[WEEKLYSTANDARD] Senate majority leader Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... said the George Zimmerman trial "isn't over" and said he thinks "the Justice Department is going to take a look at this."
The NBC host asked, "And the president, does he have a role in speaking about it as he did after the shooting?"
"Yeah, of course," said Reid. "And I think the Justice Department's going to take a look at this. You know, this isn't over with, and I think that's good, that's our system. It's gotten better, not worse."
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"Senator Reid says Zimmerman acquittal makes things better."
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O should have a beer with Zimm then kiss and make up.
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One wonders how to Obama presidency may have differed without the execrable Reid and vile Pelosi. All Champ's crimes have been wet-nursed by one or both of these [insert worst epithet ever times 10].
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Let the witch hunts begin. These folks are trying to start a states war... Now the State of Florida is incompetent in the Senator of sin city's eyes. This will not end well.
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IIRC, and I don't have time this afternoon for research, a similar thing happened as a result of the so called Rodney King beating. The cops who detained Mr. King were acquitted of any wrong doing but then president GWB had the case re-opened and two or more of the cops ended up doing time. I thought that was pure, unadulterated chicken shit. But then we know that Reid, Obama, Holder and company are even lower than chicken shit. If I was Zimmerman I'd book a trip to Rio ASAP.
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[DALLASNEWS] Those who know Greg Abbott describe him as a fighter -- a happy warrior with a fierce determination, molded by fate, hardened by a crack in a windstorm.
The admired "can-do" attitude has led him to claim the early front-runner's mantle for Texas governor in a campaign he'll formally launch Sunday. But for all of the fresh smells of a new campaign, it occupies the same well-trod, political turf held so long by Rick Perry.
On issues -- fighting abortion, divisions between church and state, federal programs and gun control -- little daylight separates the two. Abbott has consistently taken conservative positions that the base of the state Republican Party favors.
For campaign contributions, they fish in the same pond. An analysis of the last reports they filed with the state showed that Perry and Abbott tapped 140 of the same donors who gave more than $200.
There are differences, mainly stylistic. Abbott lacks the Perry bravado, but those who know him say his less-assuming ways belie a quick mind and steelier resolve.
Political consultant and lobbyist Bill Miller called Abbott and Perry "two peas in a pod." But Miller, a veteran of Texas politics and a former University of Oklahoma football player, said there's something different about Abbott.
"He's tough. That's the quality I'd associate most with him. He's got a toughness. I mean he's nice, but he's real, real tough," Miller said.
Abbott, after a decade as attorney general and seven years as a Texas Supreme Court justice, will be reintroducing himself to voters starting Sunday in a five-day, 10-city tour.
Abbott is known among tea party and Republican activists as a mentor of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and the co-pilot in Perry's anti-Washington crusade. He's raised more than $20 million so far for this campaign, with big chunks coming from conservative businessmen and investors who like his low-regulation mantra.
While Abbott has won statewide office five times in less than 20 years, polls show that even many Texas Republicans don't know enough about him to formulate an opinion.
He has put together a formidable campaign team, funding operation and hyper social media platform to change that. His one current rival, former GOP state chairman Tom Pauken, already has dubbed him the "anointed one."
Abbott also prompted an early assessment from the liberal Mother Jones magazine: "a replacement who may just do the impossible -- make progressives miss Rick Perry."
And yet Democrats are still scrambling to field a candidate who could counter the state's heavy Republican tilt.
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Almost as big an issue is the state house: can the GOP run that d*ckhead Joe Strauss out of the speakership? Although nominally a republican, he appoints Dems to head key comittess, and has repeatedly stalled and stopped GOP bills from being scheduled, or else pushes them through multiple comittees to ensure they die without reaching the floor. Prime example: law allowing permit holders to carry on-campus at colleges. As it stands, you are forcibly disarmed by the law the moment you step out of your car, be it in a nice big-college campus as a 21 year old junior, or an adult student at a night class in a rough neighborhood community college campus. Its simply not right - yet Joe Strauss killed it. He needs to go.
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Greg Abbott, in the wheel chair since age 26, is a very hard working, determined man. Strong supporter of the constitution, individual right to privacy (successfully sued a Sony for installing spy ware from music cds).
In Texas he is more of a quiet conservative government lawyer than a camera hungry politico.
[POWERLINEBLOG] Democrat Brian Schweitzer, the former governor of Montana, has announced that he won't run for the Senate. The surprise announcement increases the likelihood that Republicans will pick up the Senate seat now held by Democrat Max Baucus, who is stepping down.
The Republicans are already heavily favored to pick up seats in South Dakota and West Virginia. A Montana pick-up would leave them needing to gain only three more seats, assuming they can hold the 12 seats they must defend in 2014. Republicans are currently favored in all 14 of these races.
In addition to South Dakota, West Virginia, and Montana, the Dems must defend seats in four other states that Willard Mitt Romney ...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals.... carried. They are North Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alaska. If the Republicans prevail in three of these four states, their chances of getting to 51 are good, assuming they now pick up Montana.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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