Under fierce attack on children’s health insurance, beset by politically inconvenient retirements and uncertain if another scandal lurks around the corner, Congressional Republicans are feeling a bit under siege as even one of their former leaders predicts 2008 could be a Democratic year.* * * The twist is that the issue Republicans had feared most in the fall, the war in Iraq, has played out legislatively in their favor for the moment. * * * But Republicans say they have lacked a similar cohesive plan to counter the Democratic assault over the children’s health insurance program that will be the subject of a veto override vote in the House on Thursday. President Bush’s veto of an expansion of that program and the strategic failure have exposed vulnerable Republicans to a backlash and allowed the party to be painted as uncaring.

his morning, President Bush rejected health care for children. Now it's time for Democrats to reject President Bush.

If we can get 2/3 of Congress to stand up to President Bush, we can overturn his veto on the State Children's Health Insurance Program -- a program that provides health insurance for millions of kids.

We need your help to get those votes.

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["Election Day"] eschews the pretensions of voter-fraud overstatement in favor of a real-time portrait of actual poll-station shenanigans. * * * Pollsters, poll-workers, political operatives and voters swirl around in a frustrated symphony (Orlando included)

Some have attempted to state that Democrats only voted for the bill [moving the election date to January 29] because of the requirement to have voting machines with paper ballots. That is not an accurate and true statement.

On Christmas night in 1951, in a small grove near Mims, Florida a bomb placed under the bed ended Harry Moore's life.

At the time of his death, due in large part to his leadership of the Progressive Voters League, 31 percent of all blacks were registered to vote, a rate that was 50% higher than any other southern state. Which was one reason why he was killed. The 100,000 black voters he registered were enough to effect the outcome of every statewide political race. If his murder was intended to send a message to potential black voters, it worked. In Brevard County, for example, black voter registration plummeted after his death from 51 percent in 1950 to only 33 percent in 1956. It would climb above 50 percent again only one time (in 1964) until the 1970s.

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