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Latest Articles: (s)Elections
DeLay Is Convicted in Texas Donation Case
Post Date: 2010-11-26 05:01:20 by HOUNDDAWG
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AUSTIN, Tex. — Tom DeLay, one of the most powerful and divisive Republican lawmakers ever to come out of Texas, was convicted Wednesday of money-laundering charges in a state trial, five years after his indictment here forced him to resign as majority leader in the House of Representatives. After 19 hours of deliberation, a jury of six men and six women decided that Mr. DeLay was guilty of conspiring with two associates in 2002 to circumvent a state law against corporate contributions to political campaigns. He was convicted of one charge of money laundering and one charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering. As the verdict was read, Mr. DeLay, 63, sat stone-faced at the defense ...
Roland Burris and Emanuel renter join mayoral circus
Post Date: 2010-11-23 10:46:56 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Roland Burris and Emanuel renter join mayoral circus Senator's supporters file to get him on ballot as 1 of 20 hoping to succeed Daley November 23, 2010|By John Chase, Tribune reporter Bounced out of the U.S. Senate, Roland Burris landed in the middle of the race for Chicago mayor Monday when a group of supporters filed petitions to place him on the ballot just before the deadline. The last time Burris heeded the siren's call of a draft movement for mayor, he got less than 40 percent against Mayor Richard Daley in 1995. When Burris said he might be drafted in 2008 for the U.S. Senate, Gov. Rod Blagojevich made him his controversial choice to fill the former seat of President ...
Newly Elected GOP Governors: Ready to Unleash Some Pain
Post Date: 2010-11-22 10:55:50 by christine
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Republican governors are going to have a big hand in writing the next chapter of American history. Their GOP brethren in Washington will be tussling with President Obama to reach either stalemate or compromise (or some fitful combination of the two), thus obscuring a real test of Republican governing philosophy on the Potomac. Meanwhile, in places such as Tallahassee, Fla.; Madison, Wis.; Columbus, Ohio; Lansing, Mich.; and Santa Fe, N.M., freshly elected Republican governors will present their party's goals and themes for a 2011 agenda. They will be focusing on the same economic issues that Republicans used to win not only gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey in 2009, but ...
Will residency be the Rahmstopper? Emanuel twice purged from voter rolls
Post Date: 2010-11-17 12:02:46 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Will residency be the Rahmstopper? Emanuel twice purged from voter rolls Chicago mayoral candidate Rahm Emanuel was twice purged from the city voter rolls in the last 13 months but was reinstated by election officials, who allowed him to vote absentee in the February primary even though he did not live at his North Side address. That's just part of the new evidence aimed at the vulnerable residency issue for Emanuel. It may derail his ambition to succeed his ally Mayor Richard Daley on the 5th floor of City Hall. According to election lawyer Burt Odelson, who may someday be known around Chicago as The Rahmstopper, the case against Rahm involves voter registration notices and what he ...
Ted Pike Weighs in on the Tea Party Effect
Post Date: 2010-11-15 20:31:00 by 2big2fail
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Rev. Ted Pike will be our guest on tonight’s show (Saturday, Nov. 13) to offer his take on the overall effectiveness of the Tea Parties while delivering his thoughts on last Tuesday’s GOP electoral gains. He recently wrote a column on the matter entitled, “Was November 2 really a victory for freedom?” Following my latest article “What Midterm Victory Means for Freedom,” a concerned patriot left this phone message for me: “This is not a victory for freedom. You have to realize the Tea Party is still under Zionist control. Sarah Palin is a Zionist lapdog, and so is Rand Paul. And every other Tea Party member is a blind supporter of the state of Israel. So ...
20 Rock-Hard Proposals for the New Congress
Post Date: 2010-11-15 13:52:34 by christine
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1. Repeal ObamaCare . . . Now! 2. Keep the about-to-expire Bush Tax Cuts and push for more cuts. 3. Implement a 15 percent across-the-board spending cut 4. Implement an immediate government hiring freeze and cut all wages by 15 percent, including Congress. 5. Implement the following test on all legislation: 1. Is it CONSTITUTIONAL? 2. If it’s Constitutional, do we NEED it? 3. If it’s Constitutional and we need it, can we AFFORD IT? 4. Is it best left to the STATES to implement? 6. Audit the Federal Reserve. 7. Stop the bailout of union and government pensions and end tax-payer funded retirement programs for all government employees. 8. Support the Defense of Marriage Act ...
GOP Rep. Spencer Bachus Criticizes TEA Party
Post Date: 2010-11-10 13:13:54 by christine
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In the wake of the Election Day conservative tsunami, rather than expressing gratitude that limited government conservatives and the Tea Party movement restored the GOP to majority status in the House of Representatives, establishment Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus lashed out at the movement and at Gov. Sarah Palin. He even went so far as to blame Palin and the Tea Party for the Republican Party not winning the Senate — the same Senate that had all of forty Republicans back when the party ran on the big spending, me-too policies espoused by Spencer Bachus. Perhaps not surprisingly, the GOP establishment is preparing to reward Bachus with the chairmanship of the House Financial ...
Tea Party Leaders Flex Newfound Muscle, Put GOP Insiders on Notice
Post Date: 2010-11-10 13:05:20 by christine
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The stunning election victories for conservative Republicans in Congress offer a stop-gap, gridlock salve for a country reeling from out-of-control Democrat spending over the past two years. In Washington, D.C., the new 112th Congress will be sworn in January 3. But in the interim, Democrats are committed to a lame-duck session convening November 15. The primary issue members will face is the Obama tax hike set to go into effect January 1. Unless Congress acts, everyone paying taxes will see a marked increase. Democrat leaders want tax increases on everyone making above $250,000 while Republicans want to keep the current tax rates for everyone. That showdown could result in a ...
Corporate Chicago Lining Up Behind Rahm
Post Date: 2010-11-09 13:52:24 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Corporate Chicago Lining Up Behind Rahm During Rahm Emanuel's "listening tour," the ex-White House Chief of Staff heard from people at Chicago Public School institutions and neighborhood stops across the city. But another important constituency is starting to offer up support to the soon-to-announce mayoral candidate: executives leading the region's largest firms. Crain's reported yesterday that the top brass at much of Chicago's corporate mainstays -- including Boeing, Abbott Laboratories, Northern Trust, United Continental, and more -- are closing rank around Rahm and throwing fundraisers for him. They see him as the candidate who offers the most continuity ...
Taylor loses south Miss. House seat after 21 years
Post Date: 2010-11-07 19:46:29 by farmfriend
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Taylor loses south Miss. House seat after 21 years By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS The Associated Press Wednesday, November 3, 2010; 12:56 AM JACKSON, Miss. -- Longtime Democratic Congressman Gene Taylor has lost the south Mississippi House seat he held for 21 years. On Tuesday, with all precincts reporting in the 4th District, Republican Steven Palazzo had 52 percent of the vote to Taylor's 47 percent. Palazzo, a state lawmaker from Biloxi, portrayed Taylor as beholden to national Democratic leaders. Taylor, who is from Bay St. Louis, has been in Congress since 1989. Elsewhere, Republican Alan Nunnelee unseated Democratic Rep. Travis Childers in the northern 1st District. Childers had ...
West says racism allegations against Tea Party by liberals didn't work
Post Date: 2010-11-07 19:40:03 by farmfriend
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West says racism allegations against Tea Party by liberals didn't work By Kevin Cullum - 11/06/10 07:38 PM ET Florida's first black Republican congressman since Reconstruction credited the Tea Party with standing up against allegations of racism from the left in supporting his successful candidacy. “So I think that the -- the liberal progressives saw the strength of the grass-roots movement that we call the Tea Party which stands for 'taxed enough already' and they tried to turn against it,” Rep.-elect Allen West (R-Fla.) said Friday on "Hannity" on Fox News. “And the number one thing that you always try to do to silence an opponent in the United ...
Grijalva declared winner in tight District 7 race
Post Date: 2010-11-07 11:05:20 by Red Jones
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Grijalva declared winner in tight District 7 race BY CHRIS McDANIEL - SUN STAFF WRITER 2010-11-05 21:48:02 U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) of District 7 has won another term in office after a hotly contested election. Grijalva had declared himself the winner Wednesday, but his Republican opponent, Ruth McClung, will not accept defeat until all the votes are in. However, she will do so if the numbers warrant it, according to the Associated Press. “After all the votes are counted, I'm prepared to concede victory,” she said. Most of the votes in Yuma County have already been accounted for. “All those precincts are in, but what is not in is early ballots that were ...
White Southern Democrats Nearly Extinct
Post Date: 2010-11-05 13:55:04 by ghostdogtxn
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Exit Polls: Unprecedented White Flight from Democrats
Post Date: 2010-11-05 02:29:10 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Exit Polls: Unprecedented White Flight from Democrats By David Paul Kuhn Democrats performed worse with whites on Tuesday than in any other congressional election since the Second World War. Democrats' white problems stretch back nearly a half-century. Political white flight changed course with the implosion of George W. Bush's presidency, the Republican Party and the economy in September 2008. Today, it's almost as if none of that ever came to pass. Democrats' bad old days are back, and in an especially bad way. Republicans won whites in Tuesday's national House vote by a 22-percentage point margin (60 to 38 percent) according to exit polls. In 2006, Republicans won ...
RNC Chairman Steele says the Tea Party has put Republicans ‘on probation’
Post Date: 2010-11-05 00:55:45 by mirage
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Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said Republicans were “on probation” after their tremendous wins in Tuesday’s midterm elections. “Big government Republicanism is not innate to us, it’s not part of our DNA and yet we tried to force ourselves into that box and instead we wound up forcing people out of the party,” said Steele on Fox News Thursday. Echoing the sentiment of other top Republicans, Steele said the favorable election results for the GOP did not translate to “oh gee, we love Republicans.” The message, said Steele, was that voters wanted the GOP to return to its founding principles of limited government, free markets and ...
The Newly Elected Conservatives Must Not Compromise
Post Date: 2010-11-04 15:15:12 by christine
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You newly elected Conservative Representatives that the American people are sending to Congress next year must not forget why you were elected. You are 'Conservatives.' You must not forget the local officials that were removed from office. You must not forget the judges who were removed from their benches. We will not tolerate our destruction at your hands. A majority of Americas sent this new crop of Congressmen to represent us and our demands, demands based on the Constitution, a contract that every elected and appointed governmental official swears to uphold. Representatives, you ran on smaller government, reduced spending, lower taxes (and I don't just mean keeping the Bush ...
Third time's the charm: Barletta defeats Kanjorski
Post Date: 2010-11-04 14:36:44 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Third time's the charm: Barletta defeats Kanjorski By David Pierce Pocono Record Writer November 03, 2010 Riding a wave of anti-incumbent fervor and voter anger, Republican Lou Barletta unseated incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski in their third face-off Tuesday night. Kanjorski conceded defeat at 10:17 p.m. "We knew it would end, we just didn't know when," Kanjorski said in his concession speech. At Barletta headquarters, the crowd erupted in cheers, chaning "Lou! Lou!" The strains of "Louie, Louie" by the Kingsmen blared in the background. Barletta told his supporters, "Tonight proves that you heard me. Now Washington will hear ...
OK, So who's got the list?
Post Date: 2010-11-04 14:21:40 by Eric Stratton
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Who's got the list of all of the "Constitutionally Oriented" Republicans, besides Rand Paul in the Senate, now the only Senate member unless I'm mistaken, in the House upon who's election our hopes are predicated? Let's track them and see what they do, specifically. Start listing...
Rand Paul Signals Intent To Bring Bicameral Tea Party Caucus To Capitol Hill
Post Date: 2010-11-04 14:03:24 by christine
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Kentucky Senator-elect Rand Paul signaled his intent on Wednesday to bring a bicameral Tea Party caucus to Capitol Hill when he begins his work in the upper congressional chamber in the next legislative session. Speaking to Fox News about his ideas for establishing the political affinity group, Paul explained, "I think there's a lot of potential members in the House and a few members in the Senate as well." On the heels of his double digit victory over Democrat Jack Conway to replace outgoing Republican Sen. Jim Bunning, the Tea Party favorite shared his outlook on the impact he hopes to make on the political system. "I go there with optimism I guess," he said. ...
Upon Further Review: Game Over
Post Date: 2010-11-04 13:13:27 by Eric Stratton
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I did some math using data from CNN regarding election results, to track the impact to incumbents in this charade..., I mean election. Of all 435 House seats and the 37 Senate seats that were up, 472 total unless my data is wrong, and please correct if so, here are a few basis numbers: Senate: 22 incumbents up, 1 lost. That's a 95.5% incumbency success rate. House: 390 incumbents ran, 46 lost. That's an 88.2% incumbency success rate overall. It's an 88.7% success rate for "Republicans." If we factor in how many of those Republicans were actual liberty-loving Constitutionally oriented ones, the success factor for the establishment grows notably and reduces the ...
New Republican House Promises Investigation Of Global Warming Fraud
Post Date: 2010-11-04 12:09:51 by christine
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One of the first tasks of the new Republican-controlled House of Congress will be to launch a full investigation into the man-made global warming fraud, as the climate change con that threatens to tax and regulate the American middle class out of existence is exposed to what could prove terminal scrutiny. “The GOP plans to hold high profile hearings examining the alleged “scientific fraud” behind global warming, a sleeper issue in this election that motivated the base quite a bit,” writes the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder. As Politico’s Darren Samuelsohn and Robin Bravender reported yesterday, Barack Obama can count of substantially less allies in his effort to ...
US Elections: America's Right Turn
Post Date: 2010-11-04 05:31:27 by Stephen Lendman
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US Elections: America's Right Turn - by Stephen Lendman Since the 1980s, neoliberalism dominated US politics under Democrats and Republicans. Bush I continued Reagan policies. Clinton hardened them. Bush II much more, and Obama so far matched Star Trek, going where no administration went before. Count the ways. They're manyfold, favoring business over popular interests, yet he's accused of being socialist. On November 2, angry voters responded, shifting right despite favoring many left of center issues, a combination of outrage and angst overriding their best interests. Go figure because what they got will incense them more. During hard times, election cycles repeat a common ...
Voters approve cutting affirmative action by state, local governments
Post Date: 2010-11-03 16:04:48 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Voters approve cutting affirmative action by state, local governments PHOENIX -- Arizona voters have approved a ballot measure to eliminate affirmative action programs in state and local governments. Unofficial returns showed Proposition 107 leading by a wide margin. Supporters said the need for affirmative action has long passed and amount to discrimination. They succeeded in amending the state's constitution to ban state government and municipalities from giving preferential treatment on the basis of sex, race, color, ethnicity or national origin. Four other states have passed similar measures. They are California, Nebraska, Washington and Michigan. Jennifer Gratz, spokesperson ...
Eric Cantor, the only Jewish Republican in Congress, to become majority leader [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-11-03 15:36:14 by christine
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A fierce Israel defender, he will have broad control over the House of Representatives agenda WASHINGTON (EJP)---The only Jewish Republican in the US Congress, Eric Cantor, is likely to become the new majority leader of the United States House of Representatives after his party made massive gains at Tuesday's midterm elections. He will take over in January from Democrat Steny Hoyer. Republicans needed 39 seats to gain the majority in the House, and reports suggest they have taken nearly 60, the largest shift since the 1940s. The Democrats managed to maintain their majority it the Senate. As the Republican House majority leader, 47-year-old Cantor will have broad control over the ...
Rand Paul Promises To Challenge GOP Establishment
Post Date: 2010-11-03 14:20:47 by christine
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On the same day that he swept to victory in the Kentucky Senate race, Rand Paul immediately contradicted doubters who warned that he would compromise and begin to support neo-con political policies by promising to challenge the GOP establishment while also working to cut the bloated US defense budget. During an election day interview with CNN, Paul said that he would work to change “the whole government” because “both Democrats and Republicans have shown themselves to be untrustworthy,” calling for a constitutional amendment to balance the budget and a sunset of “all regulations” passed by unelected bureaucrats unless they are approved by Congress. ...
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