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Even President Obama Is Laughing At Mitch McConnell’s Failure
Six years and some change later, the man who set out a detailed plan to derail the Obama presidency before he even took office is in the hot seat.
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Contrary To McConnell’s Election Promises, GOP Senate Majority Proves To Be Dysfunctional
Just over six months after winning back the Senate, Mitch McConnell’s GOP majority is proving to be more dysfunctional than ever.
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Republican New York Senate Majority Leader Will Be Arrested On Federal Corruption Charges
According to the NY Times, State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R) will be arrested on federal corruption charges some time next week.
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Mitch McConnell Urges Governors To Disobey Federal Law For the Kochs
Speaker John A. Boehner boasted that Republicans primary duty was not to make laws, but eliminate them for their wealthy donors’ benefit. Now, the sitting Senate Majority Leader has went a step farther and issued a call to governors to become ‘law breakers’ to benefit the fossil fuel industry that bought control of Congress for Republicans.
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#GOPMoveOver: Immigration Activists Storm Capitol Hill To Confront Republicans
Calling February 11 a day of action, activists staged protests in approximately three dozen Congressional offices on Wednesday.
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Republicans Fooled Americans Again To Eliminate Women’s Reproductive Rights
Instead of introducing legislation to create jobs, or help Americans struggling in an economy created for the benefit of the rich, on the first day of the 114th Congress Republicans introduced five separate bills restricting women’s reproductive rights; something they did not pledge would be at the top of their legislative agenda.
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Republicans Begin New Congress By Standing With Racist Sympathizer Steve Scalise
Republicans are upset that Steve Scalise might have trouble raising money for the party, because some donors might not want to be seen giving cash to a racist, neo-Nazi sympathizer.
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McConnell Promises Republicans Will Escalate The Religious War on Women
Now, the Republicans’ first order of business with Mitch McConnell sharing Senate Majority Leader duties with Ted Cruz is precisely what they did when they won the House majority in 2010; attack women’s right to choose when they give birth.
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Once More, President Obama Is Doing The Republicans’ Jobs For Them
There is an idiom that parents and employers likely put in practice when an important task has to be completed correctly; “If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.” President Obama certainly understands that sentiment with a slight variation; if the nation wants anything done at all, the President has to do it himself due to Republicans who have done nothing since January 2009.
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Harry Reid Throws Blue Dogs A Bone By Naming Senator Jon Tester New Chair Of The DSCC
On Thursday, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) will take over as Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, replacing Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO).
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Conservatives Turn on McConnell And Anoint Ted Cruz The Leader Of Congress
The real conservatives look forward to Cruz’s plan to push “his” Republican-led Senate to be as conservative and confrontational as “his” Republican-led House.
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Ted Cruz Says A Functioning Senate Subverts the Will of The People
In fact, there is very little that Ted Cruz even likes about this country, including the United States Constitution, that he would burn to the ground in a hot second if he were able.
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GOP Rep Who Claims Senate Is Harry Reid’s Plantation Doesn’t Want To Be Kicked ‘Like A Slave’
In an article published Tuesday in the E&E Daily, a Beltway publication devoted to environmental and energy issues, Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) stated that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid “runs the Senate like a plantation.”
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Republicans Don’t Actually Need Electoral Opponents in 2014 as They Wage Public Civil War
If midterm election years have a reputation for being tepid and boring, a typically alienating cycle where the opposition party stokes its base with a referendum on the sitting President, 2014 is bucking the script.
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Tea Party’s Defeat Of Eric Cantor Could Eventually Spell Doom For The Republican Party
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) lost in the Republican primary Tuesday night to Tea Party upstart David Brat. Republicans may think this means they need to oppose immigration reform.
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Harry Reid Forces Senate Republicans to Flinch and Will Get Nominees Confirmed Friday
Late on Thursday evening the Senate reached a deal regarding the remaining Presidential nominees waiting to be confirmed. The Senate will now confirm Alejandro Mayorkas, Brian Davis and John Koskinen on Friday and then recess for the Christmas break.
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Senate Republicans Waste Everybody’s Time By Throwing Hissy Fit Over Nominations
Republican Senators went through with their plan on Wednesday and held up business in the Senate by debating to delay the vote on one of President Obama’s judicial nominees.
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Harry Reid Has Dealt a Major Blow to The Senate Republican Agenda
After allowing Republican dictators-by-committee to hold sway over a crucial portion of government for nearly five years, Majority Leader Harry Reid did what he should have done three years ago.
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Eric Cantor Has Rigged The Rules of the House So That The Government Stays Shut Down
Majority Leader Eric Cantor changed House procedural rules to guarantee Republicans could keep the government closed even if a bipartisan majority found a way to re-open it.
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Harry Reid Mocks House Republicans for Being Afraid of a Tea Party Revolt
Reid mocked the Republicans, ‘It seems House Republicans don’t want to be seen discussing even the possibility of compromise with Democrats, for fear that there will be a Tea Party revolt.’
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Harry Reid Needs to Get Both a Spine and a Clue and Confront Republican Obstruction
After suffering their obstruction in the 111th and 112th Congress, one would think Reid would get a clue, and a spine, and do his job as Majority Leader and end Republican abuse of the filibuster.
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Disgusted with House Republicans, Senate Announces ‘We’re Done’
Senate Democrats are done playing Republican House games. They won’t be making changes to the agreement. ‘We’re done,’ an aide said.