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Hypocritical Paul Ryan Plan Doesn´t
Close Path to Big Budget Deal
National Journal, by Ron Fournier
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Posted By:Drive, 3/13/2013 9:30:13 AM
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| Paul Ryan’s 10-year budget plan is hypocritical and unattainable. It’s fresh evidence that the White House and congressional Republicans are no closer to seriously addressing the nation’s debt crisis than they were before President Obama broke out the steaks and Merlot. In interviews today, White House and GOP congressional aides articulated credible paths to a so-called grand bargain on debt reduction. But they seem to have little hope of getting there. “It ain’t happening,” said a senior GOP aide on Capitol Hill. He blamed Democrats’ refusal to offer spending cuts and entitlement
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
VinGoombatz, 3/13/2013 9:47:22 AM (No. 9222490)
Reckon I won´t be reading Ron Fournier.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Keekng, 3/13/2013 9:53:07 AM (No. 9222496)
Leftist attacks will never cease.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
richwill, 3/13/2013 10:09:40 AM (No. 9222522)
Yes, it must be a budget plan that satisfies the left. A budget without huge tax increases is not to be accepted.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bigfatslob, 3/13/2013 10:10:30 AM (No. 9222523)
Ron Fournier is a liberal creep and this is a hit piece.
Here´s my take on it Ron Boy. If Paul Ryan presented Obama with a Hersey Bar that had a hand written note taped to it that said "just cut something, anything and quit spending" that would be more than Obama has produced along with his cabal of communist for a budget.
At least the Republicans are trying, the left is not. Golf games are all we get.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 3/13/2013 10:37:42 AM (No. 9222578)
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 3/13/2013 10:44:03 AM (No. 9222590)
The first sentence contains two unsbstantiated cricisms. The second suggests that Obama spent his own money to entertain Ryan. Why read any more from this hack?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Davids918, 3/13/2013 10:53:53 AM (No. 9222609)
Frankly, none of them are cutting anything.
They may be reducing the rate of increase from say 8% to 6% growth in X program.
And if they can´t find cost reductions, improvement on purchasing, advanced airline and hotel reservations, improved efficiencies and productivity to make up for the smaller increase in growth then they need to stop the environmental groups from delaying our natural resource development.
The latter would produce massive new revenues that would fund teachers, police, fire and pensions without raising taxes.
And if we did it right, we could lower the cost of gasoline which would help consumers, gov´t expenses, and businesses who would likely become more competitive.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird, 3/13/2013 11:21:57 AM (No. 9222675)
For those with short memories, Fournier has been carrying water for Obie since at least 2007. He used to be with AP, along with Beth Fouhy and all the rest of the AP Obie sycophants.
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First Mark Sanford,
next Anthony Weiner?
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Politico, by Maggie Haberman
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Posted By: Drive- 5/8/2013 9:11:59 PM
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Mark Sanford’s post-election morning began like this: Any lessons for Anthony Weiner in your victory? “I wouldn’t presume to give any other politician advice,” Sanford told CNN. The social media and pundit consensus after Sanford won his old South Carolina congressional district over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch was that there was no politician who could be more grateful for the outcome than Weiner, the former congressman who resigned amid scandal and who’s eying a comeback of his own.
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Benghazi Whistleblower Breaks Down
While Describing His Lost
Friends During Testimony
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Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By: Drive- 5/8/2013 12:47:31 PM
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Eric Nordstrom, the former Libyan regional security officer with the State Department, became emotional during his opening statement to the House committee investigating the deadly attack on an American consulate in Benghazi. His voice broke describing his friends, the deceased American service and diplomatic personnel, who lost their lives in that attack. “I would also like to thank the committee for your continued efforts in investigating all the details and all the decisions relating to the attack on our diplomatic facility — specifically the committee’s labors to uncover what happened prior, during, and after the attack matter,” Nordstrom began.
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Neighbors: Man in custody comforted
missing girl’s mom, helped search
for missing Ohio women
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Drive- 5/8/2013 12:01:58 PM
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CLEVELAND — In the years after his friend’s daughter vanished while walking home from school, Ariel Castro handed out fliers with the 14-year-old’s photo and performed music at a fundraiser held in her honor. When neighbors gathered for a candlelight vigil just a year ago to remember the girl, Castro was there too, comforting the girl’s mother. Castro, just like everyone else in the tight-knit, mostly Puerto Rican neighborhood, seemed shaken by the 2004 disappearance of Gina DeJesus and another teenager who went missing the year before.
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Obama is not done
cutting defense just yet
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Washington Examiner, by Jed Babbin
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Posted By: Drive- 5/8/2013 9:22:18 AM
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April was a pretty awful month for President Obama, but it´s too early for Republicans to start celebrating his political demise. People keep trying to compress the political calendar, wanting to convince us that time is running out for Obama, even though he´s barely past 100 days in his second term. Yes, Obama´s gun control initiative was a resounding failure. It didn´t pass the Democrat-controlled Senate. California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein´s assault weapons ban got only 40 votes.
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How Roger Ailes Runs Fox
News in the Obama Era
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New York Magazine, by Joe Coscarelli
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Posted By: Drive- 5/7/2013 8:31:41 AM
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The paranoia and influence of Fox News CEO Roger Ailes have been well-documented, although the more colorful aspects of the most important man in cable news´s personality were absent from Zev Chafets´s recent fawning, essentially authorized biography. Not so in the forthcoming book from MSNBC contributor and Bloomberg View columnist Jonathan Alter, The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, which covers the last two years in American politics, most notably the presidential election, and comes with a chapter on Fox News. Stories about Ailes cutting the mic on Geraldo Rivera notwithstanding, the CEO´s views are so embedded in the
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Niall Ferguson´s blooper
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Los Angeles Times, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: Drive- 5/7/2013 7:49:05 AM
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At an investment conference last week, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson created a huge mess for himself. He glibly speculated that maybe because economist John Maynard Keynes was a childless, "effete" homosexual, he embraced a doctrine that favored immediate economic gratification. Keynes´ bon mot "in the long run, we are all dead" takes on new meaning when you realize he didn´t have kids to worry about. Following the usual script, but at a much faster clip, an uproar ensued on Twitter and in various blogs.
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The Gosnell trial and
the ´Liberal Conspiracy´
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Patriot-News (Central Pa.), by Dick Polman
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Posted By: Drive- 5/6/2013 12:17:13 PM
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Now that Dr. Kermit Gosnell´s Philadelphia murder trial has finally gone to the jury, we should take a moment to debunk, once and for all, the delusional right-wing claim that "the liberal media" supposedly refused to cover the story because they supposedly didn´t want to publicize the dark side of abortion. The right´s worst delusion is its belief that Gosnell — charged with four counts of killing fetuses during illegal late-term procedures — will be a boon to the national anti-abortion movement.
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Who really runs Wikipedia?
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Economist, by Staff
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Posted By: Drive- 5/6/2013 12:10:04 PM
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LATE last month Amanda Filipacchi, an American writer, discovered that the editors of Wikipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopaedia, were re-categorising female American authors from "American Novelists" to to "American Women Novelists". No corresponding "American Men Novelists" subject area existed at that time. The process seemingly happened sub rosa, through the actions of several editors. After she published an article in the New York Times pointing this out, Ms Filipacchi found that her own Wikipedia entry was edited numerous times for spurious and sometimes vindictive reasons. "Wikipedia is created and edited by its users," she observed.
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Issa: No Classified or Diplomatic
Reason to Blame Benghazi Attack
on Anti-Islam Video
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Washington Free Beacon, by Staff
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Posted By: Drive- 5/6/2013 7:28:42 AM
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Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) said he could find no diplomatic or classified explanation as to why Susan Rice and the Obama Administration initially claimed the Benghazi attack was a spontaneous response to an anti-Islam video Sunday on “Face the Nation”: BOB SCHIEFFER: So Mr. Issa, why would the administration put out a story line so different from what U.S. officials in Libya knew immediately? DARRELL ISSA: Bob, that’s the great question. We can’t find a classified reason for it. We can’t find a diplomatic reason for it. Understand that Gregory Hicks who became the acting ambassador,
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Behind the Scenes at Fox
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New York Times, by Brian Stelter
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Posted By: Drive- 5/6/2013 7:26:15 AM
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A few days before the presidential election last November, Roger Ailes, the chief executive of Fox News, ordered that Geraldo Rivera’s microphone be cut off after Mr. Rivera angrily defended the Obama administration against charges levied by others on Fox. So says a forthcoming book about the 2012 campaign by Jonathan Alter, a columnist for Bloomberg View and a contributor to MSNBC, a Fox competitor. The book, “The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies” (Simon & Schuster, $30), which is set to come out June 4, includes a chapter about Fox’s influence on the campaign.
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Sanitized Society Puts Hygiene
Hypothesis to the Test
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National Review Online, by Jonah Goldberg
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Posted By: Drive- 5/3/2013 3:29:48 PM
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Is the American body politic suffering from an autoimmune disease? The “hygiene hypothesis” is the scientific theory that the rise in asthma and other autoimmune maladies stems from the fact that babies are born into environments that are too clean. Our immune systems need to be properly educated by being exposed early to germs, dirt, whatever. When you consider that for most of human evolutionary history, we were born under shady trees or, if we were lucky, in caves or huts, you can understand how unnatural Lysol-soaked hospitals and microbially baby-proofed
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A President Loses His Power
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American Spectator, by Grover G. Norquist
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Posted By: Drive- 5/3/2013 1:28:23 PM
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PRESIDENT OBAMA is not Saul Alinsky or Richard Nixon—aware of how one gets power and uses it, or self-aware when he loses it or faces the greater power of others. He is more Louis XVI, believing power is his birthright. It just happens. It isn’t supposed to be taken away. It never fades. He plays with it, then tosses it aside like a child fondling a pearl, ignorant of its value. When he drops or loses the pearl, he pouts and demands his toy back.
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Hillary Clinton — culpable for
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Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/7/2013 5:14:14 AM
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When it first became clear that the CIA’s Benghazi talking points had been altered, many of us viewed the White House as the prime suspect. After all, it served President Obama’s political purposes to claim, at the height of a political campaign in which he was taking credit for the fall of al Qaeda, that the death of a U.S. ambassador was down to spontaneous outrage over a video, rather than pre-planned terrorism. It turns out, however, that the State Department was the prime culprit. It was State that pushed back hard against the original talking points.
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Republican probe of Benghazi
attacks turns to Hillary Clinton
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Washington Post, by Philip Rucker
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/8/2013 6:52:16 AM
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Republican lawmakers, who have spent months seeking to tie President Obama to last year’s deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, are increasingly focusing their probe on a new target: former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton. The GOP-led investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, assaults that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others now centers heavily on the State Department and whether officials there deliberately misled the public about the nature of the assault. Three State Department officials are scheduled to testify before a House committee on Wednesday about the Benghazi attack and its aftermath.
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Turning on Obama
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Amerian Spectator, by Ross Kaminsky
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/7/2013 6:19:30 AM
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If ponies rode men and grass ate cows, And cats were chased into holes by the mouse … If summer were spring and the other way round, Then all the world would be upside down. Once in a long while, an event evokes one of my favorite historical images: the British Army band, at Lord Cornwallis’ surrender at Yorktown which sealed the Americans’ revolutionary victory, playing “The World Turned Upside Down.” In this case, the event is the dramatic change over the past two weeks
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Seattle to melt buyback guns
into peace bricks
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: maggie2u- 5/7/2013 1:13:31 PM
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The Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback in January, and now city officials have a plan for what to do with them. Mayor Mike McGinn is expected to announce Tuesday that they´ll be melted into bricks carrying messages of peace, and the bricks will be placed around the city. The buyback program was announced a month after last December´s elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., by city leaders sick of hearing about gun violence. Private sponsors including Amazon.com contributed tens of thousands of dollars
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Sanford gets second chance:
On political scrapheap 4 years ago,
ex-governor wins 1st district seat
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Glenn Smith*
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/8/2013 12:59:28 AM
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford completed the trail to political redemption Tuesday with a win over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to reclaim his old seat in Congress. Sanford defeated Colbert Busch 54 percent to 45 percent, according to full unofficial results. Turnout was heavier than expected, with about 32 percent of the district’s 455,702 registered voters casting ballots. Sanford, who has never lost an election, returns to the 1st District seat he held for three terms from 1995-2001. It’s a remarkable comeback for a man many pundits had written off after his highly publicized affair with an Argentine
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A new ‘Dawn’ at ABC:
Newsman becomes newswoman
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New York Post, by Tara Palmeri
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:26:11 AM
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Top ABC News editor Don Ennis walked into his Manhattan office on Friday in a “little black dress” and a brunette bobbed wig and announced to colleagues that from now on, he would like to be known as Dawn. The 49-year-old father of three said he’s splitting from his wife of 17 years to become a woman, or Dawn Stacey Ennis, as she is now known on her governmental records. “Today I begin anew,” she wrote on her Facebook timeline, where she debuted a flirty new profile picture. “Please understand: This is not a game of
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Dem Congressman At Benghazi
Hearing: "Death Is A Part Of Life"
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/8/2013 2:27:15 PM
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Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, tells Benghazi witnesses that "death is a part of life." CUMMINGS: And, as I listen to your testimony I could not help but think of something that I said very recently -- two years ago now -- in a eulogy for a relative. I said that death is a part of life, so often we have to find a way to make life a part of death. And, I guess the reason why I´m saying that, going back to something Mr. Nordstrom said, he wanted,
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Benghazi: Incompetence,
but no cover-up
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National Journal, by Michael Hirsh
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/8/2013 6:04:54 PM
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There was tragic incompetence, plainly, in the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks, and even possibly some political calculation. It is a record that may well come to haunt Hillary Clinton, the first Secretary of State to lose an ambassador in the field in more than three decades, if she runs for president in 2016. But the obvious Republican effort to turn this inquiry into the Democratic (Obama) version of the Iraq intelligence scandal that has tarred the GOP since the George W. Bush years -- led by that least-credible of champions, the almost-always-wrong Darrell Issa --
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Constitution
implies a right to health care, education
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Washington Times, by Douglas Ernst
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/7/2013 8:22:18 PM
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution. Ms. Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, also made the case that the moral authority for such services is also derived from the Declaration of Independence. “One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she said. Ms. Jackson Lee added, “I think that what should be continuously emphasized is the president’s leadership on one single point: that although health care was not
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Mark Sanford wins South
Carolina special election
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Washington Post, by Rachel Weiner
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Posted By: supersid- 5/7/2013 8:55:20 PM
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Mark Sanford has won the South Carolina special election in a competitive race for what in normal circumstances is a safe Republican seat. The former governor beat Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert Busch, for the state’s 1st congressional district. The AP called the race for Sanford early in the evening, with the Republican leading Colbert Busch 54 percent 46 percent.
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