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(Two questions: 1) How did that recall work out in California? 2) Isn’t the best way to remove a democratically elected official through the ballot box?)
“White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on Sunday ratcheted up the Democrats' effort to turn a House Republican's apology to BP into a political pivot point, saying last week's comments by Rep. Joe L. Barton (Tex.) were a reminder of the ‘governing philosophy’ that Republicans would bring into power if they win big in November.”
COLORADO: The Washington Post: “Colorado Senate candidate Ken Buck's (R) recent wave of momentum has positioned him as the next grassroots outsider who could potentially win in a Republican primary -- following in the footsteps of Nevada Senate nominee Sharron Angle (R) and Kentucky Senate nominee Rand Paul (R).”
FLORIDA: A Florida Chamber of Commerce poll shows Charlie Crist opening up a 42%-31%- 14% lead over Marco Rubio and Kendrick Meek, respectively. “It also found Rick Scott leading Bill McCollum for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, 35 percent to 30 percent,” the Tampa Bay Tribune writes.
ILLINOIS: Lynn Sweet: “The playing field has become surprisingly level in the race to fill the Illinois Senate seat once held by President Obama. Questions about whether the Obama White House is fully backing Democratic nominee Alexi Giannoulias, the state treasurer, will be answered once and for all on Monday, when Vice President Biden hits Chicago for an afternoon fund-raiser for him. Monday is a big day in the Illinois Senate contest. Besides Biden's visit, GOP Senate candidate Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Giannoulias will be making back-to-back appearances at a forum in downtown Chicago to discuss regional planning and environmental issues. While it's not a debate and the pair will not be on the same stage at the same time, the session sponsored by the Metropolitan Planning Council will be the first time the rivals have shared any kind of joint platform and it comes as the race is heating up.”
KENTUCKY: The Louisville Courier-Journal: He ignited a furor with his explosive remarks that private business should have the right to discriminate -- and that President Barack Obama's administration sounded ‘un-American’ in criticizing BP too harshly for the Gulf oil spill. But Rand Paul, Kentucky's Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate, has a long history of making unconventional comments about social programs, housing discrimination, military spending and limiting the role of government. A Courier-Journal review of two-dozen public appearances by the Bowling Green eye surgeon since 1998 shows that Paul has condemned Medicare as ‘socialism;’ denounced seat-belt and anti-smoking laws as ‘Nanny-state’ paternalism; called for voluntary, rather than mandatory, accommodation of people with disabilities; and suggested using satellites to monitor America's borders for illegal immigrants.”
Business Week quotes Paul from an event on Friday: “I don't like the idea of vilifying people. ... If you're the president of the United States, you can talk a business out of business simply by talking down their stock. I don't think that's good." And: “Before his speech, Paul declined to comment when asked by a reporter to respond to Texas Republican Congressman Joe Barton's remarks that the White House conducted a ‘$20 billion shakedown’ by requiring BP to establish a compensation fund for those harmed by the Gulf Coast oil spill.”
MASSACHUSETTS: “Republican gubernatorial hopeful Charles D. Baker, who opposes Cape Wind and has sidestepped concerns about global warming, is skipping a candidate forum on environmental issues, according to leaders of a Massachusetts coalition of conservation and environmental groups,” The Boston Globe reports. “Baker aides say the June 29 forum conflicts with two campaign fund-raising events, and that Baker has met leaders of the groups privately to discuss the issues.”
NEVADA: Politico: “Soccer fans in Nevada watching the World Cup on Univision are suddenly seeing a lot of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is flooding the Spanish-language station with an ad campaign courting Latinos, who could help save his uphill reelection campaign. But as he positions himself back home as a friend to Hispanics -- who could account for 15 percent of the Nevada electorate -- Reid is running into a different reality on Capitol Hill: Senate Democrats now concede they probably can’t do much about overhauling immigration policy, despite its importance to Latino voters.”
SOUTH CAROLINA: Sarah Palin endorsed Tim Scott in SC-1.
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This whole tea party sage reminds me of something my mother always told me... "be careful what you ask for, you just might get it." The GOBP'ers are so desperate for ANY support, they have embraced this bag of nut jobs in the hopes they can help get them back into power. What is more apparent is that the GOBP has the double edged sword of their true governing philosophy secrets being spilled by the likes of Barton and the "stellar" candidates in Paul and Angele. If/when the pubs fail to take control of either house, then what? I mean, all the Obama bashing and false accusations of "tyranny", "marxism", "socialism", incompetence, etc. have done nothing to endear the right to the voting public. What else can the pubs throw at the wall in the hopes something might stick?
The worthless malcontents of the Teahadist Paliban are the ones who want to bring about tyranny as they try to disrupt government with their sham recalls. We had a stupid recall here in California and ended up with Idiot arnold who has proceeded to wreck our state's budget and economy. Nope recalls are a waste of time and are merely self serving political dirty tricks by the party of sore losers.
The more we learn of Moron Rant Paul the more disgusting he becomes. If anyone is UnAmerican it's Moron Rant Paul and his racist views against everything. This extremist conspiracy nutjob needs to be voted down as he will do nothing in the Senate except try to file idiotic bills that overturn sane laws we need to regulate morons like him.
Who cares who Sinister Sarah Palin endorses?
Teahadist Paliban, Eric? That may be your best one yet. Still chuckling.
RIght, Disgusted. Then, on Monring Joke, I hear they are thinking Huckabee again. They just don't seem to get it that courting the religious fanatics on the far right are poison.
I kind of wonder how well Barbour would do, too, but sure get a kick out of listening to him talk about the oil mess down there in the "guff".
Disgusted, Eric, CA, Drive- By
I think you guys are right on. I do not see this happening and the Tea-Baggers will go down on this one looking like the radicals that they are. We got the party of Nope and now a faction of "Screw BAlls".
It is clear that the "tea baggers" only see the Second Amendment as a freedom worth defending. Anyone catch that the "tea baggers" want to start a boycott of Chris Matthews for his program on those nutcases? Apparently, like all tyrants, they see themselves above any criticism. These are the neanderthals that the Republican party has attracted for years, unsettled as protections for others made them have to compete for jobs and lives that they apparently cannot get unless they are the only protected class. I still wonder, and wish one of them would have the courage to discuss, how they follow the uneducated like Limbaugh, Beck and Hannity, and how they delude themselves into thinking that those three morons actually care about them or represent any type of morality whatsoever.
Here in Oklahoma, the Repbulican party has ALWAYS thought they were above critciism! You should hear the "Tea Party's" pick for Governor's ads. I get sick just listening to them. Although, the "Tea Party" backing has not always done well, they have picked the redest neck canidate possible here. Good luck wit that!
I guess the truth hurts.
newday, let them boycott Chris Matthews, as if they watch anyway. Besides I started boycotting Matthews a long time ago, when he started trying to be like Glen Beck.
Mo: I still watch Matthews, when he is having a good day and all his neurotransmitters are clicking along the right pathways, you still sometimes get a good show from him. But, there are those times he drives the car completely off the road, and that is when I head for the barn and tack up my horse.