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Thomas Jefferson: "Whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers....a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy."

But what IS nullification? How does it happen and work? Since September 2010, the Tenth Amendment Center has been hosting a national tour to educate and activate people on this topic. People are learning the constitutional basis, when it's been used in history, and how it is happening around the country and how YOU can stop DC right in your own state.

Regaining Control When Your Congressman is Out of Control

Editor's Note: Starting last week and each week from here on, I've decided to focus on a Republican in the House or Senate the Tea Party should consider primarying. I think we are too distracted by Presidential politics and cannot afford to keep on keeping on in the House and Senate.

Last week I started with Martha Roby. This week, another one. Each week, based on finding pitiful scores in the Heritage Action for America rankings and considering the districts at stake, I'll highlight a new one. This should be fun.

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He was elected in 2002. He is serving his fifth term in Congress.

In 2003, his first year in Congress, he voted for a massive omnibus spending bill and the Medicare prescription drug benefit.

In 2004, he voted for an energy bill bloated with subsidies (ethanol, clean coal, loan guarantees, etc.), and he voted against long-needed conservative reforms to the federal budget process, but ones opposed by the appropriators.

In 2005, he voted for a highway bill loaded with earmarks and billions more than the Highway Trust Fund had collected in gas taxes. He voted to keep funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, and to postpone savings from realigning defense bases. He voted against at least seven across-the-board amendments to cut just 1% from various of the annual spending bills. He voted to increase funding for Big Bird and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. And he voted to keep Fannie and Freddie's line to the U.S. Treasury wide open.

In 2006, he never seems to have found an earmark he didn't like, including: the Leonard Wood Research Institute, the Bronx Council for the Arts, the Kentucky tourism industry, and a city-owned pool in California. Oh, and he voted for campaign finance restrictions.

When Democrats took control, his votes got worse.

This Is Why America Is Not Creating New Jobs

George Stephanoupolos asked Barack Obama about banks and their new fees. Of course, Obama could not accept any responsibility for that at all. And along the way he said something pretty damn amazing.

This:

"You don't have some inherent right just to- you know, get a certain amount of profit.

Actually, in the free market, on the supply and demand curve, you do have an inherent right to get a certain amount of profit - that certain amount of profit that you derive from your business practices that draw in the maximum amount of profit possible before customers decide you are charging too much or they are not getting value enough to justify their continued business with you.

Barack Obama has spent three years as President punishing those who take risks and taking from those whose risk leads to reward.

In this one quote we see everything wrong with Barack Obama's world view and how it has broken the American job creation engine.

By the way, pretty much every major critic of the Dodd-Frank legislation predicted the banks would do just what they are doing with this debit card charge. Banks aren't making money off of lending or anything else. They'll find a way to make money. And yet again consumers get hurt.

Obama's solution? It is not to scale back the law so banks have incentive to scale back the service charge. Instead he wants more government.

He's not just a political loser, he seems more and more an economic dolt.

Barack Obama is No Underdog. He's a Political Loser.

Barack Obama told ABC News yesterday that he is the "underdog" in 2012. He actually raced to embrace the title George Stephanopolous threw out there for him. There was no deliberation, no pause - just an immediate "absolutely" to lay claim to the title.

First understand that the Obama wants to be the underdog because of America's fixation with rooting for the guy behind. He sees it as a positive.

Second, understand that underdogs do not get to take campaign bus tours through swing states at taxpayer expense on buses paid for by taxpayers and also fly around in a blue and white 747 and get pretty much as much free press as he wants, including great photo ops in front of Congress talking about jobs.

Underdogs do not get that.

Incumbent Presidents get that. And incumbent Presidents do not, more than year from an election get to call themselves "underdogs," if ever they do. When a President is a year from election, sees his popularity going down, and can't even muster enough Democrats to vote for his jobs plan because they neither fear nor respect him, the President is not an underdog. He is a loser.

This President is a political loser. Every time he speaks the stock market goes down. Every time he acts boldly, independents attribute it to increasing political desperation without seriousness. Every time he tries to lead, his own party privately mocks him.

Jimmy Carter was no underdog and neither is Barack Obama. With the trappings of power, the brightest men in the room to advise them, and massive war chests - Obama's is the biggest there is - he is not an underdog.

And it's not just because he is a political loser. Americans cheer underdogs. No one is cheering Barack Obama.

Tech at Night: LightSquared vs GPS, Geoff Davis and Rob Portman fight regulation

Tech at Night

So, LightSquared. Some say that in some nebulous way, the firm is getting unreasonable and possibly illicit support from the Obama administration. I still don't see it though, especially after listening in on a briefing of LightSquared's today.

The briefing discussed in depth the issues LightSquared has had with GPS manufacturers. LightSquared that they're trying hard to be a "good neighbor" and have worked with the FCC to address all issues, to the point of giving up half their spectrum voluntarily, and standing ready to invest $50 million to help GPS makers fix the issues. Because LightSquared does claim that the only issues left involve "precision" GPS which, by design, listen on LightSquared's spectrum.

LightSquared points out that this is legal. You can listen to whatever you want. The problem is, legally you have no leg to stand on if you receive 'interference' by the legitimate holder of the spectrum you're listening to. That said, they're still working on a solution so everyone can benefit.

Now obviously this is their side of the story. If there's a detailed rebuttal of these claims available, I'd love to hear it and link to it in Tech at Night. I'm interested in finding the truth of this matter. We need spectrum, desperately, but I want to go into this knowing the facts.

Black is Back and the South is Guilty Till Proven Innocent

I read that the Washington Post has already put more words on its front page about Rick Perry and Schrodingers Rock - a ginormous boulder with a racial slur on it that some people see, some people don't see, and no one seems to be able to take a picture of the damn thing - than the Washington Post ever did about Jeremiah Wright.

I mentioned that on TV last night and everyone still wants to just talk about Rick Perry. But the story really is not about Rick Perry as a racist, though the media would have you believe that. It was, to be sure, a hit job on Rick Perry, but the story really is about a cultural divide too.

Few of those who have reported on it seem to have any idea of how a hunting lease works or why the Perry family just didn't find some other land in Paint Creek to hunt on. To those asking about the latter, you have no idea how popular hunting leases are or how high the demand is. For perspective, the Perry family was only allowed to hunt on 2% of the total acreage of the land in question - land they did not own, control, or manage.

But the larger issue is that reporters believe Southerns still have to prove, not their guilt, but their innocence when it comes to racism. Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times was on John King USA with Donna Brazile and me last night. Zeleny pointed out that there may be other stuff about growing up in West Texas that could compound this insensitivity issue for Rick Perry. (Hat tip to the always gracious Donna Brazile who started her remarks up front that Perry is no racist. She thinks he does need to address the issue and I do agree with her completely on that. The media won't let it go until he does)

Yep.

Florida gives a boost to Herman Cain

Last week's shock poll bringing Herman Cain into third place needed confirmation before we could be sure that Cain was a serious contender.

Two new polls of Florida Republicans by SurveyUSA for WFLA and by War Room Logistics seem to provide that confirmation and more: Both put Herman Cain in second in the key early primary state

Majority expects Obama to lose reelection

Are you better off than you were four years ago?

A new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds only 37% expect Obama to win reelection. A majority, 55%, expect the Republican presidential nominee to win.

Democrats do expect Obama to win, but only by a 58% to 33% percent margin. Republicans, by a margin of 83% to 13%, expect their presidential nominee to win. And Independents, by a 54% to 36 margin expect the Republican nominee to win.

The poll was conducted September 29-October 2, 2011and has a margin of error of 4 percent.

President Obama was asked about the new poll results today during an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos.

In his response Obama called himself the "underdog" and admitted Americans are "not better off" than they were four years ago. Watch the video:

WV-GOV going down to the wire.

It's honestly the best way to describe it. PPP is doing its best to put a positive spin on the way that their own polling is showing Democratic Acting Governor Earl Ray Tomblin going from a 46/40 lead over Republican businessman Bill Maloney to a 47/46 lead now, but the trend is fairly clear. September's polling showed 14% undecided; today it's 7%, and those numbers have pretty much all broken for Maloney. Worse, from Tomblin's point of view? Those are Democrats going to Maloney: Republican and independent voters have not shifted in the last month.

Does this mean that Maloney's a shoo-in? Of course not; Tomblin retains three advantages. First, party registration is still lopsided in West Virginia. Second, the Acting Governor is personally popular (as is Maloney), which is rare for Democratic incumbents these days. Third, this is a special election, which means that turnout will be reduced. Normally that wouldn't favor an opponent, but if Tomblin's hemorrhaging Democrats... well. We'll see tomorrow.

In the meantime, Bill could almost certainly still use some help. Every little bit, and all that.