Category Archives: Take Back Congress

Democrats Retrench as GOP Pulls Away

By LAURA MECKLER And JANET HOOK Democratic strategists acknowledged they are abandoning a dozen House seats the party now holds, as they try to salvage their majority in the chamber by shoring up candidates with better chances. With Republicans expanding their advertising to broaden the field of competitive races, Democrats are shifting resources to help [...]

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Reid and Angle disagree — about everything

LAS VEGAS — Sixty minutes, two candidates and not a single moment of agreement. Instead, Republican Sharron Angle taunted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to “man up” Thursday night in their only debate of a close, caustic and costly race. Speaking more softly, Reid called her extreme, an ally of the special interests and advocate [...]

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A presidency on the verge of a nervous breakdown: 5 key reasons why Barack Obama’s future looks increasingly bleak

Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News, and NPR. By: Nile Gardiner telegraph.co.uk Forget the myth of an Obama recovery. The past week has been disastrous for the White House and America’s increasingly [...]

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Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina Skipping Sarah Palin Event

By ANDY BARR | POLITICO Sarah Palin will be in California later this month for a major national Republican fundraiser, but the state’s two leading Republican women candidates won’t be there, POLITICO has confirmed. The event slated for Oct. 16 in Anaheim is being widely promoted by the Republican National Committee and conservatives in the [...]

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Nancy Pelosi: Prognosticator or Pinhead?

I can’t wait to hear Madame Speaker’s first interview after the 40 foot political tsunami rolls ashore Nov. 2 and sweeps her and the Democratic Party three miles inland. I wonder how she will try to spin her responses in the interview reposted below. I wonder how she will handle going from one of the [...]

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Midwest Democrats Rip Senate Foes

By ALEXANDER BURNS POLITICO Three Midwestern Democrats launched biting ads against GOP Senate candidates Tuesday, targeting the Republicans with variations on this message: My opponent is an unethical insider who just can’t be trusted. Indiana Rep. Brad Ellsworth, Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold are all struggling to overcome their [...]

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The Fired Congress

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE In December, more than a dozen senators will come back to Washington and decide how much more tax money to take from Americans, without being accountable to any of them. Some companies have a policy that once someone is fired, they aren’t allowed back on the premises out of fear they might [...]

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Blue Dog Democrats are Really Lap Dog Democrats

Chris Chocola, who heads up the CLUB FOR GROWTH said in today’s Wall St. Journal that the so called “Blue Dog Democrats” who are alleged to be feisty fiscal conservatives/moderates that don’t march in lockstep with Nancy Pelosi, voted with her 80% of the time in this Congress. I just wanted to point that out [...]

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Sarah Palin, Michael Steele Linking Up For Pair Of RNC Rallies

Nick Wing THE HUFFINGTON POST Sarah Palin and Michael Steele, two of the GOP’s more against the grain figures, will be coming together in October to help raise money for the RNC. The former Alaska Governor and current RNC Chairman are set to make two stops, one in Anaheim, California, on October 16 and another [...]

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Fiorina: Boxer’s surge ‘predictable’

By DAVID CATANESE    POLITICO California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina says her recent slip in the polls is an expected result of Sen. Barbara Boxer’s considerable financial advantage in the pricey Golden State. And while Democrats are attempting to frame Boxer’s polling surge as a sign California is falling out of reach for the GOP, Fiorina [...]

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