Key House And Senate Contests To Watch
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-10-11/key-house-and-senate-contests-watch
Currently Republicans dominate Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives 240-190. In the Senate, Democrats have a 53-47 majority. Most political analysts believe the GOP will continue to hold the House after the November elections. But the Senate is in play. If President Obama wins reelection, Democrats can lose no more than three Senate seats to maintain control. Republicans would need to gain four Senate seats to take control. Diane and her guests examine key congressional contests across the country - and the effects of super PAC money, redistricting and campaign gaffes.
Guests
Susan Davis
chief congressional reporter, USA Today.
Charlie Cook
columnist for National Journal, and editor and publisher of the "Cook Political Report."
Heidi Przybyla
congressional reporter, Bloomberg News.
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Elizabeth Warren might do well to recognize the current national meningitis tragedy, which has its roots in Massachusetts, as an argument for more government regulation of corporations. This is the type of free-market catastrophe that should remind us of the role of effective government and the danger of unfetterd capitolism.
Frank Giordano wrote:
"Elizabeth Warren might do well to recognize the current national meningitis tragedy, which has its roots in Massachusetts, as an argument for more government regulation of corporations".
Here's another way to look at it; that there's plenty of regulation and what this really shows is that the Government oversight that enforces the regulation is incompetent.
I don't think the NECC thing was caused by a lack of regulation. I know people who have clean rooms that do compounding. There's already plenty of rules and regulations. Another layer of regulation would only make it harder for those who choose to do things right. I'm guessing that it was simply profits over safety.
Frank Giordano wrote: "Elizabeth Warren might do well to recognize the current national meningitis tragedy"
Is socialism a disease? It does seem to have all the hallmarks of a sickness at least. Maybe Scott Brown would do well to recognize that.
Just wanted to spread the news that a Democrat is actually running for the Texas seat vacated by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Paul Sadler is not exciting, not a rock star type like his Tea Party opponent. But many Texas Democrats share his values and priorities, and wish he got more media coverage.
Socialism Is a Disease
November 1959
understand that in the United States there are still those who think that the machinery of government can be used as a substitute for personal responsibility on the part of the governed. This idea, as we know only too well in Britain, is the open road to disaster. It changes persons with responsibilities into robots with rights.
And while you fortunate Americans will last a little longer than the rest of us, your doom is also assured if you, like us, rely upon politics and collective action to relieve you of the normal and natural responsibilities of healthy men. For socialism is not a system; it is a disease. The "something for nothing" mentality is, in fact, an economic cancer.
In England we have suffered nearly five years of effective socialist government. But that is only the end of the story; we are merely completing 50 years of a sloppy sentimentalism in public affairs of which the present socialism is merely the logical outcome. In the process we have murdered old virtues with new deals. Well-meaning, shallow-thinking, kindly people, aware of the scriptural injunction that "the greatest of these is charity," have failed to notice the distinction between the real article and the giving away of other people’s money. So, having lost our faith, we come to the end of the story; we have accepted false hopes and practiced a charity which is nothing of the kind.
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/socialism-is-a-disease/
It is probably inevitable that those who prevail in the November contests will take credit for the improving economy.....regardless how feeble it will be. And they will crow about their ability to "predict" the future.
There is a New Testament story in which a father tells his two sons to go into the fields and work. One son grumbles and says he won't go......but later relents and does the work. The other son says he will go cheerfully, and then quietly finds other pursuits instead. One might ask if the recent downturn in the number of abortions is due to pro-life legislation......or due to increased availability of reproductive services, including contraception.
Well, at least we know what Michael Savage is doing during his temporary absence from talk radio.
In this show, a caller stated that he received a robo-call on his cell phone, which is against federal law. Our land-line phone is registered on the do-not-call list, and our state has a prohibition against robo-calls to registered numbers. I have noticed that this year many of the surveys start out with a person announcing the poll, but if we agree to participate, we are switched to an automated system to record our answers. I wish that those of us who still have land lines could get the same protection against unwanted intrusions that cell phone users get.
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