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deadlock in border wall fight as government shutdown looms

Republicans kicking around few ideas, and it's not clear they'd be enough to win the support of both Senate Democrats and Trump.. ... But Shelby would still have to scrounge up another $900 million to add to the billion that Democrats have already accepted. ..

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george h.w. bush was the last republican to win the presidency by a

Bush would go on to lose to Bill Clinton four years later during recession, and California and other states drifted out of contention for Republicans, shifting the advantage to Democrats.. ..

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In 1988, many Democrats assumed Bush would be easy pickings. He was the man 'born with a silver foot in his mouth,' as fellow Texan Ann Richards jibed at the Democrats' convention in Atlanta. ..

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The turnout helped Democrats seize all four statewide offices, ousting Walker and GOP Attorney General Brad Schimel along the way. . ..

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Some Democrats want to go even farther and make BadgerCare available to anyone who wants to apply, regardless of income. ..

george hw bush, former president, dies in houston tx

He did the same against the Democrats, asserting boldly at the Republican convention: “Read my lips. ... Alvin Felzenberg, a former Princeton University political scientist who served as an aide to Bush, said the “disjointed themes” of Bush’s 1988 campaign suggested that he was trying to..

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george h.w. bush, patriarch of storied texas political family, dies at

Senate in 1970; he lost to Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, who went on to hold the seat for 22 years. . ... He named Dan Quayle, an Arizona senator, as his running mate, and beat Democrat Michael Dukakis in that year’s presidential race. . ..

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george h.w. bush, a war hero and president, dies at 94

He enjoyed remarkable popularity — his public approval rating rose to 89 percent after the Gulf War, a level exceeded only by his son in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States — and he was such a commanding presence on the American political scene that many of the..

mises on fascism, democracy, and other questions

Advisor to Monsignor Seipel, the prelate who ran Austria in the late Twenties, Mises approved Dollfuss's crushing of labour and democracy in the Thirties, blaming the repression of 1934 which installed a clerical dictatorship on the folly of the Social Democrats in contesting his alliance with Italy...

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