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(AP) - Senate Republicans, demanding the right to change a huge spending bill, forced Democrats tonight to put off a final vote on the measure until next week. The surprise development will force Congress to pass a stopgap funding bill to avoid a partial shutdown of the government. Republicans have blasted the... More »

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Congress • Senate • Harry Reid • spending bill • Republicans

OPINION

 Obama Makes 
 GOP Miss Clinton 


Mar 5, 09 2:23 PM CST
(Newser) - Back in the '90s you wouldn’t hear many Republicans waxing poetic about Bill Clinton, but these days, that’s exactly what Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune is doing. “Clinton, for all his appetites and excesses, was a cautious, centrist sort of Democrat” who “proclaimed—or conceded—... More »

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Barack Obama • Bill Clinton • conservative • budget deficit • balanced budget • fiscal policy • Republicans

ANALYSIS

Sebelius Made Little Progress on Health in Partisan Kan.

Kansas guv could get another shot as health secretary

Mar 2, 09 8:21 AM CST
(Newser) - As governor of Kansas, President Obama’s new pick for health secretary has plenty of experience working with Republicans—but little success pushing her health plans through the GOP-controlled legislature, the New York Times reports. If she is confirmed, she’ll have another chance to expand coverage in what could... More »

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health care • Department of Health • Kansas • health care reform • health secretary • Kathleen Sebelius • state legislature • Obama administration • President Obama • Republicans

 GOP States Buy More Porn 


Feb 27, 09 6:32 PM CST
(Newser) - Church-going Republicans are more likely than liberals to buy pornography online, New Scientist reports. In a nationwide study of purchases at an adult entertainment company, researchers found that eight in 10 of the most porno-consuming states voted for John McCain last year. "One natural hypothesis is something like repression:... More »

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pornography • Christian conservatives • Republicans • Howard Stern Grid

Unemployed Furious at Contrarian Govs

Constituents fear
losing out on stimulus dollars over politics

Feb 27, 09 2:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Opposing the stimulus’ expansion of unemployment benefits may be good PR, but there’s one constituency it’s not playing well with: unemployed people. “It just seems unreasonable,” one jobless Texan tells the New York Times, “that when people probably need the help the most, that because... More »

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Rick Perry • unemployment • jobless claims • unemployment benefits • governor • economic stimulus package • Mark Sanford • Obama administration • President Obama • Republicans

OPINION

Conservatives Must 'Obstruct and Delay' Obama: Kristol

GOP can check rush toward big government

Feb 26, 09 11:57 AM CST
(Newser) - The “day of reckoning” has come for Republicans, writes William Kristol in the Washington Post. On Tuesday, President Obama delivered “the most unabashedly liberal and big-government speech” since Lyndon Johnson, and seems poised to undo the whole Reagan agenda. “Conservatives can’t win politically right now,”... More »

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Barack Obama • Lyndon Johnson • conservative • US government • FDR • President Obama • conservative movement • William Kristol • Republicans

(Newser) - Bobby Jindal has been almost universally panned on both the left and right for his speech last night—with one notable exception. Longtime backer Rush Limbaugh defended Jindal today and warned his detractors to back off, reports ThinkProgress. "I love Bobby Jindal, and that did not change last night,... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Louisiana • Bobby Jindal • governor • Republicans • Bill Maher Grid

Schumer to GOP: Stimulus Is All or Nothing

Governors can't cherry-pick favorite parts, senator argues

Feb 24, 09 1:46 PM CST
(Newser) - Chuck Schumer thinks governors ought to have one choice when it comes to the stimulus: Take it or leave it. The New York senator is fed up with Republicans like Bobby Jindal and Mark Sanford, who want to grab some federal cash while refusing the rest on ideological grounds. “... More »

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Charles Schumer • Bobby Jindal • economic stimulus package • Office of Management and Budget • James Clyburn • Mark Sanford • financial crisis • Republicans

NEW POLL

Public Trusts Obama, Blames GOP for Stimulus Row


Feb 24, 09 7:30 AM CST
(Newser) - GOP attempts to attack Barack Obama on the stimulus don’t appear to be working. According to a New York Times/CBS poll, three quarters of Americans, including 6 in 10 Republicans, believe the president is trying to act in a bipartisan manner, and most blame Republicans for objecting to the... More »

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Barack Obama • partisanship • economic stimulus package • bipartisanship • approval ratings • poll numbers • Obama administration • Republicans

Republicans Hope for 1994 All Over Again

But Dems are in a
better position than
they were under Clinton

Feb 23, 09 2:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama is banking on change, but Republicans are betting things haven’t changed much at all. They’re hoping to bounce back from the political wasteland using the same playbook that swept them into power in 1994, Jeanne Cummings writes in Politico. The strategy: Unite against Democrats' economic policy,... More »

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Barack Obama • Newt Gingrich • health insurance • Bill Clinton • health care reform • Grover Norquist • economic stimulus package • political strategy • Republicans

OPINION

GOP Guvs Right to See Stimulus Cash as 'Trap'

Say law is a 'budget trap' that will hook them on more spending

Feb 23, 09 8:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Five Republican governors are threatening to turn down much of their stimulus windfall, afraid of taking addictive doses of spending on education, welfare, and health care that the states would have to shoulder in 2011 and beyond. And they're right to worry, the Wall Street Journal says. Take enrolling new... More »

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government spending • Rick Perry • Bobby Jindal • Haley Barbour • economic stimulus package • Mark Sanford • state budgets • Republicans

OPINION

 Obstinate GOP 
 Digging Itself Deeper 


Feb 18, 09 5:05 PM CST
(Newser) - Even the stimulus couldn’t rouse Republicans “into any human feeling,” writes Derrick Jackson of the Boston Globe. “With the collective livelihood of America at stake,” Republicans opted for full-blown obstinacy, crying about the deficit while conveniently forgetting that their president had turned a... More »

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Barack Obama • Congress • economic stimulus package • bipartisanship • Republicans

OPINION

Obama Plays 'Gandhian Hardball'

Bipartisanship doesn't work anymore, except as tonal strategy

Feb 16, 09 12:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama got his stimulus passed, but he couldn’t convince any Republicans to vote for it, and that sent the media fretting. Had the president, as one paper put it, “delivered the post-partisan era” he’d promised? “The man had been in office for eight days,”... More »

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Barack Obama • Democrats • partisanship • bipartisanship • Republicans

 State Reps Tell 
 Burris to Resign 

Senator omitted important info during January hearings

Feb 15, 09 5:13 PM CST
(Newser) - Two Illinois Republicans are calling on Sen. Roland Burris to resign amid allegations he committed perjury during the Rod Blagojevich impeachment hearings, Fox News reports. State representatives Jim Durkin and Tom Cross are also demanding an outside investigation. "I think it would be in the best interest of the... More »

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impeachment • perjury • Illinois • Rod Blagojevich • Roland Burris • Republicans

 House Passes Stimulus Bill 


Feb 13, 09 1:53 PM CST
(Newser) - The House today passed the $787 billion stimulus bill, once again without a single Republican vote, the AP reports. Eight Democrats also opposed the bill, which will make its way to the Senate later today. The victory belongs to President Obama, who says the package will save or create 3.... More »

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Congress • Democrats • Senate • House of Representatives • economic stimulus package • bill • Obama administration • President Obama • Republicans • victory

ANALYSIS


 Obama 
 Cringes 
 at Carter 
 Comparison 

GOP sees comeback in portraying new prez as weak, inexperienced

Feb 1, 09 1:15 PM CST
(Newser) - You may get away with calling President Obama “Barry,” but don’t call him “Jimmy”—as in Carter, the Times of London reports. Anxious to characterize Obama as weak at home and inexperienced abroad, Republicans have seized on the comparison first made by Hillary Clinton supporters... More »

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Iran • Barack Obama • Jimmy Carter • Guantanamo Bay • foreign policy • Republicans

(AP) - The top Senate Republican warned today that the GOP risks remaining out of power in the White House and Congress unless it better explains its core principles to woo one-time faithful and new loyalists. Mitch McConnell spoke to party activists gathered in Washington to elect a new national chairman tomorrow,... More »

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politics • RNC • GOP • Mitch McConnell • voters • Republicans

Republican Congressman Apologizes for Limbaugh Flap

Sees 'eye-to-eye'
with talk show host

Jan 28, 09 6:21 PM CST
(Newser) - A Republican congressman who defended his colleagues from the wrath of Rush Limbaugh apologized today to his "fellow conservatives" and said his anti-Rush statements were taken out of context, Politico reports. Georgia's Phil Gingrey said his comments "read much harsher than they were actually intended," and he... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • House of Representatives • House Republicans • Republicans • Phil Gingrey

 At RNC, Change 
 Means Bashing Bush 

Former loyalists lash out at ex-president in race for new chairman

Jan 28, 09 12:18 PM CST
(Newser) - In deciding on a new chairman, Republican National Committee members are wrestling with ambivalence about George W. Bush, the Washington Post reports. Incumbent Mike Duncan, appointed by the former president, faces something of a backlash. Duncan “never criticized Bush when the president was wrong,” says one member. “... More »

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RNC • Chip Saltsman • Mike Duncan • George W. Bush • Michael Steele • Katon Dawson • Saul Anuzis • J. Kenneth Blackwell • Republicans

OPINION

 GOP Needs 'a Little 
 Chaos:' Kristol 


Jan 24, 09 3:11 PM CST
(Newser) - Republicans clamoring for unified front should "calm down" and be careful what they wish for, William Kristol writes in the Weekly Standard. Firstly, Barack Obama is hugely popular; he'll be unassailable for months. What's more, spirited debate may serve the GOP better than blind adherence to conservative philosophy. Consider... More »

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Congress • Senate • GOP • House of Representatives • Reagan Revolution • debate • William Kristol • Republicans • heterodoxy

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