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11/2/10-9:45P EST on MSNBC 11/2/10-9:45P EST on MSNBC
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Chris Matthews is sitting at the desk, staring blindly ahead. Keith Olberman is heard in the background. screaming that he 'really did go to the Ivy League Cornell'. Rachael Maddow in trying to comment, a single tear appears on her cheek.
Maddow: "Well, it appears as if the Republicans have managed to win a few seats from the Democrats in the House. In fact, it looks as if the GOP will be taking control of the House in January. And in the Senate, the Democrats look to maintain control - sort of. The gap has narrowed to a 2 seat lead for the Democrats. And with the HUGE number of Democrats who are up for re-election in 2012, Senate control has effectively switched to the GOP. Many of these Democrats will be siding with the GOP an awful lot. Chris, what is your take on this?"
Matthews: "How did this happen? How did it happen? Obama said it would be different this time, because now, the Democrats had HIM! And now, this happens. I just do not understand."
Maddow: "Chris, I do not think that this had anything to do with the President. He was not running. This was about the failures of Democrats to properly explain why this is all Bush's fault."
Olberman (screaming in background): "Coulter, you bitch!"
Maddow: "The White House has just released a statement on tonight's elections" (reading) "Tonight's elections are a clear demonstration that the American people want change. When President Obama was elected, the people were saying that they wanted change. Now that they have said it again. we will continue to work to give them the change that we promised them. The people still want the change that President Obama promised them, and these elections are a clear indication of that."
Matthews "What!? What did they say? Did they say that these election results are an indication that the people want the change that Obama promised? Are these idiots out of their damned minds? They do know that they LOST 50 in the House, and 9 in the Senate, right? The did not win 50 and 9. I mean, come on. Even my leg is not tingling any longer. For Christ's sake, they even lost Obama's seat. How in the hell can they say this was an affirmation of the President's agenda? What's next? More 'It's Bush's fault? I mean, my niece's husband won a House seat in Pennsylvania - as a REPUBLICAN!"
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Federal bids for ME not for TH Federal bids for ME not for THEE
- From: UnklSam
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Federal Construction Bids for Me but Not For Thee
One year ago this past Saturday President Obama signed an executive order that reshapes the bidding process for federal construction projects in a manner that is heavily weighted in favor of unionized companies.
This was done as a sop to labor bosses who have thus far failed to win passage of The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), despite large Democratic majorities in both congressional chambers. Free market groups have vigorously opposed the card check and binding arbitration components of the bill, which they argue would further burden business in a challenging economic climate.
The executive order signed on Feb. 6, 2009 calls for project labor agreements (PLAs) to be used when the cost to the federal government exceeds $25 million. PLA’s are set up as multi-employer, multi-union, pre-existing agreements designed to harmonize labor relations between construction trade unions and contractors.
Nationwide about 16 percent of the nation’s private construction workforce is unionized. This means PLAs could be used to discriminate against the more than eight of out of 10 construction workers who are not part of a union, as some critics have observed.
In his analysis of the order, Maurice Baskin, the legal counsel for Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), wrote:
“The Order will result in widespread discrimination against the many construction workers who do not belong to unions, and denies their right to Freedom of Association and Equal Protection. The Order will cause money to be unfairly taken from such workers and funneled into under-funded union pension plans, from which the workers can receive no benefits. The Order will increase costs to the federal taxpayers by arbitrarily limiting competition for federal construction work.”
But PLAs would actually open the way to greater efficiency and diffuse labor disputes, President Obama maintains in his order.
“The use of a project labor agreement may prevent these problems from developing by providing structure and stability to large-scale construction projects, thereby promoting the efficient and expeditious completion of federal construction contracts, the order says. “Accordingly, it is the policy of the federal government to encourage executive agencies to consider requiring the use of project labor agreements in connection with large-scale construction projects in order to promote economy and efficiency in federal procurement.”
As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on the nomination of a labor nominee who favors administrative action over congressional approval, it is worth examining how the president has oriented himself in light of legislative setbacks.
Craig Becker, a general counsel to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the AFL-CIO could possibly be confirmed as soon as Monday. In his academic writings, he has argued in favor of securing major policy changes through non-legislative means.
The year-old PLA order, which has received very little press attention, demonstrates that the administration is working to advance paybacks to union bosses in much the same spirit that Becker has suggested.
Obama’s maneuvering comes at a disconcerting moment for organized labor. For first time in American history, most union members now work for the government, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). As it is, only about 8 percent of private sector employees are members of unions.
PLA opponents suspect that construction unions are now pushing for these agreements as a way to reinvigorate their depleted ranks and to bolster their underfunded pension plans. ABC officials have a detailed explanation of the likely motivations.
But the final word on PLAs could be delayed until after the mid-term elections. Obama and his congressional allies have run into unexpected opposition as the final rule on implementation of the EO has yet to be written. The Department of Labor (DOL) was forced to pull back on a PLA in New Hampshire last year when North Branch Construction, a Concord, N.H.-based general contractor and ABC member, filed a bid protest claiming the PLA restricted competition.
“This was the first time a PLA done under the new executive order and they [the administration] made several mistakes here,” said Brett McMahon vice-president of Miller and Long, a Maryland-based concrete construction company.
“They declared in the procurement document that you had to have done three PLA projects in order to qualify, which makes no sense because that says nothing about your capabilities as builder and it says that in practice union companies could bid.”
Moreover, the General Services Administration (GSA) did not have any clear guidelines with regard to PLAs, since the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) agency has not issued any final rulings, he continued.
“So they basically jumped the gun before any final ruling came out and DOL decided to cancel the project instead of setting a bad precedent,” said McMahon, who is also an ABC member.
But PLAs remain in motion in at least three sites in Washington D.C. and in other states. A complete list can be found here.
If Obama succeeds in pushing through PLAs, they will come at the expense of American taxpayers and the larger workforce, according to a new study from the Beacon Hill Institute (BHI) shows that PLAs would increase construction costs anywhere between 12 and 18 percent in comparison to projects that are not subjected to union rules.
Other pro-union executive orders remain in force including one that rescinds requirements for workers to be informed of their right not to pay a portion of union dues to political activity they do not support.
Suddenly, the left seems keen on the idea executive power activity unfettered by popular consent.
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Alright Winterhaven...Bravo! Alright Winterhaven...Bravo!
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Today’s Gun Defense Story Brought to You by Winter Haven, FL
Posted by Duane Lester on Feb 8th, 2010 • ClicksDon’t mess with an old man’s golf cart:
Two would-be thieves didn’t count on a motion alarm and a gun-toting 70-year-old Winter Haven man when they tried to steal the batteries from his golf cart, according to Polk County Sheriff’s Office reports.
Robert Rowley, of 28 Henry Drive in Winter Haven, awoke to the sound of a motion sensor alarm about 2:15 a.m. Monday.
When the alarm sounded, he grabbed his handgun and flashlight to investigate, sheriff’s reports said.
As he walked outside his home, he saw two men, who investigators said were trying to cut the cables to the battery packs on Rowley’s golf cart.
When he challenged them, one of the men began to walk in Rowley’s direction, he told investigators he tried to scare the men away by firing his gun.
Rowley fired three shots – once in the air, another at the ground and a third at the men’s truck as they tried to quickly get away.
Deputies were later called to Winter Haven Hospital for two men who showed up with gun shot wounds, reports said.
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Freeze!! Freeze!!
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Another interesting 'scene' caused by the folks at Improv Everywhere:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo&feature=player_embedded
Check our their site HERE
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GEORGE BUSH SECRET VISIT GEORGE BUSH SECRET VISIT
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Description:I NEVER STOPPED BELIEVING THAT GEORGE BUSH WAS A GREAT MAN AND A GREAT PRESIDENT. I FOUND THIS BLOG ON SODAHEAD AND WANTED TO SHARE IT WITH YOU GUYS..
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REMEMBER THE OTHER GUY REMEMBER THE OTHER GUY
- From: OLDIEBULLDOGGIE
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WEATHER OR WHEATHER ?
GOD OR AL GORE
JUST WATCHING THE WEATHER STATION
AND I CAN ONLY HAVE ONE CONCLUSION HERE
AL GORE HAS MADE GOD VERY ANGRY
WHICH IS WHY WE ARE BEING SENT BLANKETS AFTER BLANKETS OF SNOW
YA THINK BY NOW EVERYONE HAS COME TO THEIR SENSORS ?
I MEAN COME ON GLOBAL WARMING ARE YOU FOR REAL OR WHAT.
AND BY DE WAY HAS ANYONE SEEN AL GORE HIS PRIVATE JET IS SNOW BOUND HE HE HE - Blog post
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Idiots Idiots
- From: OLDIEBULLDOGGIE
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Idiots
RECVD FROM A FRIENDNEW YORK - resident Kathy Evans brought humiliation to her friends and family
when she set a new standard for stupidity with her appearance
on the popular TV show, 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.'
Evans, a 32-year-old wife and mother of two, got stuck on the first question
and proceeded to make what fans of the show are dubbing 'the absolute worst use
of lifelines ever.' After being introduced to the show's host
Meredith Vieira, Evans was posed with a typically easy initial $100 question.
The question was: 'Which of the following is the largest?'
A) A Peanut
B) An Elephant
C) The Moon
D) Hey, who you calling large?
Immediately Mrs. Evans was struck with an all consuming panic as she did not
readily know the answer. 'Hmm, oh boy, that's a toughie,' said Evans,
as Vieira did her level best to hide her disbelief.
'I mean, I'm sure I've heard of some of these things before,
but I have no idea how large they would be.'
Evans made the decision to use the first of her three lifelines, the 50/50.
Answers A and D were removed, leaving her to decide which was
bigger, an elephant or the moon. However, faced with an incredibly
easy question, Evans still remained unsure.
'Oh! It removed the two I was leaning towards!' exclaimed Evans.
'Darn. I think I better phone a friend.'
Mrs. Evans asked to be connected with her friend
Betsy, who is an office assistant.
'Hi Betsy! How are you? This is Kathy! I'm on TV!' said Evans,
wasting the first seven seconds of her call.
'Ok, I got an important question. Which of the following is the largest?
B, an elephant, or C, the moon. 15 seconds hun.'
Betsy quickly replied that the answer was C, the moon.
Evans proceeded to argue with her friend for the remaining ten seconds.
'Betsy, are you sure?' said Evans. 'How sure are you? Duh, that can't be it.'
To everyone's astonishment, the moronic Evans declined to take her friend's
advice. 'I just don't know if I can trust Betsy. She's not all that bright.
So I think I'd like to ask the audience,' said Evans.
Asked to vote on the correct answer, the audience returned 98% in favor of
answer C, 'The Moon.' Having used up all her lifelines,
Evans then made the dumbest choice of her life.
'Wow, seems like everybody is against what I'm thinking,' said the
too-stupid-to-live Evans. 'But you know, sometimes you just got to go with
your gut. So, let's see... I'm going to have to go with B, an elephant. Final answer.'
Evans sat before the dumbfounded audience, the only one waiting with bated breath -
and was told that she was wrong, and that the answer was in fact, C, 'The Moon.'
Caution...they walk among us!
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They Walk Among Us!
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*One day I was walking down the beach with
some friends when someone shouted....
'Look at that dead bird!'
Someone looked up at the sky and said...'where?'
They walk among us!
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While looking at a house, my brother asked the
estate agent which direction was north because
he didn't want the sun waking him up every morning.
She asked, 'Does the sun rise in the north?'
My brother explained that the sun rises in the east
and has for sometime. She shook her head and said,
'Oh, I don't keep up with all that stuff.....'
They Walk Among Us!
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My colleague and I were eating our lunch in our cafeteria,
when we overheard an admin girl talking about the
sunburn she got on her weekend drive to the beach.
She drove down in a convertible, but said
she 'didn't think she'd get sunburned
because the car was moving'.
They Walk Among Us!
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I was hanging out with a friend when we saw a woman
with a nose ring attached to an earring by a chain.
My friend said, 'Ouch! The chain must rip
out every time she turns her head!"
I had to explain that a person's nose and ear
remain the same distance apart no
matter which way the head is turned...
They Walk Among Us !
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I couldn't find my luggage at the airport baggage area and
went to the lost luggage office and reported the loss.
The woman there smiled and told me not to worry
because she was a trained professional and
said I was in good hands. 'Now,' she asked me,
'Has your plane arrived yet?'...
(I work with professionals like this.)
They Walk Among Us!
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While working at a pizza parlour I observed a man
ordering a small pizza to go. He appeared to be alone and
the cook asked him if he would like it cut
into 4 pieces or 6. He thought about it for some time
then said 'Just cut it into 4 pieces; I don't think I'm hungry
enough to eat 6 pieces.
They Walk Among Us!
And last, but not least:
Dumb as a box of Rocks
A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE KIND OF REPRESENTATION WE HAVE IN CONGRESS,TRUE STORY:
A noted psychiatrist was a guest speaker at an academic function where Nancy Pelosi happened to appear. Ms Pelosi took the opportunity to schmooze the good doctor a bit and asked him a question with which he was most at ease.
'Would you mind telling me, Doctor,' she asked, 'how you detect a mental deficiency in somebody who appears completely normal?'
'Nothing is easier,' he replied. 'You ask a simple question which anyone should answer with no trouble. If the person hesitates, that puts you on the track.'
'What sort of question?' asked Pelosi.
Well, you might ask, 'Captain Cook made three trips around the world and died during one of them. Which one?''
Pelosi thought a moment, and then said with a nervous laugh, 'You wouldn't happen to have another example would you? I must confess I don't know much about history.'
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Good Old Days Good Old Days
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Was sitting here thinking about the way things are today. Doesn't look to good. Gas is going up, food is going up,jobs are being lost and the money you have isn't worth the paper it is written on.
I grew up on a large grade A dairy. So food wasn't a problem. We always had what ever we wanted. We normally had two hired hands during the crop season. Got up at four in the morning and did the milking, came in for breakfast, then got ready for school. During the summer it was the same except we ate breakfast then went to the fields to work. We always worked til dark then came in, got our bath and ate supper. Yes it was called supper, not dinner. Dinner was at noon. Why do you think everyone carried a dinner bucket?
Every Saturday afternoon was going to town time. Like a vacation. And Sunday was the lords day. You didn't work. After church friends or family came over for a Sunday lunch which went on till dark and then some. Now being on a dairy you did work if you had a cow calving. They don't know what day it is.
But one thing I remember was at lunch mom would always bring our lunch to the field we was working. Most time we only took thirty minutes, but wasn't on a time clock. Might take a hour some days. Another thing was on Saturday we always filled the car up with gas at nine to twelve cents a gallon and it wasn't self serve. They even checked your oil,water and air pressure.
Sure miss those days.
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Truisms? Truisms?
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1. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
2. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
3. A day without sunshine is like, well, night.
4. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
5. Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?
6.I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
7. When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.
8. Seen it all, done it all. Can't remember most of it.
9. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
10. I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
11. He's not dead. He's electroencephalographically challenged.
12. She's always late. In fact, her ancestors arrived on the "Juneflower."
13. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted and used against you.
14. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.
15. Honk if you love peace and quiet.
16. Pardon my driving, I'm reloading.
17. Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?18. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
19. It is hard to understand how a cemetery can raise its burial costs and blame it on the higher cost of living.
20. Just remember if it wasn't for gravity, we'd all fall off.
21. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
22. It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try and pass them.
23. You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
24. Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world population.
25. If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.
26. The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first.
27. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day drinking.
28. Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.
29. The shin bone is a device for finding furniture.
30. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
31. It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
32. Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens.
33.I wished the buck stopped here, as I could use a few.
34. I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.
35. When you go into court, you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
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Let's Pull Out of D.C. Let's Pull Out of D.C.
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Obama and his sheeple want to pull out of Iraq to "save soldiers lives." They also want to take away our guns. I have a better idea.
An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine this week, which I quote: "If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.
The firearm death rate in Washington, DC is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period. That means you are about 25 per cent more likely to be shot and killed in the US capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the US, than you have in Iraq.
Conclusion: "The US should pull out of Washington DC."
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Male or Female? Male or Female?
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You might not have known this, but a lot of non-living objects are actually either male or female.
Here are some examples:
FREEZER BAGS: They are male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.
PHOTOCOPIERS: These are female, because once turned off, it takes a while to warm them up again. They are an effective reproductive device if the right buttons are pushed, but can also wreak havoc if you push the wrong buttons.
TIRES: Tires are male, because they go bald easily and are often over inflated.
HOT AIR BALLOONS: Also a male object, because to get them to go anywhere, you have to light a fire under their arse
WEB PAGES: Female, because they're constantly being looked at and frequently getting hit on.
TRAINS: Definitely male, because they always use the same old lines for picking up people.
EGG TIMERS: Egg timers are female because, over time, all the weight shifts to the bottom.
HAMMERS: Male, because in the last 5000 years, they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.
And finally...
THE REMOTE CONTROL: Female. Ha! You probably thought it would
be male, but consider this: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying. - Blog post
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False Pandemic False Pandemic
- From: ExciteM
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A leading health expert said the swine flu scare was a "false pandemic" led by drug companies that stood to make billions from vaccines, The Sun reported Monday.
Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, claimed major firms organized a "campaign of panic" to put pressure on the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a pandemic.
He believes it is "one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century," and he has called for an inquiry.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582749,00.htmlI knew this was all a big scam, similar to global warming. And, if we haven't figured out by now, any time Obama calls something a crisis, there is something sinister about it. Do you recall the "discussions" Obama and his minions were having, potentially forcing people to get vaccinated? Just remember which industry was "covered" by Obamacare. Never let a contrived "crisis" go to waste.
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Ask Uncle Jay Ask Uncle Jay
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Ask Uncle Jay
That was exciting: a lightning-fast turnaround, a swift rush forward, and suddenly all the barriers are broken! But enough about your Toyota ... how about them Saints! Uncle Jay explains it all, without funny commercials. Watch Video...
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Come on LeaningLeft get with i Come on LeaningLeft get with it!!!
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Leaning left say's
...and saying anything about the North just shows how ignorant you are of weather. Its the winter time, the point where the Northern Hemisphere is furthest from the sun...this is why we experience "winter"...
Here is a picture:
Here is a link:
http://cse
p10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/time/seasons.html
The tilt in the axis of the earth creats the seasons lefty!!!
WHO'S IGNORANT!!!!!
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Snowmageddon Snowmageddon
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Snowmageddon
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A lesson for the Dems A lesson for the Dems
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A Lesson for Dems from Delawares Beau Biden
By Chris Slavens
The Democrats’ future in the U.S. Senate looks even gloomier following Delaware Attorney General Joseph R. “Beau” Biden’s announcement on January 25 that he would not run for the seat vacated by his father, Vice President Joseph R. “Joe” Biden, Jr. Democrats at the national level, unnerved by a recent series of Republican victories in special elections, had looked to the younger Biden as their best hope for keeping both of the First State’s Senate seats in Democratic hands. The refusal of the vice president’s son to run for Senate in the nation’s second-smallest state says a lot about the current political climate.
Delawareans have been voting for (or against) Bidens since 1969, when 26-year-old Joe Biden ran for county council and won, only to run for U.S. Senate two years later, bypassing the usual political ladder of state offices and scoring a tremendous upset victory over Republican incumbent J. Caleb Boggs. In 2006, his son ran for state attorney general, successfully relying on family name recognition to defeat an opponent that was significantly better qualified. Of course, most followers of national-level politics probably have one question about the goings-on of Delaware: Who the heck cares?
The Obama administration cares. So does the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and Democrats across the country who see their Senate majority slipping away, one seat at a time. The fact is, Biden was their only hope to defeat Delaware’s Republican candidate, current U.S. Representative Michael Castle, a former two-term governor whose moderate status has earned him nine House terms in a strongly Democratic state. Barring a miracle for Democrats, Castle will occupy a seat held by their party since 1972.
Sound familiar? Massachusetts, anyone? If Democrats have learned anything from recent losses, it is that they do not own certain states or offices, regardless of history or tradition. Their compliance with the president’s radical agenda is fueling a popular nonpartisan tea party movement, and awakening citizens who have previously stayed out of politics. Just as the Senate seat recently won by Scott Brown has been called “the Kennedy seat,” so could Delaware’s, temporarily held by placeholder Ted Kaufman, be called “the Biden seat.”
No longer. The younger Biden’s wise decision not to run, thereby protecting his political future, should be a warning sign for other Democrats, as well as the White House. A prominent figure in a tiny state is unwilling to run despite his party’s urging, while the current administration and Congress are losing popularity. It is not a coincidence. How will Democrats fare in more moderate, evenly-divided battleground states, with candidates that cannot lean on local popularity and power like that of the Biden family?
Republican Scott Brown’s recent upset victory taught us a lesson, or should have. Political parties or families do not own seats, and dissatisfaction with a White House agenda can affect local races. The lesson from Delaware, in the form of “Beau” Biden’s refusal to run, is that at least one Democrat has learned from what happened in Massachusetts, and now, faced with the prospect of a loss in the November election, is unwilling to wager his political future for the sake of a floundering party. In the coming months, as campaign filing deadlines draw closer, how many other would-be candidates will discover that, like Biden, they are not gamblers?
Chris Slavens, former contributor to the Wilmington News Journal, is a Liberty Features Syndicated writer.
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More on Haiti More on Haiti
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I received this from my sister a couple of days ago, another reason to tell Haiti to take a flying leap and to KMA!
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN HAITI, YOU'LL FIND THIS INTERESTING. PARDON SOME OF THE LANGUAGE -- IT'S FROM A MILITARY GUY. MUCH OF IT IS POSITIVELY INFURIATING.
Subject: Haiti Diary
BG Mike Seely (U.S. Army – Ret.), forwarded this from a friend that just returned from Haiti.
Date: Monday, January 25, 2010, 5:47 AM
News back from Nick Brockhausen. He and Dennis Hebler made it back somewhat safe and sound.
To All,
I just returned from Haiti with Hebler. We flew in at 3 AM Sunday to the scene of such incredible destruction on one side, and enormous ineptitude and criminal neglect on the other. Port Au Prince is in ruins. The rest of the country is fairly intact. Our team was a rescue team and we carried special equipment that locates people buried under the rubble. There are easily 200,000 dead; the city smells. The bloody UN was there for 5 years doing apparently nothing but wasting US Taxpayers money. The ones I ran into were either incompetent or outright anti-American. Most are French or French speakers, worthless every damn one of them.
While 1800 rescuers were ready, willing and able to leave the airport and go do our jobs, the UN and USAID ( another organization full of little OBamites and communists that openly speak out against America), these two organizations exemplified their parochialism by:
USAID, when in control of all inbound flights, had food and water flights stacked up all the way to Miami, yet allowed Geraldo Rivera, Anderson Cooper and a host of other left wing news puppies to land.
Pulled all the security off the rescue teams so that Bill Clinton and his wife could have the grand tour, whilst we sat unable to get to people trapped in the rubble. Stacked enough food and water for the relief over at the side of the airfield then put a guard on it while we dehydrated and wouldn't release a drop of it to the resuers.
No shower facilities to decontaminate after digging or moving corpses all day, except for the FEMA teams who brought their own shower and decon equipment, as well as air conditioned tents. No latrine facilities, unless you dig a hole, if you set up a shitter everyone was trying to use it.
I watched a 25 year old Obamite with the USAID shrieking hysterically; berate a full bird colonel in the Air Force, because he countermanded her orders, whilst trying to unscrew the air pattern. "You don’t know what your president wants! The military isn't in charge here we are!"
If any of you are thinking of giving money to the Haitian relief, or to the UN don't waste your money. It will only go to further the goals of the French and the Liberal left. If we are a fair and even society, why is it that only white couples are adopting Haitian orphans? Where the hell is that vocal minority that is always screaming about the injustice of American society?
Bad place, bad situation, but a perfect look at the new world order in action. New Orleans magnified a thousand times. Haiti doesn't need democracy, what Haiti needs is Papa Doc.
That’s not just my opinion that is what virtually every Haitian we talked with said. "The French run UN treat us the same as when we were a colony, at least Papa Doc ran the country."
Oh, and as a last slap in the face the last four of us had to take US AIRWAY plane home from Phoenix. They slapped me with a $590 dollar baggage charge for the four of us. The girl at the counter was almost in tears because she couldn't give us a discount or she would lose her job. Pass that on to the flying public.
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Obama Paints Obama Paints
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The New Obama Line of Designer Paints
And they’re not transparent!
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Obamacare can’t save them! Obamacare can’t save them!
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Recently some Democrats made some interesting statements. It went something like, why do you need religion when you have the democrats. This only points to the retarded arrogant belief that they are more relevant than anything else. I question their relevance period. America has had a good year believe it or not! It started one morning laying in bed listening to the news. The announcer said Kennedy had brain cancer. I jumped out of bed singing oh happy day. The down side was he kept kicking for another year. More good news yesterday. John Murtha croaked from complications after surgery. The nasty bastards are dropping like flies LOL. As I’ve said before I’m not particularly a religious person, but I’ll go with what works.
So long Ted and John. We won’t miss you Pinkos.
Just to enforce my extreme sadness: I’ve got one or two for Ya’
Q; Why were their only two barriers a pinko Kennedy’s funeral?
A: Only two handles on a trash can!
Q: did you hear what Murtha said about the Marines?
A:Yes But I’ll bet he doesn’t have the Gaul to say that again!
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Yet BIGGER Government Yet BIGGER Government
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More fiscal irresponsibilty from the other side of Obama's mouth on deficit spending.
You Thought The Ed Begley Census Commercial Was A Waste Of Money?
The Obama administration is in the process of forming a new government agency dedicated to addressing the impending doom of global warming:
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today announced the intent to create a [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] Climate Service line office dedicated to bringing together the agency’s strong climate science and service delivery capabilities.
Apparently there is a big demand from the American public for “relevant and timely information” about global warming “to inform decision-making about virtually all aspects of their lives”–such a big demand, we need a new government agency to manage it.
“By providing critical planning information that our businesses and our communities need, NOAA Climate Service will help tackle head-on the challenges of mitigating and adapting to climate change,” said Secretary Locke. “In the process, we’ll discover new technologies, build new businesses and create new jobs.”
Ht/Steve
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