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Stubborn and/or mislead is probably right. However, now that he is doing what many DEMS asked they are now against it. Go figure.Originally Posted by champion110
Yeah right.......
Tyler, you know that several Democrats have been stating this don't you? W was too stubborn to admit that we needed to do this.
Bush does everything REALLY late and after he has screwed it up. That is the pattern that keeps repeating itself.Stubborn and/or mislead is probably right. However, now that he is doing what many DEMS asked they are now against it. Go figure.
Gee, what would happen if a GOP white male congressman called a hispanic female congressman a WHORE??
Hispanic Caucus Chairman Denies Rep. Sanchez 'Whore'Remark Allegation
Thursday, February 01, 2007
AP
Rep. Loretta Sanchez
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus told FOX News that allegations that he called a fellow female lawmaker a "whore" are not true.
Rep. Loretta Sanchez made the claim in an interview published on the Web site Politico.com. Sanchez resigned from the caucus Wednesday in protest of Joe Baca's caucus leadership.
Baca denied a rift within the caucus on Thursday, saying that he would welcome Sanchez back to the caucus and hopes to work with her again.
"There is none, absolutely none. Everybody is working together," Baca said.
Baca denies that he called Sanchez the name, referring to it as a personality conflict.
"It's unfortunate that Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez has decided to resign from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and has chosen to air baseless statements," Baca said in a written statement. "We cannot allow distractions or personality conflicts to interfere with the important work we are doing."
This isn't the first time the two California Democrats found themselves at odds with each other.
Sanchez wasn't a fan of Baca's chairmanship of the caucus, which represents 21 Hispanic House Democrats. Sanchez voted against him last November for the leadership post. Four other women members abstained, including Sanchez's sister, Rep. Linda Sanchez, Reps. Nydia Velazquez of New York and Lucille Roybal-Allard and Hilda Solis of California. They complained that women were not getting the representation they deserved in the caucus.
Rep. Linda Sanchez said she supported Loretta Sanchez's decision and hopes the caucus will do a better job of including Latina members.
"It is my hope that the leadership will take the concerns that the Latinas have expressed seriously," Linda Sanchez said in a statement. "Latinas are the fastest growing segment of the minority population and their perspective deserves to be represented, not denegrated."
In a statement received by FOXNews.com Wednesday night, Sanchez said, "Last year, I and other members of the caucus voiced our strong opposition to Mr. Baca's chairmanship due to a violation of election rules. An official response to our inquiry is still in question."
Just a few weeks ago, four female lawmakers requested that Baca repeat the election because the group did not follow its own rules of using secret ballots. Sanchez's spokesman said they never received a response.
Baca, representing California's 43rd District since 1999, responded to Politico.com that Sanchez's comments are "categorically untrue."
And then, last March, six caucus members — including the Sanchez sisters — cut ties to the group's campaign arm after it helped finance the unsuccessful campaigns of Baca's two sons for seats in the California Legislature.
Baca defended the decision to give money to them and other nonfederal candidates, saying the caucus should seek to build a farm team. Opponents said the focus instead should be on electing Latino House members.
Sanchez said she will continue to advocate for the Hispanic community and serve as the chairwoman of the Banking and Finance Committee for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, a non-profit organization.
Sanchez is in her fifth term representing California's 47th District.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,249400,00.html
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TT, posting of the same article on two different Paw-Litics threads is unsportsman like behavior. You need to go to the penalty box for 30 minutes.
Dadgum it! Caught again!
And yet another!
Democratic Committee Member Quits Caucus Post After Confrontation
Friday, February 02, 2007
WASHINGTON — A Democratic love-fest came to a screeching halt Friday after a high-ranking Hispanic party official abruptly resigned amid allegations he used a racial slur during a heated argument with a black aide to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.
Alvaro Cifuentes was chairman of the DNC's Hispanic Caucus and is well-known in national Hispanic Democratic circles.
Cifuentes was attending the DNC's winter meeting in Washington, D.C., on Friday when he and the aide got into an argument.
It's not clear what started the fight, but sources said Cifuentes called the aide, who is black, "boy" twice during the confrontation, and two conference attendees were alarmed enough to try and restrain Cifuentes.
Sources said they believed Cifuentes' actions to be physically intimidating, and his words racially insensitive.
DNC spokeswoman Karen Finney confirmed the resignation Friday evening, saying it occurred after a meeting with Dean, the former governor of Vermont. She said that Cifuentes resigned his post as caucus chairman, but remains a member of the DNC.
Asked if Dean forced Cifuentes to resign his post, Finney said: "Gov. Dean and Alvaro had a private meeting this afternoon. Following that meeting, Alvaro attended the Hispanic Caucus meeting, [and] submitted his resignation. It was accepted by the caucus."
Attempts to reach Cifuentes for comment by phone were unsuccessful. His home phone number is restricted, according to phone company records.
A man who answered to the name "Alvaro" at a number believed to be the Cifuentes household said the caller had the wrong number before the reporter identified himself, and then hung up. Repeated phone calls to that number were not answered.
The Spanish-language newspaper El Nuevo Dia in San Juan, Puerto Rico, reported that Cifuentes sent an e-mail to the aide and caucus members Friday apologizing for the incident.
According to the e-mail obtained by the newspaper and described to FOXNews.com, Cifuentes wrote "it is proper to offer you my apologies," although he indicated that he might have mixed his words because he spent the majority of his life outside the United States in Puerto Rico. Cifuentes was born in Puerto Rico and also was chief of staff to a former governor there.
Sources said the argument appeared to stem from a dispute that began Thursday over how the 2008 Democratic convention in Denver was being planned. According to sources, Cifuentes didn't like Dean's moves to centralize power over the upcoming convention in the hands of those in Washington.
Dean's aide reportedly approached Cifuentes, telling him: "If you don't like his leadership, you can leave," sources who were near the confrontation recalled.
Finney said the party did not have any further response to Cifuentes' resignation, but another DNC source said "it was the right thing to do."
Cifuentes had been chairman of the Hispanic Caucus since 2001, Finney said. Caucus chairmen are voted upon by members in the caucus, which is made up of Hispanic members of the DNC. Caucus chairmen are not paid officers of the DNC, but they do sit on the party's decision-making executive committee. There are 447 total DNC members.
The resignation followed a spat between two other Democratic lawmakers earlier this week. Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., resigned from the House Hispanic Caucus after what she said were inappropriate remarks by the caucus chairman, Rep. Joe Baca of California. She said friends told her that Baca called Sanchez a "whore."
Baca has denied making the comments.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250058,00.html
The Kennedy's will stoop to anything for votes. JFK would turn over in his grave if he saw the LIBS/DEMS of today, especially some of his own family members. Others he would be proud of I'm sure.
Joe Kennedy Fires Back Letter to Florida Rep. Connie Mack Over Chavez Oil TV Ad
Monday, February 12, 2007
WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Joe Kennedy fired off a letter Monday in response to a Florida congressman's calls for him to stop airing television commercials that heap praise on Venezuela for its providing discounted heating oil to low-income U.S. households.
"If your moral indignation requires that we not accept the discount oil to distribute to our most vulnerable families, then that same high moral standard should require that you not drive your car because it, too, probably uses gasoline made from Venezuelan oil," Kennedy wrote in a letter sent to Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla.
"Maybe the fact that you live in Florida diminishes your concern for those who have to forgo food or medicine to pay for heat or turn to dangerous heating sources to stay warm, risking their lives to brave the cold," Kennedy wrote. "If so, maybe you could advocate that they move to your district to alleviate the need to figure out ways to protect them."
In a letter sent earlier in the day, Mack scolded Kennedy for the television ad that Mack says pays tribute to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, "a sworn enemy of the United States."
In the ad, Kennedy, founder and president of Citizens Energy Corp., a nonprofit energy company, thanks Venezuela and Citgo, a Houston-based oil company owned by the Chavez government, for contributing heating oil to low income senior citizens.
"I am Joe Kennedy. Help is on the way. Heating oil at 40 percent off from our friends in Venezuela at Citgo," Kennedy says in the commercial.
Click here to watch the Citizens Energy Corp. commercial.
Mack said Kennedy's link to Venezuela sends the wrong message of support for Chavez.
"Hugo Chavez is using Joe Kennedy in a charade to try to deflect attention from the fact that his own country economically and politically, is falling part," Mack told FOX News. "I don't know how, in good conscience, you can, as an American, stand up and support someone like Hugo Chavez."
In the letter to Kennedy, Mack wrote: "Venezuela's Communist President Hugo Chavez is a sworn enemy of the United States. That is why there is absolutely no excuse for you to be praising him in television commercials and media interviews for any reason whatsoever."
Mack's letter continues: "While you have gone out of your way to publicly praise Hugo Chavez, he's gone out of his way to crush the hopes and dreams of the Venezuelan people and to destabilize freedom, democracy, and the United States interests throughout the Western Hemisphere."
Click here to read Mack's letter.
Mack said the partnership is not providing discount oil, but allowing Chavez a venue to "exploit his apologists in the name of public relations. Sadly, you have chosen to actively participate in his charade, even as he continues to attack the United States, our leaders, and freedom-loving people everywhere."
Last year, Chavez, who has nationalized many of the country's industries and last month was given carte blanche by the country's Congress to rule by diktat over the next 18 months, stood at the dais during the United Nations General Assembly opening session and called President Bush 'the devil.'
"The devil came here yesterday," Chavez said, gesturing to where Bush had stood during his speech a day earlier. "He came here talking as if he were the owner of the world."
Earlier this year, Chavez, who is closely tied to Cuba's Fidel Castro and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, complained about the United States raising concerns over the decision to allow Chavez to rule by decree. "Go to Hell, gringos" was his response.
While gasoline in Venezuela costs about 12 cents a gallon because of government subsidies, Chavez has also made the effort to win over American fans by offering cheap heating oil through Kennedy's company.
The Citizens Energy Oil Heath Program, established in 1979, delivers oil to homes around the United States. Last fall, the company announced it was partnering with Citgo Petroleum to allow families to purchase one-time deliveries of up to 200 gallons of home heating oil at a 40 percent discount.
Citgo's heating oil program operates in Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin and the cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Citgo also provides discount oil directly to 163 Native American tribes in the states of Alaska, Maine, Minnesota and New York, the company says.
Citizens Web site promotes the program as a tool to aid the poor and elderly.
"This unique program helps protect needy families from volatile heating oil prices, which often leave households having to choose between heating the home and paying for other life essentials, such as food, health care, or clothing," according to Citizens' Web site.
Last fall, however, one Alaskan tribe, the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, refused to accept the fuel aid, saying it would rather freeze than accept Chavez' aid after his tirade at the United Nations.
Kennedy admitted he has disagreements with Chavez, but asked in his letter: "What are we supposed to do in the absence of adequate help from the federal government or of any help from other oil companies — turn down the fuel for those in need?"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,251484,00.html
POWER: GORE MANSION USES 20X AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD; CONSUMPTION INCREASE AFTER 'TRUTH'
Mon Feb 26 2007 17:16:14 ET
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research, an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization committed to achieving a freer, more prosperous Tennessee through free market policy solutions, issued a press release late Monday:
Last night, Al Gore’s global-warming documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, collected an Oscar for best documentary feature, but the Tennessee Center for Policy Research has found that Gore deserves a gold statue for hypocrisy.
Gore’s mansion, [20-room, eight-bathroom] located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES).
In his documentary, the former Vice President calls on Americans to conserve energy by reducing electricity consumption at home.
The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average.
Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359.
Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006.
Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year.
“As the spokesman of choice for the global warming movement, Al Gore has to be willing to walk to walk, not just talk the talk, when it comes to home energy use,” said Tennessee Center for Policy Research President Drew Johnson.
In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm
THE HEAT IS ON
Gore's 'carbon offsets' paid to firm he owns
Critics say justification for energy-rich lifestyle serves as way for former VP to profit
Posted: March 2, 2007
4:13 p.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Al Gore's Nashville mansion (PajamasMedia.com)Al Gore defends his extraordinary personal energy usage by telling critics he maintains a "carbon neutral" lifestyle by buying "carbon offsets," but the company that receives his payments turns out to be partly owned and chaired by the former vice president himself.
Gore has built a "green money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including himself, but he set it up so that the average Joe can't afford to play on Gore's terms," writes blogger Dan Riehl.
Gore has described the lifestyle he and his wife Tipper live as "carbon neutral," meaning he tries to offset any energy usage, including plane flights and car trips, by "purchasing verifiable reductions in CO2 elsewhere."
But it turns out he pays for his extra-large carbon footprint through Generation Investment Management, a London-based company with offices in Washington, D.C., for which he serves as chairman. The company was established to take financial advantage of new technologies and solutions related to combating "global warming," reports blogger Bill Hobbs.
(Story continues below)
Generation Investment Management's U.S. branch is headed by a former Gore staffer and fund-raiser, Peter S. Knight, who once was the target of probes by the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Justice.
Hobbs points out Gore stands to make a lot of money from his promotion of the alleged "global warming" threat, which is disputed by many mainstream scientists.
"In other words, he 'buys' his 'carbon offsets' from himself, through a transaction designed to boost his own investments and return a profit to himself," Hobbs writes. "To be blunt, Gore doesn't buy 'carbon offsets' through Generation Investment Management – he buys stocks."
As WND reported, Gore, whose film warning of a coming cataclysm due to man-made "global warming" won two Oscars, has a mansion in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville that consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, citing data from the Nashville Electric Service. The think tanks says since the release of Gore's film, the former presidential candidate's energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kilowatt-hours per month in 2005, to 18,400 per month in 2006.
Rap Concert at S Carolina State University
[home of first Dem Debate in two weeks]:
N-word used more than 100 times in a song!
http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.as...0&nav=menu36_3
Hum... let's see if the LIBERAL/DEM babies cancel this first debate at S. Carolina St due to the flurry of the N-Word used by approval of the university. Well they ran from the FOX debate for zero reason didn't they?
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Edwards Reimbuses Campaign for $400 Haircuts
Apr 19 11:33 AM US/Eastern
By NEDRA PICKLER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat John Edwards is trying to get out of a hairy situation, reimbursing his presidential campaign $800 for two visits with a Beverly Hills stylist.
Two $400 cuts by stylist Joseph Torrenueva, who told The Associated Press that the former North Carolina senator is a longtime client, showed up on Edwards' campaign spending reports filed this weekend. Edwards spokesman Eric Schultz said it never should have been there.
"The bill was sent to the campaign. It was inadvertently paid," Schultz said. "John Edwards will be reimbursing the campaign."
Edwards is also the subject of a popular YouTube spoof poking fun at his youthful good looks. The video shows the candidate combing his tresses to the dubbed-in tune of "I Feel Pretty."
Federal Election Commission records show Edwards' campaign also spent $250 in services from Designworks Salon in Dubuque, Iowa, and $225 in services from the Pink Sapphire in Manchester, N.H.
Schultz said those services were legitimate campaign expenditures to prepare Edwards for media appearances. Political candidates often have hair and makeup done before media appearances. Edwards rival Hillary Rodham Clinton got some attention last year when her campaign paid $2,500 for two hairstyling sessions that the campaign classified as media production expenses. ___
Are you kidding me?????
KENTUCKY FRIED HILLARY, PART 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu9TQq0C3Ac
Pelosi Won't Attend IRAQ Briefing
By JAKE TAPPER
WASHINGTON, Apr. 24, 2007— As the House and Senate prepare to vote this week on the final conference report on the $124 billion troop funding bill — which would also mandate that U.S. combat troops begin withdrawing from Iraq on Oct. 1 at the latest — Gen. David Petraeus is scheduled to come to the Hill tomorrow to brief lawmakers on the progress of the recent troop escalation.
ABC News has learned, however, that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will not attend the briefing.
For reat of story link
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3075560
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