http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/dnc/ en-us Fri, 3 Jul 2009 20:59:46 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285068/posts "Either Sarah Palin is leaving the people of Alaska high and dry to pursue her long shot national political ambitions or she simply can't handle the job now that her popularity has dimmed and oil revenues are down. Either way – her decision to abandon her post and the people of Alaska who elected her continues a pattern of bizarre behavior that more than anything else may explain the decision she made today." CNN Political Ticker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285068/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 20:59:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281013/posts President Obama's promises of greater government transparency haven't panned out. Multiple transparency problems afflict the Obama administration. Just last week, the administration rejected a Freedom of Information Act request for White House logs showing the names of coal executives who had visited the White House to discuss Mr. Obama's "clean coal" policies. This is the same Mr. Obama who as senator castigated the "secret energy meetings" with oil executives at the White House during the Bush administration. Unfortunately, as if that isn't enough, the Democrats have yet another new transparency problem. Now we even have the man that Mr. Obama... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281013/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:57:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279315/posts The bad news is that the Washington Post doesn't know where Virginia governor Tim Kaine is. The good news is they're pretty sure he's not in Appalachia or Argentina: But repeated attempts to review Kaine's schedule — in Richmond, around the state or across the country — before and after he became DNC chairman in late January have been unsuccessful. The Washington Post has requested Kaine's calendar through the governor's office, the DNC and his political action committee, Moving Virginia Forward. The requests have been denied or gone unanswered. NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279315/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:35:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279230/posts The bad news is that the Washington Post doesn't know where Virginia governor Tim Kaine is. The good news is they're pretty sure he's not in Appalachia or Argentina: But repeated attempts to review Kaine's schedule — in Richmond, around the state or across the country — before and after he became DNC chairman in late January have been unsuccessful. The Washington Post has requested Kaine's calendar through the governor's office, the DNC and his political action committee, Moving Virginia Forward. The requests have been denied or gone unanswered. Kaine's office cites security and privacy concerns, as well as state... http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279230/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:09:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2277038/posts Monday, June 22, 2009 Shining a Light on the Palin Administration? Linda Kellen Biegel's Own Transparency Is Questionable By I A Crowther Shining a light on the Palin Administration. The fight for government transparency. I want an open and transparent government! Of benefit to the public interest. Linda Kellen Biegel, aka Celtic Diva, has called on the help of her readership to shine “a light on the Palin Administration” by asking for donations to the tune of more than $5,500 to fund a request for the email records of six members of the Office of the Governor, dating back more... Conservatives4Palin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2277038/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:20:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267831/posts The Democratic Party's attitude to elections is admirable: Win. And recent history has shown it will do anything to do so. When, if not now, will Republicans develop such a fighting spirit? Democrats invest - with taxpayer money, mind you - in groups like ACORN that, among other sordid tactics, seek out Skid Row bodies and wheel them to polling places. All the Democratic National Committee needs are vans and smelling salts. Pop culture and the "education system" have done the rest, making "D" the default choice on Election Day. Democrats brazenly take policy positions - think government services and... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267831/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 09:08:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265189/posts On the surface, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's visits to Auburn and Long Island this weekend are nonpolitical. She'll participate in Auburn's first Founders Day celebration on Saturday. The event is tied to the 50th anniversary of Alaskan statehood. The following day, she'll be on Long Island to raise money for Independent Group Home Living, an agency for the developmentally disabled. But after exploding on the national political scene last summer as John McCain's vice presidential running mate on the Republican ticket, Palin is also one of the party's leading figures, and any trip has political implications. "The next campaign begins... Syracuse.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265189/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 03:44:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2261672/posts BREAKING: Official Document says Black Panther was “representing the Democratic Party"Yesterday, Curt posted on this highly racial statement by the Black Panthers at a Philly voting location: [video at site] Racially charged statements by armed black panthers who happen to work for the Dem party in Philly. No surprise the DOJ spiked the charges against the three black panthers. [video at site] (Excerpt) Read more at Flopping Aces ... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2261672/posts#comment Sun, 31 May 2009 17:21:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260699/posts Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader went public Thursday with an allegation that Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe offered him campaign money to stay off the ballot in key states during the 2004 elections. “Terry McAuliffe is slipperier than an eel in olive oil,” Nader said in an interview. He said McAuliffe, who was the Democratic National Committee chairman at the time, had offered Nader’s campaign an unspecified amount of money, believed to be party funds, to spend in 31 states in exchange for an agreement to withdraw from 19 battleground states where he could potentially hurt Democrat John Kerry. The... The Spokesman-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260699/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2009 18:11:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259379/posts President Obama left Tuesday for a two-day fundraising tour in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The Democratic National Committee is expected to pick up part of the cost, but if history is any gauge, taxpayers will pick up most of the tab. FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259379/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 22:19:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257922/posts Five years ago, a group of Vietnam veterans came forward at the National Press Club in Washington to dispute the "war hero" stories that formed the basis of candidate John Kerry's presidential campaign, and to challenge the claims of rampant US war crimes Kerry had used to launch his political career 33 years earlier -- false accusations, they said, that helped to poison the reputations of a generation of American troops. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth included Kerry's entire former chain of command from Vietnam and dozens of eyewitnesses to his actions there. Kerry, the veterans said, was not... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257922/posts#comment Mon, 25 May 2009 19:23:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257572/posts Americans no longer trust the free press to be their eyes and ears The American Press Mainstream Treachery Honest unbiased reporting in the American news room has been so absent for so long that most Americans now seek information elsewhere. Americans no longer trust the free press to be their eyes and ears, to keep them abreast of the facts needed to make intelligent decisions about daily life or politics. Sadly, at this moment in history, even Russia has a more reliable free press than America. If Americans don’t read foreign news sources, they have no clue what is going... Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2257572/posts#comment Mon, 25 May 2009 02:06:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2252535/posts Organizing for America, a propaganda arm of the Democratic National Committee, is lying to Americans about leftists' proposed so-called reforms of the healthcare system. As the Politico reports, a new fundraising email from the group (full email here) claims TV ads from Conservatives for Patients' Rights are distorting President Obama's Big Government healthcare proposals: We knew healthcare reform would face fierce opposition -- and it's begun. As we speak, the same people behind the notorious "swiftboat" ads of 2004 are already pumping millions of dollars into deceptive television ads. Their plan is simple: torpedo healthcare reform before it sees the... American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2252535/posts#comment Sun, 17 May 2009 05:21:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249282/posts “That brought us to our essential difference, the difference of the Evolutionary Collectivist and Marxist, the question whether the social revolution is, in its extremity, necessary, whether it is necessary to over throw one economic system completely before the new one can begin. I believe that through a vast sustained educational campaign the existing Capitalist system can be civilised into a Collectivist world system;” - H.G. Wells, Russia in the Shadows CFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249282/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 15:43:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248330/posts WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Democratic National Committee criticized the Republican Party in a new Web video released Sunday evening for having former Vice President Dick Cheney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Sen. John McCain serve as the GOP’s national spokesmen. The 38-second clip, posted on YouTube, opens with the statement: “Meet the New GOP Sunday Show Guests” stripped across the screen before it shows the three Republicans being introduced on the Sunday morning talk shows. The videos closing line: “The New GOP. Same As The Old GOP.” CNN - Political Ticker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2248330/posts#comment Mon, 11 May 2009 04:42:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2248236/posts Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, in a bold effort to try to attain political relevance for himself, declared that “the capitalists have done sufficient damage to the economy and the American people have had enough.” “Everyone I’ve talked to in the last four months is fed up with letting big business loot the country,” Dean proclaimed. “They all think its time the government took its turn.” Dean argued that “we need higher taxes on incomes, profits, energy, property—whatever it takes to wrest wealth from the hands of the profiteers and give it over to ‘social control.’ For far... A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2248236/posts#comment Mon, 11 May 2009 00:14:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246197/posts Leahy Raises Questions Over Specter Subcommittee Chairmanship By Emily Pierce Roll Call Staff May 7, 2009, 12:43 p.m. Leahy Raises Questions Over Specter Subcommittee Chairmanship Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Thursday appeared to throw a little cold water on the Democratic leadership’s plan to give recent party-switcher Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) a plum subcommittee chairmanship. Though Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced earlier in the day that he would relinquish the Crime and Drugs subpanel and take over a reconstituted Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, Leahy told reporters, “Nothing’s been worked out.” Leahy indicated that... Roll Call http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246197/posts#comment Thu, 7 May 2009 16:54:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240904/posts According to a leaked memo, DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) plans to target 29 House Republicans from districts won by Barack Obama last November. Democrats privately say "they expect to lose a handful of seats to the GOP in next year's midterms and the memo acknowledges that the average midterm loss for a ruling party in a midterm is 30," reports Politico. "Nonetheless, he paints a picture of an unusually unpredictable cycle and thinks Dems could do much better than average if President Obama's popularity stays sky-high and the party targets vulnerable Rs." PoliticalWire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240904/posts#comment Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:09:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2238437/posts On some level, they totally deserve it. After all, they have engaged in a purely political process over the serious issue of national security. So, it is pure karma, that the whole thing will wind up blowing up in their faces. So, get ready for a political civil war inside the Democratic party over how to proceed with the investigations into alleged torture by the Bush administration. There are some simple political rules. One of the most simple is that the party that presents the more united front is the one that wins most political issues. Here, the Republicans win.... The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2238437/posts#comment Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:57:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2237726/posts Here's an interesting ad... Is it just me or is the DNC doing the job of the GOP's job for them? I think a lot of us are wondering how the GOP can expect to win much of anything back in 2010 if they couldn't recapture the 20th District of New York. I wanna like Michael Steele- I really do. I really, really do... Evil Conservative Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2237726/posts#comment Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:29:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237590/posts DNC: Buy Cheney a ticket home @ 10:05 am by Eric Zimmermann The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is asking supporters to chip in for a bus ticket to send Dick Cheney back to his home state of Wyoming. In a letter to Democrats today, DNC Executive Director Jen O'Malley Dillon asks for contributions towards the $202 ticket price. I don't know about you, but I think it's time for him to stop sniping from the sidelines and let President Obama usher in the changes Americans demanded after eight years of Cheney's disastrous policies. That's why I want Cheney to go... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237590/posts#comment Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:27:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235342/posts Another ethics complaint is to be filed today against Alaska Governor Sarah Palin alleging wrongdoing. Press release: An ethics complaint against Alaska Governor Sarah Palin will be filed this afternoon asserting that Palin’s involvement with SarahPAC constitutes "outside employment" and "misuse of official position." Anchorage resident Sondra Tompkins, child disability advocate and mother of a special needs child, is filing the complaint after observing Governor Palin repeatedly display "a pattern of unethical behavior." Sondra believes that the tipping point for her was Sarah Palin's most recent abdication of her role as Governor and apparent conflict-of-interest when she spoke at two... Alaska Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235342/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:34:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233521/posts Even with the president on its side, the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) fundraising woes continued in March as the party earned fewer individual donations than did its GOP rivals. The Republican National Committee, under new Chairman Michael Steele, pulled in $6.7 million in March, padding the committee's swollen bank accounts and ending the month with $23.9 million cash on hand. That's higher than the $5.26 million the RNC raised in February, Steele's first month as chairman. The DNC, which hosted President Obama's first fundraiser since being sworn in in January, posted just $5.57 million raised from individual donors, down from... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233521/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:05:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232462/posts Obama for America spends nearly $9.5 million in the first three months of this year. ### If you glanced at the expense side of the report filed Wednesday night by President Obama's campaign committee, you might be excused for thinking there was a presidential election afoot. Obama for America, the fundraising juggernaut that powered Obama's ascent to the presidency, spent nearly $9.5 million in the first three months of this year, including $684,000 on telemarketing and print and online advertising, $994,000 on event staging and $310,000 on payroll and taxes. To be sure, some of the payments stem from... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232462/posts#comment Sat, 18 Apr 2009 23:04:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2227539/posts Which Political Party Best Represents Your Views? Take this Short Survey. You Maybe Surprised. Click the option which comes closest to your own views for each of the 10 issues listed. http://www.nolanchart.com/survey.php Nolan Chart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2227539/posts#comment Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:01:14 GMT