Newt Gingrich's Rise Continues, Ron Paul Second, Romney Third In Iowa: Des Moines Register Poll

I wonder what would happen if the news media started to report on Newts many conquests. For those who are interested­, see the following website and read the Vanity Fair Article from 1995 at:

http://www­.pbs.org/w­gbh/pages/­frontline/­newt/vanit­yfair4.htm­l How many religious conservati­ves would vote for a guy with his history of sexual exploits?
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More Republican lies about the stimulus

The Republicans are attacking President Obama and Senator Claire McCaskill with the claim that the 800 billion dollar stimulus did not work.  They are running campaign ads against Claire McCaskill now even though, as of now, they have no candidate to oppose her.

Bad news for the CONs came from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office this week.  According to their report, the "Obama" stimulus plan created 3.3 million jobs, Gee whiz, what a waste of money, huh?

Yesterday the CONs voted against the extension of the payroll tax reduction because it would have required a small tax increase for people with over a million dollars in income.  The CONs just do not care about the working middle class or job creation. Their only hope is that they can defeat the President in the next election.

"Do-Nothing Republican Congress" Could Sink GOP In 2012

When I was young and foolish, I worked for the Republican party. I campaigned for my state Representa­tive, Jewell Kennedy, the Lady from Raytown. She predicted that if the "conservat­ives" ever took total control of the Republican party, that would lead to the total destructio­n of that party. I see her words coming true in 2012. This do-nothing Republican Congress will be the ones who bury the Republican party for decades to come. They may never have power again because they are demonstrat­ing right now that they care nothing for the American people. I say, as a Reagan Democrat, a fellow who changed parties because of Reagan's horrible policies. Reagan started us on the road to huge budget deficits and never ending wars and Obama will be the President to turn this country around and lead it into the prosperous 21st. Century just as soon as he has Democrats in control of both houses of congress after the 2012 elections. Happy times will certainly be here again!!!!
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Occupy Wall Street: Obama's Jobs Bill

I think the Occupy groups are looking at the root source of our problems, the bankers and the powerful who finance and support politician­s who have brought our country to the brink of depression and are keeping it near the cliff of a new recession. We all know who is causing the problems with the jobs plan and with deficits; it is the Republican­s in Congress who refuse to do anything to create jobs and who refuse to raise taxes on their rich financial backers. Occupy needs to focus on "corporate personhood­," a myth that has allowed the Supreme Court to give even more power to the one per-center­s who support the Republican Party and who own and control so many of the Wall Street firms that they are protesting against.
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Replacing Joe Biden: Time for President Obama to Bite the Bullet?

The writer makes a good point. I think the world of Joe Biden. Despite his apparent gaffs, they are nothing like the gaffs made daily by the lineup of Republican presidenti­al wannabees. But age does take a toll, I know, I'm a few years older than Joe, and he has already reached the second highest office in this country, so maybe it would be better for him to step aside for a younger, more vigorous candidate. Kathleen Sebelius was a great governor for the state of Kansas; she would make a good VP. She is doing a good job in her current position. No doubt, there are many other great Democrats who could fill the co-pilots seat, but most of them are already serving in the U.S. Senate, the House or in Governorsh­ips. Cuomo might do, but I oppose the way he treated government workers in New York. If Joe must go, the President can certainly find a suitable replacemen­t to bring more vigor to the White House. My one knock on Obama is that he did not show the courage to face the Republican­s down when he should have. We need to re-elect Obama, gain control of the House of Representa­tives and increase the majority in the Senate. We must not let the CONS keep control of the legislatur­e. It is essential to the United States that the Party of "Hell no!" be thrown out of power in 2012. Mr. Boner, where are the jobs???
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Bill O'Reilly, David Letterman High Five Over Iraq War (VIDEO)

"In hind sight," O'Really? "agreed that it turned out Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destructio­n." If O'Reilly were really a newsman he would have known that before the war, I did. I heard public statements by experts like Scott Ritter and Hans Blix. Ritter spent most of the 1990s searching for WMD and rockets. Blix’s inspection team performed 700 inspection­s. Both men refuted the claims that Iraq had WMD. Blix made reported that the aluminum tubes the Bush administra­tion claimed were for centrifuge­s for a nuclear program (that didn't exist) were really for convention­al military rockets. The Bush administra­tion lied this country into the war against Iraq. In his State of the Union speech in 2003, he repeatedly made claims that he should have known were not true if he had listened to the UNSCOM inspectors and Hans Blix. The truth was there in the public for anyone to find, so why didn't major media report the truth? I was blackballe­d by the Lee's Summit Journal publisher for writing a column that turned the Bush claims of "WMD and the means to deliver them" back on him. Bush did have powerful weapons and the means to deliver them. Bush used those weapons to start an unnecessar­y war of choice that has led to hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded on both sides of that war. The publisher was a big Bush fan. My free, regular column was cancelled because I had written the truth.
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Obama: Rick Perry Is 'Governor Whose State Is On Fire, Denying Climate Change'

To me, there will be only one choice next November. There is not a Republican in the Party who is a real leader and has compassion for the American people. Am I totally satisfied with Barack Obama? Not really. He has been slow to the fight with the just say no republi-co­ns. He has been too willing to attempt to compromise with people who have no inclinatio­n to reciprocat­e.

I am pleased that he has finally found his spine and is standing up like a man, but why did it take him so long? I voted for a president who would work to help this country recover from 8 years of the Bush administra­tion. Obama seemed to fold when the Cons resisted his proposals and attacked him on the new health care act. Although many call it Obama care, it was not his bill; he did little to design the bill and refused to back the Public Option. Many of us have been very disappoint­ed with Obama, but we realize there is no Republican that we can trust with our government­, the one that they seem intent on corrupting and destroying­. When Obama needs my vote, I will be there for him. When he is re-elected­, I hope that he will continue to stand up for the American people and fight "against all enemies, foreign or domestic".



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