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Irresponsible Pols Created Atmosphere for Arizona Shootings
Tweet Share on Facebook January 9, 2011 Comment (56)It is Sunday morning not nearly 8am. My husband and children are sleeping and I sit here writing this blog you, America.
This all started yesterday. On the weekends, I usually like to unplug my computer and shut off my cell phone to focus on my family and create some downtime from my busy work schedule. I turned on the computer to look up movie times and then I saw the announcement of the massacre that took place in Arizona. Six people dead, 13 wounded…the story went on. And then I read about Christina Green, 9 years of age. And honestly, I wept. I wept for those families, I wept for our nation and I specifically wept for the Green family. No one should have to bury their child. This I know all too well. I had to bury my son in 2004.
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Palin Aide's Inane Bullseye Map Defense
Tweet Share on Facebook January 9, 2011 Comment (96)Sarah Palin’s famous bullseye map was both offensive and stupid. And while Palin’s camp has taken it down in the wake of yesterday horrific shooting in Arizona, one of the former half-term Alaska governor’s aides has, incredibly, upped the ante for offensive stupidity.
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Don't Rush to Politicize Arizona Shooting
Tweet Share on Facebook January 8, 2011 Comment (89)A monstrous act was committed in Tucson this morning. This is what we know from news reports: Someone with a gun opened fire at a constituent event which Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was holding at a grocery store. Giffords was among those shot.
This remains uncertain or entirely unknown: How many victims this tragedy will claim, whether the congresswoman will pull through, the identity of the shooter—reportedly taken into custody—and their motivation.
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6 Reasons It Was a Good Week in Washington
Tweet Share on Facebook January 8, 2011 Comment (7)“Hope and Change” are finally coming to Washington, two years after President Obama promised them. The tone in our fair city changed this week, not just at the White House or in the Congress, but seemingly everywhere. Here's why:
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Obama's New Chief of Staff is 'The Wolf' of Pulp Fiction
Tweet Share on Facebook January 7, 2011 Comment (3)In Quentin Tarantino's 1994 opus Pulp Fiction, two hitmen—portrayed by John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson—find themselves in a pickle after accidentally shooting of a colleague on a California freeway. Frantic, Jackson's character phones his gangster boss, pleading for help. Not to worry, says the boss, “Wait for The Wolf—who should be coming directly.” The Wolf—played brilliantly by Harvey Keitel—arrives on the scene, briskly barks directions and coolly cleans up the mess.
Enter William “The Wolf” Daley—Barack Obama's own hope for a swift and smooth political course correction.
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Clinton Vets Like Daley Show Dems See Obama as Empty Suit
Tweet Share on Facebook January 7, 2011 Comment (6)The meaning behind the utterly surreal episode in the White House press room several weeks ago in which former President Bill Clinton dazzled the assembled reporters while Barack Obama left for a Christmas party is now clear. It was a deviously subtle way to announce the Obama administration was coming to an end, to be replaced by the third Clinton administration.
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Supreme Court's Scalia Says Discrimination Is Constitutional
Tweet Share on Facebook January 7, 2011 Comment (22)LAKEWOOD, COLO.--Antonin Scalia is now officially the Archie Bunker of the Supreme Court. I can hear it now: "If broads had wanted Constitutional protection, they shoulda asked for it!"
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Democrats Should Stop Talking and Start Listening
Tweet Share on Facebook January 6, 2011 Comment (8)As I was watching the festivities on Capitol Hill yesterday, I was thinking about Nancy Pelosi’s request to filmmaker Steven Spielberg for help in rebranding the Democratic party. If Mr. Spielberg reads this post, please ask E.T. to phone House Democrats.
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Change in Congress Looks Awfully Familiar
Tweet Share on Facebook January 6, 2011 Comment (10)Players may change, and the party which controls the chambers of Congress may change, but one thing stays distressingly consistent: the House is run by an iron-handed majority, and the Senate is run by the minority.
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It May Be Time to Get Rid of the RNC and the DNC
Tweet Share on Facebook January 6, 2011 Comment (3)The GOP is currently in the midst of a pitched battle that will determine who the next chairman of the Republican National Committee will be. The current chairman, former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, wants the job for another two years, but the criticism leveled against him by some members of the committee over what they perceive as his unsteady, even rocky, leadership makes his re-election unlikely, say those who are counting votes.
