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POPSRepublican Representatives Saying Bring Troops Home Senator Warren Hatch (R) - Most of all, the administration must learn the lesson that the United States should put its troops in harm's way only if our vital and critical interests are at stake and should send enough forces so that they can achieve their mission rapidly and with the least risk to American lives. Senator Strom Thurmond (R) - Madam Speaker, the mission has steadily sucked us into a situation that now offers no good options. Americans are dying in an ill-defined mission that bears no clear relation to the national interest. I agree that this is intolerable, and must not continue. We all want to get out of this quagmire. Yet we do not know how, for no matter how ill-advised it was to get engaged in a tribal war; now that Aideed and his thugs have killed Americans, it is in our national interest to punish them. In other words, what is at stake is not just.
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POPSThank God! Oops, I mean, thank Obama This is by far the largest drop in the number of people who consider themselves in the labor force during the last year--almost twice the 358,000 increase in the people who left the labor force during June." Using Lott's calculations, our actual unemployment rate stands at 16.3%, not the trumpeted 9.4%. Obama would have us believe this is good news. Our president would also have us believe his claim that the $1.2 trillion health care reform proposal is just the ticket to jump-start the economy. (Hey, didn''t he just say he already jump-started the economy?) I digress...
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POPSLosing Democrats: Blaming Republicans: Independents Bolting And they are loath to trust the man who sold them on the stimulus package when he says that their care will be protected. More and more, they are asking the very simple question that Obama cannot answer: How is he going to cover 50 million new people without more doctors? The elderly are coming to understand that his plan effectively repeals the bedrock guarantee in Medicare that seniors can get whatever care they want for free. The opposition to healthcare changes is building so fast that Obama was forced to retreat from his August deadline. And it’s unlikely that he will be able to make a successful stand in September or October, when his ratings will likely be 10 points lower than they are today. 0bama’s dwindling power Morris, a former adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill Clinton
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POPSPlease Sign Petition: Tell The "Beltway" Fat-Cats "NO" Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) "I want to be there as often as I possibly can for as much money as I possibly can." -- on being cited in the Pig Book. Charleston Post and Courier, February 21, 2007. Hawaii Star Tribune “We present this year's Bonehead Award for inclusion, as pork, of $2.1 million to combat the distribution and use of crystal methamphetamine in Hawaii.”-- April 10, 2006 Senator Trent Lott (R- Mississippi) "Do you know what I got to say to them? 'Go to ...,'" said Lott, who stopped his sentence short. "I am not intimidated by that sort of thing." -- Nov. 12, 2003 Roll Call. Defending himself from criticism after doubling the Senate's office decorating funds. "Pork is in the eye of the beholder. Where I'm from, that's federal programs that go north of Memphis."-- March 15, 2001 CNN Inside Politics v
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POPSGates: Obama 'More Analytical' Than Bush FTA: And as Bob Somerby put it: What actually happened after Bartlett made that DVD on the first Thursday night? Bush showed up in Mississippi and New Orleans the next day, telling “Brownie” how well he was doing, jesting about fixing up Trent Lott’s house, and joking about how he used to get wasted when he would go to New Orleans to party. This odd conduct was apparently too much for Thomas, so he simply invented a new story element; he simply pretended that Bush had been “shocked” when he watched the news Thursday night. And this morning, Meacham couldn’t wait to repeat the simplified tale.
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POPSEight arrested in connection with the Phelps bonging.
This sheriff has to be out of his mind. Not only is he wasting taxpayer money chasing this ridiculous excuse for news but he arrested eight people non of which were Michael Phelps. All of this over a bong hit its unreal, its not like he was selling it. And this coming from someone who thinks SOMEONE should be selling it legally. I hope it was all worth it to the person who sold the photo in the first place. All Phelps was guilty of was being stupid enough to take the hit in what amounts to a public place. I doubt he's a regular user though so in his defense I can understand him not having a close group of friends with which to enjoy some weed with in a more private setting. He was at a party blowing off some steam cut the kid a break. Phelps was much better off hitting that bong than he would be drinking the beer in the background of the photo. Millions of Americans smoke weed once in a while and unless you count the gold medals Michael Phelps is no different from them. I
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POPSSwimming Superstar Gone to Pot Live and let live I say. What a boob this Sheriff is. As if he could get evidence of possession weeks after the alleged incident. For that matter, just because he is famous, now they start picking at him. If he was still back at college, and unknown he would not be so interesting. Just another "My college days" memory. This is just another case of media glory hunting, and harassment.
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POPSMore Phelps Dramz In The Newz Bush and his cronies get away with war crimes while Phelps and his friends' lives will be ruined for a bong hit show round the world...
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POPSObama's Critics Are Targeted By Missouri Law Enforcement 
Even if the officeholders joining the "truth squad" are nominally stepping out of their official roles in order to put on their (political) party hats and play politics, it's inappropriate. They wield too much power to use it to wag their fingers at people who say un-nice things about political hopefuls. Prosecutors and sheriffs are, after all, normally thought of as people with the clout to put their targets behind bars. Somebody, please tell me that the station has it all wrong. By the way, if the report is accurate, it fits all too well with the legal threats the Democratic candidate's campaign is leveling against TV stations that run NRA ads critical of Barack Obama. John Lott, a noted economist and firearms scholar, has copies of the Obama campaign's cease-and-desist letters on his Website. He also defends the content of the ads (emphasizing the debatable nature of "misleading.") http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-campaign-tries-to-get-nra-ads.html
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POPSDeconstructing Harwood on Biden But what troubles me about Harwood’s comments is that they are, I’m willing to bet, not the expression of some broad belief in freedom of speech, but rather are a pragmatic rhetorical attempt to rescue Biden from the very kinds of criticisms Harwood would be loath to defend were the target someone like Trent Lott. – All of which points back to the animating tenet in “liberal” ideology — namely, that, simply by virtue of adopting the left-liberal agenda, one is good, and so his “mistakes” are but minor slip-ups, hiccups in a life of sublime goodliness. Whereas any kind of minor slip-up by those on the “right” (classical liberals included, these days) are to be seen as brief inadvertent flashes revealing their grubby souls — even when those flashes are either admittedly unintended, or else have to be run through a special code book to prove visible to the watchdogs of all that is good and righteous.
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POPSAirlines Get Creative in Cutting Costs One analyst in this article even jokes that airlines may start charging passengers by their weight. For now, airlines are doing things like flying slower and washing planes more frequently to save on very expensive fuel.
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POPSDemocrat tied to Obama wins special election in Mississippi More: The special election was held to fill the seat of former Rep. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), who was appointed to serve out the remainder of Sen. Trent Lott’s term last December. Wicker had never faced a competitive race since first elected in 1994, and the district gave President Bush 62 percent of the vote in 2004. The results amount to a rebuke of the Republican strategy of trying nationalize the race by tying Childers to Sen. Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Obama held low approval ratings in the district, but the nearly $2 million that GOP groups poured into northern Mississippi failed to make the race a referendum on the national political landscape. A GOP House leadership aide told Politico last week that “if we don’t win in Mississippi, I think you are going to see a lot of people running around here looking for windows to jump out of.”
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POPSMilitary cars this is actually a cool thing if you have a good amount of money you can buy a Lott pick one for you and sell the rest
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POPSAmericans Get It! I wish I could find the original primary source from the CNN interview more quickly. If I had known that this was so poorly understood outside our country, I would have clipped the original CNN interview at the time when it was easier to find. One month of news at CNN is mountain to sort through. Sorry! This source does cite the CNN interview though
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POPSChris Lott on Doris Lessing: she has a point Ed-tech blogger Chris Lott offers some reflections on Doris Lessing's Nobel speech, in which she decries the "stupidity" fostered by the Web. I tend to think, as does Lott, that she's mostly right.
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POPSA New Brand of Lobbyist? Very interesting news concerning one of Washington's top insiders. Especially since Sen. Trent Lott also plans on a lucrative lobbying career. Will Breaux and Lott go into business together? -- Brian Wingfield
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POPSEscort Throws Cold Water On Lott Rumor This story is important not because yet another prominent Republican might be gay, but because a moralistic, sucker of lobbyist cock may be going down. Pun intended. I don't give a fuck if Lott is gay, but leaving the senate so suddenly right before changes in lobby rules is disgusting.
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