Geez, hope he can fit it in between his reality TV gigs...
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich appears headed to trial in June after the judge overseeing his corruption case refused Wednesday a defense request to delay the proceedings until November.
In seeking the delay, Blagojevich's defense team cited a pending U.S. Supreme Court decision on the "honest services" fraud law and an avalanche of evidence handed over by prosecutors in recent weeks. Attorney Sheldon Sorosky told U.S. District Judge James Zagel that it would be "almost silly" to go ahead as scheduled on June 3.
But the judge disagreed, saying the defense has had more than a year already to prepare, regardless of what the nation's highest court does with the statute, which has been criticized as too vague. Justices have signaled they may throw out some or all of the law that grants the public the intrinsic right to have elected officials carry out their duties honestly.
Zagel said the jury will be concerned with the facts of the case as the trial begins, not the possibly shifting law. "There will not be opening statements on the law," Zagel said. "The evidence is what the evidence is."
Zagel also held that Blagojevich will likely be able to play whatever recordings he believes corroborates his claim that he did nothing wrong. The recordings would be played while Blagojevich testifies from the witness stand subject to objection by prosecutors on relevance grounds. Blagojevich, who has vowed to testify, has publicly demanded the playing of all recordings secretly made by investigators of his conversations in late 2008. Oh please, oh please, oh please, oh please ...
After court, Blagojevich's lawyers called Zagel's pronouncement on the playing of recordings a victory for the defense. Attorney Sam Adam Jr. said the more recordings the public and the jury hear, the more Blagojevich's innocence will become clear. Many of the recordings will demonstrate Blagojevich was not a criminal but a governor simply "doing political acts." Which in Illinois are one and the same ...
Adam said he expects people will think a mistake was made when Blagojevich was impeached and realize "not only did we get rid of him, I'd vote for him again," drawing laughs from reporters at an impromptu news conference at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse. Sure hope Mr. Adam got a fat retainer ...
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The National Law Journal reports that former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, wife of House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., has been declared indigent by a federal judge. That means she gets a public defender in her attempt to appeal her three-year prison sentence on a bribery charge to which she pleaded guilty. Heh. Good luck with that...
[Conyers] says she can't afford a lawyer...despite the fact that her husband who is the second-longest serving current member of the U.S. House of Representatives makes $174,000 a year....The court said that Monica Conyers provided information that established her inability to pay for a lawyer, including "a detailed description of her financial resources in the presentence investigation report and [the information] that Mrs. Conyers was on her own so to speak as to such resources." Therefore, the court said, "Further inquiry was not appropriate and would have intruded on private matters."
Hmmmmmmmm. Doesn't sound like he's gonna wait for ya, baby...
The article notes that according to federal guidelines, a family member's wealth cannot be considered when determining a defendant's ability to pay, "unless the family indicates willingness and financial ability to retain counsel promptly." Yeah, baby. Why should I pay when the guvmint will?
Bingo.
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her husband the second-longest serving current member of the U.S. House of Representatives
The longest serving member is also a Dumocrat from Michigan (John Dingell). No wonder Michgan is such a mess.
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I do believe Johnny boy is preparing to trade in his noisy unreliable clunker for a newer better model.
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You mean when the taxpayer will. These free loaders and leaches will suck the blood out of this country any way they can. If I were Rep. Conyers, I'd also watch my back. Hell hath no fury as a woman's scorn.
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His wife is a real POS and an arrogant one at that. She deserves to be behind bars.
I bet the old guy is just happy to be rid of her for a few years.
I hope Maxine Waters is next.
She is a crook and criminal from way back. Barbara Lee too.
Why is it almost every negro in congress has ethics issues?
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btw..the longest serving member of congress is Robert Byrd.
Also a Democrat and (former) KKK member.
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I wonder what Monica knows about her husband's dirty linen? Perhaps Rep. John Conyers is as clean as the newly driven snow on a country Baptist Church. Perhaps he should wonder who Monica will be talking to these next 3 years.
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Where was TOTUS? Without a prepared speach or a teleprompter he is a bufoon.
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Actually, FR, if he meant "Haiti" it's worse because Haiti isn't a state and he was talking about aid to states recovering from natural disasters. Though Hawaii did experience a tsunami - of about 12 inches - from the Chile earthquake. People had to leave the beaches for several hours! Oh, the horror!
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....and if W had made this comment, it would have been the lead story on every network and front page with considerable comment implied or exclaimed about his intellect.
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This is proof to me that speech writers just throw together a bunch of buzzwords and relivent jargon and present it as a speech because most people won't notice.
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I found myself wondering if I had missed news reports about an earthquake in the islands overnight...
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Spin Doctor to ER! Teleprompter transfusion Stat!
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In the posted clip, he doesn't say "purchase". He says "Louisiana provision, uh, provision". He might have said "purchase" elsewhere in the interview, but I'm surely not going to listen to his stumbling for 20 min to determine that.
And what's the context? Something about a provision put in place after Katrina?
Yes, he's a bumbler, but trumpeting a misquote ain't going to help the cause.
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The context is Obama's assertion that the clause benefitting LA is available to any state with a natural disaster. People who've read the bill say that's not true - Obama's covering up the outright corruption involved in hugely expensive special favors for legislators who vote yes on the bill.
So what is alleged isn't that he used the phrase 'Louisiana Purchase' but rather that he lied about the fact that that is exactly what it was - money for votes.
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Thank you lotp for clarifying. I had the same problem with KBK, and was a little concerned that he found the firing codes for the earthquake satellite ;)
(Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration is considering a carbon-trading system under existing law if Congress doesn't pass cap-and-trade legislation that allows companies to buy and sell the right to pollute, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official said today.
The existing Clean Air Act "could enable us to include emissions trading" within agency regulations aimed at reducing carbon dioxide and other gases that scientists have linked to climate change, Anna Marie Wood, a senior policy analyst at the EPA, said at an event in Washington hosted by the American Bar Association.
"We're considering all that right now and thinking about what might make sense," Wood said. While the agency "strongly prefers" that Congress pass new laws dealing with greenhouse gases, "we think that there's a lot of progress that can be made using certain tools under the Clean Air Act."
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Here in Australia, huge increases in electricity bills are being blamed on Carbon Emissions Trading legislation that hasn't even passed yet.
The Rudd government is trying to spin this away, but the meme is out there - true or not, it don't matter.
Carbon trading is electoral suicide in Australia.
We have 2 state elections on Saturday and we will see which way the political wind is blowing then.
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Let's take the case of one specific coal bed. The Powder River Basin produces 440 million tons of low sulfur coal per year. The latest price is $12/ton. At 50% carbon content, one ton of PRB coal produces produces 1.8 tons CO2. At $30/ton carbon tax, the effective price of this coal goes from $12 to $67/ton, a 558% price rise. That 440 million tons will no have an extra cost of $24.2 billion. At a national average salary of $41,000 that just wiped out the wages of 590,000 American workers like they never existed. That's the economy killing effect of carbon taxes from just one location whose energy is used to produce fully 20% of the nation's electricity. Now figure the ripple effect that will have throughout the nations economy and family pocketbooks.
That $24.2 billion will then be turned so many times by a politically connected, parasitic financial class so that no trace of the destroyed wealth will remain. Multiply that by the rest of the coal, gas, oil and that comes out to hundreds of billions of dollars per years raked off by the vultures that bought Obama the Presidency of these (dis)United States. They nor their children's, children's, children's, children's, children will never have to lift another finger except to deposit the fruits of the hard labor of the proles.
Our enemies couldn't devise a more sinister plan than this (besides shipping all our industry, technology and jobs to totalitarian, communist, mercantile and predatory regimes) to cripple America.
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I'm coming to a (very) reluctant conclusion that USG hates USA more than it hates Israel.
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That $24.2 billion will then be turned so many times by a politically connected, parasitic financial class so that no trace of the destroyed wealth will remain.
I don't think that wealth is there anymore. Carbon-trading will be like trying to scuttle the Titanic as it sinks. The parasitic financial class has already punched a huge hole in the commonwealth.
How hard would it be for Congress to amend the Clear Air act to take CO2 and H2O away from the authority of the EPA??
Households that get their power from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power could see their electric bills go up between 8.8% and 28.4%, depending on where they live and how much energy they use, under a plan unveiled Monday by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Appearing with labor and environmental leaders, Villaraigosa said the proposed increases would ensure that the DWP meets his goal of securing 20% of its energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar by Dec. 31.
The increased revenue would help pay for new environmental initiatives, including more aggressive conservation programs and a solar initiative designed to create 16,000 jobs.
But it also would address the DWP's failure to collect enough money to cover the cost of existing renewable energy initiatives and the fluctuating price of coal and natural gas, utility officials said.
"Nobody's denying that this is a big increase -- at least I'm not," said DWP Acting General Manager S. David Freeman. "Because we've put it off so . . . long, [ratepayers] have saved money in the last three years."
The mayor has been talking for weeks about the need for the DWP to charge more. Monday was the first day his team showed its estimate of the effects on consumers of the increase, which is scheduled to be phased in over a full year starting next month.
Under the plan, households that use the smallest amount of electricity -- technically known as Tier 1 customers -- would see an average increase of 8.8%. Those customers make up 58% of the DWP's residential ratepayers.
Tier 2 customers, who use more power and make up 36% of the utility's residential customers, would see an average increase of 16.8% to 18.9%. Tier 3 customers, who use the most power and make up the remaining 6%, would face hikes in their electric bills of 24.4% to 28.4%, according to documents provided by the mayor's office.
In the hotter San Fernando Valley, where ratepayers receive a slight break on their bills, the average Tier 1 customer would see monthly electric bills jump from $38.76 to $42.17 by April 2011. A Tier 2 customer in the Valley would see the monthly bill increase from $92.19 to $107.60, according to the proposal.
Businesses would see increases in the average bill ranging from 20% to 26%. Any increase would become less steep, however, once ratepayers adopt conservation measures or find ways to install solar panels and sell the excess power to the DWP, mayoral aides said.
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It still astounds me that that the Left keeps guzzling the climate change koolaid.
Rising voter anger will submerge far more political careers than rising sea levels will submerge obscure islands no-one can spell, say where exactly where they are, or more than couple of dozen people give a dam about.
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But it also would address the DWP's failure to collect enough money to cover the cost of existing renewable energy initiatives and the fluctuating price of coal and natural gas, utility officials said.
Even Sesame Streeters are smart enough to know that "Two of those things are not like the others." Too bad the news media is not as smart as a three year old.
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In the hotter San Fernando Valley, where ratepayers receive a slight break on their bills, the average Tier 1 customer would see monthly electric bills jump from $38.76 to $42.17 by April 2011.
This sounds low. These would have to be apartment dwellers who work in the daytime.
Back in 1980, the Washington Post's David S. Broder wrote a notable book, The Changing of the Guard, about the generational turnover of national and state leadership occurring at that time. It's happening all over again. We'll see dozens of congressional seats switching hands and sides in November, but the greatest transformation will be in the statehouses.
Even though just 37 of the 50 states have a gubernatorial election this November, the midterms are likely to produce so many new governors that a majority of all governors in 2011 will be newly installed.
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This was the biggest waste of stim money they could find? The Obama administration will halt new work on a "virtual fence" on the U.S.-Mexican border, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday, diverting $50 million in planned economic stimulus funds for the project to other purposes.
That vision, initiated in 2006 by President George W. Bush, called for a series of networked cameras, radar and communications gear to help speed the response of U.S. Border Patrol officers to catch illegal immigrants and smugglers over the vast border area. However, the effort has been plagued by technical problems and delays with prime contractor Boeing Corp.
Obama officials embraced the program, known as SBInet, on taking office in 2009, setting out a new five-year timetable for completion.
SBInet is the federal government's third attempt to secure the border with technology. Between 1998 and 2005, it spent $429 million on earlier surveillance initiatives that were so unreliable that only 1 percent of alarms led to arrests.
Analysts say technology remains a vital component of efforts to secure the border, a goal that includes combating terrorism, organized crime, drug cartels and illegal immigration. Tightened border security has also been viewed as a prerequisite for winning Senate approval of legislation that would extend legal status to some of an estimated 10.8 million illegal immigrants in the United States. Two disaters for the price of one!
Federal officials have said their goal was to enable the Border Patrol to detect 70 to 85 percent of incursions with as few as 22,000 to 25,000 officers.
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Right, Beldar. And that's exactly how we ended up with Obummer in the White House. I know, I know. McLame couldn't possibly be as bad as Obummer. But people were just sick of exactly this kind of nonsense. Sick I tell you...frustrated and angry because they won't listen to us. Hope the Republicans can learn a lesson from it. Hope it's not too late. Hope we can recover from the damage.
The pending health-care overhaul remains unpopular with a broad swath of the public, but core Democrats the party needs to show up and vote in November are strong backers, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.
Half of Americans, if they had the choice, would vote to replace every member of Congress, including their own representative, the survey found.
The survey found that opinions have solidified around the health-care legislation, with 48% calling it a "bad idea" and 36% viewing it as a "good idea" when presented with a choice between those two. That gap is consistent with surveys dating to the fall.
At the same time, Democratic voters strongly favor the legislation being pushed by President Barack Obama, particularly constituencies such as blacks, Latinos and self-described liberals. Those groups mobilized in 2008 to help elect Mr. Obama, but are far less enthusiastic than core Republicans about voting in this year's midterm elections.
The survey found a 21-point enthusiasm gap between the parties, with 67% of Republicans saying they are very interested in the November elections, compared with 46% of Democrats. "If the Democrats are going to close that gap, they've got to get their people excited. And I don't see how you get those people if you vote no" on the party's health-care legislation, said Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who conducted the survey with Republican Bill McInturff.
"I don't think it's about winning the middle. It's really about alienating the base," Mr. Hart said of Democratic lawmakers' calculations about the upcoming health-care vote.
The survey found that Mr. Obama's job-approval rating of 48%--as opposed to the 47% who disapprove--has remained steady since its precipitous drop last summer, which coincided with rising public opposition to the health-care initiative.
Where the health-care debate has been a drag for Mr. Obama's numbers, it also has been an anchor for Congress, which now has an anemic 17% approval rating. Half of Americans, if they had the choice, would vote to replace every member of Congress, including their own representative, the survey found.
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So if they don't pass the health dare bill, NO ONE will vote for them?
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-three percent (43%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20. Thats just one point above the all-time low (see trends).
Each time the President leads a big push for his health care plan, his job approval ratings suffer. Rasmussen Reports will release new polling data on the health care plan at both 10:30 and noon Eastern today.
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Conservative talk-radio host and attorney Mark Levin said he plans to file an immediate lawsuit if House Democratic leaders try to utilize a little-known maneuver under House rules to pass the health-care bill without actually having to vote on it.
"I cannot predict if we would win or lose -- this is not as simple as some would have you believe -- but I want to put the marker down right now and make it clear to members of the House of Representatives who think the quickest way to pass this is to adopt a rule that assumes that they voted on an underlying bill when they didn't -- that is going to be challenged if they do it," Levin said on his nationally syndicated radio show Tuesday evening.
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and I doubt that the funds needed to prosecute this lawsuit will be an issue!
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This is also a serious precedent. If you can use this maneuver to pass HC Takeover, then what legislation would not be eligible for this underhanded maneuver?
This is too important not to vote on. I want to see if I need to vote my rep out, and Nancy knows it. What she doesn't know is that I will vote my bum rep out if I have even the slightest suspicion that they may have voted the wrong way for something major that I don't like.
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My question would be: if it is passed then challenged in court will we still be paying the additional taxes on it (I'm just sure this will be placed right there next to ss, mc, futa, et al everyone's paycheck), secondly if passed then struck down we will be getting our money back, right?
I will gladly find the total paycheck withholding I would lose over the next 4 years and find a way to donate that amount to a legitimate legal challenge.
Second, I am going to get ahold of my state rep and senator today and urge them to follow Virginia.
Third, if you are in an area of waver, make some noise and give your rep cover (or reason) to vote no.
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Let's not get too frisky along these lines, 'k? Public expression of such thoughts isn't useful right now and it could land people in trouble. AoS
I really don't have a problem with imposing the law by force. The Obama Fox News interview revealed that the "Slaughter" provision, which critics say violates the Constitution. So Obama has made a public statement that the Constitution which has been the foundation that all laws have been built on will not be followed by his lawless regime. Get out of your state of denial because this massive take over of 1/6th of the US ecomy from within is the first strategic move against our entire set of liberties.
Elmaiger Hatfield7630, AoS wasn't expressing a state of denial. He was reminding Alanc and all of our esteemed commenters of the rules at this site.
I am reinforcing that message since you seem to have missed it.
Rantburg will not tolerate calls for violent actions against the government or against individual Americans. Period.
That rule does not say one blessed thing about the opinions of the moderators and the owner of this site. It does say that Fred maintains this site mostly at his own expense, along with donations, and certainly with a great deal of work. If you want to threaten armed revolution, do it at a site where you or someone else is willing to bear the legal liability and scrutiny that such language brings.
I do hope this is clear. If not, we'll repeat it more forceably. Emotions are running high about what's going on in Washington right now, my own included. That does not excuse and will not be used as an excuse to set aside the most basic rule at this site.
Gov. Paterson blasted his hand-picked choice for U.S. Senate for throwing him "under the bus" during his recent scandals.
Paterson, during a Wednesday morning appearance on Don Imus' radio show, took issue with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who earlier this month said the governor should resign if it was proven that he intervened in a domestic violence case against his top aide.
"That's about whenever you get in a jam, there are people who will throw you under the bus," Paterson said.
"Whenever you watch a movie or whenever you read a book about someone that's in terrible...in a difficult situation, there are always those who do that," Paterson continued. "They just don't expect you to get out from under the bus. And when you do, they should be forewarned."
Paterson selected Gillibrand, then an upstate House member, in January of 2009 to fill the seat being vacated by Sen. Hillary Clinton.
When Imus asked whether he had spoken to Gillibrand, Paterson said: "It's hard to talk to anyone when you are under the bus."
Paterson was also asked about the controversy involving Yankees World Series tickets and emails that, according to Paterson's attorney, show he was invited to the game. Paterson said he did not want to give "specifics" about the case but reiterated his claim that he did nothing wrong.
"The point is that this is a discussion that was discussed in advance and this was a situation where we wrote to them in advance explaining what we were going to do and I think when that all comes out, it will all work out," Paterson said.
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He never saw it coming.
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I saw what you did there, ed. ;-)
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For the third month in a row, likely Republican nominee Pat Toomey holds a nine-point lead over incumbent Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in Pennsylvania shows Toomey leading Specter 49% to 40%. Five percent (5%) like some other candidate, and seven percent (7%) more are undecided.
In December, Toomey led Specter by four points. However, in January, the GOP hopeful stretched that lead to nine, 49% to 40%, and posted a similar 47% to 38% lead last month.
Specter continues to maintain a solid lead over his Democratic Primary opponent, Congressman Joe Sestak. But Sestak runs more competitively with Toomey this month, trailing the Republican by just five points, 42% to 37%. Seven percent (7%) favor another candidate, while the number of undecideds rises to 15%.
The fact that the numbers have moved so little suggests that the race is still largely a contest about Specter and his ties to the unpopular national health care plan and other initiatives by the Obama administration. Any incumbent who at this stage of the race is polling less than 50% is considered potentially vulnerable.
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Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) taunted Sarah Palin today as a "wild Alaskan dingbat" who knows nothing about policy. This guy has "MSNBC" written all over him when he loses in November...
The comments come in response to Palin's speech at a Republican fundraiser in his home district on Friday. At the time, Palin had this to say:
"[W]hat can you say about Alan Grayson? Piper is with me tonight, so I won't say anything about Alan Grayson that can't be said around children. But thank you, Florida, for allowing candidates in a contested primary to duke it out over ideas and principles and values, all with the same goal, and that is unseating those who have such a disconnect from the people of America. That's what the goal is here in this race against Alan Grayson. Please fight hard, and do this for the rest of the country. Fight hard, and send a conservative to Washington, DC."
Grayson responded with a snarky email to supporters.
"I look forward to an honest debate with Governor Palin on the issues, in the unlikely event that she ever learns anything about them," he said.
The email continues: "Scientists are studying Sarah Palin's travel between Alaska and Florida carefully. They hope to learn more about the flight patterns of that elusive migratory species, the wild Alaskan dingbat." Stay classy, Alan ...
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Careful there, Alan. A wild Floridian moose can be easily mistaken for a wild Alaskan moose.
The hard work of Congressman Alan Grayson, D-Fla., paid off in a big way for the people of our district. A new analysis of grant information showed that federal grant dollars for Floridas 8th Congressional District increased by 98% during the Congressmans first year in office.
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This guy has "MSNBC" written all over him when he loses in November...
One Olbermann is bad enough. Why would they need two?
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That's right, 746. There are those of us who do. As for Grayson, he can hurl all the invective he wants. But he doesn't need scientists to figure out what Palin is doing. She is traveling around the country and making appearances on behalf of conservative candidates. Those conservative candidates who win their elections this year will remember who helped them when 2012 rolls around and they will then help her. So call her a dingbat all you want for now. Hopefully after 2012 we'll be calling her Madame President.
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Noone gives a r@t$ @$$ what you think about who should represent Republicans, 746 but thanks for sharing your ignorance.
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At this point Governor Palin is doing the Republicans a lot of good just by remaining in the public eye, shaping the debate on a number of serious issues -- death panels, anyone? It may be that this is the best role for her, or it may be that in time she will mature into a seriously electable politician. That she certainly is not ready at this moment doesn't matter in the least, and there's no way to predict what she will become over the course of the next decade.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The National Law Journal reports that former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, wife of House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., has been declared indigent by a federal judge. That means she gets a public defender in her attempt to appeal her three-year prison sentence on a bribery charge to which she pleaded guilty.
The Obama administration will halt new work on a "virtual fence" on the U.S.-Mexican border, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Tuesday, diverting $50 million in planned economic stimulus funds for the project to other purposes. 
Conservative talk-radio host and attorney Mark Levin said he plans to file an immediate lawsuit if House Democratic leaders try to utilize a little-known maneuver under House rules to pass the health-care bill without actually having to vote on it.
Gov. Paterson blasted his hand-picked choice for U.S. Senate for throwing him "under the bus" during his recent scandals.
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) taunted Sarah Palin today as a "wild Alaskan dingbat" who knows nothing about policy.
