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Subscribe to RSSMINNESOTA: The Minneapolis Star Tribune on the first day of the gubernatorial recount: “By day's end, more than 400 ballots were challenged, with the vast majority coming from Emmer's side. County officials declared half of those challenges ‘frivolous,’ meaning they remain in the current count but could get another look.”
That said, "Dayton picked up 20 votes while Emmer lost four. Dayton now leads Emmer 43.6 percent to 43.2 percent -- a margin of 8,794 votes. Those numbers represent only a snapshot, since more than half of the state's ballots have yet to be recounted. Before the recount began, Dayton led Emmer by 8,770 votes."
NEW YORK: NY-1: “The fate of the nation's only remaining undecided congressional race will be submitted to a State Supreme Court judge in Riverhead today,” Riverhead Local writes. “Lawyers for Tim Bishop (D) and Randy Altschuler (R) are scheduled to appear in the Riverhead courtroom of Judge Peter H. Mayer today to begin arguing over the more than 2,000 absentee ballots challenged by both candidates in the race for New York's First Congressional District.” Bishop leads by 235 votes.
Stu Rothenberg wonders if the special election in May was a turning point and that Democrats misread the message of their win there. (But one could argue that May was a turning point because of other events -- namely, the BP spill and Greek debt crisis, which produced a summer of bad news for the White House.)
Nathan Gonzales: “For most of the election cycle, Democratic strategists were optimistic they could hold the House because of their arsenal of opposition research. But Democratic attacks failed to bring down enough Republican challengers to keep the majority.”
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A Note from John Boehner and Mitch McConnell
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Despite the president's comments about focusing on job creation, Democrats in Congress are working feverishly to move legislation on everything except stopping the tax hikes and lowering spending. Their focus for the brief post-election "lame duck" session is on controversial items such as immigration, a repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," more spending and environmental regulations. Indeed, their actual legislative plan for the rest of the lame-duck session is to focus on anything but jobs.
Time is running out. This Friday, funding for the government runs out. And at the end of December, every single taxpayer will get hit with one of the largest tax hikes in American history - unless we put aside the controversial items and work together on the things we know Americans want and our struggling economy needs.
Together, we can focus on the things Americans want us to do - not on what government wants Americans to accept. The clock may be winding down on this session of Congress, but there is still time to do the right thing. If President Obama and Democratic leaders put forward a plan during the lame-duck session to cut spending and stop the tax hikes on all Americans, they can count on a positive response from Republicans. If the president and Democratic leaders don't act before the end of the year, however, House and Senate Republicans will work to get the job done in the new Congress. But we hope it doesn't come to that.
The voters want us to show that we heard them, and Republicans are ready to work with anyone who is willing to do just that.
A note from John Boehner and Mitch McConnell
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Despite the president's comments about focusing on job creation, Democrats in Congress are working feverishly to move legislation on everything except stopping the tax hikes and lowering spending. Their focus for the brief post-election "lame duck" session is on controversial items such as immigration, a repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," more spending and environmental regulations. Indeed, their actual legislative plan for the rest of the lame-duck session is to focus on anything but jobs.
Time is running out. This Friday, funding for the government runs out. And at the end of December, every single taxpayer will get hit with one of the largest tax hikes in American history - unless we put aside the controversial items and work together on the things we know Americans want and our struggling economy needs.
Together, we can focus on the things Americans want us to do - not on what government wants Americans to accept. The clock may be winding down on this session of Congress, but there is still time to do the right thing. If President Obama and Democratic leaders put forward a plan during the lame-duck session to cut spending and stop the tax hikes on all Americans, they can count on a positive response from Republicans. If the president and Democratic leaders don't act before the end of the year, however, House and Senate Republicans will work to get the job done in the new Congress. But we hope it doesn't come to that.
The voters want us to show that we heard them, and Republicans are ready to work with anyone who is willing to do just that.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/29/AR2010112905962.html
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Mr Boehnoer is your window open? Are listenimg? Where are the jobs?
A time to build up,a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones, a time to gather stones together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4
Are you listening, Mr Boehnoer? Why is the will of the people and the jobs
Mr Boehnoer is your window open? Are listenimg? Where are the jobs?
A time to build up,a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones, a time to gather stones together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4
Bev, you still haven't explained to us why term limits are bad.
What's wrong "mediamatters" and "thinkprogress" couldn't come up with an answer for you?
You're against term limits for congress and the senate, but you are OK with term limits for the office of president...do I have that right?
What do you know, another double standard from the pee gallery
You already have the ability to term limit your representatives. It is called your VOTE!
newdayDAWN...We also vote for President of the United States and that office has term limits.
So, you think we shouldn't have term limits on the office of the president either?
Why would I exclude the office of President from what I said? Your vote, and my vote are the only term limits required, and it was by the grace of God that FDR was in office as long as he was during WW 2. While I do understand that those who are deficit in complex thought like to try to find inconsistencies in statements of fact, it just makes you look childish.