Tag: Moderate

MoveOn: Moderate Senate Dems Are Completely Missing the Moment

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WASHINGTON – In response to news that some congressional Democrats are signaling their willingness to back away from protecting ACA subsidies to make a deal with Republicans and the Trump administration to end the government shutdown, MoveOn Political Action Executive Director Katie Bethell released the following statement: “Moderate Senate Democrats who are looking for an offramp right now are completely missing the moment if, on the heels of last night’s election landslide, they are entertaining the idea of capitulating to Trump and the Republicans in the fight to protect Americans’ health…

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Another Moderate Republican Opts Out

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Ideally, this interview would have been over breakfast at a diner in Omaha, and the local congressman, Don Bacon, would have ordered his namesake. He says he eats bacon two or three times a week when he’s in Nebraska; he likes it extra crispy and, if possible, prepared at home. “If you ask me for my favorite bacon, it’s Angie Bacon,” he told me this week, referring to his wife of 41 years. (Sadly, the congressman and I were speaking not over breakfast but by phone.) Angie enjoys having her…

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‘We Used to Be Called Moderate. We Are Not Moderate.’

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Early this summer, the federal government will, in all likelihood, exhaust the “extraordinary measures” it is now employing to keep paying the nation’s bills. As the country careens toward that fiscal abyss, Congress will face a now-familiar stalemate: Republicans will refuse to raise the debt ceiling unless Democrats agree to cut spending. Democrats will balk. Markets will slide—perhaps precipitously—and the economy will swiftly turn south. When that moment arrives, the most important people in Washington won’t be those who work in the White House, or even the party leaders who…

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Colin Powell’s death: The end of an era for moderate Republicans? – USA TODAY

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Colin Powell’s death: The end of an era for moderate Republicans?  USA TODAY What Colin Powell said about Barack Obama and Islamophobia  NPR Colin Powell: the man who might have been America’s first Black president  The Guardian Colin Powell was a longtime Republican. But he often criticized the party’s race problem  CNN CNN’s Chris Cillizza uses Colin Powell’s death to lecture Republicans  Fox News View Full Coverage on Google News “us republicans” – Google News

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