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To the Residents of NY-29: Massa Knows Best
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/meredithjessup/2009/08/17/to_the_residents_of_ny-29_massa_knows_best
– Just thought you'd like to know that your representative in Congress doesn't seem to care much about actually representing you.  … go back to wherever and send people to me.  … PARTICIPANT: Even if it meant you were being voted out of office?…
Supreme Sonia: Fear What She Will Do Outside of the Court, Not Inside
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnwohlstetter/2009/08/17/s…sonia_fear_what_she_will_do_outside_of_the_court,_not_inside
– the Caribbean porting Elian to freedom. … Conservative opposition to confirmation of a Quota Queen prevailed, and Guinier withdrew to avoid the embarrassment of being voted … Mentors should counsel students to be aware of their "sympathies and prejudices not to indulge them "when appropriate," but to set…
What Are the Blue Dogs Thinking?
https://townhall.com/columnists/brucebialosky/2009/08/17/what_are_the_blue_dogs_thinking
– Now Pelosi and Waxman are trying to convince them to swallow a health care bill that is highly unpopular. … She is sending them into to battle not caring whether they survive – just hoping to win the war. … To Pelosi and Waxman, the loss of some conservative Democrats is nothing compared to achieving that goal.…
Young Voters Should Take Another Look at Obama
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2009/08/17/young_voters_should_take_another_look_at_obama
– Those of you under 30 voted 66 percent to 32 percent for Barack Obama, an unprecedented margin. … Your elders 30 and over voted for him, too, but only by a 50 percent to 49 percent margin. … Don't change that light bulb -- you have to wait for the right union guy to do it.…
Just A Little Company Get-Together
https://townhall.com/columnists/nealboortz/2009/08/17/just_a_little_company_get-together
– I have a few remarks to make to all of you, and then we’ll retire to the ballroom for a great lunch and some employee awards. … Whether you voted out of support for some specific policies, or because you liked his slogans, you need to learn one very valuable … The books are open to any of you at any time. I have nothing to hide.…
Michigan Governor Apparently not Done Killing the State
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/meredithjessup/2009/08/14/michigan_governor_apparently_not_done_killing_the_state
to some of the details being discussed. … Lawmakers have yet to act on any of them. … And all this after her own party voted against her proposal to double the state's tax on beer. …
When Liberal Leaders Confront a Centrist Nation
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2009/08/13/when_liberal_leaders_confront_a_centrist_nation
– Democrats tend to win on party identification. Republicans tend to win on ideology. … Democrats don't have to appeal to as many independents as Republicans do. … Republican leaders tend to come from mostly suburban districts closer to the national political average.…
I Thought 'Dissent Is Patriotic'
https://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2009/08/11/i_thought_dissent_is_patriotic
– Yet, he came on my radio show last week to announce that he deeply regrets having voted for Obama in light of the damage the president's … plan would do to American medicine. … raising the health care issue should have had "the decency" to call the congressman's office to set up a meeting to discuss the issue…
Obama's Seven Deadly Political Sins
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2009/08/11/obamas_seven_deadly_political_sins
– Then, Obama moved on to actual governance and suddenly, for the first time in his political career, he had to primarily rely on his … to be errantly tossed around. … makes a certain kind of sense to try to ram as much of their agenda through as possible while the Right doesn't have the numbers to
Saving Obama from Himself: The Machiavellian Thing vs. the Moral Thing on Healthcare
https://townhall.com/columnists/paulkengor/2009/08/10/saving…elf_the_machiavellian_thing_vs_the_moral_thing_on_healthcare
– And if Obama is reelected, he can do countless other things they will consider likewise destructive, from taxes to social policy to … if the door to euthanasia is cracked. … Now, at long last, the prize is in sight, thanks to the way Americans voted in November 2008.…
Liberty and Gunpowder
https://townhall.com/columnists/samanthahagan/2009/08/28/liberty_and_gunpowder
– prepare to fight against royal tyranny. … It didn’t take long for the citizens in the new militia to have the opportunity to prove their dedication to the cause of liberty. … When Henry called for men from his own county of Hanover to join him in a march on Williamsburg, volunteers flocked to the cause.…
Conservatives See Kennedy’s Politics and Personal Life as Destructive to Women
https://townhall.com/columnists/jillianbandes/2009/08/28/con…kennedy’s_politics_and_personal_life_as_destructive_to_women
– Conservatives say that the left-wing feminist movement was pivotal in his approach towards women and women’s issues and destructive to … “There are some famous episodes in Ted Kennedy’s life that seem to reveal a lack of respect for women,” said Wright. … “I was outraged to look back on all the years of support that women's groups gave to Kennedy.”…
Five Questions for Senator Reid's Town Hall
https://townhall.com/columnists/dannytarkanian/2009/08/27/five_questions_for_senator_reids_town_hall
– Senator Reid’s health care plan does nothing to promote individual health-plan ownership, so it’s not surprising that in 1996, he voted … In 1999, he voted against a measure, which the Senate then adopted, to let the self-employed fully deduct their health-insurance payments … I firmly believe that if we want to reduce costs, tort reform must be central to health reform.…
The "Myth" that Health Care Reform Won't Cover Illegal Aliens, Is Itself a Myth
https://townhall.com/columnists/iramehlman/2009/08/27/the_my…alth_care_reform_wont_cover_illegal_aliens,_is_itself_a_myth
– Then we come to the portion of the bill relating to payment and subsidies. … to also include in the bill. … It is one thing to read language that is in the bill and come to a different conclusion about what it means.…
An Imaginary Conversation on Taxes
https://townhall.com/columnists/rossmackenzie/2009/08/27/an_imaginary_conversation_on_taxes
– are set to expire. … Those were adopted by Congress as temporary tax cuts, unless Congress voted to extend or make them permanent. … Stop trying to socialize medicine.…
Liberal Lies in National Health Care: Second in a Series
https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2009/08/26/liberal_lies_in_national_health_care_second_in_a_series
– And another might say, "I don't go to restaurants, I don't go to the theater, and I don't buy expensive designer clothes because I've … decided to pour all my money into my health." … As night leads to day, price controls led to reduced oil production, which led to oil shortages, skyrocketing prices for gasoline,…
A Positive Balance
https://townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/2009/08/26/a_positive_balance
– Ted came to embody the patience of politics. … summoned Eunice to her vocation of amelioration. … It diminishes Ted to assess him as a fragment of a family.…
GOP Concedes Medicare Stance in Objection to Obamacare
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/meredithjessup/2009/08/25/gop_concedes_medicare_stance_in_objection_to_obamacare
– In attempting to object to Obama's health care plan and avoid being labeled a "party of no," the GOP's new Medicare manifesto marks … Bush pushed to expand Medicare during his presidency and worked to include prescription drugs in the program.  … Unless the party decides to return itself to its conservative roots, its credibility and effectiveness will continue to decay. …
The Man who could name Senator Kennedy's Successor
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/johnhanlon/2009/08/25/the_man_who_could_name_senator_kennedys_successor
– As Jessup pointed out, this is a reversal of a previous position that Senator Kennedy had taken.In addition to that angle to the story … of waiting for the people of Massachusetts to vote on their own? … appoint a successor to Kennedy especially when Patrick himself may be voted out of office in next year's midterm election?…
Losing Touch: the President and the People
https://townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/2009/08/25/losing_touch_the_president_and_the_people
– Is it because this president has tried to do so much, or because he has tried to do it so vaguely? … As last year's crisis starts to fade, the people begin to ask why their government had to go beyond just stabilizing the system and … to him while he was under.…
5 Liberal Lies About Obamacare
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2009/08/25/5_liberal_lies_about_obamacare
– So, the committee has voted to fund abortions with public taxpayer dollars. … refer to abortion. … They don't have to be that dramatic.…
Democrats' Colorado Gold Rush Turns Into a Bust
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2009/08/24/democrats_colorado_gold_rush_turns_into_a_bust
– Colorado, which voted for George W. Bush by 8 points in 2000 and 5 points in 2004, voted for Barack Obama by 9 points in 2008. … These voters may appreciate an openness to same-sex marriage and give lip service to preserving the environment, but they don't seem … to cotton much to higher taxes and fees, a significantly enlarged government and greatly strengthened labor unions.…
Too Big To Vote?
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2009/08/23/too_big_to_vote
– Whitman didn't register to vote in California until 2002; since then, she has not voted in more than half of the federal, state and … seem to care. … It also does not hurt that Whitman and Fiorina are more likely to attract moderate female voters to the GOP.…
A Doctrine of No Retreat
https://townhall.com/columnists/georgewill/2009/08/23/a_doctrine_of_no_retreat
– It asserted a Soviet right to intervene to protect socialism wherever it was imposed. … Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican, would have required the Treasury Department to distribute to individual taxpayers -- evenly … arrange itself": "It had to be arranged.…
ObamaCare Gets Religion
https://townhall.com/columnists/nathantabor/2009/08/21/obamacare_gets_religion
– Japan, but they are using the tactics of misinformation and stealth to achieve their goal. … What President Obama did not mention to those religious participants was that he favors the killing of unborn babies and voted for … Those who oppose a government health care system are bearing false witness, according to the man who sat in a pew listening to a pastor…
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