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Big Government- Hot Air
- Michelle Malkin
- Wheeling & dealing: Snowe pow-wows with Obama; Landrieu, Schumer, Daschle behind the scenes
- Saturday in the Senate: Cash for Cloture; Reid gets 60; Update: 8:15pm Eastern cloture vote – 60-39; Voinovich absent; Dems invoke Teddy Kennedy; Reid: “Ted would be happy.”
- Another day, another Berkeley tantrum
- Jake Tapper
- Lynn Sweet
Hope for the Senate to swing back into a Republican majority next year?
The WaPo’s “Politics” blog has a list of potentially hot 2008 Senate races which could either give Democrats a bit of a cushion in the Senate, or help Republicans regain the majority by a slim margin. Of course, if reactions to the Senate amnesty bill are any indication, Republicans could very well lose big next year in the Senate, regardless of the outcome of any of those races mentioned in the WaPo piece.
Speaking of the Senate, Barack Obama is taking perhaps his strongest stance yet against Hillary’s intial vote back in 2002 to authorize the use of force in Iraq:
Obama flashed his fangs yesterday as he tore into rival Hillary Rodham Clinton over her pinwheeling position on the Iraq war – the first time the Illinois senator has shredded the Democratic front-runner.
Obama, who has hyped his 2002 opposition to the Iraq invasion, ripped the former first lady after being asked on MSNBC about her husband, Bill Clinton’s, recent remark that Obama’s “voting record and Hillary’s are almost identical, I think, on all the relevant issues.”
“I suppose that’s true if you leave out the fact that she authorized it and supported it, and I said it was a bad idea,” Obama shot back.
“That’s a fairly major difference.”
He stayed on the attack by accusing Bill and Hillary Clinton of trying to blur her transition from an Iraq hawk to one of the war’s most vocal critics.
“I think very highly of Sen. Clinton. I think she’s a wonderful senator from New York, and I think highly of Bill Clinton, but I think it’s fair to say that we have had a fundamentally different opinion on the wisdom of this war,” Obama said.
“I don’t think we can revise history when it comes to that.”
LOL. Don’t you love the dramatic style of writing at the Post? 
In any event, I look for Obama to continue to exploit Hillary’s vulnerability on the issue of Iraq, where she has ‘evolved’ from an Iraq war supporting ‘hawk’ to a ‘critic’ of how it was handled but still a supporter of the war, to now a full-fledged cut and runner. The Senator from New York has continuously polled better than the Senator from Illinois, I think it’s likely he’s going to be ‘baring those fangs’ even moreso in the coming weeks as he tries to cut into some of la Clinton’s momentum.
Barack and Hill: Trouble in paradise?
Semi-related: This is hilarious – did you hear about Rush’s recent encounter with Bill Clinton in a New York restaurant? Audio of his recap of the meeting is here, or you can read it about it. Bubba actually came to his table twice – and one time it was with another guest, and while the guest was talking to Rush, Bill Clinton was intently talking to Rush’s date. Too funny.
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Hope for the Senate to swing back into a Republican majority next year?
Not if the republicans go along with this Amnesty Bill that is being voted on here shortly.
You would think they would learn the 3 biggest things for the base is winning the war, abortion, and illegal immigration.
And right now they are pushing alot frustration with them on the base because of this issue of illegal immigration and what amounts to amnesty again.
As can be seen on your early rant section for it.
I had hope for the republicans to make some gains after all the crap going on with the democrats, the corruption, the breaking of their own campaign promises, ect….but now that this illegal immigration thing is gonna be voted on by republicans, I have a feeling the republican party is about to shoot themselves in the foot with a shotgun and about to have very little left to stand on.
Here is a few quotes from an article that is a must read:
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This is McCain / Fiengold all over again, something that really made the base mad…McCain just doomed his chances at President consideration with this.
And I think the quote, do republicans ever learn…that is hte whole gist of it…DO THEY?!?!
They got their butts handed to them last time because of the crap they were doing, and it looks like they just may want to lose completely now if they vote for this garbage against what their base wants.
It is going to come to the point where Libertarian or an Independent party may have more power than Republicans soon…….
I am in complete agreement. I am to the point of not voting whatsoever. Republicans need a clue, I will not be a party to the destruction of this country, not by my vote. I hear a giant sucking sound, I think it is how badly the Republican members of Congress are representing their constituents.
Sanity, I would like to add a priority to your list of 3. Border Security, I think many of us have believed that this one thing should have been a priority since Sept. 2001. But sadly it has been virtually ignored by our political leaders.
I am so throughly disgusted with these idiots, that I am beginning to think about moving to the south, find me a 100 acres or so out in the country and just let the world pass me by. Not letting these idiots get to me, and taking potshots at anyone who bothers me. – Lorica
Actually my thoughts were illegal immigration and border security were essentially tied together for the most part.
Arrgh… I hope it fails in the congress…
At least while there’s so much other history in need of re-editing eh, Barrack Hussein Obama.
Oh yeah, this was about Obama…
As much as I agree with the sentiment regarding the immigration debacle, I think it’s interesting that Obama touts his opposition to the war back in 2002. This was a time when EVERYBODY in the world felt Hussein was a real threat. Thus, this little bit of self-congratulations to me is a good reason he should never hold public office. If he voted against war with he who was at the time the world’s public enemy number one, he doesn’t deserve a single vote. That and the fact that he voted against protecting the lives of babies who survived abortions while a state Senator in Illinois. The man disgusts me. But then, most Dems do.
I’m with Sanity on this one. With the Republicans agreeing to that ridiculous “amnesty” immigration policy and the fact that the left will exploit the Iraq war, not to mention a few dirty tricks like the Foley “outing”, I don’t see it happening.