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Why Harry Reid Was
Sidelined for Joe Biden
National Journal, by Shane Goldmacher
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Posted By:StormCnter, 1/2/2013 4:31:39 AM
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| The critical conversation between the offices of Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell came early Sunday afternoon, about 36 hours before Congress was set to teeter over the fiscal cliff. Reid, the majority leader, had been negotiating and trading ideas with McConnell, his minority counterpart, since Friday evening. But the soft-spoken Nevada Democrat drew a bold line in the sand midday Sunday: he had no more counter-offers to give. Suddenly and irreversibly, the talks veered into a new direction. Within minutes, the Kentucky Republican was dialing up Vice President Joe Biden, elevating his old colleague
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Judith, 1/2/2013 7:30:29 AM (No. 9094236)
Don´t you feel like you just watched that Agatha Christie murder story? The one where everyone killed the victim but we had to go through the entire story, everybody´s alibi, while everyone knew who the murderers were, and the victim was still dead?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Jethro bo, 1/2/2013 8:43:27 AM (No. 9094352)
This is like firing Inspector Clouseau to hire the Keystone Cops. Incompetence reign o´r me in DC.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
pineledger, 1/2/2013 9:17:17 AM (No. 9094433)
Obviously there is no longer a functioning relationship between Reid and McConnell (how could anyone relate to that Digger O´Dell from Nevada), just as there is not one between Boehner and PINO, who suffers golf-score-envy. The Dims are so arrogant and contemptuous of the Republicans that there is no basis for communication.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
FleetUSA, 1/2/2013 9:39:44 AM (No. 9094492)
#3 is spot on.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Farmwife1, 1/2/2013 9:41:41 AM (No. 9094497)
I dislike Harry Reid almost as much as Obama. Makes me almost miss Tom Daschle. Almost.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lylacat, 1/2/2013 9:47:41 AM (No. 9094507)
I don´t know who is more crazy, Reid or Biden. They are both ignorant and arrogant, scary to say the least, that these two crazy men have so much power.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
RancherJack, 1/2/2013 11:12:34 AM (No. 9094681)
Time to water the Tree of Liberty.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Quiet Observer, 1/2/2013 11:12:51 AM (No. 9094683)
This “deal” is what happens when the Republicans who are involved in the negotiations have no convictions to smaller government and are motivated solely by their desire to avoid personal “blame” by the MSM and the millions of uniformed (Obama) voters for allowing us to plunge off the fiscal cliff. They become spineless jellyfish who would rather smile for the cameras and announce that they are voting for a debacle of tax hikes and pork with no real spending cuts, than to stand up for conservative values and try to derail this bullet-train to American insolvency.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
farmwife, 1/2/2013 1:05:03 PM (No. 9094897)
It´s a sad day in America when our go-to guy is Joe Biden. How the hell did we get here?! More importantly, how do we get out?!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
woofwoofwoof, 1/2/2013 1:20:07 PM (No. 9094929)
Reid has always been worse than Obama, in part because Reid does know better, he´s *trying* to out-jerk Obama.
I don´t like this deal, all it does is kick the can down the road, the debt limit is still coming up (actually we are ALREADY OVER IT!), but Reid and Pelosi are both worse than Obama in every possible way.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LadyVet, 1/2/2013 2:57:16 PM (No. 9095074)
I´m with #9. When we have to turn in desperation to the buffoon Biden, you know the country is in real trouble.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
rabbit, 1/2/2013 4:30:18 PM (No. 9095266)
Hats off to Biden for stepping up to the plate. True leaders negotiate; they don´t draw lines in the sand (Reid) or make campaign speeches in the middle of critical negotiations (Obama). Biden deserves to look like the hero because he was willing to listen instead of just puff his chest.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy, 1/2/2013 7:48:46 PM (No. 9095547)
Fellow Ldotters, I could not have said your thoughts better myself. If Bite Me is all we got, indeed, we have a really big problem on our hands. Or is this whole affair a gotchya to start drumming up support for a Bite Me run in 2016.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/2/2013 10:24:35 PM (No. 9095692)
Biden reminds me of Charlie McCarthy.
This is a temporary fix. Why do I think the last minute insanity will become deja vu all over again ?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
suncitypro, 1/2/2013 10:24:43 PM (No. 9095693)
#13--you are on to something--biteme is all they have--hill will be crazier than biteme by that time.
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American Spectator, by Jeffrey Lord
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Seven hundred Military Special Operations professionals. And one insistent and very angry Mom. This is becoming a deadly combination for the political game players in the Obama Administration. Sean Smith, the young State Department computer wizard who was brutally murdered that September night in Benghazi, was Pat Smith’s only child. Let’s say that again. Sean Smith was Mrs. Smith’s only child. To listen to her recent radio interview with another Sean… Sean Hannity… is to have the heart break.
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The real gun control
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Politico, by John Bresnahan
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President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats are going to win the first round in the fight over gun control Thursday. As many as a dozen Republicans are expected to join 50 or so Democrats to shut down a Republican filibuster blocking debate on a Democrat-authored gun bill thanks, in part, to a bipartisan deal between Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) that would expand background checks on all commercial gun sales and end the so-called gun show loophole. And then the real drama will begin. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other GOP senators
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Newspaper without scruples
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Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff
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“Courts Without Judges” reads the headline of an attack on Senate Republicans by the New York Times editorial board. Bemoaning the fact that there 85 vacancies in the federal judiciary, the Times asserts that “by far the most important cause of this unfortunate state of affairs is the determination of Senate Republicans, for reasons of politics, ideology and spite, to confirm as few of President Obama’s judicial choices as possible.” However, as Ed Whelan points out, in the second-to-last paragraph of the editorial we learn that “62 district and circuit court vacancies have no nominees.”
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Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner?
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Slate, by John Dickerson
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 5:53:08 AM
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While President Obama invites Republicans to his dinner table, his liberal allies are at the gates. On Wednesday night, President Obama dines with GOP senators at the White House. It´s the second act in a dinner theater that started with a meal with another group of Republican senators at the Jefferson Hotel a month ago. Obama also made public peace offerings Wednesday to those Republicans: cuts to Social Security and Medicare in his budget that he hopes will entice conservatives to a grand budget bargain. Those measures enraged his liberal allies so much
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New York City to Pay Occupy
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New York Observer, by Jane Gayduk
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 5:40:48 AM
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The City of New York has finally agreed to pay Occupy Wall Street for the property destroyed in the Zuccotti Park police raid on Nov. 15, 2011. OWS initiated a suit on May 24, 2012, seeking compensation for the desctruction of their People’s Library—a collection of over 5,000 donated books. About 3,600 of these were ruined during the early morning eviction of the protest camp. The City agreed to settle yesterday, awarding $47,000 in damages to OWS and $186,349.58 in attorney fees to their lawyers. “We’re very pleased with the resolution of this suit,” said Herbert Teitelbaum, a lawyer representing the plaintiffs.
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North Korea Launch Zone Found
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Washington Free Beacon, by Bill Gertz
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 5:34:13 AM
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U.S. and allied intelligence agencies have identified the launch zone on North Korea’s east coast where Pyongyang’s military is set to fire a salvo of missiles that risk being shot down by U.S. missile defenses in the region. The North Koreans recently began fueling two road-mobile Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missiles located along the east coast between the cities of Wonsan and Hamhung, according to intelligence officials. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said in addition to the 2,500-mile-range Musudans the North Koreans could conduct test firings of several 620-mile-range Nodong missiles and shorter-range Scuds simultaneously
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Not so gran marcha
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Daily Caller, by Mickey Kaus
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 5:29:41 AM
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Where’s OFA? The pro-amnesty rally in front of the U.S. Capitol was described as “massive” on my local NPR station even before it had taken place. Here is an NBC newscast with a pretty good photo-not an up-close photo, but one that lets you gauge the size of the crowd. It’s not massive! It’s not even very large. I’d say 10,000 or fewer. Obama’s new high-tech political machine, Organizing for Action, doesn’t seem to have played a huge role in the rally. It declared a “week of action” on immigration, but that was last week. (You missed it?) .
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The President’s Budget
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National Review Online, by Yuval Levin
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 5:24:14 AM
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Looking at the overall outline of the budget President Obama proposed on Wednesday makes it easy enough to see why the White House chose to leak in advance the fact that the president would propose to adopt chained CPI, one of the few non-counterproductive entitlement-reform ideas he has been willing to accept. The leak meant that Washington spent the weekend talking about entitlement reform and whether the president would anger his liberal base so that by the time the budget came out some reporters might have felt like it was old news and not actually spent much time on it.
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End this bizarre fantasy
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New York Post, by Andrea Peyser
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 5:10:54 AM
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Is Anthony Weiner completely delusional? Or is he out of his flipping, sex-crazed gourd? Whatever big-busted fantasies crawl around the ex-congressman’s delirious noggin, la Weiner made his next goal as clear as the skin of the wholesome college students he craved: He relishes being Mayor Weiner. Please, shut up this clown. These days, the genitally obsessed Weiner has nothing much to do, except sit in his lavish Manhattan apartment and — the inhumanity! — change the poopy diapers of his 16-month-old son, Jordan. Worse, Weiner is living under a kind of house arrest, sentenced to take extreme grief
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Dead Silence
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Normally those of us in the news business love trials, the more sensational the better. Just look at the coverage of the Jodi Arias murder trial in Maricopa County, Ariz. — or earlier national obsessions with Casey Anthony and O.J. Simpson. Which makes the media blackout of one ongoing trial a mystery. Or maybe not. In Philadelphia, Kermit Gosnell is on trial on eight counts of murder: seven for babies he’s accused of killing with scissors after they were born, and one for a pregnant refugee who died after receiving an overdose of drugs. If true, Gosnell was running
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How 1960s Radicals
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Daily Beast, by Michael Moynihan
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 4:57:24 AM
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Last week, Rutgers University fired its mercurial basketball coach after he was videotaped “shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players in practice and using gay slurs,” according to ESPN. Under pressure from school administrators, Rutgers’ athletic director, who had previously defended the coach’s behavior, resigned. It was an appropriate response: violent oafs should be fired from their university jobs for violent, oafish behavior. On the same day ESPN broadcast the Rutgers tape, The New York Post reported that Kathy Boudin, a professor at Columbia University, was named the 2013 Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence at NYU Law School.
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Obama’s ‘Lying Problem’ about Firearms
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PJ Media, by Bob Owens
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/11/2013 4:42:50 AM
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Almost from the moment he walked into the Oval Office, Barack Obama has had a serious lying problem when it comes to firearms. The 44th president has a near pathological predilection for using defective, invalid, and flat-out dishonest statistics in his quest to restrict the 2nd Amendment rights of American citizens, a fact first pointed out here at PJ Media in the summer of 2009. At that time, the president, then-Secretary of State of State Hillary Clinton, and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder were heavily invested in promoting the deceptive theory that the supermajority of firearms being used by Mexican drug cartels
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The murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell largely is being ignored by the mainstream media, even in the face of grisly testimony, such as what we heard yesterday. Life News reports: ...a former employee described how she heard a baby scream during a live-birth abortion. Abortion clinic employee Sherry West described an incident which "really freaked (her) out" and related to the jury how she heard a child who was born alive following an abortion scream.
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West Virginia Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller, one of the towering architects of Obamacare, on Tuesday openly criticized program managers for not moving quickly enough to build the system, warning that if it gets off to a bumpy start it will just get worse. Decrying the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as way too complex, he warned the acting Medicare director that Obamacare is "so complicated and if it isn´t done right the first time, it will just simply get worse."
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Obama enjoys ´sequester soul concert´
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Business Insider, by Staff
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 4/10/2013 4:24:28 AM
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The sequester may have many across the country singing the blues, but for President Obama, it was all about Memphis Soul. Even with the threat of furloughs and government cuts sparked by the sequester, Obama took the time to enjoy a star-studded concert at the White House tonight. The White House celebration of Memphis Soul music in the East Room--which included special guest appearances by Queen Latifah and Justin Timberlake--is likely to rile Obama´s Republican foes. Some conservatives have called on Obama to give up golf, especially since popular public tours of the White House have been canceled because of
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Ben Carson steps down as
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Baltimore Sun, by Andrea K. Walker
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Posted By: toledo- 4/11/2013 7:11:23 AM
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Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson stepped down Wednesday as commencement speaker at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine after complaints from students about controversial comments concerning same-sex marriage. The withdrawal came less than a week after medical school Dean Paul B. Rothman chastised Carson for his comments and met with graduating students concerned that the famed physician was an inappropriate commencement speaker.
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Obama: Put Nation´s 4-Year-Olds
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/10/2013 1:18:38 PM
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In the message he issued along with his budget proposal on Wednesday morning, President Barack Obama said he wants to see 4-year-old children in the United States enrolled in public schools. Obama said America needs to start enrolling 4-year-olds to make sure the children are “better prepared for the demands of the global economy” and to help parents save on "child-care costs." After saying the United States needs to “equip our citizens with the skills and training” to fill jobs in manufacturing, energy and infrastructure, Obama said, “And that has to start at the earliest possible age.”
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Obama´s Army Outmaneuvered by the NRA
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NationalJournal, by Beth Rinehard
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Posted By: FlyRight- 4/10/2013 7:18:37 AM
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Although the first votes on gun -control legislation have yet to be cast, by some measures the National Rifle Association has already won. Obama’s ambitious plans to ban assault weapons and limit magazine capacities are off the table, while the NRA suggested it could support the most likely outcome -- expanded background checks -- as recently as 1999. The NRA claims that the president’s efforts have triggered a fundraising surge and boosted its membership from 4 million to nearly 5 million.
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4 annoying ways climate change
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The Week, by Chris Gayomali
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Within the next few decades, carbon emissions could cause global temperatures to rise between 4 and 11 degrees Fahrenheit, melting ice caps and causing sea levels to rise. The price of crops like coffee and chocolate will skyrocket, and countless cuddly animals around the globe could be wiped out. And yet, a lot of people find it hard to really care about climate change. But don´t be fooled: Climate change will affect you. Here´s a brief sampling of ways that warmer temperatures will suck the fun out of your life: 1. Your flights will be more turbulent
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Daughter of Obama´s former
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Reuters, by Mary Wisniewski
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Posted By: mitzi- 4/11/2013 1:11:19 AM
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The daughter of President Barack Obama´s controversial former pastor was indicted on Wednesday on charges of money laundering and lying to federal authorities, a Justice Department spokeswoman said. Jeri L. Wright, 47, the daughter of Jeremiah Wright, was accused of participating in a fraud scheme led by a former suburban police chief and the chief´s husband that involved a $1.25 million state grant, according to the Attorney´s office for the Central District of Illinois in Springfield. Wright, of the Chicago suburb of Hazel Crest, was charged with two counts of money
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Sebelius: Implementing Obamacare
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/10/2013 7:21:14 AM
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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius conceded Monday that implementing the Affordable Care Act has been more complicated and frustrating than the Obama administration expected, largely due to Republicans who have opposed the law´s state-based exchanges and Medicaid expansion. "The politics has been relentless and that continues," Sebelius said. "There was some hope that once the Supreme Court ruled in July, and then once an election occurred there would be a sense that, ´This is the law of the land, let´s get on board, let´s make this work.´"
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AG sues florist who refused
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer [WA], by Joel Connelly
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/10/2013 2:28:46 PM
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State Attorney General Bob Ferguson on Tuesday filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Arlene’s Flowers & Gifts, a Richland florist that refused to supply flowers to the same-sex marriage of a longtime customer. Ferguson said he sent a March 28 letter to owner Barronelle Stutzman asking her to reconsider and supply flowers to customer Robert Ingersoll. Through an attorney, Stutzman declined to change her position.“As Attorney General, it is my job to enforce the laws of the state of Washington,” said Ferguson. “Under the Consumer Protection Act, it is unlawful to discriminate
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Student to Rand Paul: I don´t
want government to leave me alone
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Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering
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Posted By: Maryland_Patriot- 4/10/2013 12:45:12 PM
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During the Q and A session after Sen. Rand Paul’s speech at Howard University, one student explained that he was not a fan of his view of government. “You say you want to provide a government that leaves us alone, quite frankly, I don’t want that,” the student said. “I want a government that is going to help me.” The student insisted that he wanted assistance for his college education and asked if Rand Paul supported a culture change within the nation. “Do you Sen. Rand Paul have a formulated solution to come up with new American values
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