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• Pelosi To Shield Vulnerable Members From Controversial Votes In 2010

  —Majority In Mississippi

  The 2009 session in the House read like a wish list of liberal priorities which included massive government spending, cap-and-trade legislation and a healthcare reform bill. While this may please the Democratic leadership and their base, it may also jeopardize the careers of moderate Democrats from traditional GOP districts. Further, many [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 12:32pm EST
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• The Herring Blog - THE BLUE DOGS - PART III

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  THE BLUE DOGS - PART III In my last Post (The Blue Dogs – Part II), I posed the following questions: Does the Democratic Blue Dog Coalition in the United States House of Representatives, including Congressmen Travis Childers (MS-1) and Gene Taylor (MS-4), serve some legitimate purpose that is good for America? Do [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 10:49pm EST
  

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• MSGOP - Mississippians Deserve Answers from Bennie Thompson Regarding Ethics

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  For Immediate Release: December 15, 2009 Contact: Brad White, Chairman; Mississippi Republican Party Mississippians Deserve Answers from Bennie Thompson Regarding Ethics Washington Post, New York Times, among others question Thompson’s ethics “Democrats pledge to make this the most honest, ethical, and open Congress in history.” – Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, November [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 6:49pm EST
  

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• MIM - Dems To Attack Barbour/ Republicans On Economy

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  Dems To Attack Barbour/ Republicans On Economy I read one of the most detailed pressers from Mississippi Democrats today, where they stridently attack Haley Barbour and Phil Bryant for the state of the economy. They claim that the policies of Barbour are the reason for the high unemployment and budget deficits [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 3:07pm EST
  

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• Former Eupora mayor, ADA and circuit court judge Henry Ross to challenge Nunnelee

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  Former Eupora mayor, ADA and circuit court judge Henry Ross to challenge Nunnelee Ross, a Eupora native, attorney and former U.S. Department of Justice official, will face Alan Nunnelee in the Republican primary election, in the bid to defeat incumbent Democrat Travis Childers in the general election. A Bush Administration appointment in [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 2:44pm EST
  

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• MIM - State Democrat Party Chair Jamie Franks was for Toyota before he was against it

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  Franks In 2007: We Brought Toyota To Northeast Mississippi Fast forward to about the 5-minute mark and you will begin to hear Franks speak about Toyota’s (then) recent decision to locate in Northeast Mississippi. Franks would go on to say: “We brought Toyota to Northeast Mississippi and I’m proud to have [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 1:03pm EST
  

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• Franks In 2007: We Brought Toyota To Northeast Mississippi

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  Below is Jamie Franks’ Neshoba County Fair speech from 2007 (thanks Cotton Mouth Blog) when he was the Democrat candidate for Lt. Governor. Fast forward to about the 5-minute mark and you will begin to hear Franks speak about Toyota’s (then) recent decision to locate in Northeast Mississippi. Franks would [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 8:27pm EST
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• Childers Must Hope Populist Vote Helps

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  Last Friday, the House passed a financial overhaul bill that “creates a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA), imposes new curbs on the multitrillion-dollar derivatives market and sets up a new system for dissolving failing financial firms.” Simply put, this was a huge financial overhaul that the Democratic leadership hopes will [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 3:58pm EST
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• Senate GOP denied on spending filibuster attempt w/ help of Thad Cochran

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  Senate GOP denied on spending filibuster attempt w/ help of Cochran The Democratic-controlled Senate on Saturday cleared away a Republican filibuster of a huge end-of-year spending bill that rewards most federal agencies with generous budget boosts. The $1.1 trillion measure combines much of the year's unfinished budget work — only a $626 [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 3:54pm EST
  

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• Cochran Votes For Bill Permitting Taxpayer Funded Abortion

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  Over the weekend, the Senate approved a $1.1 trillion annual pork fest known as an omnibus spending bill. The bill barley cleared the upper chamber on Saturday with the necessary 60 votes to overcome a Republican-led filibuster. However, with three Democrats breaking rank and opposing the measure, the Democrats relied on [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 8:36am EST
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• Bennie Thompson Investigations

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  Washington Post - House Homeland Security Committee faces ethics inquiry
  
  New York Times - Rules for Congress Curb but Don’t End Junkets
  
  New York Times Editorial - From the Alps to the Pits
  
  Respond Mississippi from Delta Democrat Times - DDT: Thompson [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 6:36am EST
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• Travis Childers, Gregg Harper updates

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  Y'all Politics - Democratic Financial Reform Bill - Bennie Thompson and Travis Childers "for"; Gene Taylor and Gregg Harper "against"
  
  AP - Childers plans to lead crop damage tour
  
  Meridian Star - Gregg Harper: “I believe health care reform should help states, families and small' [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 6:31am EST
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• Cochran joins Dems in blocking GOP filibuster

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  Senate GOP Denied On Spending Filibuster Attempt : NPR (AP): "The Democratic-controlled Senate on Saturday cleared away a Republican filibuster of a huge end-of-year spending bill that rewards most federal agencies with generous budget boosts. The $1.1 trillion measure combines much of the year's...
  
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  Posted: December 12, 2009, 10:55am EST
  

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• Neshoba County Democratic Chancery Clerk switches to GOP – Video

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  Here is the video from Friday’s press conference where RNC Chairman Michael Steele, Governor Haley Barbour, and other Mississippi elected officials were on hand to welcome five-term Neshoba County Chancery Clerk Larry McMillan’s switch from the Democratic Party to the Mississippi Republican Party. Here is what the Clarion Ledger reported. Larry McMillan, [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 10:50am EST
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• POLITICO - Ethics probes may saddle Democrats in 2010 … Thompson on the list

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  Ethics probes may saddle Democrats in 2010 ... Thompson on the list The veteran New York lawmaker is the most prominent — but hardly the only — Democrat facing ethical questions. Recently, Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi has had to deny allegations that he used his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 9:28pm EST
  

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• Travis Childers votes for Wall Street regulation bill - 27 democrats voted against it

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  Travis Childers votes for Wall Street regulation bill - 27 democrats voted for against it State from Childers: “Today’s legislation represents an important step in protecting North Mississippi families and small businesses from ever again bearing the burden of Wall Street’s irresponsible decision-making. The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act will [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 9:23pm EST
  

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• Dems To Attack Barbour/ Republicans On Economy

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  I read one of the most detailed pressers from Mississippi Democrats today, where they stridently attack Haley Barbour and Phil Bryant for the state of the economy. They claim that the policies of Barbour are the reason for the high unemployment and budget deficits the state is facing. This is [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 8:29pm EST
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• RoM - Another Switch to the GOP – Number 9

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  Another Switch to the GOP – Number 9 Mississippi Republicans welcomed the ninth Democratic elected official to switch parties to the GOP this year since the Innauguration of President Barack Obama. At a press conference featuring Governor Haley Barbour and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, the GOP announced that five-term [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 8:19pm EST
  

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• Another Switch to the GOP – Number 9

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  Mississippi Republicans welcomed the ninth Democratic elected official to switch parties to the GOP this year since the Innauguration of President Barack Obama. At a press conference featuring Governor Haley Barbour and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, the GOP announced that five-term Neshoba County Chancery Clerk Larry McMillan has [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 2:41pm EST
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• Liberal Endorsement: Senator Sherrod Brown on the Senate's Health Care Proposal

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  Here is the statement issued today by Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, one of the most liberal Democrats in the Senate, in favor of the consensus health care reform proposal announced by the Senate Democratic leadership earlier this week. If Senator Brown is for the package, we can rest [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 1:56pm EST
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• TPM: GOP Flip-Flopping on Medicare . . . Again

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  The blog TPM (Talking Points Memo) has an excellent post this morning about the latest Republican flip-flop on Medicare.
  
  As you may know by now, the latest consensus plan on health care presented by the Senate Democratic leadership includes an innovative means [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 11:14am EST
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• Nothing is more important to Harry Reid than healthcare, except fundraising

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  Healthcare is so important for Democrats they won't even take the weekend off in the Senate.The next weekends, plural, we will be working. I have events, uh, this weekend that I'll have to postpone, some I'll have to cancel. That's the way it's going to have to be with everyone.' [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:04am EST
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• Minor targets Barbour budget

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  MINOR/Barbour, Reagan's disciple - The Neshoba Democrat - Philadelphia, Mississippi: "More than a 'shock and awe' budget as one writer described it, Gov. Haley Barbour's controversial FY 2011 funding proposal to shrink and eliminate state government services very well could be a Reaganesque...
  
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 9:06am EST
  

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• DDT: Thompson puzzled by investigation

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  Our fellow blogger and captain of Franks Tanks at The Great Red Spot notes that Mississippi's journalists have not picked up on Saturday's front page story from the Washington Post on an investigation involving Bennie Thompson. We mentioned it here.
  
  But the Delta Democrat Times has [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 7:16pm EST
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• Gene Taylor Questions Gates on Afghan Corruption, Narcotics

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  The New York Times - Obama Aides Pressed on Afghan Graft, Al QaedaIn a second hearing, Representative Gene Taylor, also a Democrat, questioned how the administration could be serious about tackling corruption and drugs in Afghanistan without addressing the alleged role of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president's brother, in [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 3:17pm EST
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• Politics of selfishness infect this age

  —David Hampton

  The politics of selfishness is a problem that infects both parties.
  Policies that create national soaring long-term debt, often pushed by Democrats, will impact the children and grandchildren of this generation spending for its own comfort and well-being.
  Policies that ignore the very real and dangerous issues of global warming, [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 12:11pm EST
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• Wicker: Will Use Every Tool Available to Stop Abortion Funding In Healthcare Bill

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  Sen. Roger Wicker released one of the strongest statements I have seen him make during his time in the upper chamber where he issued this stark warning to Democrats who try to place taxpayer funding for abortion in their healthcare legislation: “I have consistently fought to protect the lives of unborn [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 10:47am EST
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• MIM - Barbour’s Appointment Opens Up Senate Seat

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  Barbour’s Appointment Opens Up Senate Seat Today, Haley Barbour appointed state Sen. Vincent Davis (D-Fayette) to fill a chancery judge post that was opened after the death of Judge Kennie Middleton in September. Davis is a first-term Democrat and a special election will need to be held to fill the remainder [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 9:45pm EST
  

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• HERRING - The Bue Dogs - PART II

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  THE BLUE DOGS - PART II As was stated in the last installment of this blog, Wikipedia tells us that the Democratic Blue Dog Coalition is “a group of 53 moderate and conservative Democrats committed to financial and national security, favoring compromise and bipartisanship over ideology and party discipline.” But are [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 9:34pm EST
  

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• Barbour’s Appointment Opens Up Senate Seat

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  Today, Haley Barbour appointed state Sen. Vincent Davis (D-Fayette) to fill a chancery judge post that was opened after the death of Judge Kennie Middleton in September. Davis is a first-term Democrat and a special election will need to be held to fill the remainder of his term. While the election [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 1:23pm EST
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