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Rangel Charges Could Cost Democrats the House
Tweet Share on Facebook July 30, 2010 Comment (24)If the Democrats are extremely unlucky, former House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel is about to become the poster child for everything that is wrong with Washington.
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John Thune's Deficit Proposal Could Launch a 2012 Presidential Bid
Tweet Share on Facebook July 28, 2010 Comment (1)South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune garnered national attention in 2004 when he ousted Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle from the seat he had held since 1986. There have been a lot of eyes on him ever since.
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Polls Show Voters Think Democrats Are Too Liberal
Tweet Share on Facebook July 27, 2010 Comment (15)With less than 100 days to go until the November 2010 elections, the Democratic Party is suffering from an image problem. Rather than be seen as “the party of the people,” several recent surveys indicate that the liberal label has once again been hung around its neck like an albatross.
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The Republican March to Majority Is Stalling
Tweet Share on Facebook July 22, 2010 Comment (8)The latest Gallup Poll shows, as my bloleague Robert Schlesinger wrote here Wednesday, that registered U.S. voters now--by a narrow margin--prefer to have the Democrats in charge in Congress after the next election.
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Republicans Plan to Make Death Tax a 2010 Election Issue
Tweet Share on Facebook July 21, 2010 Comment (33)As they gear up for the fall elections the Republicans are planning to make an issue of the forthcoming Obama tax increases slated to go into effect on January 1, 2011.
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Al Franken May Have Won His Senate Seat Through Voter Fraud
Tweet Share on Facebook July 20, 2010 Comment (44)It looks increasingly likely that at least one member of the United States Senate may owe his seat in the world’s greatest deliberative body not to his charisma or the persuasiveness of his message but to voter fraud.
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Democrats' Energy Bill Efforts Are Running Out of Gas
Tweet Share on Facebook July 19, 2010 Comment (8)The Democrats’ inability to move an energy bill through Congress has been a major disappointment to those who thought Barack Obama’s election meant an end to the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels. Despite their early optimism, buoyed by the successful passage in the House of a cap-and-trade energy tax bill, it’s looking more and more like nothing moves in the Senate before August.
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Newt Gingrich: Tea Party and NAACP Should Cohost Town Hall Meetings
Tweet Share on Facebook July 16, 2010 Comment (72)The public argument over the NAACP’s condemnation of the Tea Party movement has the rhetoric flying fast and furious on both sides as each fight to establish that they hold the moral high ground.
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NAACP Anti-Tea Party Resolution Is Cheap, Cynical Politics
Tweet Share on Facebook July 13, 2010 Comment (73)It was not all that long ago that the likes for Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox, Sheriff and one-time Democratic National Committeeman for the State of Alabama Theophilus “Bull” Connor and others garnered national attention through their attacks on the civil rights movement. One frequently used tactic by the movement’s critics was to seize on isolated incidents and the outrageous behavior and statements of some of its activists to brand everyone associated with it as subversive, dangerous, and un-American.
This use of a broad brush approach to discredit didn’t work then--and it shouldn’t work now. Yet the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will, at its national meeting currently underway in Kansas City, Mo., attempt to make use of this very same tactic when it votes on a resolution condemning the racist element in the Tea Party movement.
You would think they would know better.
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Polls Show Why Republicans Could Win Big in November
Tweet Share on Facebook July 12, 2010 Comment (22)Things continue to look bad for the Democrats. Appearing Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs conceded there are enough congressional seats in play to deny the Democrats another turn as the majority party in the U.S. House of Representatives.
