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POLITICS / NEWS Fri Mar 5, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- If this week's primary election in Texas is any indicator, incumbent Republicans can breathe a little easier... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Mar 3, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- President Obama will offer a health care plan today that includes GOP ideas, sources say. But top Republicans say it's not enough... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Oct 13, 2009 @ 9:02am neoform

CNN -- The 1994 elections were approaching, and House Republicans were on a mission to take control of their chamber for the first time in nearly 50 years... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Oct 3, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Whenever President Obama has traveled overseas and offered pointed and direct assessments of the United States, some of them critical, Republicans have ripped him for criticizing America, saying a president should always defend the United States... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Sep 11, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- It's political déjà vu. It seems like just yesterday that hard-core conservatives were griping about a Republican president who wasn't dependably conservative... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Aug 20, 2009 @ 3:11pm neoform

CNN -- Democratic members of Congress, party strategists, and even President Obama have tried their best to portray Republicans as obstructionists to health care reform, and want us to believe that if the effort fails, it's all because of the GOP... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Aug 5, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Democrats are accusing Republicans of organizing "angry mobs" to disrupt town hall meetings across the country, but conservatives say the protests are a sign of the opposition to President Obama's health care plans... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jul 1, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The metric system is the kind of thing that you can expect from the 60-vote filibuster-proof majority Democrats now have in the United States Senate... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jul 1, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- House Republicans will target freshman Rep. Tom Perriello in a new television commercial that criticizes the Virginia Democrat for his recent vote in favor of controversial energy reform legislation... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jun 11, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

SF Gate -- Saved by Senate Republicans, big oil companies dodged an attempt Tuesday to slap them with a windfall profits tax and take away billions of dollars in tax breaks in response to the record gasoline prices that have the nation fuming. GOP senators shoved.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri May 23, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- A months-long logjam over a new government surveillance bill may be coming to an end, with Republicans offering a compromise that would let people who think they were illegally spied on by the government have their day in court — albeit a secret one... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri May 16, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- President Bush's Iraq war funding request collapsed in the House Thursday as anti-war Democrats and Republicans unhappy about added domestic funding combined to kill — for now — $163 billion to support U.S. troops overseas. The unlikely coalition f.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu May 8, 2008 @ 8:24am neoform

MSNBC -- By contrast, Obama won Republican voters, often by very large margins, in seven of the eight states where exit polls were able to report the group before the Texas and Ohio primaries on March 4, when Limbaugh first coaxed listeners to vote for Clinton... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon May 5, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Democrats on Sunday cheered a weekend special election in Louisiana, where a Democratic congressional candidate won a seat that has been held by Republicans for decades. Democratic State Rep. Don Cazayoux beat Republican Woody Jenkins in the state's 6th C.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Jul 19, 2007 @ 4:26am neoform

Washington Post -- Senate Democrats halted their quest to change President Bush's war strategy yesterday after Republicans blocked a proposal to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq. After the vote, which followed a rare all-night debate, Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-N.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 1:27pm neoform

Washington Post -- The big question right now among Republicans is how to remove Vice President Cheney from office. Even before this week's blockbuster series in The Post, discontent in Republican ranks was rising. As the reputed architect of the war in Iraq, Cheney is v.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jun 13, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

FOX News -- GOP negotiators of an immigration reform bill are crafting a large border security amendment with mandatory, immediate funding that they hope will assuage concerns of both Republicans and Democrats, FOX News has learned. The senators are looking at a w.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jun 12, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

Washington Post -- The Senate yesterday rejected a bid to conduct a vote of no confidence in Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, as Republicans declined to defend the embattled presidential confidant but rejected the effort as a political stunt. On a 53 to 38 roll call.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed May 23, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

USA Today -- Republicans and Democrats alike are claiming victory as Congress moves toward passing this week a final Iraq spending bill that funds the war and does not order troops home. "Democrats have finally conceded defeat in their effort to include mandatory s.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 9:39am neoform

Washington Post -- When David All, a former Republican congressional aide, launched a blog recently that he hopes will spur his fellow Republicans to bridge the digital divide, he did his best to sound upbeat. "Today our Revolution begins," he wrote. "Tomorrow we fight.".. Read More