For the past several days the talking heads of the news media have done nothing
in the way of reporting issues or positions of the GOP candidates.
Instead it is all about polls and the horse race in Iowa.
Who is ahead in the polls ? Who is "surging" today ? Blah, blah, blah...

Romney thinks he's ahead, so he is out cracking jokes while his family does his campaigning.
Paul thinks he's ahead so he is taking his son on a bus ride thru Iowa.
Santorum thinks he's ahead, so he has the Duggar family out campaigning.
Huntsman is taking it easy until New Hampshire.
Perry is taking it easy until South Carolina.
Cain is taking it easy until his wife fixes dinner.
Bachmann thinks she is Margaret Thatcher.

Maybe one of them will be the GOP candidate for President in 2012.
... Mitt Happens !

Here ya go Lamp ...
Candidates lay out plans to trim federal debt

That link is only what the candidates, themselves, are saying.

No follow up questions or interpretation of impact or feasibility, etc

It's not about credibility, silly. It's about ratings. Just ask FNC.

Of course it is. What would you expect at this stage?

Gee really? And this was done with every other candidate from every other election? C'mon. They at least said something and acted like they have plans or thoughts or something...
Its better than all the other BS we've been hearing about lately.

Not that it matters IMO, this will be a landslide win for O. None of these people have a shot in hell at beating him.

President Obama today made an unprecedented “recess” appointment even though the Senate is not in recess – “a sharp departure from a long-standing precedent that has limited the President to recess appointments only when the Senate is in a recess of 10 days or longer,” according to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
It turns out that the action not only contradicts long-standing practice, but also the view of the administration itself. In 2010, Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal explained to the Supreme Court the Obama administration’s view that recess appointments are only permissible when Congress is in recess for more than three days. Here’s the exchange with Chief Justice John Roberts:

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: And the recess appointment power doesn't work why?

MR. KATYAL: The -- the recess appointment power can work in -- in a recess. I think our office has opined the recess has to be longer than 3 days. And -- and so, it is potentially available to avert the future crisis that -- that could -- that could take place with respect to the board. If there are no other questions –

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Thank you, counsel.

Speaker Boehner called the appointment an “extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab,” and noted that the position “had not been filled for one reason: the agency it heads is bad for jobs and bad for the economy.”

Seems like a lot of whining to me. This is not unprecedented at all. How many did GWB jr make? What was unusual in all of this was the R's attempting to act like they were in session when they really were not. Just more procedural wrangling IMO.

This is the mock-the-stoopid-Republican-candidates thread.

There are plenty of sling-shit-at-Obama threads.

Carry on.

USA Today
1/7/12
Perry returns to the Republican race
StLouisToday.com
AP
January 7, 2012
Huntsman: 'Sane Republican' ready for his moment
Politico
JIM VANDEHEI and MAGGIE HABERMAN
1/7/12 7:01

Debate night undercard: Good Newt vs. Bad Newt
And besides all that:

The GOP candidate for President may be determined by a single driving question...

Nashua Telegraph
By STACY MILBOUER
Friday, January 6, 2012
Amherst 9-year-old reveals GOP presidential candidates’ superhero alter egos

NPR seems to be applying their own limited vision to the race, instead of reporting. I awakened to the Iowa results and heard #s 1,2,4,5,6, and 7 listed. I don't know if Paul is supposed to get disappeared again or if someone missed the removed from blacklist memo. Then yesterday they were beating up the Tea Party folks for not voting their self-interest by looking for a small government candidate. They simply don't get that the TPer's and a lot of us frankly are still pissed about bailing out banks and businesses whose behaviors were about to be punished by the marketplace. Now instead of breaking up to big to fail businesses we will get further pretend regulation and will protect business from competition and build stagnation. We missed an opportunity to demolish some very corrupt business models but instead we subsidize them. At least we can still buy a Chevy Suburban.:rolleyes:

:D That's the best BAZINGA I've seen this year.

thanky

Why Jon Huntsman has no prayer ...

And cut the pious baloney, Mitt.

:lol:!!