[ekim68]

Makes you wonder if Rush is still addicted to drugs...

[poochee]

November 1, 2009
GOP nominee endorses Democrat
Posted: November 1st, 2009 04:51 PM ET
From CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart
– CNN’s Shirley Zilberstein and Robert Yoon contributed to this report

Instead of endorsing Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, pictured, Republican Dede Scozzafava chose to endorse a Democrat, according to a statement published online Sunday.

“In Bill Owens, I see a sense of duty and integrity that will guide him beyond political partisanship. He will be an independent voice devoted to doing what is right for New York. Bill understands this district and its people, and when he represents us in Congress he will put our interests first.”

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...at/#more-75708

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by poochee

November 1, 2009
GOP nominee endorses Democrat
Posted: November 1st, 2009 04:51 PM ET
From CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart
– CNN’s Shirley Zilberstein and Robert Yoon contributed to this report


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...at/#more-75708

Scozzafava is a Democrat loon at heart. No respectable Republican or Conservative could support this liberal candidate.

There are many Democrats that I would support over this liberal pretender.

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by ekim68

Makes you wonder if Rush is still addicted to drugs...

Who cares. It's not like he is on any ballot.

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by poochee

Aren't you a birther fan?

Nope. If you read anything that I have written on the subject at this forum, you would know that.

[poochee]

Originally Posted by LANMaster

Nope. If you read anything that I have written on the subject at this forum, you would know that.

If you say so.

[LANMaster]

Originally Posted by poochee

If you say so.

No, Poochee! YOU SAID SO! RIGHT HERE!

I assumed that you had the integrity to retract your error, but I guess not.

[poochee]

Originally Posted by LANMaster

No, Poochee! YOU SAID SO! RIGHT HERE!

I assumed that you had the integrity to retract your error, but I guess not.

You know what? I was thinking of the tea parties, which you were a champion of and the birthers got involved. Sorry.

[LANMaster]

apology accepted.

[ekim68]

Republican adviser faces health care's costly bite

Former McCain strategist is about to lose his health insurance

If history had taken a different course, Doug Holtz-Eakin would be inside the McCain White House driving the Republican president's domestic agenda, including health-care reform. But now, one year after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) lost the presidential election, the man who was by McCain's side as the campaign's top health-care guru remains unemployed -- and his COBRA health coverage is running out.

Irony of ironies, it gets worse. Holtz-Eakin, who is about to start shopping for insurance on the individual market, is 51. And he has one of those pesky "preexisting conditions" that insurance companies often cite in denying coverage.

More

[poochee]

Posted on Monday, November 2, 2009
South Carolina gun sales soar on fear of crime, Democrats
I'm glad I don't live in one of those "red" states.
By Noelle Phillps | The State

The increasing number of people carrying concealed weapons is just one sign of South Carolina's shifting gun culture. The permit allows people to hide guns beneath their clothes or in their purses, briefcases and backpacks.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/78191.html

[ekim68]

The Anti-Corporate GOP?

What happened to the party of business interests?

As political alliances go, few are more cemented in the public consciousness than the bond between the Republican Party and business. But, upon closer inspection, the GOP–big business relationship doesn't seem so cozy.

Take health-care reform. From the time the bill hit Congress, Republicans found themselves opposite big industry interests. From the drugmakers to the doctors to the insurers, every major player in the health-care battle declared themselves willing to work with Democrats to enact some variant on reform.

Nor is the health-care fight an outlier. Scan the big legislative battles of the past year or those on the horizon, and you start to see a pattern: the Republican Party on one side, entrenched big-business interests on the other.

On cap-and-trade, the stimulus, the bank and auto bailouts, and financial regulation, Republicans face, or have faced, substantial opposition from parts of the corporate community. Much of what's happening can be traced to the party's current identity crisis: without strong leadership to hold together various representatives, interests, and constituents, personal squabbles that might otherwise have been quelled are allowed to fester.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/219880

[wacor]

Ekim both parties are owned by business. Just different types. Including unions as IMO they are a business.

[ekim68]

Well then, wouldn't that suggest that business is the problem and not the government they control?

[ekim68]

Alright, now it's time for Republicans to govern... How's it going so far?

Now, the hard part: Continuing to straddle the center and the right

With his overwhelming victory, Robert F. McDonnell is being extolled as a new model for Republican success: a traditionally conservative candidate who won a swing state by focusing almost exclusively on jobs, transportation and other kitchen table issues. The test now is whether he can build a similar model for governing by catering to the middle's pragmatism without alienating the GOP activists who were crucial to his win.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?hpid=topnews