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“Mark Sanford wins special election for Congress”
By Catalina Camia
The former governor and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch squared off in a special election for Congress.
(Photo: Rainier Ehrhardt, AP)
WASHINGTON — Disgraced ex-South Carolina governor Mark Sanford won his bid for redemption on Tuesday night, defeating Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch for his old seat in Congress.
Sanford, a Republican who admitted an extramarital affair in 2009, was ready to quit politics for good if he was not victorious in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District. He will replace Republican Tim Scott, who was appointed to the Senate.
The former governor — once a rising GOP star considered presidential material — was an early favorite in the Republican district, which Mitt Romney carried by 18 percentage points in the 2012 election. But the revelation that Sanford’s ex-wife, Jenny, accused the candidate of trespassing at her home caused the National Republican Congressional Committee to withdraw its support in mid-April and gave Colbert Busch an opening.
NEWS FROM THE HILL – BACKGROUND CHECKS
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News from The Hill:Senate rejects tougher background checks on gun purchases The Senate delivered a devastating blow to President Obama’s agenda to regulate guns Wednesday by defeating a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks. It failed by a vote of 54 to 46, with 5 Democrats voting against it. Only 4 Republicans supported it. For all the latest news: |
Vanderhei: “Official Death” of assault weapons ban
Elected Republicans refuse to honor massacre of 26 innocent school children by working with Democrats to pass a ban on assault weapons:
Just who can Mitch McConnell call a “Golden Girl?”
“You are not going to believe this. Did you hear what Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell just said about one of the most respected women in American history leading the Democratic ticket in 2016?
He called it, and I quote: “A rerun of the Golden Girls.” Seriously?
Now, this is not some fringe element of the GOP talking. This is the top Republican in the U.S. Senate — who, I might add, is five years older than the woman he mocked. And we cannot let it stand.
Let’s send the message to Mitch McConnell and his allies: This is 2013, not 1913.
Let’s fight back against the GOP’s outrageous comments and policies by defeating them in this election.
Let’s do it today.” [Quote]
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Meet the Press: David Gregory Gives Eric Cantor Multiple Passes
@meetthepress @davidgregory You had excellent questions for Eric Cantor but failed to press him for specific answers generating no news! #P2
— Yes We Can (@GoodOleWoody) February 10, 2013
“The GOP’s ‘REDMAP’ memo” 1
In November, Democratic candidates for Congress collectively got 1.1 million more votes than their Republican opponents, but the House speaker is a Republican, with a 33-seat Republican majority. That’s not just us calculating it. That’s the Republican State Leadership Committee touting the effects of its Redistricting Majority Project, or REDMAP. They write:
President Obama won reelection in 2012 by nearly 3 points nationally, and banked 126 more electoral votes than Governor Mitt Romney. Democratic candidates for the U.S. House won 1.1 million more votes than their Republican opponents. But the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is a Republican and presides over a 33-seat House Republican majority during the 113th Congress. How? One needs to look no farther than four states that voted Democratic on a statewide level in 2012, yet elected a strong Republican delegation to represent them in Congress: Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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[T]he Republican firewall at the state legislative and congressional level held.
Last month ProPublica detailed exactly how REDMAP worked, with special emphasis on redistricting in North Carolina. If the REDMAP memo sounds like a sales pitch to donors, consider that the project raised $30 million in 2010. [SOURCE QUOTE]
“Rachel Maddow: “John Boehner Is Bad At His Job” – Debt Ceiling Debate”
“Booker eyes 2014 Senate run over Christie challenge”
By Carrie Dann 12-20-12
Updated 3:40 p.m. – Newark Mayor Cory Booker will pass on a challenge to New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie, instead exploring a bid for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Sen. Frank Lautenberg in 2014.
In a video posted to Booker’s YouTube page, the mayor cites the need to “finish the work we have begun” in his decision not the challenge the state’s popular governor.
“Let there be no doubt: I will complete my full second term as mayor of Newark, New Jersey,” Booker says in the 3 minute video. “And as for my political future, I will explore the possibility of running for the United States Senate in 2014.”
God bless you, Cory!
The Ship of State moves FORWARD with Obama at the helm and Boehner is the navigator
Over the Cliff?
The TV airways are full of Republicans who are calling the President’s plan they received, “not serious.” Many call on Democrats to “be adult”. [Are they calling the Leader of the Free World, "Boy," like they called black men in the old South?] Newt Gingrich‘s victories in the GOP Primary in South Carolina and Florida show us that racism still exists in 21st Century America. We just won the election in spite of their ubiquitous efforts at voter suppression. It is time to tip the silver cup and drink the bitter draft of defeat. Elections have consequences!
The ball is in the Republicans’ court. President Obama got a majority of Americans to agree that taxes should go up on the top 2% of taxpayers. Republican leaders in Congress, Boehner, McConnell and Cantor, have not accepted the election which gave Barack Obama a mandate to carry out his agenda so long-delayed by the partisan and racist war they waged on him in the first term.
At this moment the President has more political capital than ever. He must take political advantage like the Tea Party did in 2010 when they won in the mid-term election. Democrats have power now even though Republicans control the House. It is time to put to an end all jokes about Democratic spines! When they had the advantage, Boehner, McConnell and Cantor were willing to shut our government down if the President would not yield to their political blackmail. This time the standoff is about “going over the fiscal cliff.” Republicans now talk of their being impotent and unable to properly respond to the Presidents overtures. Barack Obama wants John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and Eric Cantor to tell the administration the fiscal limits to which they will agree: Just what they want to cut. ”No,” they say. “You go first.” Yes, another game of chicken. And, Democrats may very well press Republicans up to the deadline. If we go over the “Fiscal Cliff,” Congress can undo some of the damage in January, but, some of us will be hurt in ways that cannot be undone. Whatever happens, it is time for Democrats to show the American people just what kind of balls we have, how strong our spines are. I know that we, Democrats, are reluctant to play this role because of the goodness of the mission of the Democratic Party. However, we must steel ourselves with the realization that we have God on our side and, therefore, we cannot fail!
—GoodOleWoody
