| September 5, 13:00 PM
, 2020 | - Horst Koehler, of Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, was re-elected as president of Germany,.
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The Telegraph
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| August 11, 2:00 AM
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Democrats were outvoting Republicans in all nine states that track the party affiliations of early voters, indicating a likely election victory for Barack Obama.
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George Mason University
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| August 10, 18:00 PM
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Republicans claimed that Democrats were coercing dementia patients to cast absentee ballots.
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Des Moines Register
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| August 10, 18:00 PM
, 2020 | - Kay Hagan, a Democratic candidate for Senate in North Carolina, filed an application to sue her opponent, the incumbent Republican Elizabeth Dole, for an ad associating Hagan with the Godless Americans Political Action Committee. “Godless Americans and Kay Hagan,” says the ad. “She hid from cameras. Took ‘Godless' money. What did Kay Hagan promise in return?” The spot, which lawyers for Dole called “100 percent factually accurate and truthful,” concludes with an image of Hagan and a female voiceover that states, “There is no God.”
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CNN
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| November 4, 2009 | - After forcing legislation to end term limits and spending $90 million of his personal fortune--fourteen times the budget of his Democratic opponent--Michael Bloomberg won a third term as mayor of New York.
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New York Times
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| October 20, 2009 | - Twitter closed the accounts of 33 Connecticut
Republicans who had registered under the names of Democratic state representatives and posted tweets that state Republican chairman Chris Healy described as “satire.” “I'm not quite sure what the issue is,” said Healy of Twitter's decision, “other than that the Democrats were successful in stopping free speech.”
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Hartford Advocate
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| October 6, 2009 | - House Democrats pledged to write into health-care-reform legislation a ban on the practice whereby some insurers deny coverage to battered women because domestic violence is designated a “pre-existing condition.”
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CNN
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| September 19, 2009 | - After months of negotiation by the bipartisan “gang of six” in the Senate, Senator Max Baucus unveiled his $776-billion health-care reform bill, which is supported by none of the gang's three Republican members and received a lukewarm response from Democrats. Baucus's plan, which includes member-run insurance co-operatives but no public option, would mandate that all Americans buy insurance and would provide subsidies for those who can't afford it. The subsidies would be paid for in part by an excise tax on so-called “Cadillac” insurance plans, including those provided to firefighters, coal miners, and many other union workers. “That's not really a smart idea,” said Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller. The bill will now be taken up by the Senate Finance Committee, whose members have already drafted at least 564 amendments.
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| September 12, 2009 | -
President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress and implored Democrats to pass their own health-care legislation. During the speech, the president noted that the bill would not extend health insurance to illegal immigrants, at which South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson shouted, “You lie!” Afterwards, Wilson received $1 million in campaign contributions. Shares in health insurance companies went up, and the number of Americans without health insurance rose to 46.3 million.
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| September 4, 2009 | - Polls showed that the level of public support for health-care reform was plummeting, a result of both Democratic capitulation--as when Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D., Mont.), after a year of preparation, released a proposal that lacked a public option--and a Republican campaign of lies regarding “death panels,” the cost of medical care, cuts in Medicare benefits, and “rationing.” President Barack Obama indicated that the White House may give up on Congress and draft its own bill; he also telephoned representatives who support the public option, including Raul Grijalva (D., Ariz.), to talk about the bill. “I didn't come away from this discussion feeling that we were dead,” said Grijalva. The president scheduled a health-care speech before a joint session of Congress, and FOX News announced that it would not air it. A fight at a pro-health-care rally near Los Angeles ended when a pro-reform protester bit off the finger of an anti-reform protester.
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| August 9, 2009 | - With Congress in recess, opponents of and advocates for health-care reform stepped up their media campaigns. Angry citizens, led by industry front groups, former “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” organizers, and Rush Limbaugh, shouted down Democratic lawmakers at “town hall” meetings across the country. “Tyranny! Tyranny! Tyranny!” shouted protesters in Tampa, Florida. “Forty million illegals!” (Even though the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. are specifically excluded from the health-care plan.) Protesters waving “Don't Tread on Me” flags gathered at the closed offices of the Service Employees International Union in St. Louis, claiming that union members had attacked conservative activist Kenneth Gladney at a recent health-care forum. Gladney, who does not have health insurance, took up a collection for the treatment of his injuries.
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| August 1, 2009 | -
Congress defied President Barack Obama and adjourned for the summer without passing a health-care-reform bill. The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved its own version of the bill 31-28 (with five Democrats and all 23 Republicans voting against it); its bill is one of five already produced or soon to be produced by the House and Senate. President Obama and congressional Democrats planned to tour the country to talk about the issue, while Republicans planned to identify the health-care plan as a failure akin to the $787 billion stimulus package, which after six months has yet to reverse unemployment. Health-insurance companies, described by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as “immoral” and “the villains in this,” were spending $1 million a day to lobby lawmakers. A poll found that 60 percent of Americans disapprove of Congress. Thirty-nine million Americans were on food stamps.
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| July 24, 2009 | - The Congressional Budget Office announced that a proposed plan to control health-care spending would save only $2 billion over ten years, compared to a proposed $1 trillion in spending, although the agency also pointed out that the legislation could increase the proportion of people receiving insurance through their employers, despite Republican claims to the contrary. Democrats, with control of both the House and Senate, fought among themselves. House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman threatened to move the bill to the floor without a committee vote if the Blue Dogs, seven conservative Democrats, refused to cooperate; Nancy Pelosi vowed that the bill would pass without them. In the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid simply caved to Republican pressure and announced that there would be no vote on a new health-care bill until after the August recess.
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| July 13, 2009 | - Sonia Sotomayor, who is expected to be confirmed to the Supreme Court in August, was interrogated for four days by Democratic and Republican senators of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Republicans grilled Sotomayor on her legal positions. Democrats lauded her; Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) said that her life story gave him “piel de gallina,” or goose bumps. Sotomayor was, however, not able to answer when Senator Al Franken (D., Minn.) asked her to name the one case that Perry Mason lost. “Didn't the White House prepare you for that?” he said. Reporters noted that Sotomayor was “a big toucher” who responded to Republican senators' proffered handshakes with a warm smile and a squeeze of their shoulders, and they also pointed out that on the second day of the hearings, when the judge was asked by Senator Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) to explain her “wise Latina woman” comment, she blinked at least 247 times while answering, averaging 90 blinks per minute in the morning; that rate decreased to 50 blinks per minute in the afternoon. At least four anti-abortion protesters were arrested at the hearings, including 61-year-old Norma McCorvey, better known as Jane Roe, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that made abortion legal.
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| May 21, 2009 | -
Democrats in Congress denied President Barack Obama the $80 million he sought to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and move its prisoners to maximum-security prisons in the United States. “We don't want them around,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said of the prisoners. Obama, speaking in the rotunda at the National Archives where the Constitution is kept, insisted that he would move the prisoners despite resistance from Congress and put forth a new policy of “prolonged detention,” whereby terrorism suspects can be held indefinitely without trial. Vice President Joe Biden said that the White House had been evaluating Guantanamo prisoners with a “fine tooth comb.” “It's like opening Pandora's Box,” he said. “We don't know what's inside.”
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| May 19, 2009 | - After a Republican-written energy bill failed in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, committee chairman Henry Waxman (D., Calif.) and Edward Markey (D., Mass.) drafted 946 pages of compromise legislation that proposes to reduce CO2 emissions to 17 percent of their 2005 level by 2050; House Democrats hired a speed reader in case Republicans force the bill to be read aloud.
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| May 8, 2009 | -
President Barack Obama said that his staff went “line by line” through the $3.4 trillion federal budget and found 121 programs that could be cut to save taxpayers $17 billion, or half a percent of the budget's total. Democratic lawmakers immediately protested the cuts, and Representative Maurice Hinchey (D., N.Y.) vowed to force the White House to accept delivery of a new presidential helicopter even though Obama says he doesn't need or want it.
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| February 21, 2009 | - President Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and unveiled a $275 billion plan to help some of the 6 million homeowners facing foreclosure in the next three years. Some Republican governors said they would refuse stimulus aid that required their states to expand unemployment insurance. “If Republican governors do not want this money,” said Nathan Daschle, executive director of the Democratic Governors Association, “Democratic governors will put it to good use.”
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| February 9, 2009 | - The Senate passed an $827 billion stimulus package with the help of three Republicans who forced Democrats to cut billions of dollars that would have provided aid to states and education programs. Economists said the cuts were “outrageous” and “disastrous.” “The point is to keep lots of extra Americans from being unemployed for the next two years and have them, instead, do useful things for the country,” said Berkeley economist J. Bradford DeLong. “[Senators Ben] Nelson and [Susan] Collins, well, it's not clear what their objective is.” The House and the Senate were negotiating differences in their packages in the hopes of presenting President Barack Obama with a final bill by Friday. “If this is a harbinger of the future, God save us,” said Robert Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute and former director of the Congressional Budget Office. “Here we are shoveling out the goodies and we can't agree on that. What happens when you have to shift the car in reverse, or deal with something like health reform or energy policy?”
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| December 30, 2008 | - More than 400 people--most of them women, children, and elderly men, two of them Catholic priests--were murdered in Christmas Day massacres by Lord's Resistance Army rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Five people had their lips cut off as a reminder not to speak ill of the rebels.
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BBC
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CNN
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| November 10, 2008 | -
Democratic New Jersey councilman Steven Lipski was charged with assault after urinating off a balcony onto a crowd at a Grateful Dead tribute show in Washington, D.C..
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New York Daily News
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| November 7, 2008 | -
Democrats added to their majorities in both houses of Congress, while Senate races in Minnesota, Georgia, and Alaska remained undecided.
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New York Times
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| November 6, 2008 | - Former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta was named the head of Obama's transition team, former Clinton political director and House Democratic caucus chairman Rahm Emanuel accepted an offer to become Obama's chief of staff, and it was reported that top Obama aide Robert Gibbs would be named White House Press Secretary.
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Politico
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| August 24, 2008 | - The Democratic National Convention opened at the Pepsi Center in Denver, with later events to be held at Invesco Field. “I have a lot of doubts that this convention is going to be as persuasive as it should be,” said former national Democratic chairman Donald Fowler, “because they've got this damn thing with Hillary.” The major news networks agreed to share the $100,000 cost of a “flying” wire-guided overhead camera intended to capture such dramatic moments as Obama's acceptance of the Democratic nomination on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's “I Have a Dream” speech, and hundreds of protesters marched on the Pepsi Center. “The Democrats,” said one graduate student, “are an imperialist party too.”
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The Boston Globe
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| August 15, 2008 | - In a joint statement, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton announced that her name would be included in a state-by-state roll-call vote at the Democratic Convention.
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International Herald Tribune
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| August 8, 2008 | - Economists at the University of Maryland found that more than one million votes for Obama in the Democratic primaries could be attributed to Oprah Winfrey's endorsement.
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Political Wire
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| August 1, 2008 | - Wal-Mart warned thousands of its managers that a Democratic president would likely make it easier for their subordinates to unionize. “I am not a stupid person,” said a customer-service supervisor from Missouri. “They were telling me how to vote.”
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WSJ
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| July 25, 2008 | - Members of the Ute Mountain Ute and Southern Ute tribes performed a Native American blessing near the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, site of the upcoming Democratic Convention.
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DNCC
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| July 17, 2008 | -
Republican Senator Orrin Hatch announced that his ballad “Headed Home,” written in tribute to his longtime friend Senator Edward Kennedy, who has a malignant tumor in his brain, will be performed at the Democratic National Convention. “The words 'headed home,'” said Hatch, “mean he is headed home to the Senate.”
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Washington Post
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| June 28, 2008 | - Robert Mugabe, ruler of Zimbabwe since 1980, was sworn in as president after he ran unopposed and won more than 85 percent of the popular vote, a percentage roughly equal to the national unemployment rate. He called for “unity” and invited former candidate and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to attend his inauguration. “This,” said a spokesman for Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), “is an unbelievable joke.” Mugabe supporters entered the house of an MDC councillor and shouted “Let's kill the baby” as they shattered the legs of his 11-month-old son, Blessing; a plan was discovered that called for 2 million MDC members to be “internally displaced”; and 3 million Zimbabweans were living in South Africa, where 62 people were killed in recent anti-immigration rioting.
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| June 19, 2008 | - Breaking an earlier vow, Senator Barack Obama announced that he will opt out of the public campaign-finance system, in order to be able to spend unlimited amounts of money in the last two months of his presidential campaign, rather than merely $84 million, the amount to which Senator John McCain will be limited under public-funding laws. “It'll be like George Steinbrenner's Yankees in the 90s,” Democratic consultant Chris Lehane said of Obama's campaign, which could spend as much as $500 million, “against the 90s Kansas City Royals.”
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| June 5, 2008 | - Senator Barack Obama, having amassed more than the 2,118 delegates needed to secure a majority, was acknowledged as the Democratic presidential nominee and claimed victory before a crowd of almost 20,000 people in St. Paul, Minnesota, knocking knuckles with his wife, Michelle, in a gesture known as “dap.” “It thrilled a lot of black folks,” said author Ta-Nehisi Coates. “He wears his cultural blackness all over the place. Barack is like Black Folks 2.0.”
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Washington Post
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| June 4, 2008 | - A messenger delivered a handwritten note from McCain to Obama's Chicago offices inviting the Democratic presidential nominee to a series of Goldwater-Kennedy-style debates. Bill Burton, an aide to Obama, told the messenger, “You know, you could have just emailed this.”
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Politico
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| May 21, 2008 | - Barack Obama won the Democratic primary in Oregon, while Hillary Clinton won in Kentucky.
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CNNPolitics.com
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| May 16, 2008 | - A 19-year-old college freshman was elected mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma. “Right now I'm between girlfriends,” said John Tyler Hammons, who is president of both the Young Republicans and the Young Democrats at his university. “I'm looking to fill that position.”
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MSNBC.com
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| May 8, 2008 | - Senator Barack Obama crushed Senator Hillary Clinton in the North Carolina
Democratic primary, lost by a small margin in Indiana, and then took the lead in pledged superdelegates. Clinton pointed out that she still enjoys support from hard workers and white people. “A woman is like a teabag,” she said, quoting Eleanor Roosevelt. “You never know how strong she is until she's in hot water.”
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ABC
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The Hill
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The New York Times
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| May 3, 2008 | - The Democratic National Committee determined that delegates from Michigan and Florida will be allowed half-votes at the party's convention. “At least slaves were counted as 3/5ths a Citizen,” read a sign at a protest by supporters of Hillary Clinton outside the Washington hotel where the decision was made. Demonstrator Larry Sinclair, a Minnesotan who has posted videos on YouTube alleging that he took drugs and had oral sex with Barack Obama in 1999 but failed a polygraph test about his allegations, handed out a pamphlet titled “Obama's DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS: Murder, Drugs, Gay Sex.”
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| May 2, 2008 | - Speaking to North Carolina
Democrats,
Clinton promised, “If Senator Obama is the nominee, you better believe I'll work my heart out for him.”
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CBS
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| May 1, 2008 | - After Hillary Clinton proposed that she and Barack Obama compete in a Lincoln-Douglas-style debate, Fox News broadcast an image of Abraham Lincoln facing off against ex-slave Frederick Douglass instead of 1860 Democratic presidential nominee Stephen A. Douglas.
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The Atlantic
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| April 18, 2008 | -
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told superdelegates that they had to decide between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton “starting now.”
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CNN
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| April 16, 2008 | - The Pope turned 81, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens turned 88, and 75-year-old Democratic Representative John Murtha said that 71-year-old John McCain is too old to be president. “Let me tell you something,” said Murtha. “It's no old man's job.”
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| April 11, 2008 | - Zodiac Vodka announced that Obama, a Leo, will defeat Clinton, a Scorpio, in the race for the Democratic nomination. “Leo has never lost to a Scorpio,” said the company. “Scorpio, however, has lost to 11 of the 12 signs.”
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Washington Times
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| March 17, 2008 | - The Democratic presidential candidates split six primaries and caucuses, and abandoned the veneer of civility recently attributed to their campaigns. By most counts, Barack Obama maintained a lead of more than 100 delegates, but Hillary Clinton implied to an interviewer that she would win the party's nomination when delegates pledged to her opponent changed their minds and voted for her. “Even elected and caucus delegates,” she said, “are not required to stay with whomever they are pledged to.”
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| March 8, 2008 | - A bomb went off at a military recruiting station in New York's Times Square, shattering glass doors and breaking a window but injuring no one; surveillance camera footage showed a hooded bicyclist near the scene of the attack. Suspicions briefly fell on a man who sent antiwar letters, containing a picture of the station and the text “we did it,” to more than 200 Democratic congressmen, but the FBI said the message referred to the Democrats' victory in the 2006 election. “This was a citizen,” said FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller, “exercising his right to make a political comment to his representatives.”
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Washington Post
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| March 6, 2008 | - Responding to the Obama campaign's calls for Clinton to release her tax returns, Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson said, “I for one do not believe that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary election for president.”
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| February 14, 2008 | - Senator Barack Obama beat Senator Hillary Clinton by huge margins in primaries in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia, and Senator John McCain beat former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. The close Democratic race worried party superdelegates, who will play a decisive role in choosing a candidate. Nancy Larson, a lobbyist and superdelegate from Minnesota, characterized superdelegates in general as “big schmucks.” Alaskan superdelegate Cindi Spanyers received a call from former president Bill Clinton, who recalled his wife's work on a fish cannery slime line there, and Obama was endorsed by the fishing village of Obama, Japan. McCain was endorsed by former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and ex-president George H. W. Bush.
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| February 7, 2008 | -
Democratic primaries left neither Senator Barack Obama nor Senator Hillary Clinton with a clear lead over the other, and operatives inside the Clinton campaign speculated that if the Democratic presidential nominee were not chosen until the convention, Al Gore could emerge as a compromise candidate. “There's a 5 percent chance of that happening,” a Clinton source said, “but that's 5 percent too high.” “He can still try next time,” said Obama's Kenyan grandmother, Sarah, of her grandson, “if he doesn't make it this time.”
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Telegraph
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Honolulu Advertiser
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| January 26, 2008 | - Stanching rumors circulating in a widely forwarded email that he is a radical Muslim, Senator Barack Obama repeatedly professed his faith in an “awesome” Christian God and defeated former President Bill Clinton's wife in the South Carolina Democratic primary.
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| January 19, 2008 | - The Supreme Court decided that Texas could exclude Dennis Kucinich's name from the ballots in the Democratic primary because Kucinich refused to take a party loyalty oath.
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AP via Google News
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| December 8, 2007 | - A new National Intelligence Estimate by all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Iran ended its secret nuclear weapons program in 2003, in contrast to a 2005 report that claimed with “high confidence” that such a program was still active. Former CIA officials explained that at the time the earlier report was written the agency's Iran Task Force had been reduced from nearly a hundred analysts and officers to fewer than a dozen, and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, attempting to explain why the earlier report was not “so wrong,” reminded reporters that Iran is “very good at this business of keeping secrets.” “It is all right,” responded Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “It is enough that you are confessing to your mistakes.” In Iowa,
Democratic candidates debated the Iranian nuclear threat as well as the safety of toys made in China. “My toys,” said Senator Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.), “are coming from Iowa.” At a dinner in Des Moines, a reporter summarized the Iranian nuclear report for Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who hadn't heard the news. Huckabee, a Southern Baptist preacher, also recalled that he was still learning about the AIDS virus in 1992, when he proposed putting AIDS patients in quarantine.
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| December 7, 2007 | - It was revealed that the CIA destroyed at least two videotapes of harsh interrogations of suspected Al Qaeda operatives. CIA director Michael Hayden claimed that this was done to protect CIA employees from possible retaliation by militants, and that congressional oversight committees had been notified. Representative Rush Holt, a Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, recalled asking “many times” whether such tapes existed. "They said, 'What tapes?'”
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| August 30, 2007 | - Polling revealed that Democrats despise President Bush more than any other executive in history. “No one,” said Gary C. Jacobson, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, “comes close.”
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| August 23, 2007 | -
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards dubbed himself the “candidate for change.”
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Daily Herald
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| August 21, 2007 | - Patrick Leahy, the 67-year old Democratic senator from Vermont who as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is pressing the Bush Administration to turn over documents relating to its warrantless wiretapping program, revealed that he has a small part in the upcoming Batman movie, and that he had to let his remaining hair grow out for the role.
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Washington Post
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| August 12, 2007 | - Nominally antiwar Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John Edwards admitted that if elected to the White House they would worry about terrorism launched from a failed Iraqi state, threats to the Kurds, and the prospect of Shiite-on-Sunni genocide, and because of these fears they would continue the occupation of Iraq for a long time.
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New York Times
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| July 24, 2007 | -
YouTube and CNN co-hosted a debate for the Democratic presidential candidates at The Citadel in South Carolina. After a YouTuber asked the candidates to say something they liked and something they disliked about the candidate to their left, John Edwards said that he approved of Hillary Clinton's record of national service, but perhaps not her salmon-colored jacket. Additional questions came from a Viking, a five-year-old, a snowman, and a man in a chicken costume.
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CNN
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| July 18, 2007 | - Despite an all-night debate, Democratic
senators failed to invoke cloture and bring to vote a measure requiring the majority of U.S. troops to be withdrawn from Iraq.
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Time
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| July 5, 2007 | - The White House rejected demands to hand over documents related to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys and said Democratic lawmakers should spend their time passing bills that solve domestic problems.
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AP via Yahoonews.com
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| June 28, 2007 | - “Is it a surprise to anybody in this room that if you don’t have any money, you don’t get any justice?” asked Alaska Senator Mike Gravel at the third debate of the Democratic presidential candidates. Gravel called for the abolition of the income tax and the war on drugs, Ohio
Congressman Dennis Kucinich called for the abolition of NAFTA and the WTO, and Hillary Clinton predicted that global warming would create jobs for millions of Americans. Joseph Biden and Barack Obama reminisced about getting tested for HIV.
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New York Times
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| June 12, 2007 | - Senate Democrats pushed for a “vote of no confidence” in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, but were blocked by Republicans who reminded them that the U.S. government does not engage in no-confidence votes. “To paraphrase Shakespeare,” Senator Orrin Hatch said, “whether this debate amounts to sound and fury, it signifies nothing.”
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| June 8, 2007 | - Violence erupted in the Alabama state senate when a Democrat called Republican Charles Bishop a son of a bitch. “I responded to his comment with my right hand,” said Bishop.
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CNN
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| June 3, 2007 | - Eric Alterman, author of the “Altercation” blog, was arrested after an altercation with police at the Democratic debate.
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CNN
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| May 25, 2007 | -
Congress passed a bill allocating $100 billion for war spending without a timetable for troop withdrawal. Congressional
Democrats allowed the vote to reach the House and Senate floors despite widespread opposition among their ranks because they didn't want to go on Memorial Day break while soldiers remained wanting. Ten Democratic senators including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton voted against the bill. “I was very disappointed to see Senator Obama and Senator Clinton embrace the policy of surrender,” said Senator John McCain. “This vote may win favor with MoveOn and liberal primary voters, but it's the equivalent of waving a white flag to Al Qaeda.” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told reporters she would “never vote for such a thing” just before finalizing the bill with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who called the legislation proof of “great progress.” Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin told his Democratic colleagues that he would reluctantly support the measure because “we do not have it within our power to make the will of America the law of the land.”
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Washington Post
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| May 17, 2007 | -
Senate
Democrats called for a vote of no confidence in Gonzales, and Senator Charles Schumer called the Attorney General a puppet.
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| May 9, 2007 | -
Democratic presidential contender Mike Gravel was speaking passionately in defense of gay marriage. “Love between a woman and a woman is beautiful,” he said. “Love between a man and a man is beautiful, too. What this world needs is a lot more love.”
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WMUR via Rawstory.com
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| April 27, 2007 | - The nine Democrats running for president held a debate in South Carolina. Hillary Clinton faulted the people of Iraq for not making good on “the chance to have freedom, to have their own country” provided by the U.S. invasion, and John Edwards suggested that hedge funds could help alleviate poverty. Asked why he was at the debate, Mike Gravel, a 76-year-old who represented Alaska in the Senate from 1969 to 1981, pointed to the rest of the candidates and said, “Some of these people frighten me,” especially “the top-tier ones.” He singled out Joseph Biden for his “arrogance” and asked Barack Obama, “Barack, who do you want to nuke?” Obama replied, “I'm not planning to nuke anybody right now, Mike. I promise.” “Good,” said Gravel, “then we're safe, for a while.”
| Source:
WCNC
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| April 25, 2007 | - Campaigning in New Hampshire, Rudolph Giuliani said, “I listen a little to the Democrats, and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense. We will wave the white flag on Iraq. We will cut back on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance, interrogation, and we will be back to our pre-September 11 attitude of defense.”
| Source:
Politico
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| April 13, 2007 | - It was reported that almost a year before seven U.S. attorneys were fired, an email from D. Kyle Sampson, former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, proposed replacement candidates for them. Four years' worth of email from Karl Rove, sought by Democrats investigating Rove's role in the firings, was missing from the Republican National Committee server.
| Source 1:
NYT
Source 2:
WaPo
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| March 24, 2007 | - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a timetable for ending the Iraq war by a six-vote margin. The bill mandates American withdrawal in September 2008 if the Bush Administration meets certain benchmarks, earlier if it does not. Several Democrats voted against the timetable because it was not sufficiently antiwar, and Republicans derided the inclusion of domestic provisions benefiting spinach growers, citrus farmers, salmon fishermen, and peanut storers. “What does throwing money at Bubba Gump, Popeye the sailor man, and Mr. Peanut have to do with winning a war?” asked Representative Sam Johnson of Texas. “I will veto it,” said President George W. Bush, "if it comes to my desk.”
| Source 1:
New Tork Times
Source 2:
New York Times
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| March 21, 2007 | -
Al Gore returned to Capitol Hill to testify that global warming is a planetary emergency. Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts called Gore a prophet, and Rep. John Dingell of Michigan addressed him as “Mr. President.” Joe Barton of Texas, the leading Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told Gore he was “totally wrong” and that, if need be, Republican lawmakers would stay late for an “all-out cat fight” with Democrats. Ralph Hall, also of Texas, speculated that Gore's attack on the energy industry could result in war “when and if OPEC nations abandon the U.S.A.,” and Roscoe Bartlett (R., Md.) said that he thought it was “probably possible to be a conservative without appearing to be an idiot.”
| Source 1:
AP vie Breitbart
Source 2:
Huffington Post
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| March 19, 2007 | - Two Democratic
Congressmen were calling for renewed inquiry into why Frank Black, the former U.S. attorney in Guam, was removed from his position after he began investigating Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff in 2002.
| Source:
Guam Pacific Daily News
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| March 14, 2007 | - A Zogby poll found that 97 percent of Republicans believe that the media has a liberal bias, while two-thirds of Democrats believe there is a conservative bias.
| Source:
Zogby
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| March 8, 2007 | - House Democrats proposed legislation that would mandate an Iraq withdrawal no later than August 2008.
| Source:
Reuters
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| March 1, 2007 | - On
The Late Show with David Letterman
, Senator John McCain confirmed that he is running for president. Candidly discussing the war in Iraq, he said, “We've wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives.” In response to Democrats who scolded him for using the word ”wasted,” McCain replied, ”I should have used the word 'sacrificed'.”
| Source:
CNN
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| December 7, 2006 | -
Democrats in Congress announced that beginning in January members of the House would work five days a week. “Keeping us up here eats away at families,” said Rep. Jack Kingston (R., Georgia), who spends more than half his week at home. “Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families--that's what this says.” The Democrats were also trying to stop smoking on the Hill, and attempting to block a $3,300 congressional raise.
| Source 1:
Washington Post
Source 2:
Washington Post
Source 3:
Washington Post
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| November 19, 2006 | -
Democratic
Representative Charles Rangel called for the reinstatement of the draft.
| Source:
Boston.com
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| November 16, 2006 | - Despite the best efforts of Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi, Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland was elected House Majority Leader over Representative
John Murtha.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 12, 2006 | -
Democratic
senators made it clear that they would not confirm John Bolton (who was installed as U.N. ambassador via recess appointment) to his position in 2007.
| Source:
ABC News
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| October 24, 2006 | - Charlie Brown was running for Congress as a Democrat in Roseville, California.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| October 18, 2006 | - During a debate with his Democratic rival, Senator Conrad Burns of Montana said that President Bush (who this week compared Iraq to Vietnam) has a secret plan for winning the war, but that Bush is not going to share his plan with the world.
| Source 1:
Billings Gazette
Source 2:
FT
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| September 22, 2006 | -
President Bush predicted that, given the opportunity, Democrats would raise taxes.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 21, 2006 | - In Maryland, the National Black
Republican Association ran radio ads claiming that Martin Luther King was a Republican and that Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan.
| Source:
nbc4.com via google news
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| September 7, 2006 | - Joseph Lieberman returned to the Senate for the first time since losing the Connecticut
Democratic primary, and Senator Susan Collins (R., Maine) offered to buy him a dog.
| Source:
Washington Post
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| August 20, 2006 | -
Shimon Peres had dinner with Connecticut
Democratic Senate nominee Ned Lamont.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
The Penninsula (Qatar)
Source 3:
The New York Times
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| August 8, 2006 | -
Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman lost the Democratic
Senate primary election to anti-Iraq-war candidate Ned Lamont. Lieberman then announced that he would run as an independent candidate, and that “Team Connecticut” would “surge forward to victory.” Vice President Dick Cheney said that Lamont's victory was encouraging to “Al Qaeda types.”
| Source:
Chicago Sun-Times
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| June 9, 2006 | - Tom DeLay, the former Republican majority leader who was forced to resign because he is corrupt, said farewell to the House of Representatives. Dozens of Democrats walked out during his speech. “I did a good job,” DeLay said. “I helped build the largest political coalition in the last 50 years.”
| Source:
UPI
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| May 24, 2006 | -
President Bush ordered that the documents seized by the FBI in a raid on the offices of Representative William Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat, must be sealed for 45 days, so that Congress and the Justice Department can determine exactly how material seized from Congressional offices should be reviewed. The Justice Department denied reports that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (who publicly criticized the FBI for raiding Jefferson's offices) was under investigation for his relationship with former lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Hastert said that the FBI was planting stories in the media to discredit him.
| Source 1:
ABC News
Source 2:
ABC News
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| April 22, 2006 | - Representative Alan B. Mollohan (D., W.Va.), whose real estate holdings and other assets reportedly rose in value from $562,000 to at least $6.3 million between 2000 and 2004, temporarily stepped down from the House
ethics committee after being accused of misusing funds.
| Source:
The Washington Post
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| March 26, 2006 | - Both Democrat and Republican strategists agreed that if midterm elections were held now, the Democrats would gain control of the House of Representatives.
| Source:
Time
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| November 25, 2005 | -
George McGovern said that “all kinds of mutual friends” had told him that George Bush Sr. had been against the Iraq war from its beginning.
| Source:
The Alan Colmes Show (via Crooks and Liars)
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| November 19, 2005 | - The Senate refused to consider a Democratic resolution to honor Bruce Springsteen.
| Source:
Common Dreams
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| November 1, 2005 | -
Democratic leaders called for a closed session on the Senate floor, which they used to force the creation of a bipartisan committee; the committee will report on the ongoing Congressional investigation (which the Democratic leadership believes is being purposefully delayed) into the Bush Administration's misuse of intelligence to justify the war in Iraq. “They have no convictions,” Senator Bill Frist said of the Democrats. “They have no principles. They have no ideas.”
| Source:
CNN.com
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| October 10, 2005 | - Both Democratic and Republican senators were questioning the qualifications of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, who has never argued a case before the Supreme Court but has been often referred to as President Bush's “work wife.”
| Source 1:
The Seattle Times
Source 2:
Slate.com
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| June 17, 2005 | -
Ralph Nader said that the efforts of the Democratic Party against him had made him feel like a nigger.
| Source:
Daily News Daily Dish
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| March 1, 2005 | - A poll found that Americans want a Democrat to be elected president in the next election on the television show “The West Wing.”
| Source:
Zogby International
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| February 12, 2005 | -
Howard Dean was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
| Source:
BBC News
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| December 23, 2004 | - The Democrats were thinking of dropping abortion rights from their platform, in order to appeal to “values” voters; many Democratic leaders want to promote adoption over abortion.
| Source:
LA Times
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| November 11, 2004 | - Centrist Democrats launched “Third Way,” an advocacy group that they hope will create a “moderate majority.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| July 25, 2004 | -
Democrats said they were planning to be "positive" at their convention in Boston.
| Source:
Newsday
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| April 13, 2004 | - A Democratic club in south Florida took out a newspaper ad saying that Donald Rumsfeld should be "put up against a wall" and shot.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| February 1, 2004 | - Reporters continued to notice sartorial oddities among the Democratic presidential candidates.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 22, 2004 | - Republican staff members of the Senate Judiciary Committee were still under investigation for improperly infiltrating
Democratic computers and reading strategy memos, which were then leaked to the press. Several computers, including a server from Senator Bill Frist's office, have been confiscated by the Senate's Sergeant-at-Arms.
| Source:
Boston Globe
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| November 6, 2001 | -
Democrats and Republican moderates said they were more concerned about preventing terrorist
attacks.
| |
| September 18, 2001 | - Congressional Democrats who previously were opposed to President Bush's missile-defense scheme, which would have proved utterly useless on September 11, said they were unlikely to oppose the President in this time of national crisis.
| |
| July 17, 2001 | - Conservative Republicans are three times more likely than liberal Democrats to have nightmares, a new study found.
| |
| June 12, 2001 | -
Senate
Majority Leader Tom Daschle, perhaps seeking to demonstrate the true grit of his party, promised that Democrats would not block President Bush's judicial nominees—unlike the Republicans, who blocked almost half the judges appointed by Bill Clinton.
“I don't believe in it,” Daschle said.
“We have to break the cycle.”
| |
| June 12, 2001 | -
Trent Lott, the outgoing Senate majority leader, wrote a memo to his Republican colleagues declaring war on the Democrats.
| |
| May 29, 2001 | - Senator James M. Jeffords of Vermont defected from the Republican Party, handing control of the Senate to the Democrats, who promptly voted to confirm Theodore B. Olson as solicitor general, suggesting that the White House cabal had little to fear after all.
| |
| March 20, 2001 | -
Democrats, who lately have been raising record amounts of soft money, were worried that campaign-finance reform might actually pass this year.
| |
| February 13, 2001 | -
Democrats were said to be confused by the contradiction between President Bush's sweet-talking, inclusive rhetoric and his hardline, right-wing deeds.
| |
| February 6, 2001 | - The Democratic Party demonstrated its seriousness of purpose by failing to mount a filibuster to block the confirmation of former senator John Ashcroft, who was defeated by a dead man in the last election; Ashcroft was sworn in as Attorney General by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a private ceremony.
| |
| January 16, 2001 | - Liberal political groups were attempting to rally Senate
Democrats to oppose the nomination of John Ashcroft to be attorney general of the United States, though few seriously believed that members of the Democrat Party were brave or principled enough to do what it would take to defeat the right-wing Christian extremist.
| |
| 0, 2000 | -
Democratic senators believed that a health-care bill with some sort of public option would soon pass in Congress. “Blue Dogs bark,” explained a disappointed Senator John McCain, “but never bite.”
| Source:
The New York Times
|
| 0, 2000 | - Members of his administration expressed surprise that liberal Democrats had made the health-care debate their “Waterloo.”
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| December 5, 2000 | - An investigation of Florida ballots found that at least 445 felons voted illegally in the presidential election, mostly in Palm Beach and Duval counties; many were registered Democrats, including 7 kidnappers, 16 rapists, 45 killers, 56 drug dealers, and 62 robbers.
| |
| December 0, 2000 | -
Democrats in Congress called for a $150 billion economic stimulus plan to rebuild America's crumbling infrastructure.
| Source:
Yahoo! News
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| November 21, 2000 | - New Jersey Republicans accused Democrats of providing crazy people in mental hospitals with absentee ballots; it was suggested that the crazy vote may have decided a close congressional race.
| |
| August 22, 2000 | - Richard Ray, Kenneth Starr's successor as independent counsel, has convened a new grand jury to determine whether President Clinton should be prosecuted; a Chicago judge admitted that he accidentally leaked the existence of the grand jury to a reporter, who published the story a few hours before Al Gore accepted the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party and announced that he was his own man.
| |
| August 22, 2000 | - Members of the Democratic Party's liberal base were known to be grumbling at their party's centrist platform.
| |
| August 22, 2000 | -
Democrats received higher overall Nielsen ratings for their convention than did Republicans; journalists noted that ratings were higher in 1996.
| |
| August 15, 2000 | - The National Rifle Association accused the Democratic Party of wanting to destroy the Second Amendment.
| |
| August 8, 2000 | -
Democrats complained that George W. Bush plagiarized President Clinton in his nomination acceptance speech.
| |
| April 0, 2000 | -
Pennsylvania
Senator Arlen Specter rejoined the Democratic Party after more than 40 years as a Republican. “There's more than being reelected here,” he insisted. “There's the factor of principle.”
| Source:
Politico
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| February 0, 2000 | -
Republicans launched an organization called National Council for a New America. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush urged his party to “listen a little bit, learn a little bit”; former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney called the Democrats “the party of the monarchists.”
| Source:
CNN
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