The Right Hook, a weekly segment which covers the machinations of the right wing, from the Republican Party to the Tea Party Patriots, and beyond. By Chris Bennett<\/em><\/p>\nTea Partiers and Republicans usually say they want the federal government so weak that they can drown it in a bathtub. For every rule there\u2019s an exception. Utah\u2019s Tea Party Senate candidate Mike Lee demonstrates that American Exceptionalism is alive and well. In 2007, Lee began his stint at international law firm Howrey LLP, and worked on behalf of EnergySolutions, a nuclear waste management company. EnergySolutions wanted to import 1,600 tons of Italian nuclear waste and dump it in Utah. When Utah officials and 76% of residents opposed the idea, Mike Lee and EnergySolutions sued. According to Lee, it was only the federal government which could decide whether nuclear material could be imported, not the state government. When asked during a radio interview if his litigation forced Utah to accept the nuclear waste, Lee replied \u201cCorrect.\u201d EnergySolutions eventually lost the suit, but Mike Lee tipped his hand to voters. When it\u2019s a case of getting caught between the principal of \u201cstates\u2019 rights\u201d versus siding with the feds in order to make a quick buck, Tea Partiers clearly support a strong central government. <\/p>\n
New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, looked ahead to his time in office this week and said: \u201cIt\u2019s not going to be pretty. It\u2019s going to be very confrontational.\u201d The millionaire Buffalo developer, who gained notoriety by his authoring and forwarding racist emails, still has to beat Andrew Cuomo in the election. But, Paladino gave a clue as to what his administration might look like. He favors cutting Medicaid in order to stem the flow of \u201cimmigrants and other people\u201d who come to live in New York. Paladino claims the state\u2019s overly generous policies \u201care inviting every Tom, Dick, and Harry poor and disenfranchised person to come to New York state. We don\u2019t want them, they\u2019re the responsibility of the federal government or the place they came from.\u201d Paladino also said that campaigning for governor was the most disgusting thing he\u2019d ever been involved with. But, he\u2019s willing to put up with it in order to do the \u201creal job\u201d being governor. Polls show Andrew Cuomo ahead of Paladino, but the margins vary wildly– from 6 points to 19 points to 33 points according to the Quinnipiac University, Marist, and Sienna polls. <\/p>\n
After the NAACP officially recognized the Tea Party as a racist organization, leaders of the right wing AstroTurf group vowed to show the world that it was not so. Now, a new tracking poll from the online right-wing Pajama TV shows that a third of African Americans strongly support the Tea Party. Author and political analyst Earl Ofari Hutchinson dismisses the poll as pure propaganda. There were only 543 likely voters who were African Americans, and PJTV has not disclosed its methodology or what questions the poll included. The poll has already been posted by FOX Nation, the conservative website hosted by the Fox News Channel. <\/p>\n
Last night was the first debate between Attorney General Jerry Brown and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman. The Christian Science Monitor boiled it down to whether political novice Whitman could do more than simply attack Jerry Brown, and if Brown could avoid losing his temper with Whitman. Both candidates went into the debate looking to avoid making viral, YouTube worthy gaffes. Democrat Barbara Boxer and Republican Carly Fiorina will face off this afternoon at 1 p.m. on NPR-affiliate KPCC. <\/p>\n
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