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  The electorate’s repudiation of Barack Obama and his Congressional allies was not only a rejection of Big Government, but also of business elites who were buffeted from the downturn by political dealing at the expense of ordinary people.Unless Corporate America heeds the election results, it too will risk the wrath of an informed and energized public. Here are CEOs who must pay attention to what happened yesterday:Pfizer CEO Jeffrey Kindler- Not only did Kindler (above) lead the charge of Big Pharma CEOs for ObamaCare, he actually got a multi-million dollar bonus from Pfizer for doing so. This is...

Most people who voted in Election 2010 on the East Coast think the average Democrat in Congress is more liberal than they are and describe the views of most congressional Democrats as extreme. These results come from a Rasmussen Reports telephone polling of people who have already voted in states in the Eastern Time Zone. Fifty-eight percent (58%) of these voters say the average Democrat in Congress is more liberal than they are. Only 10% say that member of Congress is more conservative, while 27% see his or her views as about the same as theirs. Fifty-five percent (55%) say...

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday said he was willing to make tweaks to the landmark healthcare reform law enacted earlier this year over united Republican opposition. Reid also said he was focused on extending middle-class tax cuts put in place under Republican former President George W. Bush, not extending tax cuts for the wealthy. "If there's some tweaking we need to do with the healthcare bill, I'm ready for some tweaking," Reid said in an interview on CNN. "But I'm not going to in any way denigrate the great work we did as a country in saving...

Nowhere will Nancy Pelosi's loss of the House speakership be felt more acutely than here in the Bay Area, where her power has been used to help steer hundreds of millions of dollars into infrastructure projects. "It's difficult working the halls of Congress when you don't have the speaker of the House who understands specific facets of your region, and isn't there to help set up meetings," said Jim Wunderman, head of the Bay Area Council business group. "There will be a price to pay." San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed said the loss would be felt in the South Bay...

President Obama made more than 60 phone calls last night to Democrats up for reelection. As fate would have it, most of those calls were to those who lost, including outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who lost her majority. As the night went on, the president and his aides watched candidates for whom they held out hope drown in a crimson tide. Virginia Democrats Rick Boucher and Tom Perriello - gone. Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland - gone. Three presidential visits to Pennsylvania were not enough to save Rep. Joe Sestak's Senate campaign or five House Democrats. Another five Ohio...

Biography Nancy Pelosi is in her second term as Speaker of the House of Representatives, having made history in 2007 when she was elected the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House.  Speaker Pelosi has proved to be a strong, pragmatic leader, unifying her House Democratic caucus more than any other leader in the last 50 years to pass critical legislation moving America in a New Direction.In the 111th Congress, Speaker Pelosi “is an extraordinary leader for the American people," in the words of the President Barack Obama.  Congressional scholar Norman Ornstein stated, “This [111th Congress] is...

While some were predicting a political tsunami that would wipe out Democrats across the country, the more apt metaphor of what took place on Election Night was the hurricane — which first ripped through the South and then the Midwest, but only nicked the Northeast and West. Election Day was mostly a rebuke to Democrats and the expansion of government. According to the nationwide exit poll, 73 percent of those who voted disapproved of Congress’ job, and those people voted Republican by a 64-to-33 percent margin. In addition, 54 percent disapproved of President Obama’s job performance, and those voters broke...

Washington - Voters toppled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from power Tuesday, four years after she became the first female speaker in history, handing the majority of the House of Representatives to Republicans in a landslide surpassing the historic election of 1994. Republicans defeated 58 incumbent Democrats, a stunning blow to President Obama and well more than the 39 seats they needed to seize control of the House, walloping Democrats from Florida to Michigan. Pelosi, elected in San Francisco in 1987, had become a national symbol of voter rage. The very achievements for which she was hailed as one of the...

This is a brief analysis of the 2010 Election, through the eyes of someone with a bad head cold. The powers that be, the Establishment types, the RINOS, and the MSM are eager to spin this election as a "refudiation" of both the Tea Party and of its erstwhile goddess / figurehead, Sarah Palin. They are doing this from what appear to be mixed motives; they would say that they want the GOP to win, but only if the prospect does not require them to vote for any of the great unwashed. (T. Coddington VanderVoorhes VII comes to mind, thanks...

Conventional wisdom suggests the 2010 midterm election was a referendum on the economy. That's not all it was. The public's distaste of Democrat-controlled government is much more profound. Congressional approval is at a miserable 14 percent, according to the latest pre-election New York Times survey. This is less than half the 29 percent approval rating of the last Republican Congress shortly before it was voted out in 2006, and below the 20 percent rating of the doomed 1994 Democratic Congress. Congress under House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid never got above 35 percent approval, and that...

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Elections officials are reporting “medium” voter turnout throughout the state with no back-up at lunchtime and isolated lines before work hours this morning. “It seems like an average of medium,” Department of State spokeswoman Jennifer Davis said late this afternoon. Light turnout could bode well for GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott, whose campaign blocked nearly all of the 589 rooms at the waterfront Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina hotel for his election party. Republicans have outpaced Democrats in early and absentee voting for the first time. Historically, midterms have far lower voter turnout than presidential elections, particularly among blacks and young...

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1. Intro. I have to say that I am of two minds about this midterm election. On the one hand, it is great to see the Republican party in resurgence. And not just in terms of raw politics: The Tea Party movement has given the GOP a sense of meaning and purpose in the domestic political debate that it has not really had since 1996 when Bill Clinton outfoxed the Republicans in the budget battle. On the other hand, as somebody who makes a living discerning trendlines before they develop, this has been frustrating. I’m not going to beat around...

Bias: Caught with their mikes and mouths open, people at an Alaskan TV station say they were only joking about making up stories about the GOP Senate candidate. Sarah Palin's not laughing, and neither are we. Like methane bubbling up from the bottom of a swamp, every so often we get glimpses of the overwhelming liberal bias that dominates America's newsrooms, nationally and locally. Such was the case when a call from Anchorage CBS affiliate KTVA to the Joe Miller campaign failed to disconnect and some revelatory comments were recorded. KTVA general manager Jerry Bever acknowledged in a statement that...

The expected Republican upset at the voting booth today is bound to leave many inside the Beltway confused. What on earth do the American people want? After all, just two years ago they threw out the Republicans, and now they are throwing out the Democrats. What Americans want is a government that stays out of their pocketbooks and out of their private lives. Under Presidents Bush and Obama, we've gotten just the opposite: government program after government program created with our money to socially engineer the economy. Evidence of voters’ desires lies in the huge swing we are seeing in...

Voters don't want to be governed from the left, right or center. They want Washington to recognize that Americans want to govern themselves. This isn't a wave, it's a tidal shift—and we've seen it coming for a long time. Remarkably, there have been plenty of warning signs over the past two years, but Democratic leaders ignored them. At least the captain of the Titanic tried to miss the iceberg. Congressional Democrats aimed right for it. While most voters now believe that cutting government spending is good for the economy, congressional Democrats have convinced them that they want to increase government...

On MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Chris Matthews cited an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finding that 62 percent of people “voting Republican this time” were making a temporary decision, while 28 percent are making a “long-term switch in party allegiance.” That “tells me, it’s an impulsive reaction, rational reaction, to bad times,” Mr. Matthews said. Elsewhere on television Monday night, Rachel Maddow said the GOP was reviving the “scare white people” tactic in the closing days of the campaigns; Mr. Olbermann suspended his “Worst Persons in the World” segment, at least for the time being; and Stephen Colbert queued up the ad that...

Ok, I voted at 6:31am ET and am checking in! I was going to shave before I went but I thought about it and decided showing up looking like a Visigoth was more apropos.. :)

And so, today, the American people will seek an honest reckoning with Barack Obama. Good luck with that. Whatever his other virtues this president will never be distinguished by his humility. Only three years ago, Americans became acquainted with a junior U.S. senator with an interesting personal history, notable rhetorical gifts, programmatically liberal ideas and zero legislative accomplishments. Whereupon he was hailed as a saint and elected president. When your "accomplishments" consist of legislation nobody is allowed to read prior to the vote, and nobody can comprehend after it, then no wonder the swine have failed to take appreciative note...