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@unusual_whales This is truly wild. Senator Thomas Carper bought up to $110k in Ranger Equity Bear Bear ETF, $HDGE, an active ETF that shorts US listed stocks. He sits on the Senate Finance Committee. And as a politician, he is actively shorting the US economy.

Not good at copying articles. He said this on Cavu/ this afternoon. The GOP-E are warmongering genocidal maniacs.

News anchor Leeann Tweeden accused Minnesota Sen. Al Franken Thursday of sexually harassing her multiple times during a USO entertainment tour in the Middle East in 2006. Tweeden alleges that Franken, a writer for “Saturday Night Live” before he became a senator, wrote a script that featured him kissing her, and harassed her during rehearsals, Tweeden writes for KABC. When Tweeden returned from the tour, she noticed a photo from the tour where Franken has his hands on her breasts and is smiling into the camera. “You knew exactly what you were doing. You forcibly kissed me without my consent,...

MADISON, Wisconsin — Oftentimes the best way to know where you’re heading is by looking back to see where you’ve been. The same holds for politicians. A review of Russ Feingold’s voting record shows a politician who built his U.S. Senate career on raising taxes and growing government. Based on his campaign to return to the seat he lost to Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson in 2010, it’s clear that ultra-liberal Russ Feingold hasn’t had an epiphany-driven conversion on slowing growth of government. During his tenure, from 1993 to 2011, Feingold voted to raise taxes nearly 290 times, costing American...

I like Jeb Bush; I like his brother, George. At a personal level – not a political level – they live the sorts of lives that conservatives should want us all to live. Mitt Romney also has lived an honorable and decent life, with hard work and love of family as vital elements of his character. While George H. Bush, John McCain, and Bob Dole are much less likeable, I cannot, as a conservative or a patriot, dismiss out of hand their courage against evil nations in combat or their noble tenacity in combat or after combat injuries. But these...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tea party darling Ted Cruz has been sworn in as U.S. senator and says his first order of business will be introducing a bill he knows will never pass.

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A prominent US lawmaker scolded President Barack Obama's administration Sunday for delaying the release of a report that could declare China a currency manipulator and lead the way to trade sanctions. "We have a real problem with the Chinese. They are very shrewd and customarily they outmaneuver us," said Democratic senator Arlen Specter, one of many American lawmakers clamoring for China to revalue its overpriced yuan. "They take our jobs. They take our money and then they lend it back to us and own a big part of America," Specter told the "Fox News Sunday" television show,...

Listen to Candidates Bucking For United States Senator Harry Reid Seat in 2010 We have had candidates that have been campaigning for US Nevada Senator Harry Reid Seat in 2010. Two Veterans that served in the Armed Forces Jeff Durbin US Air Force Retired and Bill Parson US Marine Corps Retired. On June 20, 2009 we have had Jeff Durbin Independent American Candidate for US Senate on the Veterans In Politics Talk Show on All Talk Radio. On August 1, 2009 we have had Bill Parson Republican Candidate for US Senate on the Veterans In Politics Talk Show on All...

http://www.covertradioshow.com # The Daily Blast for March 23, 2009 PodCast Link: http://covertradioshow.com/podcast.cfm?pid=159 SNIPPET: “CHINA Chinese Hackers Target Senate Computers Cyber hackers believed to be based in China have tapped three times into the computer network in US Sen. Bill Nelson’s office, the Florida Democrat said Friday. Two attacks on the same day this month and another one last month targeted work stations used by three Nelson staffers — a key foreign-policy aide, the deputy legislative director and a former Nelson NASA advisor, according to Nelson’s staff.”

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. John Warner's office says the Virginian has left a hospital and returned to work after doctors successfully treated his irregular heartbeat with new medications and rhythm treatments for atrial fibrillation.

State Sen. Mike Cooney, a well-known name in Montana Democratic politics, recently accepted an unadvertised $72,000-a-year job in state government. Cooney said the job had nothing to do with political patronage and ... Kelly also brushed aside the suggestion that Cooney got the job because he's a prominent Democrat. Cooney, who served as secretary of state for 12 years ending in 2000, will begin work as head of the Department of Labor's Business Standards Division on July 10, said Keith Kelly, the state labor commissioner who heads the department. Kelly, a Democrat appointed by Gov. Brian Schweitzer, said he approached...

THE VULNERABLE BOBBY BYRD By Michelle Malkin   ·   June 03, 2005 04:03 PM Lots of political blogs buzzing about new poll results showing that Sen. Robert Byrd's re-election bid won't be smooth sailing: A new poll shows Sen. Robert Byrd and Rep. Shelley Moore Capito would run neck and neck in a possible campaign for the Senate seat now held by Byrd. An RMS Strategies Poll released today reports that 46 percent of 401 registered voters in West Virginia would vote for Byrd if the election were held now. A total of 43 percent picked Capito, R-W.Va., though she has...

President George W. Bush traveled April 5 to Parkersburg, West Virginia to visit the so-called Social Security Trust Fund: a filing cabinet filled with paper. "There is no trust fund — just IOUs," backed by no economic assets whatsoever, Bush noted. Senator Jon Corzine (D., N.J.) called the president's remarks misleading. In a conference call with journalists, Corzine said: "U.S. Treasury securities have the ability to be paid under any circumstances based on the ability of the government to print money." While Corzine's press secretary denies this comment was a concrete proposal, at this writing, the senator proudly highlights this...

The town of Greenville is fast becoming an unlikely source of political debate. After returning from a golf trip to the city, a U.S. senator from Wisconsin criticized the city in an article on-line. Democratic Senator Russ Feingold wrote that the city made the wrong choice for president based on its economic troubles. "I wonder why people sometimes don't vote on the basis of that issue as opposed to issues that might divide us - issues like abortion and gay marriage, which I'm told some people made the basis of their decision for president." Of course, the senator's sentiments aren't...

AN OPEN LETTER TO U.S. SENATOR RICK SANTORUM: Thanks, Rick. You have just performed a partial-birth abortion on the political system. Words will never be able to fully convey the deep sense of loss I feel in my heart. Pat Toomey is a principled conservative Republican. That is what I had always believed you to have been. Rick, you have hurt us; rest assured, though, we will heal from the wounds that you have inflicted upon us. Equally rest assured, Rick, that I'm certain that you won't heal from the wounds that you have inflicted upon yourself. Rick, one of...

<p>More Wire Service Stories Breaking News Business Entertainment Politics Science Sports Technology World Simon died at St. John's Hospital in Springfield, Illinois, a day after undergoing heart surgery, his office at Southern Illinois University said.</p> <p>Through two terms in the U.S. Senate and five in the House of Representatives, as well as 14 years in the Illinois state legislature and a unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988, Simon remained an approachable man of conscience. After leaving Washington in 1997, he became the head of the Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University and continued to be involved in a number of major issues including reform of the death penalty and the campaign finance system. House Speaker Dennis Hastert called Simon "a distinguished statesman ... a selfless public servant." Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont said Simon "served the residents of Illinois and the entire nation with grace, intelligence and passion. He was always one to put partisan politics aside and fight for what he truly believed in." The author or co-author of at least 20 books, he wrote on topics ranging from world hunger to Abraham Lincoln. Two of his books were published in October, including one, "Our Culture of Pandering" in which he wrote: "In too many areas we have spawned 'leadership' that does not lead, that panders to our whims rather than telling us the truth, that follows the crowd rather than challenging us, that weakens us rather than strengthening us." SPONSORED VARIED BILLS Liberal to moderate in politics, he was the chief Democratic sponsor of the balanced budget amendment while in the Senate and he authored a number of education and job-related laws. When he sought the presidential nomination he portrayed himself as a genuine, down-to-earth person in an era of slick image makers. While other Democrats spoke of redefining their party's image and said the time for big social welfare programs had passed, Simon pressed for traditional Democratic programs such as government jobs programs and higher health care spending. A college drop-out, Simon once owned more than a dozen small weekly newspapers in rural Illinois. Born in Eugene, Oregon, on Nov. 29, 1928, shortly after his missionary parents returned from China, he moved to Southern Illinois after his parents were assigned there. He studied journalism at the University of Oregon and attended Dana College in Blair, Nebraska, but did not receive a degree from either school. At the age of 19 Simon left college to buy a defunct newspaper in Troy, Illinois, with a $3,600 loan underwritten by the local Lions Club -- a move that made him the youngest editor-publisher in the nation at the time. He earned a reputation as a crusader who exposed syndicated gambling ties to local officials and made a successful run for the Illinois House at the age of 25. He was married to Jeanne Simon, also a former state lawmaker, in 1960, and the couple had two children. A collaborator on many of Simon's books, she died in 2000. Copyright © 2003 Reuters Limited.</p>

Do you think Sen. Patty Murray's comments last month about Osama bin Laden will damage her reputation politically?

Sen. Murray Praises bin Laden's Good Deeds Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., is under fire today for praising terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, leader of the 9/11 attacks that killed thousands of Americans. "We’ve got to ask, why is this man [bin Laden] so popular around the world?" Murray said to pupils Wednesday at a government high school in Vancouver, Wash. "Why are people so supportive of him in many countries ... that are riddled with poverty? "He’s been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the...