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Video: Democrats applaud Rangel after voting to censure him
Cheers. Via Gateway Pundit. “We are a political body,” he acknowledged sadly in his floor speech after the vote, and darned if Democrats didn’t prove him right. First they offered an amendment that...
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Jim DeMint to GOP incumbents: I will not primary you
Team player. He’s not saying he’ll support them, mind you, just that he won’t oppose them. Or at least, not publicly. Alternate headline: “DeMint’s opposition to GOP incumbents to be behind-the-scenes...
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Is Mike Pence the big threat to Palin in the primaries?
Hmmm. Matt Lewis wonders. Though Pence says he won’t decide on whether or not to run for president until next year, conservative leaders I spoke to were equally as bullish on Pence. Chris Chocola,...
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Game over: Five members of Deficit Commission will vote no on final plan
Darn. They need 14 of the 18 members to vote yes tomorrow to send the Bowles/Simpson plan to Congress. Ain’t happening. Guess who provided unlucky no vote number five. ABC News has learned Andrew Stern...
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Joint Chiefs chair to troops: If you don’t want to serve with gays, quit
Uh oh. This isn’t really aimed at the troops, I think. Rather, he and Gates have simply reached the end of their respective ropes with McCain’s endless backpedaling on “don’t ask, don’t tell.”...
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Quotes of the day
Media wars. “Accusing me of hypocrisy is by now, an old canard. What Mr. Olbermann lacks in originality he makes up for with insincere incredulity. Mr. Olbermann fails to understand that in order to...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Blame it on the rain, yeah, yeah. It isn’t often that one man can bring the Israelis and Palestinians together, but Barack Obama has managed the near-impossible, according to Ben Smith at Politico....
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Unemployment rises to 9.8%, only 39,000 jobs gained
Unpleasant surprise. The unemployment rate edged closer to double digits in November according to the new release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, moving up two tenths of a point to 9.8%. The...
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Rangel: I don’t deal in average American citizens
Humility. One might have thought, given all of the handwringing from Capitol Hill last night over the horrors of censuring, that Charlie Rangel would have learned a little humility from the process....
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Senate Democrats to hold meaningless tax votes tomorrow
Fiddling while jobs burn? A deal between Democrats and Republicans in the Senate on the upcoming tax hikes apparently collapsed last night after one Republican withheld unanimous consent to proceed....
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WH wants transfer authority on appropriations?
Carte blanche? Congress passed another continuing resolution yesterday that will keep the government in operation for another two weeks, allowing the White House to keep negotiating for a budget plan...
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Manufacturing orders fall 0.9% in October, durable goods down 3.4%
Endless bummer. Perhaps now we know why unemployment unexpectedly rose in November. Confirming a durable-goods report from two weeks ago, the Commerce Department reported that the indicator slid 3.4%...
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Are doctors disclosing cancer risks with The Pill?
Survey says ... not really. Perhaps no pharmaceutical innovation has the cultural baggage carried by The Pill. The birth-control therapy either gets blamed for demolishing sexual ethics and the family...
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Deficit commission report fails to get supermajority
Does it matter? Barack Obama’s deficit commission failed to win the required supermajority required by its mandate to press Congress to adopt its recommendations. Regardless, the report has already...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson and the Week in Review
3 pm ET! Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we’ll take a look at the past week with Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson of the Hugh Hewitt Show. Duane and I will discuss the week’s events,...
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Helen Thomas: Jooooos run the world, or something
Sad. Just in case one tended to think that Helen Thomas’ anti-Semitic rant last June was just a momentary lapse or comment taken out of context, her latest public appearance puts the case for her...
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Inhofe: You know, it feels pretty good to be proven right
"The funeral is over." Last year, Senator Jim Inhofe traveled to the Copenhagen conference on global warming — the one buried in a record snowfall — to deliver a message to the gathered media: the US...
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House Ethics committee targeting Finance next?
Why did e-mail get withheld in Waters case? The case of the missing e-mail in the Maxine Waters ethics investigation appears to be getting deeper. Earlier this week, the panel acknowledged that it had...
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The new humane: killing terrorists instead of capturing them
Deformations of politics. Over the years, I have warned that the attempts to shoehorn wartime operations against terrorists through criminal courts would produce distorted decisions on fighting,...
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Karl Rove to Palin and Huckabee: Stop whining about the Bushes already
Oh my. Via Mediaite, yet another clip of 2012 pot-stirring awesomeness from Laura Ingraham. First she had Palin on and pressed her not only on what Barbara Bush said but on Chris Christie’s dig at her...
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