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Whoever said that Obama hasn’t acomplished anything in his first term? WHAT AN IMPRESSIVE LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS!…             First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.

We know that the powers that be at Google are huge libs, and support Dems almost exclusively. I was curious to see what I would find if I Googled "Democraps," this is what came up... Stop trying to "correct" me...Google...

Kathy Hochul accepted thousands of dollars in cash towards her campaign from law firms and or lawyers concurrent with those same firms presenting cases on behalf of the four leaders from a Western New York region violent drug ring with cases before Mr. Hochul’s US Attorney office. The violent drug ring involved was described by the FBI as being extremely violent and presenting a clear and present danger to the public and Buffalo-Niagara community. Mrs. Hochul’s husband’s office, in close proximity to these contributions, acted very favorably to the law firms and their associated defendants on several of these observed...

Kathy Hochul accepted thousands of dollars in cash towards her campaign from law firms and or lawyers concurrent with those same firms presenting cases on behalf of the four leaders from a Western New York region violent drug ring with cases before Mr. Hochul’s US Attorney office. The violent drug ring involved was described by the FBI as being extremely violent and presenting a clear and present danger to the public and Buffalo-Niagara community. Mrs. Hochul’s husband’s office, in close proximity to these contributions, acted very favorably to the law firms and their associated defendants on several of these observed...

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has issued an unlikely challenge to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio): Drop the tea party. Prominent tea-party-aligned lawmakers, including Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) and House Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), have come out against a short-term spending bill proposed by Boehner and other House GOP leaders. And Schumer, who oversees the messaging shop for Senate Democrats, says those lawmakers are standing in the way of a long-term bipartisan compromise on the budget. “These Republicans’ decision to abandon the three-week proposal negotiated by their own party’s leadership suggests that tea party...

US President Barack Obama's trip to India next month is set to be the biggest ever by any US president in terms of the protocol and logistics. Headlines Today accessed the details of elaborate arrangements that will be in place to guard Obama during his three-day trip beginning on November 6. He will be accompanied by US first lady Micehlle Obama and their daughters Malia and Sasha. Earlier, Obama's daughters Sasha and Malia were not to be part of the trip. But sources revealed that Michelle's opinion prevailed and now the girls would accompany the first American couple to India....

A surprising internal poll is casting a spotlight on a previously ignored congressional race in Oregon that may foretell a November bloodbath for Democrats even worse than anyone has imagined. Two years ago, 12-term incumbent Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio cruised to victory in Oregon's 4th District with 82 percent of the vote. But a survey by Wilson Research Strategies for the conservative group Concerned Taxpayers of America has the Democrat up by only 6 points, 48 to 42, over Republican nominee Art Robinson. The Washington insider publication The Hill opines: "If Robinson, a first-time candidate, is even within 10 points...

It's tough to raise money for an upstart congressional campaign and particularly tough to do so in a down economy, say some of the nine challengers in Maryland's 2nd District race. Their campaign finance reports bear that out: Of the nine, only two reported any income with the Federal Election Commission as of June 30, the most recent filing deadline. "There's the economic situation now, and people with less disposable income, and expenses they're facing," said Robert Imhoff, who volunteers on Democratic challenger Raymond Atkins' campaign. While the challengers may be struggling, it's a different story for incumbent Rep. C.A....

Nobody likes a racist… Nobody likes a race hustler either. On Saturday March 20th the leftist media reported what they described as a horrible story from their sources at the conservative-hating Huffington Post. The media claimed that members of the Congressional Black Caucus were called n*ggers and spat on by tea party protesters as they walked from the Longworth office building to the Rayburn office building. At least one report said that it was “a chorus” of racist hatred. Another report said the Congressional members heard the n-word at least 15 times. Reporters from ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX News, (including...

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ten House Democrats indicated in an Associated Press survey Monday they have not ruled out switching their "no" votes to "yes" on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, brightening the party's hopes in the face of unyielding Republican opposition. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is struggling to secure enough Democratic votes for approval, thus the effort to attract former foes. Obama .. is expected to embrace a handful of Republican ideas for making health care more efficient. But persuading lawmakers to change their votes is a tough sell. Elected officials are loath to vote two ways on a controversial...

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Alaska as Democratic Opportunity?: The soon-to-be official resignation of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) could hand Democrats a legitimate pickup opportunity, according to a recent poll in the Last Frontier obtained by the Fix. The survey, which was conducted by Global Strategy Group, showed Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell (R) at 41 percent to former state Sen. Ethan Berkowitz's (D) 40 percent -- a statistical dead heat. Democrats held the Alaska governorship from 1994 until 2002 as Gov. Tony Knowles (D) benefited from a fractured Republican party and serious independent candidates. As for those who argued that Palin decided to leave...

It’s rumored after her first day in the White House Michelle Obama again decided she would be proud of the United States - but after thinking it over, instead she decided she could have had a V8. Obama is trying to convince the nation it’s easy to be perfect – once he got the hang of it. So far, Obama has committed every fumble except bumping his head on the toilet seat. The environmentalists are becoming increasingly desperate to make their case for global warming. They reported that some of the caribou are changing over early into their seersucker antlers....

The democraps control congress, and Bush is in favor of this bailout- WHY DO THEY NEED REPUBLICANS? For years they have been complaining about how McCain votes with Bush- Now THEY ARE VOTING WITH BUSH.

Senator Barack Obama has launched a full broadside against a best-selling book that attacks him as a Muslim-educated radical Leftist filled with "black rage". In a 41-page document entitled "Unfit for Publication", the Obama campaign rebuts Jerome Corsi's Obama Nation (a play on "abomination") almost point by point. Its faux book cover carries quotations from Time magazine branding the book, which has shot to the top of the New York Times best-seller list, as "trash" and "poisonous crap". The title of the Obama rebuttal is an allusion to Unfit for Command, the book co-written by Corsi that damaged the 2004...

BREAKING NEWS updated 17 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton has replaced campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle, naming longtime aide Maggie Williams to the top job. Solis Doyle announced the shift in an e-mail to the staff on Sunday. “I have been proud to manage this campaign and prouder still to call Hillary my friend for more than 16 years,” Solis Doyle wrote. “Maggie is a remarkable person and I am confident that she will do a fabulous job.” The move comes a day after rival Barack Obama swept contests in Washington state, Nebraska, Louisiana. Solis Doyle said...

Using congressional privilege, Rep. David Wu helped direct more than $2 million in defense contracts to a company in his district for T-shirts that Marines say they can no longer use in battle because they can melt and cause severe burns. A report in today's Seattle Times also found the company's top executives contributed to Wu's campaign account about the time the spending "earmarks" were written into the final Department of Defense budget. Wu told The Oregonian today that he is "horrified" the Marines had to ban the polyester T-shirts in battle because of the danger they pose. "I didn't...

Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau is probing what disgraced Hillary Rodham Clinton-backer Norman Hsu did with $40M "investment" cash given to him by famed Woodstock Festival founder Joel Rosenman......"We are taking a look at whether funds were misappropriated" ..........

King and Pierce County prosecutors filed felony charges today against seven people who allegedly committed the biggest voter-registration fraud in state history. The defendants, who were paid employees and supervisors of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, concocted the scheme as an easy way to get paid, not as an attempt to influence the outcome of elections, King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg said. "This was an act of vandalism upon the voter rolls of King County," Satterberg said. In addition to filing criminal charges, Satterberg said state and local officials had signed a five-year agreement with...

IF NOTHING else, Texas Congressman Ron Paul's presidential candidacy makes it clear that the Republican Party is not a monolith. It has its ideological outliers, and they march to the beat of a very different drummer than George Bush and most GOP candidates do. With his isolationist opposition to the war in Iraq , Paul is the odd man out in his party. To Republican ears, his claim during last week's South Carolina debate that the United States was attacked on Sept. 11 "because . . . we've been bombing Iraq for 10 years" and that Americans ought to "listen...

Anybody else get tired of "the point". Can you politicians (Republicans and Democrats) just agree to resist your political urge on this? It makes you look as fake as a 3 dollar bill. This is a bit ridiculous.

At one press conference, Rep. Maxine Waters, now serving her 9th term in the House of Representatives, declared that under the Out of Iraq Caucus's plan, the United States could remove U.S. troops from Iraq "by August of 1980 [sic."] Then, Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, reasoning that 1980 had already taken place, said the actual date was August 2008. Rep. Lloyd Doggett suggested that Mr. Bush, "the misleader," was to blame for his colleagues' confusion. Rep. Lynn Woolsey, California Democrat, tried to explain the caucus plan, but stumbled over the chronology of the withdrawal, saying at one point that...

WASHINGTON -- Congressional Democrats, seizing on public discontent over the war in Iraq, will offer legislation this week calling for a phased withdrawal of troops from Iraq and a shifting of forces to other nations, where supporters say American soldiers will be less likely to come under attack. The resolution, crafted by Democratic Senators Jack Reed of Rhode Island and Carl Levin of Michigan, will headline a second week of debate in Congress over the state of the war. It is the first real debate Congress has held on the war since the US invasion in early 2003. Senate Democrats,...

GREELEY, Colo. -- Republican U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave's re-election campaign was already heated, and it just got smelly as well: Her staff accused a Democratic activist Thursday of leaving an envelope full of dog feces at Musgrave's Greeley office. Musgrave spokeswoman Shaun Kenney said someone stuffed the envelope through the mail slot in the door on May 31 and then sped away in a car. Kenney said most of the preprinted return address was blacked out, but staffers used the nine-digit ZIP code to trace it to Kathleen Ensz, a Weld County Democratic volunteer. Ensz told The Associated Press she...

Hardly a day passes without some story mentioning the polarized atmosphere in Washington and the growing partisan rancor. Democrats ascribe it to the “politics of personal destruction” and a “climate of hate” engendered by Republicans. There is no doubt that the partisan climate in Washington has become more polarized, but the Democrats' characterization of it is yet another partisan attack. Between 1933 and 1995, Democrats controlled the House of Representatives for 58 of those 62 years, ceding power to the Republicans only twice: in 1947-1948 and again in 1953-1954. From 1955 to 1995, their power was unbroken for forty straight...

Just how big a threat was Saddam Hussein? Let’s reprise what our leaders had to say on the subject. First, here’s the president: “If he refuses or continues to evade his obligations through more tactics of delay and deception, he and he alone will be to blame for the consequences. ... Now, let’s imagine the future. What if he fails to comply, and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction...? “Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its...

Every day 4,700 kids try marijuana for the first time. In fact, marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug among America's youth. Unfortunately, a lot of American teens, and their parents, continue to see marijuana as harmless. QUESTION 1: Ecstasy is more popular than marijuana among kids today. True or False? False. Far more youth use marijuana than any other drug. Among kids who use drugs, approximately 60 percent use marijuana only. QUESTION 2: Marijuana is not addictive. True or False? False. Research shows that marijuana is addictive. In fact, more teens enter treatment with a primary diagnosis of...

The Red Cross Blocked The Fox News Channel's Major Garrett was just on my show extending the story he had just reported on Brit Hume's show: The Red Cross is confirming to Garrett that it had prepositioned water, food, blankets and hygiene products for delivery to the Superdome and the Convention Center in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, but were blocked from delivering those supplies by orders of the Louisiana state government, which did not want to attract people to the Superdome and/or Convention Center. Garrett has no paper trail yet, but will follow up on his verbal confirmation...

The medicine men of old were quacks who exercised disturbing influence over their patients by claiming to possess great healing powers. The Democrats are inheritors of this tradition of charlantry. They are not the party of medicine but of medicine men. They are not the party of science but of scientific mumbo-jumbo. They use bogus science and its omnipotent claims to seduce the public. The medicine-man party found its voice in John Edwards last year when he declared that Christopher Reeve would have been walking were a Democrat in the White House. The medicine men of old, fearing exposure as...

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Noted French left-wing activist Thierry Meyssan's 9/11 conspiracy book, L'Effroyable Imposture, became a best-seller in 2002. But I never imagined such an "appalling deception" would ever find a voice in America. At a recent public lecture I was buttonholed by a Michael Moore–wannabe filmmaker who breathlessly explained that 9/11 was orchestrated by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Central Intelligence Agency as part of their plan for global domination and a New World Order. That goal was to be financed by G.O.D. (Gold, Oil, Drugs) and launched by a Pearl Harbor–like attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, thereby...

I just saw a commercial on FOX News by "An Apple Pie and Motherhood" sounding organization called ProtectYourCheck.org. I went to their site to see who these benevolent sponsors are, who are looking out for the general public. This is what I found: Harold Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff for President Clinton and architect of Clinton's successful 1996 re-election campaign,Jim Jordan, a former Democratic Senate Campaign Committee executive director and campaign manager for Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign.Jim Margolis, political consultant to John Kerry's successful presidential primary campaign and successful campaigns for Democratic U.S. Senators and Governors.Michael Powell, previous chief of...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As the Democratic National Committee opens its annual meeting, a new poll of DNC members suggests party leaders want to see some serious changes and believe former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean will do an excellent job as party chairman. The CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Thursday indicates the members who chose to reply to the survey also overwhelmingly believe the party should draw clear distinctions between itself and the GOP and should work to defeat the Republican agenda over the Bush administration's final four years.

If you didn't know already, the democraticunderground.com has locked out non-members from viewing their forums. This is only makes me a nosey person like my wonder what's going on. Are they plotting harikari or murder? Are they angry or sad? Can we get them a tissue?

Accuweather is calling for some fairly dodgy weather conditions in the Ohio region for election. Unless I am mistaken, bad weather historically drives down democrap turnout while not significantly affecting republicans. Comments??? The following are for Cleveland the evening of 11/1 and mid-day and evening for 11/2: Monday Night 11/1 Get Details Hourly Weather | AccuPOP™ Cloudy, cold and rainy Low 39° F Tuesday 11/2 Get Details Hourly Weather | Get Audio Cloudy with rain possible High 55° F Tuesday Night 11/2 Get Details Hourly Weather | AccuPOP™ Mostly cloudy, rain possible Low 37° F The link to Accuweather's 15...

State, opponents set to argue over provisional ballot plan in court 10/12/2004, 11:06 p.m. ET By DAVID EGGERT The Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Democrats, the NAACP and voter-rights groups are asking a k a federal judge to stop the state's election officials from proceeding with a plan to address backup, or provisional ballots. The groups say the state's plan would disenfranchise thousands of voters who cast ballots in the wrong polling place or those who must provide a photo ID or other proof of residency on election day. U.S. District Judge David Lawson was to consider the...

London's Dirty-Bomb Plot British authorities suspect that a cell of Islamic terrorists where trying to harvest radioactive material from smoke detectors By ADAM ZAGORIN AND ELAINE SHANNON Sunday, Oct. 03, 2004 When British authorities broke up a cell of suspected Islamic terrorists in August, the arrests sent reverberations across the Atlantic. Among the evidence found with the suspects were reconnaissance reports on major U.S. financial sites—including the New York Stock Exchange and the World Bank in Washington. But senior U.S. law-enforcement officials tell TIME they are continuing to follow the case closely and are learning even more disturbing details about...

Democrats sue to allow provisional ballots cast in wrong precinct 9/28/2004, 5:20 p.m. ET By AMY F. BAILEY The Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democrats in Michigan sued the state's highest-ranking election official on Tuesday, arguing that voters who show up at the wrong polling place on Nov. 2 but are in the right city, village or township can cast a provisional ballot. The state party and the Bay City Democratic Party filed a federal lawsuit in Bay City against Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, a Republican. They say she is refusing to count provisional ballots of voters...

BOSTON, July 21 PRNewswire -- The Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) today released a preliminary list of primetime speakers for the 2004 Democratic National Convention, held July 26-29 in Boston. The following speakers -- listed alphabetically by day -- will all address the Convention between 7 pm and 11 pm: Monday, July 26 The Kerry-Edwards Plan for America's Future David Alston, Vietnam Swift Boat Crewmate of John Kerry Tammy Baldwin, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin Jimmy Carter, Former President of the United States Bill Clinton, Former President of the United States Hillary Clinton, U.S. Senator from New York Al Gore, Former...

State Dems want Edwards on ticket Richardson just behind senator as VP pick of Texas party leaders10:16 PM CST on Tuesday, March 23, 2004By GROMER JEFFERS Jr. / The Dallas Morning News President Bush's home-state adversaries say John Edwards is best suited to help John Kerry oust the Texan from the White House. Mr. Edwards narrowly beat out New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as the vice presidential choice of Texas Democratic National Committee members canvassed by The Dallas Morning News. "He's smart, energetic and articulate," Jaime Gonzalez, a DNC member and lawyer from McAllen, said of the North Carolina senator....

Leaving Christ on the Capitol Steps by Fr. Robert J. Carr One of the greatest lies in politics today is that a Catholic has the right to dismiss his faith in the political arena. Today, some bishops are excommunicating elected officials for not voting their baptismal beliefs. Superficially, the politicians may seem right and the bishops may seem wrong, but the reality is the opposite is true. Jesus called us to the vocation of being light to the world and salt of the earth. Indeed, he made it clear that we are useless if we do not heed his words....

John Kerry cemented the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, driving John Edwards from the race with a string of Super Tuesday triumphs. Edwards, the sole major challenger to Kerry, planned to step aside Wednesday in Raleigh, N.C., two Democratic officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Kerry rolled up huge victories in Ohio, Maryland, Connecticut and his home state of Massachusetts as he made Edwards' presidential effort a political impossibility. The four-term Massachusetts senator also was favored in the late-poll closing states of California, New York, Minnesota and Rhode Island. The freshman senator from North Carolina struggled even in his lone...

Mark Kegans for The New York Times Joe Briggs and his daughter Jenny in Newton, Iowa. She said she had been a supporter of Howard Dean but was having second thoughts. NEWTON, Iowa, Jan. 8 — Only a few weeks ago, Jenny Briggs, an Iowa State University graduate, was all set to enthusiastically support Howard Dean in the caucuses. But now, with the vote 11 days away, Ms. Briggs said she is having second thoughts as she watches Dr. Dean stumble through his difficult days of the presidential contest. "I had listened to him on TV, and I thought he...

Al Jazeera aired new footage of Osama bin Laden today along with audiotapes. You know, the usual stuff. Called Bush evil ... the great Satan ... a warmonger. All the same stuff we heard last night at the Democratic presidential debates. Did you watch the nine Democrats debate last night? One of the candidates was wearing a Darth Vader helmet. Then I realized, that was just Al Sharpton’s hair. Democratic presidential candidate Al Sharpton said that blacks are tiring of the Democratic Party and it has to stop treating blacks as their mistress. Sharpton explained that a "mistress is where...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Making a major foray into partisan politics, multibillionaire George Soros is committing $10 million to a new Democratic-leaning group aimed at defeating President Bush next year. Soros, who in the past has donated on a smaller scale to Democratic candidates and the party, pledged the money to a political action committee called America Coming Together, spokesman Michael Vachon said Friday. The group plans a $75 million effort to defeat Bush and "elect progressive officials at every level in 2004," targeting 17 key states: Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio,...

Tony Blair told the truth, President Bush told the truth, Condi and Colin told the truth. These demoncrap crybabies are thorowing shyt on the wall until something sticks and forget who was president for 8 years before Bush. I would like to see Clinton's speeches scrutinized the way they are doing Bush's. This political BS is too much, if they are not happy why not find Saddam and put him back into power?

A staff member for U.S. Rep. Martin Frost helped 51 Texas House Democrats who boycotted the state Legislature last week -- killing a bill that could have harmed Frost's political career -- but she said she did it on her vacation time. Another Frost staff member from Washington, chief policy adviser Matt Angle, greeted the truant legislators when they returned from Oklahoma to Austin shortly before 4 a.m. Friday.Despite his staff members' involvement, Frost, D-Arlington, had nothing to do with the state legislators' decision to boycott, spokesman Jess Fassler said Wednesday.However, GOP leaders, who have come under fire for tapping...

I just finished watching Democratic Senator Harry Reid on Fox News Sunday, and he was complaining to Tony Snow that the Repuiblicans had held up the unemployment benefits. Uggghh. Here is a short exchange between the two. Harry Reid: The Republicans have done everything they could to stop the unemployment benefits from coming through. Tony Snow: But the President recommended that they be put in place. Harry Reid: Yes but he should have done something about this while we were in session because now many Americans have no income. ---------------------- GET A FRICKING CLUE SENATOR REID! Unemployment benefits ARE NOT...

Rugged farm state is asking 'what's in it for us', writes our correspondent from Sioux Falls SOUTH DAKOTA, where life grinds at the pace of giant tractors labouring over heavy fields, is the unlikely starlet of this season’s election drama. The political elite has flocked to fawn on its rugged stage, lavishing money, gifts and attention on this hesitant power-broker. President Bush can’t stay away from its snow-crusted prairie and frosted towns. He has campaigned four times in a state with 450,000 voters, and will squeeze in a fifth visit tomorrow. His three predecessors visited nine times in two decades....