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White Males Will Be Minority Among House Democrats

Dustin Lushing — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:55:07 CDT

For the first time in history, a political party will soon be represented in Congress by a majority of female and minority lawmakers. The Cook Political Report predicts that white males will make up 46% to 48% of House Democrats when the new Congress is sworn in next January, reports...

Rep. Landry Stands by 'Gestapo' Dig Against Oil Regulator

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:14:39 CDT

Louisiana Rep. Jeff Landry is standing by his charge that the nation's leading offshore oil and gas regulatory agency is acting "like the Gestapo." Asked if he had any regrets using the name for Hitler's deadly security force, Landry replied: "Absolutely not. I didn't name-call them. I used it as...

Bring Back 'Sane' GOP of Bush 41

Mark Russell — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 07:23:52 CDT

With today's Republican Party being led around by Tea Party extremists, Thomas Friedman misses the adult supervision of George HW Bush, he writes in the New York Times . Calling him "one of our most underrated presidents," Friedman contends that Bush p è re brought foreign policy "deftness" and, more importantly,...

GOP Freshmen Promise Cuts, Spend Big in First Quarter

Tim Karan — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:00:00 CDT

Despite campaign promises to slash the federal budget, some GOP House freshmen are sparing no expense on cars and PR at taxpayer expense. At least 15 newly elected Republicans have spent tens of thousands on mailings that boost their exposure in their districts, says House quarterly disbursement reports. Many also...

Wisc. GOP Tries to Yank Duffy's '$174K' Video

Polly Davis Doig — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:18:59 CDT

When Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy started taking heat for complaining that he was struggling to get by on his $174,000 salary, the Polk County GOP yanked the video of the townhall meeting from its website; now it's trying to eradicate the video from the Internet, reports Talking Points Memo....

Rep. Sean Duffy: I'm Struggling on $174K a Year

Kevin Spak — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:49:37 CDT

Wisconsin Republican Sean Duffy is taking some heat from liberal blogs like Think Progress over an exchange at a town hall meeting last week, in which he assured constituents that his $174,000 salary wasn't all that great. A constituent told Duffy that his wife, a teacher, was being asked...

Rent Is Too Damn High Guy Switches to GOP

Polly Davis Doig — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:00:28 CST

Once upon a time, the rent was too damn high, but now the Democrats are just too damn sucky for Jimmy McMillan. The colorful onetime gubernatorial candidate is now a registered Republican, he tells Sal Gentile of PBS, mostly because "the Democratic Party sucked." And he's expanding his platform with...

GOP to Obama: Step Up Immigration Raids

Kevin Spak — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:56:26 CST

Republicans are pressing President Obama to resume the large-scale workplace immigration raids that were a hallmark of the George W. Bush administration. Though deportations have soared under Obama, his administration has focused its crackdown efforts on employers who knowingly employ illegal immigrants; arrests from worksite raids for immigration-related offenses have...

GOP Frosh: Screw Populism, Let's Throw Swank Party!

Kevin Spak — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:02:40 CST

John Boehner is not pleased with the kids: While the speaker-elect might prefer his caucus stick to the populist message that won them the House, on the eve of taking it over, a dozen freshman Republicans are throwing a lavish DC fundraiser headlined by LeAnn Rimes. For $2,500, Politico...