#CNN’s Jake Tapper floats banning some Republicans from show

#CNN’s Jake Tapper floats banning some Republicans from show

“#CNN’s Jake Tapper floats banning some Republicans from show” There’s too hot for TV and then there’s too wrong for Tapper. The anchor of CNN’s two-hour mid-afternoon show “The Lead” suggested to his colleagues Tuesday that he would bar Republicans from appearing if they were “not willing to stick to standards and facts.” “How am…

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#GOP orator Tim Scott wins race: Goodwin

#GOP orator Tim Scott wins race: Goodwin

“#GOP orator Tim Scott wins race: Goodwin” There were two big speeches in Washington last week, and one was terrific. President Biden gave the other one.  Offering the opposition party’s response to a president’s address to Congress is not easy. The trappings of the office and the House chamber are impossible to compete with when…

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#Texas special election held to replace Rep. Ronald Wright

#Texas special election held to replace Rep. Ronald Wright

“#Texas special election held to replace Rep. Ronald Wright” In Texas, even the ballots are bigger. Saturday’s special election in the state’s 6th Congressional District is a bipartisan, 23-candidate scrum — with the shadow of President Trump looming over Republicans and Democrats alike. Trump this week waded into the race to replace Republican Rep. Ron…

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#Republicans come to Tim Scott’s defense amid racist attacks

#Republicans come to Tim Scott’s defense amid racist attacks

“#Republicans come to Tim Scott’s defense amid racist attacks” Republican lawmakers are coming to the defense of Sen. Tim Scott after he faced a torrent of racist responses from some Democrats to his rebuttal to President Biden’s first address. Speaking to Fox News Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called the smears against his GOP colleague “disgusting”…

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#Whatever happened to GOP fiscal hawks?

#Whatever happened to GOP fiscal hawks?

“#Whatever happened to GOP fiscal hawks?” Once upon a time, President Joe Biden’s spending proposals would have launched mass demonstrations in opposition. Little else would have been talked about in conservative media, and ambitious GOP politicians would have competed with one another to demonstrate the most intense resistance, up to and perhaps including chaining themselves…

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#GOP not sold on Biden’s jobs plan after joint address

#GOP not sold on Biden’s jobs plan after joint address

“#GOP not sold on Biden’s jobs plan after joint address” President Biden’s first joint address to Congress was met with tepid criticism from Republican lawmakers, who were hopeful but skeptical about whether he will work across the aisle to help grow jobs and keep the economy humming.  During his speech, Biden — who went off-script…

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