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Gang of 8 Senators Split over Tax Credits to Amnesty Recipients

Democrats and Republicans in the Senate's Gang of Eight were divided over an amendment that would deny Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) benefits to illegal immigrants who would receive temporary legal statuts under their amnesty bill....Show More Summary

"Mark Is Not Going To Die In Vain": New Yorkers Rally After Murder of Gay Man

The site where Mark Carson was shot on West 8th Street, New York. Police say the killing was a hate crime. James West Blinding afternoon sun lit the biggest gay rights demonstration in years in New York's West Village Monday. The LGBT...Show More Summary

President Obama to address tornadoes in Oklahoma

President Obama will deliver remarks at 10 a.m. today from the White House on the tornadoes and severe weather that ripped through Oklahoma Sunday night and Monday, killing dozens. The White House says Obama continued to receive updates overnight from...

The Left’s ‘Ecuador’ Chevron Suit in Tatters

How sweet it is to see this crazed liberal plot to bilk Chevron, with the cahoots and participation of Ecuador’s executive and judicial branches, continue to come apart at its seamy seams. This caper (which I have written about before)...Show More Summary

Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Meet the Virginia GOP's new LG nominee, E.W. Jackson

Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Leading Off: • VA-LG, VA-AG: Oh yeah. This one's gonna be fun. Over the weekend, Virginia Republicans nominated hyperconservative Christian minister E.W. Show More Summary

White House Press Secretary Still In The Hot Seat

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney started a new week much as he ended the last one—under assault from all sides of the White House press corps Monday, as a reporters seized on new scandal revelations and demanded more information. Show More Summary

Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse: Republicans Caused The Oklahoma Tornado By Not Believing in Global Warming

One of the great ironies of the global warming debate is that the people who are skeptical of the phenomenon are the ones who make the science based arguments, while the true believers who incessantly rant about “scientific consensus” all too often sound like this. Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Show More Summary

Oklahoma Senator Won’t Support Tornado Relief Without Budget Cuts

The tornado that hit Oklahoma on Monday resulted in more than 90 deaths and is expected to cost the federal government untold billions of dollars in aid and recovery. But Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), who has long objected to federal funds being spent on everything from veterans benefits to relief in the aftermath of Hurricane [...]

Former Senator: Obama Told Me Resistance to Obamacare Would Fade After 2010

President Barack Obama believed that opposition to Obamacare would actually fade after the 2010 election. Former Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME), the moderate Republican who retired when her term ended at the beginning of this year, said on Monday Obama felt Obamacare would "lessen" after the midterm elections. Show More Summary

Virginia Lieutenant Governor Nominee: Black Americans Should Give Up Their “Slavish Devotion” To The Democrat Party

There’s nothing a liberal hates more than a black man who stands up and tells the world that minorities don’t need the Democrat Party to succeed. That’s why pastor E.W. Jackson, who was chosen as the GOP’s Lieutenant Governor Nominee, better get ready for a tsunami of hatred. Show More Summary

How The Political Fight Over Medicaid Will Widen The Gulf Between Our Healthiest And Sickest States

As the political fight over Obamacare continues, Republican legislators in highly uninsured states have turned their back on Medicaid expansion — despite the fact that expanding the public insurance program could extend coverage to millions of their constituents. Of course, even if stringently anti-Obamacare politicians refuse to cooperate with health reform, the law will still [...]

Beretta: It Looks Like We’ll Have To Leave Maryland Over New Gun Control Laws

Maryland’s new Draconian gun laws may make liberals happy, but it may also cost them a lot of jobs and tax revenue if and when Beretta leaves the state. Granted, the company hasn’t beaten the dust of Maryland off of its feet yet, but...Show More Summary

Unions Break with WH over Obamacare

Add Labor Unions to the list of people concerned about the implementation of Obamacare. Labor is now publicly "balking at how the administration plans to implement the landmark law. They warn that unless there are changes, the results...Show More Summary

Anti-Sandy-relief Oklahoma Senator: Aid for Oklahoma is “totally different” than Sandy

Pritzker Assured Employees of Bank's Health Two Months Before Failure

After coming under fire in 2008 for her role in the failure of her family’s subprime-lending Superior Bank, President Obama’s campaign defended their then-campaign finance chairwomen, Penny Pritzker, claiming, that "she stepped down as chairwoman of the bank’s board in 1994," seven years before it failed. Show More Summary

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Is the Economy Saving Obama’s Approval Ratings?

Political coverage over the last week has focused on a series of stories that reflect negatively on the executive branch, but President Obama's approval ratings have held steady.

Clinton’s role in the Benghazi fiasco and blame-shifting

The latest blockbuster story on Benghazi tells us that one of State Department employees disciplined in connection with Benghazi claims to have been scapegoated at the hands of higher ups and that the bad news was delivered by Hillary Clinton’s … Continue reading ?

Liberal Laughing that ‘Conservatives’ Were Targeted by Oklahoma Tornado Today

Lizz Winstead is a producer and co-creator of the Daily Show, the left-wing comedy show hosted by Jon Stewart on Comedy Network. After this destructive and tragic tornado whipped through Moore, Oklahoma today, she thought it was hilarious that “conservatives” were killed there. In typical scumbag, liberal manner Lizz Winstead took to Twitter to say: [...]

Eugene Robinson Hammers Obama Over AP

The provocative headline "Obama administration mistakes journalism for espionage" doesn't appear in a traditionally conservative paper like the NY Post or Wall Street Journal, it's the Washington Post. And before you equivocate, no,Show More Summary