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Jennifer Bendery

Obama Slams GOP On Immigration Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 07.10.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In a show of his return to full campaign mode, President Barack Obama used a Tuesday speech in El Paso, Texas, to rally his base on the ...

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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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Cornyn: Dems Would Create 'Health Care Gulag' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Add this one to the ranks of opponents of health care reform using extreme political analogies to try to sway the debate. On Fox News Sunday Sen. Joh...

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Outraged Lily-White GOP More Upset with Sen. Reid than Prominent Black Leaders

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Ostroy

According to the 99.5% lily-white Republican Party, these poor black folk defending Reid are either too naive or forgiving or both to understand just how offensive and insensitive his remarks were.

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Empathy For The Devil

Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michelle Schweiger Schecter

Hart Senate Office Building, Room 216 was the venue for a skirmish that at times got awfully mean. Judge Sonia came in earnest, her cards laid out on the table.

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What? "Political Self-Preservation?" Shocking!

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Ostroy

Spector's no dummy. He knows the highly effective and stauchly conservative Club for Growth will lavish support and money on a much more radically right-wing 2010 GOP primary opponent.

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John Conryn Vacationed In Caribbean On Texas Fraudster's Dime

TPMmuckraker | Posted 05.25.2011

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So we already knew that Allen Stanford -- the Texas banker charged by the SEC today with running an $8 billion "fraud of shocking magnitude" -- had so...

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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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