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Published: 04/21/11

Calif. GOP Leader Says Offensive Obama Email Sender Should Resign

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Calif. GOP Leader Says Offensive Obama Email Sender Should Resign

FULLERTON, Calif. -- The head of Orange County's Republican Party is vowing to keep up the pressure on a local GOP official to resign for sending an offensive email about President Barack Obama. "This issue will not go away until she has taken 100 percent responsibility for sending out a racist email that offended millions," Chairman Scott Baugh said. He commented by telephone on Wednesday after Marilyn Davenport, speaking for the first time, said she will not resign and had no racist intentions when she sent the email. The message depicts Obama's face superimposed over a baby chimp's. The ...

Published: 04/19/11

GOP Voters in Early States Embrace a Trump Presidential Bid

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GOP Voters in Early States Embrace a Trump Presidential Bid

WASHINGTON -- Out with Sarah. In with The Donald. President Barack Obama has launched his re-election bid in a low-key manner, but the Republican Party's search for a challenger seems stranger by the day. GOP celebrities like Sarah Palin aren't getting much buzz. Mainstream candidates like Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty aren't getting much traction. It's people once considered highly unlikely to compete seriously for the party's nomination who are creating big stirs in early voting states, a reflection of an unformed and uncertain GOP presidential field. Republican activists in Iowa, New ...

Published: 04/17/11

Geithner Confident Congress Will Raise Debt Limit

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Geithner Confident Congress Will Raise Debt Limit

WASHINGTON - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says Republican leaders have privately assured the Obama administration that Congress will raise the government's borrowing limit in time to prevent an unprecedented default on the nation's debt. But a top Republican quickly pushed back Sunday and said there was no guarantee the GOP would agree to increase the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling without further controls on federal spending. William B. Plowman, NBC NewsWire / Getty Images Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, left, told "Meet the Press" host David Gregory during an interview ...

Published: 04/13/11

House GOP Budget Retains Democratic Medicare Cuts

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House GOP Budget Retains Democratic Medicare Cuts

WASHINGTON -- In a postelection reversal, House Republicans are supporting nearly $450 billion in Medicare cuts that they criticized vigorously last fall after Democrats and President Barack Obama passed them as part of their controversial health care law. The cuts are included in the 2012 budget that Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., unveiled last week and account for a significant share of the $5.8 trillion in claimed savings over the next decade. The House is expected to vote on the blueprint this week. Ryan's spokesman, Conor Sweeney, said the cuts are virtually the only part of "Obamacare" - the ...

Published: 04/12/11

Budget Tricks Helped Obama Save Favorite Programs From Cuts

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Budget Tricks Helped Obama Save Favorite Programs From Cuts

WASHINGTON -- Details of last week's hard-won agreement to avoid a government shutdown and cut federal spending by $38 billion were released Tuesday morning. They reveal that the budget cuts, while historic, were significantly eased by pruning money left over from previous years, using accounting sleight of hand and going after programs President Barack Obama had targeted anyway. Such moves permitted Obama to save favorite programs - Pell grants for poor college students, health research and "Race to the Top" aid for public schools, among others - from Republican knives. And big holes in ...

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