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Senate Spoils Obama’s Recess
Senate Democrats agreed Wednesday night to a Republican demand to block President Obama from making recess appointments while Congress is out of town campaigning for the midterm elections. Democratic leaders have agreed to schedule pro-forma sessions of the Senate every week over the next six weeks, preventing any appointments.

Harshing Meg’s Buzz
It’s always the other spouses fauly

picture from MegWhitman2010 at flickr.com

For several days California GOP Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has been decrying the story of she and her husband knowlingly hiring and employing an illegal immigrant. Whitman has consistently proclaimed her family’s complete innocence.

As they say in the game, “whoops”!

The attorney for Meg Whitman’s former housekeeper released a copy Thursday of a purported 2003 letter that she says shows the Republican gubernatorial candidate knew all along that the maid might be an illegal immigrant.

But wait, doesn’t somebody have to be thrown under the bus?

But Allred produced a copy of the letter Thursday that she says shows Whitman’s husband, Dr. Griffith Harsh, partially filled it out. If true, that would mean Whitman and her husband were aware of the immigration problem years ago.

Ah, that’s better.

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The Real Democratic Whiners
“Democrats, just congenitally, tend to [see] the glass as half empty,” President Obama said last month during a $30,000-a-plate fundraiser at the Connecticut home of a donor named (no joke) Rich Richman.

By David Sirota

“Democrats, just congenitally, tend to [see] the glass as half empty,” President Obama said last month during a $30,000-a-plate fundraiser at the Connecticut home of a donor named (no joke) Rich Richman.

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D’Souza: Obama is “a captive of the ideology of a Luo tribesman from the 1950s.” On the September 30 edition of Glenn Beck, after making a variety of false, misleading, or bizarre assertions about President Obama, D’Souza claimed:

Obama is not anti-American in that he wishes ill on America. He wants what’s best for America. He thinks it’s really bad for us to be a colonial power. And therefore, in his view, he is doing right for America by pulling us out, by knocking us off our pedestal, by in a sense taking us from being the world’s arrogant superpower. He wants us to share the wealth. He thinks he’s gonna get a better America. The problem is, he’s stuck in this theory, he’s frozen in this time machine. In a sense, he’s a captive of the ideology of a Luo tribesman from the 1950s. It’s an incredible idea.

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