Veteran Democrat Faces Anti-Incumbent Challenge
Looks like conservatives are making inroads even in the Democratic Party! http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20100509/US.West.Virginia.Democrat/ Veterean Democratic Rep. Alan Mollohan facing a challenge FROM THE RIGHT for the Democratic nomination in West Virginia's 1st District. Is this unique to this one District
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Republican Leading in Murtha District
A Republican candidate has a six-point lead over his Democratic rival in the race to fill the seat of the late Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.
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Democrats New Zero Tolerance Immigration Reform Bill
"The outline for an immigration overhaul unveiled by Democratic senators this week lays down a new starting point for any national debate: tough immigration enforcement. But perhaps more significantly it reveals how politics have shifted on the contentious issue
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National ID Card Included In Democratic Immigration Bill
Democrats pushed forward on an immigration overhaul on Thursday evening with no Republican support, as Sen.
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Miss him? Bush’s reputation might be ready for a rebound
— Is George W. Bush about to start a political comeback
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The Democrats plan to increase taxes and cut Social Security and Medicare
WASHINGTON – The co-chairman of President Barack Obama 's deficit reduction commission said Tuesday that Obama would endorse its findings, including politically toxic tax increases and painful cuts to retirement benefits that the president was unwilling to propose on his own....But the options for curbing the deficit — cutting spending on popular entitlement programs and broad-based tax increases — are so politically toxic that the only way Obama and his Democratic allies controlling Congress are willing to take them on during this midterm election year is through the commission." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100427/ap_on_bi_ge/us_deficit_commission
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Dems to unveil outline of immigration legislation
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other leading Democratic senators will formally unveil the outlines of legislation for comprehensive immigration reform late Thursday, CNN has learned "This is a draft that reflects months of bipartisan work. It is intended to serve as an invitation to Republicans to look at it and sit down to solve problems with us," said one of the sources.
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Collapse of the Democrat party?
Not looking to good for them.... Collapse: Democratic favorables hit 18-year low in Gallup http://hotair.com/archives/2010/04/08/collapse-democratic-favorables-hit-18-year-low-in-gallup/
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Freddie Mac/fFannie Mae?
The Obama administration working with Sen.Dodd and the democratic party refuses to include Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in their new propose financial reform bill? These two government lenders are the very reason why we had the crash of 2008 under the leadership of Dodd and Barny Frank. Can anyone out there give a good reason why they should not be under same umbrella of reform as all other financial institutions?
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