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Ryan Grim

House Republicans Deliver Stimulus Plan To Obama: Full Text

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics

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House Republicans delivered the following economic recovery plan to President Obama today, which they also provided to the Huffington Post. It calls ...

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Incoming House GOP Leader: My Party Is No Longer "Relevant"

Washington Times | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, poised to ascend to House Republicans' No. 2 leader this week, said the Republican Party in Washington is no longer "rel...

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GOP Scrambling To Save Incumbents

New York Times | CARL HULSE | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics

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Outspent and under siege in a hostile political climate, Congressional Republicans scrambled this weekend to save embattled incumbents in an effort to...

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Jed Lewison

McCain "Proud" He Was "Helpful" With House GOP On Bailout Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics

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Meanwhile, on Planet McCain (from a CNN interview): I suspended my campaign to come back and make this -- make it better, and I'm proud of the work t...

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I'd Post About David Gergen Calling The House Bailout Vote "Shockingly Irresponsible," But It's Probably Not A Good Idea To Offend Anyone Right Now

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.01.2008 | Media

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Republican House Bailout Plan Is A Hidden Tax

Stephen Herrington | Posted 11.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Banking, Bail Outs, Credit Crisis, Paulson, House Republicans, Economy, Bush Administration, John McCain, Barack Obama, Economic Crisis, Henry Paulson, Election 2008, Securities and Exchange Commission, Democrats, Republicans, Home News
Stephen Herrington

The Republican House plan would be a government bailout with the prospect that bank contributions would cover the costs over time. But those contributions will not come out of bank profits but will be passed on to consumers, further adding to the costs of credit.

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Republican "Workout" Is A Cop Out

Ron Grande | Posted 10.31.2008 | Home

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Ron Grande

The House Republicans will be to blame for any calamities that may yet be in store for our economy. Their objection to the modified Paulson Plan was not ideological, it was political.

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The Financial Crisis Bailout Leadership Failure

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

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Robert Schlesinger

It is the wildest of understatements to say that GWB is no FDR. But he could have at least reached for Reagan, another president who used the bully pulpit effectively.

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Jed Lewison

Matthews Blames Bailout Crash On McCain's Failed Leadership

HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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Chris Matthews points to John McCain's failure to provide the leadership that he promised -- and took credit for: McCain said he was going to lead th...

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Sierra Club RAW: Bachmann Drilling Overdrive (And Other Assorted Idiocy)

Josh Dorner | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green

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Josh Dorner

Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota personifies just how haywire House conservatives have gone lately, particularly on energy issues.

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House GOP Leader Rips "Wildly Unpopular ... Beijing George" Bush

The Hill | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

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A House Republican leader is lambasting President Bush on his decision not to call Congress back into session to deal with the energy crisis. In a le...

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House Republicans May Buy Ad To Get McCain's Op-Ed In Times

Politico | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

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A House Republican will circulate a letter among his colleagues on Wednesday asking the New York Times whether a third-party group can take out a full...

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House GOP Falls Short On Campaign Cash

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — House rank and file Republicans are tens of millions of dollars short of meeting fundraising targets set by their own campaign comm...

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Conservatives Blame Own Party For Woes, Try To Push GOP To The Right

Politico | Martin Kady II and Patrick O'Connor | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

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Conservative Republicans in the House and Senate are unhappier than they have been at any point since Newt Gingrich was ousted in a palace coup in 199...

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Jason Linkins

Boehner Needled On This Week Over Effexor Slogan

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: GOP Campaign Slogans, Psychopharmacology, Video, George Stephanopoulos, John Boehner, Anti-Depressants, Pharmaceuticals, Campaign Slogans, Gop, GOP Candidates, House Republicans, Politics News

Well, we seem to have come full circle on the matter of the House Republicans hilariously choosing a campaign slogan, "The Change You Deserve", that i...

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Jason Linkins

Hoyer Pokes Fun Of House GOP, Anti-Depressant Co-Branding Effort

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

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As we learned earlier this week, the electoral hopes of the GOP have grown so dim that the House Republicans have turned to psychopharmacology to help...

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Jason Linkins

GOP's New Slogan Already Being Used To Market Anti-Depressant

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics

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Leave it to the tone deaf GOP to find a way of attaching themselves to this election cycle's "change" mandate that simultaneously reinforces the fact ...

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House GOP Struggling To Recruit Candidates

The Hill | Aaron Blake | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

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With seven months until the 2008 elections and filing deadlines now coming and going, House Republicans face a significant number of recruiting holes....

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GOP House Retirement Makes 29

Politico | John Bresnahan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.) has scheduled a noon press conference on Thursday, and GOP insiders say the veteran lawmaker is going to announce his retir...

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Republican Rep Shadegg To Retire

Washington Post | Ben Pershing | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Add yet another name to the GOP retirement list. Arizona Rep. John Shadegg (R) is on the verge of announcing that he will not run for re-election, acc...

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GOP Exodus

AP | David Espo | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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Rep. David Hobson, a nine-term Republican from Ohio, announced plans to retire Sunday, the 12th member of his party to do so since the beginning of th...

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Va. Congresswoman Dies After Battle With Breast Cancer

AP | LARRY O'DELL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

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U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Davis, a Republican who represented southeastern Virginia for seven years, died Saturday morning after a two-year battle with breast ...

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