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Dr. Mehmet Oz, who earned former President Donald Trump’s primary-race endorsement in April, is going down in flames according to a new GOP poll. Republican-affiliated Public Opinion Strategies reports that surgeon-turned-TV-host Dr. Oz trails Democrat John Fetterman by nearly 20 points!Trump gave Oz his “complete and total endorsement” before the wide-open GOP primary of six candidates, a move that probably sealed the deal with Pennsylvania Republicans. The doc won in a squeaker, barely beating out second-place finisher David McCormick, 31.2% to 31.1%. The former president praised Oz’s positions on abortion, crime, the Second Amendment, border security, the military, education, energy...

Money to compensate victims of the Chinese #bioweapon known as the Corona Virus, or Wuhan Flu is being debated in the US Senate. An attempt to add funding for socialism programs by Nancy Pelosi stalled bipartisan negotiations. Breitbart facebook livestrean

The U.S. Senate, along with the U.S. House will discuss government funding. The bill before the U.S. Senate would fund amnesty, the Iran Nuke Deal, & even Planned Parenthood. GOP leadership has joined the democrat party & most of the media in the lie that government funding must be passed. /us-senate-debate-government-funding

Planned Parenthood funding will be debated tomorrow in the United State Senate on CSPAN2. I believe it's at 2pm eastern 1pm central: http://www.c-span.org/schedule/?channel=2

livestream of the Immigration hearings regarding Sanctuary Cities Periscope of @Kenny_NLR

Sen. Pat Toomey’s proposal to balance the budget in nine years was defeated in the Senate today, though his plan proved to be the most popular budget rendition to hit the floor. By design, all four votes failed as bipartisan budget talks continue. Mr. Toomey, who serves on the Budget Committee, drafted a plan that earned all but three Republican votes but not a single Democrat, falling 42-55.

Last week's comfortable re-election victory for Sen. Saxby Chambliss comes as an early Christmas gift to Republicans still smarting from the comprehensive drubbing they suffered in November. It also ends the Democrats' dream of exacting "revenge" on the man who defeated their beloved Max Cleland in 2002 by allegedly questioning his patriotism, or so the legend goes. The GOP win in Georgia should not be over-hyped, but it may provide a few insights about the national political landscape—as well as a small dose of good news for the Right. First, Chambliss' 14-point margin of victory ended up being substantially higher...

ATLANTA – Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss has won re-election in a runoff, dashing Democratic hopes of capturing enough Senate seats to thwart Republican filibusters.

The polls close in ten minutes. Hopefully Georgia has held the line today. Poll traffic was reported as steady here Northeast Atlanta today...

Take it to the bank.

The immigration and security debate, which has sparked huge demonstrations in recent days by Hispanic residents of cities around the country, comes at a crucial moment for both parties. Over the last three national elections, persistent appeals by Mr. Bush and other Republican leaders have helped double their party's share of the Hispanic vote, to more than 40 percent in 2004 from about 20 percent in 1996. As a result, Democrats can no longer rely on the country's 42 million Hispanic residents as a natural part of their base. In a lunch meeting of Senate Republicans this week, Senator Mel...

The White House decided to employ a politically-palatable, pundit-prescribed exit strategy with the withdrawal of Harriet Miers. Because of that, Miss Miers is no longer a nominee to the United States Supreme Court, and much of America may believe the Bush Administration's contention that she withdrew over a request for documents. In actuality, she withdrew because her 1993 pro-abortion speech came to light, and that was the straw that broke the camel's back for the great Dr. James Dobson, Senator Sam Brownback, Senator John Thune, and any members of the conservative base who had reserved judgment up to that point....

Sen. Robert Bennett, the chief deputy majority whip and one of the wisest Republican heads in Washington, has quietly entered the Social Security maelstrom with a thoughtful compromise that puts his party at a crossroads. The GOP faces this choice: Pass a bill that is a pallid version of the original proposal, or concede defeat and fight out the battle in the 2006 campaign. Democrats have definitively ruled out any form of personal accounts. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, by nature a dealmaker, is under intense pressure from his caucus not even to discuss the Bush proposal. With Sen. John...

Last Thursday, the US Senate held a hearing http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/02/18/001.htmlon the state of Russian Democracy in general and state takeover of Russian oil-giant YUKOS and the persecution of its chief Mikhail Khodorkovsky in particular. As a civic-minded American and Russian Immigrant, I welcome this hearing. However, I can't help but point out that it comes a bit too late--let's say it is at least 11 years overdue. If you ask me why 11 years, consider the following.

A rejoinder to Hugh Hewitt. What did Specter say last week? Specter, with the apparent support of Hewitt, claims that AP reporter Lara Jakes Jordan distorted his words. Specter didn't "warn" the president not to nominate judges who might vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. He merely predicted that such nominees would face filibusters. This explanation will not wash. The senator said that Roe was "inviolate" in his view; that it was settled law, like Brown v. Board; that any nominee who disagreed would face a filibuster; and that he "would expect the president to be mindful of the considerations...

The bankruptcy of Medicare and Social Security jeopardizes America's economy, health care quality and retirement security. Yet, Louisiana's next U.S. Senator will probably take office without revealing any plans to confront this problem. According to the 2004 Social Security Trustees' report, the unfunded long-term obligations of Social Security and Medicare amount to $72 trillion: $21.8 trillionfrom Medicare Part A; 23.2 trillion from Medicare PartB; $16.6 trillion from the new Medicare prescription drug benefit; and $10.4 trillion from Social Security.The issue position pages of the three leading candidates' websites reveal no plans to save the two programs, and some campaigns even...

American democracy is in sorry shape these days. Usually, when I hear pronouncements of this sort, my eyes roll and I start counting ceiling tiles. Indeed, as a democracy curmudgeon, I applaud most of the things democracy fetishists complain about. I wish it were harder to vote and that fewer people did it. The Founding Fathers understood that voting in itself is value-neutral. A mob can vote to lynch an innocent man, but that doesn't make it moral. Conversely, few things would be more morally admirable than a man of good conscience thwarting the "democratic will" of the mob to...