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GOP answering wake-up call on immigration

Source: San Antonio Express, Nov 23 2012, 11:47pm CST

He didn't dissent when the Republican presidential candidate blasted Texas Gov. Rick Perry for supporting in-state college tuition for children brought illegally into the country by their parents. But Gutierrez — former President George W. Bush' ...

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GOP Aides Frustrated With House Republicans

Source: Crooks and Liars  |   May 25 2013, 10:04am CDT

At least there are some Republicans in the House who actually want to get some work done... Roll Call : The inquiry led by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee into the slaying of four Americans at the U.S. consulate i ...

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25 minutes ago

There's a difference between "passing the Senate" and "clearing a Republican filibuster", by @DavidOAtkins

Source: Hullabaloo  |   May 25 2013, 9:43am CDT

by David Atkins Journalists need to stop saying that bills with at least 51 votes but not 60 votes "don't have the votes to pass the Senate." They do have the votes to pass the Senate. They just don't have the votes to pass a Republican filibuster. Case ...

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26 weeks ago


Quote:
"Any Republican who's shifting on this issue out of political expediency is going to end up being disappointed by the results"


Source: San Antonio Express

 

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51 minutes ago

Tea party favorite Steve King blames Ronald Reagan for Obama presidency

Source: Irish Central  |   May 25 2013, 9:17am CDT

Republican Congressman Steve King told the press this week that he believed President Obama would not be president if it weren't for the 1986 amnesty bill that Ronald Reagan signed into law. Republican Congressman ...

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57 minutes ago

Mike Shields interview: Why the Republicans deserve victory

Source: The Telegraph  |   May 25 2013, 9:11am CDT

The Anglophilia is not skin deep. Mr Shields is a diehard Ipswitch Town fan who completed his secondary education during at a North Yorkshire comprehensive in the 1980s — a formative experience, to put it mildly, that still informs his search for ren ...

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Menendez: Immigration Bill Needs More Senate Backers

Source: NewsMax  |   May 25 2013, 7:38am CDT

Sen. Robert Menendez said that the sweeping immigration reform bill proposed by the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” currently lacks the votes needed to end a potential filibuster on the Senate floor. “We don’t currently h ...

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3 hours ago

GOP: Party of crybabies

Source: AlterNet.org  |   May 25 2013, 6:48am CDT

It’s time to call out a major Republican theme of how politics should be practiced in a democracy: the supposed right to be free from criticism. It may sell wonderfully inside the conservative closed-information loop, but it’s ...

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3 hours ago

GOP: Party of crybabies

Source: Salon  |   May 25 2013, 6:43am CDT

It’s time to call out a major Republican theme of how politics should be practiced in a democracy: the supposed right to be free from criticism. It may sell wonderfully inside the conservative closed-information loop, but it’s a nas ...

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5 hours ago

The Register's Editorial: Immigration reforms win (some) GOP votes

Source: Des Moines Register  |   May 25 2013, 4:11am CDT

Something positively remarkable and historic happened this week: The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee sent an immigration reform bill to the full Senate by a vote of 13-5. After decades of ignoring the mindless inhumanity of current immigr ...

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Joese De la Isla: Flawed report on Hispanics takes its toll in GOP

Source: Abilene Reporter News  |   May 25 2013, 3:26am CDT

The Republican Party blowback from the Jason Richwine bomb is just beginning. Richwine, you may remember, resigned from the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation earlier this month following controversy over a report ...

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