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Nationally, the Knights have advocated for laws barring gay marriage, euthanasia, and abortion. The Knights have also opposed an immigration reform measure that would make it a criminal offense to provide humanitarian aid to undocumented aliens...
...resident tutor in PfoHo, was one of those kids who didn’t trek out to weekly Dems’ meetings when he was a Harvard undergrad. Instead, he was involved in the politics of the campus, working for the Undergraduate Council and advocating for an undergraduate curriculum reform. The immediate issues that were prevalent and close to home were the ones that occupied his mind. Now, though, Rahn is working full time for the political action committee that he started, ActBlue.com, an online fundraising website for the Democratic Party. He says that as he saw the political situation...
...respect. He preaches to the party choir (literally in some cases) on issues like God, guns and gays. He has advocated for - and won - a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. He has kept taxes low, attracted record numbers of new jobs to the state, and rammed through tort reform. In September, the conservative Cato Institute ranked him as No. 2 governor in the nation on fiscal responsibility - "a better governor," they said, than Bush...
...Child Left Behind education legislation. Other issues for which they argue they could get some kind of bipartisan traction include moving toward energy independence, lowering health-care costs and measures to fight terrorism. Bush's advisers even talk of enlisting Democrats for some grand push for entitlement reform, although anything like Bush's disastrous effort to add private accounts to Social Security would seem out of the question, given his inability to get anywhere even with a Republican Congress...
...closest thing to an immigration policy to come out of House Republicans was a 700-mile "virtual fence" along the border--a politically expedient idea that, enacted on its own, leaves Bush with less to horse-trade in his efforts to get what he really wants, which is serious reform. With that in mind, White House officials resisted holding a signing ceremony on the fence bill. But House Republican leaders were so insistent that the White House finally agreed to a low-key event in the Roosevelt Room with just six minutes of presidential remarks...