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Sex and power inside "the C Street House"

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Jeff Sharlet - Jul. 21 (Investigative Report) - If sexual license was all the Family offered the C Street men, however, that would merely be seedy and self-serving. But Family men are more than hypocritical. They're followers of a political religion that embraces elitism, disdains democracy, and pursues power for its members the better to "advance the Kingdom." They say they're working for Jesus, but their Christ is a power-hungry, inside-the-Beltway savior not many churchgoers would recognize. Sexual peccadilloes aside, the Family acts today like the most powerful lobby in America that isn't registered as a lobby -- and is thus immune from the scrutiny attending the other powerful organizations like Big Pharma and Big Insurance that exert pressure on public policy.

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GOP gears up for 2012

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Jonathan Martin - Nov. 09 (News Report) - Votes are still being counted in some races in last Tuesday’s election, but no matter: Talk of the potential Republican field in the 2012 presidential election is already underway. Too early? Too bad — just look around. Two potential candidates will be in Iowa before month’s end, multiple prospects — almost certainly including Sarah Palin — will make high-profile appearances this week at the Republican Governors Association meeting, and Newt Gingrich’s name has already been floated in a Bob Novak column. For a party anxious to move past a brutal election up and down the ballot, and especially a presidential campaign it would just as soon forget, it’s not too soon to start thinking about "next time," as the pros call it. Now officially, of course, any talk of a presidential run is verboten.

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Sarah Palin 'I Haven't Always Just Toed the Line'

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Kimberley A. Strassel - Nov. 01 (News Report) - Cape Girardeau, Missouri - Ask Sarah Palin what she has found most surprising about her campaign experience and she replies, with more than a touch of humility, "the enthusiasm." She's got a point. Wending my way through the traffic and crowds around the Palin event in this small river city on Thursday morning, I began to wonder if the whole state hadn't shown up. Walking the cold half-hour from the nearest parking space, I passed mobs of disappointed voters who had already been turned away for lack of space. Inside the city's Show Me Center, thousands of roaring, stomping, sign-waving Palin fans were practically hanging from the rafters. It felt like, well . . . an Obama rally.

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Heart to McCain/Palin: Back off on 'Barracuda'

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By David Beard - Sep. 05 (News Report) - Sarah Palin's views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song 'Barracuda' no longer be used to promote her image. The song 'Barracuda' was written in the late 70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women. (The 'barracuda' represented the business.) While Heart did not and would not authorize the use of their song at the RNC, there's irony in Republican strategists' choice to make use of it there.

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GOP strives to turn focus back to McCain

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Carla Marinucci - Sep. 03 (News Report) - Palin also received unlikely support from WomenCount.org, the 527 political group founded in support of Clinton by major Democratic donors like San Francisco's Susie Tompkins Buell. "The very notion that Sarah Palin should not have accepted this nomination because she is a mother with demanding challenges underscores just how far we have to go," said Rosemary Camposano, spokeswoman for the organization. "We cannot pretend that Gov. Palin meets any standard of progressive politics or social values ... (but) we will defend Sarah Palin against misogynist smears - not because we like her or support her - but because that's how feminism works."

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GOP strategy on Palin: Blame the media of sexism

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Joe Garofoli - Sep. 03 (News Report) - "It's a pile-on," Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said after addressing the California delegation Wednesday. When asked if he thought Palin was experienced enough to be president, Hatch responded that the question was sexist - even though gender was never mentioned. "I think it's demeaning, it's dismissive of women to think that a woman has run a small town, they're dismissive of small town America," Hatch said. "If it's not a big city, it's nothing to them (the mainstream media)."

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Republicans Regroup for Compressed Convention

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Carl Hulse - Sep. 03 (News Report) - Senior party officials and strategists for Senator John McCain acknowledged that the storm-shortened first day of the convention had cost them a valuable chance to present their case for Mr. McCain to voters, and they were racing to recoup on Tuesday, and encouraging the television networks to air more of the proceedings than planned.

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Arrests at RNC Slammed as Goodman Arrest Video is Seen 500,000-Plus Times

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Editor & Publisher - By Dave Astor - Sep. 03 (News Report) - In a statement released this afternoon, the NAHJ called on "police and local and federal officials to respect the First Amendment right to free speech and free press of journalists doing their job, especially as it relates to coverage of recent political conventions and the surrounding public protests. Reporters have a duty and a constitutional right to be present at sometimes volatile events and situations, and to inform the public." The NAHJ noted that an ABC News producer had been arrested at the Democratic National Convention in Denver last week, and that the four journalists arrested Monday also included an Associated Press photographer (Matt Rourke) as well as two "Democracy Now!" producers (Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar) Goodman was trying to help. They were released with charges that included suspicion of felony riot and misdemeanor interference with a police officer.

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Aides Say Team Interviewed Palin Late in the Process

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Dan Balz - Sep. 02 (News Report) - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was not subjected to a lengthy in-person background interview with the head of Sen. John McCain's vice presidential vetting team until last Wednesday in Arizona, the day before McCain asked her to be his running mate, and she did not disclose the fact that her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant until that meeting, two knowledgeable McCain officials acknowledged Tuesday.

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Money Trail: He's Baaaack! Tom DeLay Hailed as GOP Hero

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz, Asa Eslocker,, Emma Schwartz - Sep. 02 (News Report) - Tom DeLay, the former House GOP majority leader whose connections to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff brought scandal and disgrace to the Republican party, returned to the spotlight in Minneapolis last night, helping to host a private party that drew hundreds of delegates and Republican officials

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Palin introducing herself; GOP blasts questions

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

San Francisco Chronicle - By Andrew Taylor - Aug. 31 (News Report) - The campaign also lashed out at the media and called for an end to questions about Palin's background and her family. Senior campaign adviser Steve Schmidt decried what he called a "faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee" for vice president. "This nonsense is over," Schmidt declared in a written statement.

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Sarah Palin's mother-in-law uncertain about how she'll vote

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Daily News - By Nancy Dillon - Aug. 31 (News Report) - Faye Palin admitted she enjoys hearing Barack Obama speak, and still hasn't decided which way she'll vote.

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Dozens Detained Ahead of Convention - NYTimes.com

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Colin Moynihan - Aug. 28 (News Report) - ST. PAUL, Minn. -- On the weekend before the Republican National Convention, law enforcement agencies detained dozens of people and issued a series of search warrants aimed at groups believed to be organizing demonstrations while delegates and Republican officials are in town.

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Third RNC march to be 'more militant'

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Minneapolis Star Tribune - By Randy Furst - Jul. 23 (News Report) - While eschewing violence, members of the Anti-War Committee told reporters at a news conference outside the Xcel Energy Center that its activity on Sept. 4 will involve "a variety of tactics" that could include civil disobedience with sit-ins and "die-ins."

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Ex-Reagan counsel vets potential McCain veeps

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Liz Sidoti - Jun. 25 (Special Report) - Culvahouse vetted an estimated 200 nominees for various positions, including Robert Bork and Anthony Kennedy for the Supreme Court and Alan Greenspan for Federal Reserve chairman. He also advised the president on a range of matters, including the Iran-Contra investigations.

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Ron Paul's Campaign Is a Family Business, FEC Reports Show

Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Mathew Mosk - May. 26 (News Report) - Paul has received relatively few votes in his insurgent bid for the Republican nomination, but he has attracted an extraordinarily dedicated following that has flooded his campaign coffers with more than $30 million in donations. Even after releasing a video on his Web site in March indicating that he no longer expected to win the Republican nomination, Paul has continued to collect and spend those riches. Most of the money has gone to typical campaign expenses such as television, radio and Internet ads, travel, and political advice from consultants and strategists. But unlike other presidential candidates, Paul has also made room on his payroll for his extended brood.

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A Fifth Top Aide To McCain Resigns

Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Michael D. Shear - May. 18 (News Report) - Tom Loeffler, the national finance co-chairman for Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign, resigned yesterday because of his lobbying ties, a campaign adviser said. He is the fifth person to sever ties with the campaign amid a growing concern over whether lobbyists have too great an influence over the Republican nominee. Last week, campaign manager Rick Davis issued a new policy that requires all campaign personnel to either resign or sever ties with lobbying firms or outside political groups.

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Now, This Is Campaign Fatigue

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jonathan Weisman - Apr. 26 (News Report) - After nearly six months on the road, sleeping in hotels, herding an unruly press corps onto buses, and boarding and emptying out charter planes from Medford, Ore., to Mecklenburg County, N.C., Jen Psaki on Friday faced reality. With seemingly no end to the Democratic campaign in sight, Sen. Barack Obama's traveling press aide went to the Chicago apartment she has seen a dozen times since December, put her belongings into storage and let her lease lapse. She is now officially homeless.

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How war hero John McCain betrayed the Vietnamese peasant who saved his life

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Mail - By William Lowther - Mar. 23 (News Report) - In all the tales of wartime courage peppering John McCain's presidential campaign trail, perhaps the most outstanding example of selfless heroism involves not the candidate but a humble Vietnamese peasant. On October 26, 1967, Mai Van On ran from the safety of a bomb shelter at the height of an air raid and swam out into the lake where Lieutenant Commander McCain was drowning, tangled in his parachute cord after ejecting when his Skyhawk bomber was hit by a missile. In an extraordinary act of compassion at a time when Vietnamese citizens were being killed by US aerial bombardments, he pulled a barely conscious McCain to the lake surface and, with the help of a neighbour, dragged him towards the shore.

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McCain not always chummy with the press

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Michael Calderone - Mar. 09 (News Report) - John McCain made a bit of news on Friday because he did something he seldom does -- he snapped at a reporter. -- McCain's testy exchange with New York Times correspondent Elisabeth Bumiller was particularly striking because it goes against the grain of McCain's normally cozy approach to the press. When he invited more than 40 journalists to join him at his Arizona ranch last weekend, the dominant storyline that emerged was how expertly McCain handles himself around a grill.

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McCain Facing Delicate Choice: A Role for Bush

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Elisabeth Bumiller - Feb. 18 (News Analysis) - even as the consensus was that Mr. McCain needed to "stand in the sun" on his own, as one adviser put it, without the large shadow cast by Mr. Bush, left unsaid was the difficult calculus the McCain campaign faces: Using Mr. Bush enough to try to make the tough sell of Mr. McCain to conservatives but not so much that he will drive away the independents and some moderate Democrats that Mr. McCain is counting on in November.

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Local News - Party oath? Absentees swearing, all right

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Keith Ervin - Feb. 17 (News Report) - Many absentee voters in Tuesday's presidential primary haven't just failed to declare they are members of a political party. They've also phoned or written notes to elections offices to protest rules that require voters to sign an oath of fidelity to the Republican or Democratic party in order for their votes to count. "This is anti-democracy," read a note on one ballot envelope in King County. "Political parties should not control who I can vote for."

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A Smiling, Fidgeting McCain, Learning to Rein Himself In

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Mark Leibovich - Feb. 17 (News Report) - So this is what it looks like when the maverick becomes The Man.-- Senator John McCain was sitting in the front of his fancy-pants front-runner's plane, trying to get comfortable. He fidgeted, occasionally lapsing into un-McCainlike blandness: "There is a process in place that will formalize the methodology," he said in describing how his free-form campaign style will assume the discipline expected of a probable Republican standard-bearer.

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Why isn't Huckabee throwing in the towel?

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Michael Finnegan - Feb. 10 (News Report) - A day after John McCain appeared to have nailed down the Republican presidential nomination, Mike Huckabee clung Friday to the faint hope that he could snatch it away. -- He gamely pleaded for support at "Huckabee for President" rallies in Wichita, Topeka and Kansas City, Kan. -- But for many who have watched Huckabee rise to the top tier of candidates only to see McCain emerge as the presumptive nominee, the question has become: Why keep going?

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McCain seeks truce with right-wing critics

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Jonathan Martin, David Paul Kuhn - Feb. 07 (News Report) - Endorsements are also part of a strategy to send a two-pronged message to conservatives. Prong one: McCain is not really so bad, is quite conservative on spending and the Iraq war and is far better than the alternative come this fall. Prong two: The time has come to stop stewing and get on board.

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