The bipartisan panel investigating allegations that the Justice Department wrongly abandoned a case against the New Black Panther Party plans to issue a new round of subpoenas and call for a separate federal probe following explosive testimony from an ex-Justice official, a commissioner said.
As the case heats up, members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights may even travel to South Carolina to track down one witness.
Former Justice attorney J. Christian Adams on Tuesday testified before the commission that his former employer not only abandoned the voter intimidation case for racial reasons, but had instructed attorneys in the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims.
Commissioner Ashley Taylor said the panel will send out a letter as early as Wednesday calling for the Justice Department to open an investigation into the charge. The letter will go to Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, who in May told the panel to bring any such claims "to our attention" if there's evidence.
"I think (the testimony) provided the evidence of the policy he said he was unaware of," Taylor said, calling Adams' allegations "serious" and "shocking."
Further, after Adams repeatedly urged the commission to pursue testimony from former voting section chief Christopher Coates -- whom the Justice Department is accused of shielding -- Taylor said the commission will renew its subpoenas for Coates and others. He expressed optimism that the attention and interest building in the case would put pressure on Justice to free Coates to testify.
"I could tell just from the reaction of the other commissioners, we want to hear from him," he told FoxNews.com on Wednesday. "I am confident that if we just keep asking the right questions ... all the facts will come out."
Taylor said the Coates subpoena would go out within the month, and that commissioners may even travel to South Carolina, where Coates has been transferred, to issue the subpoena. The rules require that the commission be within 100 miles of a witness in order to issue one.
Adams, who has been accused by the Justice Department of distorting the facts and promoting his own "agenda," repeatedly claimed Tuesday that Coates would be able to corroborate his story.
The department abandoned the New Black Panther case last year. It stemmed from an incident on Election Day in 2008 in Philadelphia, where members of the party were videotaped in front of a polling place dressed in military-style uniforms and allegedly hurling racial slurs while one brandished a night stick.
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The non writing of history is in full effect. The most important political story of the day and in the Washington Post:
Not on the Front page.
Not on the Politics page.
Not on the Opinion Page.
Not on the Federal Government page.
Matter of fact a seach of "Civil Rights Panel" returns no mention of this.
Nothing on Ezra Klein's Super Duper page. One would think at least one of the 400 crack JournoList Super Sleuth reporters would have notice this illegal effort to subvert the American election system by the sitting federal government. But no.
Spit.
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Gee Ed, there's lot of things WaPo isn't noticing lately.
For example, not one word about NASA's new mission to help the self-esteem of Muslims.
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Maybe if Zero ends up having to throw Holder under the bus they'll notice.
The Democratic pols who got campaign cash from crooked financier Hassan Nemazee are being asked to return the dirty money so it can be forfeited to the feds.
More than 100 political committees and charities have been sent letters "advising them that they received the proceeds of fraud," according to papers filed in Manhattan federal court.
"Some of these organizations have returned the donated funds; some no longer exist; some have advised that they donated the Nemazee funds to charity upon learning of the defendant's arrest; some have declined to return the funds; and some are in the process of reviewing their records and evaluating the government's request," prosecutors wrote.
Anyone planning on checking out the organizations that no longer exist?
The filing does not identify any recipients of Nemazee's loot, but the Harvard-educated con man was national finance chairman for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, and also a big donor to leading liberals including President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, ex-President Bill Clinton and ex-Vice President Al Gore.
Prosecutors told the judge that they planned to "promptly provide a further update...with respect to this process."
The court papers also allege that Nemazee's wife, Sheila, has been stymieing efforts to sell his $16.5 million Park Avenue co-op, two properties worth about $2.4 million in upstate Katonah and an apartment in Rome and an estate in Puglia, Italy, that Nemazee says he bought for $1.7 million each.
Sheila Nemazee -- who continues to live in the plush Park Avenue apartment with her hubby and two of their kids -- claims she is a part-owner of the various properties, for which no payments have been made since Hassan Nemazee was busted last year, the papers say.
Nemazee faces nearly 20 years in the slammer next week when he's sentenced for swindling $292 million from Bank of America, Citibank and HSBC.
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What about Crist?
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Pres. Obama is the best fundraiser the Dem Party has, but his drawing power is way down from its peak during the '08 campaign.
Obama is heading to MO and NV today to raise money for Sec/State Robin Carnahan (D), running for an open Senate seat, and Senate Maj. Leader Harry Reid.
But Carnahan's campaign wasn't able to completely sell out the Folly Theater, where Obama will appear for a grassroots event on Carnahan's behalf, at the prices they wanted. Tickets once priced at $250 are now going for $99, while $35 tickets are half off....
Inside the lonely building
sits the candidate.
His speech is typed and ready,
the hundred-dollar plates
sit on deserted tables,
beneath flourescent lights.
But no one comes to hear him,
no cheers disturb the night.
So where are all the voters?
Where the voter's wives?
They've all gone to the movies
trying to understand their lives.
The candidate is slipping
into some dream of old,
not noticing around him
a thousand rubber chickens going cold.
--Al Stewart, "The Candidate" (from the album Russians & Americans, released in 1984)
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they'll have a raffle:
1st prize is a boxed set of Oblahblah's speeches. 2nd prize is two boxed sets
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I would pay $17.50 just to fart in his general direction.
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Let's get a table.
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The FOLLY Theater?? LOL
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they will end up paying people too go that way dumbass can say he ccreated some more jobs
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Another voter fraud scandal involving the Justice Department. Via InstaPundit
But there is some evidence backing up Mr. Adams. Last year, Justice abandoned a case it had pursued for three years against Missouri for failing to clean up its rolls. When filed in 2005, one-third of Missouri counties had more registered voters than voting-age residents. What's more, Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, a Democrat who this year is her party's candidate for a vacant U.S. Senate seat, contended that her office had no obligation to ensure individual counties were complying with the federal law mandating a cleanup of their voter rolls.
The case made slow but steady progress through the courts for more than three years, amid little or no evidence of progress in cleaning up Missouri's voter rolls. Despite this, Obama Justice saw fit to dismiss the case in March 2009. Curiously, only a month earlier, Ms. Carnahan had announced her Senate candidacy. Missouri has a long and documented history of voter fraud in Democratic-leaning cities such as St. Louis and Kansas City. Ms. Carnahan may now stand to benefit from voter fraud facilitated by the improperly kept voter rolls that she herself allowed to continue.
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A stinky business. But what else would one expect from racial activists? Not equality for all, that's for sure, rather superiority for 12%.
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Boxer's below 50%, which is Usually a sign of impending doom for the incumbant. But this is California and you can't poll fraud. Over 40% of ballots cast will be absentee, and a huge percentage of those will be illegals and other fraud.
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I'd be overjoyed about this news if Fiorina wasn't such a weak candidate who has a boat load of her own negatives. Just wait until Boxer cranks up her campaign. It's gonna be a real cat fight.
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Carly's sub-optimal, sure, but she has the one thing that matters in CA electoral politics: deep pockets. Sling the mud right back, with a multi-million $ advertising blitz.
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Cali is pissed and looking to throw someone under the bus. Boxer. Is. Toast. The Gov's race is a toss up but Moonbeam appears to be a loser. After that, nothing will change and Cali will sink.
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Some Democrats, even in Arizona, are fearing an election backlash over immigration, as President Obama sues Arizona over its new immigration enforcement law and pushes Congress to pass a comprehensive immigration overhaul.
"My concern is that the federal government is suing the state of Arizona, ironically, over the ability to enforce immigration laws -- where if the federal government had been doing its job over the years, we wouldn't be in this situation in the first place," Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., said.
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, the Democratic nominee for governor, urged the Obama administration to back off Arizona's new law, which allows state and local authorities to ask people for immigration documents during unrelated enforcement encounters such as traffic stops.
The president appears to be out of step with public opinion on immigration. The latest Fox News Opinion Dynamics poll shows 2-to-1 support nationwide for Arizona's law, including 73 percent of Republicans, 57 percent of independents and one out of three Democrats.
On immigration, the GOP accuses Democrats of ignoring a border crisis and selling out national security to cynically court Latino votes.
"The reason why both parties are playing football with immigration is because their supporters in the stands are cheering," said Larry Sabato, director of University of Virginia's Center of Politics. "This plays to the base on both sides. It's red meat for the base."
The liberal red meat served up by Democrats mostly stops short of calling Republicans racist but does call GOP immigration policy hostile to minorities, particularly Hispanics, the biggest and fastest growing U.S. minority.
But in Colorado, a recent Denver Post poll said 62 percent of Colorado Hispanics favor a law like Arizona's. The state's Republican gubernatorial front runner Scott McInnis supports it. But Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper, the mayor of Denver, opposes it, putting himself at odds with those Colorado Latinos.
"Until Washington D.C. realizes that they are being absolutely and totally failures at border security, you can't talk about immigration reform," Texas Gov. Rick Perry said.
On the other hand, Perry has seen his Latino support plummet and his double-digit lead over Democratic challenger and Houston Mayor Bill White all but vanish since the Arizona controversy began.
Separate from border states wherever a close race emerges this year, count on immigration to be a prominent wedge issue.
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If I were a total cynic, I would encourage Barak to push Amnesty. That policy is even less popular than Obamacare (75% against vs 60%).
Obama and the liberals think that the votes they lose in Arizona will be made up by Latino votes in the other states. However, as this article hints, Latinos on the firing line do not want psychotic murderers, kidnappers etc. pouring over our borders.
I predict that, if Obama keeps pushing this, he will cost the dems an additional 5-10 seats in the House plus cost Boxer her job.
Al
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On the other hand, Perry has seen his Latino support plummet and his double-digit lead over Democratic challenger and Houston Mayor Bill White all but vanish since the Arizona controversy began.
So now Rick Perry is in trouble because the demographics have shifted against him? These stupid Republicans are just as much to blame as Obama and they will have only themselves to blame when they find themselves in California type situations where it's impossible for them to win. They knew what was happening all along and they acquiesced to it. They shot themselves in the foot.
They're politicians, 3dc. Usually not at the top of the intelligence scale to begin with. The phrase 'One Sandwich Short of a Picnic' springs to mind.
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On the other hand, Perry has seen his Latino support plummet and his double-digit lead over Democratic challenger and Houston Mayor Bill White all but vanish since the Arizona controversy began.
More B.S. I voted druing the Primaries here in Texas. The number of people voting Republican in my precinct out numbered the Dimrats 5 to 1. There are a lot of anti-Dimrat voters and that hasn't stopped one bit. Perry will be re-elected Governor in November.
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He's pretty worried about accommodating illegals that can't even vote, and wouldn't be able to for years even if they were given amnesty. He's already got the latino vote in his pocket, why all the nose-to-arse? Or is this just something he thinks he can get a 'win' out of?
I wish he'd show that much interest in creating better conditions for the growth of jobs for legal citizens.
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" Perry has seen his Latino support plummet and his double-digit lead over Democratic challenger and Houston Mayor Bill White all but vanish"
Are all these people being polled citizens? "Latino support" might include people who aren't even eligible to vote. You think those polling outfits ask to see someone's papers before they ask their opinion? I wouldn't worry too much about poll numbers in the media. The only poll number that matters is on election day.
Of course, with mail-in ballots, practically anyone can vote as many times as they want.
We need to get rid of mail-in general voting and enforce showing up at a polling station with valid ID. US election procedure would not pass muster in any other country in the world.
The White House has said the decision to challenge Arizona's immigration law was out of its hands, left completely up to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and the lawyers at the Justice Department.
But the implications of the suit filed Tuesday are potentially huge for President Obama and the Democratic Party as the election season begins in earnest later this summer. The federal lawsuit all but ensures a politically charged immigration debate will be in the spotlight in many crucial House and Senate contests.
Obama will be called upon frequently in the next several months to make the government's case that the Arizona measure unlawfully preempts federal law. As he campaigns for Democrats at town hall meetings around the country, it will be Obama -- not Holder -- who will be at the center of the intense discussion.
A senior Democratic strategist said Obama will probably seek to avoid directly defending the government's suit, or attacking the Arizona law, which remains popular in most polls. Americans largely see the law as an effort to do something about illegal immigration in the wake of federal inaction.
Instead, Obama will try to argue broadly about the need for comprehensive immigration reform and will say that the Arizona law does not represent the kind of action that he thinks is needed.
"There is probably some short term pain politically given how popular the law is," said the Democratic strategist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the government lawsuit had not been filed at the time. "But considering the demographic changes the country is undergoing, long term, there is a lot of upside in advocating for Latinos and comprehensive immigration reform."
The immigration issue is complex and regional, playing out differently in different parts of the country. In border states, anti-immigrant sentiment can run high, but it also often countered by the feelings of large numbers of Hispanic voters.
It's an issue that can create political wildfires that are not easily controlled.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) found that out the hard way as he started his campaign for president in 2007 by making much the same argument on behalf of comprehensive immigration reform that Obama now advocates.
At one town hall meeting after another, anti-immigration activists bombarded McCain with angry comments, even in places -- such as Iowa and New Hampshire -- where his handlers had not expected huge concern about the issue.
McCain abandoned his support of an immigration overhaul in the face of the red-hot anger within his party. Since then, the anger has spread more broadly, helping to spark the tea party movement and push immigration to the forefront in several state election races. Now facing a tough primary challenge in his reelection bid, McCain has endorsed his state's law and wants to send thousands of National Guard soldiers to the border.
In a statement issued Tuesday in advance of the Justice Department's official announcement, McCain condemned the decision to challenge the law.
"The American people must wonder whether the Obama Administration is really committed to securing the border when it sues a state that is simply trying to protect its people by enforcing immigration law," McCain said in the statement issued in conjunction with Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.).
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"But considering the demographic changes the country is undergoing, long term, there is a lot of upside in advocating for Latinos and comprehensive immigration reform."
Decadence defined: buying office by deliberately trashing state budgets, schools and hospitals/ERs.
Latin America North, that's us. Oligarchy is here.
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I heard this the other day.
Since Obamaa says fences and armed guards won't work, why doesn't he tear down the White House fence and fire HIS guards?
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As we grumble and the law suit drags on Zero is waiting. He will lose the law suit, and he knows it. By the end of 2011 he will announce his plan of amnesty for the millions. Blame the right for being bigots and say he is only trying to help the minorities from the haters on the right. He will do this just in time for the elections. We are not yet inside his decision cycles yet. If he plays the timing right he will be reelected.
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It's an issue that can create political wildfires that are not easily controlled.
President Obama could care less about a misguided state law. Moreover, he has no intention of pushing congress to pass immigration reform. (Comprehensive or otherwise) Lets be clear. Immigration continues to be this administrations favorite diversion. First, immigration is a wedge issue and a guaranteed distraction for all sides. Plus it gives the chattering class something other then more reports of a bungled economy to blather about on the evening news. Promises of the most transparent WH may be coming to fruition just not the way they meant.
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Obama faces political challenge on Arizona case
No shit, you just now noticed?
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If the Dems were on the side of the American people, they'd find a way to make AZ's law work. Instead, they seem to be devoting their time to trying to shove their opinion down the majority's throats by using the institution of government as a tool to accomplish their goal.
Makes no sense unless you look at it from a perspective involving payback/corruption/bribery.
Rep. Darrell Issa (Calif.), a top House Republican, described a colorful chance encounter with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in an interview published Wednesday.
Issa, the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has been a thorn in the side of the Obama administration on many issues, particularly on claims that that the White House offered Senate candidates jobs to get out of primaries against candidates backed by the White House.
In a profile, the New York Times detailed Issa's claim that Emanuel gave him the middle finger:
As a sign of the pride Representative Darrell Issa takes in annoying the Obama administration, consider his account of a recent exchange with Rahm Emanuel, a former congressman and now the White House chief of staff. In describing the episode -- a chance encounter outside the House gym -- Mr. Issa smirked and raised his middle finger.
"That's the only thing Rahm did when he saw me," Mr. Issa, a California Republican, boasted in an interview in his House office. He waved the unfriendly digit in the air like a trophy before folding it into a nub (to mimic Mr. Emanuel, who lost part of his finger in a long-ago meat-cutting accident).
The piece describes Issa as President Barack Obama's "Annoyer-in-Chief." Emanuel denied that the incident ever happened.
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NYT says Issa "smirked" and "boasted". Nope, no bias here.
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President Obama's approval rating among independents has taken a hit, according to a new Gallup poll. Just 38 percent of independents give Obama positive marks, the first time that number has dipped below 40 percent. Obama garners 81 percente approval among Democrats and just 12 percent of Republicans.
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The thrill is gone. Now go cling to your guns and religion ya racist bastids.
Ethics probes encircling Rep. Charles Rangel have earned him sympathy with voters, the embattled lawmaker said Wednesday.
Rangel (D-N.Y.) expressed confidence he would retain his seat and win a 21st term given the sympathy, which emerged after he temporarily stepped down as chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means panel.
"My community [has supported me] beyond my expectations, not that I don't have enough ego to get by," he said on WNYW-TV's "Good Morning New York" program. "My community has put confidence in me and they want me to continue."
Rangel faces a primary challenge from Adam Clayton Powell IV, whose father once held Rangel's seat.
The Harlem congressman blamed the press for trumping up his ethics problems.
He gave up his chairmanship in March after the House ethics panel admonished him for violating rules for attending a corporate-backed trip. Rangel also faces scrutiny for not reporting $75,000 in earnings on his tax returns and for owning several rent-controlled apartments in Manhattan.
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Heh...with my idiot constituents, I'm bulletproof, honkeys.
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He's got everything he'll ever need to get reelected in Harlem.
The Department of Justice announced Tuesday it is suing Arizona over its controversial immigration law, saying it conflicts with federal statutes.
In its complaint, the department said that it is seeking a preliminary injunction that would delay the July 29 implementation of the law pending the result of the case. The federal government is also seeking to quash the law on a permanent basis.
The government's court complaint claims the law threatens the federal government's responsibility to create immigration policy, saying that it is an attempt to create "local" immigration standards.
"Although states may exercise their police power in a manner that has an incidental or indirect effect on aliens, a state may not establish its own immigration policy or enforce state laws in a manner that interferes with the federal immigration laws," the complaint reads. "The Constitution and the federal immigration laws do not permit the development of a patchwork of state and local immigration policies throughout the country."
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So the feds think they can force a state to commit suicide?
For some reason, it seems to me that the founding fathers probably would have thought that this idea was so stupid that it wasn't worth writing into the Constitution.
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And furthermore, if this is the case, then perhaps AZ can keep it in the "indirect" territory by bussing all illegal aliens to Washington, DC. One way.
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Obama is playing politics with immigration, working for the next election. We are fighting over right and wrong. He could care less. So what we in Arizona must do is change our tactics. We need to drop 1070. Announce we dont have the time, money or effort to fight this. Then announce what we do have the time and money to fight is the law suits against him and the fed for not doing their job. Announce that Obama is supporting human trafficking and slave trade. Sue him for civil right violations on behalf of all the mexican in Arizona. Then sue the fed for the cost we spend to care for the Mexicans. I'm sure there are some civil right legal types that would love this. Tear apart his party from the inside. We have to get in the game with this idiot.
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The cynicism here is breathtaking. But let's not forget that both Tweedledum and Tweedledee play the pander-to-Aztlan game. It was a Republican president who pushed for and passed the original bill that opened the floodgates, the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" (?) bill in 1986. Both of the GOP's candidates for national office in the California races this fall are bending over backwards to signal their opposition to Arizona's law.
We will not avoid Mexification so long as this political class retains power. Time for a new political class in this country.
Even if he loses, he will be slamming the right as racist and further establishing a brown coalition for years, playing the race card for all it's worth, he needs it, the left needs it, ( they have been historically the most racist party in the U.S. Look it up).
I think this lawsuit is brilliant politics on his part.
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While Washington incumbents are trembling at the prospect of losing their seats and Democrats fear losing their majority in Congress, Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, is a man apart. As a gone-viral videotape of a June 26 Fremont town hall meeting shows, Stark, 79, is the rare D.C. pol so secure that he feels little need to be civil to folks who show up at his town hall meetings.
Is there anything more pernicious than a safe congressional seat?
First elected in 1972, Stark has called various colleagues in the House "a whore for the insurance industry," a "fruitcake" and a "fascist."
In 2008, he made Esquire's list of the 10 worst lawmakers on Capitol Hill. "Stark gives bumbling, dyspeptic old fools who say stupid things a bad name," Esquire explained.
When the Office of Congressional Ethics investigated charges that Stark wrongly claimed a homestead tax exemption for his Maryland home, committee staff found that Stark "was extremely belligerent" and insulted them.
Stark is so problematic that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could not name him as the new House Ways and Means Committee chairman in March, even though he was first in line. Apparently Stark's Blue Dog Democrat friends did not appreciate being called "brain dead."
Stark ranks third among the House's top vote-missers.
Back in Fremont, however, Stark is king, if a cranky king.
At the town hall meeting, Stark went out of his way to insult Steve Kemp, who identified himself as a member of the Minuteman movement, which supports tougher border enforcement. "Who are you gonna kill today?" Stark asked. He then told Kemp he would "try to get you some more arms and get you" to the border "to shoot people."
The really amazing part: Kemp, who was taping the meeting, had caught Stark on tape before. Remember? A man told Stark, "Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining," and the Beltway big shot responded, "I wouldn't dignify you by peeing on your leg. It wouldn't be worth wasting the urine."
Chris Pareja, who is gathering signatures to challenge Stark as an independent in November, observed that Stark went for the bone against "a dog that's already bitten him."
GOP challenger Forest Baker isn't a fan of Kemp's tactics. Yet he noted, Stark "rose to the bait just exactly the way they wanted him to. He disgraced himself. He whipped himself into a lather. He really lost control."
Liberal blogger Robert Cruikshank, however, lauded Stark's performance as "one of the best responses I've seen by anyone to these immigrant-bashers: Mock them relentlessly."
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Republicans are poised to win more gubernatorial seats in 2010 than in any election during the past 90 years - a feat that would eclipse the 24 seats won during the "Republican Revolution" of 1994, a new study shows.
The GOP also has a good chance to challenge the party's tally of 29 seats it won in 1920, its best showing during the 20th and 21st centuries, according to an analysis by Smart Politics, a nonpartisan blog.
"We are going to see a historic or near-historic year for the GOP" in gubernatorial elections," said Eric J. Ostermeier, a University of Minnesota professor who writes and moderates Smart Politics.
While the 1994 elections are best known for the Republican's 54-seat swing in the House, the two dozen governor seats won by the party that year was the most since the 24 seats it captured in 1966. The GOP also won 24 seats in 1928.
Yet Republican gubernatorial candidates are looking even stronger in 2010 than in 1994. The latest public opinion surveys give Republicans the advantage in 28 of 37 states holding gubernatorial elections this year, says Smart Politics, which is run by the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
"A lot of these polls are obviously fluid and a lot of these are within the margin of error, but they're almost all tilting toward the Republicans in a lot of these tossup states," Mr. Ostermeier said. "So 25 [seats] is definitely a number I think that the Republican Governors Association is going to try to hit."
Polling shows that gubernatorial candidates in 15 of these states would win by double digits: Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming.
GOP candidates also have more narrow advantages in Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Vermont and Wisconsin, the blog says.
Democrats currently lead in the latest polling in just seven states: Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire and New York. Independent candidate and former Republican senator Lincoln Chafee has a narrow lead in Rhode Island, the blog says.
Maryland Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley is in a tight re-election race against former Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. Some pollsters show Mr. O'Malley with a slight advantage, although a Rasmussen Reports survey from early June shows the race as dead even.
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It would be better than Dems.
But I'm not even sure that Repubs are selling what we really need any more.
Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons refuses to bury the hatchet with President Barack Obama and has no plans to greet the Commander-In-Chief when he arrives in Las Vegas Thursday.
Gibbons, who is in the final months of his term, blames Obama for the state's unemployment crisis, saying his statements about Las Vegas cost 200,000 people their jobs.
"I am hopeful Obama does not make more insulting remarks about Las Vegas and further damage our economy," he said in a statement to FOX5.
Gibbons is referring to comments the president made in February, when he said families shouldn't blow their college savings in Las Vegas.
That statement, which followed a 2009 remark about bailed-out companies scheduling junkets in the city, drew criticism from both sides of the aisle.
"It is ironic that Obama badmouths Las Vegas, puts Nevadans out of work, then comes here to raise money and campaign for Harry Reid," Gibbons said.
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Is there anyone out there this guy hasn't pi$$ed off yet?
Once and for all folks: Do not use monkey / ape / chimpanzee photos when commenting at Rantburg about the current POTUS, no matter how clever you think you are being.
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That photo was of a pissed off gibbon. Get the joke?
Yeah, we got it.
Har. Har.
Don't do it. It makes the Burg look like a pack of racist twits. That's not what we're about.
This is a bright-line policy for us, and it WILL be enforced.
AoS
Posted by: ed ||
07/08/2010 8:55 Comments ||
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#5
Once and for all folks: Do not use monkey / ape / chimpanzee photos when commenting at Rantburg about the current POTUS, no matter how clever you think you are being.
Oops, sorry. Just for the record, the pi$$ed off gibbon was not intended to be a caricature of Obama. It didn't even cross my mind.
As to why it would cross anyone else's, I have no idea, either.
#8
Pity. As a tri-racial person I've tried not to be racist nor submit to inferior status. I was wrong. The right kind of dhimmitude is expected.
I no longer wish to participate when a pun can not be made even when the target is not of a protected race/class. But because a protected person is peripherally involved in the story, we must walk on eggshells.
What has this gotten us? The first explicitly racist president of the United States in my memory. Denial river is rotten and it stinks.
Eric Holder was right.
Adios.
Posted by: ed ||
07/08/2010 14:20 Comments ||
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Where photos of simians are concerned Wiser to walk on eggshells, I think. As the officer in the Kipling story said to his fellow soldier who was boinking another officer's wife, "Is it worth it?"
#13
Ed, being offensive is a gift. Be proud and wear it loud. Don't leave please!
Posted by: Ford Maude Elle ||
07/08/2010 17:43 Comments ||
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I kinda feel the same as Ed when I start belting out the lyrics to a JaRule Jlow duet, that I assume jaRule wanted me to buy, since he took my money. But if I sing his lyrics out loud, my kids sream at me to shut up! I am NOT allowed to say that... WTF? should never sold it to me in the first place.
Back to Yanni for me.
#15
I'll write what most of the rest of us are thinking: It's clear to me that one or more of the mods are oversensitive blacks, liberal (or both) or suffering from racial guilt.
I agree with filtering inappropriate vulgar commentary, but 8 years of Bushisms against a president I didn't like anyway was too much to take to swallow what the 'bright-line policy' is pushing; what a guilt-laden power trip.
I'm not a bible-toting churchgoer, but it is fitting this is my 314 comment...
#16
I'm afraid, logi_cal, that your thinking is way off base on this issue.
It's annoying even to have to address this sort of thing, but since you seem to be currently obsessed with the mods and their beliefs, perhaps it's useful to note that:
Fred is retired military from the intel side.
Pappy is retired military, a veteran wounded in combat. The real physical kind, not the keyboard kind.
I am the wife of a retired military officer and professionally am involved in Defense activities.
Trailing Wife is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and a father whose work directly benefitted the fighters who founded the modern state of Israel.
Steve White is a cardiologist and researcher at a rather prestigious medical school.
Not one of us, or of the other mods, has either the time or the need to play racial PC games.
What we will do is enforce the very few but very real lines regarding racial speech here.
#18
Not sure what "finito" means, I live here in Northern Mexico, or that state that believes one should follow the rules. Here on the Burg Fred has rules, it's his land, not mine. Don't want to respect them, start your own blog, but grow some thicker skin. You will need it. Adios and good luck.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
07/08/2010 23:20 Comments ||
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#19
Agreed, this is Fred's garden and the mods have very few rules, but all firm rules.
I have been gone for a while from "day to day" interaction, but am always glad I can step away for a while, and yet come back home to the same high quality Rantburg, on days when my "world view" needs some cross checking.
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