A ‘Scott Brown Republican’ is pro-choice, anti-tax - On Politics: Covering the US Congress, Governors, and the 2010 Election - USATODAY.com
Sen.-elect Scott Brown, R-Mass., told Barbara Walters he supports Roe v. Wade and believes that states should decide the issue of gay marriage, not the federal government, during an interview that aired today on ABC’s […]

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» Why Is Senator Kirk Still Voting on Legislation? - Big Government
Why is the GOP allowing the Democrats to blatantly violate Senate and election rules and laws? Where is the GOP leadership? Will Kirk’s votes stand? Massachusetts voters deserve an explanation as does the rest of the country for this blatant abuse of power.
Um, […]

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By a democrat. The REAL difference between Democrats and Republicans: Dems know how to work the system – by Sebastian Gray for Gray Matters
As a lifelong Democrat, I’m frequently perplexed by some of the behavior of all the Republican friends I made during the McCain/Palin campaign when those of us here at HillBuzz led Democrats […]

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Lawrence O’Donnell: Will Scott Brown Ruin Republicans’ (Secret) Plan to Pass Obamacare?
It is now a given that if he wins a Massachusetts Senate seat on Tuesday, Scott Brown will destroy the Democrats’ plan to pass health care reform. But he will also destroy the Republicans’ not-so-secret plan to pass health care reform.
There is a certain […]

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When Falls the Coliseum » To my fellow conservatives and libertarians: A third party is not the answer.
It’s not like we don’t have a game plan to follow. Just look at the presidential elections of the early 80’s. Reagan walloped; winning 44 states and over 90% of the electoral vote in 1980. […]

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RNC Chairman Michael Steele throws cold water on GOP hopes
Steele said in a TV interview that he didn’t believe Republicans could win enough seats to take control of the House in 2010.
What’s more, he said, he wasn’t sure his party was ready to be in charge.
When other Republicans howled that Steele was undercutting their efforts, […]

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Instapundit » Blog Archive » MASSACHUSETTS SENATE RACE HEATS UP: Rasmussen Shows Brown Within 9 Percent. This is huge given tha…
I don’t know how his online fundraising is going, but so far he hasn’t gotten much (er, any?) help from the national Republican party. I imagine that will change, if only because people like William […]

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Scott Brown: Use enhanced interrogation in attempted terrorism case - BostonHerald.com
Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown says a Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner should be treated as an enemy combatant, transferred to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and interrogated by any legal means.
Have you contributed to Brown’s Senate campaign yet?
Jim Geraghty says […]

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I Kid You Not - Kathryn Jean Lopez - The Corner on National Review Online
I Kid You Not [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Arlen Specter just Tweeted:
“With the passion of Ted Kennedy on our hearts.” Aye.
They’ll be wishing us a very Kennedy Christmas in a few.
And the GOP sold its […]

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U.S. Senate: Legislation & Records Home > Votes > Roll Call Vote (link corrected per Jody - thanks!)
Why did GOP Senator Bunning of Kentucky not vote against the Democrat socialized medicine monstrosity?

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An Even Better Rasmussen for Rubio - Kathryn Jean Lopez - The Corner on National Review Online
If Rubio can beat Meek — and poll like this despite lack of party support — why the heck is the GOP behind Crist?
Because the GOP hates and fears liberty-minded conservatives.
Oh - and much of its establishment elites are […]

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Dorgan-McCain Rx - Robert Costa - The Corner on National Review Online
As noted over at NRO’s On The News, the Senate has been busy today debating an amendment sponsored by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D., S.D.) and Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) that would enable pharmaceutical drugs to be imported from other countries. (I love this […]

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Instapundit » Blog Archive » ARE CONSERVATIVES GETTING overconfident? I think so. It’s easy to see why, watching the clown show…
ARE CONSERVATIVES GETTING overconfident? I think so. It’s easy to see why, watching the clown show in Washington, but remember — these are the clowns who kicked your ass a year ago . . . […]

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The Associated Press: Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle
All 58 Senate Democrats and two independents voted to advance the bill. All 39 votes in opposition were cast by Republicans. GOP Sen. George Voinovich of Ohio was the only senator not to vote.
Voinovich is a Republican?
What’s he got to freaking lose? He’s retiring […]

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Instapundit » Blog Archive » WILL JOHN MCCAIN need Sarah Palin to save him in Arizona?
J.D. Hayworth is polling well against him, and would likely enjoy Tea Party support in the primary . . .
If Palin endorses McCain over Hayworth, she will immediately forfeit all her credibility with the emerging GOP conservative majority, as […]

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Obama Loses, Fort Hood Victims Win
Rep. Judge Stone (R-TX) seems to have defeated early dem leadership efforts to kill this. Obama has got to fuming - it opens the door for greater scrutiny of the terrorist-act-committed-by-a-nonterrorist.
Here’s the press release:
WASHINGTON, DC) – Army and civilian personnel who were wounded or killed in the shooting attack on […]

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Instapundit » Blog Archive » QUIN HILYER: “Conservatives need to take a deep breath, relax, and stop bashing Joseph Cao. The man…
QUIN HILYER: “Conservatives need to take a deep breath, relax, and stop bashing Joseph Cao. The man never claimed to be a fully committed economic conservative. He represents a district that is about 75 […]

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What did Cao get? - Andy McCarthy - The Corner on National Review Online
What did Cao get? [Andy McCarthy]
Michelle Malkin answers the question Rich posed in the FPOD. Evidently, the congressman’s about as cheap a date as they come:
Cao wrote he obtained commitment from President Obama that he would work together to […]

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Instapundit » HEALTHCARE BILL PASSES HOUSE, 220-215.
Glenn notes:
Elections matter….
Yeah. So somebody make sure the GOP leadership gets that memo, and then see about convincing them to actually act like elections matter.
And here’s my memo to the GOP: You want folks like me to help elect Republicans? Try running a few sometime.

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NY-23 & 2012 - Kathryn Jean Lopez - The Corner on National Review Online
And in New York’s 23rd, he didn’t support the Republican who would drop out and endorse the Democrat, thereby throwing a political pie in the face of every Republican who had endorsed her. Romney stands out without pie on his face.
Stands out […]

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The Greenroom » Forum Archive » Dangerous Lessons
Blaming Doug Hoffman, or people like Fred Thompson and Sarah Palin who pitched in to help his outsider campaign, for last night’s narrow defeat would be a dangerous mistake. The fault lies with a party that made it necessary for Hoffman to knock out Scozzafava in the first […]

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The Future of NY-23 - Ramesh Ponnuru - The Corner on National Review Online
Spruiell concludes, “In the next few months, conservatives will be urging Hoffman to fight on.” Should they? Conservatives should, I think, be grateful that he ran, providing someone for conservatives to support and rebuking the local party establishment. But that doesn’t mean […]

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Kausfiles : Election 2009: Some Winners, Losers,
Losers: Beck, Limbaugh, New Media conservatives who thought the rebellious Reaganite vote was bigger than it turned out to be in NY-23. … Also Dem-leaning MSM who were planning to use a rebellious Reaganite victory as demonstrating a tea-party takeover of GOP (as opposed to a botched candidate-selection process). […]

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Intrade Prediction Markets
Holy Moley! It looks as if this blowout is going to be even bigger than I thought! Corzine’s stock at Intrade has collapsed over the last hour from 50+ to 7. And commenters at various blogs are spreading rumors that some venues are getting ready to call the race for […]

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Where’s Mitt Romney? by Kathryn Jean Lopez on National Review Online
If nothing else, NY-23 may have been Mitt Romney giving this signal: Gone is the electoral cycle where conservatives say “Jump!” and I ask “How high?”
Yeah, that’s what we want to see in a presidential candidate at this point - some socialized medicine supporting establishmentarian […]

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