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Political Earthquake Rocks Massachusetts
Post Date: 2010-01-21 05:50:43 by Stephen Lendman
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Political Earthquake Rocks Massachusetts - by Stephen Lendman For the moment, millions of Haitians don't matter. For Washington and the West, they never did and don't now. It's pretense, a topic a forthcoming article will explore. Today, however, the Massachusetts political earthquake takes precedence, and headlines explain it. From the Boston Globe: "Big win for Brown....Voter anger caught fire in final days." How can it be, asks the Globe, that "an obscure state senator with an unremarkable record" (became) a household name across the country by the end of the abbreviated campaign." From the Financial Times: "Democrats suffer blow in ...
Sarah Palin to campaign for John McCain in Arizona
Post Date: 2010-01-20 12:31:58 by JRiggs
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Sarah Palin to campaign for John McCain in Arizona Palin, the former Alaska governor who was McCain's vice presidential running mate last year, will campaign for McCain's re-election bid as a senator from Arizona in March, the senator said in a statement on Wednesday. There has been plenty of sniping between the Palin and McCain camps after they lost the election to Democrat Barack Obama but McCain and Palin themselves have remained on friendly terms. "I'm looking forward to getting back on the campaign trail with my former running mate, and I know my fellow Arizonans will welcome her as well," McCain said. "Sarah energized our nation and remains a leading ...
Hitler Finds Out Scott Brown Won Massachusetts Senate Seat
Post Date: 2010-01-20 02:10:44 by freepatriot32
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Notes from the Massachusetts Senate Race
Post Date: 2010-01-19 18:50:03 by freepatriot32
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Cambridge, Massachusetts—In 1989, at the apogee of his exceedingly rebellious teenage years, my brother’s band released their first full-length record (1,000 copies, available on both black and red vinyl). To be iconoclastic in the suburbs of Boston—especially the progressive pocket where we grew up—was rather difficult. Everyone in high school smoked pot and drank beer, and everyone’s parents had stumped for Mike Dukakis the previous year. So the hardcore punk band in which he played drums was “straight edge”—i.e., no booze or drugs allowed (a commandment he abandoned the following year)—and the record would open with the song “Nuke the ...
Voter Fraud looks as if it will be an issue in MA
Post Date: 2010-01-19 14:40:37 by randge
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SURFS TOWARDS VICTORY ON WAVE OF POPULAR DISCONTENT WITH OBAMA REGIME by John Charlton (Jan. 19, 2010) — The American public has tasted Obama’s Marxist-Lite and is rejecting it with decisive force. The special election in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is just one case in point, but a stunning case it is. Scott Brown leads Martha Coakley by 5% in exit polls in the first hours of the day. And this on the vigil of the first anniversary of Obama’s ascension to power. Indeed, Massachusetts residents are generally more gleeful than they have ever been at the thought that for the first time in 50 years, they have the chance to participate in a free election, to choose their ...
More than 600,000 on Massachusetts Voter Rolls Had Died or Moved, Nonpartisan Analysis Discovered
Post Date: 2010-01-19 12:19:50 by scrapper2
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Massachusetts had 116,483 dead people on its voter registration rolls and another 538,567 people who were no longer living at the addresses on their registrations, according to a study released Oct. 28, by Aristotle International Inc., a nonpartisan political technology and data firm. Alicia Moran, a spokeswoman for Aristotle, told CNSNews.com on Monday that people should be cautious about drawing any conclusions from the company’s October analysis on the quality of the Massachusetts voter registration rolls going into Tuesday’s special U.S. Senate election, in which Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown are vying for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by Democrat ...
10 reasons why George W. Bush was a smarter world leader than Barack Obama
Post Date: 2010-01-19 11:49:42 by rotgut
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When it took office a year ago, the Obama administration boasted of a new strategy of “smart power”, designed to restore America’s “standing” in the world. In essence this new approach to foreign policy was designed to distance the new US government in every way possible from the Bush administration, supposedly hated in every corner of the earth, from Berlin to Buenos Aires. Hence, the hallmarks of Obama’s foreign policy have been the naive engagement of an array of odious dictatorial regimes, grovelling apologies before foreign audiences, lamb-like timidity in the face of intimidation, the ending of the War on Terror, and the trashing of traditional ...
Bush Says He And Clinton Were Phone Friends During Presidency
Post Date: 2010-01-18 20:56:20 by christine
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WASHINGTON — George W. Bush had a special phone friend during his White House years: Bill Clinton. Asked on CBS' "Face the Nation" whether it was true that he often called Clinton, Bush replied: "I don't know about often, but I did. I called him. He didn't call me because he knows how busy a president is. I called him and we chatted on occasion." Neither Republican nor Democrat Clinton said just what they discussed. "I was always pleased when he called me," Clinton said as he sat beside Bush for the interview. "I make it a practice never to bother the president. I don't call President Obama either. ... They got plenty to do." ...
Jim Traficant, Out of Jail, Running for Congress Again
Post Date: 2010-01-16 10:59:57 by christine
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Jim Traficant, the weave-wearing, bold talking, convicted felon and former congressman who once called Congress "a big whore house," told a Youngstown, Ohio, business group Tuesday that he wants his old job back and will run for it in 2010. According to the Youngstown Business Journal, Traficant declared to 35 members of the local Biz Society, "I'm going to run for Congress somewhere." He said he has not decided which Ohio district he'll run in, nor which political party he would affiliate with, but the former Democrat did say he has nominating petitions in three congressional districts. Traficant had hinted several months ago that he was considering a run for ...
Gov. Candidate Debra Medina Excluded from Televised Debate in Texas
Post Date: 2010-01-15 12:04:08 by christine
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Debra Medina, a political candidate challenging Rick Perry for governor of Texas, will not be allowed to participate in a televised debate with Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison in Dallas on January 29. Candidate Debra Medina, who has polled between 4 and 7 percent support among likely Republican voters in recent polls, did not meet the sponsor’s criteria to be included in the debate,” reports The Dallas Morning News earlier this week. “The hour-long debate between the two major governor candidates in the GOP primary will be hosted by The Dallas Morning News and Belo Corp., which owns 20 television stations including those in Dallas (WFAA-TV), Houston (KHOU-TV), San Antonio ...
Hawaii can't afford Congressional election
Post Date: 2010-01-13 21:02:07 by abraxas
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Hawaii can't afford Congressional election By MARK NIESSE Associated Press Writer updated 2:25 p.m. PT, Sat., Jan. 9, 2010 HONOLULU - Cash-strapped Hawaii can't afford to pay for an election to replace a congressman who is planning to step down next month to run for governor, potentially leaving 600,000 urban Honolulu residents without representation in Washington. Budget cuts have left the state Office of Elections with about $5,000 to last until July, with a special election costing nearly $1 million, interim Chief Elections Officer Scott Nago said. Until the state finds money or this fall's regularly scheduled elections occur, one of Hawaii's two seats in the House of ...
Palin makes debut on 'The O'Reilly Factor'
Post Date: 2010-01-13 20:40:31 by christine
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NEW YORK - Sarah Palin accounts for the controversy she attracts by saying her opponents don't like the "commonsense, conservative solutions" she represents. Debuting as a Fox News analyst, the 2008 vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor was the guest of Bill O'Reilly on Tuesday's edition of "The O'Reilly Factor." During the interview, Palin said sinking approval numbers for President Barack Obama reflect "an uncomfortableness" some Americans feel toward his administration. "It was just a matter of time," she said. "There is an obvious disconnect between President Obama and the White House, what they are doing ...
Big hurdles yet for health care bill
Post Date: 2010-01-12 11:37:50 by randge
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A message to all members of Patriotic Resistance From the Desk of: Steve Elliott, Grassfire Nation We expect the dirty backroom deal on ObamaCare to be struck this week. But final passage is not yet guaranteed. See below for six ways ObamaCare can still be defeated (including the "Massachusetts Miracle"). --Steve Dear Patriot, With Harry Reid under the gun for his "negro dialect" comments and public opposition to ObamaCare continuing to increase, the pressure is mounting for Democrats to finalize their backroom deal. We believe that deal could be struck this week. Reid and Pelosi will agree to bypass the traditional House-Senate Conference and rush identical bills ...
Palin's SarahPAC Backs Portman, Graham, Hatch
Post Date: 2010-01-12 04:08:03 by James Deffenbach
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's SarahPAC has donated money to the campaigns of Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Orrin Hatch of Utah, as well as to Republican Ohio Senate candidate Rob Portman, according to a Friday filing with the Federal Election Commission. The exact amounts of the contributions were not reported, but Palin had to list the names of candidates she had financially supported to make SarahPAC a bona fide political action committee. Her contributions to Arizona Sen. John McCain, for whom she served as a running mate in the 2008 presidential campaign, and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski had been reported in a previous filings Those contributions drew scrutiny ...
Chuck Schumer hatched secret plan to get Obama to run
Post Date: 2010-01-10 18:43:29 by scrapper2
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Sen. Charles Schumer "betrayed" Hillary Rodham Clinton by working with other senators to make sure a Democrat would win the White House in 2008 -- actively recruiting Barack Obama to run as an alternative to his New York colleague, an explosive new book claims. Schumer and the others were concerned about Clinton's political vulnerabilities -- and New York's senior senator hedged his bets to have the strongest possible Democratic ticket for the fierce general election, the book claims. Clinton and husband Bill Clinton learned of the wily party leader's move months later -- and the "incipient betrayal of Hillary by her colleagues in the Senate . . . would hit them ...
SHOCK: Poll Has GOP Candidate Now Leading In Massachusetts Senate Race
Post Date: 2010-01-10 18:41:40 by Ada
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It's still hard to believe a Republican could win in deep-blue Massachusetts, but if you're interested in healthcare reform you must pay attention to the election that will take place on January 19th. A new poll from PPP has GOP candidate Scott Brown leading Democrat Martha Coakley by 1 point. How could a Republican win in a state that Obama carried by more than 20 points? It's simple. Republicans are motivated by the chance to pull a gigantic upset and torpedo healthcare reform. Democrats aren't so motivated, so the conventional wisdom is that the makeup of the electorate will be way different than it was last election day .
McCain vs. Obama's 'Left-wing crusade'
Post Date: 2010-01-08 10:41:54 by christine
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John McCain has run against Barack Obama before. He's running against him again. With campaign radio ads billing the five-term Republican senator as "Arizona's last line of defense,'' the GOP's nominee for president in 2008 is attempting to bolster his 2010 campaign for reelection to the Senate with a slam at the president. "President Obama is leading an extreme left-wing crusade to bankrupt America,'' McCain says in one of the radio ads his campaign is airing. "I stand in his way every day,'' McCain says. "If I get a bruise or two knocking some sense into heads in Washington, so be it.'' McCain got his own head-knocking ...
Generic Congressional Ballot -- GOP leaves Democrats in the dust
Post Date: 2010-01-07 10:17:37 by rotgut
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Republican candidates start the year by opening a nine-point lead over Democrats, the GOP's biggest in several years, in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot. The new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 35% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent. The number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats fell to the lowest level recorded in more than seven years of tracking.
Controversial CSULB professor MacDonald is director of new political party
Post Date: 2010-01-06 11:51:37 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Controversial CSULB professor MacDonald is director of new political party By Kevin Butler, Staff Writer Posted: 01/05/2010 06:50:04 PM PST LONG BEACH - A Cal State Long Beach professor whose views have been criticized as anti-Semitic and white ethnocentric is the director of a newly formed political party whose mission is "to represent the political interests of White Americans," according to the party's web site. Psychology Professor Kevin MacDonald told the Press-Telegram that he is director of the American Third Position party. MacDonald's ties to the party - listed on the organization's web site - were first reported by the OC Weekly. American Third ...
The Power Behind Sarah Palin
Post Date: 2010-01-03 13:42:37 by christine
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Many conservatives and liberals alike will be astonished by the fact-filled series of articles recently released by AFP on Sarah Palin, particularly the clear demonstration that the “liberal” Washington Post and its sister publication, Newsweek, have been—for a long time—promoting the political and personal fortunes of “right wing maverick” Sarah Palin. To understand that Palin is not at all “going rogue” as she would like to suggest (and Going Rogue happens to be the title of Palin’s new much-hyped memoir) it is critical to understand the nature of the Washington Post Company and those who control it. While the Post and Newsweek invariably ...
Traficant Declares: ‘I’m Going to Run’
Post Date: 2009-12-31 19:07:45 by christine
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Former U.S. Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. revved himself up in typical fashion (WATCH VIDEO), then eased off as he spoke for 30 minutes before quietly telling a new business networking group last night that he will indeed make a bid for Congress in 2010. “I’m going to run,” Traficant declared before some 35 members of The Biz Society assembled at the Rosetta Stone restaurant downtown to launch the group’s Youngstown chapter. Traficant said he still isn’t sure which district he’ll throw his hat in, but he has nominating petitions circulating in three congressional districts –the 17th, the 6th and the 16th. And, the former congressman ...
Web-site parody spurs Rep Grayson (D) to seek jail for foe
Post Date: 2009-12-21 12:08:01 by Jethro Tull
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WASHINGTON — Not everyone thinks imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. In fact, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson (D) of Orlando took such offense at a parody Web site aimed at unseating him that the freshman Democrat asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the Lake County activist who started it. In his four-page complaint, Grayson accuses Republican Angie Langley of lying to federal elections officials. In particular, he writes, the Clermont resident lives outside his district but still uses the term "my" in her Web site, mycongressmanisnuts.com. The name mocks a Web site started by Grayson, congressmanwithguts.com. "Ms. Langley has deliberately ...
"Prediction: Pain" for Democrats in 2010
Post Date: 2009-12-18 08:43:13 by Eric Stratton
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"Prediction: Pain" for Democrats in 2010 Jillian Bandes Friday, December 18, 2009 As the 2010 mid-term elections cycle swings into gear, Democrat pollster Fred Yang admits that the outlook for his party isn’t so rosy. “I think Mr. T said it best for the Democrats in 2010, ‘prediction: pain,’” he said, making a reference to the character that Mr. T played in the 1980s television series The A-Team. Yang, who heads the Garin Hart Yang Research Group, explained his position alongside Republican Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies at forum hosted by National Journal. Both men agreed that Democrats had an uphill battle ahead of them, but that the ...
Tea-partiers in NV and FL make stunning political inroads-NOT JUST TALKING AND CARRYING SIGNS, AIMING TO TAKE OVER GOP BEFORE 2010 ELECTIONS
Post Date: 2009-12-17 21:30:14 by packrat1145
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(Dec. 17, 2009) — With a new Rasmussen poll showing that voters are more inclinded to vote for a Tea-Partier than for a Republican, Tea Partiers who have entered the political fray in preparation for the 2010 Congressional elections are making solid inroads into the once hallowed halls of the GOP.For example, JB Williams is reporting that in Nevada, the Tea-partiers have taken over the complete Republican Party through a series of well organized efforts statewide in every district, aimed and filling Republican caucuses with their own supporters. In an article at Canadian Free Press, entitled, 60;Nevada Precinct Success,61; Williams writes:Nevada precinct activist Tony Warren ...
Lieberman won't rule out run as Republican in 2012
Post Date: 2009-12-15 21:52:02 by mininggold
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Lieberman won't rule out run as Republican in 2012 Published: Dec 15, 2009 Author: Dana Bash WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, a former Democrat who sits with Democratic caucus, said Tuesday that he would not rule out running for re-election in 2012 as a Republican. Lieberman angered his colleagues in the Democratic caucus this week by threatening to torpedo health care legislation if it contains a government-run public health insurance or an expansion of Medicare. Lieberman said he wasn't sure which party, if any, he would represent in his next election. "I like being an independent, so that's definitely a possibility," the Connecticut senator ...
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