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Me#1You#10
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Has America lost its collective mind? This radical leftist foments rancor and distrust in the very institutions of government whose "leadership" she covets.
This is scary stuff...
| Quote: | ELECTION 2006
America's referendum on war
Pelosi's countdown: She ticks off a list of changes, including a new Iraq strategy
Marc Sandalow, Washington Bureau Chief
San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, November 5, 2006
(11-05) 04:00 PST Glenside, Pa. -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi warned that a Republican victory Tuesday would prolong the U.S. involvement in Iraq another 10 years, as she embarked on a final push in a campaign that could make her speaker.
In an interview from her Capitol office, Pelosi characterized Tuesday's vote as a referendum on the war, shrugged off President Bush's efforts to make her liberalism a national issue, described the current GOP leadership as a "freak show," and expressed confidence about her party's prospects to pick up the 15 seats it needs for a majority.
"I know where the numbers are in these races, and I know that they are there for the 15; today (it's) 22 to 26," Pelosi said Friday.
Pelosi cautioned that the number of Democratic House victories could be higher or lower and said her greatest concern is over the integrity of the count -- from the reliability of electronic voting machines to her worries that Republicans will try to manipulate the outcome.
"That is the only variable in this," Pelosi said. "Will we have an honest count?''
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USMCWayne
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Has America lost its collective mind? |
You said it.
While I've voted for politicians of all ilk, I like to think of myself as someone with Democratic leanings.
But, more and more, I've found the Democratic party I long admired and respected has turned into a party of extremists, such as Pelosi, who are less concerned with being American and more willing to sacrifice anything and everything, including our country's security, just to be in charge.
Whatever has happened to the true politicians, those who would seek middle ground and actually tried to reach agreement with those in the opposing political party?
Gone with the 60's I guess. |
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kate
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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Speaker Pelosi is one thing I'm not ready for, and all the senior dems in line for committee chairmanships
Wiretap
An ad written by Dick Morris, and co-produced by CitizensUnited
will be seen nationwide on FOX News Channel in the days before the election.
view it here, pass it around
http://www.citizensunited.org/news/Read.aspx?ID=37
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Me#1You#10
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Contemplating the ramifications of a plausible Democratic success on Tuesday (call it looking for that silk purse from a sow's ear if you will), I could find but one glimmer of sustenance...that, perhaps, a re-taste of Democrats-in-action might be somewhat of a needed reality check leading into Presidential '08. I was pleased to read today that Jules Crittenden is, perhaps, thinking along the same lines (he appears to be on a bit of a roll these days)...
| Quote: | Bay State dems the best thing to happen to GOP
By Jules Crittenden
Boston Herald City Editor
Sunday, November 5, 2006
It’s that time of the election cycle when we get ready to take one for the team. I’m talking about conservatives. Here in Taxachusetts.
Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank and Mike Dukakis. Gay marriage and Willie Horton. The strictest gun controls in the nation, and gun violence is skyrocketing. John Kerry, still reporting for duty.
We all know the jokes, we’ve heard them all before. People are always amazed to learn that conservatives live here in Massachusetts. They wonder what that can be like. It can be galling to think that, in presidential elections, your vote doesn’t count.
It is nothing more than a symbolic gesture, to let the world know, for example, that more than a third of John Kerry’s voting constituents prefered a Republican from Texas.
But to view the national stage from Massachusetts is to know the bitter truth that our state plays an important role in America’s political theater. Every two years, bluest blue Massachusetts sends in the clowns. We show America what could be and America generally sees it and acts accordingly: runs in the other direction.
From Kerry’s insulting jibes at our troops, to the efforts by Kennedy and others in our delegation to undermine a wartime presidency and give Euro-style socialism a foot-hold in the New World, Massachusetts gives America its bogeymen.
We have a Democratic legislature here by default.
The hapless local GOP has been unable to muster challengers in any significant numbers, despite 16 years of managing to shoehorn a mixed bag of Republicans into the governor’s office. Even blue Mass. voters have wanted someone to put the brakes on. But that would appear to be over.
With the likely election of Deval Patrick as governor, we’ll give America a brave new Dukakis, not to mention an advance glance at an Obama administration. Watch and learn. It is perhaps the best 2008 gift we, Massachusetts, could give the GOP.
More Kennedy. More Kerry - no way he’s going quietly; his Web site now sports a Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial saying his dumb troops-dumb Bush joke was “right either way.” A rasher of Patrick. Frank in the Democratic House leadership. What more could a Republican candidate in 2008 ask for?
Among the GOP candidates in 2008 is likely to be Mitt Romney . . . another ironic Democratic gift to the nation. He gets trashed here at home for making Massachusetts jokes in Iowa and South Carolina. It could be his strongest suit. Mitt emerges from the Democratic wilderness, bruised and bedraggled from ridiculous combat with legislators who, for example, ignore lawful petitions in constitutional conventions to avoid giving the voters a say.
Mitt made his bones tilting at Ted 12 years ago - the most serious threat the Bay State’s 800-pound gorilla has faced in decades (this year’s challenger didn’t have a prayer).
Democratic control of Congress, should it come to pass on Tuesday, will offer America the spectacle writ large that Massachusetts offers in miniature. It won’t be the worst thing that could happen.
Speaker-hopeful Nancy Pelosi, suddenly faced with the prospect of actual responsibility, is begging her minions to keep a lid on it. You know they won’t be able to. As they engage in the destructive practice of investigating every spurious claim of rights-trampling that already has been hashed over repeatedly, we will get a sneak peak at the Democratic vision for America.
An America eager to ingratiate itself with the world and embrace any bizarre fringe cause that emerges. This is what we live with in Massachusetts. We hope for the occasional upset, so we can show America, see, we’re not all like that. There are rational, normal people here.
But this year, it looks like we’ll be taking another one for the team.
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LewWaters
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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Received this morning in email from Newsmax (not up on their site)
| Quote: | Some Jews Wary of Pelosi on Israel
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has been one of Israel’s staunchest supporters in Congress — but some fear that could change if she becomes Speaker of the House following a Democratic victory in the midterm elections.
Pelosi has visited Israel, reportedly has a perfect record of support for the U.S.-Israel relationship, and recently criticized former President Jimmy Carter after reading excerpts from his upcoming book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” which is critical of Israeli policy.
But the executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Matthew Brooks, predicted that as a lawmaker representing one of the country’s most pro-Palestinian districts, the congresswoman from San Francisco would be under constant pressure to back away from her earlier support for Israel if she becomes House Speaker.
“She will constantly have to look over her left shoulder,” Brooks told the Jewish publication Forward.
Brooks criticized Pelosi’s actions regarding a pro-Israel resolution during Israel’s conflict in Lebanon last summer.
She originally agreed to co-sponsor a resolution expressing support for Israel. But when the House International Relations Committee spurned Pelosi’s efforts to add language calling for both sides to refrain from harming civilians, she refused to co-sponsor the resolution, although she did support it.
Brooks said Pelosi “blinked” in a crucial moment for Israel.
“She literally stripped her name off a resolution supporting Israel because she thought it was not evenhanded enough and too pro-Israel.” |
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blue9t3
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| Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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Her numbers come from pols that say nothing as we've seen before.MSM and newspapers are working overtime to tweak voter perceptions,I think by tommorow evening we will start hearing a different tune. 
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baldeagle
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On the other hand.......................The Congress from hell
http://usawakeup.org/CongressFromHell.htm
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greasepaint
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| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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Republicans did it to themselves.
they couldn't yell three dollar gasoline, loud enough |
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