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  • The Booker insurgency grows - We few, we unhappy few.

    05/22/2012 12:01:44 PM PDT · by neverdem · 8 replies
    HUMAN EVENTS ^ | 05/22/2012 | John Hayward
    Newark mayor Cory Booker may have been reduced to filming “hostage videos” in which he apologizes for throwing sharp spikes of reason and temperance beneath the madly spinning wheels of the Obama re-election bus, but the Booker Insurgency continues to grow. Harold Ford Jr., formerly a Democrat congressman from Tennessee, was welcomed to the ranks on Monday. Ford was no small-time back-bencher. He took a credible shot at wrestling House leadership away from Nancy Pelosi, and served as leader of the Democratic Leadership Council - a now-forgotten artifact of an earlier time, when there really were “moderates” in the Democrat...
  • Obama main attraction at fundraisers Monday night

    08/08/2011 7:12:04 PM PDT · by newzjunkey · 13 replies
    CNN ^ | August 8th, 2011 02:38 PM ET | Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser
    Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama turns his attention to campaign politics Monday night, as he headlines two events for the Democratic National Committee and his re-election campaign. According to the White House schedule, the president first attends a gathering of approximately 140 guests at a private residence in the nation's capital. A DNC official says proceeds from the $15,000 per family gathering ...