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Breaking: Wisconsin Dems throw their weight behind drive to recall GOP Senators
The Wisconsin Democratic Party has decided to throw its weight behind a nascent grassroots drive to recall a number of GOP state senators, a move that will considerably increase the pressure on them to break with Governor Scott Walker, the...
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02:34 PM ET, 03/02/2011 |
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Why did Huckabee think Obama 'grew up in Kenya?'
Yesterday, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee told conservative radio host Steve Malzberg that President Barack Obama had "grown up in Kenya," and cited the president's father's background as proof that Obama has an abiding hatred of Western culture: HUCKABEE: I...
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10:38 AM ET, 03/02/2011 |
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Happy Hour Roundup
* Next up in Wisconsin: Tonight Governor Scott Walker is proposing a budget containing more than $1 billion in state aid cuts to schools and local governments. Key question: Whether other groups gearing up to battle the budget will join...
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06:29 PM ET, 03/01/2011 |
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Will Americans' support for public workers matter?
As Greg noted this morning, three national polls have shown that Americans may not like unions, but they're supportive of public workers' basic right to organize. A Pew Center poll found that Americans support the public workers' position over that...
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04:11 PM ET, 03/01/2011 |
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Wisconsin GOPers angered by Republican official's efforts to reach compromise with labor, Dems
Here's a pretty good indicator of just how resistant Republicans allied with Governor Scott Walker have become to reaching a compromise of any kind with labor and Dems to end the standoff in Wisconsin over the Governor's proposal to roll...
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01:33 PM ET, 02/28/2011 |
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