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Giuliani: I Was For McGovern Before I Was Against Him
2007-10-04 06:10:00
"It's interesting that Hillary is taking something from the George McGovern playbook," Giuliani said in Manchester, N.H., likening her idea to the former South Dakota senator's proposal to send $1,000 to every U.S. resident.What Rudy left out was he was FOR it in 1972 because he openly SUPPORTED George McGovern. He was a Democrat back then.So why then and not now? Wait, let me break out my flip flops.Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot...9/11
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NM-Sen: Domenici Out
2007-10-04 02:23:00
This is about the best news possible right now for the Democrats. Dome nici is an institution in New Mexico and the only Republican to win an outright majority statewide this decade. His retirement throws this seat into one of the most competitive races in the nation.The GOP bench is minimal; with only New Mexico's two GOP Representatives, Heather Wilson and Steve Pearce, being the only formindable candidates. Wilson is marred by her connection to the Prosecutor Firing Scandal and Pearce isn't a major player statewide.Democrats have a deeper bench including Rep. Tom Udall, Governor Bill Richardson (should he drop out of the Presidential race) former US Attorney John Kelly, Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez, former Attorney General Patricia Madrid, and Lt. Governor Diane Denish.The Democrats have the upper hand, it's their year, all the Democratic Presidential candidates are polling well against the GOP canddiates and they have the better candidates, but because this is one of the to...

Republicans Who Supported SCHIP
2007-10-04 01:33:00
HOUSE:Mary Bono (R-California)Vern Buchanan (R-Florida)Shelley Moore Capito (R-West Virginia)Mike Castle (R-Delaware)Tom Davis (R-Virginia)Charlie Dent (R-Pennsylvania)Vern Ehlers (R-Michigan)Jo Ann Emerson (R-Missouri)Phil English (R-Pennsylvania)Jim Gerlach (R-Pennsylvania)Wayne Gilchrest (R-Maryland)Dave Hobson (R-Ohio)Peter King (R-New York)Mark Kirk (R-Illinois)Ray LaHood (R-Illinois)Tom Latham (R-Iowa)Steve LaTourette (R-Ohio)Frank LoBiondo (R-New Jersey)John McHugh (R-New York)Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Washington)Candice Miller (R-Michigan)Jerry Moran (R-Kansas)Tim Murphy (R-Pennsylvania)Tom Petri (R-Wisconsin)Todd Platts (R-Pennsylvania)Jon Porter (R-Nevada)Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio)Jim Ramstad (R-Minnesota)Ralph Regula (R-Ohio)Denny Rehberg (R-Montana)Dave Reichert (R-Washington)Rick Renzi (R-Arizona)Christopher Shays (R-Connecticut)Mike Simpson (R-Idaho)Chris Smith (R-New Jersey)Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio)Mike Turner (R-Ohio)Fred Upton (R-Michigan)Jim Walsh (R-New York)Heather Wilson ...
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Democrats Who Opposed SCHIP
2007-10-03 23:03:00
HOUSE:Dan Boren (D-Oklahoma)Kathy Castor (D-Florida)Bob Etheridge (D-North Carolina)Baron Hill (D-Indiana)Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio)Jim Marshall (D-Georgia)Mike McIntyre (D-North Carolina)Gene Taylor (D-Mississippi)Diane Watson (D-California) voted PresentEddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), Julia Carson (D-Indiana) and Bill Delahunt (D-Massachusetts) did not vote.SENATE:NoneJoe Biden (D-Delaware) and Barack Obama (D-Illinois) did not vote.*I have reason to believe Castor, Watson and Kucinich will vote to override the veto, as will all three Democrats who weren't present. That means the Democrats need 22 more votes. If all the Democrats who did not vote yea vote to override, the number is 16.
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Bush Veteos SCHIP
2007-10-03 20:58:00
And once again proves that Iraq is more important than America's Children.
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Ron Paul's Fundraising Surprise
2007-10-03 17:23:00
Texas Congressman Ron Paul 's campaign for the GOP Presidential nomination scored a huge success when they announced they raised $5 million this quarter.Paul raised five times more money than former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who was considered a serious contender, and raised nearly the same as top-tiered candidate Senator John McCain .Still, Paul's $5 million is much lower than the top two Democrats; Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama , who raised $23 million and $20 million respectively.
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Religous Right Wants Third Party
2007-10-02 21:47:00
I hardly thought they would endorse Giuliani. I figured this would happen.Still, I don't think they're stupid enough to split the conservative vote and throw the election to the Democrats. All GOP candidates struggle at best against all the Democrats, splitting the vote would almost certainly guarantee them a win.Or Giuliani would have to suddenly find God, for find some reason to oppose abortion and gay rights and explain his flip-flopping (9/11 made me pro-life.) Either way, Democrats win.
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The End Of The Religious Right?
2007-10-02 05:13:00
They will always exist, but I knew the day would come when they would be no more organized politically as white supremacists or communists. That day seems to be coming closer.And our wonderful SECULAR nation breathes a sigh of relief.
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Monday Afternoon Amusement
2007-10-01 23:49:00
*Fred Thompson in La La Land- The Former Tennessee Senator is appealing to his base by doing what Republicans do best...deny reality.*Despite the bluntness of John McCain in declaring our nation the United States of Jesus, The Supreme Court isn't touching the issue with a 90-foot pole.*John Edwards is the only member of his family who doesn't support gay marriage. He's also the only member of his family running for President, so, take his stance with a grain of salt.*Democratic Presidential candidates are begging for Ted Kennedy's endorsement, because, you know, no one unites the right and the left like Ted Kennedy.*Am I the only one who realizes Iran is not the pushover third-world tribal country with a 13th century military that Iraq and Afghanistan were?*If you're a soldier who disagrees with the necon foreign policy laid out by President Bush, you're not a real soldier or a real American. Don't ask just Rush Limbaugh, a Georgia Congressman says so too.*And just so people ...
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Paging Katherine Harris
2007-09-30 19:58:00
"I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles ... personally, I prefer someone who I know who has a solid grounding in my faith,"But that doesn't mean Muslims can't be President, McCain later said, retracting his earlier bigoted statementIt is important, says McCain, that belief in Christian principles is present, otherwise you're missing a key factor in your ability to lead.After all, we live in the country where anybody can grow up to be President...so long as you accept Jesus Christ as your personal saviour...or put on a good act that you do.
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The Bush Budget
2007-09-30 07:49:00
"Democrats and Liberals are spending your tax dollars like it's water and are planning to tax you to death. We need to limit spending...now give me a $193 billion for Iraq ."So it's bad to spend our tax dollars on Americans, but it's good to spend it on Iraqis and Afghans...I see.
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Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Into The Lake
2007-09-30 07:46:00
This sounds like something out of a Stephen King novel.Ok, so I'm only swimming in COLD water from now on.
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The Free Falling GOP
2007-09-30 06:12:00
And it was just three years ago when they were comparing the Democrats to the Whigs.
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Vagueness Get Us In Trouble Again
2007-09-30 05:27:00
Perhaps, if it weren't for the ridiculously VAGUE definition of terrorism as laid out by us and the UN, Iran wouldn't have a point here.Yes, based on our vague "terrorists attack civilians on purpose" definition, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, Mai Lai, and Hadithya were all terrorist attacks.Do I think we're terrorists? No, but does the definition fit, unfortunately yes.Perhaps we need to redefine the word.
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Happy 60th Birthday Levittown
2007-09-30 04:24:00
Levittown, the suburban utopia on Long Island , turns 60 next month.Levittown was the brainchild of it's namesake, William Levitt, a real-estate developer who envisioned a community where you don't have to be rich to have land for your kids to play, and schools with playgrounds, football fields and parking lots. His first experiment in this new society came in Island Trees, a rural area in central Nassau County on Long Island.At it's beginning, it was built as the ideal suburban community for first generation Americans and World War II veterans to raise their families outside of the crowded, cramped urban communities in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Strangely enough Levittown was built without a commuter rail station along the LIRR. The closest major station is Hicksville, about five miles north. Many of Levittown's residents work in Nassau County and drive, although, as proven by the packed Hicksville station parking lot, many still commute to Manhattan.In the years after, Levitt buil...
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Democrats To Introduce Legislation Condemning Limbaugh
2007-09-29 02:10:00
I haven't mentioned the slanderous remarks Rush Limbaugh made against soldiers who question authority because I refuse to give this gasbag (thank you for the adjective Paul Begala) any attention on this blog.But I will now.Limbaugh, who referred to veterans of the Iraq war who have come home and worked to end the war as "phony soldiers" is the subject of yet another condemnation resolution being introduced in the House of Representatives.Rep. Mark Udall (D-Colorado), who is also a Senate candidate, is introducing a resolution next week condemning Limbaugh's comments. This comes after a vote by the House last week to condemn MoveOn.org's General Betrayus ad.I am not fan of these condemnation resolutions. I think they'r a complete waste of time and do nothing to solve problems, only create them, but I have to support this one because if the GOP thinks it could play games, we play them back. Don't forget, THEY started it.It's time to fight back.
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Rudy: 9/11 Made Me Answer The Phone
2007-09-29 00:33:00
Yep, 9/11 is his reasoning for answering his cell phone when his wife called at the NRA meeting.No seriously;Giuliani also addressed a cell phone call he took from his wife, Judith, last week during his speech to the National Rifle Association..."And quite honestly, since Sept. 11, most of the time when we get on a plane, we talk to each other and just reaffirm the fact that we love each other," he said.That is, until, he finds his fourth wife and uses this White House Briefing Room to tell Judy she's moving out this afternoon.I mean is there ANYTHING Rudy doesn't attribute 9/11 too?
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A True Democrat
2007-09-27 09:26:00
If Democrat s would act more like Bill Clinton, perhaps they wouldn't look so weak.After all, he WAS the last Democrat to win nationwide.
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O'Reilly: I'm Being Smeared
2007-09-27 06:11:00
Wait, hold on, let me cry crocodile tears for you Bill. People who live in glass mansions shouldn't throw stonesAs Justin Timberlake would say;What Goes Around, Goes Around, Comes All The Way Back Around
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Easier To Get In To Get Out
2007-09-27 04:36:00
"I think it's hard to project four years from now," said Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in the opening moments of a campaign debate in the nation's first primary state."It is very difficult to know what we're going to be inheriting," added Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York."I cannot make that commitment," said former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.I think we all need to be resigned to the fact that President Bush got us into something that's not going to be very easy to get out of.
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God Wrote the Constitution, Did He?
2007-09-27 03:19:00
"We need to be very precise then, about what I said wearing my stars and being very conscious of it, and that is, very simply, that we should respect those who want to serve the nation but not through the law of the land, condone activity that, in my upbringing, is counter to God's law."If you want to follow "God's law," then perhaps you should become a General in the Pope's army, but here in America, the only law that matters is the one the 13 colonies approved in 1787. Sometimes it agrees with "God's law," sometimes it doesn't. If you can't accept the times it doesn't, then perhaps you shouldn't be a part of our government.Have a nice day :-)
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Here We Go Again
2007-09-27 01:00:00
He won't allow more spending for child healthcare, but, hell, he'll break the bank when it comes to Iraq.You see, in Bush's mind, protecting oil is more important than protecting children.

Reds In The Red
2007-09-26 23:55:00
Even if they can get good candidates to run in vulnerable races (and they've had a hard enough time doing that,) they don't have the money to support them.Democrats have $22 million
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AL-02: Everett Retires
2007-09-26 18:27:00
Rep. Terry Everett (R-Alabama) has announced he will not run for reelection next year.The district, that includes Montgomery, Enterprise and Dothan, has a PVI of R+13 and has been in Republican hands since 1965.Still it's the home district of Alabama State House Speaker Seth Hammend and State Agriculture Secretary Ron Sparks, who did very well in this district in his reelection last year.
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Maybe It Isn't Bush After All
2007-09-25 23:23:00
The phonetic spelling of Mauritainia in Bush 's US speech is moor-EH-tain-ee-aActually it's mawr-i-TEY-nee-uh.
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Bush: I Was For Gun Control Before I Was Against It...9/11,9/11,9/11
2007-09-25 20:57:00
And what, pray, made him change his position so radically?September 11th of course.He references the attacks three times in two sentences.Rudy...shut up.
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Bush's UN Speech; A Translation for the Ignorant
2007-09-25 20:39:00
A stunning slew of BS if you as me;"Americans are outraged by the situation in Burma," Oh, I can score some points if they think I actually care."The people of Lebanon and Afghanistan and Iraq have asked for our help, and every civilized nation has a responsibility to stand with them," Well not so much the people, the puppet governments are begging for us to help so they don't have to worry about, you know, fighting themselves. The Bush Doctrine; Invade a country and then use the excuse "they asked us to do it""Every civilized nation also has a responsibility to stand up for the people suffering under dictatorship, In Belarus, North Korea, Syria and Iran, brutal regimes deny their people the fundamental rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration" of the United Nations ."Fundamental rights, such as the right to privacy and the right to free speech are optional, of course."The nations in this chamber have our differences, yet there are some areas where we can all agree, When innoce...
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What About Free Media Hillary?
2007-09-25 07:10:00
I got to tell you, this makes me uncomfortable.I sure as hell don't want George W . Bush to have this kind of control over the media. I also don't want Hillary Clinton with this kind of control either.
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Now It's Convenient To Defend the Gays?
2007-09-25 04:09:00
Newt Gingrich's laughable rational to why the President of Iran shouldn't have spoken at Columbia;?I think it is an outrage for the university to lend its prestige to a dictator whose Government executes homosexuals, tortures and kills journalists, lock up students? Yeah Newt, we shouldn't kill the gays, we should just make their lives so miserable that they wish they were dead, right?
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God Before America
2007-09-25 00:37:00
They call themselves patriots?They'll turn their backs on our country in a second if they believe God wants them too.
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