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Democrat Barbara Boxer's quest for a fourth term in the U.S. Senate may give Californians a chance to pass judgment on Washington in the Obama era: Do voters approve of the early performance of the Democratic president and Congress? Or is it time to restore more power to Republicans, in this case to a controversial former Silicon Valley CEO making her first run for elective office? What looks increasingly likely is that Boxer will be in for the re-election fight of her career. While she has yet to announce her candidacy, all signs point to a run by Republican Carly...

For those wondering just how strong the sentiment being expressed at Tea Parties and town hall meetings is growing throughout the nation, consider that about 1,000 people turned out to demonstrate against ObamaCare Friday in one of the most liberal cities in America...San Francisco. That's right, a Tea Party in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Cal.) own district. Speakers included KSFO's Brian Sussman, and California Republican Party Vice Chairman Thomas Del Beccaro. Also in attendance, and speaking to the crowd without a microphone due to problems with the sound system, was NewsBusters' own Noel Sheppard (video embedded below the fold, Sheppard...

Babs Boxer showed up today at a Barnes & Noble book store in San Jose, CA. Many citizens showed up at the book store to express their opinions to Babs. These activities all took place out side the store. As far as I know, there was no disruptions inside the store. This small minded hag was walking around taking pictures. She said was going to put them on the Internet to show everyone what "idiots" we were. Can you imaging a conservative doing something like this at a liberal rally. The ACORN and SEIU guys would rip you apart.

Senator Boxer pushes book while crowds protest Senator Barbara Boxer at Book Passage Marin got a small dose of the health care protests on Wednesday evening when U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer made an appearance at Corte Madera's Book Passage to promote her newest work of fiction, Blind Trust. Holding hand-made signs, about two dozen protesters lined the entrance to the Book Passage's parking lot. Boxer protestor, Pam Silleman of Napa "She should be doing town hall meetings with her constituents instead of book tours," said Pam Silleman who was waving at cars and carrying a sign that read "Born Free...

Neil Cavuto Just Said Barbara Boxer will be holding two "round tables in August." Her office will not say where. Does anyone know?

If freedom of the press is only for those who own the presses, then what freedom is there in the mainstream media for stories that damage liberals? Important stories have legs in the mainstream media, but others -- those which take a small political matter and inflate it to affect a politician’s fate -- can have manufactured “legs” if an advantage can be had. Remember the offhand “macaca” comment made by former Virginia Sen. George Allen? Blame the “former” tag partly on the wall-to-wall coverage of Allen’s verbal slip in outlets like The Washington Post, which seemed to run a...

A 30-year-old man who authorities say was wearing a wig when he was arrested was charged Wednesday night in the robbery and shooting death of ex-boxing champion Vernon Forrest. U.S. Marshals picked up Charman Sinkfield about 9 p.m. driving a black sedan on Interstate 20, wearing a wig that gave the appearance of dreadlocks, said James Ergas of the service's fugitive task force. Sinkfield was charged with murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, said Atlanta police Lt. Keith Meadows. Ergas said officers had...

Just heard a report on-air from THE MOB protesting Barbara Boxer in Marin County, CA. She's signing her book? (can't even imagine the drivel) at a bookstore in Corte Madera. According to on-scene report, anti-Boxer outnumber pro-Boxer 5 to 1. Best handwritten sign: She has time to write a book, but not read the bill.

Obama says "I am President" more than Bert Blyleven says "Major League level". Senator Boxer berates a high level military official for not showing due reverence to her high position. Now the Secretary of State representing the United States of America throws a hissy when she perceives disrespect to her high station; acting more like a drunk on a stool than a cabinet head at an official function. Can anybody imagine W., Condoleezza Rice, or any Republican (including that dimwitted buffoon Colin Powell) behaving this way?

Freep Senator Barbara Boxer, Tea Party Style - 15 August 2009 Saturday, August 15, 2009 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Barnes & Noble, 3600 Stevens Creek Blvd, San Jose Senator Barbara Boxer is having a book signing on Saturday, August 15th at 1:00pm at Barnes and Noble, 3600 Stevens Creek Boulevard, San Jose. Wouldn’t be wonderful if we had 1,000 protesters on the corner of Stevens Creek Boulevard near San Tomas Expressway with signs protesting the rationing of health care and the hints of euthanasia with ObamaCare? We encourage people to start gathering around 12:30pm, and things will disburse no later...

Danville Protest 8/14 We just learned that Barbara Boxer is scheduled to do a book signing this Friday, Aug 14, at 7 pm at Rakestraw Books which is located at 522 Hartz Ave in Danville which is the main street through town. In addition, there will be a substantial tea party in Danville not too far from this location. What began a few months ago with only a handful of people is now drawing over 70 people regularly. The tea party is set for 4:30 to 6 pm on the corner of San Ramon Valley Blvd and Sycamore in Danville....

......... while Boxer's popularity swings with the tides and rarely reaches beyond the magic 50% level. Every six years, Republicans believe that with just the right candidate and just the right amount of money, they can knock off the woman they love to hate. And they are heartened again by a new poll showing Boxer barely leading the most likely 2010 challenger, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.

Here is video of a new Chuck DeVore ad hammering California Sen. Barbara Boxer and President Obama for their attempt to pass a Government Health Care Plan. DeVore is seeking to defeat Boxer for the U.S. Senate next year. . . . . (Watch Video)

Boxer shaky again as campaign looms Dan Walters Aug. 10, 2009 California's U.S. senators tend to fall into two categories – headline-grabbers and dependable workhorses for the state's interests. For the past 17 years, the state's two senators have been Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer. Both elected during the much-heralded "year of the woman," they have followed the state's time-honored pattern. Boxer draws media attention with her quixotic political forays, often involving some left-of-center cause having nothing to do with California, while Feinstein is the go-to person for the state's economic and political interests. It explains why voter polls consistently...

California's U.S. senators tend to fall into two categories – headline-grabbers and dependable workhorses for the state's interests. For the past 17 years, the state's two senators have been Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer. Both elected during the much-heralded "year of the woman," they have followed the state's time-honored pattern. Boxer draws media attention with her quixotic political forays, often involving some left-of-center cause having nothing to do with California, while Feinstein is the go-to person for the state's economic and political interests. It explains why voter polls consistently find that Feinstein is among the state's highest-rated political figures while...

Barbara Boxer said Tea Party protesters are coming to Town Halls in Brooks Brothers clothes. Today we provide you a link so you can dress for success for your next Town Hall protest. Don't forget to check out the Handkerchiefs so you are ready to cry when your congressman/woman votes you into Canadian(like) Healthcare. http://www.brooksbrothers.com/men/landing_men.tem

Since 'Babs' Boxer thinks those who are truly bringing their questions and concerns to town halls in this country are wearing 'Brooks Brothers'.....I propose that we 'dress up a bit' to 'punch back' with lots of sarcasm and humor (it gets them every time). BTW....Salvation Army is your friend when getting 'creative' (goes to a GREAT cause, too). Doesn't matter WHAT you wear. Go in comfort...whether straight off of work, etc. Just grab a neck tie, old tux tie, even cut one out of construction paper (whatever)....women can grab a feather boa, wear BIG dangly, bling-bling earrings, tiara, make a...

No wonder California is a disaster , they elect idiots like this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV84OBtGpSQ

Barbara Boxer is on to us, chums. Last evening, California's junior senator appeared on MSNBC and averred that those of us protesting the Democrats' health care reform are far too well-dressed to be authentic. Alas, I knew I should have left my spats and walking stick back at the manor. "I saw some of the clips of people storming these townhall meetings," multi-millionaire Sen. Boxer told  multi-millionaire Chris Matthews. "The last time I saw well-dressed people doing this, was when Al Gore asked me to go down to Florida when they were recounting the ballots, and I was confronted with...

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) appeared on Hardball last night in support of the Left’s attempt to discredit the people showing up to townhalls in protest of ObamaCare. Boxer says she can tell that they’re fakes, because they’re too well dressed. How does she know that this is a problem? Because well-dressed people apparently told her to get the hell out of Florida in the Bush-Gore recount, too: That explanation is a classic. If it’s true at all, she probably stunned the Floridians with the sheer stupidity of her non-sequitur. Ronald Reagan would not have gone into Florida to tell them...

Barbara Boxer descended into new levels of ignorance last night on national television on Hardball. You may recall that the left is claiming that nobody is really upset about Obamacare, that all these town hall protests we've seen in the past several days have been engineered by Big Insurance Companies, and that the "majority" of the people want Obamacare. Boxer now contends she knows this to be true because the protesters are too well dressed.

Can someone post when these three have public appearances in California this month? I'd like to attend and let my voice be heard.

July 25, FoxNews Fresh Off Controversy, Sen. Boxer Faces Potentially Tough Challenge From Carly Fiorina Carly Fiorina hasn't said yet whether she'll throw her hat in the ring against Sen. Barbara Boxer for the California Democrat's Senate seat next year but a new poll shows she's tightening the incumbent's lead in a potential race. Sen. Barbara Boxer, who has taken heat in recent months for clashes at Senate hearings, is facing a potentially tough election challenge from prominent businesswoman Carly Fiorina, who is within striking distance in a recent poll. Fiorina, a former Hewlett-Packard CEO and top economic adviser to...

The latest Rasmussen Reports poll shows Senator Barbara Boxer leading her relatively unknown opponent, former Hewlett-Packer Hewlett-Packard (you'd think I'd have looked at my printer 20 inches away . . .) CEO Carly Fiorina, by only four points, 45%-41%. Boxer has never been terribly popular in the Golden State, but given the conditions Democrats have enjoyed the past few years, it is surprising to see her in Elizabeth Dole 2007 territory (though in a much more Democratic state). Poll after poll shows incumbents once thought to be safe in pretty dangerous territory. These are the dangers of being in charge...

Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer leads former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina in an early look at California’s 2010 race for the U.S. Senate. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that Boxer attracts 45% of the statewide vote while Fiorina, her best-known possible Republican challenger, earns 41%. Seven percent (7%) say they’d vote for some other candidate, and seven percent (7%) are undecided. In March, Boxer led Fiorina by nine, 47% to 38%. Any incumbent who polls below 50% early in a campaign is considered potentially vulnerable. However, a Democrat running in a heavily Democratic state like California is often able...

In response to Sarah Palin’s July 14th Washington Post op-ed, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), in their own WaPo op-ed, write they want to “put facts ahead of fiction and real debate ahead of rhetorical bomb-throwing.” Senators Kerry and Boxer will likely be the co-sponsors for the Senate bill to accompany the Waxman-Markey bill passed in the House June 26th. Kerry and Boxer first refute Palin’s claim that job losses are all but certain. Boxer and Kerry assert that investing billions of dollars in clean energy will jumpstart the economy by creating millions of jobs. They point...

Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer leads former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina in an early look at California’s 2010 race for the U.S. Senate. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that Boxer attracts 45% of the statewide vote while Fiorina, her best-known possible Republican challenger, earns 41%. Seven percent (7%) say they’d vote for some other candidate, and seven percent (7%) are undecided. In March, Boxer led Fiorina by nine, 47% to 38%. Any incumbent who polls below 50% early in a campaign is considered potentially vulnerable. However, a Democrat running in a heavily Democratic state like California is often able...

Don't know if you saw the TV news clip last week about Barbara Boxer admonishing a Brigadier General because he addressed her as Ma'am and not Senator before a Senate hearing. Anyway this is a letter from a Guard Aviator and Captain for Alaska Air Lines. He hits the nail directly on the head. Maybe we all should send a copy of this letter to the SENATOR Here is my final draft to Barbara Boxer. Please give it your widest dissemination. I want the world to know at least one scoundrel who masquerades as a wise solon and a congress...

Senate Democrats are worried that Barbara Boxer doesn't have the chops to get the climate change bill through the Senate. From the Politico A big chunk of the House climate change bill is in the hands of Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer — and some of its supporters are worried that she’s not up to the task. In private conversations, Senate staffers say that Boxer’s abrasive personal style helped tank the climate bill that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) sponsored last year. And several recent embarrassing episodes involving the California Democrat...

In a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago this month, Department of Defense Secretary Robert Gates laid out the case for discontinuing the F-22 Raptor: "The F-22, to be blunt, does not make much sense anyplace else in the spectrum of conflict." In English that means that plane has not been used in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Gates wants to slay the beast, but he understands you have to feed the beast before you can kill it. So the administration supports ending the F-22's long $65 billion flight -- after seven new planes budgeted for 2010 bring the...

Here is video tonight of Dennis Miller with Bill O'Reilly talking about the slapdown of Sen. Barbara Boxer by Black Chamber of Commerce CEO Harry Alford. Miller was hilarious, saying it was "cathartic" to watch. Miller also goofed about Prince Charles, and commented on Paula Abdul and American Idol. . . . . (Watch Video)

Harry Alford of the National Black Chamber of Commerce is coming up as Sean Hannity's guest in the 2pm hour, Pacific time. Alford would not take Barbara Boxer's condescension and what he considered racist remarks as he testified before the Senate. I'm sure Sean will replay the comments. He was outstanding. On another thread, a FReeper made an erroneous charge that the National Black Chamber of Commerce excludes members based on race. That is absolutely not true. I read the bylaws and spoke with them on the phone at their DC offices. I discussed with them a project I may...

We should mark July 16, 2009, as a day when white progressives — from an elitist lady senator to our mixed-race president — revealed their true racist colors. On that day, Senator (not “Ma’am”) Barbara Boxer chided Harry Alford of the National Black Chamber of Commerce during his testimony before the Senate Public Works Committee, and President (not descendant of slaves) Barack Obama, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the NAACP, lectured parents about making sure their children do their homework and bragged about his “administration.” While school children are taught that the Progressive Era from the 1890s...

The right-wing blogosphere is abuzz over the supposed smackdown between Sen. Barbara Boxer and Harry C. Alford, who portrays himself as an "African American and a veteran" who is insulted at Boxer's alleged racism and calls her on it... Alford is also an ardent opponent of the Employee Free Choice Act—no surprise, since he also sits on the board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a leading EFCA opponent. He's been claiming that EFCA would harm African-American-owned businesses. His April op-ed for Roll Call on the issue of enabling workers to form unions is an example of how he is...

Here we were in the Senate Dirksen building participating in a Congressional Hearing on the pending climate legislation known as the Waxman/Markey Bill. This is a gigantic piece of proposed laws, taxes, regulations that will change the way America does business. There are many costs involved and it appears that the African American community will be paying a disproportionate share of the job loss and increased energy costs. No surprise as this is usually the case because we have no political apparatus that addresses that when it happens. The Congressional Black Caucus will go with the flow or, in other...

During Bill O’Reilly ’s interview last night of Harry Alford, President of the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC), Alford made some insightful comments regarding Senator Barbara Boxer that served to expose the Left’s condescending attitude toward minorities. While professing to advocate on behalf of racial equality and tolerance for all minorities, in practice the true leftist agenda is much less inclusive. (Snip) Alford strenuously objected, calling Boxer out for being condescending and racial. As Mr. Alford told O’Reilly: “It was pure race — it was like down there in Mississippi back in the bad old days when one black...

Chamber of Commerce CEO Harry Alford appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor" to discuss the cap-and-trade bill and his verbal brawl with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA). The CEO says Sen. Boxer "loves black folks in their place."

Barbara Boxer, the far left U.S. Senator from California, was given a stern face-to-face reprimand by the president of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, Harry Alford, for trying to pit one black group against another instead of addressing issues on their merits. (Snip) In this case, instead of dealing substantively with Mr. Alford’s criticisms of the current Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade energy bill, Ms. Boxer tried to discredit Alford by pointing out how black groups such as the NAACP and “100 Black Men of Atlanta” were allegedly supporting the bill. (Snip) Mr. Alford scolded her for her divisive, racially charged tactics:...

Here is video from tonight of Black Chamber of Commerce CEO Harry Alford talking with Bill O'Reilly on The O'Reilly Factor about his slapdown of Sen. Barbara Boxer last week for her "condescending" and "racial remarks" that were offensive to him. Alford is quickly becoming a real hero for conservatives who are glad to hear someone take the Democrats to task for their shameless use of race. O'Reilly is totally wrong about Boxer. She deliberately sought to use race against an African-American - Harry Alford, as if the quoting of other Black organizations discounts his testimony and evidence. Alford said...

Black Chamber of Commerce, President and CEO Harry Alford accuses Senator Boxer (D-CA) of playing race politics during a Senate EPW Committee hearing on green jobs after Sen.Boxer tried to introduce documents contradictory to Mr. Alford from other African-American organizations. EPW Ranking Member Sen. James Inhofe (D-OK) notes that the NAACP resolution that Sen. Boxer referenced did not actually support the position she was trying to make.

Here is audio of Black Chamber of Commerce CEO Harry Alford talking with John Ziegler about his slapdown of Sen. Barbara Boxer the other day. Alford said he believes Boxer looked at him as a "dumb little negro," and that because of the color of his skin, she assumed he would be "some little ignorant jigaboo." Alford has won praise from all across the country for the way he stood up to Boxer during his testimony before the Senate Energy and Commerce Committee, a committee Boxer chairs. . . . . (Listen to Audio)

Here is video this afternoon of Ann Coulter talking with Glenn Beck about the slapdown of Sen. Barbara Boxer by Harry Alford, CEO of the Black Chamber of Commerce. Alford did a major slapdown of Boxer during testimony yesterday for what he called "condescending, racial remarks." Coulter's appearance with Beck followed this replay of the highlights of the Boxer Slapdown. . . . . (Watch Coulter Video)

Here is "too good" video of Glenn Beck today enjoying, while eating pudding, the delicious slapdown of Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer that occured yesterday at the hands of Harry Alford, the outstanding CEO of the Black Chamber of Commerce. The video replays highlights of the slapdown with an inset of Glenn Beck enjoying it beyond measure! . . . . (Watch Video)

Watch Chuck DeVore's ad highlighting Barbara Boxer's racial politics.

This has to be one of the most tense moments in a hearing about clean energy that's ever taken place. Watch Black Chamber of Commerce CEO Harry Alford freak out when Senator Barbara Boxer tries using statements from the NAACP and the 100 Black Men of Atlanta in debating with him Video at site lololol

Boxer raised nearly one-and-a-half million dollars during the second quarter. In a press release, she called the support “gratifying.” The Democratic senator is seeking a fourth six-year term. A spokeswoman says Boxer’s conducted prodigious and early fundraising in preparation for a possible challenge from former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. The 54-year-old Republican says she’s “seriously considering” entering the race. She has little political experience beyond her work as an economic advisor to Senator John McCain during last year’s presidential campaign. But Fiorina has extraordinary wealth that could make her a strong candidate. A recent Field Poll predicted that Boxer...

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Barbara Boxer behaved like the elitist, liberal ideologue she is and basically told the head of the Black Businessman's Association to stay in his place and follow behind the black "leaders" that she believes are legitimate. Harry C. Alford, CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, was asked to testify before Congress and voice his organization's opposition to the foolish cap and trade bill. Barbara Boxer became indignant like she would toward any minority who didn't accept the socialist nonsense advocated by groups like the NAACP. Speaking of the NAACP, a group that's never seen a Democratic or...

Senator Boxer (m'am) has trouble wrapping her thick head around the idea that blacks are individuals and can be independent-minded businessmen too. ---- Between Democrats' racism, dysfunctional public schools, degrading welfare systems and other liberal institutions that have left many blacks much worse off, there's a door **THIS BOOK** available for Republicans with conviction and guts to walk through and get a lot more of the black vote. ...If they only had convictions.

Barbara Boxer found herself on the recieving end of a righteous ass-kicking on the floor of the Senate when she tried to get bossy with Harry Alford, Chairman of the National Black Chamber of Commerce. After she determined that he wasn't on board with the administration's job-killing energy policies, she tried to (painfully and pedantically) help him understand that his role as a black man is to support the administration - even waving around position papers from black organizations that know their place- Alford rightly and righteously tore her up for her thinly-veiled bigotry and racist tones