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Day 1: Repeal the Bush restrictions on stem cell research. (Jan 2004) Keep abortion safe, rare and legal; with 24-week viability. (Dec 2003) FDA’s RU-486 decision stands; it’s made properly by experts. (Oct 2000) Leave abortion decision to a woman, her doctor, and her god. (Oct 2000) Rejected partial-birth ban since it ignored maternal health. (Oct 2000) Supports abortion rights within his faith, not despite it. (Sep 2000) Parental consent with judicial override; Gore agrees. (Aug 2000) Supported parental notification for minors; but pro-choice. (Aug 2000) Voted YES on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)...

Code red on U.S. airplanes. Toss the liquids. The arrests in Britain remind the world dramatically that the threats posed by al-Qaida and its followers have not ended. As a nation, we must come together to combat those threats. The Bush administration may have dismantled the team hunting Osama bin Laden, but he hasn't stopped targeting us. The threat is shared, but we are divided because this administration -- and its right-wing noise machine -- turns terrorist threats to partisan political purposes. The reaction to the arrests in Britain reveals an administration more intent on dividing the country to win...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 — After being outmaneuvered in the politics of national security in the last two elections, Democrats say they are determined not to cede the issue this year and are working to cast President Bush as having diminished the nation’s safety.

Well, we have the MSM's drum beat slogan firmly established. It is increasingly being used time and again since the British uncovered their terror plot last week. Republicans are merely "using" this whole terror thing as a tactic to get votes. It couldn't be that we REALLY face terrorism, that is is something to be worried about and discussed seriously, right? Nah, it must just be a dirty GOP trick! Today, CNN has posted a story from their senior political analyst, Bill Schneider, titled "Can the GOP use the terrorism issue to win -- again?, Suspected plot to blow up...

Mid-summer is a slow time in the congressional campaign. The voters are paying scant attention, and the campaigns are not really making a major effort to attract it. Congress is in recess, and the President is (usually) on vacation. Thank goodness for the Federal Elections Commission. For those willing to dig a little deeper than an executive summary of a media poll, the FEC offers lots of insight. Washington might be quiet in August, and Americans might be too busy getting ready for the beach to think about the election, but there is still quite a lot of campaign activity...

Can Democrats steal the security issue? Dick Polman NATIONAL POLITICAL ANALYST Stung by incessant bad news from Iraq, and mindful that a restive electorate might sink the congressional GOP in November, the Bush administration and its political lieutenants are trying to recoup by reviving their old charge that the Democrats are national-security sissies who should not be trusted with power. Republicans cite the defeat in Connecticut of hawkish Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman, who fell last Tuesday in a party primary to Iraq critic Ned Lamont. Vice President Cheney says Lieberman's defeat is proof that Democrats are soft on "al-Qaeda types."...

RENTON, Wash. -- The evening rush hour has begun in earnest, and "Gas Pump Man," a comic book-like character with a costume made of foam, is on the scene, waving his pump and urging harried drivers to honk if they want lower gas prices. By his side are volunteers for Darcy Burner, the Democratic challenger to Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert in this suburban Seattle district, holding a homemade banner urging motorists to "Tell Congressman Reichert to take back the $14 billion in subsidies he gave to big oil." In the battle for Congress, the high price of gasoline has...

Scaring Americans for political gain? "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself­nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory." – Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 So, we meet again. The United States has once again been challenged with another threat to our existence. This time, however, we are...

GOP raises specter of 'Speaker Pelosi' By TIM WHITMIRE, Associated Press Writer 13 minutes ago Facing a strong re-election challenge from Democrat Heath Shuler, veteran Republican Rep. Charles Taylor (news, bio, voting record) is going after a candidate who gets an "F" from the National Rifle Association and a perfect score from a leading abortion-rights group. But that's not Shuler, a former NFL quarterback who hopes his pro-gun and anti-abortion positions appeal to swing voters and social conservatives alike in this mountainous district in western North Carolina. Instead, Taylor's target this summer is Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the California congresswoman...

Republicans seized on the arrests of terrorism suspects in Britain yesterday to bolster a White House campaign to turn national security issues to their advantage this fall, arguing that the nation needs tough Republican policies to protect Americans from threats from abroad. Officials in both parties said they viewed the arrests as critical in determining how they would approach the fall campaign, with Republicans saying it could be a turning point in a year in which they have been on the defensive over the war in Iraq and other issues. The developments played neatly into the White House-led effort, after...

One second we are talking about the Lieberman primary loss in Connecticut and the very next, the all-but-carried-out plan by al-Qaida to blow up multiple passenger jets over the Atlantic Ocean. What is the lesson in such a drastic change of subject from the innocuous to the terrifying? For a number of people in the business of preventing terrorism, it says the 2008 presidential election has to be about electing the candidate most qualified to ensure the national security of our country. It says that ignorance is far from bliss, and potentially suicidal. Al-Qaida and its twisted imitators will not...

Republicans, Democrats clash over who's stronger on national security WASHINGTON Republicans and Democrats are clashing over the war on terror. Following word of the foiled airline bomb plot, each side is accusing the other of doing too little to deter the threat of attack. House Speaker Dennis Hastert said, "Freedom is never free, and we must never be complacent in defending it." Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist added: "We must be on alert so that our nation does not suffer another attack like Nine-Eleven." But Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid countered that "as a result of mismanagement and the wrong...

CRITTENDEN, Kentucky (Reuters) - Anti-war sentiment may win votes in many parts of America but in Kentucky's most competitive congressional race, the Republican incumbent and Democratic challenger alike stand behind President George W. Bush's war in Iraq. "We appreciate having you in our corner," a soldier yelled out to Republican Rep. Geoff Davis as the congressman made his way through the crowds during a three-hour campaign stop at the Grant County Fair. Davis stopped to shake hands with the two men in desert camouflage and they told him about the hero's welcome they received at the summer fair. "How you...

WASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats clashed over the war on terror on Thursday within hours of the disclosure of a thwarted terrorist plot in Britain, each side accusing the other of doing too little to deter the threat of attack. "We must implement the strong recommendations of the independent 9/11 commission to improve airport security screening at checkpoints," said House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, stressing one of the party's principal campaign-year promises in its drive to gain control of Congress. Ohio Republicans said the Democratic candidate for the Senate, Rep. Sherrod Brown (news, bio, voting record), had voted against money...

August 7, 2006 -- WASHINGTON - Republicans are invoking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's name in races across the country in a bid to tar opponents by tying them to the former first lady. Clinton, the Dems' likely 2008 front-runner, is being used in contests across the heartland to portray Democratic hopefuls as too liberal. In Missouri, the state GOP blasted Democratic Senate hopeful Claire McCaskill as Clinton's "ideological twin." "Hillary Clinton and Claire McCaskill don't represent Missouri values, and they know it," said party honcho Paul Sloca. Arizona GOP boss Glenn Hamer invoked Clinton and hubby Bill to blast Democratic...

Democrats are lacking in new ideas, so maybe that’s why Republicans are stealing their old ones. With some Republicans' poll numbers looking grim, early last Saturday morning House Republicans rushed through legislation raising the minimum wage. The Senate votes before shutting down for August recess, and will perhaps finish what is supposedly the process of stealing — or at least neutralizing — the centerpiece of the Democrats’ fall election agenda. Chances for Senate passage are too close to call. Despite Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's support, many senators on both sides are unhappy. Democrats don't want to give up a...

"Culture war" in America may be overblown: poll The so-called culture wars rending America over such issues as abortion, gay marriage and stem cell research may be overblown, based on a U.S. poll released on Thursday. "Despite talk of 'culture wars' and the high visibility of activist groups on both sides of the cultural divide, there has been no polarization of the public into liberal and conservative camps," the Pew Research Center said, commenting on its poll of 2,003 American adults. Best illustrating the willingness of Americans to consider opposing points of view is that two-thirds of poll respondents supported...

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN August 2, 2006 -- Sometimes it’s a close question as to whether the leaders of the House are more arrogant or more stupid. The combination of the two is deadly. The arrogance stems from a deep-seated conviction that state-by-state gerrymandering has made it impossible for the Republican Party to lose the majority in the House. The stupidity is demonstrated by their refusal to take the two steps that could give their beleaguered members some kind of political cover as they run for reelection: lobbying reform and a minimum-wage increase. But the arrogance is misplaced....

A constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriages in Virginia has strong support among state voters, according to a new poll. Fifty-six percent said that they will vote for the amendment this fall, 38 percent said they will oppose it, according to a survey completed last week by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. of Washington, D.C. The company interviewed 625 registered voters who said they intend to participate in the Nov. 7 election, when the marriage amendment will appear on state ballots. The Virginia vote appears largely to be divided along partisan lines. Eighty-two percent of Republicans said they support...