Andy Nunez Calls for Lujan's Ouster

Andy Nunez
From NMPolitics.net - State Rep. Andy Nuñez, D-Hatch, says it’s time for a new House speaker, and he’s willing to support a bipartisan coalition, if necessary, to make that happen. But Nuñez said he would prefer that the House Democratic caucus agree to internally replace current Speaker Ben Luján with Rep. Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, or someone else. “I personally would hate to see a coalition,” Nuñez said Monday in an interview with NMPolitics.net. “I would hate to see it come down to that because it doesn’t do the Democrats – and I’m a Democrat – it doesn’t do us any good.” Read here:
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York: New GOP and Obama Headed for Showdown

Byron York
From Townhall.com - Here's Barack Obama's problem when it comes to dealing with newly elected Republican members of Congress. They are convinced they won because voters rejected Obama's agenda of national health care, spending and bailouts. But Obama cannot admit that his agenda -- his legacy -- is fundamentally flawed and that voters repudiated it. The result will be irreconcilable conflict. Just look at Ron Johnson, a man likely to be one of the more influential members of the new GOP class in the Senate. Last year, he was a highly successful plastics manufacturer in Oshkosh, Wis., who had never even thought about running for public office. Then he watched Obama and congressional Democrats march through the stimulus, the earmark-laden budget, the auto bailouts, and, finally, Obamacare. Read here:
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Seven Excuses for Shellacking

From Townhall.com by John Hawkins - "Mm, your tears are so yummy and sweet! Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness! My-yummy!" -- Cartman, South Park Admittedly, it has been a lot of fun to watch the wailing and gnashing of teeth on the Left after the savage beating they received on election day. However, it's more than a little disturbing that almost no one on the Left seems to think they lost because they actually did a bad job. In other words, according to liberals: Obamacare, the failure of the stimulus, Obama bowing to foreign leaders, the way they handled the BP oil spill, trying to close Guantanamo, not reading bills before they passed them, cash for clunkers, talking up amnesty, trying to pass card check and cap and trade, taking over student loans, refusing to seriously address the problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taking over GM and Chrysler, doing nothing to stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons, dropping the Black Panther intimidation case, expanding the bailouts and raising spending up to frightening levels had nothing whatsoever to do with why they lost. Read here:

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New Mexico Born Terrorist Urges Holy War

Anwar al-Awlaki
From the Washington Times - Hunted by U.S. drones and Yemeni authorities, one of the world's most wanted Islamic terrorist leaders on Monday issued a new video message calling on extremists to ignore the anti-terrorism edicts of Muslim religious authorities and continue their holy war against America and Israel. In the 23-minute video, American-born al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki also warns repeatedly of the danger posed to Sunni Arab Muslims by the rise of Iranian Shiite power in the Middle East. Posted on an extremist website, the video shows Mr. al-Awlaki seated and speaking in Arabic. Mr. Al-Awlaki is thought to be hiding in Yemen, from where al Qaeda last month sent package bombs to the United States, but the video appears to have been recorded before that plot was discovered because he does not refer to it. Read here:
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Lujan: Unaware of Any Pending Challenge

Ben Lujan
From the Santa Fe New Mexican - Is a Democratic lawmaker from Las Cruces about to launch a challenge to New Mexico House Speaker Ben Luján, D-Nambé — possibly with the help of revitalized Republicans? Rumors of a leadership fight are swirling around the rumor-prone halls of the Roundhouse, thanks largely to the eight-seat Republican gain in the state House of Representatives after last week's election. Assuming unofficial results hold, there will be 37 Democrats and 33 Republicans in the House. Luján, who first was elected speaker in 2001, said Monday that he's not aware of any pending challenge. But, he said, "We'll be meeting in caucus on (Nov. 20). I'm sure we'll have a good discussion then." Read here:
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Bernanke Critics Mushrooming

Larry Kudlow
From Townhall.com - The great Bernanke QE2 debate continues to heat up. In the run-up to the G-20 meetings, China, Russia, Germany, and others are all coming out against the Federal Reserve’s quantitative-easing agenda. They don’t want hot-money excess dollars to flow into their higher-yielding currencies. The assault against Bernanke’s easy money has reached such fever that President Obama felt it necessary to defend the $600 billion in new-money printing in a news conference in India. Meanwhile, World Bank president Robert Zoellick has actually called for putting gold back into global money, in order to use it as an international reference point to measure market expectations over inflation or deflation. The former Treasury and State Department official wants a successor to Bretton Woods. To my way of thinking, Zoellick is dead-on right. And then there’s Kevin Warsh’s opus op-ed in Monday’s Wall Street Journal. I have written about Warsh in the past, and his sound-thinking views. Taking a bit of a shot at Bernanke’s QE2, the Fed board member basically says: Look, you want better growth, reform the tax code and stop regulating. “The Federal Reserve is not a repair shop for broken fiscal, trade, or regulatory policies,” he writes. Read here:

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Progressive Rothschild: Ripping Rand Paul

Matthew Rothschild
From Progressive.org - Kentucky’s newly minted Senator is not ready to play nice. Appearing on “This Week” with Christiane Amanpour on Sunday, Paul boasted that the tea partiers have will not be coopted by the Republican Party but vice versa. “The tea party is coopting Washington,” he said. “We’re proud, we’re strong, we’re loud, and we’re going to coopt. And in fact, I think we’re already shaping the debate.” He’s shaping it in such an ugly way, too. Paul says he favors cutting the number of federal employees by 10 percent, and then slashing the salaries of those who remain by 10 percent. This is economic folly. We’re facing a huge gap of purchasing power in the country right now, and he intends to widen that gap by decimating the purchasing power of almost three million people.
He also said he’d raise the retirement age for Social Security for everyone 55 and under. Hey, I’m 52. What are you doing to me and my friends—and the more than 200 million other Americans who will now have to work into our dotage? Read here:

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Jemez Try to Revive Casino Proposal

From the El Paso Times - ANTHONY, N.M. -- The U.S. government is taking a second look at a proposal by the Jemez Pueblo Indian Tribe to open a $72 million resort casino -- an action that is worrying some and exciting others in this community of 7,900. The Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Department of the Interior said they are reconsidering the application the tribe submitted to build the 48,000-square-foot casino on 100 acres near Interstate 10 about 20 miles north of El Paso. The casino, if opened, would be a significant boost to the economy and create 950 jobs, according to tribal officials. That possibility has some people saying the good times are on the way. Read here:
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WSJ: California is the Lindsay Lohan of States

Capitol Report New Mexico and the Wall Street Journal drew our attention to this website which addresses the basic reasons why California is broke. Maggie's Farm says: "We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for." Read here:

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Independent Laments Rise of Climate Skeptics

From the New Mexico Independent - The midterm elections brought an unprecedented number of climate skeptics into Congress, with no incoming Republicans acknowledging the existence of man-made climate change. Environmentalists have all but given up on passing significant climate legislation in the near future, but in the long term, it may be difficult for climate skeptics to hold their ranks: Young Americans are significantly more concerned about global warming than older generations, and there are no major organizations of young climate skeptics. This raises the question: What will come of climate skeptics as young people begin to rise to positions of power? Read here:
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