...Abrams warned that Democrats won't help Speaker David Ralston carry the tax vote in the House without "significant Republican votes.""It's the job of majority to govern. It's the job of the minority to collaborate where we can," she said...
...It's dramatic. It communicates.But other efforts were less so. Take 1900, for example, when "An Avalanche of Republican Votes Sweeps Away All Democratic Hopes." That's how we told Augustans that William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt had...
...lines were drawn early on. The law passed Congress, controlled by Democrats in 2009 and 2010, without a single Republican vote.Republican elected officials filed suit in federal court the same day Obama signed the bill into law.Even in the...
...for Democrats to lurch way left ? and to, for instance, pass a major health-care reform bill without a single Republican vote. That must be the model of moderation! But in the media's eyes, it's "extremism" for Republican voters to...
...state was never going to hand Obama its Electoral College votes ? but again, this was a Democratic primary, with no Republican votes allowed (as they are in some other states).Remarkable.It's also eyebrow-raising to see that the state's...
...District 2 loses Beaufort County to District 1. That loss creates the need for District 2 to pick up the only available Republican votes -- which happen to be in Aiken County.Therein lies the rub for Aiken County. Jeff Duncan won Aiken County by...
...president was trying to push through. Shame on you, Tea Partiers. I hope you learned your lesson. You going to vote Republican, vote Republican. Don't vote Tea Partiers. They're crazy. Crazy because they won't agree to a compromise. This...
...that for decades the Israel lobby has distributed millions of dollars, year after year, buying the Democratic and Republican votes of both houses and dictating the U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.Could anyone be surprised by the 35...
...readers:THANKS TO THE CONGRESSMAN who can't even spell "Brown," next November I will be casting my first non-Republican vote in 93 years.ANOTHER POINT OF illogic: not providing officers with Tasers. Why are higher-ups willing to flap...
...essentially tied. Newt Gingrich is in third with 8 percent."Herman Cain is running away with the hardcore-conservative Republican vote. There really is no close challenger to Cain in South Carolina right now," said InsiderAdvantage CEO Matt Towery...
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