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POPSMonster Night for Republicans ~ Mark Kirk Won Ill. Senate Seat The GOP has won Barack Obama's old Senate seat. The symbolism of this win is profound. Democratic candidate Alexi Giannoulias is also a loathsome character, and it's a great thing that he has been denied a US Senate seat. On the House side, Republicans picked up seats in IL-11, IL-14, and IL-17. Robert Dold* appears to be hanging on in IL-10, which would be a crucial GOP hold. And in the surprise of the night, IL-08 is going down to the wire. Melissa Bean is in real danger of losing to flawed Republican candidate Joe Walsh. In the Governor's race, incumbent Pat Quinn holds a microscopic lead over Bill Brady. All in all, it's already a great night for Illinois Republicans, and it could get better. UPDATE: *Dold wins in IL-10. Big, big hold for the GOP. by Benson Guy http://bit.ly/92eBAR http://townhall.com
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POPSTen MOST WANTED Corrupt Politicians
A review of history for the last two decades will demonstrate to anyone who looks closely that Congress, under either party, has been growing the powers of the Presidency, and we, the Voters, have been buying the propaganda. It is time to stop drinking the koolaid! And it's high time to vote out the professional politicians who no longer even pretend to represent their constituencies---or Harry Reid would've abandoned his attempts to pass legislation which will not help anyone's health, and is not supported by a majority of the People of the United States. We need to stop buying into the nonsense that any of the proposed 'freedoms' that the President and his party hold out are for anyone's benefit but those who would be a new ruling class. 'Freedom from poverty' and 'Freedom from hunger' and any of those 'freedoms' they tout are shackles. And we need to keep our focus and stop burning energy on those battles which do not help us, and fight to turn out all those who support leg
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POPSAre the Democrats Already Cleaning House? And Who Are the Real Racists? And let’s not forget Joe Biden’s famous forays into recreational racism, from his crack about Indians working at the 7-Elevens in Delaware, to his famous characterization of Obama as “clean and articulate.” And what happened to Biden? He’s now Vice President of the United States. Makes one wonder: who are the real racists in American politics? Andrew Breitbart's bigjournalism.com Are the Democrats Already Cleaning House? And Who Are the Real Racists? http://bit.ly/6x4miE
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POPS Senators Dead Meat Bayh, Evan - (D - IN) Class III 131 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-5623 Web Form: bayh.senate.gov/contact/email/ Bennet, Michael F. - (D - CO) Class III 702 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-5852 Web Form: bennet.senate.gov/contact/ Boxer, Barbara - (D - CA) Class III 112 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-3553 Web Form: boxer.senate.gov/contact/email/policy.cfm Burris, Roland W. - (D - IL) Class III 387 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-2854 Web Form: burris.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm Dodd, Christopher J. - (D - CT) Class III 448 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-2823 Web Form: dodd.senate.gov/index.php?q=node/3130 Dorgan, Byron L. - (D - ND) Class III 322 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510 (202) 224-2551 Web Form: dorgan.senate.gov/contact/contact_form.cfm
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POPSDurbin Supports Burris Ethics Probe (Burris was 60th vote for Stimulus Bill)
The Illinois Democrat says he wants to be fair and review all of the documents, transcripts and statements involved. Tom Elia questions the timing: Now that it looks almost certain that Illinois Sen. Roland Burris lied under oath about his contacts with impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (and had that perjury covered up by another Chicago Dem for over one week while the vote occurred), one has to wonder why President Obama reversed his position, and put out the word for the US Senate to approve Burris under the dubious Blagojevich-related circumstances. Well, besides the embarrassing circumstances of his former Senate seat being up for sale to highest bidder being in the news, there is the matter of the passage of Obama’s stimulus package in the Senate. Sen. Burris was the 60th vote on the stimulus bill with Sen. Kennedy ailing and not able to vote himself. I wonder if anyone in the press will follow up on this?
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POPSUpdate: Brooklyn DA “taking a look” into Brooklyn’s ACORN office. Update: Child-Whoring Pimp Assistance 7 identified; Dick Durbin (D-IL) Roland Burris (D-IL) Robert Casey (D-PA) Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) The big question will be whether the House follows suit. Nancy Pelosi may not be inclined to let an amendment come to the floor, but James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles may not be done yet, either. A few more of these videos and even Pelosi will have little choice but to slam the door on ACORN. The big test will be whether the Johanns amendment survives a conference committee. This isn’t over yet. Update (AP): Man, this house of cards is toppling fast: Meanwhile, Jerry Schmetterer, director of public information for the Kings County District Attorney’s Office, told FOXNews.com that officials will be “taking a look” into Brooklyn’s ACORN office. “We are going to be taking a look at the situation,” Schmetterer said Monday.
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POPSThere is A Blizzard in Hell Tonight! Dems Vote To Ban ACORN Funds! Gregg did not surprise me. Hutchinson thinks she can be governor of Texas with missing such a big vote? Old unreliable McCain is sitting this vote out too. Michelle Malkin details McCain’s ACORN coziness Vitter is in LA and that is ACORN country so no surprise here either. I lope Louisiana doesn’t lift a finger to send Vitter back to the Senate! From Michelle Malkin's blog: 5:42pm Eastern. Roll call vote still underway. Several Democrats have voted AYE, including Cardin, Carper, Inouye, Johnson (SD), Murray, Tester, Warner, Bingaman, Begich, Nelson (NE), Webb, Landrieu, Bayh, Conrad, Rockefeller, Dodd, Pryor, Hagan, Kohl, Feingold, Boxer, Nelson (FL), Brown, Harkin, Lincoln, Wyden, Baucus, Klobuchar, Kaufman, Shaheen, Lautenberg (switched from no to yes), Menendez, Stabenow, Leiberman, Levin, McCaskill, Reid, Feinstein, Udall, Bennet (CO) Merkley, Cantwell, Dorgan, Schumer… I am shocked by some of the hardcore lefties here.
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POPSDemocrat Corruption On A Roll Scandals involving the Obama Administration include prominent cabinet picks, some confirmed and others who withdrew amid intense public scrutiny of their wrongdoings. Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle dropped his bid to be Health Secretary after being exposed for failing to pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes over the years and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson dropped out as Commerce Secretary amid a grand jury investigation into his out-of-state political donors getting a lucrative state contract. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was confirmed even though he knowingly hired an illegal immigrant and failed to pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes on his lucrative salary. The nation’s new Deputy Defense Secretary (William Lynn) was a major defense industry lobbyist before becoming the Pentagon’s second-in-command, a violation of Obama’s “strict ethics rules” banning lobbyists from his administration.
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POPSOOOOH! I Forgetted God only knows that there's absolutely no way to correct this situation - well, maybe some kind of election where the will of the people comes into play - but that might go against the Democrats so its not allowed.
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POPSRepublicans Demand That Burris Resign From Senate We know that Obama rebuffed Blago’s attempts to get some quid pro quo, but by denying Blago the Obama people admit that they knew Blago was trying to sell the Senate seat. There has been nothing released to date to indicate that Obama and/or his people contacted federal authorities to report Blago’s illegal and unethical behavior, so is the Obama administration not just as guilty as Burris in essnetially being complicit in Blago’s crimes? Of course, but don’t expect Obama to take some responsibility. Or even be taken to task by the fawning press corps that follows him about.
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POPSNow Can We Have Our Senate Election prior to Dec. 26, when he met with a Blagojevich attorney. In his new affidavit, he said he actually had spoken with three of the former governor’s close associates. Here’s another question for Reid, second-in-command Sen. Dick Durbin and other Democratic big shots: Are you going to sit there and take this? Will you expel Burris for darkening your door? Will you investigate it, or slip it under the rug? Just how wrong was the story that Burris told these guys? During Burris’ Jan. 8 testimony before the Illinois House impeachment committee, Burris admitted that he had expressed an interest in the Senate seat to Blagojevich’s former chief of staff Lon Monk. Asked pointedly at the hearing if he had met with Blagojevich’s brother, Robert, about the seat, Burris denied it. Now comes Burris with the admission that, oh yeah, Robert Blagojevich had phoned him three times, as early as October before Barack Obama was even elected president, about fund-raising.
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POPSObama's Week of Brilliant Stunts Thwarting a Chicago race hustle, dining with conservatives, and resisting cries to try Dubya and Cheney for war crimes—Barack Obama's dazzling week.
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POPSSenate Democrats endorse Burris It's amazing how fast we went from 'we won't seat him' to 'he's endorsed', from the same set of lips. He swears he offered nothing in return for the seat... hopefully that's not the case and he'll actually return something decent for the folks in Illinois. Obama must've gone to the Lincoln memorial to apologize to Abe for all of this.
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POPSBurris Turned Away From Senate Chamber The problem, of course, is that the Illinois Secretary of State has refused to sign off on Burris's appointment. This actually brings up an interesting question; is it required? Some argue that the signature is just a formality and an "extra-constitutional requirement." On the other hand, constitutionally speaking, the handling of elections is left up to the states. You could argue that this puts Illinois law above the Constitution in this case. But, to grow a third hand, Burris wasn't elected -- does this create a loophole? We live in interesting times.
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POPSBurris is turned away from chamber I don't know how I feel about this. As long as Blago is still governor, he can appoint anyone he chooses but since the crime he's charged with is *selling* the Senate seat, this seems completely unethical. But to see Burris bulldozing his way into the Senate seems tacky and very undignified. Surely there is a better way to successfully receive the Senate seat than this one.
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POPSBurris Contacts Reid This is no surprise and really exactly what you'd expect from Team Burris. The only real news here is in the Certificate of Appointment (page 4 of the PDF ), which is signed by Governor Blagojevich, but not by Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White. White has refused to sign off on the appointment, which may give Reid some legal leverage when it comes to rejecting Burris.
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