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In the first nights of the convention we beheld the spectacle of deceptive speeches by such leftists as Michelle Obama, Mark Warner, Bill and Hill and others who made big speeches about how America will be Utopia on earth when they control the congress the senate and the white house and that everything wrong with America is the fault of George W Bush and the republican party. When Clinton ran things things were smooth, then the minute Bush took office everything went to hell. We at MainestateGop were also nearly sucked into the brouhaha of bashing Bush and praising Democrat...

Excerpt - ~ snip ~ "Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise" is coming out Sept. 9 as a paperback with an announced first printing of 300,000 copies and a list price of $13.95. Looking ahead to the digital market, the e-book, also $13.95, will go on sale the day before. ~ snip ~

A new left-wing organization that wants to help elect Barack Obama president is sending letters to nearly 10,000 major donors who contribute to Republican causes, threatening them with potential legal problems if they finance conservative groups. The nonprofit organization, Accountable America, is even offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to the criminal conviction or fines of at least $10,000 for violations of campaign finance laws or other statutes by a conservative group, according to The New York Times. Accountable America is led by Tom Matzzie, former Washington director of the liberal activist group MoveOn.org, and its research director...

HARRISBURG - They cost only a dime each, but it added up quickly. Over more than two years, as they toiled in the minority, Democrats in the state House allegedly purchased millions of e-mail addresses to send campaign-related propaganda to Pennsylvania voters who were stuck paying the political tab - $1.2 million. And that's not including several hundred thousand more in public funds that went to a tech consultant - the son of a state representative - who allegedly made it all look like a legitimate legislative endeavor. Details of the conspiracy were laid out recently in the 74-page grand-jury...

In 15 years the Clintons have never been this far removed from the limelight. Im guessing that Denver will be something special to watch. Here's betting the notorious Michelle tape appears or a super delegate fight breaks out. I don't trust them a one bit! Your thoughts.

It's the top story in Pennsylvania. Twelve Democrat state leaders facing corruption charges in a massive scandal dubbed "Bonusgate." If it were twelve Republican state leaders, I guarantee you would have heard all about it by now. Via the Philly Daily News: A SORDID TANGLE of corruption, cash and sex rocked the Statehouse yesterday in a political scandal that left one current and one former legislator and 10 current and former staff members facing criminal charges. Among the accusations leveled by two state grand juries: Former top legislative staffer Mike Manzo got his lover, a twenty-something former rural beauty queen,...

A Republican effort to force a vote on opening up more land to drilling on Thursday threatened to bring the annual appropriations process in the U.S. House of Representatives to a halt. Democrats, who control the House, shut down Appropriations Committee work on two major federal funding bills after Republicans tried to force a vote on drilling. "I think we've probably had our last meeting of the year," Chairman David Obey heatedly told reporters after the bill-drafting session broke up. The meeting was called to work on Labor and Agriculture department bills. Republicans tried to attach the Interior Department bill...

CBS/NYT May 1-3 - 607 registred voters McCain 40% / Obama 51% McCain 41% / Clinton 53% ------- COMPARE WITH ------- USA Today/Gallup May 1-3/ 803 voters / Margin +/- 4% McCain 48% / Obama 47% McCain 49% / Clinton 46%

Are Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Elton John breaking U.S. laws by allowing the British pop singer, a foreign national, to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign by performing a concert on her behalf? That's the question Inside the Beltway put to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) yesterday, which does not rule out the possibility. First, some background supplied by the FEC: The goal of the 1966 Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) was to "minimize foreign intervention" in U.S. elections by establishing a series of limitations on foreign nationals. In 1974, the prohibition was incorporated...

Unlike Barack Obama, Bill Clinton does not believe in "the fierce urgency of now." The former President has an exquisitely languid sense of how political time unfurls. He understands that those moments the political community, especially the media, considers urgent usually aren't. He has seen his own election and re-election—and completing his second term—pronounced "impossible" and lived to tell the tale. He remembers that in spring 1992 he had pretty much won the Democratic nomination but was considered a dead man walking, running third behind Bush the Elder and Ross Perot. He knows that April is the silly season in...

Hillary and Bill Clinton are again teaming up on Barack Obama -- this time saying the first-term U.S. lawmaker, whom they have derided as inexperienced, would be a strong running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket headed by the former first lady. In talking up a joint ticket, the Clintons may be seeking the upper hand, attempting to put her in consideration for the top of the ticket when she so far has failed to win the votes necessary to assure that she would face Republican presidential candidate John McCain in the November election. The maneuver may also be aimed...

Liberal Democrats were very busy last week conducting the people’s business. In the Senate, our dedicated public servants spent the week debating a plan by Sen. Russ Feingold to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq by July. Alas, the plan was a few votes short. After failing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Democrat) passionately vowed “The anti-war fight will continue”. Meanwhile, in Iraq, several positive indicators show the tide may have turned. Due to the success of the surge, violence is down a whopping 80%. The Iraqi government is finally stepping up, having...

Hillary Rodham Clinton has a man problem. And this time it's bigger than just Bill. Take a look at the exit polls coming out of the primaries. Men are going for Barack Obama over Clinton. In California, men went for Obama, 51 percent to Clinton's 39 percent, according to the San Jose Mercury News. In South Carolina, 55 percent of men voted for Obama, with only 23 percent going for Clinton. (John Edwards took the bulk of the rest.) This is not about sexism. But try telling that to feminists Gloria Steinem and Erica Jong, who both recently wrote whiny...

Sen. Hillary Clinton may not win Virginia today, but she needs to hold rival Sen. Barack Obama well below the devastating 68 percent wins he secured last weekend in Nebraska and Washington. Obama is expected to sweep all three races in the Potomac Primary today: Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. But it's Virginia that's the key. With each Obama sweep in the post-Super Tuesday contests, Clinton watches the Democratic nomination slip further from her once presumptive grasp. With more losses expected next week in Wisconsin and Hawaii, it's becoming clearer that had Clinton not won convincingly in California...

WASHINGTON — The Anti-Defamation League on Monday condemned a flyer circulating in Memphis and elsewhere that says U.S. Rep. "Steve Cohen and the Jews Hate Jesus," saying it "attempts to incite tension" between African-Americans and Jews. The flyer, which provides the name and telephone number of Rev. George Brooks of Murfreesboro, Tenn., has been in circulation since at least last Thursday. Brooks on Monday took responsibility for the flyer, saying, "I sent that out." The flyer, which Cohen said he received at his law office in Memphis last week, reads in part: "Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen and the JEWS HATE...

BACKGROUND: According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Clinton spent approximately an hour going door-to-door in the area near Eastern and Washington Avenues. One woman, a real-estate broker, asked Clinton in accented English: “I have no income at all, so how will I survive?" "In my neighborhood, there are brand-new homes,” the woman said, “But the value is nothing. I'm glad you are here so I can tell you, because you're going to be the president, I know." An unidentified man, from behind a wall, shouted to Clinton that his wife was illegal. To cheers, Clinton replied, "No woman is illegal."...

WASHINGTON (Nov. 28, 2007) - The Army announced today that it has taken initial steps to plan for reduced operations at all Army bases while the congressional review continues on funding for operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and requirements associated with the Global War on Terror. With no funds provided for GWOT requirements since the beginning of the fiscal year, the Army has had to use operation and maintenance dollars budgeted to organize, train, equip, and field forces, as well to sustain Soldiers and their Families, to fund war related activities. Gen. Richard A. Cody, vice chief of staff of the...

In a closed-door meeting before the last vote on the children’s health care bill, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer appealed for the support of about 30 wavering Republican lawmakers. What he got instead was a tongue-lashing, participants said. The GOP lawmakers, all of whom had expressed interest in a bipartisan deal on the SCHIP legislation, were furious that the Democratic leader from Maryland had not reached out to them in a more serious way early on. They also criticized him and Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois for failing to stop his allies outside Congress from running attack...

Over the years, as it became Exhibit A for critics of shareholders’ class action lawsuits, the law firm of Milberg Weiss often enjoyed the support of Democrats who called the suits an invaluable weapon in the universal conflict between big business and the little guy. The Democrats, in turn, enjoyed the support of Milberg Weiss and its partners, who together have contributed more than $7 million to the party’s candidates since the 1980s. Last year, the firm was indicted on federal charges of fraud and bribery. But the political partnership has not been entirely severed. Since the indictment, 26 Democrats...

It's not exactly the old-time religion, but suddenly there's sawdust on the trail. If some other worthy actually wins the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have a new career open to them, reprising Jim and Tammy Faye. Praise the Lord. Just when everyone thought that no Democrat wanted to be caught in church dead or alive, it's revival time. First Hillary started talking about the influence of the Methodist social gospel on her life — this must have been heck all these years for Bubba, a hymn-singing good ol' Baptist boy — and now Barack Obama invokes God...

Brad Pitt has spoken about his choice for next President of the United States – His good pal George Clooney! Speaking to Parade magazine, the Ocean’s Eleven actor encouraged his fellow co-star to run for political office, and if George fails then Ben Affleck should try out for President instead. He says: "I never thought about it. I have no desire at this point. Maybe I serve better by not going through that door. "George should do it! He'd be quite good. I think Ben Affleck should run." We think Ben Affleck would be better suited. He needs a career...

For Democrats, things rarely get much better than this. In 2008, they’ll be running to succeed an unpopular incumbent, against an opposition that has rarely been more disorganized or dispirited. Polls show a Democratic advantage on major issues nearly across the board. Amid all these favorable signs, it’s only natural that some of the party’s top strategists would be pondering the same question: Wonder how we’ll screw it up this time? “We are a little bit of a shellshocked political party. We somehow or another always figure out a way to blow it,” Democratic strategist James Carville said. “Democrats have...

You can’t make up this kind of stuff. John Edwards is trying to get to the left of Dennis Kucinich (who wants to replace the Department of Defense with a “Department of Peace�) by proposing that we “fight� a nonexistent war on imaginary terrorists by creating a peace corps. 10,000 strong! There will be no stopping them. Senator Edwards is outlining a new national security strategy that hinges on the creation of a 10,000-person civilian peace corps to stem the tide of terrorism in weak and unstable countries. Prediction: the Nutroots are gonna love it. UPDATE at 6/8/07 10:26:50 am:...

Download the Democrat opposition research paper on GOP candidates to see what they are up to. 40 pages worth. I put this in Breaking News cause I'm not sure how long it will last. http://a9.g.akamai.net/7/9/8082/v001/democratic1.download.akamai.com/8082/images/content/republican_cands/pdfs/CAPAK_FINAL.pdf

AUSTIN — A Senate committee has passed the controversial, partisan-charged voter identification bill, but Senate Democrats are vowing to do whatever it takes to block it. Their success will depend on whether Sen. Mario Gallegos Jr., D-Houston, who has missed most of the session recuperating from a liver transplant, can make it back to work for the vote. All 11 Senate Democrats are needed to block the bill from coming to the floor for debate, where the Republican majority easily can pass it. "I'll be here," Gallegos promised Tuesday from the Senate floor, where he put in a full day...

President Bush Makes Remarks on the Emergency Supplemental WH video may be viewed HERE! Click here for ABC spin. I for one am sick and tired of the Enemedia repeating a lie claiming to speak for me! Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island

After only being a U.S. Senator for a couple of years, Barak Hussein Obama, Democrat Senator from Chicago, has managed to catapult himself to the status of a messiah in the Democrat Party. The result is that, ever since, he's been walking on water toward the White House. Obama says after his visit with friends and family in Hawaii during the 2006 year-end holidays, he'll announce if he's going to run for president in 2008. Bets are that he will. Who is Obama and what has he done? Independent columnist, Andy Martin (Out2.com) says he believes Obama is a political...

In the wake of their Tuesday catastrophe, angry conservatives are pointing fingers in every direction. They blame corrupt congressmen, terrible Donald Rumsfeld, the stumbling president, their disaffected rank and file. They blame social conservatives, neoconservatives, moderate conservatives, and big-government conservatives. But are they blaming "the architect"? I wondered how Karl Rove's reputation withstood the Tuesday thumping. Are Republicans holding their top political strategist responsible for the midterm fiasco? It turns out there are plenty of reasons to blame Rove if you're of a mind to. Here are a few: 1. After the national horror of 9/11, Rove chose to please...

WASHINGTON — As Republican strategists make last-minute preparations for Election Day, checking voter lists and calling supporters, they might want to consider an unorthodox tactic: a rain dance. A new study of voter behavior confirms something political operatives have long suspected: rain hurts Democrats and helps Republicans. The study found that 1 inch of rain reduces overall turnout by slightly less than 1 percent and cuts the Democratic vote by 2.5 percentage points. “Rain does have a significant effect decreasing the Democratic vote share,” said Brad Gomez, a visiting professor of political science at the University of Georgia who co-authored...

WASHINGTON - Democrats eased expectations yesterday for seizing the Senate, as last-minute polls showed key contests tightening across the country. "We have never said we are going to take control of the Senate," insisted Sen. Charles Schumer, who heads the Democratic campaign organization, showing less bravado than he did last week. "We have said we're on the edge. That's where we are."

Statesmanship: In addressing the U.N. on Tuesday, President Bush spoke truth to those nations that support terrorism and oppression, country by country. Bracing stuff, great speech. Why can't the left see that? In recent years, our president has been given a thorough trashing by America's left. As we noted earlier this week, Democrats and the media, having lost most of the debates, have taken to calling Bush names — "stupid," "murderer," "fascist" and "Beelzebub," to list a few of the milder ones. Sick with rage, they've assassinated him in the movie "The Death of a President." On the bankrupt liberal...

It is hardly breaking news to state that Soros-funded MoveOn.org is a hotbed of racism, Marxism, and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. This story has been widely circulated and Web sites like WMD have extensive coverage of the whole debacle. The story even made The Washington Times recently, and the moderators of MoveOn’s “Action Forums” have been forced to disable the forums due to their inability to control the hate speech being posted on their site. Luckily, many of the offending quotes were saved by disgusted viewers, a selection of which, thanks to the work of W.M.D., I present below:

HOUSE PASSES ATF REFORM BILL . . . With a 277-131 vote, the U.S. House of Representatives last week passed HR 5092, the "Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Modernization and Reform Act of 2006." The legislation, which represents a major advance in protecting the rights of firearms retailers, now heads to the Senate. Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) have threatened to stall Senate consideration. The bill will bring consistency to ATF enforcement actions and provide ATF with additional compliance tools short of license revocation.

Asked if he's satisfied with George Allen's apology: "I served with George Allen when he was governor. I don't think he belongs in public service, to be honest with you. There are Republicans who are capable and smart, thoughtful people, and he's not one of them" (MSNBC, 8/23).

ORANGE COVE — Mayor Victor Lopez doesn't govern in this poor, out-of-the-way Fresno County farm town — he rules. ... That power has enabled Lopez to court business investors and lawmakers with stunning success, winning $63 million in state and federal grants for the city from 2001 to 2005 — with the help of an extraordinary expense account bankrolled by taxpayers. In those five years, Orange Cove, one of the nation's poorest cities, paid Lopez nearly $174,000 to travel the world in the name of official business. That included an extra $300 beyond his expenses for nearly every trip —...

Sen. Clinton said yesterday that Democrats emerged from the Senate debate on U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq "more united" than ever behind a conditional-exit strategy in the war that has divided her party. In remarks before the NDN, a new centrist-leaning Democratic advocacy group, Mrs. Clinton avoided the criticism she had earlier leveled at anti-war lawmakers seeking a quick pullout of all U.S. forces within one year. This time she offered only words of praise for the widely differing withdrawal positions offered by liberal Democrats in the Senate. "Although unity is important, it is not the most important value. I...

The chairman of the Summit County Democratic Party was scheduled to be arraigned July 26 after allegations he offered a candidate money to drop out of a Democratic primary. Rob Weyher, 54, has been charged in Salt Lake County Justice Court with one class B misdemeanor count of prohibited elections activity, inducements not to become a candidate. The charge stems from a voice message left at the home of candidate Josh Ewing's employer May 14, offering to contribute money to Ewing if he withdrew from the House District 25 race. A criminal complaint filed in court details what the caller...

RACE CARD in Jefferson case! Democratic leaders have decided to force Rep. William Jefferson off the Ways and Means Committee. The Congressional Black Caucus is accusing Pelosi & Co. of a racially-motivated double standard because Al Mollohan is still on the Appropriations committee. Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.) warns that this is "about to blow up in their face"! READ MORE

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is seeking allies in his war on “illegal guns.” The mayor recently held a summit for fellow mayors at Gracie Mansion in Manhattan, attracting the mayors of Dallas, Boston, Hartford, and several other major American cities. They signed a “statement of principle” in which they pledged to fight legislation in Congress that would keep Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) trace data out of the hands of city attorneys (more on that in a moment). They proclaimed they aren’t enemies of gun owners, and vowed to go after guns on the street illegally, rather than...

VERO BEACH — Every Tuesday morning, about two dozen men and women, sometimes more, huddle quietly in an alcove on the second floor of the Indian River County Courthouse. An interpreter speaks to them briefly before they file into a courtroom to answer criminal charges they have little power to contest. They are illegal immigrants, mostly from Mexico, who have been charged with driving a vehicle without a valid driver's license. The courtroom scenes are repeated each week in courthouses in St. Lucie and Martin counties as well. The defendants are non-English speaking citrus harvesters, construction workers, landscapers or manual...

Prop 200 Screening Out Illegal Voters Stricter immigration laws now on the books in Arizona that require elections officials to check for proof of citizenship have uncovered thousands of new registrants who don't qualify to vote. According to the Arizona Daily Star, state election officials credit the citizenship requirement contained in Proposition 200, the illegal-immigration initiative passed last November, for screening out the illegal voters. In Arizona's Prima County alone, elections officials have rejected 59 percent of all applicants in the last two weeks - or 423 of the 712 new registrants. "We rejected none during the same period last...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Some Democratic state lawmakers are planning to walk off the job Monday - just as millions of others around the country are expected to - in support of immigrants' rights. The Democratic-controlled Senate, on a party-line vote, approved a resolution supporting the May 1 "Great American Boycott 2006," which supporters say will serve as a warning to Congress to avoid punitive immigration reform. Organizers believe the boycott, in which large numbers of students also are expected to participate, will show just how vital immigrants are to America's major cities and the nation's economy. "These immigrants are fighting...

Leaders of the demonstrations that drew hundreds of thousands of immigrants into the streets last week announced Wednesday that they were planning voter registration and citizenship drives across the country in an effort to transform the immigrant community into a powerful, organized political force. [snip]Anjelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, said she and others preferred to focus on events that would win over the American public, suggesting that a national economic boycott might unnecessarily alienate ordinary people and decision makers. Ms. Salas and others are proposing a national day of community service,...

It seems that George Clooney is gearing up to take over Michael Moore's role as Hollywood's chief political provocateur. It's unlikely that the directing and screenplay nominee of the historically challenged "Good Night, and Good Luck" and the factually challenged "Syriana" would be pleased with the Michael Moore comparison. The U.K. Guardian recently interviewed Clooney and described him as "quite sniffy about [Michael] Moore, whose modus operandi he finds obnoxious and counter-productive." Using Moore's name as a verb and peppering his harangue with profanity, Clooney said, "I don't 'Michael Moore' this s***. I don't come out and go, 'Look what...

How many times have we heard the following whining and yet received no specific answers from our leaders? "Israel has nuclear weapons, so why single out Iran?" "Pakistan got nukes and we lived with it." "Who is to say the United States or Russia should have the bomb and not other countries?"

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MILWAUKEE — It started out with an alert security guard noticing a man urinating on a wall. Then the distinct sound of tires deflating. Now, two sons of prominent Wisconsin politicians and their three friends could end up in prison for allegedly attempting to sabotage a Republican effort to drive voters to the polls for the 2004 presidential election.Jurors began deliberating this afternoon in the politically charged trial of five Democratic activists who are accused of slashing the tires of 25 vans rented by the Republican Party to shuttle voters to the polls for the Bush-Kerry presidential election.In what is...

BROWNSVILLE — Former Cameron County Sheriff Conrado Cantu and four co-defendants received prison terms Tuesday for a racketeering enterprise that solicited bribes from drug traffickers in exchange for safe passage through this border county. A stern U.S. District Judge Hilda Tagle sentenced Cantu to 24 years and two months in prison, with five years of supervision after his release. Cantu is to serve nearly all of the sentence before he can be freed. The judge said she was personally disappointed Cantu and his friends used his power as sheriff to help distribute illegal drugs while undermining the nation's security. Investigators...

Let me guess. These words were taken out of context.

Pretty much sums up the entire mindset of the Democratic Party in 4 frames