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Timothy McNulty | September 14, 2009 This happened last week, but for the Toomey files here's more evidence of the Republican's outreach to independents and Dem s, wherein he lauds Obama's school speech last week (the one condemned by conservatives ): Allentown , PA - U.S. Senate candidate...
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Timothy McNulty | March 3, 2009 That didn't take long: RNC chair Michael Steele apologized for negative comments about Rush Limbaugh within hours last night, showing pretty clearly who wears the (giant) pants in the GOP these days. He told Politico : Republican National Committee Chairman Michael...
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Timothy McNulty | January 27, 2009 Chip Saltsman -- the guy vying to run the RNC who distributed the "Barack the Magic Negro" song at Christmas -- today blamed the uproar over the racial parody on . . . of course . . . the media. (See the reasons for Bill Kristol's downfall from earlier...
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Timothy McNulty | January 27, 2009 Today's political news is all about Obama's trip to Capitol Hill to woo GOP votes for his stimulus package . So far, his bids for Repub votes -- after promising bipartisanship on the campaign trail -- have been largely unsuccessful, but there may be more at...
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Timothy McNulty | January 12, 2009 Obama has talked a lot -- as recently as the news conferences last week -- about being bipartisan and promising to work with Republicans, particularly in addressing the economy. The GOP is doing the same, inviting the Democrat to speak to the House's Republican...
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Timothy McNulty | December 30, 2008 In the topsy-turvy world of the post-Bush GOP, Chip Saltsman's distribution of the "Barack the Magic Negro" song may actually help his bid to become RNC chairman, Politico reports . Why? Due to backlash against the evil mainstream media: Four days after...
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Timothy McNulty | December 29, 2008 Wow. Here's the song parody distributed at Christmas by longtime GOP operative Chip Saltsman of Tennessee, who is vying to lead the Republican National Committee. Saltsman sent out the song -- which was played on Rush Limbaugh's radio show -- as a holiday gift...
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Timothy McNulty | December 15, 2008 The pendulum is swinging back on the Blago story: whereas criticism mounted last week of Obama's slow response to the Illinois guv's arrest, storylines are now emerging questioning those criticisms, especially by the GOP. The last straw appears to have been...
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Timothy McNulty | November 3, 2008 McCain may have made the Rev. Jeremiah Wright off-limits , but not so the state's GOP, which has campaigned on the edge repeatedly this fall. The "Republican Federal Committee of Pennsylvania" is running this ad , which mentions how Wright baptized Obama's...
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Timothy McNulty | October 27, 2008 The state GOP office fired a consultant Friday after issuing an email to Jewish voters likening a vote for Obama of a community group to ignoring ''the warning signs in the 1930s and 1940s," the AP reports . State GOP officials disavowed the e-mail and...