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BREAKING: Boehner Re-Elected House Speaker

Ress Wrote: Jan 03, 2013 5:05 PM

Fast & Furious was a criminal operation from the gitgo and those responsible deserve to be prosecuted as accessories to murder. Stalin, however, was no accessory to murder but a first-degree murderer of tens of millions. Many of the murder lists of innocent people he signed personally. To compare F&F to Stalin's crimes is to cheapen the memory of Stalin's millions of victims.

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BREAKING: Boehner Re-Elected House Speaker

Remember all of this? Just a bump in the road, it seems. With relatively little drama, Ohio Republican John A. Boehner has been re-elected as Speaker of the US House of Representatives:

The 113th Congress is now in session. The gavels have been dropped in both the House and Senate. So, work on the People's Business has begun. The first bit of news was election of the speaker in the House., and at 1:20 p.m. ET the incumbent — Rep. John Boehner of Ohio — had enough votes to keep that post. Democrats, with...

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