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Brian, Your interview with the soon to be Speaker of the House, Mrs. Nancy Pelosi, depicted her as a politician/grandmother who takes her Catholic Faith seriously. Perhaps a more accurate depiction would have been portrayed if the Speaker's Congressional Voting record had been noted; Mrs. Pelosi is pro-abortion and supports same-sex marriages. "Cafeteria Catholic"? Yes. Roman Catholic? No. Thankfully, as long as there is breath within us, we can beg for God's mercy. I pray for Mrs. Pelosi's conversion and I ask her to pray for me and for my daily turning back to God. The Catholic Church's Sacrament of Confession is one of the greatest gifts from our loving Father. Thank you.
Carol Day (Sent Nov 9, 2006 9:13:27 AM)
Really told as it is, "The Day After" He we are and the media is already jumping on the "Attack" Here is the latest headline on MSN.
"Sen. Nelson’s son arrested after election party
Orlando police pepper-spray re-elected Florida Democrat’s 30-year-old son"
C. Stover (Sent Nov 8, 2006 4:09:22 PM)
Brian this isn't a victory for Democrats it's a victory for all Americans who believed our Government wasn't listen to the people. President Bush and the GOP treated Americans like they didn't have to listen to what the people wanted. This election showed all those running for office that they are accountable to the people not lobbist or big business. Our troops are dying due to Iraq civil war and because we made the mistake of going it alone without support of other world leaders. No team can win if a player goes it alone.
Jackie Rawlings Riverside California (Sent Nov 8, 2006 3:35:46 PM)
It looks to me like Webb won in Virginia.
George Allen needs to do the right thing, admit defeat and step aside. If the Republicans try to steal the election again then Allen will not be seen as the legitimate winner.
James Peterson, Newport News, VA (Sent Nov 8, 2006 1:54:58 PM)
The democrats must restrain their glee and possible desires to avenge their republican comrades for treatment, ill treatment by the republicans over these past six years of republican congressional control. We are talking about tremendous egoes that must be constrained so that Congress can get down to business stifled by the former republican control. Ostensibly, the democrats will demonstrate tremendous control in not subjecting those republicans to the reprehensible treatment these exhibited upon their democratic colleagues.But consider republicans having to sit on committees that will ostensibly investigate actions over these same republicans, discerning those things which should have been disclosed but were not because it spoke poorly of that republican oversight, essentially, silencing governmnet oversight in favor of hubris and arrogant undemocratic policies. We will get far more details than can be gotten from a sordid paperback from these democratic investigations. I am salivating as I write this!
Simpliticus (Sent Nov 8, 2006 1:29:51 PM)
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