Republicans win majority in US Senate, giving party full.
A stronger-than-expected Republican performance, including wins in states such as Colorado and Iowa that Obama carried in 2012, allows Republicans to take full control of Congress. The GOP. By midnight (Eastern Time) Republicans already had 52 Senate seats confirmed.. Despite some initial Democratic optimism after they held on to New Hampshire and temporarily appeared to be ahead in North Carolina, the party lost almost all its key target Senate seats.
Hospital Discharges Rise at Lucrative Times
That is five times as many patients as were released the three days before the thresholds. The Journal obtained records of all hospital claims paid by Medicare during those six years from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, for a fee.
Capital Journal Daybreak: Rubio Rejects Leaders and Ideas of the Past.
HILLARY CLINTONS ROAD TRIP: Hillary Clinton is spending her first days as a presidential candidate on a road trip from New York to Iowa in a van that she calls ���Scooby.��� She posed for a. U.S. lawmakers seized on Moscows announcement to warn that.
Rubio winner from Romney decision
In fact, last summer, a Republican strategist who knows Rubio fairly well told me that not only was it not a foregone conclusion that the one-time GOP golden boy would seek the presidency in 2016, but he might even hang it up altogether and not even.
The New Politics of Evasion - Democracy Journal
Many Republicans chalk this up to gaps in messaging and technology, to the selection of candidates who cant fire up the base, or to what is for them the incomprehensible charisma of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Although a few Republicans are... Bill Clintons economic strategy���fiscal restraint, targeted public investments, openness to the world���helped usher in an era of balanced budgets and economic growth whose fruits were widely shared. The winding down of the Cold��.
What the Big Ten Tells Republicans They Need in 2016
Because of that, we can evaluate the GOPs general election prospects over the next 12 to 18 months by watching the partys trek through its primary and caucus calendar. Will the Republicans select someone who can carry enough of the key 10 states to.
Why Liberals Are Lame - Naked Capitalism
Whether you attribute that to dumb luck of how Presidential elections mapped against economic cycles versus sound policy moves, Clinton faced voters when most had reason to think their personal prospects were on the rise. By contrast, as Obamas.. By that time third parties were becoming a factor and a lot of Republican and Democratic Senators were functioning independently of the national party, and the militant CIO unions functioned independently. Billy Bob��.
Winters Tale: The Donner Partys Ill-Fated Path
President Obama is designating three new National Historic Monuments today, one of them in his adopted hometown of Chicago, where the temperature this morning was a frigid minus-8 degrees, a new record for February 19. Such conditions call to mind a .
GOP field heavy on hawks, light on experience
Still, the partys presidential candidates see it as a no-brainer to slam the Obama era as a time when America has snubbed its friends to talk to foes such as Iran, staged Middle East retreats that spawned ISIS and other unsavory foes and emboldened.
Norman Ornstein to the Press Corps: Stop Covering the.
In todays quasi-bipartisan inane ramblings, Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute and Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institute want the Washington Press Corps to know the GOP is extremist, destroying the. Oh wait. thatd be the Democrats who did that when they controlled Congress and the White House at or near filibuster proof levels for two years and did nothing to fix the economy, but chose instead to wreck private healthcare in America.
Tea Party Patriots | News Briefing for Monday, April 27
Those in that income range make too much to qualify for assistance under Obamacare but often times make too little to actually afford coverage or the fee that comes with not being covered. Its an issue that... and their wages. Alexander Staudt, the treasurer of the University of Iowa College Republicans, also told Mr. Walker in the meet-and-greet line that he was concerned that by talking tough on immigration, Republican candidates would turn off Hispanics������.
Obama Campaign Borrows From Bush 04 Playbook - The.
WASHINGTON ��� The last time an incumbent president faced re-election, George W. Bush exploited social and national security issues to offset his economic vulnerabilities. Over the next year. Their disappointment over the economy cloud Mr. Obamas 2012 re-election prospects. But their distance. Democrats tried to cast the Republican nominee, Bob McDonnell, as an extremist on social issues; Mr. McDonnell, now governor, focused relentlessly on the economy.
Republicans Mostly Shrug Off Bill Maher #flipadistrict Threat
Clinton Backs Litmus Test for Supreme Court Justices. Blogs; At. Republicans expressed little trepidation at the prospect of Maher putting his influence ��� and his HBO show ��� into the effort of ejecting them from Congress as part of his plan to ���flip��� a district.. Steve King, the Iowa firebrand known for making provocative statements ��� like the one about the calf size of illegal immigrants carrying drugs across the border ��� has been a frequent target of Maher already.
Is Hillary Clinton a Neocon-Lite? | Consortiumnews
Indeed, for thoughtful and/or progressive Democrats, the prospect of a President Hillary Clinton could represent a step back from some of President Barack Obamas more innovative foreign policy strategies, particularly his readiness to cooperate with the Russians and Iranians to. In strongly supporting the surge in Afghanistan, Hillary told the president that her opposition to the surge in Iraq had been political because she was facing him in the Iowa primary [in 2008].
Now is the time to cripple the GOP - Daily Kos
Leave no doubt who caused this trainwreck of an economy, who created this mountian of debt, who is trying to clean up the mess, and what happens if the GOP wins. Leave the Grand Old Cult with no option but playing��.
How Democratic Progressives Survived a Landslide
The two-term Democrat represented one of the most sprawling and politically unpredictable House districts in the country, an Iowa-sized expanse of northern and eastern Arizona dotted with fiercely conservative small towns, heavily Democratic.. Brown and Republican groups ads continually pictured the senator beaming next to the president, and he attacked her for working in tandem with Obama to stagnate the economy, to create the summers border crisis with undocumented��.
Why is the New York Times fixated on Koch Industries.
Hillary Clinton and the Super Trough THE EDITORIAL BOARD 5/8/15; Hillary Clinton Embraces a Super PAC, Trying to Erode a Republican Edge HABERMAN and CONFESSORE 5/6/15; Wisconsin, Politics and Faith Bind��.
Michael Barbaro and Michael D. Shear
Mr. Giuliani told Fox News that ���I dont hear from him what I heard from Harry Truman, what I heard from Bill Clinton, what I heard from Jimmy Carter, which is these wonderful words about what a great country we are, what an exceptional country we are.
Indiana debate exposes GOP divisions; Jeb Bush says Gov. Pence has done.
It is also a critical time for the Republican Party, which has recently played down its opposition to abortion rights and same-sex marriage to help attract more women and younger voters before the next presidential election.. It takes our eye off.
Republican prospects, in Iowa, target extremists, Clinton
DES MOINES (US): Nearly a dozen Republican prospects for the 2016 presidential race lined up to appeal to party members in the early voting state of Iowa, agreeing to get tough with Americas enemies but differing on how to do it. Most who spoke at a.
2 Kansas Men Charged in Suicide Attack Plot at Fort Riley
Mr. Booker then took steps over the next several months to plan the attack, including buying materials to make a bomb, renting a storage locker and filming a video saying he was acting in the name of the Islamic State, the extremist group in Iraq and.
Sarah Palin, Corporate Capitalism, and Right Wing.
Paul Street, Iowa City, IA, September 13, 2011. Published at ZNet (Septembe 14. I want all of our GOP candidates to take the opportunity to kill corporate capitalism that is leading to this cronyism that is killing our economy, Ms. Palin said. They all have an... September 3, 2011. [11] For my own version of some of the chilling (and warming) details and prospects, see Paul Street, ���Biggest Issue in Our Time is the Biggest Loser in 2011 Budget,��� ZNet (April 20, 2011) at��.
Ted Cruzs Path to the GOP Nomination : Political Wire
What that means ��� particularly in the early stages of the primary process in places such as Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina ��� is that he will probably be able to win, place or show repeatedly, racking up enough. They would still vote for any one of those candidates (multiple times if possible) over Hillary Clinton, or any other Democratic candidate... He is an extremist, a religious conservative, and scares the shit out of those not in the Fox News camp. APV.
The Republican Horde | Starlight News Blog
Interestingly, there was also some strong Venus activity in the charts of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin in 2008, with both of these candidates also enjoying an extremely fervent group of devotees at that time... members to Israel for nine days beginning Saturday, is being paid for by a subsidiary of the American Family Association, which the law center in a news release last week called a ���hate group��� known for its ���extremism and its demonizing attacks on minorities.
Inside the Beltway: Bush, Walker, Christie, Jindal get ruthless media scrutiny
Scott Walker joins the ranks of Republican presidential contenders whose carefree school days have come under scrutiny by the journalists who want to prove ��� well, something or other. The breathless stories follow the same template, seeking out old .
Lessons from the Health-Care Wars - The American Prospect
Because of the trust and experience of the core leadership team, HCAN was able to be flexible and strategic about targeting resources -- staff and money -- where they were needed at different times... health-care reform was simply an immediate and convenient target -- captivated the media, which reported disruptions at congressional town hall meetings as though they were an accurate reflection of public opinion rather than a pep rally for extremists, encouraged by��.
Clinton to announce 2016 bid on Sunday
WASHINGTON ��� Hillary Rodham Clinton will end months of speculation and launch her highly anticipated 2016 presidential campaign on Sunday, skipping a flashy kickoff rally in favor of conversations with voters about the economic needs of middle class.
DownWithTyranny!: The Nightmare That Is Steven King (R-IA)
For most Americans, Paul, Cruz or Rubio would indeed be a horror story-- along with the entire Republican Party agenda. But for immigrants theres another Steven King-- the Iowa extremist-- who is much more of a horror��.
State of the Union address: Obama to gloat over resurgent U.S. economy
���Obama may make a big pitch for free community-college tuition, and even if it doesnt pass, hes thinking Hillary [former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton] can run against the Republicans on that. Even though they [White House officials] will.
Progressives: Between Hillary and a Hard Place
This strange moment for progressives was crystallized over the weekend when the liberal Working Families Party, which is based in Clintons home state of New York and which backed her in both of her Senate runs, decided to join liberal groups such as.
Gov. Chris Christies Allies Seek to Bolster Support for Presidential Run
Chris Christies backers are moving to assure nervous donors that the New Jersey governor will have a clear strategy and enough money to compete in the 2016 Republican primaries after the bumpy start of his potential presidential campaign. On Monday .
Jeb Bush, neoconservative
Scott Walker [R] has a double-digit lead over the rest of the GOP presidential field in early-voting Iowa in a new automated poll. Walker pulls 24 percent with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush [R] and Sen. Rand Paul [R-Ky.] at 10 percent apiece, according.