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Pro-reform GOP Senate aide: Don’t blame our immigration system for the Tsarnaevs, blame “our society”

Allahpundit — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:01:59 +0000

Society?

Via Michael Goldfarb, a complement to Erick Erickson’s post today at Red State about Republican aides turning desperate, shrill, and repulsive as the Gang of Eight bill runs into stumbling blocks. Quote: MORNING MINDMELD, from GOP Senate aide whose boss favors immigration reform: “The … analysis that the Boston attacks are a setback for immigration [...]

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Pelosi: “Don’t even think about” trying to raise the Medicare age

Erika Johnsen — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 21:41:39 +0000

All of this ‘compromise’ flying back and forth is practically giving me whiplash. As I have said, don’t even think about raising the Medicare age. We are not throwing America’s seniors over the cliff to give a tax cut to the wealthiest people in America. We have clarity on that. But, again, on all these [...]

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Obama’s new fiscal cliff offer: Instead of $1.6 trillion in new revenue, how about $1.4 trillion?

Allahpundit — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 01:01:15 +0000

"Compromise."

First I thought, “Wait, aren’t he and Boehner supposed to be getting closer to a deal? This doesn’t sound close.” Then I thought, “Aha — he’s trying to drive a hard bargain on tax revenue so that he can concede on it later in exchange for stuff he really needs in the package, like a [...]

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Quotes of the day

Allahpundit — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 01:39:45 +0000

Standoff.

[P]olitics is being reborn. For a time, Republican candidates like Richard Mourdock of Indiana proudly declared that they didn’t believe in compromise. Political activists spent more time purging deviationists than in trying to attract new converts. But that mania has passed. There are increasing signs that House Republicans are willing to unite behind Speaker John [...]

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Christie on Pelosi’s ‘obstructionist’ lamentations: “She’s part of the problem”

Erika Johnsen — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 16:01:37 +0000

Called out.

It gets pretty galling hearing House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi constantly bemoaning and repining the lack of compromise in Congress these days, as if partisan disagreement is some entirely new and unnatural phenomenon borne of humanity’s innermost wickedness. Don’t like that Congress only has a few action items on its real agenda and that the [...]

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Chris Christie: This nation is turning into “people sitting on a couch waiting for their next government check”

Tina Korbe — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:03:01 +0000

Who's with him?

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie followed George W. Bush on the stage at the Bush Institute Conference on Taxes and Economic Growth in New York today. Bush introduced Christie with apt words, complimenting the governor’s “enormous personality” and “belief in the individual.” Bush’s comments were more than justified by the content of Christie’s speech. With [...]

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Bishops to Obama: No dice

Ed Morrissey — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:40:06 +0000

Plus, cost of $2.8 billion?

After a long day of supposed “accommodation” and discussion, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops took a close look at the supposed adjustment of the HHS mandate yesterday. Their conclusion? It represents no change at all, and the bishops will press for a “legislative solution” to Barack Obama’s mandate: These changes require careful moral analysis, and [...]

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Quotes of the day

Allahpundit — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:44:03 +0000

Discomfort.

“It was no secret inside the West Wing that Bill Daley, a Catholic with deep connections to the church hierarchy, vehemently opposed the administration’s proposal to require church-run hospitals and universities to give their employees free contraception. “But it was the way he pushed his case that aggravated some women on President Barack Obama’s senior [...]

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