Topic: U.S. Republican Party

Obama lays out vision for curing U.S. fiscal woes

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday laid out his long-term strategy to reduce the U.S. budget deficit by $4 trillion over 12 years.He proposed four steps: savings on the defense budget, elimination of waste in healthcare spending, control of domestic ...

Republican plan to overhaul U.S.-run health programs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans on Tuesday proposed $6 trillion in spending cuts over a decade, including a politically risky overhaul of government-run health programs, while also slashing tax rates as part of their 2012 budget blueprint.The budget proposal comes as Congress and ...

A Hose Divided

Today, we live in a society divided not by religious dogma, nor political affiliation, but by something far more fundamental to daily life. The great divide between the "Haves" and the "Have Nots" is fast becoming a chasm.. The Haves live in ...
Will GOP use congressional probes for grandstanding, or to fix flaws in Obama's law?Republicans plan to use the investigative powers of Congress to go after President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, and they're focusing on questions uppermost in the minds of consumers: ...
Former casino owner and Republican nominee Sue Lowden, running against Harry Reid for the Nevada Senate seat this November has revealed once again how prosaic Republicans are for offering genuine, honest remedies to serious complex problems. In her epiphany on this expressed ...

Republicans to attack healthcare law funding

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Republicans will try to repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare law next year but their leader in the Senate on Thursday acknowledged they will likely have to settle for far more modest changes.Two days after Republicans scored major victories ...
Why is Obama and his Marxist Democrats and Republicans blaming the seniors for spending all the Social Security and Medicare money when they still pay into Medicare with their Social Security Checks. Thank you Tom Daschle, was Tom Daschle thinking of the ...

The G.O.P. Is Courting Disaster

The passage of health care reform may be the beginning of a new age in American politics. Despite a year of intense debate, a barrage of special interest propaganda and, unfortunate displays of anger perpetrated by the radical right, the Democratic party ...
"In the final minutes of a daylong session, Majority Leader Harry Reid D-Nev., accused (hey, this is what politicians do, right? THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING NEW HERE.According to Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, "who won more than $100 million in the legislation to ...

The Healthcare Summit: ABC

So there was a conference/discussion/bi-partisan meeting (or whatever people want to call this) on healthcare that lasted more than 8 hours. "It's pretty clear that the majority and the president want to continue with the Senate bill", a bill that McConnell and ...