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Mark Levin Says Republicans Broke Laws To Empower The Party, CPAC 2014
February 6, 2014.. CPAC 2014 and Mark Levin admits he knows the Republican Party broke laws in order to empower the establishment at the RNC in Tampa Bay 2012.
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The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics: Democrats Republicans Explained (1991)
A wedge issue is a social issue, often of a divisive or controversial nature, which splits apart a population or political group. Wedge issues can be adverti...
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It has become a truism that House Republicans have voted dozens and dozens of times -- at least 50 in all -- to repeal Obamacare. "They have been obsessed with repealing the Affordable Care Act," President Obama told a Democratic National Committee meeting in Washington last month. "You know what they say: 50th time is the charm. Maybe when you hit your 50th repeal vote, you will win a prize. Maybe if you buy 50 repeal votes, you get one free. We get it."
For more than a year, Democrats and their advocates in the press have been ridiculing the GOP's anti-Obamacare efforts. "The House Republicans have voted more than 30 times to repeal Obamacare," White House press secretary Jay Carney said in March 2013. "The House has wasted weeks voting more than 40 times to repeal Obamacare," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in October of last year. "If at first you don't succeed, try 50 times -- Republicans [are] holding a 50th vote to repeal Obamacare," MSNBC's Al Sharpton said last week. Many others have said similar things.
The only problem is, the truism isn't true. The House has actually voted to repeal Obamacare in its entirety six times. Certainly Democrats think that is six too many. But it is not 50, or even close to 50. The rest of the votes -- there have actually been 54 so far -- were votes that ranged from defunding measures that would have crippled Obamacare to delaying measures that would have put off some of the very same provisions in the law that President Obama has delayed unilaterally, to measures fixing portions of the law that passed both houses of Congress with bipartisan support and were signed by the president.
The basic story is that House Republicans have voted for repeal at a few key moments since Obamacare was signed into law, and also as part of the yearly budget process. "It's six times if you count the budget," says one House GOP source in an email. "First time was when we first took the House majority, once after the Supreme Court decision, and once this Congress. And then the budget ever year."
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No, House Republicans haven't voted 50 times to repeal Obamacare
Dealing with Progressives
This is how you deal with progressives.
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Serbias Progressive Party pledged to form a new government by May 1 after winning an outright parliamentary majority in an election on a pledge to fight graft, fix the economy and join the European Union by 2020.
The party, led by Aleksandar Vucic, who forced the ballot two years earlier than scheduled, won 48.3 percent, more than polls predicted, Serbias Election Commission said today. Vucic will get 158 of the chambers 250 seats, while Prime Minister Ivica Dacics Socialist Party received 13.5 percent, for 44 seats, according to preliminary results. Vucic said he will consult with President Tomislav Nikolic and three other parties that made it into parliament.
Vucic, who was once an ally of late Balkan strongman Slobodan Milosevic, pledged to embrace painful austerity measures endorsed by the International Monetary Fund and lead Serbia into the EU two decades after the bloody Balkan civil wars. He said he will extend a hand to other parties before forming his administration.
There is no time to wait, Vucic told state TV broadcaster RTS. Changes are to be expected both among people from his own party as well as among some coalition partners, if there will be any.
The yield on Serbias 2021 dollar bond fell 13 basis points, or 0.13 percentage point, to 5.46 percent at 12:15 p.m. today in Belgrade, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The main index of 15 most actively traded stocks, Belex15, dropped 0.13 percent to 568.93 points, while the dinar was unchanged at 115.9515 per euro.
Five more parties, including three representing ethnic minorities, crossed the minimum vote threshold to make it into parliament. Final official results will be announced by March 20, according to the Election Commission.
Vucic is counting on billions of dollars of investment from the United Arab Emirates to create jobs in an economy where one in four is unemployed. EU accession also promises to raise living standards and economic output per capita, which at 36 percent of the trading blocs average, trails that of poorest member Bulgaria, according to Eurostat.
The election victory gives the Progressives the strongest lock on power by a single party since the communist days. Nikolic and central bank Governor Jorgovanka Tabakovic are senior members of the Progressives.
Forming a new government quickly will be an important sign for markets as parliament needs to ratify the loan agreement with the U.A.E., Timothy Ash, a London-based economist for emerging markets at Standard Bank Group Ltd., said by e-mail today. Renewing a coalition with the Socialists could raise questions over the commitment to maintain key reforms while delays in clinching a new IMF deal would also be negative.
Vucics critics fear a tendency to wield a powerful hand over institutions may give him too much influence in a country that has received criticism from the EU for weak rule of law and selective justice.
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