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- Franken bypasses Coleman as voters react to attack ads
  Posted by Jeff from Star Tribune
  The survey, conducted Tuesday through Thursday by Princeton Survey Research Associates International among 1,084 likely Minnesota voters, shows Franken leading Coleman 43 to 34 percent. Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley is supported by 18 percent of respondents.
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- Top Foreign Affairs Dem Wants $1 Billion In Georgia Aid; Invasion Stalls Cooperation With Russia
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  Russia's invasion of neighboring Georgia could one of the "most significant events to occur in Europe since the end of communism," according to the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a potential Democratic vice-presidential candidate.
  
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- Democrats May Kick Out Joe Lieberman If He Addresses The Republican National Convention
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  Despite assurances to the contrary from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democratic insiders are certain Sen. Joseph Lieberman next year will be kicked out of the party's caucus and lose his Senate chairmanship if he addresses the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., as planned.
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- McCain misses Medicare vote
  Posted by Damianmann from Arizona Central
  Presumed Republican presidential candidate John McCain is the only senator who did not vote this week on a Medicare bill that halted doctor pay cuts but slashed billions in funding from private insurers.
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- Feingold, Dodd planning filibuster of wiretap bill, prospects dim
  Posted by Jeff from Rawstory
  A Dodd-led filibuster in February attracted just 29 supporters, short of the 41 necessary to keep a bill from coming to a vote. Speaking in Washington Monday, Feingold was pessimistic about their chances this time around.
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- I am data; politicians micro-target me to get elected
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
  To our presidential candidates, I am not a human being: I am a set of data points, one of about 168 million sets of data points collected by both the Democratic and Republican national committees. Presidential candidates will base their direct-mail, push-poll, robo-call and volunteers-knocking-on-my-door messages on computerized analyses of me as data. I will be micro-targeted by candidates’ campaign organizations for the sole purpose of producing a vote...
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- Stop the insanity: Key
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
  And you college football fans thought you were having a weird year. Pity the poor political junkies. This all happened in just the last couple of days: a Libertarian candidate raked in over $4 million in one day, a liberal senator says Newt Gingrich is a genius, and supposedly fed-up Dems capitulated on yet another Bush nominee...
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oneohone comments on:
Franken bypasses Coleman as voters react to attack ads

Somehow, I just can’t see Al Franken as a US senator.

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9:58 pm 10/04/08
brendajo313 comments on:
Democrats May Kick Out Joe Lieberman If He Addresses The Republican National Convention

Addressing the Republican convention would be in the true spirit of "reaching across the aisle"... republicans have been doing it for years and it would be a welcome change.

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5:57 am 7/14/08
Jon comments on:
Democrats May Kick Out Joe Lieberman If He Addresses The Republican National Convention

About time. After the ‘08 elections, we won’t need Joe anymore. If the Republicans can stand him, they can have him.

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11:49 pm 7/13/08
Jeff comments on:
Democrats' "censure" plan--another cynical diversion of fight against war and reaction

I agree . I think censure will just take away the impeachment option in the mind of the public. Lame Feingold.

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10:15 am 7/24/07
Jeff comments on:
Senate to Investigate Walter Reed Scandal

From everything I’ve read the past few years, the problem isn’t just Walter Reed…the entire VA system is underfunded.

When gates says he wants to get to the bottom of this, he must be joking. The problem is the overextension of the U.S. military and the underfunding of veterans affairs by Congress.

It would help if Bush would put forward an honest budget with true accounting for the costs of the Iraq war.

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11:54 am 2/27/07
Kathy comments on:
Senate to Investigate Walter Reed Scandal

TPMmuckraker has the details on the investigation and a summary of Pentagon response (divided) to the story.

If you missed it – ya need to read it. Very sad. Thousands of soliders waiting for disability rulings. One story is especially painful—how our gov’t went out of its way to say IT wasn’t responsible for the soldier’s disability. Too bad he couldn’t have that decision made by a jury of his peers.

I read another report that says the wounded-killed ratio in this war is the highest ever—10-to-1. Vietnam, reportedly 3-to-1. That means a lot of folks are gonna have lifelong care—and our system isn’t set up to handle it. :-/

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1:34 am 2/27/07
Jon comments on:
Senate gridlocks on Iraq war resolution

Really sad to see that the “world’s greatest deliberative body” can’t manage to deliberate the world’s most important issue.

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1:50 pm 2/17/07

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