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GOP Finally Attacks Nan Rich, Only Democrat Actually Running for Governor Right Now
The actual gubernatorial election is more than a year and a half away, but Republicans have already dug in their heels by attacking Rick Scott's presumptive Democratic challenger. Mostly that's in...
Continue reading "GOP Finally Attacks Nan Rich, Only Democrat Actually Running for Governor Right Now" > [...]
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Popcorn Moments
Number of comments: 1If you need a little amusement, watch Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) go after the misbehaving Republicans.
In the latest expression of Republican frustration with conservative GOP colleagues, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Susan Collins (R-ME) excoriated Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rand Paul (R-KY) for [...]
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In Broward, Scott tries to rally Republican faithful
— Six months after Republicans suffered big elections defeats, and 18 months before his own fate is in the hands of the voters, Gov. Rick Scott sought to energize Republican activists and donors Monday night with a call to evangelize on behalf of the party's pro-business, small government message. [...] -
In Broward, Scott tries to rally Republican faithful
— Six months after Republicans suffered big elections defeats, and 18 months before his own fate is in the hands of the voters, Gov. Rick Scott sought to energize Republican activists and donors Monday night with a call to evangelize on behalf of the party's pro-business, small government message. [...] -
Republicans feast on chicken, politics at Lincoln Day dinner
Chicken, potatoes and asparagus – plus politics – were on the menu Monday night for the Broward Republican Party’s “Lincoln Day” fundraiser. [...]
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Mariela Castro protection in U.S. was top-notch
Obviously no "stand-down" order came when our State Dept. was tasked with protecting this Terror-Sponsoring official Mariela Castro. The perceived threat to Mariela Castro’s security apparently issued from vicious terroristic right-wing Cuban-Americans. Most of these nuts are Republicans, after all -- many of whom are even Tea-Partiers! Last [...]
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Democrats Meet to Organize Military Veterans Caucus
Republicans and Tea Party types say they respect the men and women of the military. If respect means wrapping yourself in the flag and sending young people off to die, so it is. Back home again, ... [...]
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Democrats Meet to Organize Military Veterans Caucus
Republicans and Tea Party types say they respect the men and women of the military. If respect means wrapping yourself in the flag and sending young people off to die, so it is. Back home again, ... [...]
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After Tea Party / IRS Debacle, Republicans Call for Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Return Campaign Donation
In case you missed it, Tea Partiers around the country are mad at the IRS. Long story short: the IRS isn't supposed to let any old group be exempt from paying taxes. Agency rules dictate that...' [...]
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After Tea Party / IRS Debacle, Republicans Call for Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Return Campaign Donation
In case you missed it, Tea Partiers around the country are mad at the IRS. Long story short: the IRS isn't supposed to let any old group be exempt from paying taxes. Agency rules dictate that...' [...]
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A Washington ‘whodunit’: who fed bogus Benghazi ‘emails’ to the media?
Number of comments: 10
**UPDATE: Scroll to the bottom of the post (I know it’s long…) for a bit of TRR sleuthing…
The revelation this week that emails provided to key congressional committees by the White House in response to Benghazi-hysteria among Republicans, may have been altered before being leaked to the conservative Weekly [...]
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Pension vote puts some House Republicans in awkward position
Florida House Republicans tried to close the state's pension system to new employees this year, saying it's a ticking time bomb that could cripple the state's budget for years to come.
But many of those same GOP lawmakers are members of the state pension system themselves, according to aTimes/Herald review.
In fact, more [...]
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Major News
Number of comments: 2Josh Marshall at TPM is right: this is pretty epic. A major network’s news reporter is calling bullshit on the Republicans and the White House e-mail distortions.
SCOTT PELLEY: Also at his news conference today the president called for tighter security for U.S. diplomatic facilities to prevent an attack like [...]
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Gov. Rick Scott to help Broward Republicans raise money
Gov. Rick Scott will be in politics mode May 20, just before he jets off to Santiago, Chile, for a three-day trade mission. [...]
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Honey, They Shrunk the Deficit
The federal budget deficit — what had once been the portent of the Apocalypse and the destroyer of worlds — at least according to the Republicans who created it — has been tamed and caged, according to Ezra Klein and the Congressional Budget Office.
Here’s the short version: Washington’s most [...]
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Gov. Rick Scott to keynote Broward GOP dinner May 20
Gov. Rick Scott will give the keynote address at the Broward Republican Executive Committee's annual Lincoln Day dinner May 20 -- and then he flys to Chile later that night.
The gathering is the big event of the year for Broward Republicans to raise money and get pumped about helping their [...]
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Ladies and gentlemen, the totally non-partisan, apolitical tea party …
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Gallup (ok, it’s Gallup… ) found in 2010 that 78 percent tea partiers self-identified as Republicans (62 percent “conservative Republicans,” 16 percent “moderate/liberal Republicans…”
Tea party support is 9 in 10 among Republicans … less than 50 percent among everybody else. From an ABC-commissioned poll in [...]
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Gov. Rick Scott to help Broward Republicans raise money
Gov. Rick Scott will be in politics mode May 20, just before he jets off to Santiago, Chile, for a three-day trade mission. [...]
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Bill opens up funding for private virtual schools
Private online learning companies will get a better shot at Florida public school funding under a bill that won approval on the final day of the legislative session.
Though the vote garnered little attention from outside observers, Republicans hailed it as among the year’s most important victories for school choice.
“We want [...]
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As Hispanic voters' numbers increase, politicians come calling
Democrats and Republicans who disagree on just about everything are in sync on one subject: If they want to win Florida's governorship next year or the presidential election in 2016, they can't afford to ignore or alienate Hispanic voters. ' [...]
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Florida Supreme Court hears redistricting challenge
TALLAHASSEE -- For more than a year, a quietly simmering legal battle over the partisan intentions of Florida's Legislature and Fair Districts backers has been playing out over whether the state's re-drawn maps are still designed to protect ruling Republicans. [...]
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Money Matters
Number of comments: 1The way the Republicans tell it, the economy is still collapsing, the deficit is ballooning, the tax hikes in January are killing business, and Barack Obama is a socialist bent on crushing small business under the heel of the federal government with regulations on top of regulations. Oh god oh [...]
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U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy files amendment to immigration bill for sponsoring gay, lesbian partners
From an Associated Press article by Erica Werner about the upcoming immigration bill:
The test will begin Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. As of Tuesday evening's deadline for filing amendments, some 300 had been offered by Democrats and Republicans. [...]
From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at May 08, 2013, 8:41am in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs
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Benghazi Again
Republicans never run out of dead horses to whip.
Republican lawmakers, who have spent months seeking to tie President Obama to last year’s deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, are increasingly focusing their probe on a new target: former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The GOP-led [...]
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Broward Republicans reboot for future
Broward Republicans and their new chairman are undergoing some critical self-analysis to avoid a 2014 repeat of last year's disaster when Republicans lost all the critical, contested races in the county. [...] -
Broward Republicans reboot for future
Broward Republicans and their new chairman are undergoing some critical self-analysis to avoid a 2014 repeat of last year's disaster when Republicans lost all the critical, contested races in the county. [...] -
New Broward Republican chairman sets very, very, very high goal
Broward’s new Republican Party chairman set an extremely ambitious long-term goal Monday night: making Republicans the majority party in overwhelmingly Democratic Broward County. [...] -
Republicans get tough talk from one of their own
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5 biggest questions of the 2013 session answered
So closing the loop from two months ago, here's the 5 biggest questions of the 2013 session answered (and with some thoughts about what happens next):
1. Will lawmakers agree to expand Medicaid? The answer wasn't just no. For the Florida House Republicans it was hell [...]
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New Broward Republican chairman sets very, very, very high goal
Broward’s new Republican Party chairman set an extremely ambitious long-term goal Monday night: making Republicans the majority party in overwhelmingly Democratic Party. [...]
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