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The Cruz Campaign Against ObamaCare — The freshman Texas Senator volunteers House Republicans for duty on his implausible defunding gambit. — So House Republicans have passed and sent to the Senate a budget that includes no funding for the Affordable Care Act, setting up a political showdown …
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Harry Reid: There will be no filibuster — It's all over in the Senate except for the theatrics. — Majority Leader Harry Reid made it absolutely clear on Tuesday morning: Republicans will be unable to perform a talking filibuster to delay indefinitely the spending bill that the Senate is considering this week.
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Ted Cruz Vows To Speak Against Obamacare: ‘Until I Am No Longer Able To Stand’ — On Tuesday at 2:41 p.m., Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., took the Senate floor to protest a government funding bill that funds President Obama's signature health care reform law. He plans to talk — and talk — all afternoon and possibly all evening long.
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A Cruz Missile Launch, Like a Light, Shows the Cockroaches Scurrying — A curious moment happened on Fox News Sunday. Chris Wallace told Karl Rove that a number of Republicans in Congress had sent him opposition research on Ted Cruz once Fox announced Cruz would be on. — Rove responded.
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Cruz vows filibuster ‘Until I am no longer able to stand’ — Sen. Ted Cruz began a talk-a-thon on the Senate Tuesday afternoon and vowed to keep speaking “until I am no longer able to stand” as he tries to halt President Obama's health care law. — “I rise today to speak for 26 million Texans …
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Cruz Vows to Speak Until ‘No Longer Able to Stand’ — Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) took his drive to cripple President Barack Obama's health-care law to the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon, vowing to talk against the law into the night, until he is “no longer able to stand.”
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Can Ted Cruz Win by Losing?
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Ted Cruz's Flinty Path
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GOP flinches at Obamacare plan devised by Sens. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee
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Republicans' dangerous rationality
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AIG CEO: Anger over AIG bonuses ‘just as bad’ as lynchings — AIG's CEO Robert Benmosche — who came in to rescue the company after the 2008 financial crisis — told the Wall Street Journal that the outrage over the bonuses promised to AIG's members was just as bad as when white supremacists …
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WSJ buries the lead deep on AIG's CEO
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AIG Exec: Public Outrage Over Bonuses ‘Just As Bad’ As Lynchings In The South
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AIG's Benmosche and Miller on Villains, Turnarounds and Those Bonuses
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‘Family glitch’ in health law could be painful — It could leave up to 500,000 children without coverage and cost some families thousands of dollars. — CONNECT — WASHINGTON — A “family glitch” in the 2010 health care law threatens to cost some families thousands of dollars …
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Obamacare: One blow after another — The Obamacare that consumers will finally be able to sign up for next week is a long way from the health plan President Barack Obama first pitched to the nation. — Millions of low-income Americans won't receive coverage.
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One man's ObamaCare nightmare
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Obamacare Bends the Cost Curve—Upward
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Facing government shutdown, Obama's party can't bank on 1996 mythology — Convention says Republicans got blamed for the last shutdowns, helping Clinton win in 1996. In reality, it was the economy, stupid — We are less than a week from a possible government shutdown …
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Conservatives see no threat in showdown over shutdown
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Police: Missouri House staffer left loaded gun in Capitol restroom — • By Elizabeth Crisp ecrisp@post-dispatch.com 573-556-6186 — A Missouri House staffer allegedly left a loaded gun in a public restroom in the state Capitol last week. — According to a Capitol Police incident report …
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Cornel West + “Crossfire” = One Hell Of A GIF Factory — Thank goodness for split screen reaction shots on cable news. — You may have missed the extremely animated debate over Obamacare and the future of conservatism last night on Crossfire. — Well, Bill Kristol was there, and he did this, which was great.
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Boys suspended for airsoft guns in yard — Has zero tolerance gone too far? — (1/7)Andy Fox reports on zero tolerance incident at VB middle school — (2/7)Andy Fox reports on VB 7th grader facing expulsion — (3/7)Andy Fox reports on zero gun tolerance at VB schools
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Obama's reckoning to come on November 19! — Klayman Calls for the Masses to Force Resignation of Convicted President — Last Wednesday, the great usurper, Barack Hussein Obama, after having been indicted by an Ocala, Florida citizens' grand jury, was convicted by a people's court …
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Santorum: Iranian president a ‘fraud’ — (CNN) - There's “no way” President Barack Obama should meet with newly-elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the United National General Assembly this week, former Sen. Rick Santorum said Tuesday. — “The president of the United States …
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Obama Says He Will Pursue Diplomacy on Iran and Syria
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Rubio Withdraws Support for Gay Black Judge's Nomination to the Federal Bench — MIAMI — The nomination of a gay black Miami judge to the federal bench will not move forward after Senator Marco Rubio announced he was withdrawing his support over concerns about the judge's actions in two criminal cases.


Trader Lost Millions Apparently Trying To Manipulate Intrade Data To Favor Mitt Romney — A new study reveals that a single trader may have been responsible for making the race seem closer than it really was in the final stretch to Election Day. — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney pauses …
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Did Lynne Cheney tell Alan Simpson ‘shut your mouth?’ — Lynne Cheney, wife of former Vice President Dick Cheney and mother of U.S. Senate candidate Liz Cheney, on Saturday night told former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson “shut your mouth” about his support for her daughter's opponent …
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