Oh, the illegal alien is Ogabe's Aunt Zeituni

BOSTON (WBZ) "If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen." Those are the words from 58-year-old Zeituni Onyango of Kenya in a recent exclusive interview with WBZ-TV...

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 11:57 AM | Comments (108)
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I just have the tweet, so I doubt this means she's kicked off the committee -- she just loses all rank.

"Lightning" (aka Slublog).

Update: It does appear to be her rank, not her seat. But DrewM. believes that membership (the seat itself) is voted on by the whole Senate as part of the opening organizational votes, so the party can't take that away on its own initiative. The rank, though, they can.

They also have to do this on the much more important Appropriations Committee, which is her little Pork Fort.

I'll write my bud in the Senate to see about this.

Update: JackM. says she can be removed, by a vote. The Democrats would get to vote too-- they would vote to keep her, I guess, to make nice-nice in case she wins, hoping she would caucus with them (she would).

Posted by: Ace at 11:21 AM | Comments (148)
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Just that for now. I'll link an article soon.

Via AllahPundit and Michelle Malkin.

At Hot Air headlines, an AP stub; more will follow, I'm sure.

Posted by: Ace at 11:14 AM | Comments (94)
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Oh Yeah, one more thing...
DioGuardi for New York U. S. Senator

Firstly let me thank Ace for the opportunity to write this big push for the next Senator from New York. I am in no way affiliated with the campaign and as a Californian I am busy helping Carly Fiorina so all I can do is help light the fire and donate. That being said, why would I be pushing for a guy who during the primary polled at best 11 points behind Gillibrand? more...

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8 what? 8 Republicans? 8 Greens? 8 Tea Partiers?

8 fucking what, MSNBC?

Oh, you know what.

Eight current and former officials in the blue-collar city of Bell, including former City Manager Robert Rizzo, were arrested Tuesday in a corruption investigation into bloated salaries and misuse of taxpayer funds.

Los Angeles County sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said the suspects were booked into county facilities and will be kept away from other inmates for their protection

This picture of Robert Rizzo being led away from his Huntington Beach, CA, home is priceless. (A meme-generator version of that pic now appears up-post.)

Meme-generator set-up of Rizzo by Pundit140. His was also damn funny.

Posted by: Ace at 10:38 AM | Comments (226)
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I just love highly-sexualized language, applied to men and women alike, emanating from a guy who looks like he collects tears and doll's heads.

I've mixed up the order of paragraphs below because I wanted to.

Then he turned his attention to Gillibrand, saying something about how "many senators are known for many things," according to a source. He added, "We in the Senate refer to Sen. Gillibrand as the hottest member."

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A Reid spokesman confirmed it happened, but also noted that the Democratic Majority Leader also praised Gillibrand for her work.

"It was pretty shocking when he said it," said one source familiar with the remark and the reaction.

I'll bet. Women generally don't appreciate unsolicited praise about their looks, especially when they're running for senate, not Most Downloaded Woman on the Internet, and especially when offered by the sort of guy you don't even want to imagine having sex in the privacy of his own pants.

What the hell is this, the worst episode of Hefner After Dark ever? Harry Reid's talking like a creepy Goldmember type of guy skulking around dropping inappropriately sexual remarks about how "Toight" men's and women's bodies are while dressed in nothing but a smoking jacket and Crisco.

All aboard Uncle Harry's campaign bus.

And, thanks to Slublog and DrewM. teaming up (I call them "Lightning and Thunder," well not really, but they would probably like it if people did)...

Thanks to Snark and Boobs, who teamed up with JennQPublic to actually read Meghan McCain's stupid boob-book. It's worse than you guessed.

Posted by: Ace at 10:11 AM | Comments (108)
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Why am I linking Kos? Because Kos I guess commissioned this poll from PPP. This is the poll that he was tweet-freaking over.

Note the (parenthetical) numbers are from 6/27 -- there has been some small amount of movement.

Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos. U.S. Senate. 9/18-9/19. Likely Voters. MoE 3.8% (6/27 results)

Ron Johnson (R) 52 (43)

Sen. Russ Feingold (D) 41 (45)

Oh, and the Governor's race:

Scott Walker (R) 50 (45)

Tom Barrett (D) 41 (3

Glitch! I meant to write "Johnson Ahead of Feingold by Double-Digits." Instead I wrote "Feingold Ahead by Double-Digits." Sorry for that. I was so working on this pie...

Old Meme: more...

Posted by: Ace at 09:34 AM | Comments (222)
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In politics and sports, commentators like nothing more than to talk about momentum. Who has it. Who lost it. And how much it's going to affect the only poll that really matters on Election Day. So I always take note how momentum gets framed.

Take the West Virginia PPP poll just released.

PPP cautions that because this is their first poll in the West Virginia race and the first of any poll to show Raese over Manchin it shouldn't be interpreted to say anything about momentum.

Bullhockey. The Robert Byrd Memorial Senate Seat was widely thought to be a long shot for a GOP pick up. All the analysts categorize the seat "Leans Dem." So a poll showing the the Republican candidate over the de facto Democratic incumbent absolutely demonstrates that the electorate is going places. PPP's cautionary statement just shows that the electorate is going places PPP isn't exactly comfortable with.

We've been watching Gallup's notoriously unreliable polling on the generic ballot for the same reason. One week they've got the Republican at +10. The next week, it's tied. Then the generic Republican +5. Now, again, it's statistically tied. So, how does Gallup spin this: "Republicans losing strength in September compared with August." The point being that Republicans are losing momentum. Oh, the horror, they peaked too soon.

Again, BULLHOCKEY. A series of unreliable polls does not indicate momentum or lack thereof. In fact, this series of polls doesn't indicate anything at all except that Gallup has waited too long compared to its competitors to start polling likely voters. Gallup's poll is based on surveys of registered voters, which in a mid-term election year are only slightly more accurate than surveys of the squirrels in my yard.

Gallup cautions that things may change when it finally starts polling likely voters in October. No. Shit. Republicans are much more enthusiastic than Democrats about voting this year. Ya think that might affect the outcome? Oh, but that's not Gallup's goal right now. Right now it wants to talk about momentum. And that means pretending that the Democrats have got it.

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Ace teased this yesterday and now the numbers are out.

46-43 with GOP candidate John Raese leading Governor Joe Manchin within the margin of error. (I corrected this part thanks to a heads ups from CAC in the comments)

The thing that is making this so close is that voters don't really want to see Democrats control Congress but they really like Manchin.

Manchin is the second most popular Governor PPP has polled on all year, behind only Bobby Jindal, with a 59/32 approval spread. He breaks almost even with Republicans as 42% of them approve of the job he's doing with just 44% disapproving. In a highly polarized political climate the list of politicians with that kind of crossover popularity is very short.

At the same time West Virginians couldn't be much more down on national Democrats. Barack Obama's approval rating in the state is just 30% with 64% of voters disapproving of him. Even within his own party barely half of voters, at 51%, like the job he's doing. Support from Republicans (91% disapproval) and independents (73% disapproval) is pretty much nonexistent.

Given the President's high degree of unpopularity it's no surprise that 54% of voters in the state want Republicans to control the next Congress with just 37% wanting the Democrats to stay in charge. GOP voters (91-3) and independents (66-21) are pretty universal in their desire for a Republican majority and even 25% of Democrats say they'd like to see a change.

The GOP candidate, John Raese is a self-funder and he's been spending quite a bit to get the race to this point, there's no reason he won't keep it up. Given the wave that's coming it's very possible that the Exalted Grand Cyclopes is going to replaced by a Republican.

Oh and just a reminder...this is a special election as well, so the winner gets to sit in the lame duck.

Posted by: DrewM at 07:32 AM | Comments (80)
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Moves Alaska to Solid R.

Republican Joe Miller attracts 42% of the vote in the first Rasmussen Reports poll of the Alaska Senate race since GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski announced her write-in campaign to try to keep her job.

The telephone survey of Likely Voters in Alaska shows Murkowski picking up 27% of the vote and Democrat Scott McAdams earning 25%. One percent (1%) say theyÂ’d prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided.

Making history, I think that's what all the cool kids are calling it these days.

tip via commenter Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus in the Pence thread

Update: DrewM sent this, Murky helps her supporters with the write-in/spelling problem in a helpful ad (link changed, thanks toby).

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