Results for: House Democrat

McConnell: We're Going to 'Crush' Tea Party Candidates in GOP Primaries This Year
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/03/10/mcconnell…idates-will-get-crushed-everywhere-in-gop-primaries-n1806523
– The timing and intensity of McConnell's smack down is redolent of House Speaker John Boehner's rant against certain conservative organizations … of his strong conservative record over many years of public service, McConnell has been relentlessly attacked as a spineless, Democrat-enabling…
Wealthy environmentalists push Democrat Harry Reid to lean-in to green energy
https://townhall.com/columnists/maritanoon/2014/03/10/wealth…push-democrat-harry-reid-to-leanin-to-green-energy-n1806360
– Washington’s liberal elite and San Francisco’s climate intelligensia” that included “Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat … Podesta is the organ grinder from within the White House and progressive political platforms. … summer of 2012, it was reported that he had met with senior White House officials in the West Wing on at least four occasions.…
The Silence of the Tax Lamb
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2014/03/09/the-silence-of-the-tax-lamb-n1805843
– Former IRS official Lois Lerner invoked her Fifth Amendment right Wednesday not to incriminate herself when she testified before the House … Ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings said he wanted to ask "a procedural question." … They would have wanted to know whether the IRS policy had come from the White House.…
Eat Your Own Words, Debbie Wasserman Schultz
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2014/03/07/eat-your-own-words-debbie-wasserman-schultz-n1805412
– In addition, the White House last month allowed medium-sized employers an extra year to comply with the Obamacare mandate to offer … It's not just Hagan; every vulnerable Senate Democrat who rammed Obamacare down America's throat is now running for the hills. … When the White House now talks about the "Get Covered" campaign, it's not about ordinary Americans getting health care.…
House Dems Slam Darrell Issa: What He Did Was “Un-American”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2014/03/06/dems-at-a-boiling-point-hammer-issa-n1805294
– Louise Slaughter (N.Y.), senior Democrat on the House Rules Committee. … groups without letting any Democrat speak. … Elijah Cummings as he tried to speak, House Democratic leaders are now saying that Issa “not only violated House rules, but also undermined…
A Tough Week for the White House
https://townhall.com/columnists/richgalen/2014/03/06/a-tough-week-for-the-white-house-n1805080
– Both Pennsylvania Senators, Pat Toomey (R), and Democrat Bob Casey voted against Adegbile's nomination, as did next-door-neighbor Delaware's … The whip count was so dicey, that the White House sent Vice President Joe Biden up to Capitol Hill to assume the chair.…
Recalling the Days When Democrats Cut Taxes
https://townhall.com/columnists/larrykudlow/2014/03/06/recalling-the-days-when-democrats-cut-taxes-n1804757
– When JFK's tax legislation came before Congress, Democrats in the House voted for it 223-29 and in the Senate 56-11, while Republicans … voted against it in the House 48-126 and for it in the Senate 21-10. … Roosevelt, a Democrat, turned the tables by jacking up marginal income-tax rates (at one point all the way to 94% for the very top…
Crimea River
https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2014/03/05/crimea-river-n1804802
– It's pointless to pay attention to foreign policy when a Democrat is president, unless you enjoy having your stomach in a knot. … As long as a Democrat sits in the White House, America will be repeatedly humiliated, the world will become a much more dangerous place … and how, by God, Johnson was not going to be the president who lost Vietnam and then the Congress and the White House."…
Ouch: Wendy Davis Pummeled in South Texas Polls By Opponent Who Raised $0
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2014/03/05/ouch-wendy-davis-pummeled-at-the-polls-in-south-texas-n1804424
– Aaron Pena, a former member of the Texas House of Representative, shared a few of the embarrassing results: … It’s perhaps no surprise South Texans rallied behind Ray Madrigal, a pro-life Democrat, instead of someone who became famous for this…
Binge: Obama's Budget Packed with New Spending and Tax Hikes, Never Balances
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/03/04/surprise…new-budget-hikes-taxes-and-spending-never-balances-n1803938
– The Washington Post previewed Obama's budget last month, noting that the White House would peddle it as an end to America's "era of … Obama essentially conceded the point last month, when the White House announced he is dropping calls for an unpopular, but cost-saving … The Republican-held House of Representatives has done its job year in, and year out.…
The Libertarian Populist Future of the GOP
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/conncarroll/2014/03/04/the-libertarian-populist-future-of-the-gop-n1803956
– As long as President Obama is in the White House, tax reform is dead in Washington. … But Obama will not be in the White House forever. … Just look at the tax plan House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) submitted last week.…
Time to eliminate the Export-Import Bank
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidwilliams/2014/03/04/time-to-eliminate-the-exportimport-bank-n1803316
– Flash forward six years, and the president’s Democrat allies in Congress are demanding that lawmakers “direct immediate attention” … Ironically, House Democrats pushing the Bank’s reauthorization recently wrote in a letter to Representative Jeb Hensarling that the…
Midterm Blues: Dems Basically Concede They Won't Win Back the House
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/03/03/midterm-b…rats-basically-concede-they-wont-win-back-the-house-n1803388
– Republicans retaining control of the House of Representatives after November's elections would officially usher in the … its majority by picking off a number of Democrat-held seats. … Among other things, Israel said it is "too early to say" whether his party will secure a House majority.…
Obama-Democrats Return to Their One (and Only) Trick: Class Warfare
https://townhall.com/columnists/ransomnotesradio/2014/03/21…ts-return-to-their-one-and-only-trick-class-warfare-n1812363
– What is a Democrat to do when they look like they’re falling in the polls? … Well, according to the White House, they should just wage a little class warfare… At least that’s what the Obama Administration is…
Get To Know the Common Core Marketing Overlords
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2014/03/21/get-to-know-the-common-core-marketing-overlords-n1812206
– big-spending Utah senator-turned-lobbyist booted from office by tea party conservatives; former Democratic Agriculture Secretary and House … member-turned-lobbyist Dan Glickman; and liberal Democrat Byron Dorgan, the former North Dakota senator who crusaded as an anti-D.C…
Callaway, a Georgian Visionary
https://townhall.com/columnists/jackiegingrichcushman/2014/03/20/callaway-a-georgian-visionary-n1811557
– Others who rose to prominence include Mack Mattingly, who served as a U.S. senator from 1981-87, and my father, former speaker of the HouseHouse of Representatives. … Perdue, originally a Democrat, had switched to the Republican Party in 1998.…
McConnell Promotes Pro-Life Bill on Anniversary of Gosnell Trial
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/sarahjeanseman/2014/03/19/mcco…urges-prolife-bill-on-anniversary-of-gosnell-trial-n1811534
– At the federal level, this effort resulted in the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which passed the House … However, with Democrat control of the Senate, it seems unlikely the bill will pass.…
The Memoirs Of Michael Novak: How The Democratic Party Moved From "Tough Center-Left" To "Brie And Chablis"
https://townhall.com/columnists/jerrybowyer/2014/03/19/the-m…rty-moved-from-tough-centerleft-to-brie-and-chablis-n1811150
– war from the vantage point of the victors, then Writing From Left to Write by Michael Novak offers some of the best seats in the house … I could more easily have become a democratic socialist or a social democrat if I didn’t have the memory of my family over there.…
Spring Clean Government
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2014/03/19/spring-clean-government-n1810897
– When Barack Obama ran for president, he promised to clean house, "I'm not a Democrat who believes that we can or should defend every … To clean house, pass the Stossel Rule.…
In the Cheese Wars, Call Me a Traitor
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnkass/2014/03/19/in-the-cheese-wars-call-me-a-traitor-n1810881
– Charles Schumer, the New York Democrat. … Don't bring that fake pre-grated collection of salts and fats they call Parmesan-in-a-can to my house, not when my cousin Mariella…
Establishment vs. Tea Party
https://townhall.com/columnists/jackkerwick/2014/03/19/establishment-vs-tea-party-n1810790
– Michael Medved, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, and legions of others wouldn’t spare a moment to forfeit an election, any election, to a Democrat … , any Democrat, if the only alternative was, say, Ron Paul or Pat Buchanan. … unrealistically high expectations, for regardless of what happens this November, a Democratic president promises to remain in the White House
The April Issue of Townhall Magazine: Obama's War on Coal
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/conncarroll/2014/03/18/the-april-issue-of-townhall-magazine-obamas-war-on-coal-n1810866
– Democrats had a huge majority in the House and a filibuster-proof 60 votes in the Senate. … The White House, and even the 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain had endorsed a cap-and-trade program. … Candidate Manchin would go on to win his race as would 63 new House Republicans.…
Make Democrats Pay for Obamacare and Obamanomics
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2014/03/18/make-democrats-pay-for-obamacare-and-obamanomics-n1810363
– establishment Republican types who tell you Obama didn't get his metaphorical head handed to him in the Florida special election for a House … Rejoice that White House officials and many Democratic apparatchiks are denying that Obamacare was "on the ballot in Florida" and are … lied about it, that his entire party backed him on it, that millions of American people are being hurt as a result and that any Democrat
A Warning to Conservatives
https://townhall.com/columnists/susanstamperbrown/2014/03/18/a-warning-to-conservatives-n1810322
– The Pew poll also found millennials are "distrustful of people" but still lean heavily Democrat, despite the intellectual dishonesty … Once the GOP cleans its own house, conservatives stand a better chance to create jobs and give millennials the opportunity they deserve…
In Jam Over Obamacare, Dems Don't Know Which Way To Turn
https://townhall.com/columnists/byronyork/2014/03/17/in-jam-over-obamacare-dems-dont-know-which-way-to-turn-n1810557
– Many have adopted the "keep and fix" approach used unsuccessfully by Democrat Alex Sink in the recent special election to fill the … House seat in Florida's 13th Congressional District. … When Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee recently, she was asked…
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