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If Texas Politicians Gave Santa a Wish List …
17 hours ago ago from Texas Insider
Mostly tongue-in-cheek & in holiday festivity By Stephen Raines, Texas Insider TV Political Analyst From the Desk of Santa Claus: Proving Texas Insider finds information about Texas politics no one else has, Santa provided us with items on the wish list for several politicians. President Barack Obama - Passage of any health care bill. Just one victory besides the unearned Nobel Peace Prize would be nice for the ...
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23 hours ago ago from ChattahBox News Blog
(ChattahBox) The Republicans have shown that they will stoop to shameful and despicable tactics to stop the passage of health care reform. The party of obstructionists are now a party of clowns who have forgone the work of legislating to stage circus stunts. Late last night, while our troops were in harm's way on two battlefields, the Republicans decided to deprive our soldiers of needed funding, by attempting to block passage of the military ...
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3 hours ago ago from The Litterbox
Why are so many of the Republican senators such stupid tools? Guess he had nothing to do in his home state. COPENHAGEN — Sen. Jim Inhofe flew across the Atlantic and — on little sleep — braved the snow, the cold and the dark to deliver his skeptical message at the international climate conference. What he found when he got here: a few aides and a single reporter. The ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works ...
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13 hours ago ago from NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
Centering a Friday night story on how, as anchor Katie Couric explained, “Republicans are doing everything they can to block” the “health reform” bill, “including delaying tactics in this race against the clock,” CBS put front and center Senator Robert Byrd's “shame, shame” admonition of Republicans. Reporter Nancy Cordes began her story by showcasing the aging Democrat: “As he was wheeled into the Senate chamber shortly after 1:00 AM, ...
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1 day ago ago from New Mexico Politics: New Mexico FBIHOP - Front Page
Nearly all Republican Senators, except for Sens. Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins and Kay Bailey Hutchinson voted against the defense authorization bill early this morning (1:00 a.m. ET) as a way to delay a health care vote. With all of the talk over the last six years from Republicans from individual Senators and Congressmen to the Republican National committee to the Republicans' allies on Fox News on talk radio about Democrats "voting ...
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Parties spar over Republicans' failed effort to filibuster defense bill
23 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Politics
With tensions running high in the Senate amid a grueling schedule, Democrats are trying to make political hay out of Republicans' failed effort to filibuster the defense spending bill. The Senate voted at 1 a.m. Friday to invoke cloture on the $626 billion measure funding the Pentagon, a key procedural step that will allow the chamber to vote on final passage Saturday morning. The motion passed, 63-33, with just three Republicans joining ...
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1 hour, 15 minutes ago ago from The New York Times
Representative Bart Gordon, a 13-term Tennessee Democrat who is chairman of the House science committee, has never lost any of the 15 counties in his conservative district, let alone been in recent danger of losing his House seat. Susan Walsh/Associated Press After 13 terms, Representative Bart Gordon will not seek re-election. Blog He did not expect the outcome to be any different in 2010, though he ...
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22 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
AP -- Minority Republicans in the Maine House have lost a member. Rep. Jim Campbell of Newfield said Thursday he's withdrawn from the Republican Party and will become the only legislator with no party affiliation. That leaves the House with 95 Democrats, 55 Republicans and one unenrolled or independent member. The Senate also is controlled by Democrats. "I have been very frustrated with the Republican Party in Maine, and nationally, for ...
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22 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
By Jonathan Weisman Liberal Democrats may be accusing President Barack Obama of shying away from a fight, but they cannot make the same claim for his communications director, Dan Pfeiffer . In a blog posting on the White House Web site today, Pfeiffer accused Senate Republicans of stunning hypocrisy, political gamesmanship at its worst, and stunts and obstruction that have reached a new low. At issue was an attempt last night to delay a ...
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20 hours ago ago from Media General - TBO.com
WASHINGTON - Republicans accused Democrats of bad manners, bad timing and bad health care policy today, then summoned images of fire and ice for good measure as they campaigned to block passage of sweeping legislation President Barack Obama's allies want passed by Christmas. Unperturbed, the White House and Democrats bargained behind closed doors for hours with Sen. Ben Nelson in a search for the 60th vote needed to pass the measure. ...
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