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RNC chair to fix GOP with ‘hackathons,’ marketing ‘year round’ — but no policy changes
The chairman of the Republican Party on Sunday explained that he had a plan to turn around his party’s recent losing streak by having less debates, earlier conventions, “hackathons” and more “marketing” — cosmetic changes that give candidates fewer chances to damage themselves without any serious policy changes. In an…
Bob Schieffer on kindergarten slaughter: ‘To what depths of horror must we sink?’
CBS host Bob Schieffer on Sunday reflected on the recent massacre of 20 elementary school children in Connecticut and wondered “to what depths of horror must we sink” before lawmakers and politicians begin to take the issue of gun violence seriously. “By now, the pros and cons of the gun…
Moderator Schieffer slips up, calls bin Laden ‘Obama’
The single letter separating the president’s name from that of America’s former enemy number one has led to many verbal miscues, the latest of which took place during the final presidential debate Monday night. Moderator Bob Schieffer, setting up a question about Pakistan’s loyalty to the U.S., accidentally referred to…
Issa Ties Obama to Bush: Libya response is a ‘mission accomplished moment’
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) says that President Barack Obama’s response to the attacks in Libya that killed a U.S. ambassador is like former President George W. Bush’s widely-mocked 2003 “mission accomplished” speech which suggested that the U.S had won war in Iraq even though violence was only…
Romney refuses to say if he would undo Obama’s immigration policy
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Sunday repeatedly refused to say if he would dismantle a recently-announced Obama administration policy that allows certain young undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S. During an interview on CBS, host Bob Schieffer asked the candidate if he would repeal the order. “Well,…
Gillespie defends Romney only doing Fox News: He spoke ‘to schoolchildren last week’
Ed Gillespie, a senior adviser to presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, on Sunday fended off accusations that his boss had only made Sunday morning appearances on Fox News. “Do you think we’re ever going to see him on one of these Sunday morning interview shows?” CBS host Bob Schieffer…
Biden: Reconsider gun laws after Trayvon Martin killing
Vice President Joe Biden says that he expects a fresh debate over Florida’s “State Your Ground” law, which is being used to defend neighborhood watchmen George Zimmerman after he killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. “I think the governor of Florida was correct and the president was correct in saying we should…
Santorum: Prenatal testing is to ‘encourage abortions’
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Sunday suggested that “Obamacare” required free prenatal testing coverage because President Barack Obama wanted to see more disabled babies aborted. The former Pennsylvania senators had told supporters on Saturday that the Affordable Care Act just created the requirement “because free prenatal testing ends up…
Santorum: Obama ‘a Christian,’ but theology not ‘based on the Bible’
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Sunday denied that he was not questioning President Barack Obama’s faith in Christianity when he said the president’s theology was not “based on the Bible.” At a tea party rally in Columbus, Ohio on Saturday, the candidate had said Obama’s agenda was “about some…
McConnell: Any employer should be able to deny birth control
In the wake of a controversy over a requirement that religious institutions provide contraceptive coverage, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) now supports a bill that gives any employer the right to exclude any type health service that they find objectionable. Speaking to CBS host Bob Schieffer on Sunday, McConnell…
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