Category Archives: Take Back Congress

In MO-2, it’s Tea Party vs. Country Club

While Jane Cunningham’s decision to bypass a chance at Missouri’s open 2nd Congressional District makes the race less entertaining, the contrast in the GOP primary between Ed Martin and Ann Wagner will still make for a fascinating intraparty battle. Read more at Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Tell [...]

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America’s Wake Up Call….S&P Lowers Debt Rating from “Stable” to “Negative”

  Yesterday the debt rating service Standard & Poors (S&P) issued a change in their outlook for U.S. Government debt, downgrading the Treasury’s rating from AAA Stable to AAA Negative. This means that they beleive our finances are heading in the wrong direction and unless corrective measures are taken, their next move will be to [...]

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Webb Won’t Seek Re-Election

Virginia Democratic Senator Jim Webb plans to announce today that he won’t seek reelection, the Senator confirmed Wednesday. Webb appeared likely to face a rematch with former Senator George Allen, whom he beat in a bruising 2006 contest. He had expressed ambivalence about the prospect of another run, and has said he never planned a [...]

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Forget the liberal hype about a comeback: 2010 was a stunningly bad year for Barack Obama, and 2011 could be even worse

By Nile Gardiner gnore the revisionist hype in sections of the liberal media about President Obama staging a (mythical) political comeback – this is a presidency with an approval rating of 45 percent (according to the RealClear Politics poll of polls), that presides over a nation where just 27 percent of voters think the country [...]

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2012 Senate Races

POLITICO SENATE 2012 – “GOP candidates rush to get into Senate races,” by AP’s Philip Elliott: “Less than two months after voters gave Republicans six more Senate seats and control of the House, the GOP is lining up candidates for 2012, well ahead of the pace of previous election cycles. Looking to ride what they [...]

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Symptoms of Brain Tumor

Symptoms of Brain Tumor All forms of brain tumor are serious, but if someone is diagnosed with a brain tumor, it is better to have benign brain tumor symptoms, rather than metastatic (cancerous) ones, because that means their particular tumor has not resulted in a cancerous growth. Unlike other symptoms of brain tumor-which include headaches, [...]

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Inaugural Scoop: Steelman Files for Senate

By: David Cantanese POLITICO Former Missouri state treasurer Sarah Steelman is expected to file the official paperwork Wednesday to run for U.S. Senate in 2012, POLITICO has learned. Before filing as a candidate with the Secretary of the Senate this afternoon, Steelman will launch a campaign website this morning that outlines her decision to become [...]

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Here’s a List of Senate Dems Up for Re-Election in 2012

FOR THOSE EARLY BIRDS WHO LIKE TO GET OUT AHEAD OF THE CURVE, HERE’S A LIST OF DEMOCRATIC SENATORS UP FOR RE-ELECTION IN 2012   Some pundits say it will take a second take-over of senate seats in 2012 to give a majority in the senate to Republicans. Vulnerabilities will depend on economic and social [...]

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Meet the House GOP’s insta-stars

By KASIE HUNT | 11/5/10 7:36 PM EDT With more than 80 Republican freshman soon to arrive in Washington, it will take some time to figure out who’s who. But a few of this year’s rookies aren’t likely to toil in anonymity for long, if at all. There’s a group that’s ready-made for cable television—some [...]

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Thousands of Democrats to be jobless in Washington

Graphic Credit:  Chris Morris for the Washington Post By Al Kamen Washington Post Staff Writer 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 [...]

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