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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDING: GOPer calls Obama administration ‘corrupt’ — (CNN) - The incoming House Oversight and Government Reform chairman on Sunday tried to clarify his recent remarks to Rush Limbaugh where he called President Obama “one of the most corrupt presidents in modern times.”
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Issa says Obama administration is ‘one of most corrupt’ — The Republican congressman who is taking over responsibility for congressional oversight called President Obama's administration “one of the most corrupt administrations” on Sunday and predicted that the investigations he is planning …
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Issa says he won't investigate White House job offer to Sestak — The incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Sunday that he won't investigate the Obama administration for offering a job to a Democratic House member to keep him out of a Senate race.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Incoming Oversight Chair Calls Obama Administration “One Of The Most Corrupt” — California Congressman Darrell Issa, who will Chair the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, used Sunday show appearances to declare the Obama administration guilty of corruption, before the new Congress even gets started.
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
New GOP lawmaker gets first taste of clash with House Dems — An incoming Republican freshman got a taste of his Democratic opposition in the House before the 112th Congress even convened. — Rep.-elect Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) appeared on “Face the Nation” Sunday with Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann …
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Imtiyaz Delawala / ABCNEWS:
Goolsbee to Tea Party: ‘Playing Chicken’ With Debt Ceiling Vote is ‘Insanity’
Goolsbee to Tea Party: ‘Playing Chicken’ With Debt Ceiling Vote is ‘Insanity’
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Obama adviser: Critics of raising debt ceiling ruled by ‘insanity’
Obama adviser: Critics of raising debt ceiling ruled by ‘insanity’
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New York Post:
Topics — 11-12% no show, what a joke! 10% of them should be laid off this week. They do nothing and still are no shows, let them collect for 99 weeks and then look for real jobs. — BklynNative — Blizzard conditions, a holiday weekend, no MASS TRANSIT, no way to get into work and sanitation workers call in sick.
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New York Post:
Topics — Ahhh more hard taxpayer money at work. — bloombergwantsavictorymosque — Q: Why was Obama so disappointed when he went to a screening of The Men Who Stare at Goats? — A: Being a Muslim, he thought there would be more romance. — Uncommon Sense — Business as usual in the rotten Big Apple.
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Cubachi:
NYC sanitation workers caught boozing instead of working during blizzard — Forget New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. — For those of us following the disastrous clean-up, or lack of it, in New York City, the public sector workers of sanitation are having the worst week.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS ON REPEAL.... At least we know what one of the first bills to receive a vote will be in the new House. … Maybe so. But there's almost certainly a realization on everyone's part that House Republicans are doing this for show. If passed, their repeal measure …
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Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway:
House Will Take Up Repeal Of ObamaCare Before State Of The Union
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Healthcare repeal bill coming before Obama's annual address
Healthcare repeal bill coming before Obama's annual address
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Dave Barry / Washington Post:
Dave Barry's Year in Review: Why 2010 Made Us Sick — Let's put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever. There have been MUCH worse years. For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped out about 75 percent of all of the species on the planet.
Washington Post:
With Air Force's new drone, ‘we can see everything’ — In ancient times, Gorgon was a mythical Greek creature whose unblinking eyes turned to stone those who beheld them. In modern times, Gorgon may be one of the military's most valuable new tools. — This winter, the Air Force is set …
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Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
‘Nostradamus’ of Middle East predicts unprecedented crisis for Obama in 2011 — The Middle East's answer to Nostradamus said that President Obama will be confronted with situations “never faced by previous presidents” in 2011. — Michel Hayek, who delivered his predictions live on New Year's Eve …
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Tea Party Activists Angry at G.O.P. Leaders — As Tea Party politicians prepare to take their seats when the 112th Congress convenes this week, they are already taking issue with Republicans for failing to hold the line against the flurry of legislation enacted in the waning weeks …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Needed: A science stimulus — New Republican legislators should come down Capitol Hill to the National Museum of American History, which displays a device that in 1849 was granted U.S. patent 6469. It enabled a boat's “draught of water to be readily lessened” so it could “pass over bars, or through shallow water.”
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Washington Monthly
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Marx in the City — A look at the growing Marxist movement in New York City. Even though they read Marx and Stalin, organize protests against Israel and play a board game that equates capitalism with barbarism, they shy away from calling themselves “socialist”.
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