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Post by Admin on Jul 28, 2015 20:22:39 GMT
At an anti-abortion rally on Capitol Hill, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) called on the Democratic presidential frontrunner to refund any donations from Planned Parenthood. "Hillary Clinton's hands are stained by accepting this money," said Paul, who says he has been guaranteed a vote to ban any taxpayer funding for the family planning group. (It currently receives funding that is prohibited from being used for abortion.) "She needs to immediately return every red cent she has received from Planned Parenthood employees." In a statement, Paul cited research from the Washington Free Beacon to back up his five-digit Clinton cash figure. In an interview, Paul said that he was doing exactly what Republicans had been subjected to for years. "She’s gotten over $10,000 in Planned Parenthood donations that we can find," Paul said. "My guess is that if you add up donations from people who are employed by Planned Parenthood, you'd find even more. The ones we found are prominent donors. This happens all the time on the right, where some unsavory organization gives money, and everyone says: Give it back. She ought to be asked whether she’s going to do that." Paul told The Washington Post yesterday that he had been assured a vote on his defunding bill. That would be a large step forward for the anti-abortion cause, which has seen the defunding provision stall in the House and kept out of must-pass bills. Still, Paul was not ready to predict that his bill would get the 60 votes required for cloture. "You have to look at victories where you can find them," he said. "Many people have been stymied from getting a vote; now they're energized and excited. Getting to 60 is hard, maybe a bar too high for us, but we’re going to try. If we get 54 Republicans and three or four Democrats, well, that's 58 votes. We can build on that."
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Post by Admin on Jul 29, 2015 20:28:45 GMT
President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he could win a third term in office if he ran again but that he is barred by the Constitution. "I actually think I'm a pretty good President. I think if I ran, I could win. But I can't," Obama ad-libbed during a speech in Ethiopia. "There's a lot that I'd like to do to keep America moving. But the law is the law, and no person is above the law, not even the president." Obama's remarks, which come on the same day that a new CNN/ORC poll found his approval rating standing in net-positive territory for the second month in a row, were made to the African Union in Addis Ababa. He is the first U.S. president to address the group, and was critiquing some African leaders' reluctance to turn over power. "Africa's democratic progress is also at risk when leaders refuse to step aside when their terms end. Now let me be honest with you -- I do not understand this," Obama said, going on to say that he is looking forward to life after the presidency.
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Post by Admin on Aug 2, 2015 20:29:22 GMT
Donald Trump’s campaign fired a staffer Sunday for what it said were racially offensive Facebook posts. “Effective immediately, Sam Nunberg, a low-level political adviser, is no longer associated with the Donald Trump For president campaign,” Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said in an interview. The firing, first reported by CNN, followed a report Friday by Business Insider that Nunberg had posted slurs and other offensive content on his private Facebook page in entries dating to 2007. In one post, Nunberg allegedly called the Rev. Al Sharpton’s daughter a “n-----.” In another, he allegedly called President Obama a "Socialist Marxist Islamo Fascist Nazi Appeaser" and mocked Obama's proposal for "Kenyan" health-care reform, Business Insider reported. The posts have apparently been removed, although Nunberg’s Facebook account remained active Sunday. Nunberg denied to CNN that he had written the posts, but Lewandowski said Sunday that “independent verification showed … they were on his account.” Trump “does not condone” the Facebook messages, Lewandowski said. “We have no tolerance for that in a presidential campaign,” the campaign manager said.
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Post by Admin on Oct 21, 2015 19:54:49 GMT
When Ted Cruz worked on George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, Bush affectionately gave Cruz the nickname of "Theodore" because the young Texan was so serious. Now, President Bush has reportedly referred to Cruz as a guy he doesn't like. Politico first reported Monday that President Bush told donors supporting his brother Jeb that Cruz gets under his skin and will be formidable competitor in Texas and the south. "I just don't like the guy," Bush told donors according to Politico. Bush also told donors that he found Cruz opportunistic in his pursuit of Trump voters, according to Politico. A rep for George W. Bush denied that the former president sees Cruz as strong competition for his brother.
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Post by Admin on Oct 22, 2015 19:47:16 GMT
Vice President Biden announced Wednesday afternoon that he had decided not to seek the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, ending months of speculation that he might roil the party’s race. “I have concluded that it has closed,” he said of the window to make another White House bid, speaking in a hastily called Rose Garden appearance with his wife, Jill Biden, and President Obama by his side. "Beau is our inspiration,” the vice president said of his eldest son, who died in May of brain cancer. “Unfortunately, I believe we are out of time — the time necessary to mount a campaign for the nomination.” Biden pointed to the impact of the grieving process on his presidential plans. “I know from previous experience that there’s no timetable for this process,” he said. “The process doesn’t respect or much care about things like filing deadlines or debates and primaries and caucuses.”
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