Elections
Obama bulldozes GOP wall of obstruction
January 5, 2012The president said he was forced to make the appointment now, during the current Congressional recess, if the consumer protection agency was to function.
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Sen. Kirk: Quit obstructing job creation, jobless benefit extension
January 5, 2012Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., has carefully cultivated the image of a political moderate. It was that image that allowed him to get elected in 2010 in the first place.
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High court to hear union campaign finance case
January 5, 2012Another right-wing effort to throw public worker unions out of politics hit the U.S. Supreme Court agenda.
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David Brooks peddles snake oil on race, class, Santorum
January 4, 2012"The Republican Party is the party of the white working class," David Brooks, the New York Times' resident conservative "intellectual," declared.
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Movement to end corporate personhood grows
January 4, 2012Overturning corporate personhood is a key legislative goal of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
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