Category Archives: Midterm Elections 2010

UPDATED: IRS chief: Buy health insurance or lose your tax refund

Posted by on 4/6/2010 4 comments

IRS chief: Buy health insurance or lose your tax refund | The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment. Individuals who don’t purchase health insurance may lose their tax refunds according to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman. After acknowledging …

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Democrats Could Not Wait For CBO Score, So They Scored It Themselves..

Posted by on 3/18/2010 2 comments

Hot Air » Blog Archive » What’s taking the CBO so long for its analysis? Update: $940 billion?. You see, they chose that number because it puts it just under the TRILLION dollar(s) figure that we know will be scored …

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If You Can’t Beat Them..Join Them: Pelosi and the Tea Party ‘Share Views’

Posted by on 2/28/2010 2 comments

In a “This Week” interview with ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas, Pelosi said, “We share some of the views of the Tea Partiers in terms of the role of special interest in Washington, D.C., as — it just has to stop.  And …

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Fannie and Freddie are at it again

Posted by on 2/18/2010 3 comments

Fannie and Freddie are at it again | The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment. – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are dating again. And word has it they’re seeing way too much of each other. Because …

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The Bayh Gone Days To Come

Posted by on 2/15/2010 Comments Off

Bayh is out.. Bayh to Obama: take this job and shove it. Is Senator Mikulski of Maryland the next to retire?

Patrick Kennedy Will NOT Stay In Election He Is Slated To Lose

Posted by on 2/11/2010 19 comments

Here is what he had to say back in January: As election returns came in Tuesday night, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) said it’s clear that voters wanted “a whipping boy” for all the lost jobs and foreclosed homes. “It’s like …

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White House Overplays Hand

Posted by on 2/9/2010 17 comments

White House Hits Palin with Open Hand Slap | TMZ.com. Just a reminder People will complain that this is petty and beneath the dignity of the office, but (a) Gibbs partly redeems himself by winking at the ubiquity of their …

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Obama’s economic blueprint is based on rosy assumptions and political impossibilities

Posted by on 2/2/2010 5 comments

Ignore the Sham Budget The real action will have to be next year, after the mid-term elections. But even then, it’s not clear whether our political system can deal with the crisis of deficits and debt, or whether it will …

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THRILL IS GONE

Posted by on 1/23/2010 4 comments

In Ohio, Obama vows to ‘never stop fighting’ PAPER: Obama’s fortunes set to deteriorate further… Bernanke under pressure; Faltering support for Fed chief… Dow Suffers Worst Week SInce Last March… Obama seen as anti-business by 77% of investors… Europe welcomes …

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THE DAY HEALTH CARE DIED

Posted by on 1/21/2010 4 comments

THE DAY HEALTH CARE DIED Many rank-and-file Democrats said their stunning defeat in this week’s Massachusetts special election — in which Republicans captured the Senate seat held for decades by the late Edward Kennedy — meant it was time to …

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SCROLL FOR UPDATES..Can They Hear Us Now:Republican wins Mass. Senate seat previously held by Ted Kennedy

Posted by on 1/19/2010 11 comments

Republican wins Mass. Senate seat previously held by Ted Kennedy The election transformed reliably Democratic Massachusetts into a battleground state. One day shy of the first anniversary of Obama’s swearing-in, it played out amid a backdrop of animosity and resentment …

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Video: The Republicans are playing Chess and the Democrats are in the nurse’s office because, once again, they glued their balls to their thighs~Jon Stewart

Posted by on 1/19/2010 2 comments

If Martha Coakley loses the Massachusetts Senate seat, the Democrats won’t be able to pass health care reform with an 18-vote majority. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Mass Backwards www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full …

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President Obama plans combative turn

Posted by on 1/18/2010 2 comments

President Obama plans combative turn – Mike Allen – POLITICO.com. President Barack Obama plans a combative response if, as White House aides fear, Democrats lose Tuesday’s special Senate election in Massachusetts, close advisers say. “This is not a moment that …

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The consensus was that the fault for Coakley’s now-floundering MA SEN bid lies with one person — George W. Bush.

Posted by on 1/18/2010 2 comments

I kid you not: “People are upset because there’s so many problems,” Rosemary Kverek, 70, a retired Charleston schoolteacher said as tonight’s rally wrapped up. “But the problems came from the previous administration. So we’re blaming poor Obama, who’s working …

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“It’s a Brown-out. It’s a massive change in the political landscape.”

Posted by on 1/14/2010 1 comment

Suffolk poll: Brown 50, Coakley 46 Although Brown’s 4-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley is within the Suffolk University/7News survey’s margin of error, the underdog’s position at the top of the results stunned even pollster David Paleologos. “It’s a Brown-out,” …

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