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English language too taxing for many Republicans
Republicans blame the English language for foiling their attempts to regain power. Yes — English! Of all tongues spoken in Babel, English is the richest in idiom, precision and subtlety. The language of the Bard and of Abraham Lincoln fell short...Tags: Republican Party, Elections, Mitt Romney, Politics, Lindsey O. Graham
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Rex Huppke: Rob Portman's changing stance on gay marriage shows danger of knowledge
Knowledge is just a slippery slope toward finding out I'm wrong about something. So I try to avoid it, usually by watching television or dodging experiences that might broaden my comfortably narrow horizons. But not everyone is as skilled as I am at...
Tags: Elections, Environmental Issues, Politics, Wildlife, Gays and Lesbians
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Carson tapped to speak at major conservative political conference
Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson will speak at a prominent conservative political rally next month, alongside the likes of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan, the American Conservative Union said...
Tags: Politics, Executive Branch, Bobby Jindal, Government, Jim DeMint
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Republicans can't escape blame for sequester
If aliens came to earth from outer space in search of intelligent life, Congress is the last place they would look for it. The Republican-led 112th Congress -- in a good week, in session no more than two and a half days -- let the Standard & Poor's credit...
Tags: Republican Party, Leon Panetta, Elections, Congressional Budget Office, Health Care Reform (2009)
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Pall Ryan
Change of SubjectFrom Why Paul Ryan's star has dimmed by Howard Kurtz, Daily Beast: The House Budget Committee chairman has made no one happy with his latest fiscal blueprint.... For one thing, the Ryan budget pockets the Obama Medicare savings and the...... -
No debt agreement, no break
With no deal in sight to curb our growing national debt, America is going broke. So what do our representatives in Congress plan to do about it? Take a two-week break. Are they trying to see whether their abysmal 13% approval rating can sink any lower?...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Patty Murray, Politics, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Budget Control Act of 2011
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Republicans Embarked On Navel Gazing
The Hartford CourantThe Republican Party has not been on a roll. In November, it lost seats in the House, gave away seats it should have won in the Senate, and for the fifth time in the last six presidential elections lost the popular vote. While conservatives attending...Tags: Republican Party, Elections, Rand Paul, Politics, Executive Branch
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Dent votes for, Cartwright against Paul Ryan budget
Of The Morning CallThe hotly-debated Paul Ryan budget proposal has caused no cracks in the party loyalty of Pennsylvania's House and Senate delegations. Lehigh Valley Republican Congressman Charlie Dent voted for Ryan's budget in the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday...Tags: Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Elections, Medicare
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Let the Senate vote-a-rama begin
WASHINGTON – Step aside, stately Senate. Say hello to vote-a-rama. On Friday, the usually lonely floor of the U.S. Senate was thrown open for that most rare of occurrences – a free-for-all frenzy of amendment-making, which is required for...
Tags: Patty Murray, U.S. Senate, Politics, Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice
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The Republicans' self-defeating war on eyeshades
What's with the green eyeshades? "I can't tell you how tired I am of Republicans who are green-eyeshade accountants," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Newsmax TV last weekend. Rep. Paul Ryan's "new budget road map is more vision than green-...Tags: Economic Indicator, Republican Party, Elections, Mitt Romney, Politics
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Progress made
The federal government made a little progress Thursday working toward a balanced budget. The House passed the bipartisan 2013 measure by a sweeping 318-109 vote. The Senate had approved the measure on Wednesday after easing cuts that threatened...Tags: Elections, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Barack Obama
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House defeats alternative budgets
WASHINGTON – Think of it as what could have been: Alternative visions of the federal budget from progressives, conservatives and other rank-and-file lawmakers that have little chance of passing but offer another view of priorities. As House...Tags: Republican Party, Elections, Medicare, Government Health Care, Politics
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Mar 22, 2013
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Mar 20, 2013
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