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GOP Launches Online Poll: Which Federal Programs Should End?
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyWith polls showing Americans deeply anxious about federal deficits and frustrated with increased federal spending, House Republicans have launched a website for people to vote to cut spending for one of five federal programs. The program, called YouCut, lists five federal programs as candidates for elimination, described in Republican friendly lingo: taxpayer-subsidized union activities; the presidential election fund; a HUD program for doctoral dissertations; new, non-reformed welfare programs; and block grants for wealthier communities. After the votes are tallied online next week, ...
Florida's Crist Weighs Indie Senate Bid as House Leader Backs Foe
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyWith his political base rapidly eroding, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is considering an independent campaign for the Senate as fellow Republicans abandon him in a GOP primary race against former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio. The latest blow came Tuesday when U.S. House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) endorsed the conservative Rubio, calling him "just the kind of leader our country needs." Cantor's blessing came a day after the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee declared in an e-mail that Crist had "zero chance" of winning as a Republican and should drop out of the ...
Threats to US Government Leaders Spur Arrests
By David Knowles - AOL News(April 7) -- In an era when political rhetoric seems increasingly vitriolic, some Americans are learning the hard way that our constitutionally protected free speech does not include the right to threaten the lives of elected officials with whom one disagrees. Today's arrest of a California man named Gregory Giusti, who is accused of making numerous threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her support of the recently passed health care reform legislation, comes after a string of similar incidents that have resulted in criminal charges. Paul Sakuma, AP House Speaker Nancy ...
Public Says All Share Blame for Outbreak of Political Threats, Vandalism
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAmericans spread the blame among Democrats, conservative commentators and harsh rhetoric from Republican leaders for the outbreak of threats, abusive phone calls and vandalism that occurred after passage of the health care reform legislation, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted March 26-28. Forty-nine percent said controversial political maneuvers by Democratic leaders to win passage of the measure was the major reason for the angry fallout, while 25 percent said this was a minor reason and 22 percent said these were not a factor at all. Forty-six percent pointed the finger at ...
GOP's Eric Cantor Says Bullet Struck Campaign Office Window
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyRep. Eric Cantor, the third-ranking Republican in the House, said Thursday that a bullet had been shot through the window of his campaign office in Richmond, Va., in the last week. Cantor, the Republican whip, revealed the attack in a statement decrying violence and threats of violence directed at members of Congress this week. He also demanded that Democratic leaders stop blaming conservative protesters or Republican members of Congress for the heightened tension in the Capitol. "I have received threats since I have assumed elected office, not only because of my position, but because I am ...
Top Lawmakers Spar Over Health Care Plans
By Russell Berman - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 17) -- With the substance of proposed health care reform having long ago been talked to death, two top Republican and Democratic leaders appeared on television today to spar over the shortcut procedure Democrats plan to use to pass their sweeping legislation this weekend. The Democratic House majority leader, Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, refused to say if the party had the 216 votes it needs to pass the final health care bill. "I don't have a precise number, and if I did I probably wouldn't give it to you," Hoyer told ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "Good Morning America." ...
GOP Leaders' Goal: Make Sure Health Bill 'Never Becomes Law'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyIf Republicans want to get away from the "Party of No" label that Democrats have tried to stick them with all year, it wasn't apparent in the Capitol on Wednesday: Two top GOP leaders, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona and Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, said that their objective on health care reform is to stop the Democrats in their tracks. "Our goal . . . is to see that this never becomes law," Kyl said of the Democratic proposals to overhaul the health care system, which could get a vote in the House as early as next week. "We should instead stop and start over, as 73 percent of the American people ...
Obama's Health Care Summit: The Sham Before the Storm?
By David Corn - Politics DailyEnough of this bipartisan shilly-shally; it's time to crash the health care reform bill over the finish line -- by any means possible -- and move the heck on . . . . Oh, sorry, that was supposed to be the lead for Friday's column, the one coming out after Thursday's White House health care summit. Yet there's no reason not to get an early start. It's pretty darn tough not to approach this big hoe-down with mucho skepticism. After all, there's a fundamental reality at play in the battle over health care reform. The Democrats in the White House and Congress have a plan they mostly agree on, ...
Are GOPers Deliberately Lying About the Stimulus?
By David Corn - Politics DailyAt the White House this week, the main narrative in the press room was this: Has President Barack Obama lost the message war over the $862 billion stimulus? Noting the one-year anniversary of the enactment of that legislation, reporters again and again asked press secretary Robert Gibbs some version of this question. What could the guy say? Especially when the answer is yes. He's not going to concede the White House got its clock cleaned by the feckless congressional Republicans on this front -- even though public opinion polls apparently show that there's only person in the entire United ...
The Stimulus and Jobs: Can the GOP Read?
By David Corn - Politics DailyDo Republicans read? I ask that seriously. The past few days, with the president focused on his White House jobs summit, GOPers have targeted their anti-Obama crusade on the president's economic record. And their number-one talking point has been this: Obama's stimulus stinks. Some examples: -- In a speech at the Heritage Foundation, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor decried the "failure" of Obama's $787 billion stimulus package. -- Talk show agitator Glenn Beck huffed that "jobs are not being saved or created." -- Sarah Palin tweeted, "Baffling/nonsensical:Obama's talk of yet another ...
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