Mets Notch Triple Play And Inside-The-Park Home Run, But Lose To Nationals, 5-3
Nick Wass - AP about 2 hours ago: New York Mets' Angel Pagan, left, celebrates his inside-the-park home run as Jeff...
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Mexico State Dinner Arrival PHOTOS: Who Was Best-Dressed? (PICTURES, POLL)
*We'll be uploading photos of the guests as they come on the wires, so keep checking back! Scroll down for the pool report from the arrivals.* The White House rolled out the red carpet once again on Wednesday night for a state dinner honoring...
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Nancy Pelosi, ineffective boogeyman
House Democrats have won seven special elections in a row, including four since Obama was inaugurated. Their opponents all had one big overriding issue in common:
New York 20th, March 31, 2009
Republican Jim Tedisco's platform? Nancy Pelosi is scary.
“I think he’s Nancy Pelosi’s worst nightmare,” said State Senator Roy McDonald, who until this year represented other parts of Saratoga County in the Assembly. “He’s not going to remain silent and take orders.”
America is waking up to the flawed thinking and outright dangerous schemes of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid’s Congress and the Obama Administration. Opposition is building every day. If Jim Tedisco wins this seat, it will be a very public repudiation. A Tedisco victory will start the process of building an effective opposition to the Obama-Pelosi agenda, and send a clear message: conservatives aren’t going to let the extremist left in Washington strip us of our rights and freedoms.
"I'm calling to ask you to join me in supporting Jim Tedisco for congress this Tuesday March 31," reads the script. "This congressional race could come down to a few hundred votes and yours could be the difference between victory and defeat. Jim Tedisco's victory will ensure that we have a voice in Congress that will stand up to Nancy Pelosi, and all her plans to hike taxes and spending by trillions of dollars. Please join me, Rudy Giuliani, in support Jim Tedisco this Tuesday."
California 10th, November 3, 2009
Republican David Harmer's platform? Nancy Pelosi is scary.
Conservatives criticized [Democratic opponent John] Garamendi's support for a government-run insurance plan in health care reform legislation in Congress and sent out mailers linking him with Pelosi, D-San Francisco.
Now, Harmer has decided to target Rep. Jerry McNerney in the neighboring CA-11th, and thinks the same message will somehow yield different results:
"Jerry McNerney claims to be a moderate Democrat, but his voting record is well to left of his district. On every significant vote, he supports the liberal agenda of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
New York 23rd, November 3, 2009
Conservative Doug Hoffman's platform? Nancy Pelosi is scary.
Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman is up with a new ad blasting Democrat Bill Owens as a lackey of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“Nancy Pelosi hand-picked Bill Owens for Congress and bankrolls his campaign. You know what that means,” the ad says.
“So when Pelosi wants Owens’ vote for her massive energy taxes, government-run medicine and a trillion dollar deficit, where would Bill Owens stand: With you or with her?”
Hoffman didn't get the hint with his loss, and he continues to run on his anti-Pelosi platform.
Pennsylvania 12th, yesterday:
Republican Tim Burns' platform? Nancy Pelosi is scary.
Burns made the race about Pelosi and often featured her in his TV commercials. If "Nancy Pelosi's values are your values, then Mark Critz is your candidate," Burns said in a TV ad.
More:
In a new ad supporting Republican Tim Burns, who's running for the seat vacated by the late Rep. Jack Murtha (D-PA), the group RightChange.com depicts an animated Nancy Pelosi as a cross between Frankenstein's monster and Godzilla.
Obama and Harry Reid play the roles of mad scientists. As they flip switches for bailouts and taxes, Pelosi is zapped and grows to terrifying size. Then she stomps on a factory, a home and goes berserk on a suburban street. The only thing that can stop her? Laser-like beams fired from Tim Burns campaign pins.
The result of these elections? Democrats won. Apparently, Nancy Pelosi just isn't that scary. But these crazies listen to their Pelosi-obsessed base and convince themselves that their hatred will translate to the rest of the electorate. It won't.
People don't hate Pelosi. And given the choice between a campaign talking issues, and a campaign screaming about Pelosi, the voters are making the same choice every single time -- even in districts (like NY-23) in which Democrats hadn't represented since the 1850s, or in a McCain district like PA-12.
It turns out that Pelosi sucks as a boogeyman. She's terrible at it! But as long as the GOP doesn't figure that out, their hopes for massive gains will definitely come up short.
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Michael Kimmel: Lacrosse and the Entitled Elite Male Athlete
From the outside, George Huguely had it all. Such guys are the epitome of the "culture of entitlement." They think they can do anything they want and get away with it, and usually they're right.
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Laura Flynn: “We Want Our Voices To Be Heard”: Democracy in Haiti’s Earthquake Zone
Each Saturday for the past two months, a thousand or more Haitian earthquake survivors have met in the auditorium of the Aristide Foundation to talk about the future of their country.
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SBNhanced Power Rankings: Major League Soccer, Week 8
Victor Decolongon - Getty Images about 1 month ago: CARSON, CA - APRIL 17: The Los Angeles Galaxy starting XI pose...
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Evelyn Leopold: IRAN FUEL DEAL JUMP-STARTS NEW SANCTIONS PROPOSALS BY BIG POWERS
UNITED NATIONS - The big powers struck back at Turkey and Brazil's uranium swap deal with Iran by putting their draft sanctions resolution on the...
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Hermida Stings Rivera As Sox Stage Late Rally Past Yanks
Frank Franklin II - AP about 2 hours ago: Boston Red Sox's Darnell McDonald, right, and Marco Scutaro, left celebra...
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League Source Confirms Henry Has Signed With Red Bull New York
Frank Dell’Apa at the Boston Globe has received confirmation from a “league source” the Thierry Henry has signed with Red Bull New York: A league source confirmed last night that Thierry Henry will join the New York Red Bulls, like...
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Sherman Yellen: Emily’s Stew Will Be Good for You Too
Fine children's books, like this one, teach the lesson that life is much more than oatmeal and putting one's toys away neatly: it is a place full of the bad, the good, and the wonderful, the wonderful often prevailing.
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