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Senate set to vote on DREAM Act at 4 p.m.
Crunch time. There’s speculation on Twitter that Reid’s pushing this and DADT to soothe the savage beasts in his base who are still screeching about the tax cuts deal. I doubt it, though: Assuming the...
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Gallup: You know, that tax deal is pretty darned popular
Hooray for "hostage-takers"? Lost in the Cirque du Freak-Out over the tax deal from both sides of the aisle is the fact that two-thirds of Americans support its two main outcomes. Gallup’s poll of...
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Suspense: Senate set to repeal DADT? Update: Collins won’t vote for cloture...
Crunch time. As with DREAM, passing it would mean at least two Republicans broke their pledge not to vote yes on anything until the tax cuts bill is enacted. The key difference here: They’re close to...
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Video: Anthony Weiner gets snotty with Megyn Kelly over tax cuts
Aw. Via Greg Hengler. Weiner being abrasive is pretty much the opposite of breaking news, but I am a bit surprised at how subdued MK’s reaction is. One of the reasons Fox viewers love her is her...
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Palin targeted by hackers for Wikileaks criticism
Escalation. It’s not just her and they’re not really hackers — and actually, there’s no evidence that they’re acting at Wikileaks’ behest. Mastercard, Visa, and a few other prominent sites have already...
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Ron Paul casts lone vote against House resolution honoring heroic Chinese...
America's greatest patriot. The roll: 402-1. The dissident in question is Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo, whose existence so upsets the totalitarians in Beijing that on top of locking him away and making his...
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When did temporary tax relief cease to be effective tax relief?
Nuance. I’m opposed to tax increases. Tax hikes drain money away from competitive, job-creating sectors and more often than not siphon money into self-perpetuating, job-destroying bureaucracies....
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Bloomberg: No way am I running for president, but here’s my campaign speech...
Hmmm. He sounds pretty committed when talking to Couric, and yet, and yet… In a stinging and blunt address that at times sounded like a campaign speech, Mr. Bloomberg described a point-by-point plan...
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Obama on liberal tax cuts critics: Some of these people are “confused”
Oh my. Good lord. Is The One starting to direct some of the same condescending nonsense he aimed at voters during the campaign back at … his own base? This sounds a bit like his now infamous stump...
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DREAM Act passes House, 216-198
No surprise. No surprise. In fact, I assume Reid postponed today’s Senate vote until tomorrow precisely so that he could pressure fencesitters by telling them they’re now in position to make the DREAM...
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Quotes of the day
PDS. “I eat meat, chicken and fish, have shoes and furniture made of leather, and PETA is not ever going to put me on the cover of their brochure and for these reasons Palin thinks it’s hypocritical of...
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Obamateurism of the Day
The fierce moral urgency of now. We’ve certainly heard about “smart power.” Maybe this is the “new coherence“: Q Thank you, Mr. President. You’ve been telling the American people all along that you...
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Poll: 51% believe they are worse off than two years ago
Directions. In 1980, Ronald Reagan framed the presidential race by asking voters whether they were better off than four years earlier. Ever since, that has become a gold-standard question for...
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Dems falling into line on tax deal?
Sheriff Joe says, "No changes." The progressive wing of the Democratic Party may well have gone into revolt this week over the tax deal Barack Obama cut with the GOP, but the rebellion on Capitol Hill...
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ObamaCare kills discount drug deals to childrens hospitals
Law of intended consequences. Nancy Pelosi told us that we needed to pass the ObamaCare bill to find out what was in it, but apparently we needed to pass it to find out what wasn’t in it as well....
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Rasmussen poll shows 56% in favor of tax deal
GOP enthusiastic, Democrats ... not so much. Rasmussen appears to have the first national poll on the tax deal between Barack Obama and the GOP, and so far, it’s a hit — especially among Republicans....
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Will Senator Mark Kirk Vote for the DREAM Act?
Truth or Dare? Newly sworn in Senator Mark Kirk (R-Il) will face his first controversial vote as the Senator from Illinois as Harry Reid will keep his campaign promise and bring the DREAM Act to a...
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Breaking: House Democrats vote to table Obama’s tax cuts bill; Update:...
Waterloo? Biden told them last night in a meeting that no changes would be made, so they could either take it or leave it. Verdict: Leave it. Defying President Obama, House Democrats voted Thursday not...
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Reason TV: Unintended consequences from the best of intentions
Paving stones. In my earlier post on the ObamaCare rationing that ended up killing access to medicines for sick children, I noted that the outcome could not have been called an “unintended consequence”...
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Postponed: Senate approves measure tabling DREAM Act, 59-40
Waiting game. That doesn’t mean it’s dead, just … resting until the tax cuts deal is done. That will free fencesitting Republicans from their pledge not to vote yes on any bill before taxes are dealt...
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