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House votes to defund Planned Parenthood

Mike Pence’s amendment to defund Planned Parenthood passed 240-185 in the House. By DAVID NATHER & KATE NOCERA The House just approved Rep. Mike Pence’s amendment to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood, checking off a hot-button social issue even as it set up a bigger showdown over defunding the health care law. The vote [...]

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Pence for President?

By:  Katrina Trinko NRO No one has gone straight from the House to the White House since James Garfield. Mike Pence might be the one. He hasn’t held executive office. He isn’t a paid Fox News contributor. He hasn’t written a best-seller or starred in a reality show. So is there any reason Rep. Mike [...]

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CNN Polls; Romney and Huckabee Lead Obama; Palin and Gingrich Trail

Yes, it’s early, but here’s a new CNN poll of the GOP presidential field: According to the poll, 21 percent of Republicans say they would most likely support former Arkansas Gov. and 2008 GOP White House candidate Mike Huckabee for their party’s 2012 presidential nomination, with 20 percent saying they’d back former Massachusetts Gov. and [...]

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Pence Wins Straw Poll

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) won a surprise victory in the Family Research Council’s Values Voter presidential straw poll, narrowly edging out runner-up Mike Huckabee by 11 votes. Pence, the GOP’s Conference Chairman, won 24 percent of the vote, Huckabee 22 percent and Mitt Romney came in a more distant third, taking 13 percent of the [...]

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A Winning Slogan for a Winning Agenda

Repeal, and then real reform. BY:  Jeffrey H. Anderson Now that Rasmussen shows that, yes, Americans really do want Obamacare to be repealed, one hopes that Republicans will shelve their pessimism and advance this crucial and winning agenda with confidence. But now is also the time for the GOP to make sure that its slogan [...]

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Southern Republican Leadership Conference kicks off 2012 race

The eyes of the Republican political world will turn to New Orleans today as a cavalcade of GOP leaders, wanna-be leaders and national reporters will be in the Big Easy for the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. The event is widely being cast as the first “cattle call” of the 2012 Republican presidential primary fight although [...]

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Conservatives wrap up meeting, eye midterm elections

Washington (CNN) – Conservatives wrapped up a three-day meeting in the nation’s capital on Saturday and headed back home looking ahead to midterm elections they hope will be a springboard to take back the White House in 2012. More than 10,000 people attended the American Conservative Union’s Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering that [...]

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Rep. Mike Pence at #CPAC 2010

Rep. Mike Pence speaking at CPAC 2010 Download Full Speech Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Tell a friend

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CPAC: Romney Rallies The Volunteers

Well, Mr. Ambinder, you are in rare form this morning. It would be hard to top the world-class smarminess you have on display in your article. However, all condesencion aside, the bottom line is that there are 10,000 dedicated activists in attendence at CPAC and they are, to use a military expression, the tip of [...]

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Malicious Transparency?

We’ve heard the line, it would be on CSPAN.  When Scott Brown was driving his truck around Massachusetts, the Democrats were behind locked doors combining the House and Senate Health Care Bills.  When talk show hosts rolled out the audio of this video from breitbart.tv (see above), all it showed was Obama breaking another campaign promise. [...]

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