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State Senate officials told Sen. Carole Migden's Capitol staff to go home for the week Thursday after the combustible San Francisco Democrat was overheard berating them. Enedina Hidalgo, the director of personnel for the state Senate, was in the hallway when she heard Migden screaming at the staff, according to a witness to the event. The source said Hidalgo later entered the office while the senator was not present on Thursday, informing the staff of their rights. Soon after, Hidalgo returned to Migden's office with Tony Beard Jr., the chief sergeant-at-arms of the state Senate. They told staff members to...

Bush Republicans Have It All Wrong October 30, 2007 Washington, DC - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement after President Bush threatened to veto funding important to the American people: "President Bush has it all wrong. Voting to end the war in Iraq is not wasted time. Voting to give low income kids health care is not wasted time. And voting to care for our brave veterans is not wasted time. The hypocrisy from this White House is almost unbelievable, even from President Bush. After signing $3 trillion in new spending, President Bush and his Republican...

No screaming on the Screamer! A suburban amusement park has gotten so many complaints from neighbors about bloodcurdling screams that it has instituted a no-shrieking rule for its scary new thrill ride, the Scandia Screamer, a gigantic, windmill-like contraption that sends people plunging 16 stories to Earth at nearly 60 mph. Riders who let out a screech -- or just about any other noise -- are pulled off and sent to the back of the line. "After the first complaint, our rule was no profanity," said Steve Baddley, general manager at the Scandia Family Fun Center. "Then neighbors said it...

This is a total vanity but I thought it was important, in the lead up to next Tuesday, to remind folks of what is really at stake.

Great expectations "Concern is rising among Democrats that party leaders could tear each other apart if the party fails to take control of the House or Senate in November," U.S. News & World Report says in its White House Week column. "Expectations are especially high about winning the House, and one adviser to Bill Clinton says if the Democrats fail, it could result in party leaders forming a 'circular firing squad.' Specifically, Democratic defeat could quickly undermine the leadership positions of Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi."

WASHINGTON Aug 3, 2006 (AP)— Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called Thursday for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, hours after excoriating him at a public hearing over what she said was a "failed policy" in Iraq. "I just don't understand why we can't get new leadership that would give us a fighting chance to turn the situation around before it's too late," the New York Democrat told the Associated Press. "I think the president should choose to accept Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation." Clinton confronted Rumsfeld directly on Iraq and Afghanistan earlier in the day, and said his answers left her convinced he should...

CELEBRATED LIB STRATEGIST HAS SHADY MARKET PAST Jerome Armstrong, the political strategist who followed a famous Internet fundraising effort for Howard Dean in 2004 with a book on "people-powered politics," has a sordid past as a shill for a worthless dot-com stock. Armstrong, 42, touted a dubious Chinese software company, BluePoint, beginning in 1999, without disclosing that he accepted "below-market" shares in exchange for the glowing reports he posted on a site called Raging Bull, according to a 2003 civil suit that named him as a defendant. "Armstrong posted over 80 times on the BluePoint message board located on the...

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Dear Mr. President, Please defend our borders! Ask Congress to make English the solitary official language, and then sign the bill! Help us to maintain the distinctive American culture! Legal immigration: yes! Say "No!" to open borders, illegal aliens, globalism and the America-Mexico-Canada-NannyState!

Bill Clinton, the guy who told us that he never cared about money, is getting paid $300,000 a speech by a country that his wife claims threatens our security (" 'Clinton vs. Clinton' Inc.," Editorial, March 4). With all that's at stake with the Dubai Ports World deal, isn't it time someone told these two narcissists that there are more important matters than their personal ambition? Their latest attempt at playing both sides of the fence is another reason no one should trust them with another term in the White House. Gary Mottola Brooklyn ****....Once again, Hillary is using terrorism...

RNC Response to Howard Dean's Appearance on CBS's Face The Nation 2/12/2006 12:42:00 PM To: National Desk Contact: Tracey Schmitt of the Republican National Committee Press Office, 202-863-8614; Web: http://www.gop.com WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- RNC Communications Director Brian Jones responded to Howard Dean's appearance on CBS's Face The Nation with the following statement. "Chairman Dean delivered his signature mix of pessimistic and wild-eyed rhetoric today. All the Democrat party leader was able to offer were negative and baseless attacks and an agenda that the President and the Republican led congress are already enacting." DNC CHAIR HOWARD DEAN'S LATEST...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday accused Republicans of "playing the fear card" of terrorism to win elections and said Democrats cannot keep quiet if they want to win in November. The New York Democrat, facing re-election this year and considered a potential White House candidate in 2008, said Republicans won the past two elections on the issue of national security and "they're doing it to us again." She said a speech by presidential adviser Karl Rove two weeks ago showed the GOP election message is: "All we've got is fear and we're going to keep playing the fear card."...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement on the resounding Democratic victories in elections in New Jersey, Virginia, and across the country: "The resounding victories tonight by Jon Corzine and Tim Kaine have sent a powerful message that when Democrats stand up for what we believe in, we win. They showed that the values and priorities of the Democratic Party are the values and priorities of the American people. "Jon Corzine and Tim Kaine were strong candidates who offered vision and leadership based on the shared values and priorities of the...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today applauded Democratic Leader Harry Reid for forcing the Republicans in the Senate to investigate the misuse of intelligence in the run-up to the war in Iraq. Dean issued the following statement calling on the White House and the Vice President's office to answer questions about their roles in manipulating intelligence to build support for the war, smearing opponents of the war, and covering up that smear campaign: "Last night, Senator Reid and his Democratic colleagues in the Senate stood up for the American people and for the...

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WASHINGTON -- Buck up, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. You're on the right track. Noisy is good. Mean is even better. The Republicans can ridicule you all they want. It only means you have their attention and they are worried. The lame-duck blues are upon them. And they need a taste of their own medicine. The Democratic congressional leadership, as usual nervous about Dean's outspoken habit, cravenly criticized Dean for recent incendiary anti-GOP comments and urged him to tone it down. But there's a reason the Democrats are in the minority everywhere in the federal government -- too much...

South Carolina Democrats will be holding their breath next week when their embattled national chairman arrives in town to have a few beers with the grass-roots and raise money for the state party. Please, Howard Dean, don’t say anything that will embarrass us or subject us to ridicule, the party faithful pray. Dean still is smarting from his remark that Republicans are “pretty much a white Christian party.” Several congressional Democrats have called him on the carpet and ordered him to halt his divisive comments. A handful of S.C. Democratic leaders tried to downplay a series of controversial remarks made...

June 18, 2005 — Republicans showered scorn upon Howard Dean when he said in recent weeks that the GOP is "pretty much a white Christian party," that many of its leaders "never made an honest living," and that a key Republican "is corrupt" and should "start serving his jail sentence." Some Democrats publicly disavowed the remarks by Dean, their own party chairman. But Dean did not back down. "We need to be blunt and clear about the things that we're going to fight for," he told Iowa Democratic leaders Saturday, according to the Des Moines Register. "People have criticized me...

Howard Dean, who has created plenty of headlines bashing Republicans, brings his fiery style to Dallas today as part of a three-city fundraising swing through Texas The tough-talking chairman of the Democratic National Committee will attend a rally at which participants will be asked to contribute $35. Later, Mr. Dean will be featured at a dinner hosted by Dallas lawyer Fred Baron, where donors will be asked to give $5,000 to $10,000. Other events are planned for Houston and Austin. Thus far, Mr. Dean's pointed criticism of the GOP hasn't translated into a fundraising bonanza, political analysts say. The Federal...

Catching flak has always been part of a political party chairman's job description. But the fire usually comes from the other party. The nicest thing many Democrats could find to say last week about their chairman, Howard Dean, was that he still had a lot to learn. Practically every nationally known Democrat from House minority leader Nancy Pelosi to 2004 vice-presidential nominee John Edwards seemed to be distancing themselves from Dean and his incendiary comments -- asserting that many Republicans "never made an honest living in their lives" and that the G.O.P. is "pretty much a white, Christian party." Says...

Washington, DC, Jun. 12 (UPI) -- Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean told party leaders in Washington to try casting traditionally liberal issues in moral terms. The former Vermont governor told the DNC executive committee meeting that putting issues such as education in moral terms is the key to Democrats winning back the White House, the Washington Post reported Sunday. "We have not spoken about moral values in this party for a long time," Dean said. "The truth is, we're Democrats because of our moral values. It's a moral value to make sure that kids don't go to bed hungry at...

WASHINGTON, June 9 - Just four months into his tenure as chairman of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean has found himself on unforgiving - if familiar - terrain. As he visited Capitol Hill on Thursday, he faced a growing number of critics and received a private scolding from leading members of his party for several derogatory remarks he has made about Republicans in recent weeks. Republicans have attacked him with glee for those remarks, which they have described as "below the belt," while Democrats have struggled to defend him yet have quietly acknowledged that Dr. Dean was showing signs of...

ATLANTA - Howard Dean, the former presidential candidate now heading the national Democratic Party, says Georgia could "shape up as pretty important" to his party in next year's elections despite its drift into the Republican column. "We've got an important governor's race I think we can win and important congressional races," Dean said Tuesday in an interview in advance of a swing through Atlanta for a "low-dollar," $50-per-person party fund-raiser. Money from Thursday's event will go to the national party, but it won't stay there, he said, explaining it will be used to hire staffers to help in party-building efforts...

Top talk radio host Rush Limbaugh called on DNC chief Howard Dean to release his medical records yesterday, after Dean said he was standing by his false allegation that Limbaugh was a cocaine addict. "It might be helpful if we could see his medical records," the radio host told his audience. "It might be helpful if we could get Dean's medical records and plaster them all over CNN because we won't really know the truth about anything until we get these medical records." Citing an interview last year where Dean admitted he had a drinking problem during his college days,...

EDITORIAL BOARD Saturday, February 12, 2005 All in all, it's been a pretty good couple of sports seasons for New England teams. Boston wins the World Series, and the Patriots win another Super Bowl. New England pols, however, are about to go 1-1 when Vermont's governor becomes head of the Democratic National Committee this weekend. The loss was, of course, the one U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, racked up in the 2004 presidential race. Oh, well, you can't win 'em all. Republicans are rather gleeful about the prospect of Dean taking over the national Democratic apparatus. Some Democrats are as...

Boy, 16, Charged With Assault With Deadly Weapon: A 16-year-old boy was charged with shooting his father in their southwest Harris County home Friday, Local 2 reported. The shooting was originally reported as a case of domestic abuse, but deputies said the boy apparently witnessed a sexual act between his parents and thought the father was abusing the mother. Sheriff's deputies charged the boy with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a first-degree felony. Detectives told Local 2 the mother and father were engaged in consensual sex when the shooting occurred at about 3:30 a.m. inside the family's home on...

I just got back from taking my Niece to the Airport. I mean Jacksonville, the Superbowl, Airport. This is the shirt i was wearing... I noticed a man coming in from a flight and staring at the shirt. He walked by and looked at me and I said to my Sister "That looks like Chris Matthews"..but of course we said no way. But a few minutes later the pager system says " Chris Matthews go to Concourse B". He came and it was him!! NO wonder he was staring so hard oat my shirt and glaring at me!!! HAHAHAHA...wanted to...

Approximately 600 Democrats gathered in a Sacramento conference hall on Saturday, January 22, to hear seven DNC chair candidates vie for the affections of a motley crowd composed of several dozen voting DNC members and a large assortment of Deaniacs. When it was the ex-Governor's turn to speak, it was Iowa all over again... "They're gonna do those things too. The difference is we're not going to send an army of mindless zealots out into the provinces to knock on doors -- you are gonna' do it because you believe in it, and because they're you're friends and neighbors!" --...

WASHINGTON - Liberal powerhouse MoveOn has a message for the "professional election losers" who run the Democratic Party: "We bought it, we own it, we're going to take it back." A scathing e-mail from the head of MoveOn's political action committee to the group's supporters on Thursday targets outgoing Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe as a tool of corporate donors who alienated both traditional and progressive Democrats. "For years, the party has been led by elite Washington insiders who are closer to corporate lobbyists than they are to the Democratic base," said the e-mail from MoveOn PAC's Eli Pariser....

Senator John Kerry on Sunday accused the Bush administration of letting "a nuclear nightmare" develop by refusing to deal with North Korea when it first came to office. In an interview, he argued that President Bush's preoccupation with Iraq let the North Korean crisis fester to the point that there were now indications that the country might be preparing to test a plutonium bomb. He presented his charges in a 15-minute telephone call he made to The New York Times. "They have taken their eye off the real ball," Mr. Kerry said, his voice almost shaking in anger. "They took...

After former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean’s protest-fueled primary campaign crashed, he reconstituted his effort as Democracy for America. Mobilizing its Internet-coordinated grassroots base, Democracy for America will work for progressive candidates and long-term change in the Democratic Party. In These Times recently talked to Dean about the presidential race and his own work. There’s a hardcore anti-Bush sentiment, but at this point not a good deal of enthusiasm about Kerry as the candidate. Are there ways in which you think he could overcome that? My view of all of Democratic politics is that we’ve been making a mistake. The Republicans...

"Al Gore: Wackadoo Wing"  May 29, 2004... Al Gore continued his vitriolic rhetoric against President Bush during an hour-long speech this week at New York University... a speech sponsored by MoveOn.org PAC. During his speech, Gore called for the resignations of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and CIA Director George Tenet. Also targeted by Gore for resignation were three of Mr. Rumsfeld's top civilian deputies - the deputy defense secretary, Paul D. Wolfowitz; Douglas J. Feith, the under secretary for policy; and Stephen A. Cambone, the under secretary for intelligence. By many news accounts,...

<p>Madison, Wis. -- It seems a lifetime ago, rather than just a few weeks in the supersonic-speed Democratic primary season, that Howard Dean's once high- flying Internet campaign for president came crashing down to earth, like such other onetime Internet stars as EToys and Webvan.</p>