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Iowa View: Politics is more than campaigns

Source: Des Moines Register, Dec 13 2012, 4:32am CST

Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera died when the small plane she was traveling in with at least five others crashed in Mexico. Rivera was a superstar in the Hispanic community even if youve never heard of her. What does this have to do wit ...

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EDITORIAL: Another crony for the Cabinet

Source: Washington Times  |   May 23 2013, 4:59am CDT

President Obama’s choice of Hyatt hotel heiress Penny Pritzker as secretary of commerce, to be taken up Thursday by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, puts Democrats on the panel between that famous ...

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6 hours ago

Reid mulling filibuster overhaul

Source: The Politico  |   May 22 2013, 10:52pm CDT

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is waging an under-the-radar campaign to get his fellow Democrats to back a summertime fight to overhaul the filibuster for executive branch nominees. Reid is carrying a list of names to target and has met with ab ...

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11 hours ago

Corbett opens mouth, inserts foot with Latino comment: analysis

Source: PennLive.com  |   May 22 2013, 6:01pm CDT

It's taken nearly all of his first term as governor of Pennsylvania, but Tom Corbett has finally, thoughtlessly, and certainly earned his place on the Mount Olympus of politicians speaking badly. Last week, while addressing a roundtable host ...

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12 hours ago

HUFFPOST HILL - Dogs On Trains: Congress Is On It

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 22 2013, 4:59pm CDT

Eric Holder admitted the U.S. killed four Americans with drone strikes, though his decision to stare at James Rosen the whole time was a little creepy. A distressing number of people are "tornado truthers," an even more repulsive develo ...

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12 hours ago

Why Obama’s Scandals Won’t Lead to Reform

Source: Bloomberg.com  |   May 22 2013, 4:53pm CDT

Put aside the politics, and the question of who-knew-what-when. There are two policy problems highlighted by the controversies at the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice. The first is the growth of 501(c)(4) groups into vehic ...

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13 hours ago

Reid appears to back away from "nuclear option" on fillibusters

Source: Democratic Underground  |   May 22 2013, 3:32pm CDT

Source: NBC News With one of President Barack Obamas key nominees on the verge of being confirmed by the Senate on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid appeared to edge away Wednesday from an idea that some D ...

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14 hours ago

Scandal Politics: The Downstream Effect

Source: NPR  |   May 22 2013, 3:26pm CDT

The scandals affecting the Obama administration could make some would-be candidates leery of running for political office. The scandals affecting the Obama administration could make some would-be candidates leery of running for politica ...

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14 hours ago

Are Democrats finally serious about filibuster reform?

Source: The Week  |   May 22 2013, 3:23pm CDT

acing Republican filibuster threats over a handful of President Obama's high-level nominees, Democrats are threatening to invoke the so-called nuclear option and revise the Senate's rules to effectively cir ...

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14 hours ago

Hagan seat changed from 'Lean Democrat" to "Tossup/Tilt Democrat'

Source: Under the Dome  |   May 22 2013, 3:08pm CDT

Stu Rothenberg, a noted national political analyst, has moved North Carolina 2014 Senate race from “lean Democrat” to “tossup/tilt Democrat.'' Writing in his blog Wednesday, Rothenberg, editor of the Rothenberg Political Report, based the changed ...

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14 hours ago

Corbett says he can't find any Latinos to hire

Source: Philly.com  |   May 22 2013, 2:59pm CDT

Gov.Corbett tried to reach out to Latino voters last week when he spoke at a roundtable in Philadelphia. Instead he may have stumbled into his own "binders full of women" moment. Corbett addressing a group at the Union League wa ...

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