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Boehner blinks: will put through budget “stopgap”
John Boehner: big gavel ... small influence? Republican House speaker John Boehner says there’s no deal with Democrats on a 2012 budget, even as Democrats insist a deal is getting done. Clearly, the...
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Ryan’s ideology disguised as a budget, and Boehner’s palace intrigue **UPDATED**
“This isn’t a budget. This a cause.” That’s what Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, told the breathless media as he stood before a group of tea party freshmen. He’s right. Because what Republicans...
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Beltway FAIL: poll shows Obama, Dems won budget showdown
The budget combatants: Senate Leader Harry Reid, President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner Only in the minds of Beltway media types, liberal economists and Obama disappointment fetishists...
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Latest GOP anti-abortion bills could impact rape, incest victims
It’s almost inconceivable – House Republicans, with a handful of Democrats – have passed a bill that could force rape and incest victims to prove to the IRS that they were impregnated by force. From...
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Weiner to ‘seek treatment’, apparently from under the bus (or, how Democrats...
Democratic fear prevails in the case of Anthony Weiner. Democrats prove they know how to extend the life of a story into multiple news cycles, as the entire House and Senate caucus turns its guns on...
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Chaos in the House: Cantor tells freshman to quit whining, Boehner’s plan...
House majority whip Eric Cantor and House speaker John Boehner. Eric Cantor, the hedge fund managers’ man in Washington (and he’s surely hearing from them right about now), told House Republicans in a...
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John Boehner: still not in control of his caucus
Boehner's tea party problems continue in the House. A GOP insider told me recently that shortly after the 2010 election, they told newly minted House Speaker John Boehner that he wouldn’t be able to...
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Shameful.
Rep. Darrell Issa leads the pitchfork mob against Eric Holder Republicans, led by Darrell Issa, vote to hold A.G. Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, for exacerbating the mental instability of Wayne...
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It starts … John Boehner tries to assert himself, right wing freaks out
Boehner, Boehner, Boehner… John Boehner finally did something ballsy today: he kicked four House Republicans off of key finance and budget committees, for bucking his leadership, including two who...
View ArticleGregory Meeks calls Sandy aid deniers ‘mean spirited’… he might have added...
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Meeks called the Republicans who voted against Sandy aid “mean spirited…” Meeks told Alex Witt on MSNBC on Saturday: “It may...
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