On AlterNet: mitch mcconnell
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Lee Fang, Think Progress AlterNet: Politics. October 6, 2009.
RNC Chair Michael Steele told Laura Ingraham: "The one thing I've always stated from day one is I don't do policy, I do politics."
Agence France Presse August 6, 2009.
By an easy 68-31 margin, lawmakers lifted the 55-year-old appeals court judge to the bench that serves as the final arbiter of the U.S. Constitution.
Agence France Presse August 5, 2009.
Sotomayor is expected to win Senate confirmation as early as Thursday as the first Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Adele M. Stan, AlterNet. July 21, 2009.
If Obama and the Democrats get health care reform done, the Republican Party is finished in the next election. So it's pulling out the stops.
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. June 18, 2009.
How do they live with the screaming, dissonant voices inside their heads?
Agence France PresseJune 5, 2009.
A new bill would bar the government from releasing any of the 240 remaining detainees until the administration presents a plan to Congress.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. May 23, 2009.
Blatant dishonesty for partisan gain is much easier to understand than rampant stupidity among leading federal lawmakers.
Agence France PresseMay 19, 2009.
Barack Obama's plan to close the prison camp by early 2010 hits a snag as his Senate allies move to deny his $80 million request.
Agence France PresseMay 18, 2009.
Lawmakers, including Virginia Senator Jim Webb, are urging Obama to delay his January deadline for shuttering Gitmo.
Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. March 30, 2009.
In his latest love letter to Obama, Boot calls his Afghanistan plan "all that supporters of the war effort could have asked for."
Ryan Grim, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. March 24, 2009.
Republican leaders in Congress offered a range of reactions on Monday to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's plan.
Ryan Grim, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. March 2, 2009.
Sen. Jim Bunning is making some republicans pretty nervous.
Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet. February 28, 2009.
Obama's speech promising a full withdrawal from Iraq adopted the long-discredited narrative of the Bush administration.
Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet AlterNet: War on Iraq. November 30, 2008.
A collection of praise for Obama's White House team from Karl Rove, David Brooks, Henry Kissinger and more.
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AlterNet Staff, AlterNet. September 7, 2007.
Leading Republican senators who have supported Bush's Iraq policy to the hilt are the targets of a major ad campaign by Americans Against Escalation in Iraq.
Anya Kamenetz, David Donnelly, Courier-Journal. March 2, 2007.
GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was instrumental in the passage of a bankruptcy bill that made it tough for Americans to deal with their debts -- and now the banking and credit card industry is rewarding him handsomely.
