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Zach Carter

GOP Senator Gives $500,000 To Corporate Welfare Recipient's Super PAC

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 03.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) on Tuesday led a conservative Senate bloc opposing a government loan program on the grounds that it functioned ...

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Tea Party-aligned Sen. Jim DeMint donates $500,000 to Club for Growth super PAC

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.20.2012

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The Center for Public Integrity

By Michael Beckel, iWatch NewsIn his quest to remake the Senate Republican caucus in his own image, Tea Party kingmaker Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) ha...

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What Does Jim DeMint's Lack OF Endorsement Mean?

Mauldin Patch | Shawn Drury and Greg Hambrick | Posted 01.08.2012

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With multiple media outlets reporting that U.S. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., will probably not be endorsing a Republican candidate for president, the most cove...

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11 Reasons Why the Unemployment Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think

Michael Thornton | Posted 11.18.2011

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Michael Thornton

This American jobs disaster will not vanish if neglected, but what will vanish are the hopes, dreams and financial well-being of millions of hard-working Americans.

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Michele Bachmann Suggests Axing The Education Department

Posted 11.05.2011

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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), told a forum today that if elected president, she would consider cutting several federal programs and institutions, i...

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Michael McAuliff

GOP: Obama Will Cave On Debt

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Republicans are willing to push President Obama to the wall with their budget-slashing bill to raise the debt ceiling because they are c...

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How Obama and the Democrats Are Reclaiming the Debt Issue

Asher Smith | Posted 09.11.2011

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Asher Smith

Even if they can't reach that magic $4 trillion number, President Obama and the Democrats may have already claimed the moral high ground and defused the deficit as a major 2012 campaign issue.

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Jon Ward

Jon Huntsman Predicts 'Major Problems' Ahead For China

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 08.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman usually speaks about that country in general terms: China is rising; America must reform to...

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Michael McAuliff

Mitch McConnell: Chuck Schumer Is Extreme, Not Tea Party

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) may have been frosty to the Tea Party before, but he's offering the irate anti-tax crowd ...

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Laura Bassett

Lawmakers In Poorest States Fail Poverty Scorecard

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. poverty rate jumped to 14.3 percent in 2009 -- its highest level since 1994 -- while lawmakers in some of the poorest states co...

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Elise Foley

Cornyn, Thune Plan Assault On Health Care In Spending Bill Fight

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Republicans who requested millions of dollars worth of earmarks in the omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 2011 are now calling ...

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Why Won't Republicans Answer This One Simple Question?

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Ostroy

It's like a disease. I've not seen one Republican leader, from DeMint to Rep. John Boehner to Rep. Eric Cantor to Sen. Mitch McConnell answer the "which specific programs would you cut" question with a straight answer.

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Shadow Elite: Election 2010 -- Attack of the Stealth Financiers

Linda Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Linda Keenan

If both parties decide to play fast and loose with the campaign finance system, as the GOP did in 2010, the biggest loser in 2012 won't be just a candidate or a certain party, but the democratic ideals of transparency and accountability.

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Is A Hard-Right GOP Senator Obama's Ace In The Hole?

Roll Call | Posted 05.25.2011

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South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, who once proclaimed that he'd rather have "30 Republicans in the Senate who believe in principles of freedom than 60 w...

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SCDP Celebrates Fiscal Conservative Week Republican Style

Carol Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carol Fowler

You might have noticed that the Republicans are having a rough go of it in the press lately. The party of "family values" has been caught saying that...

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Republican Crybabies Meet Their Waterloo

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Ostroy

Yes, I'd really love to see the GOP run on a repeal platform. Because I wonder exactly which parts of the bill Americans will want to give up next year.

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DeMint To Endorse Michael Williams For Texas Senator

The Washington Post | Chris Cillizza | Posted 05.25.2011

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Conservative South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint (R) will endorse Texas Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams' Senate candidacy later today, a move design...

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Flip-flopping With Jim DeMint

Danielle Celena Belton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Danielle Celena Belton

Conservatives lare focusing on how often President Obama says the word 'terrorism.' Not on his actions. Not on his abilities. But word counting. This is where they want to take our national security debate.

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Deriliction of Representation. Unreal Video.

Mike Stark | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Stark

I thought it would be interesting to see how much some of the most virulent opponents of health care reform knew about the people they are supposed to be representing. I came up with two simple questions.

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TSA Without Leader Thanks To Jim DeMint

McClatchy Newspapers | Margaret Talev | Posted 05.25.2011

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An attempt to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day would be all-consuming for the administrator of the Transport...

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DeMint Refuses To Take Back 'Waterloo' Statement: "It's Not Personal"

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON - An outspoken Southern Republican says it's time to "put the brakes on" President Barack Obama, saying he's advocating too much government...

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Sen. DeMint: "I Am Just Going To Have To Create Pain" (POLL)

Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

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In an interview with the evangelical World Magazine titled "The Taxpayers' Greatest Ally," Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) had some interesting things to say a...

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Toyota Republicans Should Cut Their Own Pay

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leo W. Gerard

Clearly the allegiance of the Republicans who opposed the loan to save GM and Chrysler is not with the US, which would lose 900,000 jobs if just GM closed, and more than 2.1 million if the Big Three did.

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