK FOR WEINER TO RESIGN, I SAY...
VITTER, YOU FIRST!!!

From Wiki:
On July 16, 2007, after a week of self-imposed seclusion, Vitter emerged and called a news conference. Standing next to his wife, Vitter asked the public for forgiveness for fornicating with many, many prostitutes. He forced his wife to stand by his side as he admitted the deed, yet REFUSED to resign. This Vitter.. the man who represents himself as the Republican "Family Values" guy.

What does this say about Republicans???
What does this say about Vitter???? (His poor, poor wife.)
Vitter, STILL is in the Senate.
Yet the hypocrital Republicans are demanding Weiner resign!
WHAT HYPOCRITES!!!