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Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was elected as the 62nd House speaker Thursday.
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"It's the worst piece of legislation I've seen since I've been in Congress," said Paul.
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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I think the headline for me is the one for you. This is the most appalling performance by the moderators that I can remember seeing in a debate. They were overreaching, they were getting in the way. They were in the end obnoxious and I think what they did is they were able to set themselves up as the foils for the Republicans. So I think it actually strengthened the field and made them look better...
I don't think this is a corporate decision. I think the panelists were all flaming liberals. I don't know who it was who said none of you is going to be a voter in the Republican primary. And it showed. I mean this is just a bias. And also the lack of self-restraint, the arrogance, interrupting and it was also disorganized, it was not well done. But I thought Rubio was on the defensive and this is why he did so well... He knew he was going to be hit with that editorial and it came from Bush, who obviously had prepared it.
And I think Rubio came off that very strongly. He got the first applause from the audience as a result of that. And Christie I also thought was a guy who pivoted. The best question was unexpected, it was an obvious one, about fantasy football. It went to Bush. And he just showed he's a good man, he was a good governor but he ain't nimble. And he just fumbled around on the fantasy thing, 'well, it ought to be regulated but then again I don't think the feds ought to regulate it.' And Christie then came in and said, 'Wait a minute. We're talking about we've got all these troubles and ISIS, and the debt. That I thought, and what he did there, he came off attacking the big government idea. The second nemesis of conservatives is big media. And that is where Rubio scored and that is why I think he got the strongest response.
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FacebookTwitterGoogleEmailFrank Luntz says he’s never seen a line score as high as the answer Ted Cruz gave when he called out the CNBC moderators for their liberal bias. Not only did it scor…
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In what had to rank as the worst presidential debate in modern history, CNBC anchors berated, cut off, and skewed the words of Republican candidates over the course of two hours on Wednesday night. In spite of – and in the case of Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Chris Christie, among others, because of – that horrifically biased moderation, Republicans emerged looking better for wear. They needed to show they had elbows, and many of them did. Without further ado, here are the debate grades.
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(Also see: A new record ‘Pause’ length: Satellite Data: No global warming for 18 years 8 months! ) The head of a congressional committee on science has issued subpoenas to the Obama administration ...
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Germany's political stability and economic sway have until recently earned Chancellor Angela Merkel unprecedented global influence and power.
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"Debates in Turmoil" would have been an appropriate summary for tonight's free-for-all CNBC-sponsored screamfest in Boulder, Colorado. Argumentative moderators, mis-stated facts, time complaints, and general whining was everywhere but Trump still managed to come out the other side of this gauntlet unscathed. One major highlight included Santelli and Paul pushing 'Audit The Fed', calls for gold-backed currency,and exclaimed that The Fed "has been a great problem" in US society. However, what was odd was the apparent slights to Trump and Carson (questioned less directly) which resulted in an aberrantly low 'talking time' for the leading candidates; as Politico noted, the repeated bursts of anger and anarchy were prompted, in part, by questions from the moderators that veered, at times, beyond sharp into contentiousness.
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Rep. Paul Ryan Nominated GOP House Speaker Candidate, But Fails To Reach 218-Vote Threshold For Floor Vote
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In what was an exceptionally bad night for the liberal media and the debate moderators during Wednesday’s CNBC Republican presidential debate, Governor Chris Christie (N.J.) assailed co-moderator Carl Quintanilla for dedicating a line of questioning to whether daily fantasy football websites should face regulation by the federal government.
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Trump hit Kasich saying that his state got right off of fracking and not from his leadership and then launched an awesome attack on his resume. Kasich didn’t...
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Second Lady Jill Biden is more than three times more likely than Ben Carson to be called ‘Dr.’ by The New York Times.
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ep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) relentlessly questioned former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday over why she and other administration officials initial...
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WOW! Cruz knocked it out of the park! Great job, senator!
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The Simple Flat Tax “Imagine 4.9 million new jobs. Instead of Obama’s income stagnation, imagine average wages rising 12.2 percent over the next decade. Capital investment rising 43.9 percent. And every income-level seeing double-digit increases in after-tax income. Imagine exports and manufacturing jobs booming. Our trade deficit falling as the tax bias against American made goods is eliminated. Imagine a ?
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At the Republican debate hosted by CNBC in Boulder, Colorado Wednesday night, presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz lambasted the moderators, particularly John Harwood of The New York Times, and the media for their treatment and characterization of himself and his competitors.
"The questions asked in this debate illustrate why the American people don't trust the media," Cruz at Wednesday's Republican debate. "Everyone home tonight knows that the moderators have no intention of voting in a Republican primary."
Cruz later went tete-a-tete with Harwood, a CNBC contributor, for cutting him off and wanting to move on.
"Congressional Republicans, Democrats and the White House are about to strike a compromise that would raise the debt limit, prevent a government shutdown, and calm financial markets of the fear that a Washington crisis is on the way. Does your opposition to it show you're not the kind of problem-solver that American voters want?" CNBC anchor Carl Quintanilla asked the presidential candidate.
"Let me say something at the outset," the Senator from Texas said. "The questions asked in this debate illustrate why the American people don't trust the media."
"This is not a cage match. And you look at the questions -- Donald Trump, are you a comic book villain? Ben Carson, can you do math? John Kasich, will you insult two people over here? Marco Rubio, why don't you resign? Jeb Bush, why have your numbers fallen? How about talking about the substantive issues," Cruz said to commanding applause from the audience.
"Do we get credit for this one," Quintanilla asked Cruz?
"And Carl, I'm not finished yet. The contrast with the Democratic debate, where every thought and question from the media was, which of you is more handsome and why?" Cruz asked and then paused to cough.
"You have 30 seconds left to answer should you choose to do so," Quintanilla told the candidate.
"Let me be clear," Cruz said. "The men and women on this stage have more ideas, more experience, more common sense, than ever participant in the Democratic debate. That debate reflected a debate between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks."
"Nobody believes that the moderators have any intention of voting in a Republican primary," Cruz said.
"The questions being asked shouldn't be trying to get people to tear into each other, it should be what are your substantive solutions to people at home," Cruz said before getting cut off.
"I asked you about the debt limit and got no answer," Quintanilla said.
"You want an answer to that question?" Cruz asked. "I'd be happy to answer your question."
Cruz was interrupted this time by John Harwood who said "we're moving on."
"Senator Paul, I've got a question for you," Harwood said in his attempt to move on.
"So you don't actually want to hear the answer, John?" Cruz called out the anchor. "You don't want to hear the answer, you just want to incite insults."
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FacebookTwitterGoogleEmailSo far the most electrifying moment of the debate has been Ted Cruz taking his chance to rip into the media and absolutely destroy CNBC on their bias. Watch the amazingnes…
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NPR kept track of how long every candidate spoke during the third debate. Fiorina ended up with the most time.
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"I am deeply offended..."
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told Glenn Beck in an interview that aired Wednesday night he believes the last 15 months of President Barack Obama’s term will be akin to a scene from “Lord of the Flies.” “The only limit on bad actors is the limit of their own...
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Will ESPN go after an analyst who compared the tea party to the Islamic State the same way they went after Curt Schilling for his comments on Islam? ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption” co-host Tony Kornheiser spoke with Huffington Post editor Howard Fineman on ESPN 980 in Washington D.C. Friday about Paul Ryan’s quest to become ?
