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3M to dump retirees from medical coverage
Finding out what's in it. Remember when Barack Obama repeatedly promised that no one’s current coverage would have to change if Congress approved the health-care overhaul he demanded? When the...
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Conyers: Lame duck session will investigate Karl Rove
Crowdpleaser. John Conyers addressed a progressive activist group this past weekend and tried to find some way to energize the base. The 111th Congress has done little for anyone to cheer, of course,...
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Fox News poll: Angle by three in Nevada, Raese by five in West Virginia
Wave! Both leads are within the margin of error but don’t worry about that. The important thing is the tea leaves showing how the races might break over the last month. In Angle’s case, the worry has...
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It’s come to this: Murkowski wants Alaska TV to pull tea party ads
Power. On the one hand, I’m disgusted. On the other hand … I wonder if we could get her to keynote RINOcon. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s campaign is warning Alaska broadcasters not to air ads by a...
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Hoffman withdraws from NY-23 races
Team player. In last year’s special election race in New York’s 23rd Congressional district, Doug Hoffman became a hero to fiscal conservatives, displacing DeDe Scozzafava and nearly winning the race...
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Audio: Giannoulias stumped on what federal spending he would have opposed
Maybe that's why he's down 4 in latest Rasmussen poll. It’s not easy posing as a fiscal conservative these days. Alexi Giannoulias tried it with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune, but the...
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Name That Party — the Party version
Vote Brand X! We’ve seen Democrats in individual races avoid mentioning their party affiliation in order to hide their connection to Nancy Pelosi — for instance, in Indiana’s 2nd CD with Joe Donnelly,...
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Video: Blumenthal’s flop on job creation
Hint: don't wing it. First a mommy job meets a daddy job, and then they share a “special hug.” That may have been more coherent than the rambling non-answer given by Richard Blumenthal during the...
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Scott narrowly edging Sink in new FL poll
Not a done deal yet. With the Senate race all but over in Florida, more attention has turned to the gubernatorial race, where another outsider Republican faces an establishment Democrat. Unlike Marco...
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Classy: Bachmann opponent spot uses bleeped curse word
Channeling her inner Franken? Tarryl Clark appears to have run out of ideas in her race against Michele Bachmann in Minnesota’s 6th CD — and also reached the end of her vocabulary. In an effort to...
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Limbaugh: I’m not sure about this new Christine O’Donnell ad
Doubts. I still think it was the best she could do under the circumstances, but my sense via Twitter is that most righty pundits are with Rush on this one. As you’ll see below, both he and S.E. Cupp...
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Sneak preview of tonight’s “Parker Spitzer”: Oliver Stone calls Palin a moron
Groan. No joke: Out of an hour’s worth of programming, this is the 90 seconds they’re touting on CNN.com. Because, after all, if you’re a Palin-hater itching to see her demonized, how many options do...
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Good news: Obama to install solar panels on White House
Green. Seriously? On the very day that Obama/Carter comparisons have started to penetrate the international press? Inevitably, someday soon, The One’s going to be away on a fishing trip as part of one...
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Bob Woodward: An Obama/Clinton ticket in 2012 is “on the table”
"Some of Hillary Clinton's advisers see it as a real possibility." If the economy’s as flat next winter as it is now, isn’t it a damn near certainty? Obama’s approval rating will be deep in the toilet...
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Internal e-mail leak suggests that Palin’s running for president?
"Joe, please explain how this endorsement stuff works, is it to be completely one-sided." Granted, the leak comes from an anti-Palin blogger, but even a Palin supporter as stalwart as R.S. McCain (who...
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Aw: Joe Cao “hurt” that Obama didn’t endorse him instead of his Democratic...
Heart-ache. I hope this is idle campaign blather and not a sincere lament about betrayal. Surely even a freshman Republican can’t be so naive as to expect a Democratic president to avoid backing a...
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Conservatives to Romney: It’s time to apologize for RomneyCare
Noooo! C’mon. Would it do any good at all? “I guarantee that, at the top of everyone’s list on how to differentiate your guy from Mitt Romney, the top of the list is health care — until and unless he...
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Survey: Most tea partiers are socially conservative, almost half identify...
Mythbusting. Reports of the libertarian takeover of the GOP have, it seems, been greatly exaggerated. A single tear rolls down a socially centrist, fiscally conservative, atheist blogger’s cheek… But...
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Quotes of the day
Let it burn? “I’ve been convinced by conversation with some smart libertarians that the policy itself may be untenable. In short because fire protection is contingently — that is, in this instance — a...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Semaphore, Morse, or GPS: You're lost. There’s amateurish, and there’s willfully obtuse — and there is a point where the two meet. Yesterday’s OOTD had Obama’s staff cutting off a constituent when he...
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