Politcs News: Marshals: Innocent People Placed On ‘Watch List’ To Meet Quota, Clinton Set to Campaign for Lieberman, Dems. Up lead in Election Polls.
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on July 24th, 2006 8:52 am by HL
Democrats Increase Lead over Republicans in Race for Congress
AP
Excerpt:Mood of the nation still favors challenger campaigns
With mid-term elections now less than four months away, a new Harris Poll finds that Democrats have widened their lead over the Republicans in the race for control of Congress. Results show that if the election for Congress were held today, more than two in five (44%) adults would vote for the Democratic candidate, while about one-third (31%) would vote for the Republican candidate, 17 percent would vote for someone else, and just seven percent are undecided.
These are results from the latest Harris Poll of 1,002 U.S. adults surveyed by telephone between July 7 and 10, 2006 by Harris Interactive
H.L.s Take:The Democrats are going to have to work hard to overcome these ever increasing leads, if they want to fulfill their aspirations of losing once again, but I feel confident they will find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory once again.
Marshals: Innocent People Placed On ‘Watch List’ To Meet Quota
ABC-7 Denver
DENVER — You could be on a secret government database or watch list for simply taking a picture on an airplane. Some federal air marshals say they’re reporting your actions to meet a quota, even though some top officials deny it.
The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they’re required to submit at least one report a month. If they don’t, there’s no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments.
“Innocent passengers are being entered into an international intelligence database as suspicious persons, acting in a suspicious manner on an aircraft … and they did nothing wrong,” said one federal air marshal.
When You’re Hot, You’re Hot.
M.Kane Jeeves
Excerpt:
Don’t you love global leadership? Don’t you wish we had some? You know when Dubya is the leader of the free world, we’re dead meat. Actually, fried meat.
According to the U.S. Climatic Data Center’s Jay Lawrimore, the first six months of 2006 were the warmest, on average, since the United States started keeping records in 1895, and global warming is a contributing factor. Go, USA!
July, August and September are forecast to continue the hot trend over most of the United States, including the vast area of the country west of the Mississippi River, as well as New England, Florida and southern Alaska.
Pretty grim, eh? I mean, some experts are saying that polar bears may turn to cannibalism because there’s no food, anymore. Plus, the entire world is forecasted to become hotsie-totsie. So how did the G8 Summit react? Uh, just before diving into their private jets and heading home, the head honchos chose to “stay the course†and ignore what’s going on. You go, guys!
As Bill Clinton Gets Set to Campaign for Lieberman. Dems. Try to Diffuse Fact Lieberman Stabbed Him In The Back
Daily Kos
Excerpt:
With President Clinton’s visit to Connecticut to campaign for Lieberman tomorrow, Joe’s supporters are trying to defuse his September 1998 speech attacking Clinton on the Lewinsky matter. In so doing, they are rewriting history. The LieberDem blog writes:
The Lieberhater crowd has repeatedly said that Lieberman “stabbed Clinton in the back” by daring to make that speech, and have used the speech to argue that Lieberman was a disloyal Democrat who helped push the GOP drive towards impeachment.
