Political reporters are curiously enthralled by how frequently “Republicans pounce” on stories that could imperil Democratic electoral prospects. “Gasoline prices are on the rise, and Republicans are licking their chops,” read the lead in a 2012 Politico report on the Republicans who “pounce” on skyrocketing prices at the pump.
When political reporters are compelled by necessity to report on subjects that cast liberals in a negative light, nothing is more welcome than a reaction quote from a Republican. If a Democrat or a progressive interest group finds itself in the dock, the press can always count on Republicans to rescue liberals from due opprobrium by virtue of their very existence. -Noah Rothman
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Sensing a moment of political vulnerability on national security, Republicans pounced Friday on disclosures that President Barack Obama's administration could have known early on that militants, not angry protesters, launched the attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya.
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Republicans bent on disrupting US President Barack Obama's run-in to his big convention speech pounced after the president gave himself only a grade of "incomplete" on fixing the economy... Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan quickly took Mr Obama to task over the remark... The Republican assault came on the heels of another stumble by the Obama team at the weekend... Mr Ryan was again the antagonist when he compared Obama on Monday to former Democratic president Jimmy Carter
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Republicans were quick to pounce on the decision. Mitt Romney accused Obama of pandering to his political base... Newt Gingrich sufficed with calling the decision "a stunningly stupid thing to do." The strongest reaction came from the Republican controlled House of Representatives. Speaker John Boehner accused Obama of "destroying tens of thousands of American jobs and shipping American energy security to the Chinese.
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Republican presidential hopefuls assailed President Barack Obama’s handling of the economy in their first major debate of the campaign season, seizing on an issue they hope will open a path to the White House... The seven Republican candidates ganged up on Obama...
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Congressional Republicans pounced gleefully on Vice President Al Gore's claim that he was the impetus behind the Internet, accusing the Democrat of rewriting history.
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Congressional Republicans and officials from the for-profit college industry have excoriated President Obama’s executive order meant to provide more college information to military veterans...
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The Obama administration admitted yesterday it sent the wrong tax information to some 800,000 Healthcare.gov customers — yet another embarrassing setback for Obamacare that could give the GOP more ammo to derail the controversial health-care law.
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Mayor Duffy has a number of downtown development projects that
are still up in the air, something state Republicans are already pouncing on.
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As reporters have turned their attention to reporting (here, here and here, for example) on people who have been receiving notices that their current health insurance policies are being phased out because they aren’t compliant with President Barack Obama’s new health law, Republicans pounced on the issue Tuesday.
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A seven-minute video from Obama (watch above) was posted on Monday ahead of his first re-election rallies this weekend but was immediately pounced on by Republicans who used the hashtag #Forward to score political points.
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The House Majority Whip had a loaded question for the director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday.
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U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill’s campaign was acting swiftly late Tuesday in an effort to tamp down the latest Republican attack against the business dealings of her husband, Joseph Shepard. The new target is the $39 million in federal rent subsidies... In 2004, Republican attacks against Shepard’s nursing-home interests in the final weeks of the campaign contributed to McCaskill’s defeat for governor.
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It took almost no time at all for Republican National Committee research director Joe Pounder to get the CNN clip online and within minutes, the RNC launched a promoted tweet by RNC chairman Reince Priebus... Use of the #doingfine hashtag exploded right after the speech, as Twitter has become an accelerant to fuel the fire resulting from political missteps.
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GOP critics just got a fresh round of ammunition to use against President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Republican leaders and presidential hopefuls seized on revelations Wednesday that Iran would conduct some of its own nuclear inspections, criticizing the Obama administration for a “sham” verification program...
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) fumed that “international inspections should be done by international inspectors. Period.” And Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) raised fears of an attack on U.S. soil if Iran conducts its own nuclear oversight... Jeb Bush blasted the Iranian nuclear deal as a “farce”...
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Republicans in Congress were quick to pounce on President Obama and his economic policies after the release of the latest employment numbers showing 663,000 more people dropped out of the labor force.
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Congressional Republicans are renewing their attack against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, and its director Richard Cordray, and Democrats are stepping up to defend the agency and its chief.
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Republicans presidential contenders blasted Hillary Rodham Clinton's use of a private email server Sunday ahead of a possible showdown... Businessman Donald Trump, the flamboyant presidential candidate who has been topping Republican primary polls, piled on with his trademark candor...
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Sensing a moment of political vulnerability on national security, Republicans pounced Friday on disclosures that President Barack Obama’s administration could have known early on that militants, not angry protesters, launched the attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya... Paul Ryan, the Republican vice presidential nominee, led Friday’s charge.... Ryan was teeing up the issue for Monday’s presidential debate on foreign policy.
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The Obama administration admitted yesterday it sent the wrong tax information to some 800,000 Healthcare.gov customers — yet another embarrassing setback for Obamacare that could give the GOP more ammo to derail the controversial health-care law.
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The nation's jobless rate may have fallen to its lowest point in more than five years, but top Republican party officials are not pleased.
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Opponents of Gov. John Kitzhaber were quick to paint the Democratic incumbent as out of touch and incompetent Thursday following the release of an investigation into the mishandled Cover Oregon project.
The Republican Governors Association blasted out an email tying Kitzhaber to President Barack Obama’s health care plan, calling it “Oregon’s nightmare.” And the Republican front-runner in the gubernatorial primary, state Rep. Dennis Richardson, piled on.
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But the former first lady, who is considering a run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, provided ammunition to her Republican adversaries with her remarks in an ABC News interview, broadcast Monday and still getting extensive media attention Tuesday.
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The New York State Republican Committee on Monday plans to staunchly criticize Gov. Andrew Cuomo for taking a state delegation of business representatives and lawmakers to Cuba.
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Republicans immediately pounced on the president's seemingly off-the-cuff remark, which came after Mitt Romney's campaign had endured days of attacks over the GOP candidate's own unscripted comments at a secretly-recorded May fundraiser... As the “you can’t change Washington” line ricocheted around the Internet, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Preibus quickly seized upon it in a series of triumphant tweets.
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Republicans reacted downright gleefully today to President Obama's gift-wrapped campaign ad last night on Al Sharpton's MSNBC show... House Speaker John Boehner used the President's words to hammer home his message that Senate Democrats have stood in the way of House GOP job bills.
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Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., denounced her Democratic colleagues Tuesday for what she calls a "misrepresentations" of a recent Supreme Court rulingthat closely-held companies like Hobby Lobby don't have to follow the Obamacare mandate requiring large firms to help pay for their employees' birth control.
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But Republicans were quick to argue her primary argument for returning to the Senate has now been demolished and that the outcome could further boost Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)... Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus piled on.
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No sooner had President Obama left for a 10-day vacation to Martha’s Vineyard on Thursday night than Republicans began a fresh series of attacks on his handling of the economy, including a new website mocking him for vacationing while the economy worsens.
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Republicans are seizing on a new report in which the Obama administration itself concludes that the President's signature health care law would raise premiums for roughly two-thirds of small companies.
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Republican wasted no time Monday after finding out the state department will release thousands of pages of emails, some of which contain sensitive information.
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush piled on, claiming that North Korea’s apparent aggressive tactics are an “example of a withdrawn America in the world.”
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House Republicans, responding to new details of the Obama administration’s plan to allow some young illegal immigrants to apply for work permits and stay temporarily, charged that it could create delays for legal immigrants trying to enter the United States.
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President Obama sees his new global-warming regulations as a cornerstone of his legacy. Republicans see them as fresh political ammunition.
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Republicans have pounced on the news that 150 emails that Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential contender, sent or received on a personal email account while secretary of state contained classified information.
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Republicans sharply criticized the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday for causing a major wastewater spill at the abandoned Gold King Mine near Silverton last month.
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Telling an ABC News Debate audience at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire Dec. 19 that the war with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is “finally where we need to be,” Republicans pounced all over her on Sunday morning talks shows.
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Former Gov. Charlie Crist announced Friday night he supports ending the American embargo with communist Cuba. Republicans quickly pounced on Crist for switching his position on the issue.
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Obama is now facing sharp criticism from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and other GOP figures following comments he made Monday... Republicans Pounce On Obama's Remarks Within hours of Obama's remark, the Republican National Committee released a video.
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Republicans hoping to loosen the Democratic party’s tight grip on state government quickly pounced on guilty verdicts against three former state probation officials, saying the case pointed to the consequences of one-party domination in Massachusetts.
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Steven Miller, who is being forced out as acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, told House lawmakers today that the IRS has learned from its mistakes while denying that it had targeted nonprofit groups for review because of their political views... Lawmakers peppered Miller with questions, demanding that he explain why he didn’t inform Congress once he learned in May 2012 about what had happened. Republicans expressed frustration with Miller’s answers, at times interrupting him.
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House Republicans, responding to new details of the Obama administration’s plan to allow some young illegal immigrants to apply for work permits and stay temporarily, charged that it could create delays for legal immigrants trying to enter the United States.
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U.S. and European officials noted that Kerry and Fabius spoke later in the afternoon to clear away confusion about the comments. Republicans in Congress, meanwhile, accused the Obama administration of going behind the Senate's back.
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Fitzgibbon understandably deleted the tweet, so it's no longer in his feed. But recently elected state Republican Chairwoman Susan Hutchison preserved the tweet and used it as an opportunity to fundraise.
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Republicans on Wednesday criticized President Obama’s campaign manager for sending a Twitter post that they said was insulting to Hispanics... Republicans quickly pounced, accusing him of insensitivity.
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Although Sittenfeld didn’t reference his age in his announcement, Republicans were quick to use it against him.... He added that the potshots about his age actually help his case.
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Vice President Biden said Tuesday that the middle class has been "buried the last four years" -- a practically gift-wrapped gaffe that Republicans immediately grabbed to hammer President Obama on the eve of the first presidential debate... Both the Romney campaign and The Republican National Committee got to work blasting out a clip of the comment Tuesday afternoon... But Republicans used the remark to hammer home claims that Obama's economic policies have hurt the middle class...
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Colorado GOP Party Chair Ryan Call also blasted Pace’s record on spending and taxes, saying that Pace has a “clear and consistent record of reckless spending and raising taxes on hard-working Colorado families and small businesses.
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Republicans wasted no time today pouncing on President Barack Obama’s pronouncement that the private sector is “doing fine,” ridiculing him as being out of touch with reality... Later in the afternoon, with Republicans hammering him over the comment, Obama clarified his remarks in the Oval Office... Meanwhile, Boehner also slammed the administration over allegations that the White House colluded with the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America to push for passage of Obama’s signature health care reform law.
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The race intensified on Monday between Republicans trying to discredit President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law and officials trying to repair the flawed website crucial to the success of his policy reform.
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In an interview with The Hill posted online today, independent U.S. Senate candidate Larry Pressler said he would be a "friend of Obama" if elected... But Republicans, sensing an opening in a state where Obama is unpopular, pounced.
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Washington - Republicans seized on an apparent gaffe by Joe Biden in which the United States vice-president remarked on Tuesday that the country's middle class had "been buried in the last four years".