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- Dick Armey sneers at ‘a woman named Maddox’ who ‘has a Ph.D. in something that doesn’t matter.’ December 15, 2009During today’s AFP-sponsored “Code Red” anti-health reform rally on Capitol Hill, one of the speakers — former House Majority Leader and current corporate defender Dick Armey — derided MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. Armey was prepared to introduce Sen. Tom Coburn (whom he bizarrely referred to as “Doc Colbin” a couple of times), but Coburn wasn’t [... […]
- Latino Group Invokes The Bible To Counter A Pastor’s Census Boycott Campaign, Encourage Participation December 15, 2009Earlier this year, the Rev. Miguel Rivera, chairman of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders, began encouraging a full-out boycott of the U.S. Census on behalf of the Latino and immigrant community in protest of the failure to enact immigration reform. Rivera’s efforts have been widely perceived as damaging to [...]
- Kentucky Tea Partiers Tell Sen. Bunning’s Staff Of Their Concerns About Fascism, Muslims, And Taxes December 15, 2009Today, Americans for Prosperity, the right-wing group founded by oil billionaire David Koch and run by astroturf lobbyist Tim Phillips, organized a “Code Red” lobbying day to “kill” health reform before a vote by Christmas. The organizers of the event are busing people in from as far as North Carolina and New York to [...]
Yahoo! News: Politics News
- AP Exclusive: Tourists enjoy White House breakfast
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AP - It wasn't a state dinner, and they didn't crash it on purpose. Still, a Georgia couple who showed up at the White House a day early for a tour somehow wound up at an invitation-only breakfast with President Barack Obama and the first lady. It left the White House once again explaining how people who were not on an event guest list wound up bei […]
- Upbeat Obama says Senate near health care passage
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AP - Prodded by President Barack Obama, Senate Democrats won tentative backing from one holdout and worked intensely to satisfy another Tuesday as they grappled with the last, lingering disputes blocking passage of health care legislation by Christmas.
- Democrats propose $50B for jobs-boosting projects
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AP - Responding to calls among rank-and-file Democrats for more infrastructure spending, House leaders Tuesday unveiled a plan to add almost $50 billion in spending on highways, housing, and school repair as part of a year-end plan to create jobs.
CNN.com – Politics
- Lieberman ready to back health care bill -- with caveats December 15, 2009Sen. Joe Lieberman said Tuesday he is prepared to back the bill if it excludes both a public option and a Medicare provision
- D.C. council votes to legalize same-sex marriage December 15, 2009The nation's capital took a major step Tuesday toward legalizing same-sex marriage
- Marines eager, wary about leading surge into Afghanistan December 15, 2009Marines a part of the initial wave of President Obama's surge head to Afghanistan this week
- Millions of Bush administration e-mails recovered December 15, 2009Computer technicians have recovered about 22 million Bush administration e-mails that the White House had said were missing
- Comment: Iraq puts Blair's integrity on line December 14, 2009By confessing that he would still have joined the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq even if he had known Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has whooshed himself straight back into the headlines.
- Senate approves government funding bill December 13, 2009The U.S. Senate on Sunday approved $447 billion in spending for the 2010 budget year -- money needed to fund the federal government after this week.
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