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Tom Tancredo News. Last week, former failed presidential candidate and current

upcetter of Apple carts, Mr. Tancredo issued an ultimate to the two Republicans running in

the Colorado gubernatorial primary. Get out or get Tancredo'd. He demanded that by Monday

at noon, both candidates promised to drop out of the race after the primary, after one of

them has already won. And if they refused, Tom Tancredo threatened to run as a third-party

candidate on the American Constitution Party ticket. Well, Monday noon has come and gone,

no one is dropping out, and Tom Tancredo has made good on his promise. Tom Tancredo, of course,

is the anti-immigrant candidate. He is the bomb NECCA candidate, but perhaps most hilariously,

he is also the impeach Obama candidate. For reasons that are as inexplicable as they are wacky,

Mr. Tancredo thinks President Obama should be impeached. And though Tom Tancredo's name will not

have an R next to it on the ballot, if he makes it that far, it is increasingly clear the Republican

governing strategy should the party win back one or both houses of Congress's fall,

can best be described as Clinton era-esque, and then some. Republicans of the House and Senate

wrote a letter late last week to the Democratic chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee,

demanding an investigation into the Justice Department's decision to not pursue a voter fraud case

involving the new Black Panther Party. They want a full and complete investigation into this

outrageous decision by the Obama administration, not to pursue criminal charges, just like the Bush

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