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Napolitano Splits GOP; Leaders Not Calling For Resignation

The Hill | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

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The White House and senior lawmakers on both sides of the aisle defended Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday as a cadre of Republ...

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Ryan Grim

Rep. Paul Ryan: Dems Have "Right" To Push Health Care Overhaul Through Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

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Shortly after President Obama's Inauguration, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) let Republicans know that the election would come with consequence...

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House Republicans Beat Up House Dems In Letter To Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

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House Republicans, in advance of a meeting Thursday at the White House, sent President Obama a letter outlining the difficulties they say they've had ...

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Napolitano Resignation Demanded By Some House Republicans

The Hill | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

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Conservative House Republicans are calling on their leaders to ask President Obama for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's resignation. ...

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The Michele Bachmann Reality Show

Eric Hananoki | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

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Eric Hananoki

You kids can have your Susan Boyle and Adam Lambert. For my money, this season's breakout reality star is Rep. Michele Bachmann. She has turned CSPAN into The Surreal Life.

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GOP House Members, Staff Leaking Dirt On Other Republicans

The Plum Line | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

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You know there's serious disarray afoot among a party's Congressional leaders when the principals and their staffs start leaking damaging info about e...

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Insane Republicans Reveal An Insane Budget Plan

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

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Bob Cesca

Congratulations, Republicans, you just released a budget that rewards wealthy corporate executives while blocking any attempt to dig us out of the economic catastrophe they created. Smart!

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Ryan Grim

GOP Budget Plan Assumes Americans Would Choose Higher Tax Rate

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

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House Republicans set themselves a high bar last week when they promised to deliver an alternative budget that drastically slashed taxes while also cu...

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 04.28.2009 | Politics

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Arianna Huffington

This week, House Republicans unveiled their alternative budget -- a wafer-thin proposal that contained no precise numbers. But the plan did have one big idea: a massive tax cut for rich people! Talk about being tone deaf to the times. While announcing what he called "The Republican Road to Recovery," John Boehner said, "Our economic plan amounts to less government, lower taxes and economic prosperity" -- forgetting, it seems, that the first two had been the GOP roadmap while in power the last eight years and had led to the exact opposite of prosperity. Elsewhere in the GOP, Michael Steele claimed that his many gaffes since taking over the RNC had actually been part of a master plan. "It's all strategic," he said. This coming from the guy in charge of strategy for the loyal opposition. Be afraid. I'm guest hosting CNBC's Squawk Box next Tuesday morning and I'd love your suggestions, which you can put in the comments to this post.

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GOP Budget Proposal: Massive Tax Cut For Wealthy

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

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House Republican leaders called a press conference Thursday to unveil their "alternative budget." While it was thin on specifics, it does include one ...

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House Republicans Planning To Try To Force Treasury To Recoup AIG Bonuses

The Plum Line | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics

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Looks like House Republicans are about to make a big political move on the AIG issue by trying to compel the Treasury Department to try to recoup thos...

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Blacks in the Corridors of Power

Carine Fabius | Posted 04.07.2009 | Living

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Carine Fabius

Knowing the enemy you're up against is the first step toward coming up with a winning strategy.

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Red-Baiting President Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

In quick succession, Republicans have lambasted President Obama as the second coming of V.I. Lenin. Their silly, discredited, and thoroughly desperate commie slur of Obama is not new.

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Boehner Rush Limbaugh Op-Ed: It's A Dem Conspiracy

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

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House Minority Leader John Boehner has responded to the ongoing deification of radio host Rush Limbaugh in a Washington Post op-ed Thursday. Boehner ...

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With Talent on Loan from Rush

Karl Frisch | Posted 04.04.2009 | Media

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Karl Frisch

Limbaugh often says that he's broadcasting "with talent on loan from God." It seems more and more that conservatives are attempting to find their way out of the political wilderness with talent on loan from Rush.

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Ryan Grim

Pelosi To House GOP: Be Thankful For What You Have

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi has a message for House Republicans who think they weren't given enough time to debate or amend the stimulus package that moved t...

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GOP's Risky New Gambit: A "Spending Freeze"

Washington Independent | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

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Between to Monday's Fiscal Responsibility Summit and Tuesday's presidential address to Congress, the White House's economic message shifted to new ter...

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GOP Recycling Failed McCain Campaign Tactics

The New Republic | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

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The Republican Party has been using a grab-bag of strategies to counter Obama's policies over the past month. They rail against the stimulus package f...

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Dems Target 12 Republicans On Stimulus

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

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CNN reports that a dozen House Republicans are targeted in a new House Democratic political campaign that criticizes them for opposing the $787 billio...

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Eric Cantor's Copyright Smackdown

Jonathan Melber | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media

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Jonathan Melber

Eric Cantor is getting a lesson on what "fair use" isn't: his chest-beating, stimulus-opposing, victory-proclaiming video set to the tune of Aerosmith's "Back in the Saddle."

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House GOP Checks Out

Jim Jaffe | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

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Jim Jaffe

While it makes a lot of sense for individual House Republicans to oppose Obama initiatives, claims that such self-interest somehow comprises a national comeback strategy is delusional.

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GOP Cabinet Member LaHood Disappointed By Stimulus Votes, Takes Some Blame

New York Times | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

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The failure of President Obama to win any votes from House Republicans did not go unnoticed by one former House Republican, Ray LaHood, now secretary ...

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GOP Fighting For Money From Stimulus They Opposed

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

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House Republicans, as a group, may take great pride in the goose egg they offered President Obama's stimulus package. But now the unanimous opposition...

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GOP Moderates Live In Fear Of Right-Wing Republican Study Committee

CQ | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

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President Obama's enviable poll numbers have yet to persuade moderate House Republicans to back key parts of the new administration's economic agenda....

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Romney Working With House GOP To Oppose Stimulus

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

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Mitt Romney and House Republicans have been forming an increasingly tight alliance since the former Massachusetts governor lost the Republican primary...

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