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...Made headlines with a surprise 2008 decision to oppose 18-term incumbent Don Young in the U.S. House Republican primary - and lost by just 304 votes. (Parnell's father, Pat, had run and lost against Young as a Democrat in the 1980 general election...
...Beat former state Sen. Jerry Ward in the 2006 Republican primary for lieutenant governor. Teamed up with Palin on the winning ticket that fall...
...Cajun artist George Rodrigue's famous Blue Dog paintings hanging on his wall. The Blue Dog Coalition's website also lists as an inspiration the 1928 term Yellow Dog, used to refer to a Southern Democrat who was more likely to vote for a dog than for a Republican. Instead of being blinded by party loyalty, this new group complained that it had been "choked blue" by its own party...
...even any American state, can expect to stake a leading position in this emerging industry unless there is a strong base of domestic consumption underpinning the industry. One person who seems to have gotten the message Governor Rick Perry seems to have gotten that message, along with his Republican cohorts in Texas, some of whom remain unconvinced that global warming is even a man-made threat to the planet but are nonetheless aggressively seeking to attract high-tech renewable energy companies. Not surprisingly, Texas has long since surpassed California in installed wind capacity...
...Kennedy's panel - would yield savings in the long run. On the contrary, Democrats on Capitol Hill are having a hard time coming up with ways to keep reform from raising the cost of health care over the next decade. This has given lots of ammunition to both Republican and fiscally conservative Democratic critics of the health-care proposals. And it puts a lot of pressure on the Senate Finance Committee - the last Senate committee dealing with health-care reform, and the one long expected to generate some bipartisan support - to produce some tangible cost-cutting. The negotiators - three Democrats...