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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (90940)	9/13/2010 2:56:38 PM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224720

Budget deficit on pace to hit $1.3 trillion Federal budget deficit on pace to hit $1.3 trillion, second highest on record ShareretweetEmailPrintMartin Crutsinger, AP Economics Writer, On Monday September 13, 2010, 2:09 pm WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government is on track to record the second-highest deficit of all time with one month left in the budget year. The Treasury Department says that through August, the deficit totaled $1.26 trillion. That's down 8.1 percent from the same period in 2009, when the government recorded a record $1.4 trillion deficit. But it is on pace to total $1.3 trillion -- the second-largest deficit on record. Soaring deficits have become a major issue with voters heading into the midterm elections. Republicans have highlighted the deficits to illustrate how government spending is on the rise under Democrats. Search for mortgage, home equity, savings, auto and credit card rates

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (90940)	9/13/2010 10:12:28 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224720

Jerry Brown Apologizes to Bill Clinton.By Stu Woo The Democratic family feud between Jerry Brown and Bill Clinton goes back nearly two decades. Brown, the former California governor and the state’s current gubernatorial nominee, made it last at least a little longer on Sunday. That’s when he rebutted a television ad from GOP opponent Meg Whitman that has been airing statewide for a week. The commercial, featuring footage from a 1992 presidential debate, shows Clinton bashing Brown for raising taxes as governor three decades ago. So at a Southern California rally, Brown fired back. But not just at Whitman. “Meg Whitman, she stops at nothing. She’s even got Clinton lying about me,” he said at a Southern California rally Sunday. He also alluded to Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky: “I mean, Clinton’s a nice guy, who ever said he always told the truth? You remember, right? There’s the whole story there about did he or didn’t he. Okay, I did — I did not have taxes with this state.” It took a day for Brown to apologize for the smart-aleck remark. “Bill Clinton was an excellent president,” he said in a statement Monday. “It was wrong for me to joke about an incident from many years ago, and I’m sorry.” Brown, the state’s current attorney general, added that “the big issue here is that Meg Whitman is running an ad featuring President Clinton that she knows to be false. … Her track record of not telling the truth is long, and gets longer every day.” In the 1992 debate, Clinton cited CNN for his accusations against Brown’s tax record. The author of that CNN report, Brooks Jackson, now runs the nonpartisan fact-checking site factcheck.org and wrote Saturday that his original report was incorrect. Jackson said taxes at the end of Brown’s term as governor were slightly lower than before his tenure. But Jackson said that was partially because rising taxes in Brown’s early administration resulted in Proposition 13, the 1978 voter-approved measure that caps property taxes. “The point I was trying to make in 1992 remains valid,” Jackson said. “Brown’s claims to have been a tax-cutting governor — then and now — need to be seen in context.” Whitman spokeswoman Andrea Rivera defended the ad. “Jerry Brown is at war with the truth about his record of opposing tax cuts, opposing Prop. 13 and turning a surplus into a billion-dollar deficit,” she said in an e-mail. “The reason FactCheck.Org reported that Clinton’s criticisms of Jerry Brown still remain ‘valid,’ is because Clinton was telling the truth.” A spokesman for Clinton did not immediately return a request for comment.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (90940)	9/14/2010 9:26:55 PM
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Good news for Democrats in Delaware? You had better rethink that one. News agencies are calling it and the Dems lost. ;^) O'Donnell will take Bidens seat if nothing unusual happens...like a bag of just found votes. ;^)

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (90940)	9/14/2010 9:30:40 PM
From: TideGlider	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224720

Christine O'Donnell upsets Mike Castle in Delaware Senate primary Marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell defeated Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware Senate primary tonight. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. AP Photo/Rob Carr Marketing consultant Christine O'Donnell upset Rep. Mike Castle in the Delaware Republican Senate primary tonight, handing the tea party movement a major victory and giving Democrats an unexpected chance to hold the First State seat. O'Donnell, who is making her third run for the Senate in as many elections, relied heavily on national surrogates -- from the Tea Party Express to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin -- to fuel a shoestring campaign against the iconic Castle who had held elected office in the state for more than four decades. "We congratulate Christine O'Donnell for her nomination this evening after a hard-fought primary campaign in Delaware," said National Republican Senatorial Committee executive director Rob Jesmer in a terse statement released after the race was called. The O'Donnell victory, which was considered a political impossibility as recently as a month ago, is a major boost for Democratic hopes of holding the seat once held by Vice President Joe Biden. New Castle County Executive Chris Coons was unchallenged for the Democratic Senate nomination. While the Delaware race was the marquee contest of the night, it was far from the only one on the ledger as seven states and the District of Columbia voted in the final major primaries of the 2010 election. In New Hampshire, former state Attorney General Kelly Ayotte and attorney Ovide Lamontagne battled for the Republican Senate nomination. The winner will take on Rep. Paul Hodes (D) in the race to replace retiring Sen. Judd Gregg (R). New York Reps. Charlie Rangel and Carolyn Maloney also battled for their political lives in contested Democratic primaries -- hoping to avoid becoming the fifth and sixth House Members to lose re-nomination races. Also in the Empire State, former Rep. Rick Lazio faced off against tea party favorite Carl Paladino in the fight for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. The winner may be a moot point, however, as state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is heavily favored in the fall. But, there is little doubt that O'Donnell's victory is what will dominate headlines tomorrow. In the wake of Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski's (R) primary defeat late last month, Castle went harshly negative against O'Donnell in hopes of using his financial advantage to define her in the eyes of likely voters. But, tonight's result suggests it was too little, too late for Castle whose political career, which began when he was elected to the Delaware state House in 1966, ends in a shocking defeat. State and national Republicans have made no secret of the fact that O'Donnell's questionable personal finances and public misstatements -- she once said she carried two out of the state's three counties in her 2008 race against Biden but she didn't -- made her close to unelectable. "The results tonight make one thing perfectly clear -- the Republican party is purging itself of moderate voices and embracing the radical," said Coons in a statement on the results. The Delaware result is also a major blow to Republicans' hopes of winning back the Senate majority this fall. To do so, the GOP needs a net gain of 10 seats, which, with Delaware now likely to favor Democrats, means that Republicans need to close to a clean sweep in states like California, Wisconsin and Washington. By Chris Cillizza \| September 14, 2010; 9:10 PM ET