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Democrats have done what in 2 years?

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:00:06 GMT

clipped by: The REAL Napster
clipper's remarks: They can lambast all they want about the 'past 8 years' Truth be told the Democrats have effective control of the house and senate as well as a majority of the governorships in the U.S. since November, 2006. We already know that the 'Speaker of the House' is a sad joke. And Congress actually has as low (if not lower) approval rating than the current president. So, I ask- democrats already have control, now what have you done with it? Nothing. Same as usual.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

The 2006 United States midterm elections were held on Tuesday, November 7, 2006. All United States House of Representatives seats and one third of the United States Senate seats were contested in this election, as well as 36 state governorships, many state legislatures, four territorial legislatures and many state and local races. The election resulted in a sweeping victory for the Democratic Party which captured the House of Representatives, the Senate, and a majority of governorships and state legislatures from the Republican Party.

The Democratic Party won a majority of the state governorships^[3] and the U.S. House and Senate seats each for the first time since 1994, an election-year commonly known as the "Republican Revolution." For the first time in the history of the United States, no Republican captured any House, Senate, or Gubernatorial seat previously held by a Democrat.^[4]

Tags: 2006 general elections, democrats, republicans

McCain Gambles with Surprise VP Pick

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:43:43 GMT

clipped by: Bob Hayton
clipper's remarks: John McCain showed he's truly an independent minded leader. He made a surprise pick for VP -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. She will energize conservatives on one hand, and also appeal to independents and women on the other. McCain also shows he's not about to give up in this race for the White House.

Clip Source: www.usatoday.com

John McCain shook up the presidential race Friday and targeted disaffected supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton with a vice presidential choice that defied conventional wisdom.

Once again, McCain demonstrated that he was willing to throw a long ball, a Hail Mary pass in a game in which the odds are running against him.

Palin has a distinctive background: the first woman governor of Alaska, an independent-minded reformer elected in 2006.

He called her "a blue-collar conservative woman who will excite the Republican Party and lay out the welcome mat for independents and disaffected Clinton voters."

"Conservatives will be thrilled with this pick," says conservative consultant Greg Mueller,

adviser to Steve Forbes' presidential campaign in 2000.

And he managed instantly to seize the spotlight from Democrat Barack Obama the morning after he accepted the Democratic nomination.

Pat Buchanan called it "the biggest political gamble, I think, just about in American political history."

Tags: vp, republican, mccain, palin

The first rule of fight club is...

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:25:08 GMT

clipped by: pcmkrfn

Clip Source: www.weirduniverse.net

Fight club in Fayetteville, Ark., in the, uh, church pre-school
The problem is, the kids (ages 3 and 4) talked about the fight club, causing two teachers to be fired, though the teachers denied the fighting was their idea. If kids want to fight, they said, ya can't stop 'em. (We beg to differ, explained the bruised-up kids.) Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Romney Off The List???

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:33:17 GMT

clipped by: sahara
clipper's remarks: McCain advisers this past week have been meeting with social conservatives to gauge opposition to those picks, and they've been warned of a brewing revolt that could include a walkout at the Republican National Convention next week and a huge battle on the floor -- especially if the pick is the Independent Democrat Lieberman.

A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found if John McCain were to pick a running mate who favors legal abortion, it could cost him votes, particularly in some core Republican groups.

Among current McCain supporters, 20 percent said they'd be less likely to vote for McCain if he picked a candidate for vice president who favors abortion rights.

Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

Just hours before presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain is expected to announce his running mate, the speculation over who the pick will be has reached frenzied proportions.

McCain, R-Ariz., is scheduled to announce his choice at a noon rally in Dayton, Ohio, and just who the pick is has become the best-kept secret in politics

ABC News has confirmed that two of the presumed finalists are no longer in contention: former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will not join McCain on the Republican ticket

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, according to her spokeswoman Sharon Leighow, will not be on hand for the McCain event in Dayton but instead plans to be at the State Fair in Alaska.

Another curve ball is the fact that other possible pick, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., is already in Ohio to attend the rally. But the McCain campaign says VIPs are gathering to show unity behind the new ticket

Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

The issue of abortion may be key to McCain's choice.

History in Obama's Speech

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:17:39 GMT

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Clip Source: www.kansascity.com

History echoes all around for Obama's big speech

On a historic day echoing the dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy, Democrat Barack Obama on Thursday became the first African-American to accept a major-party presidential nomination and immediately set a JFK-like goal: to end America's dependence on Middle East oil within 10 years.

Tags: obama, 2008, dnc, speech, history

Obamunists Attack Radio Station for Shining Light on Bill Ayers

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:39:17 GMT

clipped by: Smoke TNT
clipper's remarks: "Bill Ayers, the hippie terrorist who went on to launch Obama's career."

Clip Source: moonbattery.com

Another little foretaste of what an Obama victory would mean for freedom of speech:

Sen. Barack Obama's campaign organized its supporters Wednesday night to confront Tribune-owned WGN-AM in Chicago for having a critic of the Illinois Democrat on its air.

"WGN radio is giving right-wing hatchet man Stanley Kurtz a forum to air his baseless, fear-mongering terrorist smears," Obama's campaign wrote in an e-mail to supporters. "He's currently scheduled to spend a solid two-hour block from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. pushing lies, distortions, and manipulations about Barack and University of Illinois professor William Ayers."

Kurtz, a conservative writer, recently wrote an article for the National Review that looked at Obama's ties to Ayers, a former 1960s radical who later emerged as a school reform advocate in Chicago. […]

Obama's campaign has launched similar offensives against stations that have run campaign ads that it did not like.

…as we've seen.

Tags: obama, liberals, democrats, terrorists, dirty ass hippies

John McCain's Sister-in-Law Voting for Barack Obama

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:17:14 GMT

clipped by: Jenhahaha

Clip Source: www.usmagazine.com

Cindy McCain's half sister is planning on voting for Barack Obama, she tells Usmagazine.com.

"I'm voting for Obama," the Phoenix resident says. "I think his proposals to improve the country are more positive and I'm not a big war believer."

Portalski's mother is Hensley's first wife; Cindy McCain's mother, Marguerite Hensley, also had another daughter from her first marriage.

"She's kinda cool, standoffish," Portalski tells Us of her half sister.

Portalski also doesn't expect Cindy McCain to make an effort to reconcile their relationship.

Portalski's son Nathan, a 45-year-old aerospace machinist, is also backing Obama.

"I wouldn't vote for John McCain if he was a Democrat," he tells Us. "I would not vote at all before I'd vote for him.

"I question whether Cindy is someone I'd want to see in the White House as first lady," he adds.

Tags: politics, democrats, republicans, john mccain, gop

DNC get many sex ads they spike up now

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:32:48 GMT

clipped by: senoritaram

Clip Source: news.cnet.com

DENVER--An unusual phenomenon has recently appeared on Craigslist's Denver Web site. Sex-wanted ads spiked this week, which happens to coincide with the Democratic National Convention.

Ads seeking casual sexual encounters through the Denver Craigslist site increased an average of roughly 70 to 80 percent over the same days of the week earlier in August.

On average, 425 posts on Craiglist's "Casual Encounters" area appeared on the first three Sundays in August. But this Sunday, when tens of thousands of people had arrived for the convention, 763 posts appeared--an 80 percent increase.

The general content is what you might expect. Posts suggested "Here 4 DNC? Come get sexual with me"; "Does the DNC make you hot?"; and "Looking to service a young Democrat." (Most are far more explicit, but unsuitable for our upstanding, discriminating readers. Use your imagination.)

Tags: sex

Open-borders protestors stop by DNC

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:54:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Gilchrist says he is encouraging all minutemen to take up the gauntlet of "real change" by bringing national awareness of what he calls the "invading armies" of illegal immigrants flowing over the southern border and demand that all political parties view the influx as a national threat.

Clip Source: www.onenewsnow.com

Open-borders protestors stop by DNC

The founder of the Minuteman Project, Gilchrist says he was warned by his own staff that liberals and open-borders Democrats could tear him apart – not only in the media but also literally. But the former Marine says he is willing to march into "the belly of the beast" to demand that Democrats listen to the will of the 80 percent of Americans who want stronger border enforcement.

"It's not an issue at all for them [Democrats]. They're completely ignoring the issue and neglecting it because, essentially, they're derelicts," Gilchrist contends. "They have no business representing the electorate when more than 80 percent of the electorate wants immigration laws enforced, but hardly any of Democrat political governors do. Well, how is that representative government?"

Tags: illegal, immigration

The Barackopolis

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:24:14 GMT

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Clip Source: curmudgeonlyskeptical.blogspot.com

Sneak Preview

The one we were waiting for is here with beliefs you can believe in!

Limbaugh today announced that the backdrop for Obama's acceptance speech, before 75,000 democrat cultists at Coors Stadium, will be columns replicating a Greek temple. The “Barackopolis” I am not making this up. Is it possible that the the messiah has missed the derision and scorn his haughty behavior inspires? Evidently yes. A Rush caller suggested that Obama's theme would be - "What if one of us was God?" I soiled myself, because it's something that fits exactly. You know what? It could still happen.

Tags: the haughty one

2,500 Hold Vigil At New Planned Parenthood Clinic

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:10:24 GMT

clipped by: Efrain Alvarado

Clip Source: www.thedenverchannel.com

About 2,500 people circled the new Planned Parenthood clinic Monday night as part of a vigil organized by the Archdiocese of Denver.

A niece of the late Martin Luther King Jr., Alveda King, and Denver's Roman Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput led the marchers in calling for an end to abortion and the closing of the clinic. Some of the marchers recited the rosary while others marched silently on sidewalks that had been previously chalked with anti-abortion messages

King said abortion shouldn't be a partisan issue, and she prayed that the waters of the "political sea" would be parted so opponents of abortion could reach the "promised land."

She praised Bishop Charles Blake, head of the predominantly black Church of God in Christ, for identifying himself as a "pro-life Democrat" at an interfaith gathering on the eve of the Democratic National Convention.

"Our feeling is, if every women chose life it wouldn't matter what the law said," Koenig said.

Tags: abortion, prolife, planned parenthood

Pelosi's Shameful Record of Voting Against Military

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:32:37 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: Despite the calls for improved military absentee voting procedures by the people affected most, not a single Democrat crossed the aisle to co-sponsor a bill introduced by Rep. Roy Blunt that would have created a clearer path to having absentee military ballots counted in the 2008 election and beyond.

Democrats, led by Speaker Pelosi, ultimately killed efforts to improve GI suffrage instead of working to extend the most basic democratic right to the men and women serving our country overseas. America is not fooled by Pelosi's empty words.

Retired U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Charles Henry wrote in the July issue of the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings: 'While virtually everyone involved...seems to agree that military people deserve at least equal opportunity when it comes to having their votes counted, indications are that in November 2008, many thousands of service members who try to vote will do so in vain.' (Washington Post, 7/24/08)

Clip Source: blog.nrcc.org

Last night, Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the podium and shamelessly pandered to members and veterans of America's military with empty lines intended to trick the American people into believing that the Democrat-controlled Congress might have accomplished something worthwhile over the course of the last two years. Unsurprisingly, Pelosi's words rang hollow, which is to be expected from the leader of the most unpopular Congress in the nation's history. Her tepid support for the military in last night's speech can't hide the Democrat majority's shameful record of voting against military members and veterans.

Though Pelosi would like veterans to think that, despite her previous record, she is now a great supporter of the American military, she refused to support a June 2008 bill that would have made overseas absentee voting easier for military members. According to a report in the Washington Post:

Tags: pelosi, u.s.troops, absentee voting, roy blunt's bill

CongressNow: Sestak Seeks Bipartisan Approach to Ending War

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:09:00 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: He was an early and ardent backer of the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and served on former President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council in the mid-1990s.

Sestak has since backed Obama’s campaign, although he admits he’s not among Obama’s core group of national security advisers.

Still, several Democratic lawmakers have suggested Sestak’s views carry weight among House Democrats. “When he speaks, he has the ear of everyone on the committee,” said Rep. Ellen Tauscher (Calif.), a senior Democrat on the Armed Services Committee. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), also a member of the committee, said Sestak has already emerged as as leader on military strategy. “He’s got the expertise. Democrats should welcome his experience.”

Sestak said, “My belief is that those that have more recent experience and time in the military can help explain why certain [defense] polices” are needed, he said.

Clip Source: www.rollcall.com

As Democratic heavyweights weigh in tonight on the party’s foreign policy agenda, one freshman lawmaker with strong military credentials — Rep. Joe Sestak (Pa.) — is calling for the Democrats to drop their push for an immediate pullout from Iraq and work with Republicans on a gradual end to the war.

Democrats, however, have splintered on the issue. Liberal Members are pushing for a quick pullout, while moderate and conservative Democrats have resisted calls for an immediate withdrawal in favor of gradually pulling out forces. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) straddles the fence, suggesting he wants to end the war immediately but also showing some support for a brokered deal with Iraqis that would have most forces withdraw in 2011.

Sestak, who serves on the Armed Services Committee, concedes his position has shifted, but he said a more “strategic approach” is needed to win Republican support.

Tags: joe sestak d-pa., iraq, gradual pull-out, bi-partisan agreement, armed service committee

Hillary Delivers

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:31:11 GMT

clipped by: Wisco
clipper's remarks: Anyone who's still unclear on who Hillary Clinton is supporting is a freakin' moron.

Clip Source: www.mcclatchydc.com

Sen. Hillary Clinton on Tuesday turned the second day of the Democratic National Convention into a celebration of her historic presidential campaign as a breakthrough for women, but she left no doubt that she's solidly behind Barack Obama as her party's nominee for the presidency.

Clinton told everyone unequivocally: "I'm here tonight as a proud mother, as a proud Democrat, as a proud senator from New York, a proud American and a proud supporter of Barack Obama. . . . Whether you voted for me or voted for Barack, the time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose. We are on the same team, and none of us can sit on the sidelines."

"No way. No how. No McCain," she said as people roared. "Barack Obama is my candidate. And he must be our president."

After Clinton spoke, Obama said: "That was excellent. That was a strong speech. She made the case for why we're going to be unified in November and why we're going to win this election. I thought she was outstanding."

Tags: news

McCain=Dial-Up, Obama=Broadband?

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:48:21 GMT

clipped by: Elizabeth Woyke
clipper's remarks: That's what some Congressmen are arguing at the DNC. Obama's recent text-messaging campaign has given him a tech-savvy halo, but will he continue such strategies if elected?

Clip Source: www.pcmag.com

Democrats Criticize McCain's 'Dial-up Campaign'

Leading Democrats on Tuesday attacked the Bush administration's broadband policy and the technology track record of GOP presidential hopeful John McCain, while leading tech companies pushed for a more tech-savvy and innovative federal government.

"The Obama campaign is the broadband campaign and the McCain campaign is the dial-up campaign," said Edward Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on telecom and the Internet.

Markey and other members of Congress were on hand at the Democratic National Convention in Denver for several technology panels hosted by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado.

"On McCain's watch, the U.S. fell from third to fifteenth in broadband penetration," said Julius Genachowski, technology advisor to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. That is "shocking."

Tags: mccain, obama, election