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G.O.P. Braces for More Discontent in Primaries — As the long and turbulent primary season of the midterm election campaign drew to a close on Monday, the Republican establishment was placing its confidence on hold and bracing for the prospect that voters in yet another state would send …
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Bill Kristol on Christine O'Donnell: No Sarah Palin — (CNN) - Guess who's getting slimed now in the increasingly nasty Senate race in Delaware: Republican stalwarts Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes. — The charge: both men, editors of the conservative magazine the Weekly Standard …
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FreedomWorks leader Armey urges tea party to shift focus to legislative progress — With electoral victories racking up - and a greater-than-ever chance that Republicans will take back the House this year - it's time for the “tea party” movement to transition from winning elections …
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
‘Now is the Time For the Idiots Who Supported My Opponent to Unite Behind Me...’
‘Now is the Time For the Idiots Who Supported My Opponent to Unite Behind Me...’
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Aharding / CNN:
GOP Robocall: O'Donnell ‘Out to Make a Buck’
GOP Robocall: O'Donnell ‘Out to Make a Buck’
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Matt Lewis / Politics Daily:
Conservatives Divided Over Delaware Tea Party Candidate Christine O'Donnell
Conservatives Divided Over Delaware Tea Party Candidate Christine O'Donnell
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John / Power Line:
Did Castle Vote to Impeach Bush?
Did Castle Vote to Impeach Bush?
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Senate Democrats Overcome GOP Filibuster of Small Business Bill — ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports: — Senate Democrats today overcame a summer-long Republican filibuster of a bill to jumpstart job growth by providing small businesses with a $30 billion lending fund and around $12 billion in tax relief.
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The 1099 Insurrection — The White House fights an effort to ease a burden on small business. — You might not have seen it reported, but the Senate will vote this morning on whether to repeal part of ObamaCare that it passed only months ago. The White House is opposed …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate defeats plan to strip filing requirement from health law
Senate defeats plan to strip filing requirement from health law
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Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Fox News Polls Track Midterm Election Races in 5 Key States — Florida GOP Senate nominee Marco Rubio has jumped to a 16-point lead over independent Charlie Crist, according to the latest Fox News poll, as Republicans make gains across the country on dissatisfaction with President Obama's agenda.
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Democrat Reid struggles in Nevada vote: Reuters/Ipsos poll — (Reuters) - Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid is fighting for his political life against a Republican “Tea Party” candidate in Nevada in one of the most closely watched U.S. elections this year, a Reuters/Ipsos poll said on Tuesday.
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Ezra Klein:
Democrats turn to meaningless word games — Greg Sargent reports that House Democrats want to rebrand the extension of Bush's middle-class tax cuts as “the Obama tax cuts for the middle class.” — Sigh. Whether you think this is a good idea, a bad idea or a totally meaningless waste of time …
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Rush Limbaugh backs John Boehner
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Josh Barro / RealClearMarkets:
Orszag Is Half Right On the Fiscal Gap
Orszag Is Half Right On the Fiscal Gap
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
False Alarm — Reports coming in that President Obama will name Elizabeth Warren as interim director of the consumer protection bureau created by the new financial regulatory law. — Late Update: Maybe not so fast. Fox was one of the outlets originally reporting this and has now retracted that report …
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Dodd: Congress Could Defund Consumer Bureau Over Warren Interim Appointment — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Outgoing Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) warned Tuesday that an interim appointment of Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau “jeopardizes the existence” of the nascent agency.
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Keith Koffler / The Politico:
President Obama's peril in assailing Rep. John Boehner
President Obama's peril in assailing Rep. John Boehner
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Quinnipiac University:
Blumenthal Up Just 6 Points In Connecticut Senate Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Much McMahon Support Is Anti-Blumenthal — Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, the Democrat, leads Republican former wrestling executive Linda McMahon 51 - 45 percent among likely voters …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
The Polls Have Tightened? Not So Fast — The Senate race in Connecticut is one that Democrats are becoming increasingly anxious about. Their candidate there, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, once held leads of 20 to 30 points in most polls over Linda McMahon, the Republican nominee.
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‘2010 is gone for Democrats’ — “He cannot save 2010,” the big-time Democrat is saying of Barack Obama. “It is gone. He must now concentrate on saving 2012. But the biggest fear of some of those close to him is that he might not really want to go on in 2012, that he might not really care.”
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How Republicans Could Lose the Tea Party — If the GOP retakes Congress and doesn't immediately take on the Tea Partiers' top issue, the national debt, they face a backlash that could cost them the support of the movement—whose expectations are sky high. — For Tea Partiers …
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Matthew Yglesias and The Atlantic Online
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
RAND PAUL'S LIMITED UNDERSTANDING OF THE BUDGET....
RAND PAUL'S LIMITED UNDERSTANDING OF THE BUDGET....
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Indicted ex-GOP boss Greer assails ‘racist views’ in party, won't name names — Greer — Remember Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer's denunciation last year of President Obama's national address to school children? Greer said he was “appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used …
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Aharding / CNN:
Former GOP leader apologizes to Obama, calls Republicans ‘racist’
Former GOP leader apologizes to Obama, calls Republicans ‘racist’
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Tea Party Float Depicts Obama Whipping A White ‘Future Tax Payer’ Pulling A Wagon — At the annual Sportsman's Day parade last weekend in Naches, WA (a small town southeast of Seattle), a tea party group called “Remember Us We The People” — which is affiliated with the Tea Party Patriots …
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Sen. Charles Schumer fumes after new voting system fails at his local polling place in Brooklyn — Apparently even Sen. Chuck Schumer isn't immune to the pitfalls of the new voting system. — What the hElmo is going on with these voting machines? — A party insider told me Schumer showed …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Day After Tomorrow — Every political movement has a story. The surging Republican Party has a story, too. It is a story of virtue betrayed and innocence threatened. — Through most of its history, the narrative begins, the United States was a limited government nation …
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Confessing to Crime, but Innocent — KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Eddie Lowery lost 10 years of his life for a crime he did not commit. There was no physical evidence at his trial for rape, but one overwhelming factor put him away: he confessed. — At trial, the jury heard details that prosecutors insisted …
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Why is Gingrich pushing Dinesh D'Souza's crazy theory about Obama's “Kenyan anti-colonialism”? — The release of a new book by Dinesh D'Souza prompts a perennial question: Why do people keep publishing books by Dinesh D'Souza? — There's a simple answer.
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