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CNN Pleads With Republicans, 'Don't Fear the Grover'

Source: Newsbusters, Nov 26 2012, 4:31pm CST

CNN broke out the pom-poms on Monday and cheered the Republicans who reneged on Grover Norquist's no-tax hike pledge. CNN contributor John Avlon lauded them as "profiles in courage." Avlon quipped that now "people ...

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2 hours ago

Capitol Beats: The real story is, see, Republicans can govern

Source: Kansas.com  |   May 18 2013, 1:19pm CDT

A few quick hits about what’s driving the debate in the Legislature. That’s what Wichita Republican Rep. Steve Brunk said while noting that, despite some political gridlock, the Legislature is still on track to compl ...

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6 hours ago

NC Republicans: the greatest tax shifters in state history

Source: Blue N.C.  |   May 18 2013, 9:23am CDT

The current proposals at the General Assembly would reduce or eliminate the personal income tax (a huge tax cut for the wealthy) and would make up some of the lost revenue by increasing the sales tax. The net result—the ...

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24 weeks ago


Quote:
"Country is more important than pledges. So, sorry, Americans for Tax Reform and Grover Norquist, I'm out."


Source: Newsbusters

 

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19 hours ago

Kan. budget negotiations halt abruptly

Source: HutchNews.com  |   May 17 2013, 8:38pm CDT

Published: 5/17/2013 8:33 PM | Last update: 5/17/2013 8:33 PM TOPEKA - Negotiations among Kansas legislators over the next state budget halted abruptly Friday, preventing an agreement on higher education s ...

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19 hours ago

Sales Taxes and the Internet

Source: The New York Times  |   May 17 2013, 8:26pm CDT

Twenty-one Republicans voted with 46 Democrats (and 2 Independents) recently to pass the Marketplace Fairness Act, a long-overdue bill allowing states to require online retailers to collect sales taxes and remit t ...

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21 hours ago

Some bad bills gone, some survive

Source: The News & Observer  |   May 17 2013, 6:24pm CDT

This session of the North Carolina General Assembly won’t remind anyone of Jimmy Stewart in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” Thus far, Republicans running the show have passed some downright mean bills cutting unemployment benefit ...

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23 hours ago

Mary Manning Cleveland: Grover Norquist is Right to Oppose Internet Sales Taxes

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 17 2013, 4:42pm CDT

When I visited my brother in London a few years back, I toted a suitcase packed with tennis balls. I paid New York City's 8.5 percent sales tax to help my brother's tennis-mad family avoid the UK's 20 percent value ...

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1 day ago

Kansas budget negotiations break down

Source: Kansas.com  |   May 17 2013, 11:21am CDT

TOPEKA — Budget negotiations between the House and Senate broke down Friday morning, pushing the Republican-dominated Legislature once again into gridlock as the veto session grinds on. Andover Republican Sen. Ty Masterson said he asked the House ...

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1 day ago

Rush Limbaugh Does Live in Obama's Head

Source: Big Government  |   May 17 2013, 11:12am CDT

Remembering that Rush Limbaugh is but a voice on the radio and has no vote in any government, hasn't the ability to wield the power of regulation, and cannot force anyone to do anything under the cover of law, here are some of the times t ...

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1 day ago

House lawmakers reach tentative bipartisan immigration deal

Source: Denver Post  |   May 16 2013, 7:10pm CDT

WASHINGTON — Prospects for passage of a major immigration bill improved on Thursday when a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives declared they had reached a tentative deal, resolving disputes that had threat ...

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