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Oct 10 2013
News
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew refuses to lay out priorities for post-debt spending
Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew refused to tell Congress on Thursday how he would prioritize spending obligations in the event the Treasury Department hits the 16.7 trillion debt limit, saying that he doesn't know what the legal framework would be for making those decisions.
Washington TimesAug 06 2017
News
Republican Shadow Campaign for 2020 Takes Shape as Trump Doubts Grow
Senators Tom Cotton and Ben Sasse have already been to Iowa this year, Gov. John Kasich is eyeing a return visit to New Hampshire, and Mike Pence’s schedule is so full of political events that Republicans joke that he is acting more like a second-term vice president hoping to clear the field than a No. 2 sworn in a little over six months ago.
New York Times (News)Oct 16 2014
Opinion
OPINION: For Republicans, saying no to Obama may be enough on Election Day
It sounds like the beginning of a joke: Two libertarians and a corporate lobbyist walk into a social hall . . .
On Wednesday, though, this very scenario happened in Ashland, Va. Three Republican politicians shared a stage, and one of these things was not like the others.
Dana MilbankJan 31 2014
News
MSNBC Is Very Sorry for Suggesting Conservatives Are Racist (Again)
Exactly one month after panelists on Melissa Harris-Perry's MSNBC show sparked a controversy by using a photo of Mitt Romney's African-American grandson as the inspiration for jokes about the Republican Party's alleged lack of diversity, the network is at it again.
Margaret HartmannJan 27 2022
Opinion
Justice Kamala Harris Will Never Happen
Close Twitter, turn off your TV, and suppress the palace whispering for a moment so that you might better understand a truth that obtains now, and for all time beyond: Vice President Kamala Harris is not going to be nominated for the United States Supreme Court. The idea is a joke, a reverie, a distraction. Harris has none of the qualifications for the job; she has none of the support she’d
National Review (News)Oct 19 2012
News
Obama, Romney roast each other at Alfred E. Smith Dinner
Two nights after one of the most contentious debates in modern presidential history, President Obama and Mitt Romney put aside their political differences on Thursday night to trade jokes and playfully roast each other.
Washington PostSep 04 2020
News
President Trump Visits Kenosha
This Abridge News topic aggregates four unique arguments on different sides of the debate. Here are the quick facts to get you started:
THE QUICK FACTS
On Tuesday, September 1st, President Trump visited Kenosha, WI to address unrest.Addressing the protests, Trump said, “These are not acts of peaceful protest but, really, domestic terror...” He criticized Abridge NewsOct 28 2019
News
Defiant Dave Chappelle
In the face of critics bent on suppression, he tells it as he sees it.
When Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special Sticks & Stones came out in August, the overwhelming response from critics was that it was offensive, unacceptable garbage.
Inkoo Kang of Slate declared that Chappelle’s “jokes make you wince.” Garrett Martin, in the online magazine Paste, maintained that the special
National Review (News)Jul 23 2018
News
Undaunted Democratic Centrists Ready to Fight Trump and Bernie at Same Time
The last two years of fire and fury have not been kind to allies of Third Way, the centrist Democratic think tank that preaches a middle-of-the-road strategy focused on winning over independent voters and wooing back former Barack Obama supporters who swung to Donald Trump in 2016. These days it’s almost impossible to avoid resigned jokes among friends of the group about just how out of favor
The IntelligencerOct 18 2013
News
Obamacare flunks: More enroll for Mars trip than for health exchange
The hits just keep on coming with Obamacare enrollee tales of disaster with the latest joke that more people have actually completed an online application to journey to Mars than successfully signed into the White Houses websites for health reform exchanges.
Washington Times