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Conservatives See Long-Term ‘Gift’ in Obama Spending Freeze

By | 01.29.10 | 6:00 am

On December 9, House Republicans did what they’d done multiple times throughout 2009. They released an open letter to President Obama, laying out their ideas for a “No-Cost Jobs Plan.” It included, among ideas like scaled-back energy regulation and a temporary tax break for corporations repatriating More…

GOP Sets Sights on House Power Brokers for 2010

By | 10.16.09 | 6:00 am

Eight years after leaving the Missouri House of Representatives, Vicky Hartzler found herself praying for America. Her congressman, Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, had supported most of President Barack Obama’s agenda, including cap-and-trade legislation. Hartzler and her husband, who sell farm equipment, asked More…

The Agony of Jim Bunning

By | 04.08.09 | 9:25 am

Taegan Goddard reports that a new poll will show Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) deep in the hole against any potential Democratic candidate. One difference between Kentucky and, for example, Arkansas, where Republicans are gunning for Democratic  Sen. Blanche Lincoln, is that the opposition party has a deep bench of More…

AIG Scandal Takes Toll on Dodd

By | 04.02.09 | 2:03 pm

So says a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday, which found Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) trailing likely 2010 Republican contender Rob Simmons by 16 points, 50 to 34 percent — the worst margin in Dodd’s decades-long congressional career.

But what’s most interesting is how he’s doing with self-proclaimed members of More…