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Republicans weren't happy that majority Democrats in the state Legislature opted for a special session this week to try to come up with a new tax package to balance an operating budget that's $2.8 billion out of whack....

topics: democrats, republicans

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According to the Seattle Times editorial board, Democrats are bad people:THE priority of the majority Democrats in Olympia has not been economic recovery. If it were, the Legislature would not be leaning on the taxpayer for nine-tenths of a billion d...

topics: conservative, democrats, government, politics, republican

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Democrats want anything that can be legitimately called historic heath care reform so badly they can taste it. It is just a problem of definition of what constitutes reform. Right now it is the Senate version of Obamacare but solid......

topics: democrats, senate

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Eleven Republican state senators filed a bill yesterday, SB 6883, that would bar legislators from collecting a per diem during the coming special session, which I suppose might be taken as a serious attempt to protect the interests of taxpayers, if n...

topics: committee, democrats, elected, political, republican

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Rep. Eric Massa, D-NY, who just resigned yesterday amidst charges of sexual harassment, and who went insane on a New York radio station over the weekend, is supposed to appear on the Glenn Beck cable television show today. Some righties think this wi...

topics: committee, conservative, democrat, democrats, political

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Rep. Brian Baird went on CNN's State of the Union yesterday and told Democrats something they didn't want to hear. Just because the Washington state Congressman isn't running for reelecti......

topics: congressman, democrats, health-care

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Joni Balter, last January:Eyman is yesterday, 1990s, early millennial with government as the boogeyman.Tim Eyman, yesterday, 10:44am: Democrats' State Income Tax Talk is Meant to Manipulate You. Don't Buy It Is this a serious effort to get [the tax]?...

topics: democrats, government, obama

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Total manipulation. Democrats in Olympia have done it for years. Here's their scheme: propose lots of tax and fee increases, tons of them, then float a state income tax bill, get everyone fired up, then pull back, drop the income......

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In a probable preview of interrupted dinners and kiddie bedtimes this year, the good folks at the NRCC have unleashed a last-ditch effort to stop health reform with that most hated of intrusive tactics, the robo-call, including down here in WA-03. Th...

topics: campaign, candidate, committee, congress, congressman

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A debate that many Democrats and Republicans in Olympia hoped to avoid began in earnest Thursday as lawmakers discussed asking voters to approve an income tax for the richest Washingtonians. Republicans fear that such an incremental step could eventu...

topics: democrats, political, republicans