Here is video of GOP Strategist Mary Matalin bantering back and forth with Don Imus today about Gov. Chris Christie and whether he has any plans to run for President in 2012. Both Imus and Matalin love Christie, but neither thinks he will run this time. On running, Matalin said “if you don’t have it in your (there was a slight pause) ….heart and mind.” That’s the only opening Imus needed!

Here is an update on the situation in Libya. Fighting continues in cities not far from the Capital City of Tripoli, where Gadhafi forces are reportedly attacking opponents of the regime. In a move to try and buy time – literally, Gadhafi handed out the equivalent of $415 (300 Euro) in cash to each family in Tripoli. The report also says that the Pentagon is moving U.S. Warships closer to Libya.

 

Here is video of GOP Sen. Orrin Hatch speaking to a group at Utah State University where he bluntly called ObamaCare a “dumbass program.”

Hatch was arguing it is far better to allow states to work out their own solution to problems because every state has different demographics.

“It’s good to allow them to work out their own problems rather than do a one-size-fits-all, Federal Government, stupid, dumbass program. . . . It is really an awful piece of crap.”

He’s right!

Here is video of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker today warning the 14 Democrat State Senators who have fled to Illinois that they must return and vote on the Governor’s “Budget Repair Bill” or there will be “dire consequences.”

Those consequences are layoffs of state workers, which Walker said would be necessary if they are unable to move forward with the budget bill. Walker said layoffs are the last thing he wants to do. But it will be unavoidable if the Democrats refuse to allow the budget process to move forward in order to deal with the state’s $3.6 Billion deficit.

In an interview with ABC’s Christiane Amanpour, Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi says he will not leave Libya. Gadhafi laughed when asked if he would leave, and told Amanpour, “They love me, all my people, they love me all. They will die to protect me, my people.”

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Uh-oh. What happened to the Obama who was ready to put on a “comfortable pair of shoes” and walk that picket line?

Here is video of MSNBC’s Chuck Todd saying President Obama “does not want anything to do with Wisconsin.” In fact, Todd said it seems almost daily the Obama White House “ratchets back the rhetoric” on the situation there.

This won’t sit well with Obama’s buddy at MSNBC Ed Schultz who implored Obama to make a “road trip” to Wisconsin to stand in solidarity with the Unions there. Schultz said Obama did not deserve a 2nd Term as President if he failed to do so.

H/T Breitbart.tv

Here is video of Karl Rove saying President Obama is “way upside-down” in poll numbers on the public’s approval of his handling of the U.S. Economy and the issue of deficits.

Rove was commenting on a recent Rasmussen Poll showing President Obama’s leadership approval rating taking a huge drop from January to February – a 17 point swing.

Rove said he believes that drop is tied to Obama’s incredibly poor numbers on his handling of the U.S. Economy in a recent Gallup Poll – where only 36% approved of the job he is doing while 61% disapproved. On the issue of deficits, it’s even worse – 32% approve while 64% disapprove!

Rove said those two issues are likely to be right at the top of the voting public’s mind all the way through the 2012 Election.

Obama is in major trouble.