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Tom DeLay, Convicted Felon, Is Right: Austin Is Texas' Most Liberal City
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyFormer House Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay may be heading to prison -- convicted and now sentenced to three years for money laundering under Texas law -- but at least he's got his Lone Star State history correct. As DeLay has long argued, Travis County, Texas -- home of the City of Austin and the home residence of DeLay's trial jurors -- is, indeed, Texas' most liberal county. What you may not know is that it has been so for generations, partially because of geography but mostly because of the presence of the University of Texas, the respected academic institution with an historical ...
The New Stepford Wives Party, Starring Sarah Palin (Also Gidget)
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyI loves me some mama grizzly Sarah Palin and her adorable Republican bear cubs running for national office -- Delaware's Christine "Never Mind What I Said Back Then" O'Donnell, South Dakota's Kristi "I Forgot My Court Date" Noem and Nevada's Sharron "Unemployed People Are Spoiled" Angle. And no, I don't love them because they're "unelectable." If you said that, bite your tongue. MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews bet Politics Daily's own David Corn that O'Donnell will win in November. Maybe that's a fake-out, but at this point in American politics, the fake is real, the real is fake, and the law of ...
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Obama Has Day at the Beach, But Politics as Usual in Capital
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama and his family had a picnic lunch on a sunny day at the beach Saturday on Martha's Vineyard. But back in work-a-day Washington the White House pumped out his weekly radio address calling on Congress to complete action on campaign finance reform legislation -- not your typical beach reading. The bill, an attempt to soften the impact of a Supreme Court decision giving corporations and unions more leeway to spend lavishly on campaign advertising, passed the U.S. House in June, but remains mired in the Senate. As a consequence of the high court ruling, Obama said Americans ...
Protesters Dressed as Founding Fathers Crash D.C. Fundraisers
By David Sessions - Politics DailyRolling around the capital in a dark-green trolley Wednesday morning, a troupe of actors dressed as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross visited three D.C. fund-raising hotspots to protest special interests and crusade for the Fair Elections Now Act, a bill that would establish a public funding system for House and Senate elections and limit outside sources of cash for congressional campaigns. "We cast off the yoke of British tyranny, and today we are called on again to cast off the yoke of British Petroleum," an actor playing Thomas Jefferson said outside the ...
Opinion: Campaign Finance Bill -- A Striking Display of Partisanship
By not in system - AOL News(April 29) -- Congressional Democrats unveiled their response to the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision Thursday, after spending months crafting the bill behind closed doors and failing to garner more than two House Republican co-sponsors. The Disclose Act, drafted by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., seeks to halt the impact of the court's ruling, which freed companies, unions and nonprofit groups to air ads advocating the election or defeat of candidates. But the crass partisanship on display in the legislation is striking. ...
Opinion: Stop the Campaign Finance Madness
By Elaine S. Povich - AOL News(April 2) -- Enough, already. It's time for public financing of campaigns. Now. Not next week, not next year, not when the Supreme Court is forced to take up yet another attempt to navigate between the First Amendment and public buying of politicians. The first insult to that navigation idea was the court's decision in January that corporations are people too. The high court said corporations have the same rights as people when it comes to political speech, so they can take out ads touting their political agendas. A Montgomery County, Md., company, Murray Hill Inc., made a mockery of that ...
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