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Looming Election Slows Progress in Senate
Jun 28th 2008 12:05PM
Filed Under:eSenate, Democrats, Republicans, Featured Stories, 2008 Senate
The Senate adjourned for the Fourth of July Recess without taking action on several important pending bills, including a mortgage bailout, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act reauthorization, and the war funding supplemental. Democratic leaders complain that minority Republicans have deliberately stalled legislation in an attempt to create a "do-nothing Congress" against which to run in the fall. But Democrats have short memories, forgetting that when they were in the minority, they adopted much the same tactics to prevent bills that they opposed from advancing. Then, filibusters were a precious right of the minority, vital to the functioning of a democracy and a sacred method of preventing a tyrrany of the majority.Ironically, Republicans did not hold up the FISA bill or the war supplemental. Those bills are delayed by infighting among factions in the Democratic caucus. Liberals like Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), oppose the measures both on principle and as a result of pressure from their political base and wish to offer amendments to soften their impact. The mortgage bailout is opposed by more conservative members in the Republican caucus, but will likely pass by a large majority when it does come up for a vote. Republicans argue that by stalling work in the Senate, they are protecting their minority status from an uncooperative majority which often denies them the chance to amend legislation or offer alternatives.
The back and forth battle is nothing new in Washington politics. Both parties engage in it just as vigorously as they decry its results. But in the short run, it appears that Republicans have been particularly successful at frustrating the Democratic leadership, as well as preventing legislation that their base would find difficult to accept. In an election year that is shaping up to very bad for Republicans, they may have to take their solace anywhere they can find it.
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(Page 1 of 1)CONCERNED 4 AMERICA1:32PMJun 28th 2008
Obama’s supporters would cover the world with smoke and mirrors to try and make Barack Hussein Obama look good, regardless of all his lies and ties to radical anti-Americans.
Obama could butcher a kitten on the White House lawn and his followers would try to make it look like a good thing.
I imagine some of the people who voted for Obama IN JANUARY would like to change their votes!
Obama, along with Dean, Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Kerry, Carter and other members of the DNC are destroying the Democratic Party. HILLARY HELPED OBAMA GET IN THE SENATE, THEN HE STABBED HER IN THE BACK.
They say we have 48 states … not 50. THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN DID NOT BREAK THE RULES --- A FEW POLITICIANS DID.
VOTE FOR McCAIN IN 2008 --- HILLARY IN 2012.
Dee6:38AMJun 29th 2008
The CORONATION of "Barry" Obama from Chicago...
Sounds like something out of Mad Magazine. Come to think of it..."Barry" is a slightly darker version of the pale, freckle-faced, skinny kid that once graced the cover of this classic magazine. Yeah...the kid with the big ears and that silly grin on his face. The one that coined the phrase: "What, me worry?" His name was "Alfred E. Neuman."
Substitute the cover photo on that same magazine today (which only collectors will have now) with a grinning, toothy, big-eared "Barry" from Chicago and write "CHANGE" under it.
Actually, take all of the controversial proclamations this guy has made, along with those of his 20 year pastor (now "under a bus" somewhere in Chicago) quotes from his 2 books, quotes from his debates, interviews and cozy speeches in private meetings (ie: the "guns and religion" thing in San Francisco) etc. and that would fill up an entire Special Edition of a modern-day Mad Magazine, wouldn't it?
Get the picture? Why hasn't someone out there thought of this already...?
Randy8:32AMJun 29th 2008
WAKE UP AMERICA. THROW ALL THESE LOSERS OUT.THEY ARE NOT FOR WE THE PEOPLE. THEY ARE FOR WE/US, meaning themselves. Where did Osama come from ? Who is holding us hostage with gas prices? Did you ever hear of econo-terrorism ? Well you witnessing it now ! Wake up and throw the bums out. But don't put the agent of change in- he is change his stance on everything. Change you can believe in alright.
CHANGES HIS POSITION/STANCE ON EVERYTHING.
NOBAMA12:28PMJun 29th 2008
If I was arrested 30 years ago and convicted of child molestation --- but since then, I told you I had reformed and am now living a decent life, would you allow me to babysit your grandchildren? I THINK NOT! I believe you would always wonder if your grandchildren would be safe --- based on my “past history”!
FROM OBAMA'S BOOKS:
Dreams of My Father: “I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.”
From Dreams of My Father : “I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.”
From Dreams of My Father: “There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.”
From Dreams of My Father: “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”
From Dreams of My Father: “I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.”
From Audacity of Hope: “I WILL STAND WITH THE MUSLIMS SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION.”
You can't change a tiger's stripes. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA HAS TOLD TOO MANY LIES --- HE HAS TOO MANY TIES TO TERRORISTS AND ANTI-AMERICANS.
WE CANNOT IGNORE THIS MAN’S “PAST HISTORY”.
McCAIN IN 2008 - HILLARY IN 2012.
Send a Thank you to Hillary3:07PMJun 29th 2008
Got an email from Terry L., one of Clinton's supporters, about this campaign. I hope everyone gets involved. Let's blanket her Senate office with 18 million cards! No one deserves it more.
Terry has a specific message:
We are trying to get a "Thank you card campaign" started. We want to flood Senator Clinton's DC office with thank you cards. On the front of the envelope we are writing "WE ARE ONE OF 18 MILLION" and we are asking her to take it to Denver. We want to reach as many supporters as possible so it can be effective. THE ADDRESS:
THE HONORABLE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
UNITED STATES SENATE
476 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON DC 20510-3202
But a thank you card for all she's done works too.
Hillary fought for us. So let's send a card to Senator Clinton. Then tell your friends to send one. Then get them to get their friends to send one.
Pass it on.
Jim6:33PMJun 29th 2008
For the Ladies..
HEY LADIES.. Is Obama really on your side..
In 1999, Barack Obama was the only member of the Illinois State Senate to vote against a bill that prohibited convicted criminal sex abusers from getting early release. The amendment to the "County Jail Good Behavior Allowance Act" provided that a person in a county jail may not receive a good behavior allowance if he is convicted of criminal sexual assault against a minor who is also a family member or if the criminal were to be convicted of criminal sexual abuse or aggravated sexual abuse.
The legislation, S.B. 485 (IL 1999), passed 54-1.
Likewise, Barack Obama refused to support Illinois Attorney General JIm Ryan's effort to toughen laws on pedophiles and rapists by revamping the "Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act." The legislation, among other things, required disclosure of mental health records of a person being prosecuted as a sexually violent person. It also beefed up crimes against incarcerated sexual predators by employees of prisons. The legislation, H.B. 2008 (IL 2001) passed 47-1.
Obama also refused to support legislation in 1999 that would protect the privacy of sex-abuse victims by allowing the victims to request the trial records be sealed. Naturally though, he later reversed himself.
In 2003, Obama would not vote at all on H.B. 338 when it crossed over to the Illinois Senate. That legislation made sex offenders ineligible to sit on school boards.
Perhaps most troubling though, was Obama's 2001 vote against H.B. 1912. The legislation came about in response to a brutal gang murder in Chicago and was designed to put gang members who kill in furtherance of gang activity on death row. Obama voted against the legislation and he even spoke out against the bill on the Senate floor. He claimed to be concerned that the term will be used to “target” certain neighborhoods. The legislation passed 44-9.
Consistent with that theme, Obama voted no on creating the offense of "unlawful contact with street gang members." The legislation provided that it would be a Class A misdeamenor for a person who is sentenced to probation to knowingly have contact with a street gang member if a condition of probation was for the person to refrain from contact. The legislation, S.B. 1846 (IL 1998) passed 54-3, but not with Obama's support.
It's all well and good for Obama to say he supports the death penalty in cases involving the rape of children. But when he had the opportunity to vote for tougher crimes against pedophiles, gang members who murder, and sexual violent criminals, each time Obama stuck up for the criminals and not the children.
Does he really protect your rights ladies..I think not.
American Freedom9:03PMJun 29th 2008
THIS IS WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE (oil prices will drop overnight)
1. Open ALL American Strategic Stockpile of oil
2. Start drilling off-shore right away (we can replenish our stockpile in 5 years)and build more refineries
3. Speculators will be immediately DUMPING their "oil futures" and the oil prices will FALL world wide.
There is NO OIL SHORTAGE. This is only a perception due to speculation. We have more oil available to us than we will ever need.
In the meantime we can start SERIOUSLY thinking and planning for our future energy needs, build new clean nuke power stations, alternative fuels, cheaper transportation... That will put us back into leading position around the world.
Obama supporter - George Soros the multi-Billionaire loves the idea of "Globalisation" which will bring record profits to his investments and speculation. It is not good for America. We must remain a sovereign nation, not let world cartels dictate what we must grow, or produce and fix our pirces. We are big enough and rich enough to keep our sovereign status. Obama wants Globalisation, and give away our taxpayer dollars to Afircan developing nations. SAY NO TO OBAMA.
American Freedom9:05PMJun 29th 2008
Electing a President to the highest office of the Unites States of America, is serious business. This is not "who can be wackiest" contest. Everything has long term consequences, which the youngsters have not grasped yet.
We the people will be voting for a person with EXPERIENCE, patriotism, Honor, reliability, strength, conscience, Christian values, and temperance, like Hillary or McCain. NEVER obama.
Hello President McCain. We will be voting for you and wait 4 years for Hillary. And the DNC has to be overhauled i.e. one man one vote.
NO more pimped-out super delegates ever again. We also need to clean out Congress, get rid of these backstabbers, no more liberal racist democrats. Lets start with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, John Kerry, Barbara Boxer... etc They stink more than a latrine.
Taking Action9:08PMJun 29th 2008
I will be voting AGAINST the DNC because they betrayed the American voters. They will never think about doing this again.
We must get the DNC to overhaul their super delegate cheters fix. We the voters want ONE MAN ONE VOTE and count all the damn votes! Never deny the voters and never cheat the voters. If you have a problem, fine the legislature. Never the voters.
I also want Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Harry Reid, Barb Boxer, OUT OF OFFICE. I will be replacing the Senate and the Congress with NEW faces.
I VOTE Sen. McCain for President in November.
Never Obama.
Taking Action9:14PMJun 29th 2008
I will be voting AGAINST the DNC because they betrayed the American voters. They will never think about doing this again.
We must get the DNC to overhaul their super delegate cheters fix. We the voters want ONE MAN ONE VOTE and count all the damn votes! Never deny the voters and never cheat the voters. If you have a problem, fine the legislature. Never the voters.
I also want Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Harry Reid, Barb Boxer, OUT OF OFFICE. I will be replacing the Senate and the Congress with NEW faces.
I VOTE Sen. McCain for President in November.
Never Obama.
Lady Liberty9:44PMJun 29th 2008
For the first time in my life I am no longer Democrat.
I will not forget wht the DNC did, how they stole votes and manipulated the election. Nobody stood up to protest the vile sexist attacks against Sen. Hillary Clinton. None of the male candidates have ever been attacked like Sen. Clinton, just because she is a woman who dared to run for President. The DNC treated her unfairly, and stole her votes to give to Obama. I do not forget.
I will NEVER vote for Obama.
You people at the DNC pushed the best candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton out, who had the majority vote, and you want to force the anti-American racist bigot Obama into the white house? I say NO.
I VOTE Sen. McCain in November and wait for Sen. Hillary Clinton for 4 years.
No Obama.
Troy Nolan11:12PMJun 29th 2008
The writer, an idiot, forgets that the Democrats have a one vote in the Senate with the traitor Lieberman voting with them only because of his promise to voters in Conn. When the win big in november, they can throw this traitor out the door.
Make your vote count11:48PMJun 29th 2008
Make your vote count9:59PMJun 29th 2008
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/pledge-to-vote-against-obama-in-the-general-election
Pledge to vote against Obama in the General Election
REPLACE-DEMS-IN-CONGRESS9:12AMJun 30th 2008
THE DEMS IN CONGRESS “SELECTED” OBAMA — HE WAS NOT “ELECTED” BY THE PEOPLE.
Obama has no experience on any political topic. His foreign experience is vacationing with his family on a beautiful island.
Read Obama’s books. This bi-racial man, who claims to be ‘black’ is a threat to our country.
From ‘Dreams of My Father’: “I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.”
From ‘Audacity of Hope’: “I WILL STAND WITH THE MUSLIMS SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION.”
Early this year, Obama said: “Don’t tell me that words don’t matter”. His words on various topics keep changing. He has lost all credibility. OBAMA SIMPLY CANNOT BE TRUSTED.
John McCain does have foreign policy experience. In fact, he has more political experience on every topic than the ‘wanna be’.
McCain served our country during the Viet Nam War. He proved he loved our country enough to die for us. He has served in the Senate for 20 years.
Vote McCain in 2008.
Step up, Let your Voice be heard!5:10PMJun 30th 2008
Step up, Let your Voice be heard!12:27AMJun 30th 2008
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/pledge-to-vote-against-obama-in-the-general-election
Pledge to vote against Obama in the General Election
We the undersigned will vote for any opponent of Barack Hussien Obama or not vote at all. We believe he is the wrong leader for our country. We do not believe that the future of our nation should be decided by a popularity contest. Remember, each signature is a vote the Democratic Party could have had in November
more information for sources can be found on savagepolitics.com
Democrat for Mccain6:34PMJun 30th 2008
BARACK HUSSIEN OBAMA CAN NOT DENY THAT HE IS NOT A MUSLIM. IN HIS BOOK AUDACITY OF HOPE HUSSIEN OBAMA STATED QUOTE " I WILL STAND WITH THE MUSLIMS SHOULD THE POLITICAL WIND SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION" UNQUOTE
AMERICA YOU WANT TO GIVE THE WHITE HOUSE TO THIS GUY.
GOD FORBID
CORRUPT DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS CHOSEN THIS MAN OVER SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON.
IF YOU LOVE THIS COUNTRY VOTE FOR MCCAIN.
Change the DNC4:16PMJul 9th 2008
THE DNC HAS TO CHANGE IF THEY WANT TO SURVIVE.
THE DNC HAS TO DECLARE "ONE MAN ONE VOTE" AND COUNT ALL THE VOTES.
THE DNC MUST NEVER AGAIN DISENFRANCHISE A SINGLE VOTER BUT COUNT ALL THE VOTES. FINE THE LEGISLATURE, NOT THE INNOCENT VOTERS.
THIS IS THE ONLY WAY.
IN THE MEANTIME WE MUST CLEAN OUT THE DNC
AND SWEEP CLEAN CONGRESS.
THE BACKSTABBING SEXIST BIGOTS GOT TO GO.
ELECT NEW PEOPLE WHO ARE COMMITTED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND THEIR INTERESTS.
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REPLACE-DEMS-IN-CONGRESS12:44PMJun 28th 2008
The standard operating procedure by the Democrat controlled Congress and almost all of the mass media, is to give democrats special treatment. Pass along the excuses liberals. This makes of double standards because we all know your Obama-Boy will get a slap on the wrist --- while a republican would be carted off to jail.
Some people have said another reason not to vote for Barack Hussein Obama is he’s the candidate with the offensive middle name. The real problem isn’t Barack’s middle name or the special treatment he is getting from the press but his gross lack of experience and the fact that he is very confused.
Obama thinks there are more than 57 states in the Union and he wants to be president. If you add Florida and Michigan, it's 59??? I wonder if he’ll carry the 57+ states?
OBAMA, THE DNC AND BIASED MEDIA STABBED HILLARY IN THE BACK. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WAS "SELECTED" --- NOT "ELECTED".
VOTE McCAIN IN 2008 --- HILLARY IN 2012.