House Republicans ignored the requests of the generals and a White House veto threat today, passing their bloated defense spending authorization bill, 299-120. The bill breaks the spending agreement made last year as part of the Budget Control Act, a.....
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(Caricature by DonkeyHotey) The fight over the "replace" part of "repeal and replace" in the Republican Party is now very public. Yesterday's news put the conflict in spotlight. On the one hand, you had budget guru Paul Ryan proclaiming that Republic.....
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Beware Rep. Paul Ryan's "vision." (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Republican wonder boy Rep. Paul Ryan, the guy who has a detailed plan to end Medicare, says there won't be any other health plan from the Republicans this year if the Supreme Court strikes..
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Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell (Jim Young/Reuters) Today, except for a couple of hypocrites worried about reelection, Senate Republicans joined their House brethren and voted to end Medicare as we know it. The only really interesting vote was on .....
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Symptoms of early onset Limbaughtis include hallucinations involving liberals, reduced pot/kettle awareness, and the irresistible urge to call people whores. The question before us today: Has former governor and common Republican fantasy presidential.....
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Oh sweet merciful Zeus, they're at it again. About a year ago, Republican women in the House of Representatives had themselves a little consciousness-raising session, "telling their own stories," trying to correct the "misconception about who are the .....
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Barack Obama opposes the Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act (White House photo) The Obama administration is making clear that the House version of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization, being voted on today, is unacceptable.....
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John Boehner, debt ceiling drama queen. Call it an electoral death wish or a leadership hail mary. Either way, House Speaker John Boehner is calling for future debt ceiling drama. In remarks at the 2012 Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Boehner will erec.....
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Mitt Romney's job was making money, not jobs. The Tampa Bay Times reports on yet another example of Mitt Romney's "heads I win, tails you lose" business model: Millions of dollars in tax subsidies given to Bain-owned Dade Behring for creating..
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Rep. Paul Ryan re-introducing his path to a difficult reelection campaign for a lot of Republicans. (Jose Luis Magaua/Reuters) Rep. Paul Ryan's budget and his kinder, gentler approach to ending Medicare as we know it is no more popular in 2012 than..
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Here's the dividend for Republicans in working relentlessly to sabotage the economy for the entirety of President Obama's first term: a shaky economy and tough polling. From Washington Post/ABC News: With unemployment still high, homeowners still unde.....
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Speaker John Boehner (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) This wasn't predictable. No, not at all. WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) really doesn't want to talk about gay marriage. During his weekly briefing on Thursday, Boehner was asked several qu.....
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The GOP health care reform plan. The off-again, on-again promise from congressional Republicans to replace Obamacare after repeal (or the Supreme Court strikes it down) seems to be off again. Republicans might not offer a comprehensive plan to repla.....
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House leadership, aka a bunch of bigots. Speaker John Boehner, Rep. Paul Ryan, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, Rep. Eric Cantor and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) House Republicans reacted to President Obama's historic announcement in sup.....
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This Slate piece published just before Sen. Dick Lugar lost his primary bid to the more froth-friendly Richard Mourdock is notable primarily for the number of looney statements freely proffered by the participants: Taking out the Republicans who compr.....
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Conservatives still being oppressed by minorities, uppity women, gay people.   Republicans are unanimous; they don't like Barack Obama's endorsement of gay marriage. They aren't quite on the same page as to why, but they'll work that out later. .....
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Sen. Harry Reid (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) With the House set to vote as soon as Thursday on their "Sequester Replacement Act" to renege on the Budget Control Act they agreed to last year, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says it'll be DOA..
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According to NPR, fact-checkers have been having a field day with Democratic claims that the Republicans are continuing their War on Women by proposing to pay for keeping student loan interests rates low by cutting funding for preventive health care..
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