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May 31, 2011
American experiment, the end of the constitution. what a lot of people want is somebody who has that talk radio style. that angry mood, that confrontational approach. chris christie is your guy. he is very confrontational. romney has problems as a vote gett getter it. he has trouble connecting with americans that are less educated and affluent. you dont make it better by taking somebody with the same problem and a confrontational angry style that voters did not respond to, especially not women v...
May 31, 2011
items to his room. moammar gadhafi is ready for a cease-fire, parentally, according to the south african president trying to broker a truce. gadhafi is not promising to step down, which is the main demand of the rebels. sarah palins one-nation bus tour is in gettysburg, finally. there are times when she sounds like a would-be presidential candidate. she still isnt ready to call her tour anything but a campaign for americas constitution. the tour started in washington wag. then, it ...
May 13, 2011
Americans. everybody knows that they have to stop the borrowing. they have to get it under control. but the -- you know, the democratic party for whatever reason at this point doesnt get it and i dont really know what the solution to it is. you know. >> well, the -- apparently, according to mcconnell, theyve come to a consensus where the democrats have taken social security off the table but according to the -- joe biden, hike in tax rates could go back on the table. >> thats what they want. i m...
May 13, 2011
America wants more money from the affluent. they believe sincerely, too, its a sincere belief that this is their way out and this is the way to get money to the poor and thats, you know, a core belief system of the liberal group. >> there was a millionaires tax in new york that got kicked out by a democratic governor and now it seems like senator kent conrad wants to do that in the senate and hes in charge of the budget committee but i watched that review and both of these men of the cloth seem ...
May 3, 2011
>> thank you. >> let me read a portion of what pakistans president zadar i said. he said such baseless speculation may make exciting cable news but it does not reflect fact. pakistan had as much reason to despise al qaeda as any nation. do you have concerns that osama bin laden was found in this affluent suburb and he was very close to whats considered the west point of pakistan and no one knew it? >> well, that does raise a lot of concern and im sure theres a lot of introspection going on right...
May 3, 2011
Last august, the key break came when the u.s. pinpointed their exact location. an affluent pakistan suburb in a three-story home situated in an extraordinarily unique compound. that compound was built in 2005. was eight times larger than other homes in the neighborhood. it had 12 to 18-foot walls lined with barbed wire, two security gates and few windows despite being a million dollar home it had no phone or wireless access. the residence of the compound burned their trash rather than set it on ...
April 27, 2011
Where some of the worst issues with polling place lines are. these lines are frequently in urban areas, less affluent neighborhoods. the lines are going to grow in polling places associated with some of the same voters that often register to vote in these voter registration drives. its kind of a one, two punch thats going to suppress voting by these same communities. and you mentioned in the introduction that this is an effective strategy for preventing new voters for registering. theres another...
April 27, 2011
Where some of the worst issues with polling place lines are. these lines are frequently in urban areas, less affluent neighborhoods. the lines are going to grow in polling places associated with some of the same voters that often register to vote in these voter registration drives. its kind of a one, two punch thats going to suppress voting by these same communities. and you mentioned in the introduction that this is an effective strategy for preventing new voters for registering. theres another...
April 17, 2011
Giving the consumer more power, is a better solution. >> the issue hits anderson at his core. since hes an advocate for seniors. visiting elderly clients throughout the day. >> i can bring it in for you. >> we need to be thinking about people. not politics. >> reporter: for mark anderson, he says making seniors a pawn in the political game is wrong. >> lets be honest. dont pretend that youre doing something courageous or serious to fight the budget deficit when almost everything that youre takin...
April 14, 2011
Very careful yesterday not to i will have nice anyone. he admires success, we the american people admire success. he said as we make tough choices, look at the choice from turning medicare from a defined benefit program into a voucher program where senior citizens are on their own if they cant afford the premium to buy a poll versus taxing the most fortunate that is a question of values and we have to to have that debate. >> but it is such a polarizing issue and republicans seem entrenched in sa...