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Tea Party-Backed O'Donnell Wins Upset In Delaware [Democrats rejoice]
Post Date: 2010-09-14 21:18:44 by Brian S
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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) -- Conservative activist Christine O'Donnell has earned a stunning victory in Delaware's Republican Senate primary. O'Donnell's shocking win over longtime Congressman Mike Castle gives new energy to the tea party movement, which targeted Castle after victories by Republican tea party candidates in the Alaska and Nevada Senate primaries. With 78 percent of precincts reporting, O'Donnell had 54 percent to 46 percent for Castle, a former two-term governor and the longest serving congressman in Delaware history. While attracting enough GOP conservatives to defeat Castle, a leader of Republican moderates in Congress, O'Donnell will have a hard ...
Ex-aide: O'Donnell a 'complete fraud'
Post Date: 2010-09-14 20:27:33 by Skip Intro
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Ex-aide: O'Donnell a 'complete fraud' WILMINGTON, Del. — Christine O'Donnell's former campaign manager has recorded an Election Day robocall for the Delaware Republican Party meant to shred the tea-party-backed candidate's conservative credentials as voters head to the polls. The last-minute move appears to be the grand finale of what's been a fusillade of orchestrated attacks on O'Donnell originating from GOP headquarters on behalf of her primary opponent, nine-term moderate Rep. Mike Castle. The call features the voice of Kristin Murray, who ran O'Donnell's 2008 Senate campaign against then-Sen. Joe Biden, and who charges that her old boss ...
'2010 is gone for Democrats' (I'll enjoy watching the liberarls shit-eating grin get wiped off their faces on Nov. 2nd!!!)
Post Date: 2010-09-14 17:01:20 by Nebuchadnezzar
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'2010 is gone for Democrats' Barack Obama is shown. | Reuters Photo The midterm elections this November will be seen as a report card on President Obama. | Reuters Close By ROGER SIMON | 9/14/10 4:48 AM EDT 2010 Is ‘Gone,’ Says Big-Time Dem “He cannot save 2010,” the big-time Democrat is saying of Barack Obama. “It is gone. He must now concentrate on saving 2012. But the biggest fear of some of those close to him is that he might not really want to go on in 2012, that he might not really care.” In my experience, the big-time Democrat has hardly ever been wrong. He does not dislike President Obama. On the contrary, like most big-time Democrats, he ...
The tail end of the Bush/GOP economy, right before the Democrats started screwing things up
Post Date: 2010-09-14 16:14:13 by no gnu taxes
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11/29/2006 A brisk rise in wages American paychecks are rising again at a pace not seen since the 1990s. The pay increase amounts to 4% on average over the past 12 months, and it comes at a very helpful time for millions of households. For three years, pay increases haven't kept pace with the rising cost of living. Then came this year's housing slowdown, which has further squeezed family finances. Those setbacks, however, are now being offset by rising income. Four percent may not sound like much, but you have to look back to 1997 to find a calendar year with a gain that big. Equally significant, tamer energy prices mean that the "real" wage gains, after inflation, ...
Padlock's Hero Steven Goddard: Wrong Again
Post Date: 2010-09-14 14:57:43 by war
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http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/07/arctic-sea-ice-area-extent-volume-record-low-2/ Paddy's hero incorrectly predicted Arctic Ice had quit melting. He was wrong.
Melting Ice Turns 10,000 Walruses Into Landlubbers
Post Date: 2010-09-14 14:25:17 by war
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For the third time in four years, a dearth of sea ice has forced walruses ashore in Alaska. The lumbering marine mammals normally spend their summers resting on the ice as it floats north, making periodic dives to the ocean floor to forage for food. But this year, as in 2007 and 2009, a lack of ice in the eastern Chukchi Sea has driven thousands of walruses to congregate on land instead. Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Fish and Wildlife Service estimate that at least 10,000 animals have gathered in a dense clump at Point Lay, Alaska. "Our biggest concern right now is stampeding," said Bruce Woods, a spokesman for the Fish and Wildlife Service's Alaska ...
The Democrats' Fannie Is Showing (It's Undeniable: The Democrats destryed the economy)
Post Date: 2010-09-14 13:09:07 by no gnu taxes
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After the global financial crisis, no politician would dare chide another for too much "safety and soundness." But in 2004, 76 Democrats actually asked President Bush not to manage Fannie Mae responsibly. There are smoking guns and then there are smoking bazookas. The June 28, 2004, letter from Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and dozens of other House Democrats to President Bush, posted by Moe Lane on Redstate.com last week, forever squashes Democratic claims about the mortgage crisis not being their fault. "We urge you to reconsider your administration's criticisms of the housing-related government sponsored enterprises (the ...
Greer Apologizes To Obama For GOP Racism, Recants Critique Of Socialist Indoctrination School Speech
Post Date: 2010-09-14 13:05:30 by go65
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Florida's school children are getting a lesson in how the political winds affect the political backbone today. Last year, Jim Greer, then the chair of the Florida Republican Party, was happy to, as he says now, "placate the extremists who dominate" the GOP and publicly accuse President Obama of orchestrating a socialist plot by addressing the nation's public schools via video. Today, he's apologizing for ever saying any such thing, and calling members of his former party racist. It seems that after a year which say Greer get booted from the GOP and disgraced by scandal, he's had a change of heart with it comes to the president using his office to encourage and ...
Senate Hands Obama Victory With $30 Billion Small Business Credit
Post Date: 2010-09-14 12:47:01 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON — The Senate has advanced a bill to create a $30 billion government fund to help open lending for credit-starved small businesses, handing President Barack Obama a long-sought victory. Democrats beat back a GOP filibuster of the measure with crucial help from Ohio Republican Sen. George Voinovich. The 61-37 tally sets the stage for a final vote later this week to return the measure to the House, which is likely to approve it for Obama's signature. The new fund would help community banks increase lending to small businesses hurt by the recession and the 2008 Wall Street crisis. The bill would also provide about $12 billion in tax breaks over a decade to both large and ...
Delaware Republicans Back Liberal.
Post Date: 2010-09-14 12:31:43 by Skip MacLure
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It’s not often that a writer gets a gift handed to him, but I got one today. My article yesterday focused on the necessity for the RNC and the so-called establishment Republicans to find common ground, and recognize that we (the Patriot movements) are not going to allow the Rockefeller establishment Republicans another shot at screwing up again. I was pointing out that party bosses in various states, who have an altogether inflated opinion of their own importance, can cram any candidate down our throats whether we like it or not. We’ve seen it in Arizona, Nevada and Alaska… Tea Party/Patriot candidates have been kicking butt all over the place. It’s not surprising ...
Tea Party-Backed Insurgent Pushes for Upset in Delaware Republican Primary
Post Date: 2010-09-14 12:20:17 by Brian S
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Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Delaware Republicans today will decide the latest U.S. Senate primary faceoff pitting a party- backed candidate against a Tea Party insurgent endorsed by Sarah Palin. U.S. Representative Mike Castle, who polls show would be favored in November’s election to win the seat Democrats now hold, is attempting to fend off a charge by Christine O’Donnell. National and state Republican officials have lined up behind Castle, shrugging off his willingness to vote for some Democratic initiatives. They say that in a state President Barack Obama won with 62 percent of the vote, Castle offers Republicans their best chance to gain one of the 10 seats they need to control ...
GOP's hilarious Colorado meltdown continues {November Foreshadow]
Post Date: 2010-09-14 11:42:59 by war
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Republican candidate for Colorado governor and UN bike-share mind-control plot uncoverer Dan Maes is merrily charging ahead with his campaign over the objections of nearly every Republican official in the state. The way Maes tells it, the fact that the party is begging him to drop out is just one more reason he needs to keep running. And he has a message for the federal government, too. That message is: "screw them." With that statement, Maes was promising to enforce some draconian anti-undocumented immigrant law, even if Uncle Sam doesn't like it. "We're going to do what's best for the people of Colorado," he said -- excepting, I guess, the non-citizen ...
Relying on Barack Obama to fix the economy makes about as much sense as letting Michael Vick watch your DOG.
Post Date: 2010-09-14 11:35:14 by no gnu taxes
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Relying on Barack Obama to fix the economy, makes about as much sense as letting Michael Vick watch your DOG. Things are getting really goofy this time of year, what with the midterm election approaching fast. All of a sudden we're supposed to believe that Democrats are the solution to an ailing economy. Good luck with that! Most people believe they're the cause. Remember when we were told that in order to avoid 8% unemployment, we had to have a nearly $1,000,000,000,000 "stimulus" package? (If you add one more zero, it will be the total number of times Obama has blamed Bush for something, since he took office.) That was the deal. Pass the stimulus, and unemployment would ...
The Failure That Is Obama: He's digging His Own Ditch
Post Date: 2010-09-14 09:30:36 by no gnu taxes
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Bush is charged with putting the economy in a ditch. But who really dug the hole? President Obama is correct. Our economy is in a ditch. He has used that analogy to blame Republicans uncountable times. He did so recently, Sept 5, campaigning in Parma, Ohio, where he pleaded, “Do we return to the same failed policies that ran our economy into a ditch, or do we keep moving forward with policies that are slowly pulling us out? But it was not the economic policies of George W. Bush and the GOP that got us into this economic ditch. It was Obama’s own Democrat party that is primarily to blame, and Obama himself. Bush economic policies included tax reductions for all Americans, ...
Aging Gas Pipe At Risk Of Explosion Nationwide
Post Date: 2010-09-13 20:09:38 by Brian S
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SAN BRUNO, Calif. (AP) -- An ominous theme has emerged from the wreckage of a deadly pipeline explosion in California: There are thousands of pipes just like it nationwide. Utilities have been under pressure for years to better inspect and replace aging gas pipes - many of them laid years before the suburbs expanded over them and now are at risk of leaking or erupting. But the effort has fallen short. Critics say the regulatory system is ripe for problems because the government largely leaves it up to the companies to do inspections, and utilities are reluctant to spend the money necessary to properly fix and replace decrepit pipelines. "If this was the FAA and air travel we were ...
Obama's electoral coalition is crumbling (L.A. Times Eulogy for the Dems)
Post Date: 2010-09-13 15:56:03 by Nebuchadnezzar
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The swing voters who turned out in droves to support the president aren't likely to back his party in November. Even core supporters express unhappiness with Democrats. President Obama speaks last week on an Ohio campus. Voter disenchantment has chipped away at his coalition of supporters. (J.D. Pooley, Getty Images / September 7, 2010) By James Oliphant and Kathleen Hennessey September 11, 2010|7:13 p.m. E-mail Print Share Text Size la-na-obama-coalition-20100912 Reporting from Washington — Nearly two years ago, the political world could only marvel at the breadth of voter support for Barack Obama. The new president had won over voters once thought to have abandoned his ...
Nancy Pelosi, Wicked Witch of the West
Post Date: 2010-09-13 15:36:42 by A K A Stone
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Imam Says NYC Mosque Site Is Not 'Hallowed Ground'
Post Date: 2010-09-13 15:21:32 by Brian S
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NEW YORK (AP) -- It may be two blocks from ground zero, but the site of a proposed mosque and Islamic center shouldn't been seen as sacrosanct in a neighborhood that also harbors a strip club and a betting parlor, the cleric leading the effort said Monday. Making an ardent case for the compatibility of Islam and American values, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf reiterated that he was searching for a solution to the furor the project has created. But he left unanswered exactly what he had in mind. If anything, Rauf only deepened the questions around the project's future, telling an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank that he was "exploring all options" - but ...
Family Buys House With A $0.67 Down-Payment (We've learned NOTHING)
Post Date: 2010-09-13 14:28:10 by Nebuchadnezzar
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Family Buys House With A $0.67 Down-Payment Megan McArdle, The Atlantic | Sep. 13, 2010, 12:48 PM | 1,729 | 17 You have successfully emailed the post. Can late night commercials urging you to find out how YOU TOO can acquire a huge swimming pool filled with third-tier catalogue models be far behind? I've written about this program before, which was supposed to provide $1,000 down mortgages in four states. But according to CNBC, at least one couple has managed to purchase a home with collateral of . . . 67 cents. It's called Affordable Advantage, and it allows first-time home buyers in four states (Massachusetts, Minnesota, Idaho and Wisconsin) to get essentially ...
The Unification Factor.
Post Date: 2010-09-13 13:46:23 by Skip MacLure
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The ruling junta braces itself for the firestorm of American voter disgust that’s manifesting itself into a political tsunami which could sweep all before it. It’s no secret that the not-so-thinly disguised Marxists that make up the bulk of Barack Hussein Obama’s administration may be planning exit strategies soon… as some already have. Likewise, the most radically left-leaning Democratic Congress in our country’s history is scurrying to find cover that no longer exists. When I saw, back in the beginning, who Barack Hussein Obama was and that he had all the attributes of a dictator-in-waiting, I wondered how much it would take and how long it would be before the ...
Fineman Discovers the Kenyan White House Resident's Incompetence
Post Date: 2010-09-13 13:19:58 by no gnu taxes
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Howard Fineman does a little reflecting in his Newsweek column, asking What Went Wrong. It's nothing we didn't already know. First, Obama was full of himself: One day in the winter of 2005, I was in a Senate hallway when the new guy from Illinois arrived for a vote. Sen. Barack Obama—pop-star charisma, limitless possibility—knew his own allure. Second, Obama had never lead anything, and had no idea how to run anything: “Shovel ready” projects identified in the spring of 2009 are often still “unshoveled” because officials aren’t in place to approve them, says Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute. “The fact is,” he ...
Obama's Rasmussen Rating Surges (up 11)
Post Date: 2010-09-13 12:52:15 by go65
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 29% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-two percent (42%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13 (see trends). Poster comment: That's up 11 points in the last 3 days.
Buffett Rules Out Double-Dip Recession Amid Growth
Post Date: 2010-09-13 12:50:09 by go65
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Warren Buffett ruled out a second recession in the U.S. and said businesses owned by his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. are growing. “I am a huge bull on this country,” Buffett, Berkshire’s chief executive officer, said today in remarks to the Montana Economic Development Summit. “We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.” Berkshire bought railroad Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. for $27 billion in February in a deal that Buffett, 80, called a bet on the U.S. economy. The billionaire’s outlook contrasts with the views of economists such as New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini and Harvard ...
Andy Card: Newt Gingrich is not 'helpful'
Post Date: 2010-09-13 12:07:23 by Skip Intro
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Andy Card: Newt Gingrich is not 'helpful' Former White House chief of staff Andy Card said Monday that Newt Gingrich’s recent claim that Barack Obama has a “Kenyan, anti-colonial” worldview is not “helpful” to Republicans trying to win in November. Gingrich floated the birther-like suggestion on Saturday in an interview with the National Review. “What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?” the former GOP House speaker posited. “That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.” Asked about the comment on ...
Republicans Talk About Government Shut-Down Over Spending; White House Pounces on Promise of “Gridlock”
Post Date: 2010-09-13 11:41:34 by Brian S
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On Friday at the Faith and Freedom Conference and Strategy Briefing, a convention for conservative activists, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., a vice chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, discussed how a Republican-controlled House of Representatives might lead to a stand-off on spending that leads to a government shutdown. The White House has seized on this as an example of how the Republicans are a party of the past and how voting for House Republicans in the midterms will mean “the same stalemate and gridlock they brought the last time they were in charge.”At the conference, after Westmoreland mentioned a similar shutdown in 1995 during the era of ...
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