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The House has used a near party line vote to reject a Republican health overhaul bill.
- The 2009 gubernatorial elections provided a much-needed momentum boost for Republicans after back-to-back election cycle drubbings.
As they campaigned together across Virginia on Thursday and Friday, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele praised Robert F. McDonnell, the state's GOP gubernatorial candidate, as an innovative leader.
Republicans have the answers to lower health costs and expanded coverage, not the Democrats who hold power in Washington and are creating more problems as they "recklessly pursue" a government takeover of the health care system, a GOP leader said.
Republicans have the answers to lower health costs and expanded coverage, not the Democrats hold power in Washington and are creating more problems as they "recklessly pursue" a government takeover of the health care system, a GOP leader said.
Republicans are asking voters a basic question about Democratic proposals to overhaul the nation's health care system: "Will this improve your life?"
Two Republican county officials in South Carolina have apologized after they disparaged Jews in a newspaper op-ed in support of a fiscally conservative U.S. senator.
Suppose your team, the one you bleed for, was stuck with a quarterback. Not any quarterback. A really lousy one, who can’t impress today and doesn’t inspire confidence for tomorrow. Let’s call him JaMarcus Leinart. For lack of a better name.
A South Florida Republican said it was a mistake to shoot at a target with the initials of the Democratic congresswoman he is trying to unseat.
The chairman of the Republican Party is contending that President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize as result of his "star power" rather than meaningful accomplishments.
House Republican Whip Eric Cantor says he's going to sit down with Democratic leader Steny Hoyer and try to narrow their differences over health care.
The Congressional Budget Office is the non-partisan budget estimator for Congress. It calculates how much each piece of proposed legislation would cost the taxpayers.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger praised President Barack Obama's drive to overhaul the nation's health care system on Tuesday and urged fellow Republicans to join in efforts to finish the job this year.
Even as Republicans pummel President Barack Obama's health care proposals, some GOP leaders worry their party is being hurt by a Democratic counterattack: Where is your plan?
A Manhattan lawyer who is Richard Nixon's son-in-law is the new leader of the New York Republicans.
President Obama's decision to travel to Copenhagen to boost Chicago's chances of winning the 2016 Olympics has drawn criticism from some Republicans, who call it a boondoggle for Obama's hometown allies and evidence the president has blurred his priorities.
The Democratic-run Congress is ignoring the public's concerns in the rush to pass legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system, Republicans say.
The senators who are debating Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus's bill this week are trying to walk a fine line: how to cut spending on Medicare Advantage, while not alienating the seniors in their own states who are happy with the plans.
A GOP congresswoman grateful for quick detection of her breast cancer says Democratic health overhaul plans could mean life-threatening delays in treatment.
If conservatives are gathering, count on Republicans weighing presidential bids to do the same.
President Obama emerged as prosecutor in chief in his speech on health care to Congress, a transformation that came just in the nick of time to revive (although not completely) a wobbly effort to sell his plan.
Full text of the official Republican response to President Barack Obama’s congressional address on health care, delivered Sept. 9 by Rep. Charles Boustany of Louisiana.
The fate of President Barack Obama’s massive health care overhaul could lie in the hands of centrist Democrats like Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly, whose constituents seem wary of doing too much, too fast.
Weren't Republicans against Medicare before they were for it?
Florida's Republican Party chairman is objecting to President Barack Obama's plans to give a back-to-school address next week, saying Obama's real motive is to indoctrinate students with his "socialist ideology."
Just lay back and think of it as a Vagina Added TaxHey ladies! Congressman Pete Sessions of Texas thinks you should pay more for your insurance because you chose to have all that crazy plumbing with its nook and crannies down there instead of a good old fashioned American penis.
Michael Steele Confirms That White Republicans Are Terrified Of HimSTEELE: You're absolutely right. I mean I've been in the room and they've been scared of me. I'm like, "I'm on your side"
The War on Joseph CaoMoments after Rep. Joseph Cao (R-La.) voted for the Democratic health care bill, countless anti-Cao Twitter feeds, Web forums, and Facebook pages were born.
.. lower taxes.. government waste, democrats this.. democrats that... But why does nobody, and I do mean nobody from the right seem to ever acknowledge the FACT that the tax burden has gone down every single year since 1980?
The GOP's women problem...the growing schism between the Republican Party's ascendant right wing and its shrinking moderate core has clear gender undertones... and...
Sex tape revelation forces Carrie Prejean to drop suitThe Carrie Prejean saga goes from bad to worse. The former Miss California, who was sacked from the role after her views on gay marriage became known, was suing the organisers - Miss California USA - for $1m in damages.
It is very important that Americans decide whether they care about health or lining the silver purse of the big insurance and big pharmaceutical companies. And if left to the Republican party, that is exactly what we will be doing.
Insurers, Drugmakers Turn to Senate for Health-Bill Changes U.S. drugmakers, medical-device companies and insurers are gearing up for another chance to make changes to House-passed legislation overhauling the health-care system when the issue moves to the Senate.
Panel goes AWOL in GOP earmark warOn Nov. 19, 2008, House GOP leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor created a select committee on earmark reform to bring "meaningful change to the process by which Washington spends taxpayers' hard-earned money."
BBC - Mark Mardell's America: The hard fact of healthcare costsAnd the debate rolls along. Here's an interesting slant from the land of healthcare nirvana, the United Kingdom with a comment wall not full of hate-speech nor personal attacks. Reasoned, informed debate both pro and con. Sane
Tantillo's Brand Winner... And Loser: The Republican Party and the Democratic PartyThe Republican Party has pulled itself out of its "Party of No" rut. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party is clearly out of touch with the right-of-center American public, pushing Rooseveltian policies on a public that is no longer living in 1929.
The Democrats Are Privatizing Wealth RedistributionFrom 2001-2006, the Republicans controlled all branches of government. It was an horrific period of utter destruction of American liberty.
Obama has lost sight of the centre by Clive CrookThe Democrats should be worried about what voters think of them right now. The lesson for Mr Obama and his party is simple: listen to the centre. They are not listening. They appear to be stone-deaf.
As the Libertarians learn who their financial backers are, will they remain true to their beliefs or will they compromise with the Koch-Armey machine and try to win by slur, lies, and racism? All three componenents of the much-documented Teabaggers and 9/12ers are now being used …
The incident that grabbed international attention from Fort Hood Thursday raises once again the specter of domestic terrorism and whether it is part of a growing trend that threatens the very existence of western civilization.
The Eisenhower-Nixon-Reagan-Bush-Bush healthcare plan passesAll of the Republican presidents listed in this commentary's title professed to be believers in free markets.
Real Oklahoma Students Ace Citizenship Exam; Strategic Vision Survey Was Likely FabricatedIn detailing some of the evidence against Strategic Vision LLC, a pollster I am now almost certain is disreputable and fraudulent, I pointed in particular to a poll that they conducted on behalf of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, an conservative-leaning educational thinkt …
The Night They Drove the Tea Partiers Down Some interesting observations in this opinion piece. Not all of them good for Democrats. FOX News election coverage and the Confederacy of Dunces.
Get serious, Sarah If Palin wants to be considered a credible presidential hopeful for 2012, she needs to do more than release a book and go on "Oprah." She needs to weigh in on serious issues -- such as energy, the size of government, federal taxing and spending -- and to support candidates in 201 …
Our government still rejects universal public health care, something every other modern industrial country has in place. We instead embrace something uniquely American: the claim that we have competition when the truth is as far from real competition as it can get.
Bloodless President Barack Obama makes Americans wistful for George W BushIn a sign that the Obama honeymoon truly is over, I began to hear this week the first stirrings of a wistfulness about Mr Bush. "I never thought I'd hear myself say it," one Democrat told me. "But Obama makes you feel that at least with Bush you knew where he was on something."
Palin rallies thousands of abortion opponents; "Don't ever let anyone to tell you to sit down and shut up."Sarah Palin rallied thousands of abortion opponents Friday night with a a stark warning that the same philosophy that allows abortion rights could soon be invoked to allow the government to cut off health care for the elderly or children with special needs.
10 of the Nuttiest Statements Elected Officials Have Made in the Health Care BattleWild, over-the-top rhetoric and bizarre conspiracy theories about health reform aren't just coming from the right-wing blogs and talk-radio loudmouths.
Astroturf In Action: Right-Wing Billionaire David Koch Pays For 40 Buses To Haul In Protesters Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the corporate front group founded in the 1980s by Koch Industries billionaire David Koch, worked closely with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) to orchestrate the anti-health reform rally today.
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