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GOP loses way on fiscal cliff
The Hill [Washington DC], by Steve Forbes
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Posted By:JoniTx, 12/12/2012 9:03:54 AM
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| In the war over the “fiscal cliff” of looming automatic spending cuts and increased tax rates, the GOP is reeling. Republicans are playing right into the Democrats’ hands, time and time again. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) made the generous but misguided gesture last week of offering tax increases via eliminating or capping deductions, without demanding any sort of tax reform in return. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) then exceeded the Speaker’s generosity on Sunday by acquiescing to higher tax rates, in the abstract hope that the White House would return the favor when it comes to entitlement reform.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
maryc, 12/12/2012 9:13:56 AM (No. 9061168)
Washington fever. Destroys backbones.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
convert, 12/12/2012 9:42:33 AM (No. 9061238)
Forbes has good advice here....if only the Repubs had the brains, the PR savvy, and the backbone to follow it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bpl40, 12/12/2012 9:53:15 AM (No. 9061258)
Look at it this way. If the Republican establishment had the vision, political guts and inclination to see this through. We won´t have lost the general election under current economic circumstances.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ETRES, 12/12/2012 9:56:32 AM (No. 9061269)
Let all Democratic legislation bills (no procedural or confirmations) be voted on.
All GOPs vote ´Present´ Dems vote ´Yea´ Bill passes, Obama & Dems own it!Let all Democratic legislation bills (no procedural or confirmations) be voted on.
All GOPs vote ´Present´ Dems vote ´Yea´ Bill passes, Obama & Dems own it!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jimmiet, 12/12/2012 9:59:00 AM (No. 9061275)
The same people pulling the strings of the Obie puppet also have the strings of the GOP leadership puppet. Didn´t all these ivy league guys belong to the same fraternities?
Sold out since their beer drinking days, these cronies all took the same pledge.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
msjena, 12/12/2012 10:18:06 AM (No. 9061333)
Did any of the voters who elected the Republican Congressmen to the House vote for higher taxes? No. So these Representatives--Boner included--have a duty to hold the line on tax increases, whether through rate increases or eliminating deductions for "the wealthy."
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
msjena, 12/12/2012 10:22:06 AM (No. 9061339)
And I´ll add one more item to Forbes´ list: the RNC should buy air time to get this message out to the voters. I also think Mitt should donate his leftover campaign funds for this effort. I heard he had $26 million left.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
reilly, 12/12/2012 10:36:21 AM (No. 9061375)
All right, fine, but fact of the matter is everything should be cut. Everything. It won´t be so we´ll all be slouching toward the disunited states of dystopia. Good luck.
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Washington Times [DC], by Shaun Waterman
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Washington Times [DC], by Shaun Waterman
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/11/2013 2:13:52 PM
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The State Department has acknowledged that five U.S. personnel killed in Afghanistan, including 25-year-old diplomat Anne Smedinghoff, were on foot when they were attacked by a suicide bomber, and not in an armored vehicle, as officials had told bereaved relatives earlier this week. The violent deaths of U.S. diplomatic personnel — and the State Department’s changing account of how they died — harken back to the debacle in Benghazi, Libya, where Islamist extremists killed four Americans in assaults on the U.S. diplomatic compound on Sept. 11. “We are able to clarify at this point that they were
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National Journal, by Beth Reinhard
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´Obama said chill "You gonna
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Reuters & Daily Mail UK, by Staff
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Jay-Z blasted back today at critics of his and wife´s Beyoncé´s recent trip to Cuba in a new song. The scathing song, ´Open Letter´ calls out the politicians who questioned the legality of the fifth anniversary vacation, which was approved by the Treasury Department, when the rapper says, ´Politicians never did s**t for me, except lie to me, distort history. They wanna give me jail time and a fine. Fine, let me commit a real crime.´ The song also includes lyrics boasting of his friendship with President Obama, adding: ´Obama said, ´Chill you´re going to get me impeached´
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Senate votes 68-31 to move
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Jonathan Easley & Ramsey Cox
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/11/2013 12:23:49 PM
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/11/2013 12:17:54 PM
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WASHINGTON— Gun control supporters have won the first Senate showdown over restricting firearms, rejecting an effort by conservatives to derail a package of gun curbs before debate could even begin. The 68-31 vote gave an initial burst of momentum to efforts by President Barack Obama and lawmakers, mostly Democrats, to impose gun restrictions following the December carnage at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. Gun control supporters needed 60 votes to block the conservatives. The legislation would subject more firearms buyers to federal background checks, strengthen laws against illicit gun trafficking and increase school safety aid.
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Jay-Z responds to Cuba
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Washington Post, by Roxanne Roberts & Amy Argetsinger
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/11/2013 12:09:04 PM
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Jay-Z has finally broken his silence over the controversy about his trip to Cuba — and of course he did it in rap. In a new song, “Open Letter,” released via his Web site Thursday, the superstar is defiant, self-pitying — and eager to let you know how cool his vacation was. I done turn Havana to Atlanta ~ Guayabera shirts and bandanas ~He then gets political, suggesting that the uproar over his travels is rooted in snobbery against the multi-millionaire’s housing-project origins.(Snip) Then some name-dropping and angst over the trouble he may have caused his high-placed friends:
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Washington Post, by Cindy Boren
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Daily Mail (UK), by Martin Robinson & Staff
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The War on the Family
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American Thinker, by Stella Morabito
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/11/2013 10:46:40 AM
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Seven hundred Military Special Operations professionals. And one insistent and very angry Mom. This is becoming a deadly combination for the political game players in the Obama Administration. Sean Smith, the young State Department computer wizard who was brutally murdered that September night in Benghazi, was Pat Smith’s only child. Let’s say that again. Sean Smith was Mrs. Smith’s only child. To listen to her recent radio interview with another Sean… Sean Hannity… is to have the heart break.
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forward with gun control measure
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Jonathan Easley & Ramsey Cox
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/11/2013 12:23:49 PM
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The Senate voted to move forward on gun control Thursday, clearing the first of what is expected to be many 60-vote hurdles for the legislation. (Snip) Sixteen Republicans voted in favor of the motion, while two Democrats — both from states President Obama lost in the 2012 election — voted against it. The two Democrats were Sens. Mark Begich (Alaska) and Mark Pryor (Ark.), both of whom face reelection next year.The 16 Republicans who voted to proceed were
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End this bizarre fantasy
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New York Post, by Andrea Peyser
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 5:10:54 AM
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Is Anthony Weiner completely delusional? Or is he out of his flipping, sex-crazed gourd? Whatever big-busted fantasies crawl around the ex-congressman’s delirious noggin, la Weiner made his next goal as clear as the skin of the wholesome college students he craved: He relishes being Mayor Weiner. Please, shut up this clown. These days, the genitally obsessed Weiner has nothing much to do, except sit in his lavish Manhattan apartment and — the inhumanity! — change the poopy diapers of his 16-month-old son, Jordan. Worse, Weiner is living under a kind of house arrest, sentenced to take extreme grief
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/10/2013 7:21:14 AM
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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius conceded Monday that implementing the Affordable Care Act has been more complicated and frustrating than the Obama administration expected, largely due to Republicans who have opposed the law´s state-based exchanges and Medicaid expansion. "The politics has been relentless and that continues," Sebelius said. "There was some hope that once the Supreme Court ruled in July, and then once an election occurred there would be a sense that, ´This is the law of the land, let´s get on board, let´s make this work.´"
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