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Tea Party Hypocrisy? Some Lawmakers With Tea Party Ties Are on the Government Dole — Which Tea Partiers Are Getting Hundreds of Thousands of Government Dollars? — The Tea Party swept into the 112th Congress with promises of cutting government spending.
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Mike McIntire / New York Times:
Odd Alliance: Business Lobby and Tea Party — The Tea Party does not have a presence in Indonesia, where the term evokes cups of orange pekoe and sweet cakes rather than angry citizens in “Don't Tread on Me” T-shirts. — But a Tea Party group in the United States, the Institute for Liberty …
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Tea Party group: ‘Cut it or shut it’ — A small but vocal group of Tea Party activists gathered outside the Capitol on Thursday to urge House Republican leaders to hold the line and push for deeper spending cuts in the federal budget. — Chanting, “Cut it or shut it” and “We want less,” …
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Margaret Carlson / Bloomberg:
Kennedy Pal Goes AWOL as Tea Party Cashes In: Margaret Carlson
Kennedy Pal Goes AWOL as Tea Party Cashes In: Margaret Carlson
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Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
GMA Takes On ‘Tea Party Darlings On The Dole’
GMA Takes On ‘Tea Party Darlings On The Dole’
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and TPM LiveWire
First Read / msnbc.com:
First thoughts: Caving in — White House and Democrats continue …
First thoughts: Caving in — White House and Democrats continue …
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Aaron_Sharockman / St. Petersburg Times:
Democrat chastized for saying ‘uterus’ on House floor — During last week's discussion about a bill that would prohibit governments from deducting union dues from a worker's paycheck, state Rep. Scott Randolph, D-Orlando, used his time during floor debate to argue that Republicans are against regulations …
Susan Crabtree / TPMDC:
Clinton To Congress: Obama Would Ignore Your War Resolutions — Update: Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), who asked Clinton about the War Powers Act during a classified briefing, said Clinton and the administration are sidestepping the measure's provisions giving Congress the ability to put a 60-day time limit on any military action.
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Shades Of John Yoo — This is really alarming: … Look, there's no other way to describe this other than lawless. The Obama administration and its defenders in the civil-libertarian community have always maintained that, because it derives its authority from Congress …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Judge Says Union Bargaining Bill Not In Effect — Sumi Amends Temporary Restraining Order — MADISON, Wis. — The contentious collective bargaining law that strips most public workers of nearly all collective bargaining rights and force them to contribute more to their pension and health plans …
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Sumi rules that union law not in effect; state to comply — By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel — Madison — A state law to sharply curb union bargaining by public employees is not in effect, a Dane County judge ruled Thursday, continuing the turmoil over a measure that sparked massive protests …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Rubio Takes the Lead — Urges Congress to authorize military action, endorse regime change. — THE WEEKLY STANDARD has obtained the text of a letter freshman senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent tonight to the Senate majority and minority leaders. In it, Rubio proposes that the Senate authorize …
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Ari Berman / The Nation:
Jim Messina, Obama's Enforcer — In March 2009 the Campaign for America's Future, a top progressive group in Washington, launched a campaign called “Dog The (Blue) Dogs” to pressure conservative Blue Dog Democrats to support President Obama's budget. When he heard about the effort …
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
SHOCKING DISCOVERY: The Day After 9-11 Van Jones Led Rally Where They Cheered American Killers (Video) — Hero of the Left- — Kristinn Taylor and Andrea Shea King reported recently at Big Government on a long lost video of Van Jones leading a rally in Oakland, California the day after 9-11 where they cheered the American killers.
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Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Shock: HuffPo Front Page Star Led Anti-American Rally - Day After 9-11!
Shock: HuffPo Front Page Star Led Anti-American Rally - Day After 9-11!
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The Note:
Obama Job Approval Rises Among Young Voters: Millennials More Likely To Vote Obama Than GOP Candidate In 2012 — ABC News' Michael Falcone reports: — President Obama's job approval rating among an important voting bloc — 18-29 year-olds — rose to 55 percent, a six percentage point uptick since …
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Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Poll: Young voters increasingly happy with Obama
Poll: Young voters increasingly happy with Obama
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats consider proposing tax hikes — Senate Democrats are discussing plans to introduce tax policy changes that they say would raise federal revenues and broaden the budget debate beyond discretionary spending cuts. — Democrats feel they have been boxed by Republicans into a debate …
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Dominic Di-Natale / Fox News:
Japan's Nuclear Rescuers: ‘Inevitable Some of Them May Die Within Weeks’ — March 14: A Red Cross rescue worker, in red, is scanned for signs of radiation upon returning from Fukushima to his hospital in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture. — Workers at the disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
On The Latest From Libya — I'm still absorbing this news and don't want to vent immediately, because there is still part of me that simply cannot believe that president Obama has already ordered covert action in Libya on one side in a civil war, and is now actively discussing whether to arm …
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Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Rand Paul Mocks Newt Gingrich: ‘He Has More War Positions Than He Has Wives’ — Potential GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich has been in hot water lately after ThinkProgress caught him flipping his position on the Libyan war rapidly over the span of just a few weeks …
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Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
GOP plans $1 trillion cut to Medicaid — House Republicans are planning to cut as much as $1 trillion over 10 years from Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor and disabled, when they unveil their fiscal 2012 budget early next month, according to several GOP sources.
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
In Republicans' 2012 budget plan, Rep. Ryan gives Social Security a pass
In Republicans' 2012 budget plan, Rep. Ryan gives Social Security a pass
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Marc Lacey / New York Times:
An Arizona Senate Race Waits to See if Giffords Emerges to Run — TUCSON — Representative Gabrielle Giffords is still in the hospital, but some of her most ardent backers are so enamored of the idea of her running for the Senate that they describe the inevitable campaign commercials …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Iowa GOP threatens effort to strip Florida of 2012 Republican convention — The chairman of Iowa's Republican Party on Thursday backed an effort to possibly move the 2012 Republican National Convention out of Florida if that state sticks to its January primary date.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
S.C. Republicans escalate calendar feud
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Rep. Gohmert: Libya Goal Is To “Deplete The Military” So Obama Can Call Up Private Army — 5 hours and 13 minutes ago — Matt Finkelstein — Last night on the House floor, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) offered a bizarre new theory about President Obama's decision to intervene in the Libyan crisis.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Libyan rebels number less than 1,000? — Via Jim Geraghty, who wonders how the West hitched its star to such a poorly formed and hopeless band of opponents. Look on the bright side: at least this makes the CIA's job of vetting the resistance a lot easier than we thought.
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Vanscottcnn / CNN:
In the Arena: Libyan opposition has less than 1,000 fighters
In the Arena: Libyan opposition has less than 1,000 fighters
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National Review, Ross Douthat, Patterico's Pontifications and The Jawa Report
Myglesias / Yglesias:
The Declining Price Elasticity of Gas — From Alexander Hart at TNR's nifty new “The Study” blog: … To be precise, it doesn't say people won't buy less gas even if prices rise, it says that the impact on driving will be relatively small. And since households are income constrained …
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Steve Kornacki / Salon:
The unbeatable Republican? — Massachusetts is a deeply Democratic state, one in which barely more than 15 percent of the seats in the state Legislature are held by Republicans and fewer than 15 percent of all registered voters belong to the GOP. So it's hardly surprising that national Democrats …
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
TRENDING: Trump warns of ‘greatest scam’ ever — (CNN) - It's official: Donald Trump is a “birther.” But he'd prefer you don't use that term. — Speaking to MSNBC Thursday, the business mogul and improbable presidential candidate reiterated much of what he has said in the last several days …
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