Dems attack incoming Senate president

The Florida Democratic Party just launched a Web site called: www.Senatorjoke.com.

The Web site takes aim at Sen. Jeff Atwater, R-North Palm Beach, accusing him of being in the pocket of insurance companies.

It's a pretty negative punch. Buzz notes there's also no mention on the Web site, which links back to the Florida Democratic Party, of Atwater challenger Linda Bird.

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Comments

[MiMi]

Hmmmm. Interesting that the DEMS talk about being in the pocket of someone. If the DEMS win, you won't even have change to put in your pocket. See why here: http://rightchange.com/

Hmmmmm maybe you should learn how to use a computer.

Hmmmmm is that you McSame?

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come on don't pick on our new senate president. We don't want any change. everything is great, nothing wrong with the state, Besides all of our politicians
are owned by someone.

It's the wimp factor.

Atwater is a lightweight, and IS, and will comtinue to be in the pocket of the insurance industry or any other industry that will pay up so he can be the President. Its just a freakin game /competition to him. He will be a puppet of those who have paid the most and he should never be re-elected to office. But people only see the shiny and more expensive mailouts and commercials that are designed to say what ever they think you want to hear. People keep falling for the same c r a p over and over again. You get what you deserve when you do that. While the Dems are no prize package and they certainly deserve to be booted out also, don't fall for this fake Atwater. He truly has been a great big buddy of the insurance industry and others that pay for his attention to their desires, despite how it may
s c r e w his very own constituents. He really is a sham. Don't believe a thing this lightweight disgrace tells you. He is a special interest dream come true.

i don't care what democrats think if they cannot come up with a plan that cuts government spending.

This guy better get on the stick and push for an amendment 5 type tax change.

Get it done or else get use to the idea of minority status.

Al Lawson, you better put an end to this sleazy crap. You think you can allow this stuff to happen and then after the elections you'll come smiling into the Senate Chamber slapping everyone on the back and all will be forgotten - you better think again big man. Previous presidents may have put up with, but take a look around - the days of the old senate fraternity are over and you're forcing the R's to exact at least some kind of revenge to keep any semblance of dignity.

THIS is a joke... Is this really what the democrats have slumped to? They must be really desperate. What happened to telling the facts and not hiding behind faux websites and false mud-slinging? Anyone who paid attention to the last session knows Atwater was out to set the insurance industry straight.

Atwater will win his race and will be the next Senate President, so instead of adding fuel to the fire, the Dem leadership needs to back off and try to mend a fence or two. Floridians will be the ones to suffer the consequences of the FL Dems insisting on ripping apart the bipartisanship that ONCE existed in the Senate. Politics at its worst.

[Alex]

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I KNOW - How dare someone challenge the status quo?? How dare someone provide and alternative to what we have had the past several years?? How dare we participate in our democracy so we can keep playing the same old power play games in the senate chamber.

Senate Atwater staff better get the hell off the blogs and start getting on monster.com.

If anybody knows big insurance, its Al Lawson.

[Democrats don't love America first---but our enemies first.]

STANDING BY THE STORY
The Obama campaign spent more than five hours on Monday attempting to figure out the best refutation of the explosive New York Post report that quoted Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari as saying that Barack Obama during his July visit to Baghdad demanded that Iraq not negotiate with the Bush Administration on the withdrawal of American troops. Instead, he asked that they delay such negotiations until after the presidential handover at the end of January.

The three problems, according to campaign sources: The report was true, there were at least three other people in the room with Obama and Zebari to confirm the conversation, and there was concern that there were enough aggressive reporters based in Baghdad with the sources to confirm the conversation that to deny the comments would create a bigger problem.

Instead, Obama's national security spokeswoman Wendy Morigi told reporters that Obama told the Iraqis that they should not rush through what she termed a "Strategic Framework Agreement" governing the future of U.S. forces until after President Bush left office. In other words, the Iraqis should not negotiate an American troop withdrawal.

According to a Senate staffer working for Sen. Joseph Biden, Biden himself got involved in the shaping of the statement. "The whole reason he's on the ticket is the foreign policy insight," explained the staffer.

BREAKING THE BANK
The woman whom Barack Obama is crediting for organizing the Barbra Streisand fundraiser it held last night in Hollywood is also partially responsible for one of the greater banking collapses in American history.

Penny Pritzker, Obama's national finance chair was, with her family, the half owner of Superior Bank, which was shut down in 2001 by the FDIC after it had lost nearly all of its more than $2 billion of assets on bad loans to high-risk borrowers, federal regulators said.

Pritzker has avoided media attention over the past week as reporters covering the Obama campaign sought comment on the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacle.

Pritzker also served as finance chair for Obama's Senate run, and supported him during his time in the Illinois state legislature.

One reason Pritzker may have been enamored with Obama was his willingness to press legislation that loosened state regulatory policies for land developers and multi-family property owners.

Pritzker is also known to be close to Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, a former political operative for Mayor Richard M. Daley, and the CEO of a housing and development company based in Chicago with ties to Obama going back to his Illinois legislature days.

Jarrett, by the way, is now considered to be the top candidate to fill Obama's Senate seat should he be elected President.

ZONING IN
Senator Joe Biden is spending between three to four hours a day prepping for his debate with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, with that time to be increased over the next two weeks. According to campaign insiders, at least ten to 15 outside volunteers -- beyond those already working on the campaign -- are assisting in both Biden's and Obama's debate prep. Debate prep for both John McCain and Palin hasn't been made public, though it is known that Palin is putting in study time for her October 2nd debate in St. Louis.

Of biggest concern to Biden, and the focus on the debate, are domestic policy issues, in-depth foreign policy details that will highlight what the Democrats believe are Palin's weaknesses on international issues, and what an Obama adviser called Biden's "penchant for smarminess."

Biden is notorious in the Senate for his long-winded questions and his inability to limit his comments to questions during interviews and floor debate, and Republicans and the McCain campaign have been banking that Biden's ego and frustration over the lack of attention focused on him will drive him to overcompensate during the debate.

"But we're not going to let that happen," says the Obama adviser. "When Joe wants to get in a zone, he can get in the zone and stay there. He really wants to be in the zone for this debate and he is working hard. I saw him work hard to prep on the Roberts and Alito confirmation hearings. He's working twice as hard on this, because the stakes and the rewards are so much higher."

[Wiseman]

Asswater won't even have his bank job come November after it goes under for making risky loans. No one will talk to him. He will be just like Tom Lee.

Dd someone here actually indicate that doofis Atwater set the insurance industry straight? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Stop it. My sides are killing me. That goes beyond spin. that is just so funny. The man is their lap dog. You just madey whole day. Thanks for the very hardy laugh. Ha ha ha hahahaha aahaa hah