The highest court in the land has spoken and the campaign has been framed for the next 130 days. This election will be about the future of Obamacare, and how politicians react and respond to the Supreme Court ruling could
The ATF’s public relations hoped to use Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s death in Operation Fast and Furious to promote the bureau’s work, a newly released document shows. Senator Chuck Grassley and House oversight chairman Rep. Darrell Issasent a letter
With Chief Justice John Roberts’ unthinkable decision to uphold Obamacare yesterday, all focus now shifts to repeal for conservatives. In order to repeal Obamacare, two things must happen: Republicans must retake the White House, and they must retake the Senate.
At the latest stop on the Americans for Prosperity “Real Facts. Real Solutions.” Bus Tour in Virginia Beach, VA, the Virginia Democrat party organized protestors to support their candidate for Senate, former Governor Tim Kaine (D). A few in the
When the Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate and Obamacare by labeling the individual mandate a tax, the U.S. Senate became that much more important and a battleground for conservatives who want to repeal Obamacare. In the runoff for the
When news that the Supreme Court–or more pointedly, Chief Justice John Roberts–deemed ObamaScare “constitutional”, two words came to mind: Tea Party. Tea Partiers coalesced from a diverse spectrum of people: black, white, Hispanic, Asian, middle class, upper middle class, disillusioned
The majority of the American people want nothing to do with Obamacare. And yet the White House, the Congress, the Senate, and now the Supreme Court have all lined up against the American people – to either force Obamacare down
In yet another vote bucking the state’s executive office, New Hampshire’s Republican controlled-legislature overrode Democrat Gov. John Lynch’s veto of a voter ID bill on Wednesday. New Hampshire is now the latest on a growing list of states to require that
When The Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” was being debated, Democrats objected to the health care legislation being labeled as “Obamacare,” saying it was derogatory and may even carry racial undertones. Even after the law passed, Democrats like Debbie Wasserman-Schultz,
Chief Justice John Roberts provided the critical fifth vote to uphold Obamacare in its entirety, in a case that will go down as one of the worst and most consequential cases in American history. Now the Taxing Clause of the
CBS-Following the Supreme Court’s ruling largely upholding President Obama’s health care law Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., thanked SCOTUS for its decision and said that while the law “isn’t perfect,” he’s willing to work with Republicans to “improve
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AP-Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s minority leader, says the president’s health care law is making life harder for Americans, and has yet to solve any of the problems it was designed to tackle. (June 28)
The Senate, capitulating to pressure applied by Barack Obama, has settled on a deal on student loans and sent it to the House for approval, where conservative House Republicans have the numbers to tank the proposal. Obama has been courting the youth
By KEVIN FREKING and PAUL FOYAssociated PressSALT LAKE CITYSen. Orrin Hatch won the GOP primary in Utah on Tuesday, handily turning back a challenge from tea party forces hoping to jolt the Republican Party again by defeating an incumbent who
Embattled Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL), fresh from a bruising primary battle this spring, has taken medical leave for “exhaustion”–one week after a key former associate was arrested by federal law enforcement officials for fraud. The fundraiser, Raghuveer Nayak, was
Carol Wood, University of Virginia Associate Vice President and University Spokesperson, claimed yesterday in an interview with the Washington Post that the 1991 University of Texas whitewash report into allegations of scientific misconduct made against UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan
Speaking at a Boston fundraiser for President Barack Obama on Monday night, Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, the self proclaimed “intellectual godmother” of left wing “Occupy Wall Street,” launched a shrill attack on Mitt Romney. As Politico reports, Ms.
(AP) Utah Sen. Hatch seems to have weathered GOP stormBy KEVIN FREKING and PAUL FOYAssociated PressSALT LAKE CITYIt was an entertaining exchange, as one-man debates go. Dan Liljenquist, hoping to shock the political world on Tuesday, didn’t let Republican Sen.
Both Iran and the White House hailed the victory of Egypt’s president-elect Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood this weekend. For it’s part, the White House believes it represents a “milestone in (Egypt’s) transition to democracy,” while Iran views it as a “revolutionary
By PETER ORSIAssociated PressASUNCION, ParaguayFernando Lugo emerged early Sunday to denounce his ouster as Paraguay’s president as a “parliamentary coup” and a “foreordained sentence” that was not based on proper evidence. Lugo said his truncated presidency was targeted because he
At a press conference with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on Thursday, President Barack Obama, again playing election year politics as he has done with immigration, accused Republicans of “playing chicken” with student loans and said, “It’s mind-boggling that we’ve
After a massive blowout in the recall election of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, State Senator Van Wanggaard still finds himself trailing his challenger John Lehman by 834 votes. This has prompted a recount of the results, which began on Wednesday.
Although former House Speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was smeared as “racist” by many Democrats and members of the main stream media for declaring Barack Obama “the food stamp president,” it turns out that, according to the USDA, being
In the race for the Senate seat in Nevada, Republican incumbent Dean Heller is facing off against seven-term congresswoman Shelley Berkley (D-Las Vegas). Berkley may be from Nevada, but she doesn’t act like it; she’s putting the interests of national environmental
Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski offered up a largely empty defense of the 9th Circuit’s plans for a plush million dollar “Maui Wowie” conference, in response to questions from Senators Sessions and Grassley. Much of the Circuits conference will
