Morning Must Reads: Last Stand

Meg Whitman, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown appear at the Women’s Conference 2010 in Long Beach, California on October 26. (REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni)

–At the nifty new National Journal, Jeremy Jacobs reports the DCCC is making its last stand for the House, dumping $21.6 million on airtime in 66 districts. That includes a last-minute, $1.1 million cash infusion to try to save Gerry Connolly in VA-11.

–Earl Pomeroy begs his constituents to re-elect him for old times’ sake, noting that he’s “not Nancy Peolsi… not Barack Obama” even though he’s “disappointed you with a vote here or there” along the way. Halperin calls it “0:60 of poetry, bathos and language/imagery worthy of the priciest focus group.”

–The New York Daily News thinks Obama political director Patrick Gaspard is out if Dems lose the House.

–Bill McInturff lists 10 ways health reform has factored into the midterms.

–As Meg Whitman’s outlook in California worsens, she continues to aggressively court the Latino vote.

–Robert Draper profiles Robert Gibbs and the “frantic, Hieronymus Bosch–like dystopia” that is political communications.

–Speaker-in-waiting John Boehner talks to Paul Kane and gets an A1 above-the-fold profile in the Washington Post.

–Eying higher office, Mike Pence prepares to leave the leadership.

–Greg Miller talks to intelligence officials and gets a very dim view of progress in Afghanistan.

–The New York Times scrutinizes Elizabeth Warren adviser Raj Date.

–Vegetables: QE2 draws near.

–Side dish: Phonetic symbolism.

–Dessert: Direct mail goes scratch-and-sniff.

What did I miss?

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Related Topics: 2012 Election, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Miscellany, Republican Party, Senate, State Governments, White House
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    Pete Souza / White House

    Obama’s Persuasive Powers on Gay Marriage Manifest in Maryland

    When President Obama endorsed gay marriage earlier this month, the media grappled with two basic political questions: Was his personal “evolution” a case of  a politician transparently following a national trend toward accepting same-sex unions (accelerated, perhaps, by his chatty number two), and would it hurt his re-election chances by alienating socially conservative voters like black churchgoers? Sure, there was a recognition that it marked a gratifying moment for gay marriage advocates—as well as some grumbling about the President’s view that it remains a state issue, not a federal one. But by and large, there were few suggestions that one man, even the President, would shift public opinion on the issue or affect public policy. Based on a new Public Policy Polling survey out of Maryland, it seems this possibility was underestimated.

    Lewis Eisenberg, Major Romney Donor, Accuses Obama Of Demonizing Wall StreetHuffPost Politics

    Cherokee Zero

    Apparently, Massachusetts voters don’t mind that Elizabeth Warren foolishly identified herself as a Native American early in her academic career–it was, apparently, a case of family pride and wishful thinking about a Cherokee ancestor. That’s good. Warren may be the best public figure when it comes to explaining the depredations of the financial industry and [...]

  • newfreedomblog

    More great political videos coming from the grassroots people in America.
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  • newfreedomblog

    Media Matters: “We don’t want them calling Obama a Socialist or a Facist”……….we just don’t!!” Hahahahaha.
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    Fact is, HE IS!!
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    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/msm-myth-exposed-beck-and-tea-patty-rhetoric-not-more-extreme-obama%E2%80%99s-been-fighting-socialism-charge-his-entire-national-political-career/

  • newfreedomblog

    Obama, the ditch and how he will fight against any attempt of Republicans after the November 2nd election to scale back the insane policies Nancy, Harry and He have enacted over the past 18+ months.
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    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/no-center-shift-obama-says-if-republicans-win-house-he-will-be-fighting-with-them-day-and-night/
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  • newfreedomblog

    How do we spell Democrat backed voter fraud and corruption with our political voting system?
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    See all the evidence. Desperate people do desperate things…
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    http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&id=7747590
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    http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/28/2010/october/27/residents-cry-foul-over-ballots.html
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  • newfreedomblog

    More voter fraud and corruption. Early voting results. Harry Reid’s name is PRE-SELECTED for you!!
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    http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/25511115/detail.html
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    Clark County election officials insisted on Tuesday that electronic voting machines were not malfunctioning at polling locations are some voters complained that Sen. Harry Reid’s name had been pre-selected.
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    Controversy arose after Boulder City resident Joyce Ferrara complained to FOX5 that when she went to vote for GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle, Reid’s name was already checked.
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    “Something’s not right,” Ferrara said. She claimed her husband and several others voting at the same time all had the same thing happen.

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    Who said Democrats are not those cute and fuzzy like-able friendly people???

  • newfreedomblog

    And you thought that was all the voter fraud we would find.
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    Think again.
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    A Craven County voter says he had a near miss at the polls on Thursday when an electronic voting machine completed his straight-party ticket for the opposite of what he intended.
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    Sam Laughinghouse of New Bern said he pushed the button to vote Republican in all races, but the voting machine screen displayed a ballot with all Democrats checked. He cleared the screen and tried again with the same result, he said. Then he asked for and received help from election staff.
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    “They pushed it twice and the same thing happened,” Laughinghouse said. “That was four times in a row. The fifth time they pushed it and the Republicans came up and I voted.”

  • Ike Jakson

    Wow!!!!!!!

  • newfreedomblog

    Send me your tired, weak, HUNGRY voters!!!
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    Harry Reid and the big feed!!
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    http://www.lasvegassun.com/blogs/ralstons-flash/2010/oct/26/angle-campaign-attorney-reid/
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    “Two days ago, the Democratic Secretary of State announced that voters can be provided “free food” at “voter turnout events.” Harry Reid has been offering free food and, according to other reports, some Democratic allies such as teachers’ unions are offering gift cards in return for a vote for Reid.
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    Before we were even able to document the reported infractions to report to the authorities, the Democrat Secretary of State slammed the door shut on preventing this behavior and issued a public statement permitting these ACORN-style tactics. THESE are the kinds of shenanigans that can turn this race.

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    Step right up Ladies and Gentlemen. Get your free Gov’mit handouts. Take some food back home to your family too!!

  • jsfox

    one of these days i’d really like you to define what you think is a socialist, link some reliable source that does more than affirm your preconceived opinions and finally tell me what he has done that is socialist as president.

  • jsfox

    Offering Pizza to college students does not violate NV election law as long it is offered to all regardless of party affiliation. Harry’s pizza party was open to all and was a GOTV event. The NV Secretary of State has already dismissed this charge by Angle as having no merit.

    The fact that these voters were college students and more likely to vote D is what has got you upset.

  • freeinpa

    “Harry Reid’s name is PRE-SELECTED for you!”
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    Rusty, it has to be pre-selected. The vast majority of those voting for him probably can’t read.

  • freeinpa

    “Offering Pizza to college students”
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    As the saying goes, we have established what Democratic voters are, all that is left is to negotiate price.

  • nflfoghorn

    Gee, we sorely missed Freep, Rust-eze et.al. yesterday. Not.

  • freeinpa

    “i’d really like you to define what you think is a socialist, link some reliable source”
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    This is always the pathetic excuse everytime a Democrat gets nailed for what he is. The old “what the meaning of is is” defense.
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    Government takeover of Company – autos – check
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    Government takeover of healthcare and forcing participation- check
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    Re-distributing wealth- check

  • freeinpa

    Now you gone and hurt my feelings

    BWHAWBHAH! Almost got that out with a straight face

  • Paul-no not that one

    Other than Ike suggesting that MoveOn was behind a woman getting assualted they didn’t show up.
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    Odd.

  • Paul-no not that one

    Edit-not Ike but “ilikechips”

  • freeinpa

    Interesting you find having a life odd. But then as a liberal I guess you don’t the government will tell you when and if you have one

  • Paul-no not that one

    ha-yes I am quite sure that was the reason.
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    Of course you are all pretend doctors so maybe there was a seminar.

  • freeinpa

    And you continue to make statements without fact. No surprise there either.

  • Paul-no not that one

    Ahh don’t be sad freep. You guys are going to have a landslide win next week.
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    Everyone tells me so.

  • jsfox

    A temporary taking over the auto companies to keep them afloat and to save a million plus jobs is not socialism. Had the federal government stepped and permanently taken them over you would have an case.

    Contrary to popular belief on the right the Government has not taken over healthcare. We did not go to a single payer system controlled by the government. Healthcare is still in the hands of the private sector. Tougher rules on that sector yes, but that is not a take over. And you are not being forced you are still free to not have private health insurance you will pay a tax penalty however if you don’t, but it is still your choice.

  • freeinpa

    Not sad at it all.

  • freeinpa

    Joe Biden must be writing this stuff for Harry.

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    He forgot that when you find yourself in a hole (that Democrats did dig), stop digging

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    “We found ourselves in a hole that I didn’t dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.” –Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).

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  • grape_crush

    What did I miss?

    Maybe Ginni Thomas should have left Anita Hill alone?

    “Well I hope teabagger Ginni Thomas is proud of herself for her phone call to Anita Hill asking her to apologize for her testimony about her husband during his confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court 19 years ago, because it seems she’s brought some other women out of the woodwork to defend Anita Hill. I can only hope that McEwen isn’t the last of them.

    One of Clarence Thomas’s ex-girlfriends, Lillian McEwen appeared on Larry King Live and pretty much threw Thomas under the bus and backed over him a few times. Here are some of the more devastating portions of the interview…:

    KING: Was he lying?

    MCEWEN: He was parsing his words very carefully.

    KING: He said he didn’t try to date her. He didn’t try to do anything with her, he was denying what she was saying, wasn’t he?

    MCEWEN: I think he said at that time or something like that. Every time he makes a statement, he qualifies it, that to me, that doesn’t mean he did not have a sexual relationship with her at some point in time, other than these events that she’s stating. And it — he’s talking about what she said. It’s very carefully worded.

    KING: Sort of like what is, “is”?

    MCEWEN: Yes, sort of like that.

    KING: What do you make of his wife calling Anita Hill last week?[...]

    MCEWEN: She called Anita Hill because this is a subject that is a source of great angst for her husband. It’s also most likely a subject that is mysterious to her, because so much of that particular complex subject makes no sense in the version that her husband would have given her over the years. She most likely thought that she was solving a problem for her husband. She most likely thought she was doing him a favor by making that call.

    KING: You think, therefore, it’s still discussed in that marriage?

    MCEWEN: I think that Clarence has never told his wife the truth about the kind of activity that he engaged in at that point in time, when he was at EEOC and at Education. I don’t think he’s told her the truth about his preferences, sexually. I don’t think he’s told her the truth about the relationships that he had with women who worked at EEOC other than Anita Hill, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

  • grape_crush

    I’m sure this will get downplayed in the media as ‘nothing serious’.

    “NPR received a bomb threat Monday, five days after its decision to fire news analyst Juan Williams sparked a hugely negative reaction.

    Sources at the news organization said the threat was received via U.S. mail and was immediately turned over to local police and the FBI. The organization did not publicly disclose the threat or release details, on the advice of law enforcement officials.

    The letter didn’t reference the Williams firing specifically, but people at NPR, who spoke about it on the condition of anonymity, said the timing and tone suggested it was sent after Williams’s widely publicized termination. [...]

    In addition, NPR President Vivian Schiller has received threatening phone calls to her home, some of which were referred to law enforcement. Schiller was not available for comment Tuesday.”

  • freeinpa

    “A temporary taking over the auto companies to keep them afloat and to save a million plus jobs is not socialism”
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    Samed outcome for company and jobs would have been achieved through normal bankruptcy. WHat would not have happened in a bankruptcy in a capitalist setting woulf be handing the keys to the company to a union who is a political ally of the president. Bondholders and equity got shafted for the benefit of transferring wealth to a political ally.
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    Also in a capitalist market, dealers would have been chosen by productivity not by banishing political opponents.
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    “And you are not being forced you are still free to not have private health insurance you will pay a tax penalty however if you don’t, but it is still your choice.”
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    This is pathetic and weak at best. When you are forced to pay regardless of your decision that is not a choice that is central control to achieve an outcome of shifting wealth from one group to another.

  • freeinpa

    “KING: Was he lying?

    MCEWEN: He was parsing his words very carefully.”
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    I had to re-read who she was talking about, for a minute I thought it was Bill Clinton. I wonder if Hillary was sorry about her right-wing conspiracy statement when the blue dress surfaced. At least that didn’t take 19 years to surface.

  • Asharaxx

    I suppose the Wheel of Insults landed on ‘illiterate’ today? Yesterday we were ‘elitists’. I hope you get ‘thug’ again soon, that one’s my favorite.

  • chupkar

    Do you guys even get how Australia gets 90% voter turnout? 1) voting is on Saturdays but more importantly 2) they offer cakes, cookies, have barbeques and make it a party. NINETY PERCENT voter turnout. Quite seriously, I think this kind of thing should be done at all polls. The snarky, idiot Angle can go for a swim. If she wins, me thinks the voters of Nevada will come to understand what *real* buyers remorse is.

  • newfreedomblog

    Sorry Foggy, while you have “missed me” I have been as busy as a one-armed wall paper hanger getting out the vote. So when you wake up on Wednesday morning, you whole world will have come crashing down on you.
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    Wednesday, the new beginning of America, and the end of Obama-mania you have enjoyed for the past two years.

  • grape_crush

    After all, she was asking for it.

    “Brian Beuter, who’s had more than a few of these, joked yesterday, “Hey, MoveOn activist? It’s that Rand Paul fan here. The one with the size 13s? I’m just calling to see if perhaps you’re ready to apologize.”

    Let’s not forget how exceedingly difficult it is to take satirical shots at conservatives, given how farcical real-life is.

    Tim Profitt — the former Rand Paul volunteer who stomped on the head of a MoveOn activist — told local CBS station WKYT that he wants an apology from the woman he stomped and that she started the whole thing.

    “I don’t think it’s that big of a deal,” Profitt said. “I would like for her to apologize to me to be honest with you.”

    Just so we’re absolutely clear, the guy who stomped on a defenseless woman’s head wants her to apologize to him.

  • grape_crush
  • freeinpa

    “A third military office — a Marine Corps recruiting station in Chantilly, Va., outside Washington — was shot at overnight Monday; Marines who work there discovered the shooting Tuesday morning, the FBI said. Investigators are conducting ballistics tests to determine whether the recruiting station shooting is related to the previous incidents.”
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    I wonder if downplayed as much as the actual shootings at Marine offices. Verbal threats vs actual gun fire. My guess is the left will be drumming up the threats.
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  • grape_crush

    “Walk middle, sooner or later, get squish just like grape.”

    “I feel like this keeps coming up, and it’s fascinating to watch. The far-right opponents of gay rights, President Obama is a disaster, advancing LGBT equality in ways conservatives have feared for years. At the exact same time, progressive supporters of gay rights are also convinced that President Obama is a disaster, failing to advance LGBT equality in ways they’d expected.

    For the right, Obama is so supportive of the LGBT community, he’s literally labeled ‘our first gay president.’ For the left, the very idea seems ridiculous.

    As the debate continues, it’s probably worth emphasizing some noteworthy accomplishments. The administration, in addition to hiring more openly gay officials than any administration in history, has made a variety of advances, including hospital visitation rights, a package of domestic partnership benefits for federal workers, lifting the travel/immigration ban on those with HIV/AIDS, expanded hate-crime laws, addressing the diplomatic passport issue, ordering the Federal Housing Authority to no longer consider the sexual orientation of applicants on loans, expanding the Census to include the number of people who report being in a same-sex relationship, endorsing the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and the Defense of Marriage Act, and making the Domestic Partners Benefit and Obligations Act law.

    Nevertheless, a sizable number of LGBT voters are prepared to stay home on Election Day or vote against Democrats, unsatisfied with the pace of change. The religious right, incensed by how pro-gay Dems have been, no doubt finds this inexplicable.”

  • freeinpa

    Rusty your so old fashioned. Getting gout the vote today to democrats mean pre-checking ballots or having the voting machines “serviced “by SEIU members, the modern day equivalent of having Willie Sutton count the money in banks.

  • grape_crush

    ProPublica’s profile on the New Democrat coalition.

    “The New Democrat Coalition was formed as a House caucus in 1997, following in the footsteps of the Democratic Leadership Council and President Bill Clinton’s ‘third way’ policies, designed to make Democrats and their platform more business friendly. When launched, the group lacked a fundraising PAC and had no legislative staffers. However, they did have allies at the highest levels of the Democratic Party and access to the party’s political and fundraising machine.

    The New Democrats were as pro-business then as they are now. Many of the group’s members, including Kind and Crowley, supported the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed marquee financial legislation passed after the Great Depression and paved the way for financial institutions to become ‘too big to fail.’ A year later, many also voted for the Commodities Futures Modernization Act, which curtailed regulation of financial derivatives, including the products that played a major role in the collapse of energy firm Enron in 2001 and helped to bring the world economy to the brink of disaster in 2008.

    Though the driving force behind both bills was Sen. Phil Gramm, a Texas Republican who left Congress just after their passage to lobby for the Swiss bank UBS, they were pushed hard by Clinton administration officials like Robert Rubin and Larry Summers, signed into law by Clinton, and supported by congressional groups like the New Democrats.”

  • freeinpa

    “Yesterday we were ‘elitists’”
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    Cheer up Assrax: everyday liberals are idiots

  • grape_crush

    There’s nothing in the Constitution stating that Americans have to live comfortably, is there? They should be happy just to have a job or two that comes close to keeping them off the streets.

    “When German automaker BMW put out the call recently to hire a thousand factory workers here, the people who responded reflected the upheaval occurring in the U.S. economy.

    Among the applicants: a former manager of a major distribution center for Target; a consultant who oversaw construction projects in four Western states; a supervisor at a plastics recycling firm. Some held college degrees and resumes in other fields where they made more money.

    But they’re all in the factory now making $15 an hour – about half of what the typical German autoworker makes. [...]

    ‘We are a low-wage country compared to Germany,’ said Kristin Dziczek, director of the Labor and Industry Group at the Center for Automotive Research. ‘And that helps put jobs here.’

    But the price of having a more globally competitive workforce means more in the United States could fall well short of the middle-class living standards that manufacturing workers once could expect. Wages adjusted for inflation have declined for these workers since 2003.”

  • grape_crush

    Doesn’t matter if your teen is good or bad…it’s probably not a good idea to give him the keys to the liquor cabinet in the first place.

    “Since President Obama took office, Issa has reveled in his role as ‘annoyer in chief,’ peppering the administration with hundreds of letters raising the specter of wrongdoing and demanding information.

    There are two faces of Issa — Good Darrell and Bad Darrell. Good Darrell sounds responsible, measured, almost statesmanlike. Bad Darrell tosses red meat to a ravenous base.

    Good Darrell, writing in USA Today on Oct. 11: ‘Oversight is not and should not be used as a political weapon against the occupant of the Oval Office. It should not be an instrument of fear or the exclusive domain of the party that controls Congress.’

    Bad Darrell, to Rush Limbaugh on Oct. 19: ‘You know, there will be a certain degree of gridlock as the president adjusts to the fact that he has been one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times.’

    If Issa believes this, he is deranged. If he doesn’t and is saying it anyway, he is dangerous. The evidence so far suggests the latter.[...]

    Issa’s larger record does not foretell restraint. His modus operandi has too often been to accuse first — and keep accusing even in the absence of supporting evidence. “

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Freakinpa,
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    Used government money to hold up a private business:
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    Richard Nixon: Check.
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    Jimmy Carter: Check
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    George W Bush: Check.
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    Barack Obama: Check.
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    Supports the existence of welfare and unemployment benefits (wealth redistribution in your book).
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    FDR: Check
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    Truman: Check
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    Eisenhower: Check.
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    JFK: Check.
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    LBJ: Check.
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    Nixon: Check
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    Ford: Check.
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    Carter: Check
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    Reagan: Check.
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    Bush Sr.: Check.
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    Clinton: Check.
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    Dubbya: Check.
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    Obama: Check.
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    Guess what, Freak, if you define what this president has done as “Socialist” America has been “Socialist” and a stimulus package as “socialist” (first done by Hoover, but only in small amounts) we have been a socialist country for over 80 years.
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    So, unless you are over 101 years old, you were not an adult when our country was not “socialist”.
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    Sorry, Freak’s foolish fake Fox-like facts foiled again. You get an F for political science, history and economics all in one thread. I guess that is an accomplishment in some right wing anti-reality kind of way.

  • freeinpa

    The great uniter and post-racial President–NOT!

    Obama has given speeches urging Latinos to punish their enemies by voting Democratic and have the Republicans sitting in the back of the bus. Then feign insult when McConnell hopes Obama gets defeated in 2012.
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    Obama, as prescribed in the liberal playbook when failing go straight to race-baiting. But his hateful rhetoric does raise an interesting question. Since Republicans, Independents and conservative Democrats are leaving him in droves (they must they must be the enemies) and constitute a vast majority of voters what country is Obama and the constituency he is addressing represent. It seems not America.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Newfreakenblog/Rusty has shown us that Obama says that cutting Pell Grants to send people to college in order to finance a tax cut to the wealthiest 2% isn’t good.
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    In other news, water is wet.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    You know the Wingnut message is getting more and more confusing.
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    Is Obama a Radical Christian who wants to impose Sharia law or is he a gay, Elmer Fudd Chicago Gangster?
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    Are we the elitists who will run you over with our limousines, or illiterate thugs who will beat the fck out of you?
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    Last I checked I was a nice guy who never rode in a limousine and never beat anybody up, but, you seem to know all about us, Freak.

  • grape_crush

    “The bottom line is Joe cheated, he lied, tried to cover it up, lied again, then finally got caught and had to admit it…”

    “On March 12, 2008, Miller went on three of his co-workers’ computers to vote in an online poll, apparently connected with his failed effort to oust Randy Ruedrich as state Republican Party chair. Miller then cleared his colleagues’ computer caches to erase his tracks, in the process clearing out their passwords and saved websites.

    ‘I acknowledge that my access to others’ computers was wrong, participating in the poll was wrong, lying was wrong, and there is absolutely no excuse for any of it,’ Miller wrote in the 2008 e-mail admitting what he had done.

    Former Borough Mayor Jim Whitaker went public this month with the fact that Miller was caught using his co-workers computers to try to topple Ruedrich. That violated borough ethics policy against using government time and equipment for political purposes.

    During the campaign, Miller first refused to answer questions from reporters about it, then acknowledged he had been disciplined. He’s refused to discuss the details, however and won’t agree to an interview with the Daily News.”

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    In other news a craven right winger posts claims of voter fraud with no links and is so out of touch with reality that he believes he has credibility.

  • freeinpa

    Ah the village’s idiot, the Rev Jim has returned to argue his case for taxpayer money to be used to support his stupidity.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Privately paid for free food to go to a polling station and vote for whomever you like is not a bribe and, absolutely, is not a government bribe.
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    This year wealthy donor’s get paid billions of dollars in tax benefits coming right out of the American people if they vote Republican.
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    Now that is a bribe using government money if I ever heard one.
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    If you are so desperately in need of food that you will go to your polling station to eat, then you, obviously, were already eager to go to the polls to vote for the party who will support a stimulus package and extended unemployment benefits anyway.
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    Besides, if you’ve ever had real NYC pizza, you wouldn’t walk ten feet for any other type of pizza.
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    I never heard of good pizza in Nevada.

  • freeinpa

    One thing that is never confusing is your stupidity. Every post you make it is front and center.,

  • freeinpa

    More Rev Jim drive-by stupidity

  • grape_crush

    I can accept ‘Climate Hawk’, but what is the opposite? ‘Climate Dove’ doesn’t sound right…Maybe ‘Climate Ostrich’?

    “What’s a climate hawk? Well of course much like a deficit hawk or a national security hawk or an inflation hawk, a climate hawk is tough-minded and awesome and entitled to worshipful media coverage. We’re very serious people who want to confront the major challenges of our time. Are we environmentalists? Perhaps. But many of us aren’t really ‘nature-lovers,’ we just think it would be unfortunate if low-lying areas were flooded, while vast new regions of the earth are stricken with drought. We recognize that the particulate pollution from burning coal and the geopolitical consequences of oil dependence are both dire enough to make a compelling case for energy reform even apart from the greenhouse gas issue.

    We think it’s unfortunate congress didn’t pass a comprehensive climate bill, but we’re determined to do the best we can with EPA regulation and hope responsible people recognize that it’ll be better for everyone if congress takes another bite at this.”

  • freeinpa

    “paid billions of dollars in tax benefits coming right out of the American people if they vote Republican.”
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    So that’s where all the jobs Obama created/saved came! The government paid these people. And in any history class in America they teach us it’s the peoples money.

    Your stupidity streak is intact.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “Getting gout the vote today to democrats mean pre-checking ballots or having the voting machines “serviced “by SEIU members, the modern day equivalent of having Willie Sutton count the money in banks.”
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    Right. Remember ten years ago when president Gore cheated his way through Florida or, during his re-election campaign cheated six years ago in Ohio?
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    Ooooooooooooooooooh wait a s second, this is called “projection” again. Just like giving away government tax breaks to the biggest donors with the deepest pockets in exchange for a Republican vote is considered not a government financed bribe but cheap pizza for going to the polls is, Republicans will call a Democrat being within a mile of the results cheating but what Bush did twice in close elections all fair.
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    See a psychiatrist, Freakinpa.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Poor use of metaphors is a a Biden specialty.
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    Poor use of government is a Republican specialty.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “At least that didn’t take 19 years to surface.”
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    That’s because Democrats care about what somebody will do in a job. Republicans are, instead, obsessed with who is getting a blow job.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “My guess is the left will be drumming up the threats.”
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    My guess is that it was most likely some right wing nuts like the Michigan Militia who did the shooting. There is nothing liberal about shooting people or hating the government. That is an extreme right specialty.
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    Did they find the gun you used, Freakinpa, or did you hide it well?

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Freakinpa, the great liar and chief uses no link to his source at all and creates random sht to attack the other side.
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    In other news, water is wet.

  • Asharaxx

    Must be someone else doing these ‘pre-checking ballots or having the voting machines “serviced ” ‘ things then. Requires a bit of forethought I wouldn’t attribute to an idiot.
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    But like he said, no one ever accused you of being consistent.
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    Also: “Assrax” “liberals are idiots”
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    Woof, stunning display of intelligence on your part there. Don’t blow a vessel coming up with material like that, Chet.

  • http://erieangel.wordpress.com erieangel

    Reagan bailed out Chrysler, with government dollars. It was handled in much the same way the more recent auto bailouts were handled–with temporary control going to the government. And guess what, there is nothing in the Constitution that says the government can not own businesses. Yes, we have a free market system, but nothing says the government can not be involved in that market and offer true competition to privately owned companies.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “…to argue his case for taxpayer money to be used to support his stupidity.”
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    In your severely deranged state of mind, you seem to be unaware that not only was the New Deal not my idea, but was 40 years before my birth.
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    But, if you wish to call 80 years of American history “stupidity” maybe you should move to Somalia where they don’t have government. It should be a right wing paradise.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “More Rev Jim drive-by stupidity.”
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    In other words, “Since I have no argument stronger than yours, Patrick, I have call you third grade names.”

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “And in any history class in America they teach us it’s the peoples money.”
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    In history class, if you had ever attended one before you were thrown out of the second grade, they teach us. “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence,[2] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America….”
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    Yes, tax revenues belong to the people of the United States for the purpose of helping out the greater welfare of the nation including keeping our economy stimulated by government spending temporarily replacing private spending and not handing out huge refunds to the wealthiest as a bribe to vote Republican.

  • freeinpa

    No what I am talking about is your forever whining as the reason you are a college dropout is because the government wouldn’t give you money. Welcome to the real world.

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    Now straighten your tin foil hat and go back to the basement

  • freeinpa

    as with patrick, I answer to the level of the recipient.

  • freeinpa

    No. Sometimes it amusing to point out your ignorance and stupidity but it happens so often other times its tedious.

  • freeinpa

    “tax revenues belong to the people of the United States for the purpose of helping out the greater welfare of the nation including keeping our economy stimulated by government spending temporarily replacing private spending and not handing out huge refunds to the wealthiest as a bribe to vote Republican.”
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    Well it seems you didn’t make it to the 2nd grade. (Psst this is one of those times its fun to point out your ignorance and stupidity).

    It is the people’s money when when they earn it. And they are not handing out wads of refunds — it is their money!!

    You have hit your stupid quotient today. I am done trying to teach a pig to fly (psst your stupidity is now tedious).

  • freeinpa

    Once again your reading comprehension is that of a can of soup, I was referring to Harry Reid’s ad you were referring to nonsense.

    Oh that’s right that’s is the extent of your mental capacity.

  • freeinpa

    More drive-by stupidity from the Rev Jim

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    “That’s because Democrats care about what somebody will do in a job. Republicans are, instead, obsessed with who is getting a blow job.”
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    That explains Anita Hill’s Coke can and pubic hair discussion and the Dems wanting to know his video habits.

    Soon you will need to be watered twice a day

  • newfreedomblog

    I would simply IGNORE the little freak who calls himself “patricksartor”, he is really not worth my time or trouble, freeinpa.

  • freeinpa

    Yes name call and deflect when the racist in chief goes off.

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    The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that President Obama, speaking in a taped interview that aired Monday said,

    “And if Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, we’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us, if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election, then I think it’s gonna be harder and that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2.”
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    “He said: “Republicans had driven the economy into a ditch and then stood by and criticized while Democrats pulled it out. Now that progress has been made, he said, “we can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.”

    Rosa Parks was unavailable for comment.
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    Now get somebody to read these to you (since you have your head up your arse). Maybe you should try reading something besides those bat crap crazy left wing sites you get “your facts”.
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  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “No what I am talking about is your forever whining as the reason you are a college dropout is because the government wouldn’t give you money. [The way that the government lent me money]”
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    Well, besides the fact that it is absurd if the people want our economy to thrive that they do not provide student loans equal to the total cost of tuition, I am well on my way to earning my way back to college with the projects I am working on the past two weeks (why you have seen so little of me online) and only consider my life changing experience of having to leave college a personal tie between my politics and life experience.
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    Even long after I have enough to save up for my children’s college tuition, I will always stand by the idea that the government is the source of providing equal opportunities such as equal access to education and (not a part of my life experience since I am very healthy) medical care and do not believe that anything I said to you could be called “whining”.
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    Your constant mantra of “the big bad government did it to me” is what I do call whining.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “…as with patrick, I answer to the level of the recipient.”
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    If that were true, coming from you with your complete unawareness of the world around you, you should address not only me, but everybody here as “sir” or, for the ladies “Ma’am”.
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    In your upside down world, ignorance is strength and, if that were true, you’d be the Incredible Hulk.
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    Unfortunately for you, in the real world ignorance is weakness.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Newfreakenblog and Freakinpa have such amazing creativity.
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    I call them “Freak” so, they call me “freak”.
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    Also, you are both so advanced with computers that you can not possibly find a link to anything.
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    In East overshoe, David J Smyth said that he saw tractor trailer trucks filled with Republican ballots to be distributed to every voting station in the United States.
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    So, I guess since I created a name and a location, the both of you should say that this means that voter fraud is far greater by Republicans than Democrats or, agree with me that writing a post with no links is totally useless.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “It is the people’s money when when they earn it. And they are not handing out wads of refunds — it is their money!!”
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    The first taxes were collected in Mesopotamia more than 5,500 years ago.
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    The constitution was ratified only 221 years ago.
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    Guess what? Our founding fathers intended our government to tax our people as we, the people, deem necessary in order to provide a more perfect union.
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    You now want to go back not only before “Socialism” took over America 80 years ago, you want to go before the first civilization 5,500 year ago to when there were no such things as taxes.
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    I, myself, am glad that we don’t live in a hunter-gatherer society. Considering that what a wimp you are, and irritating you can be, I would be even more scared of a world of people chasing down their enemies with spears than I am.
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    I like civilization.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “That explains Anita Hill’s Coke can and pubic hair discussion and the Dems wanting to know his video habits.”
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    Yes, it does.
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    After knowing that Thomas was a horny, out of control womanizer, Democrats didn’t make any attempt to remove Thomas from the Supreme Court.
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    After searching for two years, Ken Star got every detail published in graphic detail about Clinton getting a blow job, how many blow jobs he got, when he got them, which women they were…
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    Once again, you have no understanding of what I am saying due to your unusually low IQ.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    Hey, Freakinpa, this is something we call “a link”.
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    http://www.latimes.com/sns-ap-us-obama,0,5304415.story
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    Being anti-Immigrant with demanding English Only for street signs, an abolition of bilingual schools, requiring Arizona law enforcement to ignore murder, rape and child molestation cases in order to harass Latinos is the Republican Party making Latinos their latest bogyman and their latest enemy.
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    Sorry, Freak. That isn’t racist.
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    The immigrant bashing is racist and a minority calling racists who hate them for no reason an enemy is “racist” then to you, George Wallis was just a great guy and Martin Luther King Jr calling him and Strom Thurman political enemies is “racist”.
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    In your twisted world, I guess calling a racist an enemy to the minority is racist but calling for the harassment of minorities is not racist.
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    You are a very twisted man who has no idea how to use links.

  • apr2563

    The TPer candidates are so odd:
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    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/ky-goper-just-doesnt-believe-in-gender-discrimination-video.php?ref=fpb
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    KY GOP Candidate Todd Lally doesn’t believe there is gender discrimination because he has never seen it. After all, his wife is successful so that proves no discrimination.
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    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/radio-station-odonnell-threatened-to-sue-us-forposting-an-interview-online.php?ref=fpa
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    Christine O’Donnell does radio interview then threatens to sue if the station posts it online. Could it be because the content of her answers were a little bewildering.

  • apr2563
  • apr2563

    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/jon-stewarts-video-take-down-of-mccain-hes-been-saying-dcs-broken-since-1989-video.php?ref=fpb
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    Jon Stewart from DC
    McCain for ch-ang-gay (Kenyan pronunciation) since 1986 with video retrospective.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    “In addition, the station says, O’Donnell’s campaign manager Matt Moran called and threatened to “crush” the station with a lawsuit. An attorney for O’Donnell’s campaign then contacted the station’s lawyers to ask that the video not be released.”
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    This comes from the party who claims that they hate frivolous lawsuits.
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    Right wing hypocrisy knows no limits.
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    Thanks Apr.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    It’s 20 minutes long, but, I recommend the video:
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    http://www.facebook.com/1150AMWDEL
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    First, she states correctly that after WWII the US economy was almost completely dependent on government and that the government (with Democrats controlling both houses and Truman, also a Democrat, as president) lifted price controls (1942 through 1946 to prevent hyperinflation during the war – but, perhaps, not the best policy). True. Then she says that this 1946 change caused the boom of the 1990s.
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    Huh?
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    So, if it takes 50 years, then if Christine gets elected, in 2010, then from 2061 to 2067 our economy will be booming. in 2061 I’ll be 90 years old and Christine will be 92. I will probably be a grandfather by then. Too old to have children Christine will not.
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    Outside of that, she has professional speaking skills (as in she could have beat Bush hands down in a debate) and, at least in low resolution, looks very attractive.
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    Her economics is pure fiction, of course, but, what do you expect from the far right.
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    Thanks again, Apr.

  • apr2563

    TP candidates and Christianists on a roll:
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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/26/al-reynolds-tea-party-can_n_774432.html
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    GOP TP candidate Reynolds says black men prefer drug dealing to education.
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    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/27/tony-perkins-gay-teen-suicide_n_774580.html
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    Compassionate conservative, Christianist Tony Perkins, states gays teens commit suicide because they know they are abnormal. Supports Day of Truth where Christian teens confirm gayness is a sin.

  • freeinpa

    “Hey, Freakinpa, this is something we call “a link”.”
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    And is this is something we call the missing link “patricksartor”

  • perrywhite1

    I figure our trolls work HuffPo on Tuesdays, which is why they weren’t here yesterday. And, man, was it peaceful. Some constructive conversations actually took place.
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    Which is what they want to stop, of course.

  • http://patricksartor.wordpress.com patricksartor

    And you are what we call a Freak of nature.

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