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No. of Feds Making Over $150K Soars

GOP to attack government pay in lame-duck Congress

(Newser) - The number of federal government employees making at least $150,000 a year is 10 times what it was five years ago, and it has doubled since President Obama’s inauguration, says a study by USA Today . House GOP members are hoping to pounce on the issue as the lame-duck...

John Boehner, GOP Will Fail
 John Boehner, 
 GOP Will Fail 
OPINION
Nov 8, 2010 10:36 AM CST

John Boehner, GOP Will Fail

This was no endorsement of the Republican agenda

(Newser) - Republicans crowing from the rooftops about the mandate they got on Election Day can cork it and come back down to Earth to face the music, writes Markos Moulitsas Zuniga in the Christian Science Monitor —because John Boehner and Co. are doomed. Tuesday wasn't an embrace of a GOP...

Republicans Look to Hobble Health Reform

May force partisan standoff

(Newser) - The GOP may not have the votes to repeal health care reform, but they're still setting their sights on it. Incoming Republicans say they plan to curtail the controversial law by finding creative ways to hobble it, finds the New York Times . They may, for instance, cut funding and personnel...

Bachmann Battling for Leadership Spot

But GOP leadership is strongly against it

(Newser) - Michele Bachmann is campaigning hard for a Republican leadership position—much to the chagrin of the House’s top Republicans. Bachmann wants to chair the House Republican Conference, a major position that would make her the fourth-ranked Republican in the chamber. The only problem, in the words of Salon ’...

GOP Beats Incumbents in Virginia, Florida

 GOP Will 
 Take Over 
 House 
the house
Nov 2, 2010 8:52 PM CDT

GOP Will Take Over House

Perriello loses in Virginia, Grayson in Florida

(Newser) - Nancy Pelosi's reign as House speaker will soon be over. Republicans will easily take control of the House of Representatives by night's end, say both CNN and NBC . The GOP entered the evening needing to gain 39 seats, and they'll likely end up with about 60, a development that will...

Boehner's Wall-Street Cash Bolsters Tea Party Hopefuls

House Minority Leader spreads business-backed wealth

(Newser) - John Boehner typically gets a healthy dose of campaign cash from Wall Street and blue-chip corporations, and this election season, he’s doling it out to tea party-backed hopefuls. The House Minority Leader has distributed $320,000 to 39 such candidates, suggesting a GOP “stamp of approval” for a...

GOP Holds Lead in Home Stretch
 GOP Holds Lead 
 in Home Stretch 
Scoreboard Update
Oct 20, 2010 8:44 AM CDT

GOP Holds Lead in Home Stretch

Enthusiasm gap leaves Democrats trailing in likely voters

(Newser) - Republicans are in the driver’s seat as the 2010 election winds down, despite a vigorous last-ditch push from Democrats, according to a new Wall Street Journal poll. Overall, registered voters narrowly prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress to a Republican-controlled one, but among likely voters, Republicans hold a 50%-43% edge. In...

Republicans Now Waging 'War on Arithmetic'
Republicans Now Waging
'War on Arithmetic'
Paul Krugman
Sep 24, 2010 12:39 PM CDT

Republicans Now Waging 'War on Arithmetic'

Paul Krugman: The new 'pledge' will bring us a 'banana republic'

(Newser) - Republicans have outdone themselves with their Pledge to America , writes Paul Krugman. The manifesto complains over and over about the national debt, but its main policy idea is to extend all the Bush tax breaks—while offering relatively few spending cuts. "Never mind the war on terror, the party’...

Pundits Pan 'Pledge to America'
 Pundits Pan 'Pledge to America' 
OPINION ROUNDUP
Sep 23, 2010 1:52 PM CDT

Pundits Pan 'Pledge to America'

Well, except the 'National Review'

(Newser) - The reviews are in for House Republicans' new " Pledge to America ," and mostly they ain't pretty. Here's what people are saying:
  • Erick Erickson of RedState hates it, calling it “a series of compromises and milquetoast rhetorical flourishes in search of unanimity among House Republicans. … It is
...

GOP 'Pledge': We'll Repeal Health Care Law

House Republicans roll out their manifesto tomorrow

(Newser) - House Republicans will head to a hardware store in Virginia tomorrow to unveil their Pledge to America, billed as a comprehensive set of reforms along the lines of Newt Gingrich's Contract With America in 1994. Democrats already say it's the same-old, same-old. Politico and the Wall Street Journal hit some...

What GOP Will Do With a House Majority

Republicans will cut off cash to key Dem initiatives

(Newser) - If Republicans win the House in November, they’ll highlight their differences with Democrats by starving signature policies—like health care—of cash, the Wall Street Journal reports. Although the GOP hopes to repeal the health care bill in the House, such a measure would likely fail in the Senate,...

Drumbeat of Bad News Continues for Dems

Forecast sees GOP takeover of House

(Newser) - Democrats better fasten their rally caps. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report has for the first time in this election cycle projected a GOP takeover of the House, notes Taegan Goddard's Political Wire blog . "We are revising our House forecast to a Republican gain of at least 40 seats, the...

GOP's Policies Are Cheap, Incoherent

 GOP's 
 Policies 
 Are Cheap, 
 Incoherent 
Ruth Marcus
Aug 25, 2010 11:03 AM CDT

GOP's Policies Are Cheap, Incoherent

John Boehner isn't the kind of opposition leader we need

(Newser) - Sometimes, Ruth Marcus thinks it would be nice if the country had a divided government. It would force the GOP to quit posturing and start governing, and allow Democrats to make hard choices on entitlement spending. “That’s the theory. Then there’s John Boehner,” she laments in...

Boehner: Raise Retirement Age to 70
Boehner: Raise Retirement Age to 70
Jun 29, 2010 3:18 PM CDT

Boehner: Raise Retirement Age to 70

American people need to know 'we're broke'

(Newser) - House Republican leader John Boehner thinks the retirement age should be raised to 70 for those who still have at least 20 years to go in the work force. "We need to look at the American people and explain to them that we're broke," he tells the Pittsburgh ...

GOP Leaders Ordered Barton to Apologize, 'Immediately'

Boehner, Cantor laid down the law

(Newser) - So what prompted Joe Barton's quick retraction of his apology to BP ? A sincere change of heart, maybe. Or it could have been the meeting with House GOP leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor, who told him, "Apologize, immediately. Or you will lose your (committee) position, immediately,"...

Capitol Hill's Favorite New Book: The Big Short

Lawmakers love how it explains meltdown

(Newser) - Listen to debate over financial reform on Capitol Hill for any length of time and you might think lawmakers were being paid to plug The Big Short, by Michael Lewis. They're not; they just love the way the book explains the financial meltdown and how a handful of investors made...

GOP Wins House Seat in Obama's Hometown

Fractured Dems confident they can retake seat in November

(Newser) - A Honolulu city councilman has defeated two Democrats to give Republicans a midterm election victory in the US congressional district where President Obama grew up. Charles Djou's win yesterday is the latest triumph for the GOP as it looks to take back control of Congress. And it came as a...

GOP Rep Wants Investigation of White House

Pa. lawmaker offered job for dropping anti-Specter run: Issa

(Newser) - Republican Rep. Darrell Issa will demand an investigation into the White House, he tells CBS , if the Obama administration doesn’t elaborate on a claim by a Pennsylvania congressman that he was offered a job in return for not challenging Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter in a state primary. Rep. Joe...

Hunt on for Rep Who Yelled 'Baby Killer' at Stupak

 Hunt on for Rep 
 Who Yelled 
 'Baby Killer' 
 at Stupak 
HOUSE-FUL OF CRAZIES
Mar 22, 2010 7:18 AM CDT

Hunt on for Rep Who Yelled 'Baby Killer' at Stupak

Was likely a Texas Republican, rep says

(Newser) - Wonder if Joe Wilson has an alibi: The search continues for the person who hollered "baby killer" at pro-lifer Bart Stupak last night as he urged Democrats to vote down a bill-killing Republican amendment on the issue. The shout came from the GOP side of the aisle, reports the...

GOP's Take on 'Deem and Pass' Is Sheer Hypocrisy

They used it 35 times, writes Norman Ornstein

(Newser) - Hey, Wall Street Journal editorial board and other Republican “acolytes” and apologists: There is nothing remotely novel or “unconstitutional” about House Democrats using “deem and pass” to push through health care legislation, writes Norman J. Ornstein. You’ve already achieved “a ridiculous level of misinformation and...

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