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Democrats vote-in Republican
The Democrat stronghold of Manchester, New Hampshire went Republican on
Tuesday.
After Sen. John Kerry, former Sen. John Edwards and other leading
presidential contenders campaigned for Manchester Mayor Robert Baines
reelection, he went down to defeat to Republican Frank Guinta.
The key to Guinta’s victory may have been his pledge to cut taxes, address
violent crime and improve high school test scores.
Democrats win Tuesday’s shoot-out
Democrats won elections in New Jersey, Virginia and all four propositions in
California.
Democratic Sen. Jon Corzine easily won the New Jersey governor's seat. The
campaign was an expensive, mudslinging campaign. Corzine embarrassed
Republican Doug Forrester by 10 percentage points. Polls in the last week
had forecast a much closer race.
In Virginia, Democrats boasted that President Bush’s election eve rally for
Republican candidate Jerry Kilgore helped bring more voters to the polls for
their winning candidate Democratic Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine. Kaine won in the red
state of Virginia by more than 5 percentage points.
The real winner in Virginia was the former Governor Mark Warner who is
organizing his campaign for the Democrat nomination for president. He can
now boast of his legacy and coat tails.
In California, all four of Governor Schwarzenegger’s ballot initiatives went
down to defeat. The propositions would have: capped spending; removed
legislators' redistricting powers, made teachers work five years instead of
two to pass probation, and restricted political spending by public employee
unions.
Most voters said President Bush was not a factor in their choices Tuesday,
according to a survey conducted Tuesday by the AP and its polling partner,
Ipsos. The survey was based on interviews with 1,280 adults throughout New
Jersey who said they voted in the governor's election.
Heating up oil execs
Oil industry presidents will be on Capitol Hill today and politicians will
make 'profit' a dirty word. The question is whether oil execs engaged in
profiteering.
"If there's an excise tax, what that means is over the cycle we're going to
have less earnings than we would have had, and therefore our ability and our
willingness to invest is going to diminish," said Lee Raymond, the chief
executive of Exxon Mobil Corp.
The major problem facing the rising demand for oil products is the lack of
capacity of oil refining facilities.
Exxon's Raymond was also scheduled to meet privately with House Speaker
Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican who will twist arms privately in the
industry to invest more to expand oil refineries.
CIA leak
Editorial by: Roger Wm. Hughes
Republican leadership wants to investigate who leaked to the Washington Post
the fact that the CIA has secret prisons in foreign countries. A
questionnaire to the agency asks for an assessment of damage that was done
to our nation’s ability to thwart terrorist’s attacks if the article is
true.
Frequently, members of Congress have failed to keep their oaths of security.
By and large, Congressional action that adversely affects America’s interest
has been overlooked.
This has also been true of celebrities, like Jane Fonda’s visit to North
Vietnam.
There was also the incident of senators Tom Harkin and John Kerry, who
entered into unauthorized negotiations for a peace treaty with Communist
leader Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua. Their actions were never prosecuted.
It is also true that such referrals of leaking national security information
are made at the rate of three to four per week, according to intelligence
officials. Such a notice was also the first step in a process that led to a
criminal investigation in the Valerie Plame case.
The ironic fact is that the Plame case may finally institute a new standard
regarding criminal acts, which once again re-institutes a new standard of
what constitutes treasonous acts.
For a long time now, America has favored free speech and dissent to the
point that those who are in defense of our country have been put needlessly
in harm's way. However, in the Plame case the secrets of the press have been
required to be exposed in order to preserve the dissent of Democrat activist
Joseph Wilson. These arguments and actions have been based upon preserving
our national security.
In a world where terrorists seek to not only destroy our nation, economy and
culture but more importantly our identity, maybe it is time that Americans
become concerned about protecting our nation’s security.
However, it is more likely that we only care about mindless dissent.
Texas bans same sex marriages
It appeared that Texas voters would be overwhelmingly adding a ban of same
sex marriages to their state constitution. With 550,000 votes counted,
Proposition 2 was heading for ratification with 75.5 percent in favor.
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