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03.16.11 | 8:45 am
Storm on the Right?

After yesterday’s vote, Speaker Boehner hints that he may have to make a deal with Dems on spending. That’s not likely to go over well with his new members from the Tea Party right.

03.16.11 | 6:48 am
Scanlon: Lemme Keep the Money

Jack Abramoff’s partner in crime Michael Scanlon is asking the judge who sentenced him for permission to hold on to the millions he made defrauding those Indian tribes.

03.16.11 | 6:29 am
Scene Shifts From Madison To DC

Protest planned at Haley Barbour’s old lobby shop in DC today to greet the arrival of top Republicans from Wisconsin in town for a high-dollar fundraiser in their honor.

03.16.11 | 4:55 am
Saved By Sharia?

CIA contractor Raymond Davis has been acquitted and released in Pakistan for the shooting deaths of two men in Lahore — after blood money was paid to the victims’ families.

03.16.11 | 4:49 am
The Time Is Now

That tea party v. Republican establishment confrontation we’ve been anticipating since the November elections? It looks to be upon us in stark terms, as Speaker Boehner either has to compromise with the Democrats to get a budget passed or take his party down the road to a government shutdown. Brian Beutler explains.

03.15.11 | 7:28 pm
Still Pretty Weird

Wisconsin senate Republicans back off plan to strip Democrats of right to vote in committee proceedings.

03.15.11 | 2:45 pm
Reince Steele?

I think that the RNC figured they were through with weird media goofs from the chairman when they canned Michael Steele. But here’s Reince Priebus tweeting that President Obama’s ignoring world crises to focus on NCAA March Madness.

03.15.11 | 2:14 pm
That’s Their Emergency?

House Republicans have called for an emergency meeting to discuss … NPR.

03.15.11 | 12:41 pm
Senator, You’re No Jack Kennedy

Santorum attacks JFK as “radical” for saying he believed in the separation of church and state during the 1960 presidential campaign.

03.15.11 | 11:47 am
Upping The Ante

House Republicans now going after NPR funding harder than ever.