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They had her. They really did.
There was blood in the water and the GOP sharks were circling Nancy Pelosi, snapping at her as they edged closer and closer. It was only a matter of time, and the GOP could claim a major victory – the scalp of the Speaker of the House.
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We have the Democrats and the Republicans but my premise is that to have two parties you need to have strong support for two parties. Otherwise we could say we are a three party system and give the greens or libertarians credibility but their numbers are too insignificant. At the current rate we are heading [...]
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Over and over I hear the mantra from @kylesellers, Americans like Obama but they prefer Republican and/or conservative policies. CNN just did a clever polling question to tease out the policy preference. It’s a change on the gold standard of polling the right track/wrong track question. They asked whether Obama’s policies, Congressional Democrats’ policies, and [...]
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What is the GOP to do now that their poll ratings have bottomed? Well House Minority Whip Eric Cantor thinks that talking directly to the American people in the form of town hall meetings is one solution to turn things around. Cantor, Jebb Bush and Mitt Romney took part in the first of a series [...]
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There’s already a whole lot of analysis out on the Internet on Senator Specter switching parties. I would like to give a more personal approach to this. I was a conservative Republican but I had moderate positions in two areas: immigration and the environment. After the 2004 election I thought Bush’s vision of a permanent [...]
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Raised by staunch Democrats through the 70s and 80s I was witness to how partisanship, run amok, ruins the party it loves.
When Ronald Reagan was elected, the party line was that he was going to destroy America as we knew it. As a young teenager beginning to think for himself, I remember coming to the [...]
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TCOT and the American TEAparty organizers have created a list of reasons why you should be at their April 15th rallies. Once you read the list it boils down to whether you believe the rhetoric and exaggeration or not. Given the support Obama enjoys in the polls and the high number of people who think [...]
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@Karoli House Republicans unveiled their alternative budget, which purports to provide a path out of the economic crisis by making the Bush tax cuts permanent, suspending capital gains taxes for 18 months, establishing a two-tier tax system, repeal of the estate tax, lowering the corporate tax rate to 25%, and freezing all spending for 5 [...]
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William on Conservatives, please don’t fill out your census forms!
Anonymous on Conservatives, please don’t fill out your census forms!
mark on Spreading Fear about the faith of Islam- who’s responsible
@dmooney9 on Cigna executive proves case for public healthcare option
Dan on Conservatives, please don’t fill out your census forms!
Dan on Conservatives, please don’t fill out your census forms!
@dmooney9 on Nihilism 1 American People Nil
JimH on Time to boycott Rush Limbaugh sponsors
Rosann Rommelfaenger on Cigna executive proves case for public healthcare option
Rosann Rommelfaenger on Cigna executive proves case for public healthcare option
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