TN Republican blames parents for teen suicides

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Tuesday April 24, 2012 · 4:47 PM PDT

2012/04/24 · 16:47

During a debate on the Tennessee House floor, Rep. Jeremy Faison (R-Cosby) spoke out against a bill related to school bullying. Displaying a “boys will be boys” mentality towards bullying, and ignoring the public outcry from parents who have lost children to suicide after years of vicious and intolerable harassment. He then went one step further and said that “I will submit to you today, that they didn’t commit suicide because of somebody bullying them, they committed suicide because they were not instilled the proper principles of where their self esteem came from.”

Palin Takes Future Credit For Past Obama Accomplishment

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Monday September 15, 2008 · 11:49 AM PDT

2008/09/15 · 11:49

It just gets better and better...now Gov. Sarah Palin promises to bring an Alaskan reform to Washington:

"I've got another idea that I think Senator McCain likes. In Alaska, we took the state checkbook and put it online, so everyone can see where their money goes. We're going to bring that kind of openness to Washington," she said.

Just one problem, Sen. Obama already helped pass the law which did just that. But it gets better...

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Wednesday July 23, 2008 · 8:49 PM PDT

2008/07/23 · 20:49

...at least implicitly.

While Sen. McCain has been going off on a tangent accusing Sen. Obama of selling America down the river for political gain, there is a question that isn't being asked of the senior Senator from Arizona.

"If Sen. Obama is putting politics over the national interest, do you think your friend and Republican colleague, Chuck Hagel, whose policy proposals and words on Iraq have been almost indistinguishable, is doing the same?"

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Friday July 18, 2008 · 7:20 AM PDT

2008/07/18 · 07:20

While he'll most likely get a free pass by the mainstream media, it looks like the McCain campaign lied to the American people when they said Phil Gramm, who thinks we are a nation of whiners with mental problems, would no longer have an active role in the campaign. Robert Novak reports, "McCain told Gramm not to worry about the expected pitfalls of a campaign surrogate. Gramm will continue as an adviser and surrogate."

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Monday June 16, 2008 · 3:27 PM PDT

2008/06/16 · 15:27

Fred Hobbs, the embattled member of the Tennessee Democratic Executive Committee, who last week wondered aloud to the City Paper as to whether or not Sen. Obama had ties to terrorism, has seen the error of his ways and written a letter to his colleagues on the committee.

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Saturday May 17, 2008 · 7:26 PM PDT

2008/05/17 · 19:26

Bob Tuke, former Chair of the Tennessee Democratic Party, isn't running for the US Senate, he's marching. Tuke, a former Marine, decided to reprise Lamar Alexander's famous walk across Tennessee in his campaign against Jake Butcher in the 1978 Gubernatorial race.

I caught up (literally) with Tuke as he made his way down Rosa Parks Blvd on his way towards Fisk University. Dressed in his marine combat shirt and his army issued combat boots, Tuke was walking at a brisk clip, starting out at Nashville's Municipal Auditorium with the intended stopping point at the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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Tuesday May 06, 2008 · 4:18 PM PDT

2008/05/06 · 16:18

OPERATION CHAOS

Its hard to gauge the effect of Operation Chaos, but here is some evidence.

[In the exit polls] Asked if they'd vote for Clinton or McCain in the general election, 17% of respondents said they would vote for McCain...and of those 17%, 40% voted for Hillary Clinton. Which makes up about 7% of the electorate.

Conversely, 19% said they would vote for McCain when matched against Obama...and of those, 12% voted for Sen. Obama.

The Republicans are loving this.

The Prophet Paul Wellstone

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Thursday March 27, 2008 · 8:11 AM PDT

2008/03/27 · 08:11

In Barack Obama's economic speech today, he laid part of the blame for our current economic situation at the feet of the de-regulation movement in the 1990s.

[W]e have deregulated the financial services sector, and we face another crisis. A regulatory structure set up for banks in the 1930s needed to change because the nature of business has changed. But by the time the Glass-Steagall Act was repealed in 1999, the $300 million lobbying effort that drove deregulation was more about facilitating mergers than creating an efficient regulatory framework.

The Glass-Steagall Act was repealed by a bill championed by Bill Clinton called the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. On the floor of the Senate, Paul Wellstone outlined why this deregulatory act was bad, and the consequences that would follow. The text of his [very long] prophetic speech on the floor follows.

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Monday March 10, 2008 · 9:00 AM PDT

2008/03/10 · 09:00

While I'm sure this has been blogged about before, I wanted to get it off my chest.

Watching the Clintonites on TV can get extremely frustrating, as all of them play up this notion of "record turnout" in the Florida and Michigan primaries. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was on CNN saying that this weekend. But here is the rub.

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Monday April 23, 2007 · 5:10 PM PDT

2007/04/23 · 17:10

Everyone's favorite fake Prosecutor turned "aww shucks, I don't know if I wanna run" Presidential candidate has been hemming and hawing about reports that he was "pro-choice" for quite some time now. Fred said to The Weekly Standard

I have read these accounts and tried to think back 13 years ago as to what may have given rise to them. Although I don't remember it, I must have said something to someone as I was getting my campaign started that led to a story. Apparently, another story was based upon that story, and then another was based upon that, concluding I was pro-choice.

Well, he may not be NARAL's best friend, but he ain't exactly "pro-life" either.

Lamont Speaks to Democracy for Tennessee

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Monday April 09, 2007 · 7:10 AM PDT

2007/04/09 · 07:10

Democracy for Tennessee held it's bi-annual convention last Saturday, with panel discussions on a wide array of issues, combined with speakers Ned Lamont and Jim Dean, the event turned out great. Ned Lamont discussed his campaign, as well as the need for more non-politicians to run for office. He also spoke of his recent trips to El Salvador and how Iraqis can learn a lesson from them.

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Tuesday October 31, 2006 · 9:58 AM PST

2006/10/31 · 09:58

Claudia Nunez is not all that different from the majority of Americans, she is a hardworking mother of two who simply wants to obtain a better life for her children. Now, because of a traffic violation, Claudia is faced with the prospect of being split up from her family, and sent back to El Salvador where she has no family or support structure.

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