Reid backed planned bridge near his land
• APSenate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., backed funding for a bridge between Nevada and Arizona that could affect the value of property he owns nearby.
Contents Pages by Subject
Politics: Democratic Campaigns
Fascist Nation
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
Powell GammillInsanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result.
US unions want election success payback
• AFPUnions believe they played a key role in the Democrats' success in the US elections this week and now they want a payback. [Oooh, I hear the cash register ringing again.]
Resurgent Democrats win control of House
• APDemocrats won control of the House early Wednesday after a dozen years of Republican rule in a resounding repudiation of a war, a president and a scandal-scarred Congress.
Democrats "control" 50 seats in Senate, with Virginia left to go
• APWith Democrats now assured of 50 Senate seats [this includes Independents Sanders (VT) and Lieberman (CT)], the battle for outright control came down to Virginia, where the party's candidate held a very small lead.
Democrats win 51 seats in Senate
• APDemocrats completed an improbable double-barreled election sweep of Congress on Wednesday, taking control of the Senate with a victory in Virginia as they padded their day-old majority in the House.
Democrats win majority of state legislatures
• ReutersThe wave of voter discontent that put Democrats in charge of the U.S. House of Representatives also hit state legislatures, where the party won control of more chambers than Republicans.
After Nov. 7, U.S. still faces the rude shock of defeat
• San Francisco ChronicleWhat difference will it make if the Democrats win one or both houses in Congress? One has to doubt that the Democrats collectively have a better foreign policy to offer. The primary problem of the leadership of the Democratic Party is that it believe
Ruby Ridge revisted
• Boston HeraldIn 1994, Deval Patrick, the Democratic candidate for governor who was then assitant attorney general, concluded there was insufficient basis to prosecute FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi for shooting and killing 43-year old Vicki Weaver.
Graft at issue in New Orleans congress race
• ReutersThe battle to represent hurricane-battered New Orleans in Congress should turn on which candidate can best help rebuild the city but the buzz is about how $90,000 in cold hard cash ended up in the Democratic incumbent's freezer.
DNC Chairman Howard Dean says Democratic victory means stay the course
• ReutersEven if Democrats win control of Congress next week, an immediate change of course in Iraq policy is unlikely, the party's chairman said. Howard Dean said the party did not believe there should be a sudden pullout of all US troops.
New York Post endorses Hillary Clinton
• APThe New York Post endorsed Democratic Sen. Hilary Rodham Clinton for re-election on Monday, saying her GOP challenger, John Spencer, "isn't a credible alternative." "Surprised? Well, so are we _ a little,' said the Post editor
GOP rips Penn Democrat for aiding in buildup for war
• New York SunThe mailing highlights Christopher's Carney's role in a small intelligence analysis shop inside the Pentagon before the Iraq war. The top of the mailing warns voter, "Chris Carney failed out nation once." "Don't give Chri
Moderates in Kansas say goodbye to GOP
• Washington PostIn a state that voted nearly 2 to 1 for President Bush in 2004, 9 former Republicans will be on the November ballot as Democrats. Among them is Mark Parkinson, a former chairman of the Kansas Republican Party
Reid to reimburse campaign for donations
• APSenate Democratic leader Harry Reid has been using campaign donations instead of his personal money to pay Christmas bonuses for the support staff at the Ritz-Carlton where he lives in an upscale condominium. Federal election law bars candidates from
Second U.S. lawmaker faces misconduct allegations
• ReutersA U.S. congressional board which oversees a Capitol Hill internship program rocked by a sex scandal, discussed allegations involving a second lawmaker, said Rep. Dale Kildee, a Michigan Democrat.
New Hope for Democrats in Bid for Senate
• NY TimesElsewhere, Democratic challengers are either ahead or close in races in five states held by the Republicans: Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, according to political strategists in both parties and the latest polls.
GOP secretly channeled millions to Lieberman
• Insight magazineThe White House funneled millions of dollars through major Republican Party contributors to Sen. Joseph Lieberman's primary campaign in a failed effort to ensure the support of the former Democrat for the Bush administration.
Democrats stifle antiwar voices
• Guerrilla News(Joshua Frank)Ned Lamont's victory over Senator Joe Lieberman in Connecticut's Democratic primary two weeks ago has been hailed by many as a victory for the movement against the war in Iraq. Lamont has been an ardent critic of the Bush adminstration's
Senator Joe Lieberman invites you to take a break.
• You Tube30 Second Commercial - It's soooo Soooothing :)
Head Democrats in Ala. Restore White Nominee
• Washington PostA battle over race that had divided Alabama's Democratic Party came to an end yesterday when the party's executive committee reinstated a white gay woman as its nominee to represent a historically black Birmingham district in the state legisl
Democratic takeover likely
• Raw StoryThe latest state-by-state analysis by the Rothenberg Political Report projects a Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives.
Arianna Huffington: When Hillary Meets Ned
• Arianna HuffingtonHillary Clinton is meeting with Ned Lamont in the next few days on her home turf in Chappaqua in what may well be a more important meeting for her future than for Lamont's. Their get-together is coming at a crossroads moment for both Hillary and
Republicans for Lieberman?
• By Huma Zaidi - NBC NewsRepublicans have determined that they can gain more politically by supporting Lieberman and casting him as the victim of an anti-war, liberal-dominated Democratic party than they can gain from backing their own candidate, Alan Schlesinger.
"CAFTA 15" Democrats may survive labor's wrath
• ReutersOne year after labor groups vowed to punish 15 Democrats who joined Republicans in the US Congress to approve a Central American free trade pact, most have easily won their party's nomination to run again. Democrats still angry about the U.S.-Ce
"Lieberman should drop out" - Howard Dean
• WASHINGTON, Aug 13 (Reuters)Democrats see Lieberman's loss as a referendum on President George W. Bush and the Iraq war, while Republicans says it shows that Democrats are soft on national security issues.
Three Cheers for Ned Lamont - Maybe Not When You Know Where He Stands
Stephen LendmanThe imperfect candidacy of Ned Lamont for the Connecticut Senate now held by Joe Lieberman
Internet, activists help topple prominent US Democrat
• ReutersFueled by opposition to the Iraq war and anger at President Bush, liberal grass-roots and Internet activists claimed their most significant political victory— defeat of Democratic Sen. Joseph Lieberman. [Can McCain campaign "reform" be far
Democrats withdraw support for Lieberman
• By Stephanie Reitz - APTop Democrats on Capitol Hill abandoned Sen. Joe Lieberman one by one Wednesday and threw their support to Ned Lamont, the anti-war challenger who defeated him in the primary
Bush to help Lieberman retain his seat?
• George Stephanopoulos' blog (ABC)According to a close Lieberman adviser, the President's political guru, Karl Rove, has reached out to the Lieberman camp with a message straight from the Oval Office: "The boss wants to help. Whatever we can do, we will do."
Watch Streaming Broadcast Live:
LRN.fm
DLive
Live Chat
Telegram
Telegram
