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Grover Norquist: Obama reelected by characterizing Romney as 'a poopy-head'

Source: The Hill, Nov 12 2012, 8:46am CST

He went on to suggest some criticism of Romney's campaign for not pushing back hard enough against negative campaign ads. "You saw those ads that suggested Romney gave people cancer in Ohio for months and months unanswered. You can tra ...

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57 minutes ago

GOP Ariz. rep. who supports Medicaid is threatened

Source: FindLaw: AP Professional News  |   May 23 2013, 5:15pm CDT

PHOENIX (AP) — A Republican member of the Arizona House who supports GOP Gov. Jan Brewer's push to expand Medicaid received an obscene and threatening voicemail at her office, a sign that the rancorous debate over embracing a signature co ...

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1 hour ago

House Votes for Market-Based Rates

Source: CNBC  |   May 23 2013, 4:57pm CDT

The Republican-dominated House of Representatives on Thursday voted to switch federal student loan interest rates to a market-based system. Republicans said their plan is a long-term solution that will take politicians ou ...

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27 weeks ago


Quote:
"There’s a compromise to be made. Maybe we don’t get as much in spending restraint as the Republicans want, but raising taxes ... a little bit doesn’t solve the problem of the massive spending problem that we have"


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US carbon price backed by independent office

Source: The Age  |   May 23 2013, 4:52pm CDT

A tax on carbon dioxide emissions could help the United States mitigate climate change while significantly increasing government revenue, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said this week. President Barack Obama supports plans to price carbon di ...

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Democrats Take More Assertive Role in Immigration Reform

Source: Commentary  |   May 23 2013, 4:50pm CDT

The coverage of the effort to reform the country’s massively inefficient and outdated immigration system has usually focused on where the controversy has been thus far: Republican supporters of comprehensive immigration refo ...

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House approves Republican student loan bill

Source: Democratic Underground  |   May 23 2013, 4:50pm CDT

Source: Washington Post The House approved a Republican proposal Thursday to allow interest rates on federal student loans to rise or fall from year to year with the governments cost of borrowing, ending a system in which ...

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How GOP Will Keep Stirring the Scandal Stew Over Recess

Source: National Journal  |   May 23 2013, 4:48pm CDT

Congressional Republicans head into next week’s Memorial Day recess armed with a strategy designed to keep the controversies that have consumed Washington in the news back home. Both House and Senate Republicans will focus on ...

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WA college students ask Congress for stability

Source: The Olympian   |   May 23 2013, 4:47pm CDT

tool goes here SEATTLE – Washington college students say they need Congress to give them affordable student loans at a rate they can depend on, instead of a yearly debate on rising interest rates. The student body president ...

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1 hour ago

Opposition to Obamacare may doom the GOP

Source: HealthBusinessBlog  |   May 23 2013, 4:43pm CDT

The Republican Party is having a hard time dealing with the rebuke it received in the November elections. Party leaders pretty quickly determined that the growing Hispanic vote could not be ignored and that immigrant bashing might not be the wis ...

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Republicans criticize Obama over call for repeal of 2001 use of force law

Source: FOX News  |   May 23 2013, 4:35pm CDT

President Obama drew sharp criticism from Republican senators Thursday for urging the repeal of the 2001 law that effectively authorized the war on terror. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., claimed the president was assuming Al Qaeda is "on the run," c ...

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