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Norquist: Obama might ‘blow up small countries’ for fun
Anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist says that President Barack Obama will have to “blow up small countries” because Republicans will not let him have “any fun at all” spending taxpayers’ money. “Obama will be on a very short leash, fiscally speaking, over the next four years,” Norquist told C-SPAN on Thursday.…
McConnell suggests Obama ‘manufactured’ poll to make him ‘most unpopular’ senator
A recent fundraising email from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign suggested that President Barack Obama ordered the firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) to “manufacture” a survey that said the Kentucky Republican was the “most unpopular Senator in the country.” A poll released by the left-leaning firm on Tuesday indicated…
Obama’s pollster: Republicans have a tolerance problem
Obama's pollster: Republicans have a tolerance problem Much has been made of GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s catastrophic performance last month among Latino voters – just 27 percent to President Obama’s 71 percent. Now at 10 percent of the American electorate, Latinos are the nation’s fastest-growing minority. Suddenly, Republicans are……
Scarborough on talk radio ‘bullies’: Republicans should ‘punch them in the face’
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is calling on Republicans to push back against talk radio “bullies” like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh by punching them “in the face.” The conservative host on Monday noted that some on the “far right” had realized that “our stupidity was not rewarded on election day…
Dick Armey blames Republican leaders for allowing candidates to say ‘dumb things’
Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) says that some tea party candidates lost in 2012 because leaders of the Republican Party did not stop them from saying “dumb things.” Armey, who recently agreed to step down as the head of FreedomWorks for an $8 million payout, on Monday suggested…
Rep. Blackburn: Republicans ‘are the party of big ideas’
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Sunday insisted that Republicans opposed raising taxes on the wealthy and supported cutting earned benefits like Social Security and Medicare because they were “the party of big ideas.” “Inside the [Republican] caucus, what people are looking at is how do we solve the system-wide problem,”…
Sen. Corker: Debt ceiling is Republican ‘leverage’ to cut ‘entitlements’
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) says that his party should agree to raise taxes on the wealthy before January because Republicans can force cuts to earned benefits like Medicare and Social Security next year by holding the debt ceiling hostage. “I do think it’s time for the president — he knows…
Mobster uses mass campaign emails from Obama and other politicians in court to ‘prove’ he’s well-connected
Collection of letters presented to the court include standard mass email replies from Bill Clinton and Barack Obama From the fictional Tony Soprano to the real word “Dapper Don” John Gotti, US mafia members are known for their brazen audacity. But low-ranking mob associate Tony “Tony O” O’Donnell may have…
Former Florida governor Charlie Crist formally joins Democrats to make final split from GOP
Former Florida governor cites Republican party’s lurch to the right as reason for joining Democrats and Obama Former Florida governor Charlie Crist has completed his political conversion, announcing on Twitter that he has joined the Democrats as a result of the Republican party’s swing to the right. The one-time GOP…
Obama’s inauguration committee to accept corporate cash
President Obama’s inauguration in January will be funded in part by corporate cash, a reversal from 2008 when he declined corporate donations and capped individual donations to $50,000, reported the Washington Post. Donations from both corporate donors and individuals to the 2013 Presidential Inaugural Committee will not have an upper…
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