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During the first 100 hours of the new House, Pelosi has pledged, according to Newsweek, to “drain the swamp” of GOP muck by enacting all of the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations (why weren’t they enacted earlier?), raising the minimum wage, and promoting stem cell research...
...this talk about change has made the Republicans queasy. GOP candidates spent millions of campaign dollars on ad hominem attacks—not only against Democratic challengers but also against Pelosi, even though two-thirds of Americans (by her own estimate) had no idea what she stood for. Nevertheless, she was portrayed as a dangerous liberal extremist who would “cut and run” from Iraq and raise taxes wildly if the Democrats captured the House...
...same-sex couples of any county in the nation. A whopping 83 percent of San Franciscans voted for John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election. On Tuesday, San Francisco voters passed a city-wide resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. No wonder the GOP is so scared of the place...
...importance of taxes and the importance of security." Just 41% of Virginians in the exit poll said that the war in Iraq was extremely important, compared to 46% who said "values issues" were. These are the kind of numbers that Karl Rove was trying to conjure for every GOP candidate, and, by all conventional wisdom, they should have worked in Allen's favor-Virginia passed an anti-gay marriage amendment, after...
...Burns' concession coincides with the GOP's expected acknowledgment in Virginia that the Democrat there had won, giving Democrats now a 51-49 advantage of the Senate...