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You can tell the Obama administration has given marching orders to their ObamaBots regarding the Sherrod sainthood. On CNN they said the Tea Party ideology is racist. Rep. Cohen in Memphis is trying his best to make the election there about race, and today Howard Dean calls Fox racist for supposedly getting Sherrod fired....which as Chris Wallace points out, is completely false. Begin watching around the 4:45 mark or so and watch as Dean fumbles around trying to figure that one out. He looks like a deer caught in the headlights and then changes the subject, never answering the question:...

DANBURY -- A challenger to Republican attorney general candidate Martha Dean is calling into question comments she made this spring about guns and schoolchildren. Ross Garber, who is forcing a primary against Dean, said Monday he takes issue with his opponent's comment that she will "advocate firearms training for boys and girls in schools, in scouts, at camp and elsewhere." Garber said while he supports the Second Amendment and a citizen's right to bear arms, he believes an attorney general should "focus on being a strong advocate for the state and its citizens, not pushing a personal political agenda." "It's...

Jimmy Dean, the musician and founder of the sausage company that bears his name, has died. Dean, 81, died today. He lived in Varina, in eastern Henrico County. He is survived by his wife, Donna Meade Dean. Funeral arrangements at Nelsen Funeral Home on South Laburnum Aveneue have not been finalized. His 1961 hit Big Bad John, was No. 1 on Billboards pop charts and won him a Grammy. Dean was a regular headliner in Las Vegas and Reno in the 1960s.

Ouch. As much as I truly didn't want to acknowledge it, I listened to the "ass kicking" display and felt the same embarrassed awkwardness I felt when Howard Dean and Mike Dukakis tried to channel their own inner manly man... Hollow theatrics don't matter when push comes to shove; they just are embarrassing in the face of the environmental disaster that is the Gulf oil spill. Say what you will about Dubya, one fact about him remains clear - he never resorted to "acting" due to a lack of insight or conviction in his beliefs -- regarding Katrina or any...

Carrie Severino of the conservative group Judicial Crisis Network is a staunch Obama opponent when it comes to judges, and she is quick to detail why Elena Kagan is unsuitable for the Supreme Court. But Ms. Severino's views are different when she recalls her days at Harvard Law School while Ms. Kagan was dean. "She was a very effective dean," Ms. Severino said. "Dean Kagan treated the conservative student organizations not like they were some kind of pesky fly but rather serious organizations." Ms. Kagan's six years as Harvard law dean form one of her most important credentials for the...

National Public Radio reported Barry Hussein Soetoro as “a son of Africa” in 2008 apparently not all of the background information about the 44th president of the United States has been scrubbed from the internet yet.(see story)(Listen to 12:22min audio. 9:41mins in) Why, do you suppose those NPR “birthers” weren’t aware of Soetoro’s Hawaiian “Prima Facie” birth certificate like those who defend him are today? Where do you suppose NPR got such information? And didn’t the editors at the Nigerian Observer read the Wall Street Journal’s opinion that president Soetoro was born in Hawaii? Why would NPR lie? Why did...

Liberal propagandists are very good at changing the subject, their task made all the more easy thanks to their firm grasp on both the channel and volume controls of the mainstream media remote control device. >p>Take for very good example, the current election cycle. Democrats are in trouble. Big trouble. We know that. They know that. But it is also very handy to provide excuses, excuses that will disguise the real reason for rising voter discontent. So the story becomes not that the public is outraged with Democrats or liberals or those who rammed the stimulus or the health care/student...

Byron York of Washington's Examiner has done us all a great service. His column draws on the unguarded statements of Sen. Max Baucus and former Gov. Howard Dean. (Well, Baucus, maybe. It's hard to say whether Howlin' Howard has ever made a guarded statement.) Both of these men's statements might have been lost in the clamor following the passage of President Obama's historic health care bill. What York has done is dash into the fire and pluck out some of these red-hot quotes. "Health reform is 'an income shift. It is a shift, a leveling, to help lower income, middle...

Former DNC Chair Dean Not Sure Reconciliation Can Get Through the Senate http://www.breitbart.tv/former-dnc-chair-dean-not-sure-reconciliation-can-get-through-the-senate/ Breitbart.TV and Naked Emperor News

If you would have told me five years ago that Howard friggin' Dean would be seen as a voice of MODERATION and REASON in the Democrat Party, I would have thought that someone must have spiked the hors d'oeuvres at the DNC convention with Mad Cow or something. Hmmm... maybe someone did?

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: With some climate-change skeptics using the record snowfall totals to argue that global warming doesn’t exist -- the family of Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., built an igloo near the Capitol and labeled it “Al Gore’s New Home” -- former DNC Chairman Howard Dean today blasted back. In an interview with ABC News, Dean said this attitude reflects a GOP rejection of science. “One of the most disturbing things about the Republican Party over the last couple of decades is that just they don’t believe in science any more. And that is not an approach that...

DEAN: Well, no, I think this is an exception. The northeast is not a conservative place. And I think—I still believe that Martha can pull this out. But if she doesn‘t, I think the voters of Massachusetts are going to find out that Scott Brown doesn‘t vote anything like the average voter of Massachusetts. So, I don‘t really think it‘s that. I really think that you got to stand up and be strong, and people really were hoping that it was going to be a real push for some differences. It‘s—and a lot of this is not anybody‘s fault. Well,...

A year in the making, sweeping health-care legislation backed by President Barack Obama hung in the balance yesterday as conservative Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson withheld his vote in pursuit of stricter abortion limits. “Without modifications, the language concerning abortion is not sufficient,” Nelson declared in a statement that summarized the results of days of negotiations. With the support of the second-term Nebraskan, the White House and Senate Democrats would command 60 votes for the health care measure, enough to overcome a GOP filibuster and pass the bill within a matter of days. Without it, the prospects are far more uncertain....

In a stunning reversal of fortune for President Barack Obama, top progressives are attacking the health-reform plan moving through the Senate as “hollow,” “unsupportable” and a sellout to corporate interests. Republicans, after plotting for months to sink the signature legislation of Obama’s first year, suddenly think that Democrats might wind up doing it for them. Most dangerously for White House chances of assembling 60 Senate votes, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean launched a third day of attacks on the emerging bill, arguing in a Washington Post op-ed that it meets none of his benchmarks for “real reform

In a stunning reversal of fortune for President Barack Obama, top progressives are attacking the health-reform plan moving through the Senate as “hollow,” “unsupportable” and a sellout to corporate interests. Republicans, after plotting for months to sink the signature legislation of Obama’s first year, suddenly think that Democrats might wind up doing it for them. Most dangerously for White House chances of assembling 60 Senate votes, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean launched a third day of attacks on the emerging bill, arguing in a Washington Post op-ed that it meets none of his benchmarks for “real reform.” “[A]s it stands,...

If I were a senator, I would not vote for the current health-care bill. Any measure that expands private insurers' monopoly over health care and transfers millions of taxpayer dollars to private corporations is not real health-care reform. Real reform would insert competition into insurance markets, force insurers to cut unnecessary administrative expenses and spend health-care dollars caring for people. Real reform would significantly lower costs, improve the delivery of health care and give all Americans a meaningful choice of coverage. The current Senate bill accomplishes none of these.

WASHINGTON -The liberals' longtime dream of a government-run health care system for all died Wednesday in the Senate, but Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont vowed it will return when the realization dawns that private insurance companies "are no longer needed." Sanders, an independent and socialist, said his approach is the only one "which eliminates the hundreds of billions of dollars in waste, administrative costs, bureaucracy and profiteering that is engendered by the private insurance companies." His remarks drew handshakes and even a hug or two from Democrats who had filed into the Senate to hear him. Sanders acknowledged the proposal...

The scuttling of the public option from the Senate health care bill has infuriated organized labor and left their leaders in a bind about how to proceed. Top labor officials of several unions are meeting with their executives today, and some plan to meet on Thursday, to devise their strategies, now that the Senate has dropped the public option, a government-run health insurance plan to compete with private insurers. It was the central provision for which labor has been fighting. A sense of urgency was building, as a deadline bears down on the Senate. In order to pass a bill...

"If we don't pass it, here's the guarantee….your premiums will go up, your employers are going to load up more costs on you,"

President Obama pushed back against critics, including the former head of the Democratic Party, who have said that the health care bill in the Senate is fatally flawed and should be scrapped altogether. In an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson, the president said he laid out for Congress specific things he wanted to see in the health care legislation -- including providing insurance for millions of uninsured and not driving up the deficit -- and that the current bill still has those benefits. "Now, if you can tell me that those things are not worth it, then you and...