No matter how one assesses the current Republican obstructionist tactics in the legislature, it is nothing less than extortion, and it will affect working Americans as well as national security.
Republicans are threatening to block a vote on the START treaty that will limit the nuclear arsenals of Russia as well as the United States.
The tax cut fight highlights Democrats' missing convictions, and the White House's silence on the fight over tax cuts is rather surprising.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/02/AR2010120204560.html
Cash-strapped and desperate to slash the largest budget deficit in Europe, the new ruling coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats is moving to close the curtain on an era of what they describe as excessive government patronage.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/03/AR2010080306964_pf.html
It would take something almost incomprehensibly huge�at this point to keep Democrats from losing their iron-fisted death grip on power this November...so I would expect some kind of epic catastrophe or outrageous
On Tuesday morning, the Washington Post and Politico published dual stories exploring the "revolt" against Democrats by Wall Street donors angry with the party's push for financial reform.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/06/democrats-see-benefits-to_n_636473.html
As Democrats formally unveiled a framework for national immigration reform Thursday, Arizona's controversial new law -- and its undertones of nativist fury over the nation's demographic transformation -- has cast an ominous shadow on the upcoming effort, an immigration expert and NAACP's Arizona chief tell Raw Story.
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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0503/naacp-cap-arizona-immigration-law/
