Looks like Senator Cornyn doesn’t want to make the mistake again of alienating Tea Party voters: National Journal: National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair John Cornyn (R-Texas) reached out to former Missouri Treasurer Sarah Steelman (R) about a Senate campaign before Thanksgiving, according to an NRSC source. In addition to encouraging her to run, Cornyn assured […]

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KC Star: (11/6/10) Democrats are steaming mad that, in their view, Gov. Jay Nixon, sat it out this election season. On election night, he opted to lounge at home rather than stand with fallen party members…And, they point out, Nixon plunged into 2012 re-election mode with a KC fundraising planning meeting on Oct. 25 while […]

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With Congress back from its Thanksgiving break, Democrats once again have an opportunity to prove that they heard the message Americans sent Washington on election day by focusing on the priorities of the American people: helping the economy and preventing a massive tax increase in January. Yet Democrats continue to show that their priorities are […]

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After a week of demonstrating their priorities still aren’t aligned with those of the American people, even in the wake of an historic election, Democrats in Congress still don’t seem to have learned anything. Most Americans are concerned with the economy, and one of the best things that could be done from Washington to help […]

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This commentary was submitted by one of our readers and Facebook friends. If you have a submission or political gossip you’d like to share, drop us a line at editor@mopns.com By Justin Lindsey Nobody can argue that President Obama’s election was an extreme reaction to the RINO Republicans and misconceptions and realities of President Bush. […]

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“Still, isn’t there something at least a little wrong with prying cash out of people by leading them to believe that you can win when you can’t? Or were the Sowers folks so politically inept that in late October they thought their candidate could win?” — Stuart Rothenberg Writing in Roll Call today, Democrat Pollster […]

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The Washington Post reports today, “The first former Guantanamo Bay detainee to be tried in federal criminal court was found guilty on a single conspiracy charge Wednesday but cleared on 284 other counts. The outcome, a surprise, seriously undermines – and could doom – the Obama administration’s plans to put other Guantanamo detainees on trial […]

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Considering what Democrats are focusing on in their first week back after an election where Americans sent a clear message on their priorities with the economy and spending, it appears Democrats are still not getting it. The very first vote scheduled by Senate Democrats today was on a bill which Sen. Mike Enzi, the ranking […]

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The “Big Sis”/TSA groping scandal is starting to reverberate around the country. Here’s an excerpt of a constituent email recently sent to Rep. Clay: “Touching another without explicit consent is illegal and is not a condition in my ticket contract with the airlines. If this is not addressed ASAP, I will be encouraged to work […]

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  “Jim Clyburn is being given the latitude to make this into what he wants it to be. There were no lines drawn for trespassing.…This is not a black position, this is not like, the director of black people.”“ —Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo Hat tip:laurenburke007 [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/wZGMG67W2tA” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]

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