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Obama tees off with Republican senators in bid to end political standoff
US President Barack Obama teed off a new bid to court his political foes, hooking up with two Republican senators for a rare Monday round of golf, as Congress headed back to town after a recess. Obama was lined up to play the course at Andrews Air Force base with…
More Republicans agree to higher tax rates for the wealthy, but at what cost?
More Republicans agree to higher tax rates for the wealthy One by one, Republicans seem to be toppling in the direction of President Obama’s insistence that wealthy Americans pay higher taxes. On Sunday, it was Sen. Bob Corker (R) of Tennessee, who told “Fox News Sunday” that Republicans likely would…
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…
Tennessee Democratic Party disavows its own Senate candidate
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) may have barely scraped into office six years ago, but since then the state has increasingly become a Republican stronghold, and now the Democrats have suffered an epic failure in their attempt to find a credible candidate to put up against him. The seven would-be candidates…
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