Tuesday's Primary Races, the Nine to watch the closest....

Starting this morning and throughout the day, states around the country are running their primaries which we hope will continue the new message being sent via we angry Americans through the 'tea party' and our own voices, that 'real hope and change' is coming in November.

Change that started in Virginia, continued to the Brown capture of the so called "Kennedy Seat" which Kennedy's late fat ass almost flattened into Two Seats for starters, not to mention the seat Republicans scored when Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou won Obama's Hawaiian Home District last week as well in a special runoff election to replace the man leaving to run for governor.

A candidate who is actually one of the 'first' democrats to actually 'quit' the present office to run for another, instead of 'double dipping', like most do, including Obama, who screwed Illinois as we all know by running for and then winning the Senate seat, then almost immediately abandoning it months later while still 'grabbing those paychecks' while conning the country into electing him president..

Well, at least the ignorant half.

In the Senate, Democrats are struggling to hold on to, among others, seats once held by Obama here in Illinois which Mark Kirk is seemingly blowing to a bank robber with a suit, Alexi Giannoulias, along with Joe Biden Jr's seat.

Democrats are preparing to lose as many as 30 House seats — including a wave of first-term members — and Republicans have expanded their sights to places where political challenges seldom develop.

These are the top races to watch for today again thanks to Politico and some others.

South Carolina’s freak show politics, the progressive left’s Arkansas muscle flexing, the astounding and obscene amount of statewide election spending in California — at least $120 million-plus and rising — all of it is part of Tuesday’s dramatic primary election narrative.

Yet the headline-grabbing excesses of a few states have obscured a larger fact: With a Senate runoff, a House special election and 10 states going to the polls, it’s the single biggest day on the 2010 election calendar prior to November.

With so many contests on the ballot, here is POLITICO’s guide to the nine best races to watch Tuesday.

Arkansas Senate Runoff

With Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s career on the line, this one easily rates as the day’s marquee Senate contest.

Sure, this race is about ambition — no one has ever described Lt. Gov. Bill Halter otherwise — but the real story of the runoff is in its implications for Democratic centrists across the nation.

Fueled by progressive support, Halter’s campaign accelerated from zero to 60 in almost no time, rapidly closing the gap on a well-funded, scandal-free two-term incumbent who carried the White House imprimatur.

Whether Halter topples Lincoln or not — he had a slight edge in the most recent poll — the lesson many moderates will take from Arkansas is clear: Don’t mess with the left.

Read more: Tuesday targets: Nine races to watch - Charles Mahtesian - POLITICO.com

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We are Better than That ! Alabama Man Dale Peterson..Tells it like it is | plus Beck Interview Video...

This man is great and the kind of man I want with his itchy finger on the Button pointed at Mecca since 911. Too bad he's only running for the Agricultural position but in that state it's a 4 billion dollar budget. I know, chump change for tax and spenders, a fortune for we working Americans.

Here's the man being interviewed by Glenn Beck as well, and HT out to a new place who friended me on this new Arkayne Social Network where I found these great videos, Logisticsmonster.

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In Case You Missed | Scranton Joe Eloquently Informing Obammie the Commie Marx Would Be Proud!! (f bomb)

They can't let Scranton Joe out of his pen for 5 minutes before he puts his foot not in mouth, no for this guy who does this daily, it's back up his a**.




At least he can use his new Obamacare coverag......whoa I forgot, the "big wigs" they don't need the illustrious care they said would be comparable to the congressional menu of choices as is covered in the post above this one in case you missed it.....Left wing Suckers!!!!

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FOXNews.com - Ron Paul Wins Presidential Straw Poll at CPAC

I don't know what this means, if anything, but Ron Paul is now the winner of CPAC's straw poll, other than to show that 2012 is a long way away.

Here's his entire speech by the way, pretty good, parts one, two and three.....




Part two.... part three.

FOXNews.com -: "Ron Paul has ended Mitt Romney's three-year run as conservatives' favorite for president, taking 31 percent of the vote in the Conservative Political Action Conference's annual straw poll.

Paul, a Republican congressman from Texas known for his libertarian views, ran for president in 2008 but was never a serious contender for the GOP nomination.

Romney, former Massachusetts governor and also a 2008 GOP candidate, has won the last three presidential straw polls at the annual conference. This year, he came in second, with 22 percent.

Sarah Palin, who didn't attend the conference, was a distant third in the straw poll, with 7 percent, followed by Tim Pawlenty, the Minnesota governor, and Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana.

The straw poll is not binding -- and not necessarily a good forecaster, given that in 2008, John McCain went on to take the party's nomination over Romney.

Results of this year's poll were announced just as the crowd prepared for the conference's keynote speaker, Fox News host Glenn Beck." more

This article talked about his domination of the event, drawing the largest crowds and he's done that before and frankly it just could point to the fact that more republicans are moving away from the party towards tea party libertarianism is on the rise.

Ron Paul dominates CPAC with largest, loudest audience  "Did Ron Paul just launch his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012?

To anyone who watched any of the other Republican stars give their speeches at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, the difference between Paul and the rest was clearly one of enthusiasm and volume. Indeed, it seems objective to report that the libertarian-leaning doctor from Texas was greeted more like a rock star than a politician.

And, Politico notes, he was the only speaker at CPAC to completely fill the convention hall."  more

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Scott Brown Wins, as 50 Years of Ted Kennedy "Camelot" Crap Finally Ends

Hey, the Kennedy's are Americans too, so I don't hate their family, they've mostly given their lives to this country in one form or another to be fair, more than I've been able to, yet. Some were great, but some not so great, like everyone's family.  However....

Thank God it's over, as the people of Massachusetts remember their Patriot roots and finally shed themselves of that 450 lb albatross known as The Kennedy Political Dynasty. Now a couple more moves and that state will be the place to move alright as the Northeast starts bleeding purple for the first time in 50 years.  I lived there one year as a child.

Martha Coakley just delivered her concession speech btw, a good one in fact, at 9:00 pm cst.

Our founders came here just to get away from that kind of stuff, and politically today it's over for that clan as Scott Brown pulls down the victory, like he said earlier, "returning the 'Ted Kennedy Seat' to the people" shaking the political landscape heavily in the favor of the Tea Party People.

Let's just hope he isn't corrupted and contaminated by the lure of power and money like so many other bright politicians. It's something in the water, they're called lobbyists and they can be persuasive to even the straightest arrows.

The left is really gonna bum out on this one, and start that BDS rage all over again directed at that man pictured above, the winner, Senator and Colonel Scott Brown.

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We'll still have Patrick Kennedy, although he really doesn't count since most of his time is spent in rehab, yet he still could be in Rhode Island ruling his seat for the next 40 or 50 years like his dad in Massachusetts,  since there's only about a thousand people there and he knows them all...lol just kidding if somebody from there actually reads this, especially if your one of the few conservatives!

Anyhow, this is what Obama is looking like right now, along with the far left coast loons in Washington, as they know their days are numbered big time.  So now look for them to do the almost unthinkable and try to still attempt to ram their cracked agenda down our throats like Barney Frank and the boys on TwoFer Tuesday at the local bathhouse.

Some more links

Dems face 'un-ignorable wake-up call' (OneNewsNow.com): "A columnist for The Boston Globe predicts that if Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown wins tonight in Massachusetts, President Obama's healthcare legislation in its current form will be defeated."

The Scott heard 'round the world (WorldNet Daily): "BOSTON – Republican Scott Brown, who waged a late surge in Massachusetts to battle President Barack Obama's agenda head on, tonight captured the Senate seat held for more than four decades by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.

Globe jumps the gun in online map goof - BostonHerald.com: "Not so fast.In a premature online Dewey beats Truman moment, boston.com today posted an online map of Massachusetts voting results declaring Attorney General Martha Coakley the winner of today’s special U.S. Senate election."

The left spin from CNN Wolfie Blitzkrieg   aka Wolf Blitzer

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Obama to Massachusetts To Pull A 2016 Copenhagen Style BellyFlop

We all know what happened to the Olympic hopes of Chicago when Obama took a little field trip halfway across the world thinking simply his presence would swing the 2016 Vote in Chicago's favor.

We all know the result there was he came home empty handed, the same way he started out this presidency, seeing he'd never run so much as a hot dog stand much less the US government.

And it shows, just as we warned it would.

So hopefully for America's sake and particularly Massachusetts the people there finally decide to cleanse themselves from the ghost of Ted The Swimmer, who still casts a large shadow over the state even though he's dead and buried finally like his victim from the 60's car crash that killed Mary Jo Koepechne as the swimmer swam for safety all the way back to the Kennedy compound like the coward he was leaving her to drown like a dog.

So we'll see what effect Obama's "fly by campaigning" does for our man with plan Scott Brown who's looking like he'll be the man to scrap Obamacare God help us all.

AP sources: Obama to Massachusetts: "(AP) - His health care bill at stake, President Barack Obama plans a trip to Massachusetts to campaign for endangered Senate Democratic candidate Martha Coakley amid release of a poll showing an edge for the Republican Party in the race to fill a Senate seat Democrats have held for over a half-century.

Democratic officials disclosed the president's plans Friday on condition of anonimity because they were not authorized to pre-empt a White House" continued

Here's another Coakley gaffe that should tell all Massachusetts residents this woman doesn't know shit...

That being a word we learned this week her campaign can't spell too well, Massachusetts, spelled incorrectly in her own damn campaign ads coming down the stretch. If she can't manage to avoid a mistake there, what's next?" would be my worry.

And what else was there?

Oh yea, and using 911 imagery in her ads and allowing Chuckie Schumer to ridicule her honorable Military member candidate foe a "Far Right Teabagger"

Which as most know by now is a denigrating, homosexual slur, when not being used by the left to characterize conservative American's fed up with governmental corruption, something that the far left obviously condones and actually encourages, with sending up candidates such as this incapable woman.

How she made it this long as an state's Attorney General is anyone's guess as she's had far too many gaffes in her career there to even be considered for this position ahead of a man such as Scott Brown...

Here's the latest example of her idiocy on parade, calling the best pitcher in Red Sox History "Another Yankee Fan" ....

Like I said in the headline, she sucks at pandering even.

Click here to listen to an excerpt of the interview.

Coakley Risks Offending Red Sox Nation, Calls Schilling 'Another Yankee Fan':

FOXNews.com -  "Martha Coakley, the Democratic candidate in Tuesday's special election for Massachusetts senator, didn't do her campaign any favors Friday by dismissing Boston Red Sox hero Curt Schilling as a 'Yankees fan.

In such a close race, anything could tip the balance, and Massachusetts is devoted to its baseball team, especially after it reversed years of bad fortune in 2004 by defeating the Yankees in the playoffs and going on to won the World Series with Schilling's help.

The gaffe came in a talk radio interview Friday night. Coakley, who is vying to fill the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, took a swipe at former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for dropping in Massachusetts to campaign for the Republican candidate, Scott Brown. Giuliani is well known as a Yankees fan.

But Coakley hit a foul ball when the show's host, Dan Rea, noted that Schilling is supporting Brown.
'And another Yankee fan,' she said, apparently stunning Rea.

'Curt Schilling, a Yankee fan?' Rea asked, prompting Coakley to quickly backtrack.

'Ok, I'm wrong,' she said."   continued

Damn right you are lady, wrong for Massachusetts and wrong for the Senate of the United States so we'll be praying hard for her loss in dominating unquestionable fashion up there on Tuesday's special "Replace Fat Assed Dead Ted Kennedy" election.

Here's a video on Brown's campaign from his website as they have a big rally taking place today up there to counter Obama's fly by campaigning today

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Great Scott It's a Brown Out!!! Scott Brown surges ahead of Coakley in Senate race

Yes sir, gotta love this, a war hero taking the seat in a state held hostage by liberal Kennedy's for a half century, which, if it happens, will change the political landscape of the Northeast for the better from the liberal Iron Grip.

We'll also be saying goodbye to Christopher Dodd although we'll continue hearing his name as he's prosecuted for his bank meltdown involvement with Countrywide Mortgage as a "Friend Of Angelo",.

And there's no real worthwhile Kennedy to speak of with the only one left from the old guard being Patrick Kennedy in Rhode Island who plays congressman in between stints in rehab, a chip off the old block for sure, and Bendover Barney who's got Massachusetts by the ankles.

BostonHerald.com: "Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a historic upset that would reverberate all the way to the White House, a new poll shows.

Although Brown’s 4-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley is within the Suffolk University/7News survey’s margin of error, the underdog’s position at the top of the results stunned even pollster David Paleologos.

“It’s a Brown-out,” said Paleologos, director of Suffolk’s Political Research Center. “It’s a massive change in the political landscape.”"  continued

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Rhode Island Senator calls ALL Obamacare Opponents Aryan Nation Members

We non-NAZI conservatives, which would be about 99.99999999% of the group, should all file a class action libel suit against this idiot supposedly representing one our original colonies, Rhode Island.

One of the original 13 and created in 1636 by real Patriots, which is about the size of my backyard on a good day, a state that claims another imbecile as a representative by the way.

And that would be Patrick "Pass Me the Jack" Kennedy, son of the late Swimmer, a man who spends more time in rehab than he does playing congressman in between stints to keep the job.  He's been there so many times he's an honorary counselor. 

People like this are what Americans have allowed to represent them over the past couple decades on both sides of the aisle, and thank the lord for the "Obama mistake" which is now looking like it'll right this wrong way ship coming real soon.

We're at point with this criminal congress that they've resorted to calling hard working taxpaying Americans Nazi's just like the FAR LEFT LOONS do, and therefore the time to run SH**-HEADS LIKE THIS OUT OF DC FOR ALL THE TREASON committed  by this power drunk 111th Congress led by Pelosi and Reid.

They're a disgrace and will go down in history as the crookedest collection of "lawbreaking Lawmakers" since the the Wild West early 1800's.

Most of  this group has broken more laws  than any of the falsely accused citizenry ever dreamed  as  group or individually, so it's time to take our government back and make this 111th congress stand trial for their behavior with the future tax dollars of Americans.   Squandering our paychecks on the likes of ACORN and half billion dollar bribes to Mary Landrieu and Bill Nelson to pass this Obamination called ObamaLosi Care, not to mention all the bribery we DON'T YET KNOW ABOUT but will eventually..

Rest assured criminal 111th, we're coming after all of your a**s in 2010 so  pack your bags because you're done.

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Palin Draws Thousands to Book Signing at Fort Bragg -

They don't seem too upset as the loons predicted would be the case that Sarah Palin stopped at Fort Hood today drawing 4000 plus people , which shows all how out of touch they really are with America's military on the battlefield's and off.  Donating all the royalties from the book sales here by the way back to the soldier's community here which the libs hate too, and call "exploitative".

Truthfully she's beautiful enough to be in Playboy you can see from this pic, if you asked me, and that's easy the biggest reason liberal women and men hate her guts, and with conservatives it's just the opposite....

And she's raking in the cash doing exactly what she want's to be doing, which makes her smarter than most as well....

Palin Draws Thousands to Book Signing at Fort Bragg

FOXNews.com: "Sarah Palin drew a crowd of over 4,000 on Monday to her book signing at Fort Bragg, though the former Alaska governor kept her appearance from turning into the kind of 'political platform' that some military officials were concerned about.

Palin did not give a speech during her three-hour stop at the North Carolina Army base, apparently living up to her pledge to tone down the event after Fort Bragg officials expressed concern that the visit could prompt grandstanding against the Obama administration.

'It was just a peaceful crowd -- orderly, no one making any strange comments that I know of,' a Fort Bragg official told FoxNews.com. The official said close to 4,500 people showed up, many braving the cold and rain as they waited for hours to meet the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee. The official said about 500 people had to be turned away when Palin had to leave.

'It was a very excited crowd,' the official said."

This below was the tail end of the interview with O'Reilly on his show tonight, a quick little segment that was good...when it's available ....

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Former CNN anchor says he's thinking about a 2012 bid...

 I like the guy for the very same reasons I like Tom Tancredo and the liberals hate anyone  and everyone anywhere who think just like us about ILLEGAL Immigration,  but a presidential run?

Then again Obama just won, so I guess it could be Gary Coleman running next for  the dems for all we know of today's "sad in too many parts" America that delivered us a president named Hussein 8 years after 911, as ground zero still equals zero and is essentially a concrete jungle graveyard of  3000 beloved Americans in the middle of Manhattan that's more a disgrace to our dead then anything, except for trying their killers on their graves of course...but who would do that? Oh yea, Obama and Eric Holder.....

So I'll go with Dobbs over Coleman for sure I can say at least....because we know Coleman will be far more  loved and adored than Obama by the time 2012 comes, I'll tell you that much...

 Former CNN anchor says he's mulling 2012 bid:

"Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs — whose abrupt departure from the struggling cable network stunned his fans — is mulling a run for the White House in 2012 and has even reached out to Latino groups to see if he can mend fences.

“It’s one of the discussions that we’re having,” Dobbs said in an interview on WTOP radio in Washington.

“For the first time, I’m actually listening to some people about politics.”

Dobbs — whose outspoken views on the need to curtail illegal immigration earned him the ire of many minority groups — admitted he might not be cut out for politics."  more

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McDonnell Wins 20 Pt Blowout, & GOP Chris Christy Cleans Corzine's Clock

This turned into a real blowout in the Commonwealth of Virginia and likely Jefferson is smiling down from his Monticello perch seeing the governorship returned to the hands of a conservative Patriot first and foremost and this will send a little message to the dems no matter how they spin it/

 More politics- msnbc.com: "RICHMOND, Va. - Republican Bob McDonnell easily won the Virginia governor's race Tuesday as independent voters who last year delivered the state to President Barack Obama shifted to the GOP, handing the party a convincing sweep of statewide offices.

Early results from NBC News showed McDonnell, a conservative and former state attorney general, with nearly two-thirds of the vote over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds. He will be the state's first Republican governor in eight years.

'I just got tackled by my five kids and my wife, and there are a lot of tears on my cheeks right now,' McDonnell told The Associated Press." continued

Hopefully the pending Chris Christy Jersey win is also such a blowout that these likely questionable absentee ballots being talked about in the video below from this afternoon will simply be rendered moot...

The informative video was from earlier,  and John Fund knows his stuff when it comes to these ACORN fraudsters as we wrote about this morning in the pre election rants, not to mention this Jersey election wasn't even close,  until a third party candidate entered the race ....

And the addition of  this massive surge of again likely fraudulent absentee ballots that could be requested from the Secretary of State for no reason whatsoever for the very first time, obviously begging for the dem fraudsters to jump all over ..which they did and will go a long way to explaining why the black turnout was low according to FOX exits in New Jersey.

ACORN all the way on this one...

Video Link

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Rush Limbaugh on Sarah Palin : She's Ready to Be President plus Full Interview (Fox News Sunday Video)

This clip speaks for itself;

You tube has sucked all day..... so if the videos don't play, you may have to come back to see the entire thing (if it's white they're still doing maintenance......what a great time for it huh? Middle of Sunday afternoon.....

Part one of the interview....




Here's part two.....




And finally part three



The show plays again today at 6pm eastern or 5 pm central DAYLIGHT time in case anyone made it this far today without turning their clocks back....

Here's more of the interview and some other stuff from the Chris Wallace Fox Blog/Website  

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Tea Party Express Part Deux Kicks Off With Cali Stops Today

Starting now through November 3rd the Tea Party Express has hit the road for all those cities missed the first time around leading up to the 912 climax that attracted a million people which we know the MSM entirely ignored for the most part



They can't ignore us on election day, and Sarah Palin's surprising "chumming up" with the third party candidate against the RNC establishment and Newt Gingrich is making that point clear, and this moment may  just  be the time for the third party to take the reigns of government from the people we've allowed to screw us for a half century

That would be minus a couple republican administrations led of course by Ronald Reagan, and even Dubya  in most ways besides fiscally, which was mostly due to 911 I maintain,  and also his annoying propensity to fall on the side of illegals and Mexico over the wants and needs of most Americans... which I HATED by the way.

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Sign the Petition Now: We Must Stop ACORN from Accessing Taxpayer Dollars

Michelle Bachmann is one of the real bright spots of the future GOP and it's starting to look like men better get used to women running things because on both sides of the aisle the most exciting politicians worth a damn are women...lol and true Visit her here to sign the ACORN deal...

..Speaker Pelosi, I think that Congress has a duty to the taxpayers to keep our hard-earned money out of the hands of those who play fast and loose with the law. I urge you to bring Congresswoman Michele Bachmanns Taxpayer Protection and Anti-Fraud Act to the floor and to support its passage. I want to know if you are on the taxpayers side or ACORNs.....

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Great News Here as Democrats Brace for Tough Congressional Races in 2010

AP The public backlash to Democrats' health care reform plans,
along with growing discontent over job losses will have the GOP scoring big next year, analysts predict.

I have a few words for all democrats along with a few of the minuscule and mostly neutered republican contingent presently in Washington including Obama ...and that is this.....

See Ya ......wouldn't wanna be ya in about 14 months......

You're all done... so stick that proverbial fork in all these turkeys and send em home weeping for the betterment of all our America. It belongs to us and not this elitist ruling class that seems to have forgotten who the bosses are in this place.........and that's of course you and I.

Political News It's no secret that mid-term elections are generally unfavorable to the party in control of the White House. But some say the public backlash to Democrats' health care reform plans, along with growing discontent over job losses and the way stimulus money is being spent, prove Democrats have substantial challenges ahead in 2010."

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is taking a cautious view of the 2010 mid-term elections, but analysts predict the GOP will score big next year.

It's no secret that mid-term elections are generally unfavorable to the party in control of the White House. But some say the public backlash to Democrats' health care reform plans, along with growing discontent over job losses and the way stimulus money is being spent, prove Democrats have substantial challenges ahead in 2010.

"Right now I wouldn't be surprised if Democrats lost anywhere from 15 to 25 seats in the House," said David Wasserman, an editor with the Cook Political Report.

But Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., who chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has been preparing for a tough fight in 2010 and urging his party colleagues to do the same.

"Way back in January, we made it clear to our members on the Democratic side -- get ready, fasten your seat belts, because this is going to be a tough cycle," he said. "And the good news for us is they've been preparing from day one."

But Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., suggested Democrats have dug their own holes.

"It's a combination of the work they've done and where they're going," he said. "But it's also about arrogance -- the arrogance of not listening to constituents."

New polling shows Democrats are failing to connect with a key group of voters. According to a recent Gallup Poll, a whopping 70 percent of independents now disapprove of how the Democrat-controlled Congress is doing its job, while just 22 percent say they approve. The poll of 1,010 adults was taken Aug. 6-9 and had a 4-point margin of error.

The numbers raise questions about whether the party that rallied supporters to the polls in the last two congressional elections is losing its luster now that its members are in control.

"Democrats were great at selling this broad message of change in 2008, and now they're having trouble selling the specifics because they can't seem to agree on them," Wasserman said.

Even if Democrats win enough seats to maintain control of both chambers in Congress, there is still a downside for the party. Unlike Bill Clinton in 1996, President Obama would not have a Republican Congress to blame in 2012 should his ambitious initiatives stall.

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Facebook | Sarah Palin: Concerning the "Death Panels"

This was posted on Sarah Palin's Facebook Notes and page last night, apparently around Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:55 PM Sarah Time as a little rebuttal to Barry's rebuttal and so on in regards to her "Death Panel"

Remarks that he mocked in his rigged townhall meeting we posted a clip from and talked about in O'Reilly's talking points last night down about 4 posts.

Facebook "Yesterday President Obama responded to my statement that Democratic health care proposals would lead to rationed care; that the sick, the elderly, and the disabled would suffer the most under such rationing; and that under such a system these “unproductive” members of society could face the prospect of government bureaucrats determining whether they deserve health care.

The President made light of these concerns. He said:

“Let me just be specific about some things that I’ve been hearing lately that we just need to dispose of here. The rumor that’s been circulating a lot lately is this idea that somehow the House of Representatives voted for death panels that will basically pull the plug on grandma because we’ve decided that we don’t, it’s too expensive to let her live anymore....

It turns out that I guess this arose out of a provision in one of the House bills that allowed Medicare to reimburse people for consultations about end-of-life care, setting up living wills, the availability of hospice, etc. So the intention of the members of Congress was to give people more information so that they could handle issues of end-of-life care when they’re ready on their own terms. It wasn’t forcing anybody to do anything.” [1]" more (full text)

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Sarah Palin on American Chopper Last Night

I'm an old fan of American Chopper owning the entire DVD collection which is rare, as I hate reality shows but love this one being from the printing industry, as the machinery aspect of both fields are similar as they are artists with metal and we with paper and now electronically on the internet.

It seems as if the show and the business itself may be on the rocks as the self centered pain in the ass Paul Jr gets pu**y whipped by his newest squeeze and keeps quitting and getting fired so things aren't looking good after 10 years of living a dream thanks to his father mostly.

So anyways, Sarah Palin made a brief appearance on the recorded show, which had to be months ago, but just making it to air as OCC built a bike for an Alaskan machine shop that builds oversized drill bits and the likes for the massive oil rig machinery also incorporating the state's 50th anniversary into the build.

'It means so much to the state of Alaska that these guys are building this bike that will honor statehood here,' Palin says in the episode,

She also talked briefly while Sr. hangs out with her in her governor's office and talks about the Alaskan weather, snowmobiling and fishing in the summer indicating this about what machines she rides..... 'I inherit whatever [husband] Todd rejects from the year before".

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