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madamfauntleroy
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As Losses Mount, GOP Begins Looking in the Mirror
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Since losing 30 seats and their 12-year stranglehold on power in 2006, House Republicans have kept asking themselves the same question: Can it get any worse?
On Tuesday, they may get another answer they won't like.
With lots of help from Washington -- including more than $1.3 million in campaign cash and a last-minute visit by Vice President Cheney -- Mississippi Republicans are desperately trying to retain a congressional seat in one of the most reliably conservative districts in the nation.
The stakes in the 1st District special election couldn't be higher, strategically or symbolically. The loss of a traditionally GOP seat to a Democrat would be the third in a special election this spring and the second in the Deep South after the May 3 victory of Rep. Don Cazayoux (D-La.).
Rank-and-file Republicans say that would force a day of reckoning for their leadership.
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Frank Rich says it all
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Hillary Clinton’s attempt to impersonate a Nascar-lovin’, gun-totin’, economist-bashin’ populist went bust: Asked which candidate most “shares your values,” voters in both North Carolina and Indiana exit polls opted instead for the elite and condescending arugula-eater. Bill Clinton’s small-town barnstorming tour, hailed as a revival of old-time Bubba bonhomie, proved to be yet another sabotage of his wife, whipping up false expectations for her disastrous showing in North Carolina. Barack Obama’s final, not to mention the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s attempted character assassination, failed to slow his inexorable path to the Democratic nomination.
But as long as the likely Democratic nominee keeps partying like it’s 2008 while everyone else refights the battles of yesteryear, he will continue to be underestimated every step of the way.
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Fester
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Haven't seen you in a bit. I hope you got some fresh air.
We spent two weeks all over the lovely State of Oregon, registering voters and laying the groundwork for the GE. See my earlier posts. Our old bones are creeking happily while we try to re-enter family life with our ever expanding brood. I see that nothing much has changed on Salon. Same old regurgitating of bile on Obama. Out there, it is quite different. We have spent quite sometime now going to states registering new voters. The response has been overwhelming.
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blondeone
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you darlin'. Appreciate your kind words. Keep the faith Blondeone. We are winning against status quo and self serving politics. I am so proud of our young 'uns. They are doing amazing things, laying the groundwork for more representational government. Look for sweeping changes in the House and the Senate. I have never seen such a coalition of people, not since the civil rights years, where people are coming together for the good of everyone. There will always be racists and bigots in our midst and we must neutralize their influence every chance we get.
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-- manos99
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I hope your volunteerism
Brings you fulfillment and joy.
Manos, we have been so blessed all our lives, we like to spread the joy around. Keep the faith. A new day has dawned.
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SNL
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]The SNL skit tonite really skewered Hillary. Spot on.
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Clinton: From inevitable to on the ropes
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Hillary Rodham Clinton began her presidential quest armed with talent, tenacity, fame, money, connections and a team that knew how to win.
Many people believed her victory in the Democratic nomination was a sure thing. Her ultimate failing may have been in believing it, too.
Clinton had one big problem out of the gate: 40 percent or more of Americans said they'd never vote for her. She was too polarizing. It's love her or hate her.
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manos99
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You've turned into a damn good poet since I was gone
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From Alexander Cockburn
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bill, Hillary and the Rich Women
Listening to Hillary Clinton’s top aides trying to put a good face on the results of the Indiana primary had the same surreal quality as an aide to Hitler reporting “encouraging news” from Stalingrad. Her candidacy died on May 5. She needed at least a 10 per cent win in Indiana and in the end she scraped through by not much more than 16,000 votes. Every day she stays in the race now means more zeroes on her campaign debt which probably tops $25 million, when all the IOUs are counted. Hillary might have to go back into the cattle futures business.
There’s talk of Mrs Clinton telling Obama that the price of concession is that he settle her campaign debt and take her on the ticket. He’s got the money though he should for worthier purposes. As for the number 2 spot, what does it take to keep the Clintons clear of the White House? A stake through both their hearts? An Aztec priest with a really sharp piece of obsidian? If ever a campaign disclosed low moral and political fiber, it was this one. Bill ended up as a petulant sleazeball and Hillary as a war drum thumper, marching shoulder to shoulder with John McCain, shouting that she’s the candidate of the white people.
There’s no better paradigm of the corruption of the Clintons than the pardon handed by Bill to billionaire Marc Rich in the dying seconds of the Clinton administration. Jeffrey St Clair has excavated the whole sleazo saga in fascinating detail in our latest newsletter, available to subscribers only. “Bill and the Rich Women” is must reading, as is the view taken by Rich’s powerful lawyers that Hillary Clinton was key to the pardon.