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Gretchen Carlson, FOX News: Unemployment has gone up precipitously since he took office. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC Chair: That is simply not true. In fact, unemployment has now dropped below 9%. It's continuing to drop. He's been focused on -- Carlson: It's higher than when they promised the stimulus would lower it to 8%. Wasserman Schultz: You see, that narrative doesn't work for you anymore, though, because -- Carlson: It's not my narrative. I'm just talking about facts. Wasserman Schultz: You just said the unemployment rate is going up since Obama took office, and it hasn't. Carlson: Is unemployment...

Sacramento - Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman said Wednesday that she probably will vote against a November ballot initiative that would suspend AB32, California's landmark greenhouse gas reduction law. Whitman, appearing on the conservative John and Ken radio show on KFI in Southern California, said, "In all likelihood I will vote no on Prop. 23," adding that she still backs a one-year moratorium that she would impose if elected. Proposition 23 would suspend AB32 until unemployment drops to 5.5 percent or lower for a year. Whitman had been pressed on the issue but had not stated her position on the...

The TOTUS failed Dear Leader today during a speech in France!

Immigration is a tricky issue. The influx of immigrants into the United States, legal and otherwise, excites many people, but politicians who try to exploit the issue often find their efforts unrewarded. The Republican candidate most closely identified with the restrictionist position on immigration, Tom Tancredo, is going nowhere. So is Duncan "I Built the Border Fence" Hunter. And the two candidates who have been liberal advocates of immigration in the past only to tack right during the primary find that the issue has tripped them up. Mitt Romney's "sanctuary mansion" will continue to generate headlines during a week when...

This morning, Matt Drudge posted an article by the Los Vegas Review Journal which quotes Senate Democrat Minority Leader Harry Reid saying that Homeland Security Chief Chertoff should resign. Reid, D-Nev., joins Clark County Sheriff Bill Young in calling for Chertoff to step down as a result of the decision jeopardizing millions in additional federal funding that Nevada currently receives as a result of being considered a potential terrorist target. "Anyone who can't see that Las Vegas is a high-risk area doesn't deserve to serve in a position like that," Reid said. Does this idiot have no shame? In...