These pictures seem to confirm the worst kept secret in St. Louis politics. Rumors have been flying for weeks that Representatives Jamilah “Lil’ Niecey” Nasheed and Jeanette Mott Oxford have cut a clandestine deal to help Nasheed defeat 5th district senator Robin Wright Jones. The deal: Mott Oxford runs in the majority African American district [...]

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President Obama and Senate Democrats have decided that they’re going to use the week leading up to Tax Day to push yet another tax hike designed with politics in mind. The president is even flew to Florida to give a speech about. Last month, Democrats spent weeks demanding a tax increase on American energy producers, [...]

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President Obama’s preemptive criticism last week of the Supreme Court as it considers the constitutionality of his health care continues to face scrutiny. In a post Monday on its fact-checking blog, The Washington Post examines the arguments Obama made and finds them particularly misleading. The piece points out, “It’s clear that Obama’s ‘unprecedented’ comment was [...]

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the employment numbers for March today, but news reports suggest they’re disappointing. The Wall Street Journal writes, “U.S. job growth slowed in March, and the labor force shrank, signaling that the economy could be losing momentum. Jobs outside of agriculture grew by 120,000 last month—half the number that the [...]

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President Obama continues to take criticism for his preemptive attack on the Supreme Court on Monday, when he claimed that if the justices found his health care law to be unconstitutional it “would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.” AFP [...]

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The AP reports that President Obama is going to push his Buffet tax and attack the house-passed budget authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) later today at “a luncheon of 900 editors and publishers following The Associated Press’ annual meeting.” Senate Democrats want to vote on this tax hike when the Senate returns from recess. [...]

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