We can only wish her the best in her recovery. “U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will step down from Congress this week to focus on her recovery, her staff announced Sunday. “I have more work to do on my recovery, so to do what is best for Arizona, I will step down this week,” Giffords said [...]

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It’s not that it hasn’t happened to our side too, but because it’s Sunday and the football game is coming on…. “SACRAMENTO – A prominent Democratic campaign treasurer who works for federal, state and O.C. lawmakers including U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Rep. Loretta Sanchez and state Assemblymen Lou Correa and Jose Solorio has been arrested [...]

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Count Mitt out. Yesterday he gave a spirited defense of Romney, er, Obamacare, and completely blew up the conservative blogsphere. Even over at the National Review who endorsed him in 2008. “Mitt Romney just gave a more articulate defense of Obamacare than President Obama ever has. He continues to believe that the individual mandate is [...]

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Really? Only $38 billion? “The bottom line to Friday night’s spending deal is a record $40 billion cut in domestic and foreign aid appropriations – and a hard lesson in the tough and almost permanent disorder of Washington’s budget politics. This weekend, the grind goes on with House and Senate Appropriations Committee clerks now doing [...]

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Today the Ny Times eulogizes Geraldine Ferraro’s passing yesterday. “If we can do this, we can do anything,” Ms. Ferraro declared on a July evening to a cheering Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. And for a moment, for the Democratic Party and for an untold number of American women, anything seemed possible: a woman [...]

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