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Latest Articles: (s)Elections
Rudolph Giuliani would be 'terrible' president
Post Date: 2007-08-05 09:08:52 by Eoghan
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The former top antiterrorism aide to Rudolph Giuliani has launched a stinging critique of the former New York mayor over the September 11 atrocity, attacking a key pillar of his challenge for the White House. Jerome Hauer, New York's emergency management director from 1996 to 2000, blamed Mr Giuliani for locating the city's crisis control room in the World Trade Centre complex, even though it was a known terrorist target after the 1993 truck bomb attack which killed six people at the site. The location proved disastrous in 2001 as the building was set ablaze in the collapse of the adjoining twin towers. The condemnation by Mr Hauer, a leading US expert on biological and chemical ...
Bush invokes executive privilege for Rove in attorney firings
Post Date: 2007-08-04 19:56:41 by Zipporah
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WASHINGTON — Ratcheting up the stakes in a legal battle with Congress, President Bush on Wednesday ordered White House adviser Karl Rove and a senior political aide to refuse on grounds of executive privilege to testify before the Senate on the firings of nine U.S. attorneys. In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee leaders, White House counsel Fred Fielding declared that Rove, ``as an immediate presidential advisor, is immune from compelled congressional testimony'' about matters involving his service to the president. While deputy White House political affairs director Scott Jennings is expected to appear before the committee Thursday, Fielding said that he, too, has ...
Searching for love in all the Right's places
Post Date: 2007-08-03 23:46:14 by kiki
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While Giuliani and McCain register 'morally repugnant' on the religious right's traditional-values meter, Romney has a bigger problem: many conservative Christian evangelical leaders don't believe his religion measures up For more than two decades social and economic conservatives have artfully put aside their differences and forged a powerful coalition -- under the umbrella of the Republican Party -- that has won five of the last seven presidential elections and, until this past November, controlled Congress for more than a decade. Ken Connor, the Chairman of the Center for a Just Society, described it in a recent column titled "Base to GOP: Hasta la Vista, ...
Chris Dodd vs Bill O'Reilly
Post Date: 2007-08-03 00:06:14 by kiki
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DNC Announces Unprecedented Election Protection Project
Post Date: 2007-08-02 17:30:54 by Ferret Mike
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Democrats to conduct nationwide survey of administration of elections as part of an ongoing commitment to protecting the rights of every American WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the 42nd anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act approaches, the Democratic National Committee today announced its unprecedented 50-state election protection effort to prepare for the 2008 election. When signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson said that the "right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies." But nearly 42 years after the signing of this ...
Big Government and Ron Paul
Post Date: 2007-08-02 14:35:58 by IndieTX
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ARTICLE SYNOPSIS: According to John Derbyshire, Ron Paul's biggest challenge will be overcoming Big Government. The real story is that this is a challenge that faces all Americans. Follow this link to the original source: "That Old Time Religion" COMMENTARY: Why aren't conservatives — supposedly the mainline central core of the Republican Party — flocking to Ron Paul? That's the question asked recently by John Derbyshire in a column for National Review Online. Candidate Paul is, after all, quintessentially conservative. Reading through Paul's policy positions, Derbyshire notes, "an American conservative can hear the mystic chords of memory ...
Barak Obama - Judas Goat
Post Date: 2007-08-01 20:07:54 by Eoghan
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Cute, cuddly, harmless-looking, liberal Barack Obama. Now there's a guy to get the US back on track! If he can just 'win' the primary (s)election process, and then the (s)election process after that, what's it called...oh yeah, the Presidential (s)elections, he'll bring an end to the mindless massacring of innocent civilians for profit that has come to define the "war on terror", and the American people need never again be stirred out of their mind-numbing complacency by stories of small brown children being decapitated by a brave American teenager with a .50 caliber machine gun. I mean, Viet-nam and My Lai was containable, it was successfully pitched as an ...
Americans Stuck In Political Stupor
Post Date: 2007-08-01 15:13:46 by statusquobuster
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Americans Stuck In Political Stupor Joel S. Hirschhorn The latest bipartisan George Washington University Battleground Poll rightfully received media attention because of its depressing data. There is historic political pessimism and cynicism. But something is more troubling than the data on the dire views of Americans about their elected representatives and government. It is that 72 percent of voters still believe that “voting gives people like me some say about how the government runs things.” Unbelievable! Such confidence in a system that has failed them. Despite untrustworthy elected officials and a dysfunctional government that takes care of the Upper Class more than ...
Senators to abandon '08 e-voting paper trail mandate
Post Date: 2007-07-31 17:04:58 by Eoghan
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Democratic senators on Wednesday made another push for banning electronic voting machines that lack paper trails, but they've backed away from doing so in time for next year's presidential election. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chief sponsor of a contentious bill called the Ballot Integrity Act that proposes such changes, said she fears requiring all states to employ so-called voter-verified paper records in their systems, with some primaries only six months away, "could be an invitation to chaos." Earlier this year, she called for enacting such changes by 2008. "Pushing the date back to the 2010 elections will give us more time to reach a bipartisan ...
In Violation of Federal Law, Ohio's 2004 Presidential Election Records Are Destroyed or Missing
Post Date: 2007-07-30 21:47:02 by Zipporah
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In Violation of Federal Law, Ohio's 2004 Presidential Election Records Are Destroyed or Missing In 56 of Ohio's 88 counties, ballots and election records from 2004 have been "accidentally" destroyed, despite a federal order to preserve them -- it was crucial evidence which would have revealed whether the election was stolen. By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNetPosted on July 30, 2007, Printed on July 30, 2007>http://www.alternet.org/story/58328/ Two-thirds of Ohio counties have destroyed or lost their 2004 presidential ballots and related election records, according to letters from county election officials to the Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner.The lost records ...
Fred's funds raise fear of flop
Post Date: 2007-07-30 16:45:20 by Eoghan
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Fred Thompson plans to announce Tuesday that his committee to test the waters for a Republican presidential campaign raised slightly more than $3 million in June, substantially less than some backers had hoped, according to Republican sources. Thompson plans to make the disclosure in a filing with the Internal Revenue Service, as he continues to operate his prospective campaign as a political organization that does not require disclosure to the Federal Election Commission. Many Republicans had seen the “Law & Order” actor and former U.S. senator from Tennessee as a potential savior in a tough election cycle. He attracted support from such top-shelf party figures as Mary ...
Neocons Salivate Over Hillary
Post Date: 2007-07-30 15:13:52 by Kamala
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Neocons Salivate Over Hillary Sunday July 29th 2007, 1:27 pm It should come as no surprise prominent neocons are gushing over Hillary Clinton, as noted by the Seattle Times. Fred Barnes of the neocon house organ, the Weekly Standard, couldn’t contain his admiration for the Bilderberger Queen. Ditto for Rich Lowry of National Review, David Brooks, and the Joseph Goebbels of the neocon movement, Charles Krauthammer. “She excels,” Lory praised. “Clinton has run a nearly flawless campaign and has done more than any other Democrat to show she’s ready to be president,” that is to say any other neocon, or neolib, not that there is a whole heck of a lot of ...
Ron Paul, Thomist
Post Date: 2007-07-30 11:42:02 by ghostdogtxn
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Biden Responds to Rudy's Attacks
Post Date: 2007-07-29 22:30:33 by kiki
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Rudy Giuliani stepped up his rhetorical attacks on the Democratic presidential candidates yesterday, saying that the whole Democratic field are a bunch of "losers" with their heads in the stand when it comes to "Islamic Terrorism." Joe Biden, at least, is responding. His campaign just put out a statement saying that the former mayor "doesn't get it" and that his "Tough talk and cheap shots won't make America any safer." The Biden campaign's communications director, Larry Rasky explained it to me this way: "Both on Iraq and terrorism and national security, the Senator is not going to sit back and let the Republicans define the ...
Romney says free trade needed to combat Latin American poverty
Post Date: 2007-07-29 19:32:58 by Brian S
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MIAMI- Free trade is key to ending Latin American poverty, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Saturday while courting support from the Cuban-American and growing Venezuelan-American communities. "Trade lifts all nations that participate," Romney said when asked how he would end poverty and other conditions that have given rise to leaders such as Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chavez, who has been a close ally of Cuba’s Fidel Castro. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, noted that the Bush administration had sought free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and Peru, but the Democratic-controlled Congress failed to approve them. "We’d like ...
Most vote machines lose test to hackers
Post Date: 2007-07-29 18:39:25 by Zipporah
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State-sanctioned teams of computer hackers were able to break through the security of virtually every model of California's voting machines and change results or take control of some of the systems' electronic functions, according to a University of California study released Friday. The researchers "were able to bypass physical and software security in every machine they tested,'' said Secretary of State Debra Bowen, who authorized the "top to bottom review" of every voting system certified by the state. Neither Bowen nor the investigators were willing to say exactly how vulnerable California elections are to computer hackers, especially because the team of ...
Out Of Right Field, Conservatives Gush Over Clinton
Post Date: 2007-07-29 15:04:19 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — Since when is Hillary Clinton the idol of conservative pundits? After Clinton delivered a foreign-policy haymaker to Barack Obama's head during a Democratic presidential debate Tuesday: • Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard, a neoconservative weekly, wrote that she answered the now-famous "would-you-meet-with-despots" question "firmly and coolly." • Rich Lowry of National Review, a conservative weekly, gushed: "She excels. ... Clinton has run a nearly flawless campaign and has done more than any other Democrat to show she's ready to be president." • David Brooks, conservative columnist at The New York Times, wrote ...
Barry Manilow's new buddy (Manillow gives the max $$ to Ron Paul)
Post Date: 2007-07-29 00:26:27 by Artisan
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/ron_paul/index.html Barry Manilow's new buddy We noted in an item Tuesday that the latest campaign contribution filings at the Federal Election Commission showed Republican Ron Paul getting a check from crooner Barry Manilow. We're relieved to discover we weren't the only ones struck by that; consider this exchange Tuesday night between MSNBC's Tucker Carlson and the presidential candidate himself. Carlson: "We saw these FEC reports, including those from your campaign, and were amazed to learn that Barry Manilow has given to your campaign. ... It looks like we have. Do you know Barry Manilow?" Paul: "No, I do not. ...
Fred Thompson's 'trophy wife' runs the show
Post Date: 2007-07-28 21:04:36 by Eoghan
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She has sometimes been dismissed as a tanned and bleached blonde "trophy wife", only ever glimpsed in sleek and glamorous outfits on the arm of her much older spouse. Fred Thompson's wife, Jeri, is a lawyer and a Republican political operative But in the past few days Jeri Thompson has suddenly emerged as the real political power behind her husband Fred's presidential campaign. Mr Thompson, 64, a former senator and actor who is running second in most polls of Republican nominees even before he has officially declared his candidacy, last week replaced his campaign manager in a shake-up of his top team - which, it has emerged, was initiated by his wife. Another senior ...
Houston911truth Confronts Fred Thompson and Greg Abbott, Attorney General of Texas
Post Date: 2007-07-28 18:06:15 by Eoghan
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This morning at 9:45 AM Fred Thompson arrived at the Hobby Airport. The event was open to the public and all local news media were there. Special thanks to the people who flicked me off as I was being dragged out of the building. Before Thompson entered the building I was able to ask the Attorney General of Texas, Greg Abbott, why he considers Fred Thompson a “front runner” and a conservative. Apparently since he is “the most conservative pro-life politician in Texas” that means he supports Fred Thompson who is… not a pro-life conservative. After asking Fred Thompson about his involvement with the Council on Foreign Relations I was pulled out of the building by ...
Will the G.O.P. Say No to YouTube?
Post Date: 2007-07-28 02:15:26 by kiki
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The sequel to the self-styled "ground-breaking" YouTube debate on CNN may be history before it even begins. The Rudy Giuliani campaign has cited scheduling conflicts in saying it will skip the Republican version of this week's Democratic debate, while Mitt Romney has mocked the seriousness of the questions and also seems likely to withdraw. John McCain, one of two candidates who had agreed to participate (Ron Paul is the other), has also expressed doubts about the Democratic debate's level of decorum and aides say he may reconsider his commitment. Undeclared candidate Fred Thompson may still not officially be in the race by the event's Sept. 17 airdate. The ...
Paul, Gravel: They're last but not least
Post Date: 2007-07-27 16:01:54 by Eoghan
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PORTLAND, Ore. — ONE is a Democrat, the other a Republican. They've never met but share much in common: Both wear dark suits and sneakers, for one. Neither has a lot of money. Both are running for president. Mike Gravel and Ron Paul. Mike and Ron. Their names, sharing space at the bottom of the polls, seem increasingly linked. Each came out swinging in the debates and scored points for candor and quirkiness and, in Gravel's case, crankiness. The oldest of the declared candidates, Gravel, 77, and Paul, 71, have become the campaign's upstarts. They've helped draw an audience that might otherwise not have tuned in to the earliest-starting primary season in U.S. history. ...
The NYT's take on Ron Paul
Post Date: 2007-07-27 13:42:39 by ghostdogtxn
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Major Candidates say they're Skipping Texas GOP Straw Poll (Knowing They Will Probably Get a Texas Asskickin' from Ron Paul)
Post Date: 2007-07-27 12:24:10 by Vitamin Z
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Republican presidential hopefuls, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, will not attend a straw poll convention of Texas GOP activists, their campaigns say. Their no-go decisions, which follow former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's decision last month to skip all straw polls, suggest that the upcoming poll could take place without personal appeals from front-running candidates, though others, including U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, have been penciled in. "It's very important to Ron because of the pride he takes in Texas as his home state," spokesman Jesse Benton said. The sponsoring Republican Party of Texas has said that up to 10,000 ...
GOP Candidates Resist YouTube Debate; Only Two On Board So Far, Ron Paul, John McCain
Post Date: 2007-07-27 12:18:12 by Brian S
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CNN and YouTube got generally good reviews for the Democratic debate they staged Monday in South Carolina, but Republican presidential candidates aren't sold. In fact, so far only two Republicans, Arizona Sen. John McCain and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, have said they will participate in the debate featuring video questions submitted to YouTube, the video-sharing website. "No GOP YouTube Debate?" asks NBC's First Read. The Republican debate is scheduled for Sept. 17 in Florida. That's two weeks before the close of the third-quarter fundraising period. Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani won't be there, the New York Daily News reports, due to scheduling conflicts. Former ...
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