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"Jay-Z, Beyoncé Bill" Aiming to Restrict Travel to Cuba, "Playing to Audience in Miami"
Rocking "guayabera shirts and bandanas," Jay-Z may have "turned Havana to Atlanta" momentarily this past May when he and Beyoncé visited Cuba. But if Republicans on the House Appropriations C...
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The White Party
Every so often, David Brooks makes sense. This time it’s because he’s frustrated at his fellow conservatives who are digging in their heels over the doomed immigration reform bill.
Whether this bill passes or not, this country is heading toward a multiethnic future. Republicans can either shape that future in [...]
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Short Takes
Arab nations pledge $12 billion in aid to Egypt; U.S. mulls it over.
Ireland votes to allow abortion in life-or-death cases. (Which puts them ahead of Texas.)
Republicans screw over the poor in passing the farm bill.
Pennsylvania A.G. won’t defend same-sex marriage ban in court.
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House Appropriations Committee moves to end blatant and illegal tourist junkets to Cuba
Number of comments: 2Republicans on the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives are moving to end the blatant and illegal practice of tourist junkets to Cuba disguised as "educational" and "cultural" exchanges. With the recent publicity garnered by music stars Beyonce and Jay-Z when they vacationed in Cuba as VIP guests [...]
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Path to Citizenship Becomes a Path to Nowhere
Immigration reform is dead.
House Republicans huddled in a crucial two-and-a-half-hour session in the basement of the Capitol as their leaders tried to devise some response to the demand for immigration legislation, especially the Senate provision that would grant a path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants already [...]
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Student Loans Stay Stuck
The Republicans in the Senate filibustered a student loan bill.
The measure would have reverted student loan interest rates to 3.4 percent for one year after they doubled for new loans last week. It would have been funded by scaling back a tax loophole for individual retirement accounts (IRAs) that [...]
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Senate panel OKs Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) bill banning anti-gay job bias
BY SAM HANANEL, ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- A Senate panel has approved a bill that would ban job discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) measure won support from all the Democrats and three Republicans on the 22-member committee, signaling it has a [...]
From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at July 10, 2013, 11:58am in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs -
Log Cabin Republicans of Miami to host 'Gay Republicans for Dummies' on Tuesday, July 23
From Olivier J. Cale, president of Log Cabin Republicans of Miami:
WHERE: Bricktop’s, 2418 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Coral Gables
WHEN: Tuesday July 23rd , from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm.
Bricktop’s is a cool, recently opened restaurant in the Miracle [...]From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at July 10, 2013, 9:27am in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs
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Quote of the Day
Greg Sargent on Republicans sabotaging government:
It’s now become accepted as normal that Republicans will threaten explicitly to allow harm to the country to get what they want, and will allow untold numbers of Americans to be hurt rather than even enter into negotiations over the sort of compromises that [...]
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With $440k cash haul, Joe Garcia doesn't appear too damaged by election scandal
@MarcACaputo
U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia has had the roughest of days for a congressional freshman: His former campaign team is under investigation for possible elections crimes and a bevy of Republicans is lining up to take him out.
But none of it has appeared to really hurt the [...]
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South Carolina: No Dead Voters Here
Number of comments: 1The excuse the Republicans have been using to enact all their voter suppression laws across the country has been the prevention of voter fraud that has been running rampant. Especially in states with large blocs of minority voters. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
One of those states is South Carolina where [...]
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Delay in health care mandate defuses pressure, but doesn't end Medicaid debate
The Obama administration’s decision to delay the Affordable Care Act health insurance mandate on employers has lessened some of the leverage advocates of expanding Medicaid in Florida had on lawmakers, but it won’t end the debate.
On Wednesday, House Republicans cast the one-year delay as proof that lawmakers are right to [...]
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Everything’s All White
Number of comments: 4Brit Hume of Fox News thinks that the GOP chasing after the Hispanic vote is a waste of time: the white vote is more important.
“And I am absolutely convinced that this trope that you’re hearing that says that if the Republicans don’t go for immigration reform much as the [...]
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Facebook Feud In Brow Commission Race
Number of comments: 10
BY BUDDY NEVINS
Chip LaMarca, the only Republican on the county commission, is facing a tough challenge next year from former County Commissioner Ken Keechl, a Democrat.
So why is Katie Leach, one of the School Board’s two Republicans, posing with Keechl on Facebook?
“I was (Facebook) friends with her,” LaMarca said. “I’m not anymore.”
These former [...]
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Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, other potential 2016 GOP candidates share views on DOMA decision
Associated Press has gathered quotes regarding the Supreme Court's recent DOMA decision from leading Republicans viewed as potential White House candidates in 2016.
From Florida:
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush: Bush has said gay marriage should be decided by individual states. In a speech in June, Bush told [...]
From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at July 02, 2013, 9:52am in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs
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Goal Line Stand
Number of comments: 3The folks on the losing end of the healthcare law are doing their best to make sure that no one finds out about it.
The top two Republicans in the Senate released letters Friday urging the commissioners of the National Football League and other major sports leagues not to promote [...]
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How do you solve a problem like Marco Rubio? With lots of fact-filled Kaus-centricity! Mickey Kaus continues to write honestly about Rubio while Florida news media remains too cowed to report truth about him; After 19 days of Marco Rubio censoring his ow
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Rush Limbaugh on reluctance of Republicans to openly criticize Marco Rubio for his pro-amnesty first position. Uploaded June 28, 2013. http://youtu.be/gaFXjKb7UYE. Caller to Rush Limbaugh Show from El Paso, Texas area relates conversation he had with illegal aliens from Mexico about what they saw as the downside to Schumer-Rubio bill from their [...]
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Immigration Barrier
The Senate passed a massive immigration bill yesterday by a wide margin. How nice.
The Senate on Thursday approved the most significant overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws in a generation with broad support generated by a sense among leading Republicans that the party needed to join with Democrats to [...]
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Rhetorical Question of the Day
Number of comments: 3From CLW:
Why do the same Republicans who claim we don’t need more gun laws because people will get guns anyway think banning abortions will magically stop them?
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Party secretary urges support for Republicans who support same-sex marriage
Cara Pavalock, secretary of the Broward Republican Party, wore red to Monday night’s monthly meeting of the county party. She was joined by about a dozen of the 150 or so Republicans present. [...] -
Democrats hold 'town hall' to complain about Republicans
Democrats who run the Broward Legislative Delegation are holding a “town hall” meeting on Tuesday to complain about the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature’s decision not to expand health care in the state. [...] -
As society changes, more Republicans come out in support of gay marriage
Ginger Eisenrod is Republican through and through and has been for decades. She runs a residential and commercial real estate business in Boca Raton with her husband, just finished a term as president of a political club in Coral Springs, and describes herself as strongly pro-life on abortion. [...] -
As society changes, more Republicans come out in support of gay marriage
Ginger Eisenrod is Republican through and through and has been for decades. She runs a residential and commercial real estate business in Boca Raton with her husband, just finished a term as president of a political club in Coral Springs, and describes herself as strongly pro-life on abortion. [...]
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Social issues including immigration, abortion still fire up conservative GOP despite 2012 loss
BY CHARLES BABINGTON, ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON -- Republican lawmakers have a message for those who want the party to soften its emphasis on social conservatism in hopes of reaching a wider national audience: Not so fast.
House Republicans flexed [...]
From Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida at June 19, 2013, 9:41am in Politics, News, Life, MiamiHerald.com Blogs
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The Stupid Party Rolls On
Number of comments: 3Last winter Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal told his fellow Republicans that the GOP has to “stop being the stupid party.” Apparently he wasn’t including himself in that admonition.
At some point, the American public is going to revolt against the nanny state and the leftward march of this president. [...]
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Immigration Gold
The Republicans have claimed that immigration reform would be a huge burden to the taxpayer. That’s one of the reasons that they’re against it, or so they say.
The CBO just blew a big hole in that argument.
The so-called Senate Gang of Eight immigration reform bill, which includes a path [...]
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Remembering this day in (Rick Scott) history
Florida Republicans are having a lot of fun pointing out the contradictions in Charlie Crist's record with a feature called "This Day in CRIST-ory," with a logo that resembles the History Channel. But this day, June 17, is historic for a very different reason.
It was on this day in 2010, [...]
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New GOP web ad attacks Rep. Joe Garcia over absentee-ballot fraud investigation
@PatriciaMazzei
National Republicans, who have seized on the fraudulent absentee-ballot request investigation engulfing Democratic Rep. Joe Garcia's campaign, plan to attack the Miami congressman in a new online ad.
The National Republican Congressional Committee ad, slated to be posted on the web Tuesday, features a clip of a television spot from [...]
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Norquist touts taxless income in tweet to Tallahassee
Washington anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist has gained fame for holding conservative elected officials to a no-new-taxes pledge. He's so powerful that his stamp of approval is a coup for any conservative wanting to prove himself to a wider national audience.
So on Friday afternoon, it was paydirt for Florida House Republicans [...]
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One month after session, still little hope of Medicaid deal
Two House Republicans unwittingly revived hopes this month that lawmakers could compromise on a proposal to expand Medicaid.
"Lawmakers say Medicaid expansion not dead," read the headline in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, highlighting comments from Manatee County Reps. Greg Steube and Jim Boyd.
But the reality is no different today than it was [...]
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