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California GOP faces steep road back
SACRAMENTO — The Republican Party has become so pathetic in California that it can't even find a candidate to run for governor next year. Correct that. It isn't even looking. Wouldn't know where to begin. The party's in no position to recruit...
Tags: Tim Donnelly, Government, Jerry Sanders, Regional Authority, Minority Groups
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A weak Boehner is bad for the GOP, Obama and America
Only a few days into the new year, the Grand Old Party has a huge political hangover from the events that rang in the tidings of 2013. First came the escape from the fiscal cliff that saw its speaker of the House, John Boehner, embarrassed by his flock'...Tags: Mitt Romney, Eric Cantor, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Tea Party Movement
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Republicans dismiss Obama's 'false promises' in State of the Union
WASHINGTON – Republicans said President Obama’s State of the Union address was heavy with “false promises” and short on a commitment to cut spending. But initial reaction largely avoided the most emotionally-charged issue in the...Tags: Mitch McConnell, Cathy McMorris, Washington, DC, Unions, John Boehner
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Central Valley farm region reacts to Obama immigration reform
L.A. NOWKern County supported Mitt Romney by one of the state’s most lopsided margins, and its local congressman, Kevin McCarthy, is the majority whip and a hard-line conservative. Yet the area is heavily dependent on the farming industry, which has hailed.... -
Taft Union school shooting: California politicians speak out
L.A. NOWCalifornia politicians were quick to speak out on Thursday morning's shooting at Taft Union High School that sent two students to area hospitals, one with a gunshot wound.... -
Hope, cynicism run high for second Obama term
— Four years after he rode into the White House on a message of change, President Barack Obama is set to begin his second term Monday amid lowered expectations and a sense that his re-election has done little to alter the nation's fractured...
Tags: Public Finance, George W. Bush, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Shootings, Interior Policy
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‘Face the Nation’ welcomes Alan Simpson, Erskine Bowles
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe fiscal cliff will take center screen on Sunday morning talk shows. The guest lineup: Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, co-chairs of President Barack Obama's deficit commission, visit CBS' “Face the Nation.” The program airs at 10:30 a.m. on... -
GOP leader suggests pulling the plug on California's high-speed rail
PolitiCalRep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield), the third-highest-ranking Republican in Congress, suggested on Thursday that the federal government should “cut its losses” and not provide any more money for the state’s high-speed rail program.... -
Transportation secretary defends bullet train at House hearing
L.A. NOWU.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood vigorously defended California’s high-speed rail project in the face of sharp criticism from a pair of Golden State Republicans at a Capitol Hill hearing.... -
House OKs 'fiscal cliff' deal
Associated PressPast its own New Year’s deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national ‘‘fiscal cliff’’ of middle class tax increases and spending cuts late Tuesday night in the culmination of a...Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Medicare, National Government, Joe Biden, Employment Opportunities
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Defined by a Sandy sidestep
WASHINGTON -- The end-of-term reviews of John Boehner's House speakership are in, and they aren't pretty. "The conduct of the Republican leadership was disgraceful, it was indefensible and it was immoral." "There was a betrayal." "Disappointing...
Tags: Eric Cantor, Robert Dold, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, Endangered Species, Michael Grimm
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The double-down president is an instigator, not a conciliator
Americans are justified in feeling numbed by the car alarm of Washington politics. Every now and then we get a reprieve from the noise. Something breaks through: a sex scandal, a gaffe, a surprise resignation. Already the words "Petraeus affair" have...Tags: John Boehner, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Money and Monetary Policy, Fiscal Cliff
Feb 25, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Jan 7, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Feb 12, 2013
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Jan 29, 2013
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Jan 10, 2013
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Jan 19, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 8, 2012
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Dec 6, 2012
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Dec 6, 2012
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Jan 1, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Jan 3, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Dec 9, 2012
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
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