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		<title>BREAKING: Sen. Lugar Will Vote For Sotomayor (UPDATED X2)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The office of Republican Senator Dick Lugar (IN) just released a statement this morning on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor:
“I have listened to the testimony of Judge Sonia Sotomayor before the Senate  Judiciary Committee, carefully reviewed her public service record, and  reviewed recommendations from Indiana constituents and colleagues here in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3632&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Kyl: A Case Study In Right-Wing Demagoguery</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Republican Senator and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (AZ) had this to say about the stimulus:
It’s not a surprise that a recent Rasmussen poll found that 45 percent of Americans want to cancel the rest of the stimulus spending.  I agree.
Sen. Kyl then repeated his desire to cancel the stimulus on this past [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3625&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WATCH LIVE: Day 4 Of Judge Sotomayor’s Senate Confirmation Hearing (UPDATED X4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proceedings should begin at about 9:30 AM Eastern; today, the Judiciary Committee is likely to  conclude the second round of questioning.

UPDATE: Lindsey Graham just showed us an important part of the Republican playbook here.
He was persistently questioning Judge Sotomayor about a memo she signed in 1981 regarding the death penalty.
Graham justified his persistent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3595&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform Passes Key Senate Committee (UPDATED X3)</title>
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The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has passed the Democratic health care reform bill:
A Senate committee became the first congressional panel to advance healthcare reform legislation this year, marking a significant step toward the achievement of President Obama&#8217;s foremost domestic initiative.
On a party-line, 13-10 tally, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3588&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WATCH LIVE: Day 3 Of Judge Sotomayor’s Senate Confirmation Hearing (UPDATED X4)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proceedings should begin at approximately 9:30 AM with questioning by Texas Senator John Cornyn.
[Live video moved to most recent thread]
UPDATE: Sure enough, Sen. Cornyn starts off by&#8211;again&#8211;asking Judge Sotomayor about her &#8220;wise Latina&#8221; remarks.
She&#8217;s been a federal judge for 17 years. She authored hundreds of decisions and participated on hundreds more on a wide [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3576&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WATCH LIVE: Judge Sotomayor’s Senate Confirmation Hearing (UPDATED X5)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/14/watch-live-judge-sotomayors-senate-confirmation-hearing/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Live video moved to more recent thread]

UPDATE: Question for Sen. Jeff Sessions, who seems to have a problem with the notion that judges are influenced by their background and experiences. Who said this:

When I get a case about discrimination, I have to think  about people in my own family who suffered discrimination because of their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3562&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Street Art: July 13, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I returned from my blogging hiatus so I figure it&#8217;s finally about time to get everything back to normal.
So, in that spirit, here&#8217;s your first new Monday Street Art post in several months. Today&#8217;s pieces are from tape artist Aakashnihalani:



Pics from Streetsy.
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		<title>Good Luck To The Dr.-In-Chief</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[The following is a guest post by EmmaGold, who will be joining me as a regular contributor to this blog.]

President Obama has nominated  Dr. Regina Benjamin  for the post of Surgeon General. According to CNN, Dr. Benjamin “has spent most of her career tending to the needs  of poor patients in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3550&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Sotomayor’s Confirmation Hearing Begins</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There probably won&#8217;t  be many fireworks today in Judge Sotomayor&#8217;s Senate confirmation hearing&#8211;day 1 is reserved for opening remarks, so there won&#8217;t be any questions or back-and-forth exchanges until tomorrow.
But, if anyone should bring up the garbage talking about about &#8220;liberal judicial activism,&#8221; just keep this in mind:
When Democrats or Republicans seek to criticize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3546&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GOP To Palin: Drop Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More dispatches from the Palindrome:
Republicans facing tough elections in 2010 don’t want Sarah Palin campaigning with them. 
Though the soon-to-be-former Alaska governor is seen as popular with the conservative grass roots, several Republicans said she’d help them by staying home in Wasilla.
Several of these Republicans hail from districts or states carried in 2008 by President [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3543&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speaker Pelosi Was Right</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember several weeks ago when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the CIA of lying to Congress about the Bush administration&#8217;s authorization and implementation of torture?
In her most explicit comments to date about the controversial interrogation methods, Pelosi slammed the CIA and called on the agency to release classified notes about the secretive briefings congressional leaders [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3538&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Are We Supposed To Trust These Guys With Health Care, Again? (UPDATED)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/11/why-are-we-supposed-to-trust-these-guys-with-health-care-again-updated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republican Congressman&#8211;and former House Minority Whip&#8211;Roy Blunt says this about health care reform:
Well, you could certainly argue that government should have never have gotten in the health care business, and that might have been the best argument of all, to figure out how people could have had more access to a competitive marketplace.
Government did get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3534&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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In the United States Senate, it takes only 51 votes to pass a piece of legislation.  That&#8217;s right&#8211;any piece of legislation regarding any topic or issue under the sun needs only a bare majority of support.
So then why do we keep hearing that the Democratic majority needs 60 votes before they can move legislation forward?
Well, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3529&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Roland Burris Will Not Seek Re-Election</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/09/roland-burris-will-not-seek-re-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Usually I wouldn&#8217;t celebrate a Democratic Senator declining to seek re-election, but when it&#8217;s the ethically-questionable crony of Rod Blagojevich then it&#8217;s welcome news:
Sen. Roland Burris, whose deep ties to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich seemed to doom his Senate tenure from the start, will not run for a full Senate term in 2010. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3523&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Culture Of Corruption: John Ensign’s Hush Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Republican Sen. John Ensign didn&#8217;t just have an extramarital affair with a married campaign staffer&#8211;he also paid her a substantial amount of hush money:
Sen. John Ensign&#8217;s attorney acknowledged Thursday that the Nevada Republican&#8217;s parents paid nearly $100,000 to the family of his mistress around the time she and her husband left his staff [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3521&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/09/palins-support-is-tanking-so-why-did-she-quit-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The verdict on Gov. Sarah Palin&#8217;s resignation is in&#8211;and things are not looking good for the soon-to-be ex Governor:
At the same time just 37% of Americans now say they believe Palin is fit to be President, while 55% say she is not. And while her move last week may not have hurt her overall favorability, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3515&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everybody Loves A Quitter…</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/08/everybody-loves-a-quitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;in the GOP:

A new USA Today/Gallup poll has found that “Sarah Palin’s bombshell that she is resigning as Alaska governor actually has boosted her a bit among Republicans.” According to the poll, “two-thirds of Republicans want Palin…to be ‘a major national political figure‘ in the future”
[...]
Seventy-two percent of Republicans surveyed said they are “very likely” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3511&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform &amp; The Cult Of Bipartisanship</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/08/health-care-reform-the-cult-of-bipartisanship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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Sen. Harry Reid is finally acting like Majority Leader&#8211;he&#8217;s instructing Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus to stop futilely chasing Republican votes for health care reform:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday ordered Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) to drop a proposal to tax health benefits and stop chasing Republican votes on a massive health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3507&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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Today, the American Bar Association voted&#8211;unanimously&#8211;to grant Judge Sonia Sotomayor a &#8220;well-qualified&#8221; rating, the highest rating they give to judicial nominees:
The ABA committee that reviewed her qualifications came out with that unanimous rating of the federal appeals court judge and released it in a letter to White House lawyer Greg Craig.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3503&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Those Who Can’t, Teach</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/07/those-who-cant-teach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
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Former Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has landed a teaching gig at Texas Tech:
Alberto Gonzales, who resigned as the Bush administration’s embattled attorney general nearly two years ago, has lined up a fall-semester teaching spot at Texas Tech University, the university confirmed today.
Gonzales, who was Gov. George W. Bush’s lawyer, Texas secretary of state [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3498&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And Then There Were 60…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator Al Franken (D-MN) was sworn in today as the 60th member of the Senate Democratic caucus.
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Sen. Franken was accompanied onto the Senate floor by Minnesota&#8217;s other Democratic Senator, Amy Klobuchar, as well as former Vice President Walter Mondale, also a Minnesotan.
He will now assume seats on  the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3494&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin Quits (UPDATED)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/06/sarah-palin-quitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;ve spent some time in the past few days thinking about Gov. Sarah Palin&#8217;s sudden resignation, and I still think that her decision stemmed from either an  impending scandal or an impending Presidential campaign.
But there have been a few other explanations I&#8217;ve heard and dismissed.  For instance, some  people are claiming that Palin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3479&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKING: Sarah Palin To Resign (UPDATED)</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/03/breaking-sarah-palin-to-resign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alaska Governor (and 2008 GOP VP candidate) Sarah Palin announced that she will resign the Governorship of Alaska later this month, transferring power to Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell
Developing&#8230;
UPDATE: Palin has confirmed that she will resign the Governorship on July 26th.
Personally, I can think of only two reasons for her abrupt resignation.  The first is that  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3473&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GOP On Health Care: ‘Let Them Eat Cake’</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/03/gop-on-health-care-let-them-eat-cake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republican Senator Chuck Grassley (IA) had a bit of difficulty when asked about health care reform at a recent townhall meeting.
See for yourself:

To recap:
After sharing his family&#8217;s personal struggle with the burden of high health care costs, an audience member asked, &#8220;My question is&#8230; why is your insurance so much cheaper than my insurance and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3470&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CBO: Public Health Care Option Cheaper &amp; Better Than Expected</title>
		<link>http://democrashield.com/2009/07/02/cbo-the-public-health-care-option-is-cheaper-better-than-expected/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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Previously, the Congressional Budget Office released an analysis supposedly examining the Democratic health care reform proposal.  Their conclusions found the proposal would cost nearly $1 trillion and still leave millions of Americans uncovered.
But, as it turns out, the CBO&#8217;s analysis was flawed&#8211;it was based not on what the Democrats were proposing but on old, outdated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=democrashield.com&blog=1485846&post=3463&subd=democrashield&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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