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...Iraq war, I recall National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice stating that, in lieu of solid proof that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." I also recall getting into heated debates and insisting that North Korea was the actual case of a dictator working toward acquiring WMD. While the Bush Administration pursued a war in Iraq, the smoking gun turned into a mushroom cloud in Pyongyang. The Bush Administration has failed miserably in addressing the North Korean threat, and its policies (or lack thereof) have made us all less...
...beyond the hyperbole obfuscation lie the “San Francisco values” the conservatives don’t tell you about. The city guarantees universal health care for all of its residents. There is only one gun shop listed in the Yellow Pages. The percentage of families below the poverty line is 8.9 percent according to the census bureau’s American community survey, below the national level of 10.2 percent. If these are the values that Pelosi brings to the top job in the House, there’s much cause for optimism...
...Nashville) but Corker swept virtually every rural county. The addition of a ban on gay marriage to the ballot, which passed overwhelmingly by 80%, in the end helped Corker, despite Ford's continued campaigning to the center, at one stop promising to be a "Jesus-loving, gun-supporting" Senator...
...many cases, more in common with the G.O.P. than with the liberal base of their own party. But even in states like Kentucky and Indiana, hardly hotbeds of liberal politics, those assessments weren't borne out. Although many of the supposed new breed of Democrats opposed abortion, gun control and, in some cases, gay marriage, their stance on economic issues put them in the old-fashioned liberal mainstream...
...North Carolina did win tight races after working hard to establish credentials as conservative as those of the Republican incumbents they beat. But Chuck Todd, editor of The Hotline - the National Journal's daily briefing on politics - pointed out that even conservative Democrats like pro-life and anti-gun control Bob Casey, who defeated Sen. Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania, campaigned loudest on traditional Democratic themes like economic insecurity, the minimum wages and the expansion of health care...