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Jonathan Alter: Will GOP save itself or be ‘the stupid party’?

Source: Madison.com, Dec 12 2012, 4:53am CST

Cruelty, fear, cowardice, xenophobia and disrespect invaded the inner sanctum of the U.S. government last week, bringing embarrassment and dishonor to what was once the greatest deliberative body in the world: the Senate. On Dec. 4, former Senate Maj ...

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2 hours ago

Gov. Heineman Won't Seek Senate #NESEN

Source: Roll Call  |   May 25 2013, 12:26pm CDT

Gov. Dave Heineman announced Saturday that he will not seek Nebraska’s open Senate seat, inviting a free-for-all in the Republican primary. “After careful consideration of all of the issues involved in a race for the ...

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Sales tax stalemate highlights legislative disagreements even within one party

Source: Kansas.com  |   May 25 2013, 12:10pm CDT

TOPEKA — It was supposed to be so easy. The Republican-controlled bodies were expected to remake Kansas into a Red State model with low taxes, a friendly business climate and a streamlined, efficient government. But that vision for Kansas has been slow ...

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23 weeks ago


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"he wants to know that other countries will come to treat the disabled as we do."


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3 hours ago

Gov. Heineman will not run for Senate

Source: KETV Omaha  |   May 25 2013, 11:16am CDT

Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman says he will not run for U.S. Senate, making the race to replace Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns wide open. Heineman made the announcement Saturday - more than three months after Johanns announced he would not ...

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5 hours ago

There's a difference between "passing the Senate" and "clearing a Republican filibuster", by @DavidOAtkins

Source: Hullabaloo  |   May 25 2013, 9:43am CDT

by David Atkins Journalists need to stop saying that bills with at least 51 votes but not 60 votes "don't have the votes to pass the Senate." They do have the votes to pass the Senate. They just don't have the votes to pass a Republican filibu ...

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Mike Shields interview: Why the Republicans deserve victory

Source: The Telegraph  |   May 25 2013, 9:11am CDT

The Anglophilia is not skin deep. Mr Shields is a diehard Ipswitch Town fan who completed his secondary education during at a North Yorkshire comprehensive in the 1980s — a formative experience, to put it mildly, that still informs his search for re ...

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6 hours ago

Key senators tightly control immigration debate

Source: The Seattle Times  |   May 25 2013, 8:54am CDT

For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii never had a chance to win a relatively modest change to far-reaching immigration legi ...

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7 hours ago

The Ted Cruz conundrum

Source: CBS News  |   May 25 2013, 7:45am CDT

Sen. Ted Cruz doesn't have as many friends as he says he does. In the latest round of Cruz's simmering debate with Sen. John McCain (who labeled Cruz a "wacko bird"), Cruz spoke of "my friend, the senior senator from Arizona" while painting him as out o ...

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7 hours ago

Menendez: Immigration Bill Needs More Senate Backers

Source: NewsMax  |   May 25 2013, 7:38am CDT

Sen. Robert Menendez said that the sweeping immigration reform bill proposed by the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” currently lacks the votes needed to end a potential filibuster on the Senate floor. “We don’t currently have 60 votes identified ...

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8 hours ago

GOP: Party of crybabies

Source: AlterNet.org  |   May 25 2013, 6:48am CDT

It’s time to call out a major Republican theme of how politics should be practiced in a democracy: the supposed right to be free from criticism. It may sell wonderfully inside the conservative closed-information loop ...

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