At least 27 Democratic members of the House of Representatives have sent to charities $378,000 in campaign donations from scandal-plagued Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., since Feb. 28. And not a dime to our tipjar. Bastids ...
Starting last November, The Examiner's "Dirty Money Watch" has highlighted 39 senators and representatives and asked whether they planned to keep campaign donations from Rangel.
The Examiner has found $378,000 of Rangel's contributions that have been donated by 27 recipients to charity.
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Kesha Rogers called for the impeachment of President Barack Obama as the centerpiece of her campaign for Congress, and on Tuesday she won the nomination of her party.
The Democratic Party.
It was no stealth campaign. Rogers shouted it from a sound truck that cruised the four-county 22nd Congressional District. She posted an 18-foot banner emblazoned with the message Save NASA. Impeach Obama' on street corners. Her Web site is filled with videos and periodic policy statements documenting her stand.
During the campaign, Rogers denounced warnings of global warming as imperialist genocide, proclaimed that London banking interests are bent on ruining America's economy and accused Obama of pissing on the legacy of President John F. Kennedy' in proposing to end NASA's Constellation program. I can't believe that most people who voted for her knew that she wants to' impeach Obama, losing candidate Doug Blatt states on his Web site. I do believe that most of them didn't do any research about the candidates before voting.'
One Democratic blogger already has posted instructions on how to de-select Rogers from a straight party ticket vote.
When a spokesman for Republican incumbent Pete Olson was asked for reaction, he barely suppressed his mirth.You never take an election for granted,' said Chris Homan, but you, perhaps, wonder whether the Democrats in this district have profoundly changed their views on the president. She didn't hide her position.'
LaRouche organizer
Rogers, 33, of Stafford, is a volunteer organizer for the LaRouche Youth Movement. Oh. Okay. Nice knowing you...
Lyndon LaRouche, 87, is an economist and frequent candidate for president who runs as a Democrat. Detractors call him a conspiracy theorist and cult leader. Supporters see him as a visionary willing to buck the establishment. He has run for president eight times since 1976, including a 1992 campaign from prison while serving five years of a 15-year mail fraud sentence. ...and is batshit crazy.
The threat of impeachment is leverage to push for an end to Wall Street bailouts and restore funding for manned space travel, Rogers explained. If anybody's serious about saving NASA or addressing this economic crisis, they're going to have to put this impeachment question on the table,' she said.
Rogers has been pushing for Democratic Party reform since at least 2006, when she was unsuccessful in a bid to become the state party chair at its convention. One of the things the LaRouchites are able to do is to engage young people,' said Gerry Birnberg, chairman of the Harris County Democratic Party. If she can turn out young people to vote for Democrats, all the better.' ...and what are you smoking these days, Gerry?
Birnberg said Rogers has much to commend her. He said his main objection to her candidacy is her association with LaRouche, and that if she instead held many of the same views but belonged to a group called LBJ Democrats,' her ideas would appear much more mainstream.
Birnberg and Rogers both said much of LaRouche's economic thinking is in line with Franklin D. Roosevelt's, including investment in public works, separating commercial from investment banking and opposition to corporatism. Rogers won a majority of the Democratic vote Tuesday against Blatt, a development analyst, and ordained minister Freddie John Wieder Jr.
Her Web site trumpets her victory with the headline: The message is clear: Barack Obama has to go.'
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"I can't believe that most people who voted for her knew that she wants to" impeach Obama, losing candidate Doug Blatt states on his Web site. "I do believe that most of them didn't do any research about the candidates before voting."
CNN's Wolf Blitzer has apologized for using chyron text that seemed to question the loyalties of the Department of Justice.
On Thursday, CNN broadcast text that read "HAPPENING NOW, DEPARTMENT OF JIHAD?" and "Are Justice Department Lawyers Disloyal?" as part of its coverage of an ad by Liz Cheney that suggests that because the DOJ hired lawyers who have represented accused terrorists, the department is sympathetic to terrorists. On Friday, Blitzer apologized for the graphic and called DOJ lawyers "patriotic."
"CNN had no intention of suggesting that the Justice Department supports terrorism. Lawyers at the Justice Department are patriotic Americans and we certainly regret any confusion that may have been caused by our graphic."
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Glad you noticed Wolf but why apologize? DOJ AG and lawyers are suspect. How about some hard-hitting honest to God reporting? That would be unique and novel and would boost your ratings. Most people have bailed out of watching CNN, MSNBC, and whatever the other networks are because they don't trust them to tell the truth about anything.
Not only is Nevada Sen. Harry Reid (D) polling below 50% support right now, but his Republican opponents are now both polling at 50% or more, according to a new Rasmussen survey (March 3, 500 LV, MoE +/- 4.5%). The results fall right in line with a Mason-Dixon survey out at the beginning of the week.
Lowden 51 (+6 vs. last poll, Feb. 2)
Reid 38 (-1)
Und 3 (-5)
Tarkanian 50 (+3)
Reid 37 (-2)
Und 4 (-2)
Angle 46 (+2)
Reid 38 (-2)
Und 5 (-3)
President Obama receives a 44% job approval rating, with 57% disapproving. Just 37% approve of Gov. Jim Gibbons (R) job performance.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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At least 27 Democratic members of the House of Representatives have sent to charities $378,000 in campaign donations from scandal-plagued Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., since Feb. 28.
