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Newsbusters
| 6 months ago
Next up is the Republican party about to lose it's soul and principles over the fiscal cliff debate...Let's talk to Brent Bozell, For America chairman and founder and president of the Media Research Center...Well absolutely, and just about no one is...
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BusinessInsider
| 6 months ago
As the GOP grapples with the new post-election reality of budget negotiations, Republicans have started to distance themselves from Americans For Tax Reform founder Grover Norquist, the anti-tax crusader behind the GOP's "No New Taxes" pledge. ...
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
| 6 months ago
While some of their GOP brethren might be waffling, Georgia's U.S. House Republicans said they have no intention of breaking the no-new-taxes pledge that has been party orthodoxy for a quarter-century. Seven of the state's eight Republicans in the...
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The Hill
| 6 months ago
Bozell sent a letter to Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus on Wednesday pledging to make it his mission to counsel conservative donors to shun the party if its leaders in Congress agree to raise taxes. Bozell, the chairman...
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United Press International
| 6 months ago
Grover Norquist, Ppesident of the Americans for Tax Reform speaks at a press conference on tax reform in Washington on April 14, 2010. Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Another major conservative voiced support for U.S. Immigration is our competitive advantage...
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The Hutchinson News
| 6 months ago
Republican lawmakers standing up to tax reform group's leader Grover Norquist has never served a day as an elected political official...N0orquist coerced scores of legislators to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge that states they will never raise...
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CNN
| 6 months ago
If we do it his way, then we'll continue in debt, and I just have a disagreement with him about that." The next shot came from South Carolina's Sen. Lindsey Graham: "I think Grover is wrong when it comes to we can't cap deductions and buy down debt...
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Politico
| 6 months ago
Republicans want a divorce from Grover Norquist and his no-tax-hike pledge, Sen. Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor on Tuesday. Republicans in both the House and Senate are deciding they no longer want to be married to this pledge, Schumer (D-N.Y.
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Politico
| 6 months ago
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito said on Wednesday that the Republican Party has poorly communicated what the West Virginia Senate hopeful described as worthy economic solutions to the nation's economic problems. We as Republicans have those solutions; we...
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Courier & Press
| 6 months ago
One of the impediments to a deal to avert the dreaded fiscal cliff seems to have been removed or at least greatly diminished after this past election. According to the Congress-watching newspaper The Hill, "Grover Norquist's majority in Congress is...
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NY Daily News
| 6 months ago
Bloomberg via Getty Images Grover Norquist. Americans for Tax Reform leader Grover Norquist is either having the worst few weeks of his life or the best...Hi anti-tax pledge, and the immense power he's wielded in Washington for decades because of it,...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 6 months ago
The fissures within the Republican Party that some say cost the GOP control of the Senate have resurfaced just three weeks after the election. This time conservatives are targeting a popular veteran congresswoman from a storied West Virginia...
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Kansas City Star
| 6 months ago
Fissures within the Republican Party that some say cost the GOP control of the Senate have resurfaced just three weeks after the election.The latest squabble came within an hour of moderate Rep. Shelly Moore Capito's announcement Tuesday that she was...
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National Public Radio
| 6 months ago
There has not been a wave of defections by Republicans who signed on to his "no new taxes" pledge and even the few who have spoken about possibly going along with revenue increases won't do so in the end, anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist told NPR...
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Politico
| 6 months ago
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito's entrance into the 2014 West Virginia Senate race could keep coal in the conversation despite a disastrous 2012 run for the coal industry. In a speech Monday announcing her bid to take the seat that Democratic Sen. Jay...
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The New York Times
| 6 months ago
Archive Recent Posts November 26 The ambassador to the United Nations will meet on Tuesday with Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte. November 26 Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, and his Republican counterpart,...
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Epoch Times
| 6 months ago
November 26, 2012 Mitt Romney at his election night event in Boston Nov. 7. The Republican presidential candidate, was so convinced he would win he had only prepared a victory speech for election night. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) For many Republicans...
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The Hill
| 6 months ago
On day one of her candidacy, Capito received criticism from two conservative groups known for mounting primary challenges against establishment-backed Republicans: the Club for Growth and the Senate Conservatives Fund, a group founded by Sen. Jim...
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Politico
| 6 months ago
West Virginia Rep. Shelley Moore Capito 's Senate candidacy is already creating an unsettling sense of deja vu for Republicans. An experienced and popular candidate with wide name recognition announces a bid in a state that looks ripe for a pick-up...
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Washington Post
| 6 months ago
After a deep freeze, it looks like things might be moving again in the Senate: Sen. Jim De Mint is no longer blocking the nomination of Michael Huerta to be Federal Aviation Administration administrator. The South Carolina Republican had put a hold...
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United Press International
| 6 months ago
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.V., says she wants to run for the Senate seat currently occupied by John D...W.Va., Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., formally announced her candidacy for the U.S...Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va. "I am...
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OpenSecrets.org
| 6 months ago
News outlets speculate that Rockefeller likely will retire in 2014, but if he does seek a sixth term, an August poll suggests he'll have his work cut out for him: Capito is favored 48 percent to 44 percent in a hypothetical matchup between the two.
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Charlotte Observer Online
| 6 months ago
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito vowed Monday to run in 2014 for the seat now held by U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a Democrat and West Virginia's senior senator. Joined on her 59th birthday by several dozen supporters and family members, with several holding...
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Fox
| 6 months ago
FoxNews.com Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito is expected to announce Monday morning that she will run in 2014 for a U.S...Capito was recently re-elected to a seventh House term and will be running for the Senate seat held by Democrat Jay...
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Boston.com
| 6 months ago
Grover Norquist It didn't come from negotiation principals like President Obama or House Speaker John Boehner, but rather rank-and-file members of Congress. Members of both the House and Senate said simply that the Emperor has no clothes on. And that...
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United Press International
| 6 months ago
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., told him she intends to run for his seat in 2014. Capito, fresh off her re-election to a seventh term in the House, is expected to officially announce her candidacy Monday -- her 59th birthday -- in Charleston,...
