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Scozzafava Tells Her Story: 'My Name's A Verb Now'

Washington Post | Jason Horowitz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Over Halloween weekend, Dede Scozzafava morphed from a rosy-cheeked Republican mom to a political figure of speech. "My name's a verb now," she said....

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"Our Weapon Is Fear"

Tom Sullivan | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Scozzafava-Special-Election, Ronald Reagan, Dede Scozzafava, Christopher Monckton, Mission Accomplished, Bill Owens, Mark Liebovich, Christopher Buckley, Cold War, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

Conservatives have resurrected "socialist" to smear anyone to the left of Genghis Khan as anti-American or a heretic.

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Palin's Boob a Fake: Hoffman Loses

Shannyn Moore | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Yrok 23, Chris Christie, Jon Corzine, Virginia Governors Race, Newt Gingrich, Doug Hoffman, Dede Scozzafava, Creigh Deeds, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Politics News

The only thing Sarah Palin can really take credit for is New York's House District 23 electing a Democrat for the first time since before The Civil War.

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Thank You for (Not) Running for President

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Politics, Joe Scarborough, C-Span, Sean Hannity, 2012 Election, John Edwards, Jimmy Carter, Joe Klein, Hamilton Jordan, Newt Gingrich, Presidency, Barack Obama, Media News

In the U.S. any child can grow up to become president. But with our new 24/7 cable/Internet news culture, it's more fun to explain why you're not running for President.

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Palin Power and New York's 23rd District

Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker") | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Palin Owens, Palin Scozzafava, Palin Alaska, Palin NY 23rd, Palin Hoffman, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich Sarah Palin, Politics News

Will the moderate Republicans only be able to win back their district from the Teabaggers by electing a Democrat for the first time since the mid-19th century? These are strange times indeed.

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Frank Rich On Scozzafava Fallout: The GOP Stalinists Invade Upstate New York

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fred Thompson, Hoffman, Democrat, New York, John Boehner, Scozzafava, Fort Drum, Bill Kristol, Doug Hoffman, William Kristol, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Dede Scozzafava, Steve Forbes, Michelle Malkin, Sarah Palin, Rick Santourum, Michelebachmann, Republican, Tim Pawlenty, Gop, Dick Armey, Deirdre, Newt Gingrich, Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Republicans, Politics News

Barack Obama's most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the ...

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Ethics Probe Could Feel to Voters Like 1992 House Banking Scandal

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ethics Investigation, Charlie Rangel, House Ethics Committee, Newt Gingrich, Contract With America, House Bank Scandal, Republican Revolution, Politics News

Then, as now, the economy was coming out of recession. Then, as now, the housing market and job losses were hurting many Americans.

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Building Progressive Staying Power

Bill Goold | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Progressive Legislative Exchange, Barack Obama, Election Day, Progressives, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

The resurgent progressive movement needs to think more long-term, come together quickly, and systematically build a Progressive Legislative Exchange to share the best ideas.

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Obama Strikes Back -- First Year Agenda, Phase III

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Phase III: Obama Strikes Back. The Republicans are still leaderless and teabaggers have hung up their Lipton for the winter. Meanwhile, two-thirds of Americans still want health care reform.

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2012 GOP Candidates as Diverse And Exciting as Their Ideas

Julie Farby | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tim Pawlenty, Republicans, 2012 Presidential Election, Newt Gingrich, 2012 Election, Bobby Jindal, Gop 2012, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Politics News

In the vast wasteland that is the 2012 GOP presidential landscape, fresh-faced stars join seasoned statesman to create a powerful right-wing juggernau...

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Newt Gingrich's Presidential Ambitions Laughed At By Conservatives

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

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When Lisa Miller found out that former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich would be signing books on Saturday in McLean, Va., she hauled out her video cam...

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Why Newt Gingrich Won't Run in 2012

Michael J.W. Stickings | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conservatives, Newt Gingrich, Republican Party, 2012 Election, Republican Primary, Politics News

Gingrich is an attention whore. Whenever he's not getting enough attention, he floats the "I may run for president" bullshit, knowing that the media will lap it up and put him back in the news.

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Newt Gingrich Says He May Run For President In 2012

Politics Daily | Patricia Murphy | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Washington Journal, C-Span, Presidential Bid, 2012 President, Callista Gingrich, Newt Gingrich, Republican Party, Run for President, Politics News

Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker and perennial big thinker in the Republican party, said this morning that he will likely run for president in ...

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Gingrich Re-Enacts The Battle Of Trenton On Twitter

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

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Twitter is clearly changing the scope of political communication, allowing pols to alter the course of debates in real time -- provided that they can ...

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Wall Street Is More of a Threat to Obama's Domestic Agenda than Afghanistan

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Bill Clinton, Pecora Commission, Treasury Department, Sec, Joseph P. Kennedy, President Barack Obama, Cdos, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Larry Summers, Federal Reserve, Credit Default Swaps, Newt Gingrich, Fdr, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Vietnam, Tim Geithner, Vice President Dick Cheney, Afghanistan, Timothy Geithner, Bear Stearns, Lyndon Johnson, Alan Greenspan, Securities and Exchange Commission, Too Big to Fail, President George W. Bush, Blue Dog Democrats, World News

Whatever Obama decides to do in Afghanistan is of little consequence compared to Wall Street's ongoing "plutonomy."

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GOP Gaining Advantage In 2010

washingtonpost.com | Dan Balz | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Midterm Elections, 2010 Elections, House Democrats, David Axelrod, The Democracy Corps, Senate Democrats, Democratic Party, Obama Democrats, Newt Gingrich, Election, Politics News

Three forces threaten Democrats in the 2010 elections: populist anger on the right, disaffection in the middle and potential disillusionment on the le...

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Congressman Chaka Fattah Talks Education

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Arne Duncan Education Secretary, Philadelphia, House-Education-and-Labor-Committee, New America Foundation, Al Sharpton, Arne Duncan, Higher Education Act of 1965, College, Shoemaker Campus, GEAR UP, Public Education, Mastery Charter School, Newt Gingrich, House Democrats, Representative Chaka Fattah, Politics News

"There are people who say that money doesn't really matter in public eduction. If it really doesn't matter, then we should equalize the expenditures. If it does matter, we should equalize the expenditures."

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Newt Gingrich Named "Family Values Porn Fan Of The Year"

Washington City Paper | Dave McKenna | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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Allison Vivas once thought she'd be spending Wednesday night in DC with Newt Gingrich. Then he stood her up. Instead of getting mad, Vivas got even. ...

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To "Americans for Prosperity" Capitalism Is a Love Story

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tim Phillips, C-Span, David Koch, President Obama, It's a Wonderful Life, Ann Coulter, Enron, Frank Capra, Koch Industries, Newt Gingrich, Capitalism, Tsa, Savings and Loan Scandal, The 2016 Olympic Games, Henry Clay Frick, Cnbc, Tyco, Free Market Fundamentalism, Americans for Prosperity, Laura Ingraham, Worldcom, Afp, Larry Kudlow, Supply-Side Economics, Knights of Labor, National Defending the American Dream Summit, Megan McCain, Long-Term Capital Management, John Birch Society, Pinkertons, Politics News

The only distinguishing feature of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's "National Defending the American Dream Summit" was its astonishing homogeneity both in thought and in demography.

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Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism (Review)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.

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Olympic Bid a No-Win Situation for Obama

Chris Prevatt | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Msnbc, 2016 Olympic Games, Michelle Obama, Cnn, Twitter, Jon Stewart, President Barack Obama, Associated Press, Copenhagen, Liberal Media Bias Media Bias, The Daily Show, Newt Gingrich, International Olympic Committee, Right Wing Media.Rio De Janeiro, Ioc, Chicago 2016, Health Care Reform, Politics News

But it is one hell of a leap to compare Obama's participation in Chicago's Olympic bid to his health care reform efforts.

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Going Rogue And Other Cheesy Political Book Covers (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Political Books, Slideshow, Rudy Giuliani Leadership, Dan Quayle Standing Firm, Mike Huckabee, Tom Delay, True Compass, Mitt Romney, Going Rogue, John McCain Courage, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Ted Kennedy, Cheesy Political Book Covers, Cheesy Book Covers, Politics News

The cover of Sarah Palin's forthcoming book Going Rogue was made public today. In honor of the inspirational photograph of the ex-governor, here are ...

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Newt Gingrich Topless Bar Snafu: Owners Speak To Rachel Maddow (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pornography, Rachel Maddow, Video, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

Newt Gingrich! Does anyone currently walking the face of the earth know more about entrepreneurship? Or about American Solutions For Winning the Fut...

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Newt Gingrich Makes "World's Best Persons" For Revoking Business Award He Gave To Strip Club (VIDEO)

Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

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Keith Olbermann named Newt Gingrich "World's Best Person" for revoking two of his Business Defense and Advisory Council Entrepreneur Awards after he d...

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Gingrich Group Withdraws Invitation To Topless Club

The Dallas Morning News | Gromer Jeffers Jr. | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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Dawn Rizos didn't need any formal recognition that The Lodge, one of the best-known gentlemen's clubs in Dallas, was a successful small business. But...

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