MOMENTOUS VICTORIES IN STATEHOUSES!

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Wednesday November 08, 2006 · 5:54 AM PST

2006/11/08 · 05:54

I don't think this has been covered yet in the diaries, but I think the Dems picking up control of several statehouses rivals the major gains in congressional races last night.

According to the excellent Stateline.org news organization, the Democratic wave swept over the 6,119 state legislative races last night. It reported final results will show whether Dems "were able to break a near-even split in partisan control of state legislatures."

Democratic gains vastly outnumbered Republican gains in the nation's state legislatures Nov. 7, enough to take control of legislative chambers in at least six states - including the New Hampshire House for the first time since at least 1922.

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Friday October 27, 2006 · 9:39 AM PDT

2006/10/27 · 09:39

In a little more than a week's time, Americans will go to the voting booth and decide nothing less than the fate of our nation. There's an out-of-control war in Iraq. The middle class is getting squeezed. Health care, energy and education costs are all escalating. The fiscal health of our country is poor.

But there's another reason too. The personal conduct of government officials is atrocious. If you are a true values voter - whatever your political stripes - then you should be all the more enraged at the recent conduct, especially among Bush administration officials and congressional lawmakers. People are breaking the law for greed, political gain and outright maliciousness. From outing a covert CIA spy to influence peddling to sending creepy e-mails to teens about sex, I'm wondering just how much lower can we get.

I'm not talking about gay marriage or abortion, but about a person's conduct in doing their job according to the law. I'm talking about a person taking responsibility for their actions or holding other people accountable. The Bush administration and Congress have failed.
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Monday October 16, 2006 · 6:04 AM PDT

2006/10/16 · 06:04

On 60 Minutes last night, David Kuo, who was the second in command in the president's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, spoke about his new book in which he claims the Bush Administration essentially used the office for political ends despite the president's insistence that it remain non-partisan.

Among the claims, Kuo said administration officials mocked evangelical leaders, used the faith office to entice voters for Republican candidates and shortchanged the office by hundreds of millions of dollars that was supposed to combat poverty among other things. During the 2000 campaign, Kuo said, Bush proposed "for the first time that would spend $8 billion on programs for the poor.

"I think it's one of the most important political speeches given in the last generation. I really do," says Kuo. "It laid out a whole new philosophy for Republicans."

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MOMENTOUS VICTORIES IN STATEHOUSES!

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Kuo: Giving lip service to poverty