Posts Tagged ‘ Republicans ’

When 30 Senate Republicans voted to protect corporate-sponsored rape, it seemed that we had finally reached the nadir of the Party of No. But yesterday, House Republicans gave their senate cohorts a run for their scum-sucking money when they refused to support H.R. 4247, the Preventing Harmful Restraint and Seclusion in Schools Act. ...
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No, really! This initial post (plus this correction) reveal a fascinating pattern that emerges from asking self-identified conservatives about the spending cuts they'd want to see. Longtime conservative bugaboos like "foreign aid" and "welfare" score high marks. But other than that, no single proposal reaches even so much as 25%...
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Snow and Republicans are conspiring against the nation's unemployed. There's not much anyone can do about the former, with even more forecasted over the next day and a half. And with Scott Brown now seated, there are questions about what can happen with the latter. Although both parties say Washington should be...
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This actually gives the teabaggers something to scream about: In discussions with Wall Street executives, Republicans are striving to make the case that they are banks' best hope of preventing President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats from cracking down on Wall Street. GOP strategists hope to benefit from the reaction to...
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As I've mentioned before, I'm putting the finishing touches on my new book, American Taliban, which catalogues the ways in which modern-day conservatives share the same agenda as radical Jihadists in the Islamic  world. But I found myself making certain claims about Republicans that I didn't know if they could be backed up. So...
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Apparently the revelation of President Obama's secret plot to destroy Christmas was the straw that broke the camel's back, because House Republicans will no longer sit back and allow heathens (and secular humanists) to spit on the reason for the season -- meet House Resolution 951: Whereas Christmas is a national holiday...
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Well, the House Republicans do. And it's not so much reform, really. The Senate Republicans are still apparently planning to rely on their fallback position of obstructing the Democrats, but the Republicans finally put their "eight or nine" ideas to paper . Under the GOP plan, insurance companies would still be...
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This is better territory for Harry Reid to be fighting on. Greg Sargent has the letter he sent to Republicans: A source forwards me the letter that Reid sent to dozens of GOP colleagues, to be released this afternoon. It says current Dem Senate versions of the bill are publicly available, and...
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If House Republicans aren't careful, they're going to choke their teabagging base with all of this red meat: Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) today introduced — along with 75 other Republicans — a resolution to officially commemorate the 9/12 taxpayer march on Washington. Other sponsors of H.R. 870 include...
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Actually, not so much a response as an attempt to re-empt, since they released it before he started his press conference, but the Republicans' response is entirely predictable. "A primary reason Harry Reid is one of the most endangered incumbents facing re-election in either party next year is due to the fact...
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