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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 ...
This Day In History. Al Gore Loses His 2000 Bid For President. Bush Wins His First Term. [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2009-12-13 11:37:39 by rotgut
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The rest is history. He is still my President. The current chimp in charge can go eat bananas.
Documentary on how the media lies to manipulate us
Post Date: 2009-12-12 22:37:39 by Artisan
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Documentary on how the media lies to manipulate us http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez4zVwxCCtc
A Senator’s Gift to the Jews, Nonreturnable
Post Date: 2009-12-09 22:07:37 by Prefrontal Vortex
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A Senator’s Gift to the Jews, Nonreturnable By MARK LEIBOVICH Published: December 8, 2009 WASHINGTON — The canon of Hanukkah songs written by Mormon senators from Utah just got a little bigger. Senator Orrin G. Hatch, a solemn-faced Republican with a soft spot for Jews and a love of Barbra Streisand, has penned a catchy holiday tune, “Eight Days of Hanukkah.” The video was posted Tuesday night on Tablet, an online magazine of Jewish lifestyle and culture, just in time for Hanukkah. Known around the Senate as a prolific writer of Christian hymns and patriotic melodies, Mr. Hatch, 75, said this was his first venture into Jewish music. It will not be his last. ...
Shocker polls: That Sarah Palin-Barack Obama gap melts to 1 point
Post Date: 2009-12-08 14:10:45 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Shocker polls: That Sarah Palin-Barack Obama gap melts to 1 point December 8, 2009 | 2:42 am Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, look what the pollsters just brought in. A pair of new surveys revealing that President Obama is still declining and has hit a new low in job approval among Americans just 56 weeks after they elected him with a decided margin. And -- wait for it -- Republican Sarah Palin is successfully selling a whole lot more than books out there on the road. Even among those not lining up in 10-degree weather to catch a glimpse of pretty much the only political celebrity the GOP has these days. First, el jefe. Facing double-digit unemployment, rising spending, deficits and Afghan war ...
Tea Party Tops GOP on Three-Way Generic Ballot
Post Date: 2009-12-07 08:13:09 by TooConservative
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Tea Party Tops GOP on Three-Way Generic BallotMonday, December 07, 2009 Running under the Tea Party brand may be better in congressional races than being a Republican. In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, the Tea Party comes out on top. Thirty-three percent (33%) prefer the Tea Party candidate, and 30% are undecided. Twenty-five percent (25%) would vote for a Democrat, and just 12% prefer the GOP. Among Republican voters, 39% say ...
Bob McDonnell: New Face for the GOP?
Post Date: 2009-12-04 10:37:42 by Eric Stratton
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Bob McDonnell: New Face for the GOP? Cal Thomas Friday, December 04, 2009 Richmond, VA -- Virginia's governor-elect, Bob McDonnell, may be the future of the Republican Party, if he can translate his substantial electoral victory into policy victories following his Jan. 16, 2010 inauguration as the state's first GOP governor in eight years. McDonnell's quiet demeanor is the polar opposite of the tub-thumping, angry conservative that has characterized much of Republican politics for more than 30 years, but he possesses solid convictions on matters of policy. In a recent interview at his transition office, McDonnell, who crushed his opponent Creigh Deeds by a 59 percent to 41 ...
Atlanta Mayoral Race Too Close to Call
Post Date: 2009-12-02 00:33:20 by Prefrontal Vortex
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Atlanta Mayoral Race Too Close to Call By SHAILA DEWAN Published: December 1, 2009 ATLANTA — Kasim Reed, a former Georgia state senator, appeared headed for a narrow victory over City Councilwoman Mary Norwood in the Atlanta mayor’s race on Tuesday night, but the outcome remained too close for a clear winner to be declared. With 98 percent of the precincts reporting, Mr. Reed was ahead by 620 votes out of 84,000 cast, giving him a margin of 50.4 percent. Provisional ballots were scheduled to be counted on Thursday. A victory by Mr. Reed would squelch the hopes of Ms. Norwood to becoming this city’s first white mayor in 35 years. Unusually, the runoff attracted even more ...
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