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Cowardice

 Rep. Dan Crenshaw posted the following:

Pennsylvania Republican Hearing on 2020 Election

Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania held a hearing today on what happened in the state during the election.

From C-SPAN:

President Trump joins a meeting of Republican lawmakers in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania that the election was rigged and must be overturned. His attorney, Rudy Giuliani, who appears in person, alleges mass voter fraud with mail-in ballots.

 To view the hearing, go here.

C-SPAN: The Greatest Comeback

C-SPAN TV Alert! The Greatest Comeback: Richard Nixon and the 1968 Election A Richard Nixon Legacy Forum Presented by the Richard Nixon Foundation and the National Archives and Records Administration Fifty years after the 1968 presidential election, Pat Buchanan, Dwight Chapin, Annelise Anderson, and Ken Khachigian gathered at the National Archives building in Washington, D.C. to tell the story of RN’s remarkable comeback and his historic election victory. Airing on C-SPAN 3 American History TV: Oct 14 at 8:00pm EDT  Oct 15 at 12:00am EDT  Oct 20 at 12:00pm EDT  Click here for more information at C-SPAN.org.

New Mexico U.S. Senate Debate

Last night, I watched the debate between the three U.S. Senate candidates for New Mexico on KOAT-TV (with a bowl of popcorn). Taking part were Senator Martin Heinrich (Democrat), contractor Mick Rich (Republican) and ex-Governor Gary Johnson (Libertarian). It was also broadcast on C-SPAN.

Unlike the article in the Albuquerque Journal (a debate co-sponsor), I didn't find it all that "rollicking". But they did recount what transpired pretty well.

My impressions of the debate were that Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson came off buffoonish. Some may wonder, "Is he on drugs or something?" At one point he responded to Sen. Heinrick with "B.S." and later used the term "screwed". I cannot recall anyone using such terms in a debate in my 40+ years in politics. I had to wonder if Johnson was always like that and how did he get elected and re-elected as governor.

This is the first campaign for Mick Rich and I thought he could have used some (or more) pre-debate coaching. This was probably his first debate as a candidate. He is a good man (I met him in Gallup at a townhall meeting a few months ago) and easily my preferred candidate. He did manage to get his points in, but his delivery of such could have been stronger (I thought he was too polite). He needed this debate so break out of the pack so voters could take notice of him. I don't know if he accomplished that.

Sen. Heinrich came off too smooth to the point that he seemed wooden standing there like a mannequin. The only times he seemed to come alive were when Johnson came after him. When the others stated that Heinrich was for open borders, he didn't refute it. Will it hurt him? Who knows?

The format for the debate worked pretty well (considering it was in a one-hour time slot) so that all three candidates had plenty and equal time to give their positions and question each other. There were no commercials during the hour, which was good.

Was there a winner? I would say no, it was pretty even for all three. None delivered any knock-out punches.

First Painting of President Donald Trump

About three weeks ago, the first painting of President Donald J. Trump was revealed by C-SPAN.

According to the Daily Mail (U.K.):

It is a right of passage for all presidents - and now Donald Trump has been immortalized in oils before he even takes office. 

His first presidential portrait has been revealed, just three weeks ahead of his January inauguration. 

C-SPAN revealed the oil painting, made by North Carolina painter and sculptor Chas Fagan, on Wednesday as part of its American Presidents: Life Portraits exhibit that has been touring the United States since 1999. 

The network said that this is the first portrait of Trump since he was elected president.

To read more, go here. 

1980 GOP National Convention C-Span Video

Ronald Reagan's 1980 Acceptance Speech at the Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan.

Minute point 24:27.

I am circled:

To view the video where this is from, go here.

Being On C-SPAN and A New Discovery

Above, Ronald Reagan's 1980 acceptance speech in Detroit, Michigan.  I am at the arrow.

One of my favorite things during convention season in presidential election years is to watch old GOP National Convention acceptance speeches.

Above, the California Delegation on the convention floor.  I am circled.  Photo: Los Angeles Times.

Saturday night, I managed to watch on C-SPAN the 1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower acceptance speech at the Cow Palace in San Francisco (actually Daly City), the 1964 Barry Goldwater acceptance speech (also at the Cow Palace) and the 1980 Ronald Reagan acceptance speech at Detroit's Joe Louis Arena.

I only recently discovered the above Los Angeles Times photo.

Above, one of the campaign buttons in my collection.

Watching the 1980 Reagan acceptance speech was especially interesting to me as I was there as a California Delegate and saw myself a few times with a much thicker head of hair (I am probably one of the few who welcomed having my hair thin out, if only I can get it to stop).

It is fun looking back 32 years.

Democrat Liars: Known of AIG Bonuses Since March 3!

The Democrats have been whipping the country up in an frenzy over the AIG retention bonuses paid out last Friday. They claimed that they "didn't know" of them until recently.

Ed Morrissey at HotAir.com dug up video from C-Span showing evidence to the contrary. Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY) specifically mentions the upcoming payouts of over $162 million in bonuses to AIG execs and blames the Bush Administration for a lack of oversight on March 3.

In the C-Span March 3 video, Rep. Crowley said this:

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Welcome to the committee, Mr. Geithner, and thank you for your responses so far. It never ceases to amaze me the level of apparent amnesia some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have had about how we got to this problem in the first place, and I thank you for answering Mr. Heller’s question in particular. By the line of questioning, you’re almost led to believe that because of a last month and a few days of a presidency we had the problem we have today, and thank you for setting the record straight. This didn’t happen overnight. This took eight years in the making of stagnant, at best, growth.

But yesterday, Mr. Secretary, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve announced a new fourth plan to rescue troubled financial services giant AIG. I do agree that AIG’s sustainability is the lynchpin for some of our recovery efforts, and it’s important for the federal government to work to keep it afloat. However, I must demand that AIG increase the accountability and transparency, something that was not done during the previous administration.

For example, just last month, AIG paid 343 employees of AIG FP — their Financial Products division that created the financial hole that AIG is in, and in turn a multibillion-dollar bill for American taxpayers — $56 million in bonuses and are slated to pay an additional $162 million in bonuses to 393 participants in the coming weeks. And there’s more. Further bonus payments totaling approximately 230 million (dollars) are due to 407 participants at AIG’s Financial Products division in March 2010. This makes no sense to my constituency.

To see the full article and video, go here.

What a bunch of liars! It is obvious that the Democrats had to know of these bonuses before March 3 for Crowley to utter his statement in the first place!