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John Boehner: Rangel, Waters Should Face Ethics Trials Before Election

Filed under: Republicans, The Capitolist, 2010 Elections, EthicsThe minority leader and other Republicans say the House Ethics Committee should "stop stalling and complete these trials" of the Democratic lawmakers before voters go to the polls on Nov. ...

House GOPers Exploit and Insult Thomas Jefferson

Filed under: Republicans, Deep Background, 2010 Elections, Barack ObamaThe Pledge to America invokes the Declaration of Independence, but Republicans are cheapening the United States' founding text by expropriating it for their melodramatic, foot-stomp...

GOP Prepares to Unveil New ‘Contract With America’

Filed under: Republicans, 2010 ElectionsRepublicans are going back to their '90s playbook as election day approaches, planning to unveil a new "Contract With America." Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Com...

White House, Boehner Spar Over Bush Tax Cuts

Filed under: House, Republicans, Obama Administration, Congress, White HouseAfter saying Sunday he might accept ending Bush tax cuts for the wealthy if that's the only way to extend them for the middle class, Boehner and the White House engaged in a wa...

John Boehner Defends His Famous Tan

Filed under: The CapitolistHouse Minority Leader John Boehner defends his caramel complexion, saying he stays tan by mowing his lawn and mountain biking. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

Donald ‘Buz’ Lukens, Ex-Ohio Lawmaker Derailed by Scandal, Dead at 79

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Former Ohio Rep. Donald "Buz" Lukens, a charismatic conservative leader in the 1960s whose career was derailed by scandal, is dead at 79.

John Boehner to Drug Companies: Obama Administration Is Schoolyard Bully

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House Minority Leader John Boehner sent an open letter this week to drug company CEOs, comparing the pharmaceutical industry's recent negotiations with the Obama administration to giving lunch money to a schoolyard...

ACORN Was Just Trying to Help

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Sometimes, the best of intentions can have the worst of consequences. That outcome seems to be the fate of the community organizers of ACORN and their efforts to assist low-income taxpayers file their tax returns.
As the result of a sting operation showing ACORN representatives...

Is It Time for Charlie Rangel to Go?

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Should he stay or should he go?

Here's the charge: As detailed below, New York Democratic Congressman Charles B. Rangel has...

Boehner: White House Hardball ‘Beneath the Presidency’

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House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio Thursday became the latest Republican to criticize what he sees as the new, hardball tactics that the White House is employing to strike back at critics of President Obama's agenda, including the U.S....

A Tale of Three Polls: Rating Obama, Hill Leaders and the Parties

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While President Obama's poll ratings have come down over the months as the initial glow of his election wore off and the challenges...

Rep. John Carter Finds His Missing $300,000 in Exxon Profits

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Hypocrisy is a cheap commodity in Washington.

Texas Republican John Carter is the latest member of Congress to accuse a fellow member of wrongdoing while being guilty of essentially the same offense.

After initially denying...

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