Germany: Social democrats celebrate 150 years with cake
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hide captionAttorney General Eric Holder (right) recently expressed outrage at the treatment President Obama and he have received from conservatives. He stopped just short of saying it was race-related, leaving that for the African-American audience at the recent National Action Network convention to decide.
Attorney General Eric Holder (right) recently expressed outrage at the treatment President Obama and he have received from conservatives. He stopped just short of saying it was race-related, leaving that for the African-American audience at the recent National Action Network convention to decide.
Few mixtures in American life are more emotionally combustible than the one formed by the combination of politics and race.
That helps explain why Democrats, in general, and President Obama, in particular, have tended to steer clear of overtly raising race as an issue to explain some of the opposition to Obama's presidency and agenda.
There seems to be a shift in recent days, however.
Top Democratic party officials have either directly or indirectly blamed race for some of the hostility to Obama, his policies, or both.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader from California, and New York Rep. Steve Israel, who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, both cited racism, pure and simple, among some Republicans as explanations for the House GOP's resistance to legislation that would comprehensively overhaul the nation's immigration laws.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Eric Holder took a slightly subtler approach. Speaking to the National Action Network, the largely African-American civil rights group founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton, Holder suggested some Republicans had a racial animus toward the president and himself.
"The last five years have been defined by significant strides and by lasting reforms even in the face, even in the face of unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly and divisive adversity," Holder said.
"If you don't believe that, you look at the way forget about me, forget about me you look at the way the attorney general of the United States was treated yesterday by a House committee. It had nothing to do with me, forget about that. What attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment? What president has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?"
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Democrats Israel, Holder, Obama look to push Racism as Election 2014 nears
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Rep. Price: Obama, Democrats #39;refused to compromise #39;
Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., blames Democrats for possible government shutdown, says they refused to compromise on anything. More from CNN at.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Most of Illinois 860 school districts would see cuts in funding if the states temporary tax increase is rolled back as scheduled, according to a document being circulated as part of Illinois Democrats campaign to preserve the tax hike and push to update the states school funding formula.
The document, released by the caucus this week, cites what would be a total of $450 million in general state aid cuts to schools. But a few schools, mainly in Chicago suburbs, would actually receive more money despite the states drop in revenues, because the complicated, 20-year-old funding formula would consider them poorer.
Republicans quickly disputed the figures. They said the Democrats are exaggerating the extent of the cuts needed and could manage the states finances better by finding savings elsewhere.
Senate Democrats estimate Illinois will have a $3 billion budget gap next year. About $1.6 billion of that is because the temporary income tax increase lawmakers approved in 2011 is scheduled to be rolled back in January from its current 5 percent to 3.75 percent.
Working with the Gov. Pat Quinns office, which also is supportive of keeping the tax increase in place, Senate Democrats asked agency leaders in recent weeks to spell out for lawmakers what 20 percent decreases in discretionary spending would mean for their budgets.
State Superintendent of Education Christopher Koch told Senate appropriators in late March that budget cuts would mean $967 less for education overall.
The Senate Democrats document, compiled by the state board and released by the caucus Thursday, reveals for the first time the impact to specific districts around the state in terms of general state aid, the state money used to offset the basic cost of educating students.
State Sen. Dan Kotowski, a Park Ridge Democrat and appropriations committee chairman, said detailing the impact of the cuts is essential.
I think its going to be very devastating to students, to families and people who educate, he said.
But Republicans say before cutting school aid, Democrats should look for way to reduce wasteful spending in Medicaid or other state agencies and programs.
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