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Tea Party Passion Shaping Into Campaign Force

3-day “boot camp” at FreedomWorks

By Kate Zernike

On a Saturday in August when most of the political class has escaped this city’s swelter, 50 Tea Party leaders have flown in from across the country to jam into a conference room in an office building on Pennsylvania Avenue, apparently unconcerned that the fancy address does not guarantee air-conditioning on weekends. They have come to learn how to take over the country, voter by voter. More

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September 08, 2010

Obama & The Lonely Center

By Jonathan Chait

The most striking theme in today’s Washington Post poll is, once again, the extraordinary apathy of the liberal Democratic base. But among likely voters, the GOP opens up a mammoth 53%-40% advantage. The enthusiasm gap here is a canyon. More

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September 08, 2010

60 Days to Go: The Crystal Ball’s Labor Day Predictions

By Larry J. Sabato

Will 2010 be added to the “slaughter years”? The general election is a couple months away, but the odds are good that the bar lines in the graphs below will reach reasonably high after November 2. The Crystal Ball’s predictions are clinical. We are fond of people in both parties. We cheer for no one. More

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September 08, 2010

Once Dynamo Tech Sector Now Slow to Hire

By Catherine Rampell

For years the technology sector has been considered the most dynamic, promising & globally envied industry in the United States. It escaped the recession relatively unscathed, and profits have been soaring. But as the nation struggles to put people back to work, even high-tech companies have been slow to hire, a sign of just how difficult it will be to address persistently high joblessness. More

September 07, 2010

Midterms: GOP Makes Gains Ahead of

Balz & Cohen, Washington Post

Republicans are heading into the final weeks of the midterm campaign with the political climate highly in their favor, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Americans are increasingly frustrated by a lack of economic progress, deeply dissatisfied with the federal government and critical of President Obama’s leadership. More

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September 08, 2010

States Right to Shun ObamaCare’s High-Risk Pools

22 states that said “no” to federal funding made wise 1st response to ObamaCare.

By John R. Graham

One of ObamaCare’s first major cash flows was scheduled to start on July 1: $5 billion to bail out states’ so-called “high-risk pools” until January 1, 2014. Premiums will rise substantially. A full 22 states want nothing to do with it, a drastic choice in times of broken budgets but nevertheless the right choice. More

September 08, 2010

Stimulus Kicks In, Higher Unemployment on Horizon

By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – In our book 2010: Take Back America – A Battle Plan, we write: “The prospect we now face is not the intermittent up-&-down fluctuations of unemployment we have had since the Great Depression. Thanks to Obama’s policies, we’re confronting the possibility of an unemployment rate that never comes down, just as they have in Europe. If we stay on Obama’s course, lower joblessness in the United States will be a thing of the past.” More

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September 07, 2010

President Announces ‘Renew & Expand America’s Roads, Railways & Runways’ Plan

Infrastructure investments fact sheet on the President’s plan below.

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. – In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, President Barack Obama announced a comprehensive infrastructure plan to expand and renew our nation’s roads, railways & runways. This proposal is among a set of targeted initiatives the President will outline in Cleveland on Wednesday. More

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September 07, 2010

PAUKEN: An Economic Policy to Put America Back to Work

Policies to put Americans back to work aren’t working.

By Tom Pauken

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Since the Obama stimulus spending program began in February 2009 & continued through May 2010, we have added 400,000 government jobs, while the nation has lost 2.7 million private-sector jobs. So, what do we do instead? More

September 07, 2010

Texas Charter School Nationally Known, Lil’ Longhorns

By Sonam Shahani

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Back to school! After a fun and busy summer I was ready to be a student teacher again. I attended my first class at UT, Methods of Reading & Language Arts, and waited anxiously for my semester placement. Each of us would switch schools this semester, meaning that I would no longer be at Metz Elementary. Where then, would I be placed? More

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Redistricting Could Prolong the Democrats’ Pain

Caveats are in order, but Democrats threatened with losing governorships & legislative chambers

By Michael Barone

If Republicans do well in November, they could shift a significant number of House seats to the GOP. Seven states, according to projections by Polidata Inc., will gain a House seat, and Texas will gain four.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean Republicans will gain House seats. Continue Reading.

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Washington & the ‘Recovery Summer’ That Wasn’t

By Fred Barnes

On June 17, the Obama administration proclaimed “Recovery Summer.”

This was done with considerable fanfare, including the announcement that President Obama & Vice President Biden would tour Recovery Act sites — ones funded by the $814 billion “stimulus” — in full expectation the projects would contribute mightily to accelerated economic growth and job creation. Continue Reading.