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“They were massively outspent in both states,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, “and it always takes a few tries to win these things.”

Because the bill was held up for so long in the Senate, an end-of-the-year filing deadline will prevent anyone from accessing the final six weeks of benefits, according to state officials and sources on Capitol Hill.

I noticed something odd in Rep. Mike Pence’s (R-Ind.) floor speech today about conservative pundits, and Politico transcribed it.
As evidenced by the hundreds of thousands that filled town hall meetings this summer and the nearly a million Americans who gathered here in Washington in September, millions of Americans, Republicans, Democrats and Independents are worried about [...]

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Here are some photos from today’s Tea Party protest in Washington, D.C. (Click images to enlarge.)

The full agenda for the Sept. 12 “Tea Party” march on Washington is up at the event’s Website. Co-sponsored by FreedomWorks and a constellation of conservative and libertarian groups, the event is heavy on local and D.C. organizers and light on Republican politicians. “No one who supported TARP will be on that stage,” said Brendan [...]

Second Amendment rights remain high on the list of issues Republicans are still nervous about when it comes to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. But no matter how they try to over-simplify the still-undecided question of whether the Constitution actually grants individual citizens a fundamental right to bear arms, Sotomayor has, as expected, stood firm [...]

The Hill reports that the American Association for Nude Recreation is coming to town next week to lobby Congress on nudism-related issues.
The AANR will be visiting a handful of congressional offices, but it is keeping the names of the lawmakers close to the chest (pun intended).
AANR members hope to increase the number of locations for [...]

FreedomWorks has launched a Facebook page for a Sept. 12, 2009 march on Washington — 9/12 being the date that Glenn Beck is building his anti-whatever and pro-whatever else movement around.
On April 15, taxpayers gathered across the country. Now it’s time to bring that message to Washington on September 12th. We have secured permits for [...]

The Presidential Inaugural Committee today announced the initial lineup for the official opening inaugural event in Washington, slated to kick off at 7 p.m 2 p.m EST Sunday. Dubbed “We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial,” the festivities will air for free nationwide, exclusively on HBO at 7 p.m. EST Sunday.
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