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California Democrats seek election-year momentum
Associated Press ^ | 4/17/10 | MICHAEL R. BLOOD (AP)

Posted on 04/17/2010 3:19:31 PM PDT by mdittmar

LOS ANGELES — Democrats facing a tough election year dared Republicans on Saturday to challenge them on issues from Wall Street regulations to health care reform, testing what they hope will be a winning message with most voters in the fall.

Democrats at the state party's annual convention had a brash message at a time when polls show President Barack Obama's popularity slipping and party candidates in tight races across the country: Bring it on.

"Democrats are for protecting the peoples' interest; Republicans are protecting the special interests. Democrats are protecting consumers and small businesses on Main Street; Republicans are protecting big banks on Wall Street," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told more than 1,000 cheering delegates inside the Los Angeles Convention Center.

"That is our fight," Pelosi said.

With her re-election in doubt, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., urged Democrats to unite behind her candidacy with the excitement witnessed at tea party rallies around the nation.

"We passed health care reform and we should be proud of it, proud of it," Boxer told supporters waving yellow "Boxer 2010" signs. "I need you to be excited, as excited as the tea party people are. Will you help me?"

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1 posted on 04/17/2010 3:19:31 PM PDT by mdittmar
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If the Republicans fall for this spin, they deserve to lose.


2 posted on 04/17/2010 3:20:49 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Obamunism: You have two cows. The regime redistributes them and shoots you dead)
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Democrats are protecting consumers and small businesses on Main Street;

Is this satire???

3 posted on 04/17/2010 3:22:34 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Unemployed are at 12.7% in Calif. If they elect Rats they are hopeless.


4 posted on 04/17/2010 3:23:45 PM PDT by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Anybody who votes for a rat in the mid terms need to have their head examined


5 posted on 04/17/2010 3:25:08 PM PDT by Popman (Balsa wood: Obama Presidential timber)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

It’s the voters who will be falling for the spin, not Republicans. As for protecting the little people as opposed to Wall Street etc., the Republicans can just point to O’s record of bank bailouts if they have the nerve. There have not been such clearly defined issues in an election in decades. The Republicans should mop the floor with these guys. As for the “bring it on” attitude of Dems, the Republican response should be “Oh hell yea!”


6 posted on 04/17/2010 3:26:26 PM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: mdittmar
Will you help me?

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What do you want me to do?

7 posted on 04/17/2010 3:28:30 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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"We passed health care reform and we should be proud of it, proud of it,"

Hey babs You screwed all of us. I'm sure you are very proud of that. Take your government health care and stick it.

8 posted on 04/17/2010 3:32:47 PM PDT by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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9 posted on 04/17/2010 3:33:05 PM PDT by CMailBag
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California Democrats seek election-year momentum

Directly to retirement or jail

10 posted on 04/17/2010 3:38:33 PM PDT by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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“If the Republicans fall for this spin, they deserve to lose.”

In the Peoples Republic of Kalyfornya, I'm not sure that winning is possible. The moonbats have created the Utopian paradise there that they want to force on the rest of us, and it's failing miserably. It's better to let DemonRATs ride it into oblivion. All they have to do is keep raising taxes, imposing more regulations on business, heck, just mandate nirvana and everything will be all right.

11 posted on 04/17/2010 3:46:45 PM PDT by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 393)
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Yeah, demscum say “bring it on” as they hide any way they can from TEA Partiers.

Laughable. Utterly laughable.


12 posted on 04/17/2010 3:48:51 PM PDT by piytar (Ammo is hard to find! Bought some lately? Please share where at www.ammo-finder.com)
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It’s about liberty.


13 posted on 04/17/2010 3:49:19 PM PDT by Touch Not the Cat (Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
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Democrats are protecting consumers and small businesses on Main Street; Republicans are protecting big banks on Wall Street," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told more than 1,000 cheering delegates inside the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Like giving 250 billion of our dollars to AIG and Goldman Sachs? (they're not big banks on Wall St?)

Like denying consumers the freedom to pursue their own competitive healthcare?

Like demanding that small businesses provide healthcare which could rather be acquired by the individual?

Like giving our tax money to services for illegal aliens?

Like bailing out big businesses with our money which should otherwise be bankrupted from their own myopia and greed?

Like rewarding those who know exactly what copulation brings with the funds for supporting their own irresponsibility?

Like giving themselves taxpayer funded pay raises during the most demanding economic circumstances of those consumers?

Like confiscating the dignity of the free individual to pursue his own decisions?

Like fundamentally restructuring our youth into government dependents?

Like .....?

14 posted on 04/17/2010 3:50:28 PM PDT by jnsun (The Left: the need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer.)
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A good sign to carry at one of her rallies is “More Taxes Now! - Boxer 2010”.


15 posted on 04/17/2010 3:51:37 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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They don’t need momentum: it’s California.

The worst of the garbage (like Pelosi) will coast to easy re-elections.


16 posted on 04/17/2010 4:20:54 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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Time to clean house!!!


17 posted on 04/17/2010 4:26:50 PM PDT by hstacey
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Giant douche’s and Turd sandwiches. The party of the poseurs are going to get crushed in Nov.


18 posted on 04/17/2010 4:32:15 PM PDT by Bullish (Light skinned with no negro dialect (unless I want one))
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It’s the voters who will be falling for the spin, not Republicans.

You don't understand. This is all designed to make Republicans mushy, to get them to go along with what the Dems are doing, so conservatives can get discouraged.

19 posted on 04/17/2010 4:36:48 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Obamunism: You have two cows. The regime redistributes them and shoots you dead)
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Oh please! Obama is on his knees for special interests as are all democratic politicians.


20 posted on 04/17/2010 4:46:38 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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