[Washington Examiner] Pennsylvania Republicans are up in arms over a mailer that went out all over Bucks county. The mailer, which you can see here, tells voters that their participation the election is "in jeopardy" and includes an application for an absentee ballot. The mailer comes with a prepaid envelope so voters can return their absentee ballot requests to the P.O. box of the official-sounding-but-entirely-fictitious "Voter Assistance Office."
As it happens, the campaign manager of Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Pa., is one of two people cleared to pick up mail from the P.O. box listed on the mailer. In fact, the Pennsylvania Republican Party has a photo of what it claims is the P.O. box in question with campaign manager Tim Perisco's name on it.
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For those of you who haven't clicked the link to the article and read the letter to the court that is linked in the article, I encourage you to do so. These tactics are common (from both sides). This kind of activity should be thoroughly investigated, and those involved should be prosecuted, but none of that will happen. This is a great example of how politicians and their cronies view our system; they could care less about honor or integrity in the voting process. They only care about power, and your vote and your freedom don't mean SQUAT to them.
No matter which party comes out on top in next week's midterm elections, getting legislation through the next Congress will be an uphill battle at best and virtually impossible at worst.
Regardless of who wins the majority next week, more pratfalls than policies may emerge out of the 112th Congress, observers warn.
"Both parties don't like to work with each other. We keep seeing that over and over," said Julian Zelizer, a Princeton University professor of history and congressional expert. "It's like Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football." Then the money paragraphs:
"There's nothing more urgent than stopping the tax hikes, cutting spending and repealing Obamacare," Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Republican leader John Boehner, told FoxNews.com.
If Democrats retain the majority, they say they want to overhaul the immigration system, pass climate change legislation and spend more money to turn the economy around and reduce the deficit. So there is your choice. Reduce government footprint or more government. Cut taxes and get buisness moving or more taxes and regulation. Make a good call America.
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"getting legislation through the next Congress will be an uphill battle at best and virtually impossible at worst"
Why "at worst"?
Given what the bast*ards have done so far, "impossible" seems to be the best outcome for us.
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Gridlock is better than what we've had since the donks came into power 4 years ago and O came in 2 years ago. There is a lot of repair work that needs to be done.
I wonder if there is any interest out there on a balanced budget amendment to our Constitution.
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I would welcome gridlock as a step upward in government.
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It is possible they will ignore the will of the people. The anger of the people will not abate. They must produce or will be removed. Every tool will now be used against them. Ignore the will of the people at you own peril. It is not business as usual.
[Iran Press TV] A US analyst says US President Barack B.O. Obama is unlikely to end his first term as there are serious efforts by American officials to remove him due to his incompetence.
"It is very doubtful at this time that he will last his first term," Edward Spannaus of Executive Intelligence Review
How clever of the Iran PressTV journalist to consult the ever-reliable Larouche team.
said in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday. "There are people who are upset within the administration and the Democratic party who are seriously considering how to remove Obama from presidency," Spannaus added.
Many of them put out all their calls for removing Obama under the amendment 25th of the US Constitution. The amendment allows for the removal of the US president if he is incapacitated either physically or mentally.
Spannaus also opined that people in the military are upset because Obama "is not attentive" to what is going on. "We have troops killing and being killed and he is not interested in dealing with it," he further explained.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Spannaus said people inside the White House say, "Once he got into the White House he is very unhappy having to govern ... he is very frustrated, he is very depressed, some reports say he is on medications and he cannot concentrate or focus, which is a mental problem."
"It is the question of what he is going to do now in this term, the question of the second term is out of the question," he concluded.
According to a new Harris Interactive survey released on Tuesday, just over one-third or 37 percent of respondents have positive opinion about Obama, while about 67 percent of Americans disapprove Obama's performance on jobs and economy.
A recent opinion poll conducted by Gallup had previously revealed that more than half of American voters would not support the re-election of Obama.
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Just in case you weren't familiar with it, the "Executive Intelligence Review" is a creature of Lyndon LaRouche.
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If he finishes one term and then leaves, will be as irritating as Jimmy Carter in his senile years? or as vulgar as Bill Clinton in his pedophile years?
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"Once he got into the White House he is very unhappy having to govern ... he is very frustrated, he is very depressed, some reports say he is on medications and he cannot concentrate or focus, which is a mental problem."
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Whatadeal, he'll investigate more golf courses than O.J. ever did ...
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...remove him due to his incompetence.
Well, it ain't gonna happen, NOT to say I disagree with the principle.
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Won't happen. The race card (and their own rising poll numbers while he's in charge) will ensure the Republicans don't try to impeach him. The Dems wouldn't dare because if they turned on him they'd lose the black vote entirely. More likely a landslide of Democratic money starts to go towards Hillary for the 2012 primary challenge.
The only scenario I can see Barrack voluntarily stepping down would be if he knew he would lose the primary to Hillary by a landslide. Otherwise he'll fight them at the ballot boxes with his dwindling percentage of hard core lefties hoping the other side decides not to show up on voting day.
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If he finishes one term and then leaves, will be as irritating as Jimmy Carter in his senile years? or as vulgar as Bill Clinton in his pedophile years?
YES think of both as one person, then throw in really aggravating TV "preacher"(Reverend Ike for example) and add a permanent whine, "They wouldn't listen to me"), and you're close.
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Hillary Clinton is eagerly waiting in the wings to be called by her party. She is no better than Obummer. Both are radical leftist idealogues.
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I certainly hope nobody takes him out (he won't be impeached). I want him to finish his term alive, bitter, and repudiated. Making a martyr of him would overshadow his overreaching socialism, arrogance, lack of credentials and experience, and general jerkery.
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Making a martyr of him
It changed JFK from a marginally incompetent president into 'one of the greatest ever.'
This is, I believe, a serious risk, and I hope he respects his Secret Service people more than his Dem predecessor did. They have their work cut out for them, God bless 'em.
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"Once he got into the White House he is very unhappy having to govern ... he is very frustrated, he is very depressed, some reports say he is on medications and he cannot concentrate or focus, which is a mental problem."
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rjshwarz hit the nail on the head. Race card beats an ace
Dunno about that. If enough investigation on all the DoJ and other corruption goes on and it keeps pointing back to Bambi, enough people will be pissed enough to have House feel comfortable to start impeachment proceedings. I have often wondered since this Chicago boy was elected if he would finish his first term without being impeached.
Only if he had a stroke. Which I do not wish on anyone. An impeachment effort would not be effective unless the Republicans have veto-proof majorities in both Houses, which isn't likely to happen. The president is not going to step down -- why should he, when he can golf and go headline rallies on the government dime for a few more years, things he's good at -- although it's likely, in my uneducated opinion, that he will choose not to run again.
He should have stayed in the Senate, where he could shmooze and posture to his heart's content without any accountability.
The guy doesn't even enjoy being president. He's constantly trying to shirk the work and sneak out to the golf course.
As ex-President he can everything he likes about the job, and none of the work and criticism.
He was always just a face anyway, the left put him forward as their only electable front. He's becoming a liability and the left will find a new face and persuade him to retire.
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First (and hopefully only) Affirmative Action President.
This is probably the first time in his entire life he's had a 'real' job where he actually has to work and is held responsible for it. He doesn't like and, by all accounts, Michelle defiantly doesn't like it.
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I could see him doing an LBJ and bailing out of the '12 campaign if it looks like he's not going to get the nomination.
I could also see him being Jimmy Carter 1980, with a strong primary opponent in Ted Hillary Kennedy Clinton. How that would play out would be dependent on how the "superdelegates" lined up.
Resign before 1/20/13? Not flamin' likely.
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O reminds me of the Kennedy joke, "Its my football so we play by my rules". In my opinion he will cling to everything he believes. When November elections are over he will continue as he has. He would have been called an Oreo in the old days by his own people. He desperately wants to be black so he clings to his teachings as a life preserver. He will rally his people to himself at the expense of the country. Riots like in France are very possible. It is a sad thing to see. He is a very weak man and will go out kicking , screaming and possibly in a straight jacket.
[Geo TV] U.S. President Barack B.O. Obama on Tuesday cast his absentee vote for mid-term election in his home state Illinois, according to the White House.
White House Spokesman Minister of Information Robert Washington Bob Gibbs said during a regular briefing that Obama cast his absentee vote in the West Wing. Responding to a question about who Obama voted for, Gibbs said that's "a private decision."
Gibbs then told news hounds that "I can assure you, I know who he voted for governor and Senate in Illinois -- the two Democratic candidates who I believe will win."
The mid-term election is scheduled to take place next Tuesday, but advance voting has already begun. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 37 seats in the Senate and 37 governorships are up for grabs.
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only one? How un-Chicago of him
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He casts votes for his brother in a shack, his grandma ma in the housing development, and his dead father and mother may they RIP. Thats the Chicago way.
[Washington Examiner] A new independent poll in Pennsylvania's race for U.S. Senate shows Republican Pat Toomey with an apparent lead over Democrat Joe Sestak.
The Franklin & Marshall College poll released Wednesday shows Toomey supported by 43 percent of likely voters to Sestak's 36 percent. About a fifth remain undecided with a week until next Tuesday's election.
A September poll by Franklin & Marshall showed Toomey leading by 9 percentage points. Other pollsters last week showed the race tightening.
Toomey and Sestak are vying for the seat held by antiquated five-term Sen. Arlen Snarlin' Arlen Specter, whom Sestak beat in the May primary.
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Huh. Interesting. It matches my anecdotal experience while doing GOTV calls this last week. There's a significant number of "undecideds" which I don't think will actually vote. A *lot* of people try to beg off by claiming they only vote in presidential years.
On more than one call, I've heard Sestak or Toomey ads booming on the TV in the background as I was calling the household. They must be airing 24/7; I haven't had cable for going on four years now. All that high-pressure advertising is going to drive down turnout.
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No matter which party comes out on top in next week's midterm elections, getting legislation through the next Congress will be an uphill battle at best and virtually impossible at worst.
[Iran Press TV] A US analyst says US President 
I'll give you one good reason he'll never be impeached or otherwise removed from office. 
