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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…
McCain slams ‘shameful’ U.S. inaction on Syria
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and his government has been “shameful and disgraceful” in its response to the carnage in Syria, US Senator John McCain said Sunday, slamming Washington’s inaction on the issue. “The fact is that the United States has played no leadership role,” McCain, a veteran senator and…
Allen West on ‘true racism’: White liberals want to be my ‘master’
Tea party darling Rep. Allen West (R-FL) on Saturday doubled down his suggestion that Democrats were racists by insisting that the “true racism” was that white liberals wanted to be the “masters” of black conservatives. West created a controversy last week when he said that President Barack Obama had proposed…
Weak jobs growth means Obama must defy history to win re-election
A fading recovery and weak jobs growth mean President Barack Obama must defy history to win reelection, while Republican Mitt Romney has a fresh chance to market his candidacy. An economic dip has come at just the wrong time for Obama, just four months before he asks Americans already doubtful…
Rove’s Crossroads GPS buys $25 million ad blitz to attack Obama on jobs
WASHINGTON — Crossroads GPS has purchased a $25 million ad blitz in nine battleground states to attack President Barack Obama’s record on jobs and the debt, the advocacy group supporting Republican Mitt Romney said Friday. The wave of advertisements, which roll out on July 10 and run through early August,…
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