John Thune

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• Thune: "The correct approach"

  
  GOP 12 — Authority: 636
  SD Sen. John Thune reacts to expectations that Barack Obama will propose adding another 35K troops in Afghanistan."What hes trying to do in Afghanistan is the correct approach.When you say, This is the strategy, and (military leaders) say, This is what we need to do to succeed, then youve got to resource that ...
  1 day ago

• Thune: Stop TARP before more damage is done

  
  CNN Political Ticker — Authority: 833
  Thune: Stop TARP before more damage is done. (CNN) – For the federal government, this has been the year of spending dangerously. The danger lies not just in the staggering volume of money being thrown around by the administration and Democrat-controlled Congress. It lies as well in their choices about how ...
  5 days ago

• Health bill moves ahead on partyline vote

  
  Politically Speaking — Authority: 130
  The perceived wariness of a few U.S. Senate moderate Democrats on moving forward the health reform bill cobbled together by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid dissipated yesterday. All 58 Democrats and the two independents who typically vote with the majority party Dems held together and passed the bill (with an $858 ...
  6 days ago

• Napolitano For Amnesty

  
  Charlotte Conservative Blog — Authority: 128
  When the head of homeland security says that legalizing 15 million illegal aliens will be good for American workers, well you know shes a Democrat. In a nation of 10% unemployment the Obama team has decided that giving 15 million illegal aliens work papers will help the problem. This is the hope and change the race ...
  1 week ago

• Nelson targeted as Senate health vote nears

  
  Politically Speaking — Authority: 130
  An important vote on health care reform comes off tomorrow, when the U.S. Senate will undertake a procedural vote on the recently introduced Patient Protection and Affordability Act. It is not a vote to pass the bill out of the Senate, but to move full consideration of the bill in the chamber. There are 58 Democrats, ...
  1 week ago

• Thune invokes Bernie Madoff in slamming health care bill

  
  GOP 12 — Authority: 636
  SD Sen. John Thune hits Harry Reids health care bill today."In the words of the great Yogi Berra, ‘this is deja vu all over again’." They [Democrats] assume savings on the [Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act], which Sen. Conrad has described as a ponzi scheme of the first order…something that ...
  1 week ago

• Smoking ban will go before South Dakota voters

  
  Politically Speaking — Authority: 130
  The even-year November elections have been very interesting in South Dakota lately, and will be again in 2010. Word today is that the new state smoking ban will be referred to voters in November 2010 after bar and casino owner efforts to petition for a decision by voters proved successful. Earlier, the secretary of ...
  1 week ago

• Top Seven 2012 Republican Presidential Hopefuls

  
  Minor Ripper — Authority: 136
  A little over a year ago I wrote this post , on who at the time I thought were the top five contenders on the Republican side to take on Barack Obama in 2012 . Needless to say, quite a bit has happened in the subsequent year ( Mark Sanford , anyone?) and an update is long ...
  1 week ago

• Questioning Thune

  
  GOP 12 — Authority: 636
  Newsweeks The Gaggle isnt buying the John Thune 2012 buzz.While Thunes had a solid career in politics, including three terms in the House of Representatives, his biggest accomplishment was knocking off Daschle--a sizeable feat to be sure. But he did by a hair it in a state that voted decisively for Republicans in each ...
  1 week ago

• Will Geithner ‘Walk the Walk?’

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 434
  Do you have any confidence that Washington even knows how to properly address our massive and growing fiscal deficit? Rahm Emanuel, Tim Geithner and others understand that from a political standpoint they need to start talking about deficit control, but will that talk lead to action? Do you think Congressional ...
  1 week ago

• GOP Dark Horses for 2012

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  1. South Dakota Senator John Thune Like Mitt Romney, the Junior Senator from South Dakota is straight out of central casting for the role of president. Intelligent, articulate, handsome, with a winning smile and an easy going disposition - its hard to locate anything missing from the prototypical presidential check ...
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• If he wanted to?

  
  GOP 12 — Authority: 636
  In his new piece on John Thune, Chris Cillizza notes that the South Dakota Senator is well-aware that the cart can sometimes get ahead of the horse, and is focusing squarely on his Senate reelection campaign.That being the case -- hes taking the quiet steps youd have to take to run in 2012: proving himself a good ...
  1 week ago

• David Brooks: John Thune for president

  
  Hog House Blog — Authority: 407
  … or at least the GOP nomination. By Denise Ross The John Thune in 2012 movement has officially begun. In case there was any doubt before, New York Times columnist David Brooks (a personal fave here at the Hoghouse) essentially sanctioned Thune as the GOP’s Obama in a Friday column . (D)eep in the bowels of ...
  1 week ago

• David Brooks, John Thune, and the Death of GOP Reform-ism

  
  The New Republic - the stash Feed — Authority: 138
  I think David Brookss column  about John Thune on Friday tells us a lot about the debate over the GOPs future. Brooks, of course, has been a leading (and compelling) reformist voice for years now. Heres how he summarized the reform agenda in a column just after the 2008 election: The other camp, the ...
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• Why Thune needs $5.5 million

  
  GOP 12 — Authority: 636
  The AP takes a look at SD Sen. John Thunes reelection campaign -- the one for which he has no announced challenger and a $5.5 million war chest.The question: as a sure bet, why raise so much money?Thune said his campaign raised a lot of money for the current race to be prepared for whatever happens. Once a Democratic ...
  1 week ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  Bildungblog — Authority: 451
  John Thune, BoBos Beau [IMG: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sW65ilskOC8/Sv7XiOBiAOI/AAAAAAAAb3s/Z90jVzdwWzo/s400/JohnThunePortrait.jpg]
  2 weeks ago

• David Brooks and the Obama man-crush

  
  The Other McCain — Authority: 753
  David Brooks Friday column was a paean to Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) -- a dream vehicle for the "Anybody But Palin" Coalition? -- but there was something obtrusive, as Ryan Cole notes at The American Spectator : [A]s is the routine with everything Brooks pen produces these days, an otherwise coherent piece is ...
  2 weeks ago

• A search engine aside

  
  GOP 12 — Authority: 636
  David Brooks pens an article on John Thune."John Thune 2012" searches shoot up. Google it, and youll see how I know.
  2 weeks ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  The Private Intellectual — Authority: 123
  Flashback David Brooks sidelong paeans to Sen. Paul Bunyan McWindburns (R-Open Prairie) sexiness are funny enough, but they have no chance of joining the greatest political puff-piece Ive read in recent years: Rich Lowrys ought-to-be-legendary lathering of then-Sen. George Allen (R-Virginia). It is monumental. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Getting to Know Thune

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 151
  Wednesday, CNN.com posted a Sen.-John-Thune-on-the-rise piece by Dana Bash. Today, we are presented with David Brookss even more glowing " Meet John Thune " column in the NYT. Hmmm. Smells like somebody has a new PR push underway.
  2 weeks ago

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