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Last month, when Detroit’s Big Three automakers stormed Capitol Hill in search of $25 billion in emergency loans, a number of lawmakers wondered aloud where

The Campaign to Defeat Obama , a political action committee with ties to the Republican Party and the Tea Party Express, has launched a campaign linking Democratic Party lawmakers and President Obama to the Occupy Wall Street movement, which is depicted by the organization as “violent mobs.” “Barack Obama has been one of the protest mobs’ biggest cheerleaders,” writes the campaign’s chief and right-wing political consultant Joe Wierzbicki in a release announcing a new campaign ad. ”The new poll finds that support for the violent Occupy Wall Street mobs has fallen further, and since Barack Obama has been one of the protest mobs’ biggest cheerleaders, it spells trouble for him as well.” The mainstream media hasn’t spent much time highlighting this vulnerability for Obama, but that is where you come in.

Change.org links to a good summary of the 874-page comprehensive immigration reform bill Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced

One of the biggest accusations promulgated to support why Planned Parenthood is “evil” and should be stripped of all federal funding is that the health care

Republican candidates for president are not spending much of their campaign war chests in Iowa, an analysis from The Huffington Post shows. Reporter Sam Stein analyzed federal election data to see how much GOP presidential hopefuls spent on staff, office space, campaign stops and other items in the Hawkeye State.

Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann currently has 7-to-4 odds of emerging victorious from the Iowa caucuses, says a British bookmaking site. On both sides of the big pond, however, bookies and the Iowa Electronic Markets are pointing to President Barack Obama to give a repeat performance in the general. Ladbrokes.com , a London-based gambling company in existence since 1886, had Bachmann at 5-to-2 odds just two weeks ago, but now sees the Congresswoman as a safer Iowa bet — although perhaps not as ultimately profitable as some other possible wagers.

This summer, Democrats pushing for additional stimulus have seemed to focus almost exclusively on extended unemployment benefits, blocked by Senate Republicans

If you thought Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism was upset on Tuesday over Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s bank rescue plan - recall the word fiasco was

Bill McBride of the Calculated Risk blog explains why the participation rate — the percentage of Americans either working or actively seeking a job — is crucial in determining how far and how fast the unemployment rate drops.

Senator Mark Udall today said President Obama made the right decision in not releasing the bin Laden photos, saying the release of the photos could inflame jihadists and put the people in danger. His statement: Today, Mark Udall, a member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees, released the following statement after viewing the classified photos of Osama bin Laden. The photos were made available to certain members of the House and Senate after Udall called for the White House to allow Intelligence Committee members to see them.

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The New York Times ran a nice profile this weekend on Kenneth Feinberg, the White House appointee charged with overseeing the claims process from the Gulf oil

Speaking of bright spots in a dismal economy, Amazon.com reported its sales were the best ever, during a grim holiday shopping season that saw most retailers

Greg Sargent points out that the 60 Plus Association, the industry-funded conservative group which tries to wedge seniors against the Democrats, hired the

At a morning press conference, the first question to House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) was whether he thinks the Democrats, who hope to bring a

Canada’s National Energy Board restricted the flow of oil through pipelines in that country in response to the Enbridge pipeline rupture that fouled at least 30 miles of the Kalamazoo River last summer. Post Media News reports that Canadian regulators, after monitoring the U.S. investigation of the Michigan spill, ordered a 20 percent pressure reduction on the pre-1970 flash-welded sections of Enbridge’s Line 2, which connects Edmonton to Superior, Wisconsin

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced that next year it will require oil and gas companies to publicly disclose the release of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas, which can be deadly in high enough concentrations

Eric Montalvo, a U.S. Army Marine Corps major and Mohammed Jawad’s military defense lawyer, yesterday sent me a long note about the latest news on his client.

The Senate Finance Committee’s health reform bill will save the federal government $81 billion over the next 10 years, according to the much-anticipated

Congress targets abortion for the second week in a row on Thursday, when the Senate is expected to debate an amendment recently filed by Sen. Jim DeMint

For six years, the Bush administration denied or ignored the impact of climate change. But last May, after the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental

Just yesterday, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) announced his decision to endorse Indiana Senate candidate Marlin Stutzman, who faces multiple challengers in the May 4

U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle this morning denied the government’s attempt to further delay the hearing of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed Jawad and, as