It’s only early March and we already have "attack ring tones" being released. Below you can play this ditty released by the Whitman campaign. Their campaign advises that at CantTrustSteve.com you can download the ring-tone to your your phone – nice, just in time for the State GOP convention!

I hear Joe Mathews may have downloaded it already!

Always quick with response is Poizner’s Comm Director Jarrod Agen…

"When you’re an out-of-touch billionaire, it is easy to waste millions on negative ads in an attempt to be ‘humorous,’ but unfortunately there are millions of Californians out of work and struggling to find jobs. Meg Whitman has offered no plans to solve California’s economic crisis and all the jingles in the world won’t hide her endorsements of Barbara Boxer and Al Gore or her opposition to across-the-board tax cuts."… Read More

The California Republican Party has gone through Jerry Brown’s "Announcement Video" and applied some truth serum. You should definitely watch this…

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A FR reader brought to our attention that a local network news station in Sacramento, Channel 13 (the CBS affiliate), is running a video story here and a print story (below) that makes some… startling… observations about some circumstances surrounding Senator Ashburn’s arrest for Driving Under the Influence last evening… We’ll contact the Senator’s office to see if they have any comment on this CBS story…

Anti-Gay Lawmaker At Gay Club Before DUI Arrest CBS – 13 – Sacramento Sources tell CBS13 a state senator from Southern California was arrested for allegedly driving drunk after leaving Faces, a gay nightclub in midtown… Read More

Had to read this twice. House Republicans complained for weeks than many of Obama’s political appointeesto the US Justice Dept —defended terrorists. In fact, Congressmen claimed that Eric Holder and Obama were stacking the Justice Dept with top officials sympathetic to "enemy combatants."The problem is simply conflict of interest. Given inside knowledge of terrorist strategies, what are these lawyers doing in top Justice positions? Seriously, whose side are they on, is a fair question.

You can’t make this up. This is truly stranger than fiction.

So here it is from today’s LA Times, word for word about the Sympathetic Seven :

" The Obama appointees identified Wednesday:

Jonathan Cedarbaum, in the Office of Legal Counsel, and Eric Columbus, who works under the deputy attorney general, were part of a legal defense team for Bosnian Algerian detainees and brought a case to the Supreme Court that resulted in the right of captives to challenge their detention.

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From today’s Wall Street Journal Political Diary E-mail…

Stark, Staring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi showed her true liberal colors when she briefly gave the nod to one of Congress’s most vocal liberals to replace scandal-ridden Charlie Rangel as chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. But sober second thoughts have now prevailed and Mr. Stark’s reign ended before it began. The unannounced reason was undoubtedly a revolt by saner members at this morning’s closed caucus meeting. Reports say that Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen… Read More

From today’s Wall Street Journal Political Diary E-mail… How Green Is Brown? LOS ANGELES — Jerry Brown wants to be governor of California again and is making jobs and industrial revival a centerpiece of his election campaign. Unfortunately for Mr. Brown, these themes conflict with an important piece of unfinished business in his current job as California attorney general. Mr. Brown has locked horns with conservative activists who are hoping to push a pro-jobs ballot initiative to suspend the state’s global warming law, known as AB-32, until… Read More

Coming as no surprise to many political watchers, while ending months of speculation for others, Assemblyman Joel Anderson (R-77) today made it official that he is seeking the San Diego-Riverside area Senate seat currently held by a term-limited Dennis Hollingsworth.

"I’m running for Senate because my work in the legislature is not done," Anderson said. "California is at a tipping point and our state needs a strong conservative voice to stand up against calls for higher taxes, one who will fight to bring jobs back to our Golden State."

Anderson’s recent legislation includesthe IOU Taxpayer Protection Act. The bill was recently praised as a model for bipartisanship by new Democratic Assembly Speaker John Perez in his inaugural address.

Anderson has earned Straight A’s from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and 100% ratings from the California Taxpayers Association. The California Republican Assembly has given him a perfect voting record for each year since 2006 he has served in the Assembly.

He has been endorsed for Senate by Congressman Duncan Hunter and the California Pro-Life Council.

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You are probably going to have to look pretty far to find a Republican in the Capitol (well, with the exception of Abel "I’ll vote for anything to get confirmed" Maldonado, who is going to sign up for the latest proposal from newly minted Assembly Speaker John Perez to have the legislature pass budgets by majority vote.

Don’t get me wrong, from a philosophical perspective, it makes sense. Let the Democrats own the budget, and get out of this terrible system where Republicans are plied into voting for what is typically a terrible spending plan for California.

That said, the practical reality is that Republicans have very little leverage in the Capitol as it is, and the Democrats are doing such a, frankly, horrific job on the public policy front, that it would be almost criminal to give them even more unfettered and unchecked authority in the building.

In addition, I certainly didn’t hear Perez offering up anything concrete as a "trade off" as he asks his Republican colleagues to turn into Cheese-Eating Surrender… Read More