Liberal Lawmakers Face New Challenges

There's one certainty for the Capitol's most liberal lawmakers now that Democrats will control Congress: They won't have to meet in the basement anymore.

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Voices on both sides of the climate change debate today called for an independent inquiry into claims of collusion between climate scientists after it emerged last week that hundreds of their emails and documents had been leaked that allegedly manipulated data and destroyed evide …

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After 18 years in Congress, Congressman William Jefferson of Louisiana, a Democrat, will serve 13 years for bribery and if he grins as he stamps out plates, he is still eligible for a guaranteed $50,000 pension in his first year of retirement, which will increase each year.

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We have heard a lot over the past year or so about how President John F. Kennedy wouldn't be able to garner his political party's nomination for the presidency in today's Democrat Party.

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In a state with an individual income tax rate of 0%, property taxes that are raising through the roofs of homes not yet foreclosed on, and a looming budget disaster, there's one very ornery 300-pound gorilla of a tax problem not getting nearly enough attention.

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The Democrats have more political power than they have had at any time since the presidency of LBJ.

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Yes, Virginia, there really are honest liberals, though they may be extinct long before the last polar bear slides off that melting ice floe.

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It started out as a mild virus initiated by the left of center intellectuals of academia. But, like every virus from computer carried to influenza, it spread rapidly through schools, hospitals, civil service, the media, companies, governance and the armed forces.

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It is sad and disturbing commentary on the state of American culture when the facts surrounding an event, such as the slaughter that took place at Fort Hood, can not only be manipulated to facilitate a political ideology but blatantly ignored in the pursuit of a political agenda.

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Well you all have been talking a good PR game, and it's been holding ground for you. But I warned you, the left hasn't even started fighting. Until now. In the hope of saving you rightys a little time and energy...you should know, this fight is over.

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To think that Barack Obama, the leader of the Democratic Party, the most corrupt political organization in Western history, would lecture the President of Afghanistan on the merits of clean government and honest elections is just...incomprehensible.

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In the friendly confines of the Oval Office, congratulations are about to be exchanged. On those dithering heights, victory is about to be proclaimed. A great change is about to take place in Americans' healthcare and how to pay for it, and the administration sounds triumphant.

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A year after Barack Obama's election stirred broad hopes for change among American voters, persistent high unemployment and the spectacle of continued gridlock in Washington threaten Democratic dominance of the political landscape.

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Whether Democrats conceived the idea of a minimum wage as an economic tool with which to buy the votes of those at the bottom rung of the economic ladder, or if the potential political benefits occurred to them as an afterthought, we may never know.

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There's a massive unspoken problem in America today floating like the iceberg in front of the Titanic waiting to sink the unsinkable ship.

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Obama`s Administration and MOP Policy

Obama`s record is one of holding out a MOP- More of Politics, AS USUAL!

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One of the things that brings me to the boiling point is when I hear elected officials tell me what "Americans want" or what "Americans think." To believe that today's federally elected politicians understand – or care – what their constituents want, never mind Amer …

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Article II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution tells us that "The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." In t …

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Okay, folks, we progressives got what we wanted. A comprehensive health care reform bill with a reasonably strong public option will be going to the floor as part of leadership bills in both the House and the Senate.

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Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo are all more profitable than the health insurance industry.

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Jeffrey Sachs is senior economist at the UN and author of the bestseller "Common Wealth" and the controversial Time essay "The Case for Bigger Government".

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Famous Quotes of the Day "Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity." Jeane Kirkpatrick (Speech Third Committee of the United Nation General Assembly 1981)

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It has finally dawned on me why President Obama and the Democrats in control of the Congress rushed to pass an unread "stimulus" bill "redistributing" billions of taxpayer dollars, have been voting bills out of committee to "reform" our national healthcare system, and …

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For those who like to say with absolutely certainty, but with no basis in fact, that there is "not a dimes worth of difference" between the two major parties, consider this: the Republican Party is composed primarily of individuals whose primary political interest is in being …

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"PFIR's website includes information on all aspects of immigration. The Pulse Opinion Survey, conducted April 2009 revealed: • 67 percent of liberals felt the level of population growth caused by immigration negatively impacts the quality of life in the U.S.

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In the run-up to the Frankfurt Book Fair, German-Turkish writer Seyran Ates discusses her new book, which describes the necessity of a sexual revolution in the Islamic world, the recent integration debate in Germany and the arrogance of German women's rights activists

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