Word: democratic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Because somebody hurt their feelings, they decided to punish the country?' Massachusetts Democrat BARNEY FRANK, mocking House Republicans for their "pettiness" and "hypersensitivity...
Georgia Eleven of the state's 13 Representatives voted against the bailout on Monday - decisions that may have had added impetus thanks to Georgia's recent gas shortages. Representative Hank Johnson, a Democrat, says locals have been waiting in long lines for gas and paying big prices to fill up, which could be "partially responsible for people's desire not to bail out Wall Street." An editorial in Tuesday's Marietta Daily Journal gave a thumbs-up to the thumbs-down on the bailout, calling it the "right move from a long-term perspective, but what it means...
...done, but I don't know of any other alternative. I'm just afraid that credit will dry up and the markets will plunge further. My whole retirement is based on what I have invested, and that could be wiped out." (Stone's Representative, a Democrat, did not support the bill in Congress...
Some locals point their finger at Republicans for bringing the country to the brink. "I have to believe that if nothing has happened by Thursday, the market will tank," says Phil Solari, a Marietta resident and registered Democrat. Republicans, he says, "created this mess, and they're now incapable of getting their own people behind the President to vote for this bill. They either didn't understand what it meant to the average person on the street or they didn't care." - By Paige Bowers / Atlanta...
...McCain, the most troubling sign may come not from the details of the poll, which are grim for Republicans, but from the historical context. No Democrat has crossed the 50% threshold in the general election since before Ronald Reagan was elected, let alone do so a month before the election...