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By Mike Whitney
Things could get ugly fast. With the Democrats backing-off on a second round of stimulus, the Fed signaling an end to quantitative easing, and Obama moaning about rising deficits; there's a good chance that the stumbling recovery could turn into another sharp plunge. [...]
How much money will wrestling entrepreneur Linda McMahon spend in her campaign to unseat U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd?
That question has been widely debated in political circles as McMahon has already spent far more money than any other candidate in the race - on television commercials, full-page newspaper advertisements, and brochures [...]
Staffers on Capitol Hill were calling it the Louisiana Purchase.
On the eve of Saturday’s showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn’t secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the 60 votes needed to keep the legislation alive. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.
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Democrats' Obamacare will raise premiums and taxes, cut Medicare, and drive up the deficit. Is This the kind of health care reform the American people want?
In the following video, Senate Republicans remind us that Americans do not want higher premiums and higher taxes disguised as reform:
' [...]Washington (AP) – The Senate will hold its first vote on health care legislation on Saturday night and Democrats will need 60 votes to prevail.
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When the Pelosi/Reid left-wing Democrats took control of Congress on January 4, 2007, the national debt was $8,670,596,242,973.04 -- that's $8.67 trillion.
Today, the national debt is 12,039,319,107,488.80 -- more than $12 trillion.
That is a 38% increase in the national debt in the less than three year period that Speaker [...]
Republicans yesterday thwarted an effort by Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd that would have frozen credit card rates on existing balances.
"On behalf of several Senators on this side of the aisle, I object," Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Mississippi, said when Dodd attempted to raise the matter.
UPDATE 1: In response to a good question posed by [...]
By DAVID ESPO
AP Special Correspondent
Washington (AP) – Health care legislation heading for the Senate floor this week would extend coverage to 31 million uninsured Americans at a cost of $849 billion over a decade, a Democratic leadership aide said Wednesday, citing a report from congressional budget experts.
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Washington (AP) – Sen. Robert Byrd says he’s looking forward to the next 56 years and 320 days.
That’s how long he’s served in the House and Senate. The West Virginia Democrat today became the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history.
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[...]In a move that would shake up two political races, the state Republican chairman is publicly asking state Sen. Sam Caligiuri to run against Democratic incumbent Rep. Christopher Murphy in the 5th Congressional district.
As the former acting mayor of Waterbury, Caligiuri is well-known in the Greater Waterbury area, which is near the core [...]
With an abundance of candidates and signs of a national mood shift, Connecticut Republicans are ushering one of their senate candidates off to the Fifth District, where there are hopes of a high-profile race against U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, the Democratic incumbent.
Hartford (WTNH) - Connecticut Democrats will hold their 2010 nominating convention in the third week of May, the party announced Monday.
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[...]When longtime Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy came in third place in the Quinnipiac Poll last week with 9 percent of the vote in a potential Democratic primary that is almost 10 months away, some insiders were surprised at his lack of name recognition.
Malloy spread his name around the state by [...]
The following opinion article, about lessons of the aftermath of a New London eminent domain case that went to the Supreme Court, originally appeared in condensed form on the New York Times website. Click here to read the latest news development that prompted the [...] 
Back in the day, when GWB lived in the WhiteHouse, the search engine google was seeded with enough references to “GWB is a failure” that any search on “failure” turned up a reference to GWB. This was great fun for the Democrats and seen as proof that [...]
Our own Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-Independent, apparently had some critical advice for vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, according to the Alaska governor's new book.
The Wall Street Journal just bought a copy of "Going Rogue: An American Life" and wouldn't you know it, our favorite turncoat [...]
New Britain Mayor Timothy Stewart has been fighting for years in the trenches of partisan warfare as a Republican mayor up against a Democratic-dominated city council.
Stewart is expected to clash again with Phil Sherwood, a longtime political activist who is now the council leader.
"Phil Sherwood?'' Stewart asked in today's Hartford" [...]
