Highlights of this day in history: Bolshevik Revolution takes place; America’s 2000 presidential vote faces limbo; Nixon loses Calif. governor’s race; Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses; Evangelist Billy Graham and singer Joni Mitchell born. (Nov. 7)
Continue reading …Conservatives are immature, unthinking, and above all racist.
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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. With al-Qaeda declaring Christians are “legitimate targets” in Iraq and with George Bush trying to justify America’s preemptive wars and killings in his new book, one can observe how individuals often convert to peaceful faiths imposing their own war-like ideologies and values. Obviously, an al-Qaeda group had captured Christians in a Baghdad church demanding the release of several women. They alleged Egypt’s Coptic church of holding the women in a monastery after converting to Islam. When a deadline expired, Iraqi-U.S. forces tried to free the Christians. At least 46 worshippers were killed in a shooting melee and horrible bloodbath. It…
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KABUL (AFP) – NATO said Saturday it was investigating reports that an Afghan soldier had shot and killed foreign troops, while a NATO official said on condition of anonymity that two US Marines had died. The alliance's media office said it was aware of “the incident in Helmand province,” which was reported by Pakistan-based Afghan news agency Afghan Islamic Press (AIP). A team from ISAF and the Afghan government “is investigating the incident” but…
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And thousands of Republicans will replace them : The Great Shellacking of 2010 will throw more than 2,000 Democratic congressional staffers out of their jobs. And it will send thousands of gleeful Republican staffer wannabes into overdrive to get those resumes up to the Hill to fill those vacancies. Here’s a back-of-the-envelope look at the numbers: On the House side, 60 victorious GOP candidates are expected to hire more than 1,000 new aides in their personal offices. The staff allocations on the House committees have yet to be worked out, but they often run 2 to 1 for the majority party, so that could add up to a shift of maybe 800 or so jobs. Then there are the new House leadership staffs and so on. On the Senate side, the six new GOP senators are likely to hire around 150 personal office aides, and more Republican committee staff members will be sitting behind the senators at hearings. Democrats, with a sagging local economy – K Street isn’t hiring the way it used to, foundations and think tanks are pressed, colleges are hurting, corporations are frozen – may well be pounding the pavement for quite a while. Sadly for the newly unemployed MoveOn, ACORN, Media Matters for America, and MSNBC won’t have enough openings to absorb them. GOP aides went through the same routine in 2006 and 2008. That’s the way of Washington. If you hitch yourself to a politician you run that risk.
Continue reading …Officially the GOP gained six seats in the Senate but conservatives really gained eight.
Continue reading …On this day in 1980 America went to the polls with fire in their eyes and tossed Jimmuh Carter back to the peanut farm. I was working in a bank branch that day and still remember that as I was driving home they announced that Carter had already conceded the race.
Continue reading …Regardless of what’s going on in the presidential race, the Senate promises to give the Dems some serious headaches in 2012 : For the first time in two cycles, Democrats will have more seats up for grabs than the Republicans, and the party could see its shrunken majority erased altogether. Several of the senators up for reelection came in on the 2006 Democratic wave, when the party picked up six GOP seats and won control of the chamber. Sens. Bob Casey Jr. (D-Pa.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.) defeated GOP incumbents that year but will have to win reelection in 2012. And two senators who won special elections Tuesday, Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), will face voters again in two years. Democrats lost at least six Senate seats Tuesday, with results in Washington and Alaska undetermined as of press time, but they retained control. That could change in two years, when Democrats have 21 seats up for grabs, compared to only 10 for Republicans. Also up for reelection are Sens. Joe Lieberman (Conn.) and Bernie Sanders (Vt.), the two Independents who caucus with Democrats — meaning the party has a total of 23 seats to defend. Webb can probably win in VA, and Whitehouse and Sanders are probably safe, but Casey, McCaskill, Brown and Tester will be looking at trouble. And if Manchin ends up being another rubber stamp for Harry Reid, he will not get reelected. Lieberman will probably get another challenge from the left, so his reelection as an independent is no sure thing. To some extent the success of the GOP in 2012 will depend on who’s at the top of the ticket.
Continue reading …During a post-election interview with Diane Sawyer Nancy Pelosi said a lot of silly things, tried to blame Bush, and generally blamed everybody but Obama and the Dem agenda.
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