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Oh, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.

RUSH: So yesterday on CNN, Candy Crowley asked the panel on her program if the comments of Dr. Benjamin Carson at the National Prayer Breakfast were inappropriate. Actually, she asked if his comments were appropriate. Now, before we play for you the Candy Crowley sound bite from CNN yesterday, I want to go back. We've got two sound bites from Dr. Benjamin Carson. He's the Johns Hopkins University hospital pediatric neurosurgery director. He's a great guy. Great, great family story, from Detroit. Here are the two excerpts that we aired last week from his remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast...

Ezra Klein tells readers of his “wonk” blog that he doesn’t read his own work. Ok, he doesn’t actually say that, but he certainly implies it: “I actually can’t recall running into a piece in which the argument is so carefully written,” writes Klein “as to mislead the reader without, in most cases, being entirely untrue.”There it is. Case close. Ezra Klein says so. Klein either doesn’t read his own work or he has a short-term memory problem.Klein of course was referring to someone else, not himself as I facetiously suggest- in this case, historian Niall Ferguson- when he wrote...

Fareed Zakaria on Sunday actually asked former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel if the president should "run a campaign against a do-nothing Republican Congress." Such actually transpired on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, a program hysterically presented by the so-called "Most Trusted Name In News" (video follows with transcript and commentary): Fareed Zakaria Asks Rahm Emanuel 'Should Obama Run a Campaign Against Do-Nothing Republican Congress?' FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST: But the president has proposed a number of things, like the Infrastructure Bank, infrastructure -- other infrastructure proposals. RAHM EMANUEL, CHICAGO MAYOR, FORMER OBAMA CHIEF OF STAFF: Yes. ZAKARIA: They don't go...

Appearing as a panel member on Sunday's Melissa Harris-Perry show, comedienne Margaret Cho wondered why some women are Republicans as she asserted that the GOP is "a party that's so against our rights, our reproductive rights, so many rights in so many ways." Cho also complained that Sarah Palin tries to "beat feminism down," claiming that "Sarah Palin wouldn't exist without feminism." After host Melissa Harris-Perry recounted a GOP drive to appeal to women, Cho wondered: What are women getting out of the GOP? That's, I always question that. I always wonder. This is a party that's so against our...

Democratic Rep. Waters calls GOP leadership 'demons' By Alicia M. Cohn - 02/15/12 03:17 PM ET Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), in video surfacing Wednesday, called Republican leaders House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor “demons” who are “destroying this country” last weekend in seeking to rally California Democrats to political action. “We’ve got to take back the House,” Waters told the crowd in the final moments of her speech to the California Democratic Convention. She pointed to the display behind her as she continued: "I saw pictures of Boehner and Cantor on our screens. Don't ever let me...

ALBANY, Feb. 27 — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton took a swipe at the White House on Monday, saying that Karl Rove, the president's political adviser, "spends a lot of time obsessing about me." Mrs. Clinton's comments came during an interview with an Albany radio station, after she was asked about a new book that quotes Mr. Rove as saying she is certain to be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. "I don't know where he gets his information from," Mrs. Clinton said of Mr. Rove during the interview on WROW-AM. "If I were thinking about this, I'd say, 'Why are...

Even though she is a LIBERAL, I like Susan! She is one of my favorite lberals because she can be honest and real unlike others of her kind... I have respect for her (except for her Dukakis duty)!!!

Former Vice President Al Gore will give a speech in Portland on Tuesday on global warming.

I am concerned about our Country. What happened to the American Dream? What happened to freedom for all? This Country was founded on freedom for all. The Constitution states WE THE PEOPLE(ALL PEOPLE),& THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS,FREEDOM & THE AMERICAN DREAM. We all need to come together & fight for theses things. Years ago people came together to protest for things that were wrong or things they believed in,that is what we need to do now to preserve this country for our children & our children's children. We also cannot forget God-whatever God you believe in. That is also another...

Hofstra University's commencement speaker, E.L. Doctorow, didn't break new ground when he used his time at the pulpit to launch a scathing attack on President George W. Bush over the weekend. In fact, many commencement speakers use this kind of forum to explore political issues that seek to poke, prod and reveal changes in society. But where Doctorow crossed the line was using a strident, personal and partisan attack in an environment where families gather to celebrate personal accomplishment and academic excellence. If they wanted to hear the author excoriate the president, they would have probably preferred a venue such...