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GOP leader's top goal: Make Obama 1-term president
Sen. McConnell takes hard line, aims to Cut down Health Care law >>> now we return to politics. no putting it off any longer. just two days after the Election that ushered in sweeping change in Washington. tonight, the Senate's top republican made it clear to president Obama just where he stands. our chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd with us tonight with that story. Chuck, good evening. >> reporter: that's right, that post Election detente lasted about 24 hours . today, the Senate re...

Hastings Outlines Natural Resources Committee Priorities - House Committee on Natural Resources, Republicans
“Now is the time for Republicans to get to work and prove that we have truly listened to the American People. “Like all committees, one of our top priorities on the Natural Resources Committee will be cutting Spending and bringing fiscal sanity back to Washington, D.C.  The days of big Government Spending are over and we must take a hard look at what our country can truly afford during these times of soaring Deficits and record Debt. “Creating new Jobs and giving a much ne...

McConnell: Wanting to beat Obama shouldn't be obstacle to working together
Source: The Hill Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said his desire to unseat President Obama in 2012 isn't any reason why the two shouldn't be able to work together. McConnell, the top Senate Republican, said his publicly-known goal of knocking off the president in two years shouldn't be a hurdle to the pair's ability to work together over the next two years. <...> The Kentucky Republican drew headlines after saying shortly before Tuesday's election that defeating Obama in 20...

GOP gives HuffPo fits: Thats the spirit!
Currently the rather familiar-sounding headline on HuffPo as of 7:30pm, November 4: Yeah, you read it here first at 3a.m., November 3: You know what they say: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! Here’s what GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell said that has the progs in fits: Barely an hour after President Barack Obama invited congressional Republicans to Post-election talks to work together on major issues, the Senate’s GOP leader had a blunt message: His party’s main ...

Morning Bell: Get to Work Repealing Obamacare
During his post-election Press Conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama was asked: “As you’re well aware, obviously, a lot of Republicans ran against your Health Care law. Some have called for repealing the law. I’m wondering, sir, if you believe that Health Care Reform that you worked so hard on is in danger at this point, and whether there’s a threat, as a result of this election.” The President replied: Well, I know that there’s some Republican Candidates who won

McConnells Efforts To Repeal Health Law Undermine GOP Top Priority To Reduce Deficit And Spending
McConnell’s Efforts To Repeal Health Law Undermine GOP ‘Top Priority’ To Reduce Deficit And Spending Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) brushed aside President Obama’s offer to work in a Bipartisan manner to tweak or modify parts of the Affordable Care Act this morning, doubling down on the party’s commitment to Repeal the law in its entirety. McConnell laid out what could be described as a three-pronged approach for rescinding the law: (1) Senate Repu...

Republicans to attack healthcare law funding
Source: Reuters U.S. congressional Republicans will try to Repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare law next year but their Leader in the Senate acknowledged on Thursday they will likely have to settle for far more modest changes. Two days after Republicans scored big victories in congressional Elections, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a hard line against Obama's landmark law and showed no sign of Compromise when the new Congress opens for business in January. "We can and should p...

Does ObamaCare Reduce Health Care Spending?
Yesterday, former Congressional Budget Office and Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag had a piece in The New York Times claiming that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is an essential element to keeping future Health Care Costs down. Worried that Republicans will make good on Election Night vows to Repeal ObamaCare, Orszag's basic argument in summed up in his commentary's headline: "To Save Money, Save the Health Care Act." He writes: “Sure, the Health ca...

Obama Tells 60 Minutes His Policies Werent Rejected
CBS News: NEW YORK (CBS) — After a suffering a “shellacking” in the Midterm Elections, President Obama acknowledges what many have seen as his chief weakness – failing to sell the importance of several legislative milestones to the American People. “I think that’s a fair argument. I think that, over the course of two years we were so busy and so focused on getting a bunch of stuff done that, we stopped pa

Mitch McConnell Has His Cojones in a Vise
Mitch McConnell gave a Speech at the Heritage Foundation this morning where he doubled down on his promise to do what he could to make President Obama a one-term president. From the transcript: Let’s start with the big picture. Over the past week, some have said it was indelicate of me to suggest that our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny President Obama a Second Term in office. But the fact is, if our primary legislative goals are to Repeal and replace the h...

Puffing On The Republican Mandate Crack Pipe
When it comes to Republican leaders, mandates are in the eyes of the beholder. That’s why they could claim in the wake of the 2000 Presidential Election that the party had a mandate although Al Gore got 540,000 more votes than George Bush. And that’s why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell could claim with a straight face this week that he has a mandate although the Democrats have a 53 to 47 seat majority (two Caucus members are Independents) and Democrats have now secured a Sena...

The Associated Press: Employers add 151K jobs, first gain since May
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Economy generated a net gain in Jobs for the first time in five months in October, as businesses stepped up their painfully slow pace of hiring. But the Unemployment Rate, measured by a separate survey of households, remained stuck at 9.6 percent for the third straight month. Still, the Job gains should give Americans a bit more income to spend, providing some support to the sluggish economy. That higher income, combined with the potential extension of the Bush Tax Cuts ...

Republicans to attack healthcare law funding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. congressional Republicans will try to Repeal President Barack Obama's Healthcare law next year but their Leader in the Senate acknowledged on Thursday they will likely have to settle for far more modest changes. Two days after Republicans scored big victories in congressional Elections, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a hard line against Obama's landmark law and showed no sign of Compromise when the new Congress opens for business in January. "We can and s...

Senate GOP: Finger Pointing and Uncompromising
While Republicans are victorious in the House, there’s still quite a bit of re-evaluation and finger pointing among GOP rank-and-file over what happened in the Senate. Only weeks before Election Day, pollsters started showing signs that Republicans were within range of a surprising takeover of the Senate Majority.  With the Enthusiasm Gap between Republicans and Democrats growing, Strategists saw an opportunity opening as polls tightened in coveted races like Pennsylvania, California,...

Employers Add 151K Jobs, First Gain Since May
Friday, November 05, 2010 By Christopher S. Rugaber, Associated Press Washington (AP) - The Economy generated a net gain in Jobs for the first time in five months in October, as businesses stepped up their painfully slow pace of hiring. But the Unemployment Rate, measured by a separate survey of households, remained stuck at 9.6 percent for the third straight month. Still, the Job gains should give Americans a bit more income to spend, providing some support to the sluggish economy. That hi...

October Jobs Report a Mixed Bag
This morning’s Jobs report is confusing because the two different surveys are saying two different things. The Payroll survey shows an Increase of 151,000 workers and revises upwards by 100,000 the number of Jobs created in the last two months. However, the household survey, which determines the Unemployment Rate, shows a decline in Jobs and the number of workers in the Labor Force. Diverging reports like this are not uncommon during changes in the business cycle. If you’re a glass-h...

Pelosi tweets she's running for Democratic leader
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who will lose her position as Speaker of the House when the new Republican majority takes over in January, used her Twitter account Friday to announce she will seek to continue to lead the Democratic Caucus. "Driven by the urgency of creating Jobs & protecting #hcr, #wsr, Social Security & Medicare, I am running for Dem Leader," Pelosi tweeted. The abbreviations stand for Health Care and Wall Street Reform. ...

Pelosi To Run For Minority Leader
Speaker Nancy Pelosi just announced her intent to run for House Minority Leader. Pelosi broke the news on Twitter, "Driven by the urgency of creating Jobs & protecting #hcr, #wsr, Social Security & Medicare, I am running for Dem Leader." (#hcr stands for Health Care Reform, #wsr stands for Wall Street reform.) For the last three days, gaming out whether Pelosi would make this call has become a favorite parlor game in Washington. Starting yesterday, sources close to her floated the possibilit...

Pelosi Announces Run For House Democratic Leader
BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT Washington, D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi released a letter to her Democratic colleagues this afternoon announcing that she will run to become House Democratic Leader in the next Congress. Excerpt from her letter to Democratic colleagues: "Our work is far from finished.  As a result of Tuesday's election, the role of Democrats in the 112th Congress will change, but our commitment to serving the American People will not.  We have no intention of allowing our gre...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stays: running for Minority Leader
Just in: After calling each member of the remaining 187 Democrats left in the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco will remain in the House, seeking election as Minority Leader. In an extraordinary move, Pelosi, 70, decided to accept a demotion and rally her Troops for the next battle in 2010 and fend off Republican attacks on her key legislative accomplishments, including Health Care, rather than step down following the path of previous Republican Leaders. Pelosi said she weighed fami...

Jobs Report, Asia Trip Make Political Point for Obama
Before heading off to India this morning, President Obama took the opportunity to connect today’s positive jobs report and his voyage to the politics of the next two years, saying both point to the need to work together. “The most important competition we face in this new century will not be between Democrats and Republicans,” Obama said at the White House. “It’s the competition with countries around the world to lead the Global Economy. And our success or failure...

Mitch McConnell at the Heritage Foundation - Think Tanked
UPDATE : Full text below and video. In just an hour, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will offer his remarks to the Heritage Foundation that have already sparked Controversy after excerpts were made available to the media. “Over the past week, some have said it was indelicate of me to suggest that our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny President Obama a Second Term in office," the Senate Republican leader plans to tell the conservative Heritage Foundation, acc...

McConnell: Wanting to beat Obama shouldn't be obstacle to working together
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said his desire to unseat President Obama in 2012 isn't any reason why the two shouldn't be able to work together. McConnell, the top Senate Republican, said his publicly-known goal of knocking off the president in 2012 shouldn't be a hurdle to the pair's ability to work together over the next two years. "To assume that just because I would like to elect a Republican president in 2012 — or because he would like a Second Term beginning in 201

Mitch McConnell Challenges Obama With Bold Speech
Washington -- Barely an hour after President Barack Obama invited congressional Republicans to post-election talks to work together on major issues, the Senate's GOP Leader had a blunt message: His party's main goal is denying Obama re-election. In a sign that combat and the 2012 Elections rather than Compromise could mark the next two years, Sen. Mitch McConnell on Thursday called for Senate votes to Repeal or erode Obama's signature Health Care law, to Cut Spending and to shrink government. ...

Why Harry Reid probably wont tinker with the filibuster
During the campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid talked openly about wanting to change the Filibuster rule. As the WSJ reported over the summer: The Nevada Democrat aligned the Filibuster to the spitball, which was eventually banned from Baseball because pitchers abused it. “We’re going to have to change it,” Reid pledged, adding that there’s “no plan yet” on how, exactly, Democrats would like to alter the rules. He also didn’t mention that it could be consi