2 Of The 3 People On The Arizona Tarmac Say gop Gov. Lied About President Obama’s Demeanor
“He wasn’t tense at all,” Stanton said on Friday. “The guy’s a pro.”

“He wasn’t tense at all,” Stanton said on Friday. “The guy’s a pro.”
Lessons from gop.
…Kelly Rindfleisch, deputy chief of staff to Walker in 2010, faces four felony counts of misconduct in office
…Also charged Thursday was Darlene Wink, Walker’s one-time constituent services coordinator,
Elliott Abrams (plead guilty Iran Contra)
Such was Gingrich’s faith in President Reagan that in 1985, he called Reagan’s meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev “the most dangerous summit for the West since Adolf Hitler met with Neville Chamberlain in 1938 in Munich.”
Hot Tub Tommy (found guilty)
Former Speaker of The House Tom DeLay tells syndicated radio talk show host Michael Berry that Newt Gingrich isn’t a true conservative, and compares him with Bill Clinton:
“Tonight, after persistent questioning by our staff, the Gingrich campaign concedes now Speaker Gingrich was wrong — both in his debate answer, and in our interview yesterday,” King said on tonight’s edition of John King USA. “Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond says the only people the Gingrich campaign offered to ABC were his two daughters from his first marriage.”
An important victory for John King in his ongoing effort to justify last Thursday’s confrontation.
A Milwaukee County court commissioner decided Monday that there is enough evidence to send Timothy D. Russell, a former top aide to Gov. Scott Walker, to trial on charges he embezzled more than $25,000 from a veterans group and two political candidates.
I believe and I think the right approach is to accept this horribly created — in the sense of rape — but nevertheless a gift in a very broken way, the gift of human life, and accept what God has given to you.
Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson, Jr. falsely claimed that the regs require such employers to “provide drugs that induce abortions.”
…In fact, I don’t even watch Fox and Friends all that much, but out of the four times I’ve tuned in this month, they have done this twice.
State Rep. Robert Watson says he has checked in to in-patient rehabilitation following his second arrest on marijuana possession charges.
WJAR-TV reports that Watson, the former House Republican leader, said he was seeking help after he was arrested late Saturday night in South Kingstown.
I respect and admire Senator Santorum and appreciate his concern for inner city girls. I must correct a statement attributed to me in the Republican presidential debate Monday January 16th.
Representative Bob Genetski was arrested early Thursday morning in East Lansing for allegedly driving impaired.
1) Three women have met Mr. Gingrich and been so moved by his emotional energy and intellect that they decided they wanted to spend the rest of their lives with him.
2) Two of these women felt this way even though Mr. Gingrich was already married.
3 ) One of them felt this way even though Mr. Gingrich was already married for the second time, was not exactly her equal in the looks department and had a wife (Marianne) who wanted to make his life without her as painful as possible.
Conclusion: When three women want to sign on for life with a man who is now running for president, I worry more about whether we’ll be clamoring for a third Gingrich term, not whether we’ll want to let him go after one.
“They thinking that by trotting out this old Gingrich divorce interview that’s old news and it does feature a disgruntled ex claiming that it would destroy his campaign all this does Sean is incentivize conservatives and independents who are so sick of the politics of personal destruction because it’s played so selectively by the media that their target in this case Newt he’s now going to soar even more because we know the game now and we just won’t put up with it good call media.”
“If the court makes a fundamentally wrong decision, the president can in fact ignore it,” said Gingrich to cheers.
…it is also known that Callista Gingrich was his mistress for years. That is hardly new news. My five second comment to that effect was not intended to be cruel or hurtful, just a statement of fact.”
In an evolving power struggle, religious conservatives are feuding about whether a weekend meeting in Texas yielded a consensus that former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is the best bet to stop Mitt Romney’s drive for the Republican presidential nomination.
…Yet another evangelical political organizer who attended the meeting said he witnessed a possible incident of ballot-box stuffing. In at least one instance, the witness said, a participant was seen writing Mr. Santorum´s name on four separate ballots and putting all four in the box.
While speaking to a Tea Party crowd in South Carolina on Monday, Patch.com reports that Scott claimed that Christians are “the greatest minority under assault today,” completely ignoring that Christians vastly outnumber and persecute the LGBT community and Muslims in the United States on an almost daily basis.
…Scott also made it clear that the Tea Party has no intention of doing things for the American people because their goal is to bring down President Obama. ”The only thing we really have on our minds is beating Barack Obama in 2012,” Scott said.
Organizers behind the recall of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker collected 1 million signatures to be submitted to the state’s Government Accountability Board on Tuesday, dwarfing the required number of names and virtually ensuring that a recall election will take place later this year.
Idaho Senate Republicans on Wednesday retained Sen. John McGee as caucus chairman, the fourth-highest ranking post in the GOP-controlled chamber.
…Last summer, he pleaded guilty to drunken driving in a deal that erased accompanying auto theft charges. He served jail time and paid restitution for a stranger’s vehicle that he damaged.
Idaho gop Vote To Keep Guilty Pleading Drunk Driving Car Thief gop As Caucus Chairman
The officer administered the state breath test, which indicated a blood alcohol content of .099 on the first blow and then .100.
The legal limit is .08
Comparing 12-month periods from Otter’s third year in office with his fifth year, an Idaho Statesman analysis shows: 27 percent fewer appointments, both official and unofficial; 29 percent fewer hours scheduled for those appointments; 33 percent less time spent traveling for official and unofficial purposes, both in Idaho and elsewhere; and 28 percent increase in personal and vacation days, with 41 days off during the business week over the year.
The annual pool was run by Frank Gladics, who handles national wildfire issues as a top Republican staffer on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Murkowski, as ranking Republican on the committee, is his boss. The most recent winner of the wildfire office pool is longtime Murkowski aide Chuck Kleeschulte, who she named to the committee in 2009.
The parents of Caleb Hamm, a 24-year-old from Idaho who died battling a wildfire last summer, are expressing outrage over the pool.
Spence, 53, has a degree in home economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia. But the biography on his campaign website originally omitted the word “home” while describing his economics degree — a fact first reported earlier this week by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Spence acknowledged that the description may have been misleading.
…It wasn’t the first time that Spence’s biography had to be changed.
Influential evangelical Christian leaders on Saturday endorsed Rick Santorum for the Republican U.S. presidential nomination, in an attempt to strengthen him as the more conservative alternative to front-runner Mitt Romney.
…Republicans were immediately skeptical.
Nutters crack me up.
Nikki Halley: Not Fair Too Hold Mittens To His 100,000 Job Claim
Siljander, 60, a Michigan Republican who served in Congress from 1981 to 1987, was charged as part of a wider criminal case against members of the Islamic American Relief Agency, which prosecutors said had ties to the Pakistani Taliban, al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, who was killed by U.S. forces in May.
…tea party activist who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct Thursday after being arrested at LaGuardia Airport last month for trying to board a flight with a gun
Former U.S. Rep. John Sweeney is delinquent in his property tax payments and facing foreclosure on the home he owns on Plantation Crest, the Daily Gazette reported Thursday.
Sweeney owes a combined $10,869 in school, county and town taxes from 2010 and 2011, according to the newspaper.
John Bolton, the hawkish former ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush, endorsed Mitt Romney Wednesday night.
“I think Gov. Romney is the person who can best lead the party, best articulate our conservative principles and is most likely to beat Barack Obama,” Bolton told Greta Van Susteren on Fox News