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Mid-August Primaries May Stifle Third Party Movement

August 10, 2010

The August doldrums may ring the death knell for independent candidates  or candidates less well known supported by the Tea Party going up against their better known or convention-endorsed two-party counterparts to become the Republican Party or Democratic Party nominee in the general election.  Ostensibly, the change was made for those states that did not have a long [...]

Tagged as: August 2010 primaries, Challenge To Party Candidate Selection, Democratic Party, Democrats, early primaries affect Tea Party, Endorsements by Political Parties, General Election 2010, GOP, List of Primary and General Election Dates, Political Parties, Republicans, Summer Primaries, Tea Party, Third Party Movement

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Joke Of The Week

January 25, 2010

If Obama wants to make the health care debate more transparent he should talk to the newly-elected junior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown. You can’t hide very much when  posing nude for Cosmo.

Tagged as: Obama, Obama's transparency pledge, Tea Party, U.S. Senator Scott Brown

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Let’s Hope These 4 Things Don’t Happen

January 14, 2010

By Rick Newman Posted: January 13, 2010 In the cast of corporate characters, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are A-list villains, thanks to the central role they played in the 2008 financial meltdown. The two mortgage-finance firms failed as spectacularly as AIG, the poster child for finance-gone-wrong, with the combined Fannie-Freddie rescue totaling about $111 [...]

Tagged as: AIG, Baby Boomers Retirement, bailout, Economy Precarious, Fannie May, Freddie Mac, Mortgage Foreclosures, Obama, Recession and Recovery, Social Security, Stocks, Tea Party, U.S. Debt

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The Answer Is Blowing In The Wind

September 18, 2009

The death of Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary marks ,once again, for many of us baby boomers, the passing of an era when citizens disenfranchised from involvement in the political system, organized en masse to change their government’s wrongheaded policy and course of action. You may ask yourself why we note the passing [...]

Tagged as: butasforme.com, Glenn Beck's Refounders, Health Care, Health Reform protests, Mary Travers, Obama, Peter Paul & Mary, Political Commentary, Reformed Liberal, Tea Party

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