What time is Republican Tea Party debate?

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It’s tea flavored Republican fight night on CNN, Morning News tests Perry’s rhetoric on environmental regulations and Obama calls Perry a credible candidate.

The Republican debate, sponsored by CNN, the Tea Party Express and others, will air from 7 to 9 on CNN, tonight, September 12, 2011.

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Speaking of which, CNN and ORC are out with a new poll this morning that shows Perry continues to lead among Republicans, even on the electability argument.

Pollsters asked Republicans which candidate they would be most likely to support: Perry 30, Romney 18, Palin 15, Paul 12, Cain 5, Gingrich 5, Bachmann 4, Huntsman 2, Santorum 2, Someone else 2, No one 4, No opinion 2.

Pollsters also asked Republicans which candidate has the best chance of beating President Obama: Perry 42, Romney 36, Palin 7, Bachmann 5, Gingrich 5, Paul 5, Cain 3, Huntsman 2, Someone else 1, No one 2, No opinion 1.

When we last left our debating candidates, Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney were really starting to go after each other on job creation and, in Romney’s case, Social Security. Expect those two to again be the focus of tonight’s contest, with others looking for any available chance to find their way into the conversation.

The New York Times says Michele Bachmann, who has slipped mightily in polls, will use tonight’s debate to try to get back in the GOP picture: “She was uncharacteristically restrained at a debate last week in California while Mr. Perry and Mitt Romney tore into each other as if they were the only two candidates on stage. Moderators from MSNBC and Politico played into the storyline by returning to them repeatedly and giving each ample time to rebut the other. It was not until 14 minutes in that Mrs. Bachmann got to speak. … Her advisers acknowledged that she had a disappointing night Wednesday. She failed to seize opportunities to contrast herself with Mr. Perry, her chief rival for evangelical and Tea Party support, or with Mr. Romney, who at one point said that every candidate deserved to take ‘a mulligan’ or two on bad decisions from the past — a missed opportunity to scold him that presidents do not get mulligans.”

• Speaking of Bachmann, the pro-Bachmann super PAC Keep Conservatives United says it will run a radio ad in South Carolina hitting Perry on immigration. Specifically, it criticized Perry for supporting in-state tuition prices for the children of illegal immigrants and for opposing Arizona’s controversial 2010 immigration law.

• The Statesman’s Kate Alexander is on the ground in Florida and says Perry’s views on Social Security are in the spotlight: “Perry’s take on Social Security — and his unvarnished language to describe his views — might not be as perilous in Florida as many people think, said Susan MacManus, a political science professor at the University of South Florida who has written about senior voters and Florida politics. …Despite the perception that retirees dominate Florida, the over-50 crowd makes up about 52 percent of the state’s registered voters, MacManus said. Though older voters are more likely to go to the polls, she added, Florida retirees tend to be younger, healthier and wealthier than their peers elsewhere and thus not as dependent on Social Security. … Florida’s unemployment rate lingered at 10.7 percent in July — compared with 9.1 percent nationally — and it has among the highest foreclosure rates in the country.”

Dallas Morning News: “Central to Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential campaign message is attacking federal regulations as job killers. But one of Perry’s most detailed and specific job-loss predictions turns out to be wrong. Perry warned last year that ‘tens of thousands’ of Texas jobs would vanish because the Environmental Protection Agency , under President Barack Obama, was demanding changes in dozens of Texas industrial plants’ state air permits. … The actual number of jobs lost, however, was zero. No plants shut down, cut production or left Texas, permit records and interviews with Texas and federal officials, company representatives and business advocates show. All the plants have made or are making what a consultant called a fairly smooth transition to a different type of permit.”

Peggy Fikac: “Even before Gov. Rick Perry launched his presidential bid, he made clear he was no stay-at-home state leader. … Last calendar year, he spent all or part of 60 days out of state. This year, through Friday alone, it’s been 70. And it will only get busier as his presidential campaign continues. When then-Gov. George W. Bush ran for president, his 2000 calendar showed he spent just one weekday in his office in January and one in February, for example.”

Patti Kilday Hart: “Now dormant, the TRCC serves as a case study of how wealthy contributors can shape public policy. In this year’s hard-fought Republican presidential primary, the agency likely will get renewed scrutiny as Perry’s Republican competitors search for ways to distinguish themselves from the Texas governor. In a speech last week in Iowa, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin took aim against career politicians who reward their campaign contributors with government favors.”

New York Times: “On Sunday, for the first time, President Obama and former President George W. Bush stood together at the site of the Sept. 11 attacks, listening as family members read the names of lost love ones and bowing their heads in silence to mark the moments the planes hit. … The tableau was striking: the president who spent years hunting Bin Laden next to the one who finally got him. The president defined by his response to Sept. 11 standing alongside the one who has tried to take America beyond the lingering, complicated legacy of that day.”

Ezra Klein: “The White House is sending its jobs bill to Congress today. There will be an announcement in the Rose Garden, not to mention a tour of a Columbus, Ohio school that would benefit from the infrastructure programs. But don’t expect the package to find a quick, easy path through the Congress. The plan might benefit schoolhouses in Ohio, but it poses a threat to the folks in charge of the House in Washington. As one senior House Republican aide told Politico, ‘Obama is on the ropes; why do we appear ready to hand him a win?’ That’s a cynical question, obviously. But it’s also the right question for understanding what is likely to happen next.”

Washington Post: “For the very richest Americans, low tax rates on capital gains are better than any Christmas gift. As a result of a pair of rate cuts, first under President Bill Clinton and then under Bush, most of the richest Americans pay lower overall tax rates than middle-class Americans do. And this is one reason the gap between the wealthy and the rest of the country is widening dramatically. The rates on capital gains — which include profits from the sale of stocks, bonds and real estate — should be a key point in negotiations over how to shrink the budget deficit, some lawmakers say.”

Many thanks to Statesman.com for the press round-up and don’t forget to let us know what you think about the Republicans who want to be president?

 

 

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jenny40
12 years ago

I just can’t stand to watch these debates. It’s watching a stage full of idiots argue idiotic ideas.

Reply to  jenny40
12 years ago

I don’t know about you, Jenny, but I’m far more focused when I watch Spongebob…

…So this is the way the Tea Party ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper…

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