cassyfiano.com - 1/29/2009
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All last week, I’ve been calling around my various contacts, asking them what’s been going on in the world. I hate being in the dark, so to speak, and hate to think that I’m missing a huge news story. Well, I missed something all right. I only missed the best thing to happen to the House of ...
fivethirtyeight.com - 1/29/2009
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fivethirtyeight.com —
It's not just the goose egg that the
House Republicans laid on the Democratic stimulus package yesterday:
Boehner's Boys have been equally uncooperative on other matters. Case in point: a bill yesterday to delay the transition to digital TV . This ...
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The Republican Death Spiral
blogs.abcnews.com - 1/29/2009
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blogs.abcnews.com —
Here's the list of President Obama's invited guests
to the White House cocktail party tonight -- essentially
the bipartisan bicameral leadership of the House and Senate. Six House Democrats, six House Republicans, six Senate Democrats, six Senate ...
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Drinks Are On the (White) House
blogs.telegraph.co.uk - 1/29/2009
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blogs.telegraph.co.uk —
President Barack Obama got the $825 (or $1.2
trillion over a decade) stimulus package through the House
of Representatives but the 244 to 188 vote is a hollow victory indeed . Without a single Republican voting for the bill, his high-profile visit to ...
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Hollow victory: Republicans deliver slap in the face to ...
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House GOP holds the line; unanimously votes against "stimulus" bill
Wizbang —
... lip service to conservative principles, but bend over backwards to help Democrats get whatever they want. All a Democrat has to do to get one of our GOP weenies on their side was point a finger and say "PARTISAN!", and the GOP weenie will jump up and down to prove how "bipartisan" they are, even if it means selling out their principles. Democrats in Washington have no principles; Republicans have no spines. There have been brief flashes of strength among the GOP over the past year; the "Drill Baby Drill" house revolt immediately comes to mind. And yesterday, House Republicans ...
House GOP holds the line; unanimously votes against “stimulus” bill
Stop The ACLU —
... lip service to conservative principles, but bend over backwards to help Democrats get whatever they want. All a Democrat has to do to get one of our GOP weenies on their side was point a finger and say “PARTISAN!”, and the GOP weenie will jump up and down to prove how “bipartisan” they are, even if it means selling out their principles. Democrats in Washington have no principles; Republicans have no spines. There have been brief flashes of strength among the GOP over the past year; the “Drill Baby Drill” house revolt immediately comes to mind. And yesterday, House Republicans ...
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