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Exclusive — Event Schedule For Dick Cheney’s July Fundraiser For Mitt Romney 0

Exclusive — Event Schedule For Dick Cheney’s July Fundraiser For Mitt Romney

The former Pro Consul and Regent for George W. Bush has party plans. Having just received his first heart, Cheney’s in the mood to use it to raise some big money for Mitt Romney’s...

House Approves HR 4970, Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization – Here’s How Your Pol Voted 0

House Approves HR 4970, Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization – Here’s How Your Pol Voted

This afternoon the House approved a bill reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), HR 4970 [watch debate]. The House bill did not include Senate language that extended coverage under VAWA in a variety...

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad Praises GOP Governors’ Impact, Others Seek Shelter 2

Iowa Governor Terry Branstad Praises GOP Governors’ Impact, Others Seek Shelter

This morning on MSNBC’s Daily Rundown, Iowa’s GOP Governor Terry Branstad called up all the verbal gymnastics he could muster to avoid answering Chuck Todd’s initial question about Branstad’s stance on same-sex marriage issues...

Mitt Romney Inspires Nostalgia For A Placid Icon Of Republican Moderation 1

Mitt Romney Inspires Nostalgia For A Placid Icon Of Republican Moderation

Ah, yes, so many of us miss those halcyon years when a truly moderate Republican President occupied the White House. Yes, times were extravagantly difficult, economically, internationally; as 19th century poet Robert Browning wrote...

Featured Post — The Interview: Irish Setter Seamus Romney Tells The True Story Of His 1983 Car Top Ride To Canada 0

Featured Post — The Interview: Irish Setter Seamus Romney Tells The True Story Of His 1983 Car Top Ride To Canada

Finally, the truth. Seamus speaks. Did he really “love” riding in s crate atop the Romney car? The answer may surprise you. ***********************************They couldn’t let Seamus, the Romney’s family car top dog, rest in...

Susan G. Komen for the Cure – Tough Road Back To “Gold Standard,” Study Says 0

Susan G. Komen for the Cure – Tough Road Back To “Gold Standard,” Study Says

So unrestrained has the Rerpublican right wing attack on women’s health and disease prevention become that last February’s dust-up over the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood seems...

Yesterday’s Student Loan Interest Rate Legislation — GOP Labels The Prevention and Public Health Fund A “Slush Fund” And Kills It 1

Yesterday’s Student Loan Interest Rate Legislation — GOP Labels The Prevention and Public Health Fund A “Slush Fund” And Kills It

Yesterday, the majority House GOP caused Democrats to trade off repealing the portion of Affordable Health Care Act that created the Department of Health & Human Service (HHS) Prevention and Public Health Fund (PPHF)...

Just In: House GOP Student Loan Interest Rate Reduction Proposal Passes House With Mandated Big Hit To Health Education & Disease Prevention 13

Just In: House GOP Student Loan Interest Rate Reduction Proposal Passes House With Mandated Big Hit To Health Education & Disease Prevention

The GOP student loan interest rate reduction proposal, HR 4628, just passed the House amidst jeers from the gallery. Just prior to the vote to pass the bill, they voted along party lines to...

Will Romney’s Move To The Political Center Succeed? 0

Will Romney’s Move To The Political Center Succeed?

The Etch A Sketch imagery used by Romney communications director Eric Fehrnstrom six weeks ago has already morphed into reality. This is one of those moments when a political communications director accidentally told the...

California Congressman Pete Stark Calls Mitt Romney’s Bluff On Motherhood As Work: His H.R. 4379 Proposes TANF Amendment 1

California Congressman Pete Stark Calls Mitt Romney’s Bluff On Motherhood As Work: His H.R. 4379 Proposes TANF Amendment

The consequence of having few consistent policy positions sometimes leads to holding utterly opposite opinions on the same issue. As we know, such is Mitt Romney on “working mothers.” He went nuclear after Hilary...

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