Political Ticker (Free subscription) | yesterday
Democrat Chad McGowan is hoping to unseat Republican Jim DeMint next year. (CNN) – The Democrat who wants to be South Carolina's next United States Senator might not see eye to eye with President Obama if he's elected next November. In fact, Chad McGowan - a Rock Hill trial attorney who national Democrats see as their best [...]
Northwest Progressive Institute (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Earlier today, Washington's two United States Senators appeared on the floor of the Senate to remember and honor the four officers who were killed on Sunday in an appalling act of destruction. Murray, who spoke first, repeatedly called the slayings senseless, and noted that they came on the heels of an ambush in Seattle on Halloween which resulted in the death of one Seattle police...
Donklephant (Free subscription) | yesterday
ABC News affiliate WHSV in Virginia is reporting that Sen. Jim Webb , D-VA, has sent a letter to President Obama expressing concern over some statements regarding the upcoming Copenhagen conference: Dear Mr. President: I would like to express my concern regarding reports that the Administration may believe it has the unilateral power to commit the government of the United States to certain standards...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Photo via Amanda M Hatfield's flickr Senator Schumer sent out a press release today regarding the future of the Jelly Pool Parties , which has been looking pretty dark as of late . Over the summer Schumer attended two of the parties, which he totally happened upon by accident whilst riding his bike down Kent Avenue on a scorching hot day in pants, a long-sleeve button-up, and not a drop of...
Show Me Progress - Front Page (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
On November 25th SurveyUSA released a 600 sample poll of adults taken in Missouri from November 20th through the 22nd showing the approval numbers for Senators Claire McCaskill (D) and Kit Bond (r). The margin of error is 4.1%. The poll was sponsored by KCTV in Kansas City. Do you approve or disapprove of the job Claire McCaskill is doing as United States Senator? All 48%...
Lance Mannion (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... fix it and I’m sure I can do it, all I have to do persuade a hundred milllion or so voters, sixty United States Senators, two-hundred and eighteen members of the House of Representatives, and twenty or thirty foreign heads of state to give me the permission, money, time, and space to put my plans to work.” In short, I’m sad to say that the mindset of a Dick Cheney makes more sense...
FREEwilliamsburg (Free subscription) | yesterday
(image c/o Michael Rusch) Senator Schumer is fighting hard for the hipster vote to ensure that the Williamsburg Pool Parties return in 2010. Here's the latest press release from his office:Schumer: The FREE Jelly NYC Pool Parties Are A...
Flopping Aces (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
... the data or reestablishing their credibility and integrity of a scientific research effort. In the United States, Senator Inhofe of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works has written a letter to all relevant government agencies advising them on the nature and content of the emails. While Obama’s Covert Marxist Government continues with its Cap and Trade legislation to...
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you've written to U.S. Senate Roland Burris about his views on health care, you've seen this. If you haven't, here's what one of your two ambassadors to the U.S. Senate -- who will be there for at least another year -- has to say in reply to his constituents: Thank you for contacting me about healthcare reform. I appreciate the benefit of your views. As your United States Senator,...
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you've written to U.S. Senate Roland Burris about his views on health care, you've seen this. If you haven't, here's what one of your two ambassadors to the U.S. Senate -- who will be there for at least another year -- has to say in reply to his constituents: Thank you for contacting me about healthcare reform. I appreciate the benefit of your views. As your United States Senator,...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... Director during his run for Lt. Governor that just so happened to coincide with hearings run by United States Senator and Chairman of The United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs John McCain. I was promptly Abramoff'd: tarred and feathered by a scandal I had no idea was taking place down the hall from our cubicles. Actually, I had an office, so I guess it's only fair...
After the False Peace (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
... of James ) * Thanks, honey. ** The first and only letter that I mailed to the politicians in the United States, informing them of the Revelations and the Prophecies I had received up until that time, was mailed in late October, 1978 to each and every United States Senator and member of the House of Representatives. The reason that I sent the politicians only that one letter...
Red State (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
From the diaries by Erick It may not seem like it, but there is an election for United States Senator around the corner. Yes, its true. The election for Ted Kennedy’s old seat is speeding ahead. While the Democrats are embroiled in a heated primary, Republican candidate Scott Brown is quietly running a solid campaign. In most states, Brown would be crushing his fumbling liberal...
The Whig (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Lou Dobbs Weighs Senate Run, as a Steppingstone His name was quickly floated as a potential challenger in 2012 to United States Senator Robert Menendez, the New Jersey Democrat, an ardent advocate for immigrants’ rights and the chamber’s only Hispanic member. (Mr. Dobbs, 64, lives on a horse farm in rural Wantage, N.J.) Some discussion of his possible candidacy at IPR .
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
From the folks at Politico So, will politics be discussed at YOUR Thanksgiving dinner table? At mine it would be a major FAIL. But, in the video above (about half way through), check out California United States Senator Barbara Boxer and the way she conducts herself. Carly Fiorina must be licking her Thanksgiving [...]
