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NAACP boos Romney for promising to kill ‘Obamacare’
Attendees at the 103rd convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) loudly booed presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday after he promised to eliminate President Barack Obama’s health care reform law. “I believe that if you understood who I truly am in my…
Hannity guest: ‘NAACP has become a hate group’
A Fox News guest on Tuesday asserted that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) had “become a hate group in America.” Fox News host Sean Hannity asked New York Civil Rights Coalition Executive Director Michael Meyers if President Barack Obama even deserved the votes of black…
Biden: Romney ‘wants you to show your papers, but he won’t show us his’
Vice President Joe Biden criticized Mitt Romney on Tuesday for supporting Arizona’s controversial immigration law and allegedly hiding his wealth overseas to avoid paying taxes. “And this is a man who says President Barack Obama is out of touch,” he told the National Council of La Raza, the largest national…
Republicans: Health care repeal has bipartisan support
WASHINGTON — US lawmakers began five contentious hours of debate Tuesday over repealing the health care law, with Republicans insisting there is bipartisan support for wiping President Barack Obama’s landmark reforms from the books. Democrats have slammed the effort — the 31st vote to repeal part or all of the…
Rep. Barbara Lee blasts ‘meaningless’ Obamacare repeal vote
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) slammed House Republicans on Tuesday for planning to vote for the 31st time to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “I rise in strong opposition to the GOP’s Patients’ Rights Repeal Act,” she said on the House floor. “Here we go again Mr. Speaker, wasting the American’s…
WATCH LIVE: Obama talks about middle-class tax cuts in Iowa
A day after introducing his plan to extend middle-class Bush-era tax cuts for a year, President Barack Obama speaks at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to promote the plan. Watch live, broadcast on MSNBC on July 10. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the…
Maine gov. on ‘Gestapo’ Obamacare: ‘Be goddamn mad at the federal government’
Maine’s Republican governor says that anyone who is upset because he said that President Barack Obama’s health care reforms would turn the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) into Nazi secret police should “be goddamn mad at the federal government.” During a weekly radio address on Saturday, Gov. Paul LePage complained that…
Obama frames tax breaks as key election issue
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama drew sharp election battle lines between himself and rival Republicans on Monday by pressing Congress to maintain tax breaks for most US families but end them for the wealthy. “We don’t need more top-down economics. We have tried that theory. We have seen what happens,”…
Romney out-raises Obama by $35 million in June
WASHINGTON — Republican Mitt Romney raked in $106 million in June, his team announced Monday, trouncing President Barack Obama by $35 million and asserting a second straight month of campaign fundraising dominance. Romney and the Republican National Committee now have $160 million in cash on hand, the campaign said, as…
WATCH LIVE: Obama announces middle-class tax cut extension plan
President Barack Obama called on Congress Monday to extend the tax cuts on the middle class implemented under former President George W. Bush. The plan calls for Bush tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 a year to be extended for another year, and comes as Congress returns from…
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