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Hollywood star Ashley Judd turns down 2014 bid against Sen. Mitch McConnell
The Hollywood actor Ashley Judd disappointed legions of fans – and possibly Republican activists – by announcing on Wednesday that she will not be running for a Senate seat in Kentucky. The star of such hit films as Double Jeopardy and Kiss The Girls has recently been hotly rumoured to…
Mitch McConnell campaign aides do ‘The Harlem Shake’
If you want to see the lengths Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) campaign is willing to go to get him re-elected against potential challenger Ashley Judd, look no further than the campaign’s official YouTube page, where aides posted a video Wednesday of them dancing “The Harlem Shake” while one…
Liberal group attacks Mitch McConnell over Taiwan-born wife
Aides to top Republican Senator Mitch McConnell voiced outrage Tuesday after a left-leaning group suggested that he supported China over the United States due to his Taiwan-born wife. McConnell, who faces re-election next year, is married to former labor secretary Elaine Chao. She was born in Taiwan to parents who…
Progressives seek wary alliance with tea party to oust Mitch McConnell
A progressive super PAC in Kentucky is looking at getting in bed with the tea party in order to oust the six-term incumbent Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Hearing last week’s news that a coalition of tea party groups calling themselves the United Tea Party of Kentucky are targeting…
Sen. Mitch McConnell: ‘I need a dance partner’ to solve fiscal cliff
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) ended a speech with a unique metaphor on Sunday, as he lamented the fact that his office sent in a fiscal cliff offer Saturday evening in an attempt to avoid the end of the Bush tax cuts. By 2 p.m. Sunday, he claims, he…
Protesters occupy Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office
Interview conducted by David Edwards About 20 unemployed and underemployed D.C. residents occupied the office of Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell (KY) on Thursday, pledging to remain until the senator met with them about the Rebuild America Act. An organizer for the group Our D.C., James Adams, told Raw Story that…
McConnell: ‘No particular reaction’ to GOP audiences cheering death
Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) isn’t condemning the Republican presidential debate audiences that have consistently cheered death. During the two most recent debates, audiences were delighted with Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s record number of executions and the notion that an uninsured 30-year-old man in a coma would be left…
Key Republican blasts Obama jobs plan
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s top critic in the US Senate on Tuesday blasted the White House’s new $447 billion blueprint for battling high unemployment as “more of a reelection plan than a jobs plan.” Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also rejected Obama’s call for raising taxes on the…
BREAKING: Obama, congressional leaders strike deal to avoid debt default
President Barack Obama settled on a plan with congressional leaders to avoid debt default, announced just past 8:30 p.m. Sunday night. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, in a floor speech, reassured Congress that there was a plan in place. A vote is planned to take place Monday. “There is now…
Republican leaders say ‘fully engaged’ with Obama on debt deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republicans in the Senate and House of Representatives said on Saturday that after a week of stalemate they are now in serious talks with President Barack Obama to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a looming default. “We now have a a level of seriousness…
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