Monthly Archives: October 2010

5 Reasons Americans Are So Wrong About Major Economic Facts….

According to a new Bloomberg poll, six in ten Americans think most of the money spent to rescue banks will be lost forever. Six in ten think the economy shrunk over the past year. One in two think federal income taxes have gone up in the past two years.

Wrong. Wrong. And wrong.

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Theodore C. Sorensen, 82, Kennedy Counselor, Is gone…..

Theodore C. Sorensen, 82, Kennedy Counselor, Is gone…..

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Nate Silver on 5 reasons the GOP COULD have a really good day on Tuesday…..

If a situation like the one I described above transpires, it’s going to catch a lot of people by surprise. It really shouldn’t; it’s well within the realm of possibility.

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Polls for Sunday, October 31, 2010….OH, PA, NH, NM, KY, NY, AR, IA, Gen Congress

Polls for Sunday, October 31, 2010….OH, PA, NH, NM, KY, NY, AR, IA, Gen Congress

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It’s hard times out there..In NYC if you beat the ticket…You STILL have to pay…

The Administrative Judge agreed with her…..

She was NOT guilty…

But…

She had to pay a $50 fee ANYWAYS…

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Happy Halloween!

Halloween (or Hallowe’en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, primarily in Ireland, Scotland, Canadaand the United States. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holiday All Saints’ Day, but is today largely a secular celebration.

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Rep. Peter King (R-NY) of the House Homeland Committee praises Obama on bomb plot….

“The administration handled it perfectly,” said New York’s Peter King, who is expected to become chairman of that committee in a GOP House. “I give them full credit.”

In an appearance with two Democrats and Minnesota Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty, however, King made it clear that bipartisanship in foreign affairs wouldn’t extend to the rest of the Republican agenda.

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First televised Inauguration: Harry Truman Jan 20th 1949….Talkandpolitics…

……Here’s Harry being inaugurated after winning his first Presidential Election in ’48, after enduring a 22.000 miles criss-cross Whistle-Stop tour around the country (about the circumference of the earth) in the campaign – and beating all conventional wisdom in papers and pollings about the Republican candidate Dewey winning the race by a landslide.

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Karl Rove – An Obligated Soul?…The Oligarch Kings….

It’s everywhere, first with the Daily Telegraph, and then to Uncle Tom Cobblers and all points west. It’s not even been knocked off by the UPS bomb. It is the astonishing news that Karl Rove (known as Turd Blossom to his friends and employers) has said right out loud that he thinks that the beatified Sarah is shallow, trite and a light weight. Or lacking gravitas as he poshly put it.

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2 Days out…..This from Dailykos…..Early Voting States, Obama will study Clinton, Meek, Boxer, Halloween, Bette Davis

2 Days out…..This from Dailykos…..Early Voting States, Obama will study Clinton, Meek, Boxer, Halloween, Bette Davis

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Cornyn: Will probabaly take two cycles for GOP to get Senate

“The administration and Democrats, who have been in charge now in the House and Senate for four years and in the White House for two years, don’t want to seem to accept any responsibility,” Cornyn said. “I think that’s what this election is about, is assigning responsibility, and giving Republicans a chance now to deal with the matters that concern them most.”

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The GOP signals they can live with Murkowski….

NRSC Chairman John Cornyn this morning acknowledged that the GOP Senate nominee in Alaska, Joe Miller, is in real trouble. But, he added, his party will be satisfied if incumbent Repbulican-turned-independent Lisa Murkowski prevails as a write-in candidate.

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If it’s 10% or 4%…The Republicans still lead in the generic Congressional approval ratings…

Said pollster Keating Holland: “But unlike 1994, when polls indicated the public had a positive view of the Republican party, a majority of Americans now do not have a favorable view of the GOP.”

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From the mouth of Jon Stewart…..’Hard time’s’ and media hype….

– Jon Stewart, host of the Daily Show, in his closing address at the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear,” taking aim at the media.

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Update on the UPS ‘suspious packages’…The Yemen connection….

“We’re looking at the potential that they would have been detonated en route to those synagogues aboard the aircraft as well as at the destinations,” he said in an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “But at this point we, I think, would agree with the British that it looks as though they were designed to be detonated in flight.”

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Tea Party Kingmaker Jim DeMint (R-SC)….Becomes Power Unto Himself

The man Alvin Greene is running against has a big stake in Tuesday’s elections…..

The former marketing man has develped himself into a brand that his party leaders aren’t to happy about….

He’s a anti-GOP establishment rebel……

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