The US elections in November, 2010.

[piscator]

Shhhh....don't interrupt the GishGallop!

he's averaging 13 topics/post, and i wanna see how long he can keep up the pace

[Coito ergo sum]

The wheels are coming off the bus...

I'm going to re-post this exactly two years from now.

Feel free!

Economy on too slow a course to reduce unemployment: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... Collection

First Lady violating the law by campaigning inside polling place: http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htm Election Board Official explains it thusly, "You kind of have to drop the standard for the first lady, right?" the official explained late Thursday. "I mean, she's pretty well liked and probably doesn't know what she's doing." So much for a Harvard law education, ay?

Falling US Dollar Sparks Stability Warnings: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/5505a7f0-d7c2-1 ... i_referer=

US Fed Policy to Blame for Destabilizing World Capital Flow: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69B14B20101015

Democrats Use "Alice in Wonderland" Approach to Defend Constitutionality of Health Care Reform: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43626.html

[Coito ergo sum]

US Deficit passes $1 trillion, with 2 1/2 months to go!

Come on! Go for the record!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101015/ap_ ... et_deficit

[Coito ergo sum]

US consumer sentiments dip...buying plans decline..... http://www.cnbc.com/id/39683903

[Coito ergo sum]

Rasmussen predicts GOP gain 55 seats in the House in November - http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=39460

[Coito ergo sum]

ABCNews says 63 Democratic seats in "serious danger." http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2010_Ele ... d=10476449

[Coito ergo sum]

Democrat careers endangered by Obamacare votes: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/polit ... 59824.html

[Coito ergo sum]

Is he speaking of himself? http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/ ... _back.html

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'm betting this thread won't be dead on the 3rd, will it?

[Warren Dew]

All those poor and middle class idiots who support the Tea Party have been sold the illusion by people like the Koch Brothers, that the American dream is something still within their grasp.

I'll take the idea that people can improve their circumstances through hard work any day over the Obama/Pelosi idea that the only way to get ahead is by tearing others down, courtesy of George Soros' money that put them in power.

[Coito ergo sum]

"A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny." - Calvin Coolidge

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"We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization." - Calvin Coolidge

[Robert_S]

Calvin Coolidge on the economy?

[Coito ergo sum]

Calvin Coolidge on the economy?

Why not? He presided over on of the best economies in American history.....

"As Governor of Massachusetts, Coolidge supported wages and hours legislation, opposed child labor, imposed economic controls during World War I, favored safety measures in factories, and even worker representation on corporate boards. Did he support these measures while president? No, because in the 1920s, such matters were considered the responsibilities of state and local governments." - historian Robert Sobel.

Coolidge spoke out in favor of the civil rights of African Americans and Catholics. He appointed no known members of Ku Klux Klan to office; indeed the Klan lost most of its influence during his term.

In 1924, Coolidge responded to a letter that claimed the United States was a "white man's country":
“ ....I was amazed to receive such a letter. During the war 500,000 colored men and boys were called up under the draft, not one of whom sought to evade it. [As president, I am] one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution..."

On June 2, 1924, Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act, which granted full U.S. citizenship to all American Indians, while permitting them to retain tribal land and cultural rights.

Coolidge's best-known initiative was the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, named for Coolidge's Secretary of State, Frank B. Kellogg, and French foreign minister Aristide Briand. The treaty, ratified in 1929, committed signatories including the U.S., the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan to "renounce war, as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another." The treaty did not achieve its intended result – the outlawry of war – but did provide the founding principle for international law after World War II.

Despite his reputation as a quiet and even reclusive politician, Coolidge made use of the new medium of radio and made radio history several times while President. He made himself available to reporters, giving 529 press conferences, meeting with reporters more regularly than any President before or since.

Coolidge had been reluctant to choose Hoover as his successor; on one occasion he remarked that "for six years that man has given me unsolicited advice—all of it bad."

[Coito ergo sum]

99 Democrat seats in the House considered to be "in danger" -- http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43814.html