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Nancy Pelosi: My Congress cooperated with President Bush, you know
“This obstruction of the president is something quite new.” On Friday evening, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi appeared on Late Night in all of her august and resplendent wisdom to lament the...
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Study: Red states more disposed to charitable giving than blue states
Philosophies. According to a new survey of tax data by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, it appears that red states are much more prone to charitable donations than blue states — interesting, but not at...
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Rasmussen: McMahon leads in CT, 49/46
Oh my. There’s no way that Republicans can lose a Senate race in Missouri while winning two in Massachusetts and Connecticut … right? Would Spock have to wear a goatee in that universe? Rasmussen’s...
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Barbara Boxer: Maybe Republicans just don’t like their moms or wives or...
Plus: Dems to focus more on “women’s issues” at the convention. I wonder why that could be. I’ve always thought of myself as a woman, but evidently, I’m not a real woman — I mean, how could I possibly...
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Rasmussen’s MO poll: McCaskill 48, Akin … 38
Unforgiven. You knew this was coming, right? Oh, our Akin electoral hopes for Republican control of the Senate: What a difference one TV interview can make. Embattled Democratic incumbent Claire...
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Ryan on sequestration: White House needs to “put up or shut up”
“We’re waiting for that answer.” Out on the campaign trail, President Obama is constantly intoning that Republicans’ failure to end the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy — a.k.a., to hike taxes on...
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Quotes of the day
Unconventional. Bucking protocol, President Obama and the Democrats are planning a full-scale assault on Republicans next week during their convention… Even first lady Michelle Obama is in on the act,...
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What’s the biggest media-manufactured myth of 2012?
Access. Matthew Continetti, of the Free Beacon, does a thorough takedown of Jane Mayer’s latest piece in The New Yorker about big money and politics, in which she predictably casts Democrats as...
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New Obama ad: If you’re a woman who favors small government, you should...
Make it stop. Warning: These are two-and-a-half of some of the more deeply aggravating minutes though which I have ever forced myself to sit. Steel yourselves. In case you’re just not finding the...
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Reshuffling the convention schedule for Ann Romney?
Logistics. Earlier this week, we learned that ABC, CBS, and NBC have no plans to broadcast the first night of the Republican National Convention in Tampa next week, ostensibly in order to ensure equal...
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First day of RNC cancelled due to weather. Update: Storm moving West.
Wrath of Rain We just received word that Monday’s slate of events for the RNC in Tampa will be postponed . Republicans announced Saturday that they had effectively canceled the first day of its...
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Tampa Authorities Empty Jail In Anticipation Of Mass Arrests At GOP Convention Thousands of Republicans from around the country will descend upon Tampa, Florida next week for the Republican National...
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Bay State Beatdown. Brown 49 – Warren 43
Issues We all know the election of Scott Brown to the United States Senate from Massachusetts was an aberration, right? It was just one of those freak accidents… a perfect storm of a wild ride...
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The Republican National Convention kicks off
Live from Tampa! TAMPA, Fla. — Huzzah! Good afternoon from the Tampa Bay Times Forum, home of the 2012 Republican National Convention. It’s been kind of a weird, patchy day weather-wise here (an odd...
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Convention contrast: A choice between two futures, indeed
Let’s light this candle! As Ed noted earlier today, it may very well be true that not many voters pay a whole lot of specific attention to the parties’ conventions, but the conventions can set the...
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Cardinal Dolan now delivering prayers at both conventions
Controversy over, or just beginning? Timothy Cardinal Dolan, the current president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, will be a busy man over the next two weeks. Dolan accepted an invitation...
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Change: Obama’s lead down to two points in Iowa
Hope. Three months ago his lead there was 10, but that was probably due to some anti-Romney Republicans still harboring hard feelings from the primary. Three months later, those are all gone. And so,...
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Video: Opening remarks from Reince Priebus
“Republicans won’t be satisfied until we’ve rebuilt the American Dream.” The RNC chair has been doing an excellent job thus far, both in terms of keeping things moving along smoothly at the convention...
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Ann Romney: From our hearts to yours; Update: Video added
“We’re smart enough to know that there are no easy answers, but we’re not dumb enough to know that there aren’t better answers!” As South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley commented before she relinquished...
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“Romneyville” protest plan going about as well as you’d expect
Bust It was a sure fire, can’t miss plan, brilliant in every way. (That’s assuming, of course, that you happen be the type inclined to protest wealth, capitalism or the continued practice of...
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