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Conservative Trio Supports Transferring Gitmo Detainees To Illinois

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gitmo Detainees, David Keene, Grover Norquist, Guantanamo Bay, Prison Transfer, Terrorist Holdings, Gitmo Transfer, Bob Barr, Politics News

Republicans in Congress are gearing up to fight a new White House effort to relocate detainees at Guantanamo Bay to a prison facility in Illinois. But...

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Tempest in a Teabag: Tea Party Founder Announces He's (Re)Joining GOP

Dawn Teo | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tax Day Tea Party, Tea Party Patriots, Tea Party, Mark Sanford, Dick Armey, Jo-Ann Davidson, Rick Santelli, Grover Norquist, Politics News

Odom has consistently taken controversial public stances against Republican candidates, often accusing them of not being conservative enough.

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Tea Baggers Get Kicked Where It Hurts

Kristina Wilfore | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Sam Adams, Dick Armey, Bisc, Ballot Measure, TABOR Amendment, Tabor, Grover Norquist, Tea Party, Ballot Initiatives, Politics News

Out of all of the election results from yesterday, the anti-tax ballot measures in Maine and Washington (known as TABOR) provide a better political tea leaf into voter attitudes going into the 2010 election cycle than anything else.

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Michael Smerconish: Talk Radio Host Without A Shout

Politico | PATRICK GAVIN | | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Talk Radio, Politico, Rush Limbaugh, Conservatives, Liberal Talk Radio, Smerconish, President Obama, Michael Smerconish, Media News, Grover Norquist, Michael Smerconish Radio Show, Michael Smerconish Obama Interview, Media News

Michael Smerconish has been on the radio for years in Philadelphia, but he shot to national recognition on Aug. 20 when he broadcast his interview wit...

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For Liberty Examines the Kingmakers

J. Bradley Jansen | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Boaz, War on Terror, Rasmussen Poll, Antiwar Movement, Grassroots, Markos Moulitsas, Ron Paul, George W. Bush, David Kirby, Thomas Jefferson, Libertarian, Campaign for Liberty, Republican Convention, 2008 Election, CNN Poll, Arianna Huffington, Afghanistan War, Daily Kos, Iraq War, Nicholas Sanchez, Joe Scarborough, Tax Day Tea Parties, For Liberty, David Brooks, Alternative Media, Grover Norquist, Tea Party, Republican Party, Swing Voters, Republicans, 2010 Elections, 2012 Election, Politics News

The documentary For Liberty beautifully shows us what Markos Mousitlas called the only true people-powered campaign in 2008: Ron Paul's campaign.

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Grover Norquist: Torture Investigations Are "A Good Idea"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eric Holder Precedent, Grower Norquist Investigations, Torture Investigations, Norquist Torture, Eric Holder Norquist, Obama Holder, Grover Norquist, Politics News

One of the leading conservative figures in Washington D.C. said on Monday that he supports Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to open an investig...

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Rep. Gene Taylor Calls Anti-Tax Activist Norquist And His Group "Lying Sacks Of Scum"

briefingroom.thehill.com | Posted 09.01.2009 | Home

Read More: Gene Taylor, Lying Sack of Scum, Lying Sacks of Scum, Grover Norquist, Home News

Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) condemned conservative activist Grover Norquist and his organization, Americans for Tax Reform, as "lying sacks of scum" fo...

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The Republicans Win Big in California!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Economic Crisis, California, Senator Darrell Steinberg, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Enron, Tea Baggers, California Republicans, Santa Barbara Oil Drilling, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Schwarzenegger, Budget Deal, Duke Energy, Grover Norquist, California Budget Crisis, Republican Party, Howard Jarvis, Budget Standoff, Reliant, Politics News

Schwarzenegger and his horde of retrograde Republican lawmakers got everything they wanted in a horrific bargain with Democratic leaders that has ended California's budget impasse.

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American Conservative Union Responds To Politico's Pay-For-Play Story

Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Fedex, Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, Ups, American Conservative Union, David Keene, Acu, Pac, Business News

The American Conservative Union has sent out a press release today addressing Politico's story from this morning alleging a pay-for-play scheme betwee...

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American Conservative Union: Conservative Group Offers To Sell Endorsement For $2M

Politico | Posted 08.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Fedex, Acu, David Keene, Chairman David Keene, Pay to Play, Grover Norquist, American Conservative Union, Conservative Group Offers to Sell Endorsement for $2m, Americans for Tax Reform, Pac, Business News

Politico reported this morning on a pay-for-play scheme between the American Conservative Union and FedEx. The ACU would offer their group's endorsem...

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UPS Bailout: FedEx's 'Brown Bailout' Media Campaign (VIDEO) (UPDATED)

Posted 08.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Fedex, UPS Bailout, FAA Reauthorization Act, Grover Norquist, brownbailout.com, Railway Labor Act, Ups, Brown Bailout, Fred Smith, Business News

UPDATED 5:29 p.m. FedEx has launched a full-fledged attack against a bill that it considers to be a bailout of its competitor, United Parcel Service...

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Conservative Movement Throws Full Weight Against Sebelius

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kathleen Sebelius Abortion, Sebelius, Obama Sebelius, Kathleen Sebelius, Barack Obama Kathleen Sebelius, Palin, Conservative Movement, Sarah Palin, James Dobson, Palin Sebelius, Hhs, Grover Norquist, Palin Conservative Movement, Tony Perkins, Politics News

Several key conservative movement leaders, in an attempt to jack up pressure against Kathleen Sebelius Wednesday, sent a memo to the Senate urging mem...

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Reporting From the Tea Bagger Hate-Fest in Sacramento

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Tax Protest, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Right-Wing Talk Radio, Anti-Tax Tea Party, President Barack Obama, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Michelle Malking, Sacramento Rally, Sacramento Tea Bag Rally, Grover Norquist, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Tea Bagging, Tea Bag, Tea Party, Sacramento-California, Politics News

The hatred was palpable today on the State Capitol's steps -- hatred for taxes, hatred for government, hatred for Democrats. But the most hated figure in Sacramento today was President Obama.

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Norquist: Specter's EFCA Opposition A Major Step To Republican Resurrection

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Free Choice, Republican Resurection, Arlen Specter, Specter Cloture, Grover Norquist, Afl-Cio, Labor Law, Efca, Employee, Richard Trumka, Specter Employee Free Chioce Act, Politics News

Sen. Arlen Specter's early opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act could serve as an influential pivot point by which Republicans can reclaim elect...

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Specter's EFCA Move Helps Him With Primary: Norquist

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Employee Free Choice Act, Specter Efca, Specter Toomey, Norquist Specter, Lincoln Chafee, Grover Norquist, Pat Toomey, Republican Primary Pennsylvania, Toomey, Politics News

In announcing his opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act on Tuesday, Sen. Arlen Specter -- labor's best hope for a Republican defector -- declared...

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Blue Dog Democrats and Republican Triangulation

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, Gop, Mitch McConnell, Ann Coulter, Progressives, Afghanistan Occupation, Employee Free Choice Act, Conservatism, Obama Administration, Democratic Party, Economic Meltdown, Blue Doggery, Meghan McCain, U.S. Senate, Bush Doctrine, Triangulation, Laissez-Faire, Progressive Democrats, Grover Norquist, Capitalism, Republican Party, Blue Dog Democrats, Corporate Governance, Bretton Woods Accords, Evan Bayh, John McCain, North Carolina Representative Patrick McHenry, President Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, Iraq Occupation, Congress, Efca, Triangulate, Blanche Lincoln, Blue Dogs, Republicans, Free Market, Alan Greenspan, William Kristol, Senate, Politics News

We must not allow the Blue Dogs to slow down President Obama's momentum or water down the sweeping reforms the nation needs in these trying economic times.

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"Republicants" Deny the Sky is Falling

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 03.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Institute for America’s Future, Gop, Usw, Mortgage Delinquency, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Demos, Michael P. Brown, U.S. Senate, Unemployment, Credit Default Swap, American Conservative Union, Hurricane Katrina, Paul Krugman, Grover Norquist, Arlen Specter, Bill Clinton, Congressman Jerry Lewis, Olympia Snowe, Carl Rove, $700 Billion Bank Bailout, United Steelworkers, Economic Policy Institute, Barack Obama, American Prospect, James Lee Witt, Susan Collins, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Wall Street, U.S. House, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, New York Times, Thinking Big Thinking Forward, Forclosure, Americans for Tax Reform, Stimulus Package, Politics News

Republicans are terrified of the stimulus because if it works, then Americans will think good thoughts about government action and spending.

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Will Obama's Presidency End the Progressive Movement?

Rupert Russell | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Progressive billionaires, bloggers and grassroots activists mobilized less against a conservative president than a complicit mainstream media and a Bush-enabling Democratic establishment.

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Chip Saltsman Leads GOP To Soul-Searching Period

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: African American Voters, Republican Party, Obama Magic Negro, GOP Black Voters, Race and Republicans, Soul-Searching, Obama Black, Grover Norquist, GOP Debates, Rnc Inclusiveness, Chip Saltsman, Politics News

The Republican National Committee is set to host a historic series of discussions and debates in early January that will likely affect not just the fu...

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The Tax History Conservatives Want Us to Forget

David Sirota | Posted 12.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Barack Obama, Taxes, Video, Tax Policy, Conservatives, Economy, Grover Norquist, Business News

As you'll see, the CNBC reporters start laughing at Grover Norquist, having trouble taking him seriously. And I must say, I really wasn't sure he was being serious -- but, of course, he was.

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Why the Conservatives Won't Crack-up, But the Left Probably Will

Rupert Russell | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

The conservative Counter-Establishment is the most cast-iron entanglement of alliances and dependencies known in modern American history.

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Miami Blues: Palin And National Republicans Look Like The Sad California Republican Party

William Bradley | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics

Don't look now, but the national Republican Party is on the verge of becoming the California Republican Party. And that ain't a good thing -- unless you're a Democrat.

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Norquist Plots GOP Resurrection, Goes After Bush's Churchill Complex

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Republican Party, Iraq War, Ronald Reagan, Gop Ressurection, Bush GOP, Norquist Taxes, Grover Norquist, Reagan Foreign Policy, Gop Rebirth, Norquist Bush, Bush Reagan, Bush Churchill, Foreign Policy, Politics News

Hoping to pick up the pieces after an electoral drubbing, anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist held one of his famous Wednesday meetings yesterday to plo...

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McCain, Palin Rely on 19th Century Ideals

Michele Swenson | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Disparity of Wealth, John McCain, Dominionists, Robber Barrons, New Gilded Age, 19th Century Vision, Opportunity Society, Republican Revolution, Richard Herrnstein, Neocons, Charles Murray, Grover Norquist, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Middle Class Taxes, Politics of Race & Gender Inferiority, Social Darwinism, Biodeterminism, Council for National Policy, James Dobson, Religious Right, Christian Dominionists, Christian Mccain, Home News

The culture war waged by Republican revolutionaries is grounded in 19th century gender, race and class divisions, as well as nativism that perpetuated fear of immigrants and derided social justice movements.

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