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At retreat, GOP advances
debt-limit strategies
Washington Times, by Seth McLaughlin
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 1/17/2013 10:16:46 PM
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| WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — The chairman of the House Budget Committee on Thursday said the House GOP is considering a short-term extension of the nation’s debt limit to buy Democrats and Republicans some additional time to hash out a long-term deficit-reduction deal, and to force a national conversation over the size and scope of the federal budget. Rep. Paul Ryan, the party’s 2012 vice presidential nominee, said the short-term extension — coupled with reforms or spending cuts — is one of several options that lawmakers knocked around
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Justavoter, 1/17/2013 10:21:33 PM (No. 9123355)
I´m so tiered of these guys. No difference between parties
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
wilarrbie, 1/17/2013 10:47:12 PM (No. 9123389)
How ironic they call their little gathering a retreat. Indeed.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Cleanhousein2012, 1/17/2013 10:52:05 PM (No. 9123399)
Guess they are trying new messaging before they cave to see if that helps.
Losers.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bob913, 1/17/2013 11:47:40 PM (No. 9123449)
Short meeting: Cut spending. Indict obama and others of his ilk.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 1/18/2013 12:01:00 AM (No. 9123457)
Are they flying white flags over this retreat?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ConradNY, 1/18/2013 1:16:41 AM (No. 9123489)
The fiscal cliff was a no win situation for the Republicans because there was going to be a tax increase no matter what they did.
If I was in charge the Repubs would:
I would say the following:
1) Tell the public that Obama´s deficits are destroying our country and that they are not going to tolerate them anymore.
2) That the alternatives for our economic survival is to increase taxes by 40% or to cut spending.
3) That the increased Obama spending is providing no benefit to the country. It is impoverishing the country.
4) The Obama waste in endangering SS, medicare, every government program.
I would take the following actions:
1) Pass a budget that cuts out every penny in spending increases done by Obama.
2) Increase the debt limit just enough to cover the spending in their budget.
3) Tie the two together as one bill.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
steveW, 1/18/2013 2:02:14 AM (No. 9123504)
Headline correction: "At retreat, GOP retreats"
This is hopeless. The GOP now stands for nothing but a somewhat more leisurely timetable for the implementation of the Democrat Socialist Revolution. Yea, let´s get behind that!
Third party. Sarah? Rand Paul?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
belwhatter, 1/18/2013 4:16:16 AM (No. 9123532)
Well said #8 - you name 2 people I could believe in to bring some sanity to the political scene - the two party system is dead as the dodo.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Spidey, 1/18/2013 4:57:59 AM (No. 9123542)
The republicans are trying to bye themselves time,hoping the sentiment in the country turns to their favor. The problem is,if you´re not standing for something,there´s no reason for people to rally around you.
The left and the media have made a $1.5 trillion a year deficit,acceptable.How did we get to that point when the left slammed Bush for $300 billion deficits? Why are we allowing them to get away with this?
The NRA ad on Obama´s kids showed the left´s hypocrisy on the gun issue. We need a strategy that constantly exposes liberal´s hypocrisy and double standards.
Where´s the ad that shows kids disappearing from the stage because they were never really born because of abortion?
Someone should be running ads exposing examples of government waste and make it as an ongoing sequel. Stay tuned for more examples of government waste.Medicaid and medicare fraud should be easy to expose.$100 pentagon hammers were a bargain compared to $900 back braces.
If we´re spending countless billions on food stamps,how is it possible that 1 in 4 kids go to bed hungry every night? Call for a ban on using food stamps on drugs,booze and strip clubs.Make the left defend these programs.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
cartcart, 1/18/2013 7:08:26 AM (No. 9123646)
Who pays for the retreat? They have offices for which we are paying and a nice meeting room in which to meet. Can we get some work done, please?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
god of irony, 1/18/2013 7:28:14 AM (No. 9123683)
Let me guess; kick the can down the road and we´ll get ´em next time.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
suziannr, 1/18/2013 7:42:03 AM (No. 9123701)
Remind me again, please...when have they NOT been in retreat??
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 1/18/2013 7:53:36 AM (No. 9123718)
FTA:"“We think it is incredible that the Senate for three years has ignored the law and refused to pass the budget,” he said. “We think we need to have a big debate about a vision for the country and at least how we would budget.”
I wonder what would happen to me if I ignored a law for three years? I´m guessing that the ´debate´ would not be that big and I´d have a whole new ´vision´.
Thanks Paul- I sure feel better, now.
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This morning, an IRS official named Lois Lerner apologized for inappropriately targeting non-profit groups for scrutiny in 2012 based on the fact that they had the words “Tea Party” or “Patriot” in their names. There are many things that need to be said about this. First, and simplest, is to ask how seriously the Obama administration is going to take this outrageous effort at political suppression by an agency under its charge. Has the IRS inspector general gotten involved? Has a U.S. attorney been apprised of this matter, which can only be considered an act of political intimidation and therefore
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The most notable takeaway from Jay Carney’s incomprehensible Friday appearance had little to do with his Klingon grammar. Carney does not represent the historical value of the event – you should be wise to forget his performance, and instead take note that he was flanked by the entire room, without exception. Do not underestimate the significance: the Obama administration has not faced such an onslaught of truth-seeking since he took office in 2008, and further, no Democratic administration has been charged from all sides like this in recent memory. That press conference was unthinkable just days ago
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/10/2013 8:52:10 PM
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Out of the blue, the Internal Revenue Service has apologized for targeting conservative groups with "tea party" or "patriot" in their titles for special treatment in applying for tax exempt nonprofit organization status. Stephen Ohlemacher of AP reports: The Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday for what it acknowledged was "inappropriate" targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. IRS agents singled out dozens of organizations for additional reviews because they included the words "tea party" or "patriot"
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The IRS’s Tea-Party Targeting
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National Review Online, by Kevin D. Williamson
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Ms. Lerner says that this is nothing more than a string of unfortunate bureaucratic events. But Ms. Lerner is not always clear on what it is she wants to say. Asked directly whether any IRS employee had faced disciplinary action as a result of this incident, she replied, emphatically, “No.” A short while later she said she wishes to retract that, saying instead, “I’m not talking about that.” Ms. Lerner also says that she did not inform her superiors about the problem, which must be a question of key interest to IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, who during testimony before Congress
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You got the sense today that the White House’s propaganda arm is starting to play Benghazi very, very carefully. Up until now they’ve been able to get by fairly easily on the fact that most of the relevant evidence is on the other side of executive privilege, or in the hands of politically appointed loyalists, and on the White House Press Corps’ indifference. But Greg Hicks might have been the first leak in the dam. Plenty of reporters are happy to trade narrative management for access, but fewer are willing to be made to look like fools
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Media Mocked Idea
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Washington Free Beacon, by Brent Scher
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/10/2013 8:39:16 PM
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The Internal Revenue Service has admitted that it explicitly targeted conservative groups for tax audits during the 2012 election season. Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal reported during last year’s election that President Barack Obama had an “enemies list,” and those that found themselves on it could find themselves a target of the IRS. The media discounted such charges and said the Obama administration was too clean to engage in such tactics. David Weigel of Slate Magazine wrote that there was no evidence of this. “There’s no evidence
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DSCC Is Not Looking Good
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PJ Media, by Matt Vespa
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/9/2013 10:34:08 PM
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The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee must be in a panic. They’ve got nobody. If anything, Rep. Gary Peters in Michigan and Rep. Bruce Braley in Iowa, who are third- tier at best, are the cream of the Democratic Senate crop in 2014 – and that’s not a good sign. It gets even worse with the latest development out of Georgia. They did have a chance in retaking the state, but that went up in flames once Congressman John Barrow decided not to run. As a result, the National Journal reported on May 7 that: His [ Barrow´s] decision
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SEALs’ families hit 2011
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Washington Times, by Rowan Scarborough
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/9/2013 10:18:44 PM
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The families of Navy SEALs killed in an August 2011 downing of a helicopter in Afghanistan came forward Thursday to blast the U.S. command and the Obama administration for the mission and to call for an official investigation into what they deem a whitewash. They also rebuked the White House for its extensive leaking of details of the Osama bin Laden raid in May 2011. Identifying the raiders as the secretive SEAL Team 6 put a target on the heads of the members of the doomed mission in Afghanistan, the parents said.
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GOP senators’ assault shows tough
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Washington Post, by David Nakamura and Ed O´Keefe
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/9/2013 10:14:58 PM
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Ariel Castro, Cleveland Kidnapper,
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American Thinker, by Oleg Atbashian
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/9/2013 7:28:47 AM
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According to voter registration records, Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapper, is a registered Democrat. He was also the alleged leader among the three Castro brothers, who were arrested this week, and the owner of the house at 2207 Seymour Ave., where the three abducted local women had been kept in captivity for over a decade. Why is this important? Whenever a crime or a scandal captures national attention, the pattern in the mainstream media is to either identify the culprit as a Republican or hold silence -- in which case we can rest assured that the culprit
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Senate defeats expansion of gun rights
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Washington Times, by Stephen Dinan
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/8/2013 11:27:58 PM
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"Every year for the past few years, on Mother´s Day, I´ve gone--I´ve taken a delegation--into Afghanistan or Iraq, we´re alternating now, now Afghanistan--for Mother´s Day to say thank you to our moms and, by the way, our grandmothers, who are serving there. Some young grandmothers. But, nonetheless, grandmothers. To also thank all of our troops for what they do to protect America´s families. I won´t be going this particular weekend because we don´t have--you know, under sequestration, we don´t have codels."
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Posted By: Judy W.- 5/10/2013 11:14:39 AM
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WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status were singled out for additional reviews. Lerner said the practice, initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati, was wrong and she apologized while speaking at a conference in Washington. Many conservative groups complained during the election
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Let Benghazi´s Chips Fall
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/9/2013 9:27:45 PM
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Congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia has written House Speaker John Boehner, requesting the creation of a bipartisan Select Committee to investigate the Benghazi terror debacle. It is an excellent idea. A Select Committee is the only means available now for the U.S. political system to extricate itself from the labyrinth called Benghazi. There have been two fulcrum events in the accounting of what happened in Benghazi. The first was U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice´s September 16 declarations on TV that Benghazi was part of the Islamic world´s violent, spontaneous reaction to the incendiary California YouTube video.
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Priest conducts Catholic
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Washington Times, by Jennifer Harper
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Posted By: mitzi- 5/9/2013 7:19:50 PM
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A Catholic priest presided over a service Thursday to give proper names to the 45 babies whose bodies were found in the West Philadelphia abortion clinic of Dr. Kermit Gosnell. He is charged with killing five people - a patient and four viable babies that prosecutors say were born alive. He has also been charged with performing late-term abortions that violate Pennsylvania’s 24-week limit on the procedure. “People have names, people deserve names. The name expresses the person. The name recognizes that there is a person there.” said Father Frank Pavone during the
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´Sex Superbug´ Worse than AIDS
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by William Bigelow
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Posted By: mitzi- 5/9/2013 10:30:57 PM
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A new deadly “sex superbug” has been found in two individuals in Hawaii, after surfacing in Japan in 2011. H041, a form of gonorrhea that is resistant to all antibiotics presently available, is considered as deadly as AIDS, and is much faster at killing people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants upward of $50 million from Congress to find an antibiotic that will kill the virus, which has also been found in California and Norway. Alan Christianson, a doctor of naturopathic medicine, said:
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