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Quick Hits

* Conservative blogger Joe Guarino thinks Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan's image as a moderate Democrat is belied by her votes.

* State Senate hopes to pass budget by Passover because tax receipts will be lower than expected. (Or because they can't raise any dough?)

* A bill would implement a $3 per ticket tax in Roanoke Rapids to help the city pay down its debt on the Randy Parton Theatre.

* U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx gets in trouble for using the term "tar baby" during a speech about the bailouts on the House floor.

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Re: Quick Hits

Submitted by mountainman on April 6, 2009 - 6:37pm.

Well now there is outrage over "tar baby". There is no end to the polictical correctness of democrats. Folks don't be fooled by this junk, it's politics as usual for them to point fingers and express fake outrage. Look at the history of the democrat party or "dixiecrat" as they used to be known. They have no right to point fingers at the party of Lincoln.

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Re: Quick Hits

Submitted by FFC1304 on April 6, 2009 - 6:16pm.

Kaye Hagan is no moderate, though she wants YOU to think so.

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Re: Quick Hits

Submitted by lpetrou on April 6, 2009 - 3:11pm.

I would understand the "outrage" of the Democrats of Virginia Foxx's use of the term tar baby a little bit better if I had seen outrage over Senator Robert Byrd's use of the term "white n****r" in an interview a few years back. Ah that right, only Republicans can be racists; Democrats are pure of heart and can't possibly be racists. Bryd a former KKK leader is not racists but Foxx mentioning a fable is. What an upside down world we live in.

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