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ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: Could the health care bill be in real trouble in the House? The Democratic defections are starting to pile up in advance of a vote scheduled for tomorrow on sweeping health reform efforts. (That schedule could slip to Sunday or beyond, if the votes aren’t there.) According to the National Republican Congressional Committee -- which, of course, has an interest in watching this vote particularly closely -- 15 House Democrats and counting are saying publicly that they’ll oppose the measure when it reaches a vote. Democrats can afford only 40 such defections to squeak the...

Today there are lots of people trying to lobby their elected officials on the health care bill pending in Congress, and Gerry Connolly tried to get one of them arrested on false charges of assault, setting a new standard for utterly abysmal, beyond-the-pale horrible constituent service. This guy is absolutely unbelievable. Connolly is trying to claim he wasn’t aware anyone would want to meet with him today, and is refusing to talk to anyone standing in the long, long line of constituents that are snaking out of his office door and well down the hallway. Instead, his staffers are telling...

Barack Obama, creating history on his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as US president, said visiting the slave fortress of Cape Coast Castle yesterday reminded him of the capacity of human beings to commit great evil. [snip] Obama was also brutally honest about corruption and dictatorship. "No country is going to create wealth if its leaders exploit the economy to enrich themselves or the police can be bought off by drug traffickers. No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20% off the top... That is not democracy. That is tyranny even if you sprinkle an...

A mysterious thing happened in that speech Tuesday night. By the end of it Barack Obama had become president. Every president has a moment when suddenly he becomes what he meant to be, or knows what he is, and those moments aren't always public. Bill Safire thought he saw it with Richard Nixon one day in the new president's private study. Nixon always put a hand towel on the hassock where he put his feet, to protect the fabric, but this time he didn't use the towel, he just put up his feet. As if it were his hassock. And...

Obama Will Lose PA, Just Like He Did April 22, 2008 by murphy on October 28, 2008 I’m more convinced than ever. Between the race card, the sneering attitude of the media class, and the basic reflex of every American citizen to REJECT a canididate who does not represent their interests Obama will lose Pennsylvania next Tuesday. Maybe even by a wide margin. Americans aren’t stupid — Democrats aren’t stupid and neither are Republicans. There is NOTHING wrong with Kansas. This is a LIE. A lie perpetrated by the elite and esoteric theorists of the punditocracy because it is an...

What a GREAT day for the USA, and what a great way to display that we are not in ANY way, shape, or form like Spain! We do not take threats, turn tail, and run! We are the GREATEST nation on Earth and we will NOT submit to anyone! Join us if you want nations of the world, but we are NO ONE'S B Otch! I had great worries, but my faith is now restored. While I would have liked a Reagan-like landslide, with all of the lies and distortions, and absolute hatred towards our President, I'll take this ANY...

Does anyone know of a source (even here on FR) where I can find large, printable (preferably B&W for a laser printer) signs to take to the Bush Victory Rally tonight? I found some in 2000 that were 4 or 6 parts and assembled to make large signs. I would really like to take a sign that says "Who Would Osama Vote For?" or "10 out of 10 terrorists agree, Anybody but Bush" (preferably with graphics of some sort .. I am NO graphic artist!) I went to Bush/Cheney HQs this morning and they didn't have any signs left. Thanks!

OCnow.com Poll

I am listening to testimony before the Florida legislature. I am a fourth generation Floridian. I must speak up because I am thoroughly disgusted! THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT FLORIDIANS!! The only thing these people and Florida have in common is a moving van!! And you people want to know why Floridians hate New Yorkers?! What is with it with it with New Yorkers that causes them to incur brain shrinkage as they age? Every one of these people gets up in front of the mike with their disgusting New York accents and proceeds to state that they are from "FLAAAHRIDAH." ...

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Now that the Slickster will be histoire in a few weeks (I know... he may become NY mayor, and we have his wife to deal with ...) what shall we call CNN? Clinton:News:Network just won't fit anymore (at least until any possible Hillary for President ..shudders..) The only thing I can think of is the Commie News Network. Any thoughts?