US Manufacturing Employment 1970-2010, down 34%

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Sunday December 19, 2010 · 5:36 PM PST

2010/12/19 · 17:36

I play a game with myself as I shop for Christmas and throughout the year. I try to find a "Made in USA" label on what I buy. Nowadays I lose that game almost every time, unless it's for food.

Senator Bernie Sanders likes to quote the statistic that in the 8 years of the GW Bush adminstration, we closed over 42,000 factories in the US. This came from an American Prospect article by Richard McCormack whose money quote is after the jump:

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 9:49 PM PDT

2008/10/08 · 21:49

The Swiftboating has begun. This will be the final attack on Obama and will be the nastiest yet.

First the ground was laid by the viral emails insisting that Obama was a Muslim (which he is not).

Second came Obama’s tenuous links Weather Underground founder Bill Ayers (who was never convicted of a crime) and "paling around with terrorists". And McCain’s questions, ‘who is Barack Obama, really?’

Third is the pointed emphasis at McCain’s recent rallys, of Barack Obama’s middle name, Hussein, to tie him to Saddam.

Fourth and still to come, you can bet on repeated showings of Rev Wright’s sermon where he says ‘goddamn America’. Count on it.

They want voters to connect all these dots, to paint Barack Obama, yes Barack Hussein Obama, as a scary and un-American ‘other’, maybe a Manchurian candidate who has secret evil plans. Too scary to vote for.

So fight back. Know that Barack was named after his Kenyan father. He is Barack Hussein Obama II. Know that his middle name means ‘handsome one’... a very common Arabic name. http://en.wikipedia.org/...

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Monday March 17, 2008 · 8:23 PM PDT

2008/03/17 · 20:23

Yesterday I was canvassing my neighborhood in Albuquerque and spoke to a decorated, purple heart veteran of the Korean War. He raised a point about McCain that I have not heard mentioned before, that might point to a real weakness.

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Sunday January 14, 2007 · 1:30 PM PST

2007/01/14 · 13:30

We've read in several diaries that impeachment and conviction just won't happen because there will never be the minimum 16 Republican Senate votes required to convict (if we got all 51 Senators in the Democratic Caucus). We know it will be tough to get the 67 votes in the Senate, but I believe that, as happened with Nixon, it could happen with the right conditions. So who might these Republican Senators be?

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How Many Republican Senators might vote to convict?

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Not enough

46 votes

Won't even get 50-51 Democrats to convict

36 votes

Republicans will convict if the evidence is strong enough

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NM-01: Wilson (R) on House Page Board!

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Tuesday October 03, 2006 · 10:17 AM PDT

2006/10/03 · 10:17

News in today's Albuquerque Journal, and re-iterated on Patricia Madrid's web site is potentially very damaging to Rep. Heather Wilson (R) - it puts her smack in the middle of the Foley-Predator scandal.
From Patricia Madrid's campaign:
http://www.madridforcongress.com/

According to a news release on Rep. Heather Wilson's official website, she was appointed in May of 2001 to the House Page Board, the organization that oversees the U.S. House of Representatives' page program in which several teenaged boys were participating when disgraced Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) made inappropriate sexual advances toward them.
ABC Nightly News on Sunday reported that as early as 2001, when Wilson was named to the House Page Board, pages were being warned about Foley's inappropriate behavior.

US Manufacturing Employment 1970-2010, down 34%

Fight the swiftboating of Barack Hussein Obama II

What a Korean War Vet taught me about McCain

R-Senators Who Might Convict Bush/Cheney

NM-01: Wilson (R) on House Page Board!