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Top Republicans meet to discuss McKenna-GOP poll
9 hours ago ago from Clout St
Posted by Rick Pearson at 7:50 a.m. Two top allies of former state GOP chairman Andy McKenna sat down with current Republican chairman Pat Brady at a suburban hotel, but achieved no resolution to the issue of whether the use of McKenna’s name on a party-funded poll last April was proper, sources familiar with the meeting said. McKenna quit as state GOP chairman in August and later launched his candidacy for the Republican nomination ...
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21 hours ago ago from Augusta Free Press
Battle brewing between progressives, centrists over direction of party Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net The 2001 election that ushered in the Democratic Decade in Virginia gave power in Democratic Party circles to the centrists in the mold of Mark Warner and Tim Kaine who led the mini-revolution that fall. The model that they laid out wasn't all that complicated. Emphasize management efficiency, avoid at all costs ...
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18 hours ago ago from Missourians for Conservative Values PAC
MCV PAC has learned that Jason Brown, current State Representative (Dist 30), and presumed Republican Senate primary contender against Rob Schaaf will be announcing his withdrawal from the Senate race. MCV PAC will keep a watch on this major development in the brewing Republican primary battle to replace Senator Charlie Shields as the Senator for Platte and Buchanan Counties. *** background *** Despite the fact neither is talking ...
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23 hours ago ago from Daily Loaf | Creative Loafing Tampa's blog
State Executive Committee shows it has what Charlie lacks: spine, integrity, leadership skills, etc. By Chris Ingram In case you missed it, I have it from multiple sources that Charlie Crist (who is already looking at his political death but who has the chance to avoid said death from becoming a suicide by dumping Jim Greer as RPOF Chairman), will soon announce Greer’s resignation in the coming days or weeks. But just in case ...
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23 hours ago ago from A DAILY INNOCULATION AGAINST POLITICAL AND CULTURAL BULLSHIT
Democratic defections on the jobs bill in the House and on health care in the Senate prove that, if you count those voting with Republicans as essentially Republican, the functional Democratic majority is already quite small. Even if a literal Democratic majority survives in 2010, Congress will vote Republican. Couple that with a president who, I believe, would just as soon see Democrats lose Congress so that he can deal with Republicans, ...
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Senate Republicans vow to delay health-care vote
18 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Business
Senate Republicans vowed Wednesday to use every available tactic to delay voting on the health-care bill as Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) scrambled to unify Democrats in support of the legislation. Democratic leaders continued to court Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), whose vote appeared to be the most elusive in the 60-member Democratic caucus ; he was unsatisfied with language in the $848 billion legislation related to abortion ...
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22 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
Associated Press President Obama makes a statement on health care after meeting with Senators on Tuesday. From left: Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd; Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus; the president; and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Support for the Democratic Party is slumping amid a wave of public discontent, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The findings ...
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20 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON On the 17th day of Senate debate on health legislation, it came down to this: A rock-ribbed conservative physician from Oklahoma squared off against a self-described democratic socialist from Vermont who was hoping for a full-throated debate on his proposal to establish a system of Medicare for all. The Oklahoman, Senator Tom Coburn , a Republican, had propounded a unanimous-consent request, stipulating that no amendment could be ...
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7 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Va. House leaders push Webb, Warner on health bill RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The Republican speaker of Virginia's House of Delegates and its chief budget writer are pressuring Virginia's Democratic senators to oppose the Senate health reform bill. They're part of a Republican full-court press on Virginia's two moderate senators, Jim Webb and Mark R. Warner, as President Barack Obama and Majority Leader Harry Reid seek the 60 votes needed to ...
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