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Sat, 7 Nov 2009 16:15:38 +0000

So where are we on health care? * First, the abortion standoff: The anti-abortion amendment to the health care bill will likely pass with GOP support, a GOP aide predicts. As you may have heard, House Dem leaders temporarily resolved a standoff last night by agreeing to allow a full vote on an ...

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Elie Wiesel calls tea partyers

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 17:47:24 +0000

Renowned author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel condemned several signs containing Holocaust comparisons and anti-Semitic messages at yesterday's "House Call" protests. One sign at the rally contained images of dead Holocaust victims at the Dachau concentration camp under the banner ...

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For Democrats, NY-23 is Heads We Win, Tails They Lose

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:04:00 +0000

Today in New York’s 23rd district, either a Democrat will be elected to Congress for the first time since Reconstruction, or Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin will officially take over the Republican party . HOFFMAN: I have good mentors here. GLENN: Wait, wait. Wait, wait. Are they ...

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Reid Continues To Target Republican Obstruction

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:55:16 +0000

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is on a kick. Personally frustrated, and under pressure from the left, Reid has decided to take direct aim at Republican obstruction, and he's doing so in angry terms. "For anybody watching, what's taken place the last three years knows the Republicans have ...

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Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:39:00 +0000

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Elie Wiesel Condemned Anti-Semitic Messages At Right Wing Protests

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:41:40 +0000

I’ve often laughed at the idea that Republicans have any chance at being successful at picking up the Jewish vote. Here’s another example of why this will not happen: Renowned author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel condemned several signs containing Holocaust comparisons and ...

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The GOP Establishment Must Be Purged as the GOP Loses in NY-23

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:28:48 +0000

The race for NY-23 has taken a startling, exciting twist. Regardless of what happens on Tuesday, we know for certain the Republican candidate will not, after getting $900,000.00 in support from the Washington GOP Establishment, will not win. Scozzafava dropped out. This is a stunning rebuke ...

The Caucus found this 7 days ago on redstate.com

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Eugene Robinson gets the name of the site right.

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 17:57:00 +0000

It’s actually been a matter of some amusement for us: you could tell who the lazy or just dumb reporters were from their habitual reference of this site as Redstate. org , which it hasn’t been for years . Apparently, the Washington Post has gotten around to updating their files, ...

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Republican Health Insurance Reform Bill Insures Almost Nobody

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:44:16 +0000

Earlier this week, a spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner made a prediction . The Republican health care plan, he said, "will cover millions more Americans" than the Democrats' plan. Bold. But here's what the experts say: By 2019, CBO and JCT estimate, the number of nonelderly ...

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Palin to speak at Gridiron dinner

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:00:01 +0000

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be the GOP speaker at the Gridiron Club’s Winter Dinner.

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Right-wing protesters at GOP rally display prominent sign tying health care to the Holocaust.

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:18:00 +0000

ThinkProgress’ Lee Fang snapped this photograph of a prominent sign being displayed at today’s GOP anti-health care rally. It’s unclear whether this sign is being handed out by Americans for Prosperity, the corporate front group sponsoring today’s rally. The sign reads “National Socialist ...

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The Weekly Standard, Where It's Always Good News For Republicans

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:52:00 +0000

Matthew Continetti's editorial in last week's issue of the Weekly Standard --"The Inevitability Myth: Health care reform is not a fait accompli"--makes the case that, despite all evidence, health care reform may not be enacted after all. (Continetti does concede that "the chances ...

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Cantor criticizes Rush for Hitler-Obama comparison

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:58:11 +0000

GOP leaders have been loathe to criticize Rush Limbaugh -- but House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is taking issue with Limbaugh's claim that President Obama's push for health care was comparable to Hitler's stranglehold on Germany. Cantor, the highest-ranking Jewish Republican elected ...

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Bachmann / Teabagger Rally Compares Health Care Reform to Holocaust

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:08:08 +0000

Over the past couple of years, my outrage meter has spiked up to 10 on many occasions. Today, though, it broke. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Mn) sponsored a teabagger rally in Washington today. Almost the entire GOP house and senate leadership was in attendance, and spoke at the rally. Not ...

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‘Left, Right & Center’: GOP Scores; Unemployment Up; Ft. Hood Fallout

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:09:18 +0000

Unemployment reaches 10.2%—do we need a bigger stimulus? What do the GOP victories in Virginia and New Jersey mean for both parties? Will the House’s historic health care bill pass, and if so, why wait til 2013 to implement it? READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 6, ...

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Eric Cantor Soon To Be Pimp Slapped

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

You can’t criticize Rush Limbaugh and be a member of the modern Republican party. ‘The Republican Party in its roots is a party of inclusion and we ought to be promoting that and making sure that voices are heard,’ Cantor, of Virginia, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s ...

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Will There be a Vote on Health Care Tomorrow?

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:56:56 +0000

Nancy Pelosi has assured us that there will be. Of course, the job of House Speaker is much like being a bookie for organized crime… you never take a bet when you don’t know how the game will end. Byron York explains how this is putting a lot of Democrats under the gun. The House ...

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11/07/09 - Gov. Haley Barbour Delivers Weekly GOP Address (video)

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:53:23 +0000

11/07/09 - Gov. Haley Barbour Delivers Weekly GOP Address

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NY-23 And GOP Turmoil Makes Urban Dictionary In New Entry: 'Scozzafavaed'

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 19:37:29 +0000

Well, look at that. Not sure that's how Dede Scozzafava wanted to go down in history when she started her bid to be the next member of Congress from New York. The Urban Dictionary has added " Scozzafavaed " to its pages. Scozzafavaed (Pronounced: /skoʊzəfavəd/) -verb 1. Purged of ...

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Sarah Palin, Barney Frank to headline Gridiron Club Winter Dinner

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 00:48:00 +0000

WASHINGTON--You betcha, she's coming. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin--on book tour to promote her memoir, " Going Rogue: An American Life" will headline the Gridiron Club winter dinner here--along with Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). Palin, the outspoken 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, will ...

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