Better Donkey » US Politics http://www.betterdonkey.org Political Resources Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:46:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Boehner Set for “Prebuttal” to Obama Iraq Speech http://www.betterdonkey.org/us-politics/boehner-set-for-prebuttal-to-obama-iraq-speech/ http://www.betterdonkey.org/us-politics/boehner-set-for-prebuttal-to-obama-iraq-speech/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:46:42 +0000 About.com US Politics http://uspolitics.about.com/b/2010/08/27/boehner-set-for-prebuttal-to-obama-iraq-speech.htm Obama is slated to give a big national address on Iraq the Iraq war on Tuesday

A report on CNN says that Rep. John Boehner plans to give a "prebuttal" today via a Web video.

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]]> Obama is slated to give a big national address on Iraq the Iraq war on Tuesday

A report on CNN says that Rep. John Boehner plans to give a "prebuttal" today via a Web video.

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]]> From Wall Street Journal: "A little-known favorite of the tea-party movement appeared close Wednesday to ousting Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the scion of a political dynasty in Alaska, leaving former Gov. Sarah Palin poised to draw more blood in a long-running feud with the Murkowski family."

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Mother Jones has a good piece out about Glenn Beck and has "Restoring Honor" rally coming up tomorrow at the Lincoln Memorial - complete with a visit from Sarah Palin.

Beck has repeatedly told people coming to DC not to bring political signs. What? No signs? The hallmark of the last year's worth of tea party rallies that he helped fuel? But it's true. In an info packet on his website about the rally, Beck instructs, 'Please refrain from bringing signs (political or otherwise) as they may deter from the peaceful message we are bringing to Washington.'"\

Sound laughable? Check out the story.

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Mother Jones has a good piece out about Glenn Beck and has "Restoring Honor" rally coming up tomorrow at the Lincoln Memorial - complete with a visit from Sarah Palin.

Beck has repeatedly told people coming to DC not to bring political signs. What? No signs? The hallmark of the last year's worth of tea party rallies that he helped fuel? But it's true. In an info packet on his website about the rally, Beck instructs, 'Please refrain from bringing signs (political or otherwise) as they may deter from the peaceful message we are bringing to Washington.'"\

Sound laughable? Check out the story.

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]]> The AP is out with a story about how political ads have surpased 2006 levels.  It reports that candidates for state and federal office have spent $395 million on ads for the November elections. That's compared to $286 million at the stage in the 2006 midterms.

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]]> A poll just out from The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life says that more and more Americans erroneously think President Obama is a Muslim.  The poll says that 18 percent of Americans now think the president is Muslim, up from 11 percent in March 2009.

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]]> http://www.betterdonkey.org/us-politics/obama-religion/feed/ 0 Good day for the Gov http://www.betterdonkey.org/us-politics/good-day-for-the-gov/ http://www.betterdonkey.org/us-politics/good-day-for-the-gov/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:40:59 +0000 About.com US Politics http://uspolitics.about.com/b/2010/08/18/good-day-for-the-gov.htm Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was spared conviction on a charge of conspiring to sell President Obama's vacated Senate seat.  Thanks to a lone female juror.  The woman kept the jury deadlocked 11 to 1 on three counts related to the former Obama seat: conspiracy to commit bribery, attempted extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion.

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]]> Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was spared conviction on a charge of conspiring to sell President Obama's vacated Senate seat.  Thanks to a lone female juror.  The woman kept the jury deadlocked 11 to 1 on three counts related to the former Obama seat: conspiracy to commit bribery, attempted extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion.

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]]> Voters in Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, and Minnesota headed to the voting booth for primary elections yesterday to decide who will go head-to-head in the mid-term general elections in November.  (see the "must reads' section to the left for results by state). Some big winners: Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, who won over her primary challenger, Andrew Romanoff, and Nathan Deal who beat Sarah Palin-backed candidate Karen Handel in Georgia's GOP gubernatorial runoff.

]]> http://www.betterdonkey.org/us-politics/primary-reports/feed/ 0 Ted Stevens Killed in Plane Crash http://www.betterdonkey.org/us-politics/ted-stevens-killed-in-plane-crash/ http://www.betterdonkey.org/us-politics/ted-stevens-killed-in-plane-crash/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:01:05 +0000 About.com US Politics http://uspolitics.about.com/b/2010/08/10/ted-stevens-dead.htm Ted Stevens, former U.S. Senator from Alaska, was killed last night when a plane he was flying in went down near an isolated Alaskan fishing lodge. Stevens, who perished along with four other people, was the longest serving Republican Senator in U.S. history. I met him this summer in Washington. In a brief exchange before I interviewed him for a film, he told me about surviving a plane crash in 1978 at the Anchorage International Airport. His wife, Ann, was killed along with four other people in that crash.

]]> Ted Stevens, former U.S. Senator from Alaska, was killed last night when a plane he was flying in went down near an isolated Alaskan fishing lodge. Stevens, who perished along with four other people, was the longest serving Republican Senator in U.S. history. I met him this summer in Washington. In a brief exchange before I interviewed him for a film, he told me about surviving a plane crash in 1978 at the Anchorage International Airport. His wife, Ann, was killed along with four other people in that crash.

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President Obama was in Texas yesterday slamming the Bush W. legacy in an attempt to turn voters against Republicans in the coming mid-term election. The president's strategy is simple: keep reminding the electorate of what he inherited coming into the Oval Office.

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President Obama was in Texas yesterday slamming the Bush W. legacy in an attempt to turn voters against Republicans in the coming mid-term election. The president's strategy is simple: keep reminding the electorate of what he inherited coming into the Oval Office.

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]]> http://www.betterdonkey.org/us-politics/past-blast/feed/ 0 Proposition 8 and Private Moral Views http://www.betterdonkey.org/us-politics/proposition-8-and-private-moral-views/ http://www.betterdonkey.org/us-politics/proposition-8-and-private-moral-views/#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:57:53 +0000 About.com US Politics http://uspolitics.about.com/b/2010/08/05/proposition-8s-private-moral-view.htm A federal judge yesterday overturned the ban on gay marriage in California known as Proposition 8. The decision  - which was cheered by gay rights groups - was handed down by Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker. 

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]]> A federal judge yesterday overturned the ban on gay marriage in California known as Proposition 8. The decision  - which was cheered by gay rights groups - was handed down by Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker. 

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