The Obama administration urged officers of the struggling solar company Solyndra to postpone announcing planned layoffs until after the November 2010 midterm elections, newly released e-mails show. Solyndra, the now-shuttered California company, had been a poster child of President Obama’s initiative to invest in clean energies and received the administration’s first energy loan of $535 million. But a year ago, in October 2010, the solar panel manufacturer was quickly running out of money and had warned the Energy Department it would need emergency cash to avoid having to shut down. Read full article > >

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Solyndra: Energy Dept. pushed firm to keep layoffs quiet until after midterms

Conservative lawmakers in dozens of states, energized by midterm electoral gains, are mounting aggressive campaigns to limit abortions.

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Lawmakers in Many States Pushing for Abortion Curbs

The Republicans won control of the House and picked up seats in the Senate in the midterm election on nebulous promises to slash spending and reduce the size of the federal government. House Speaker John Boehner has pledged to reduce spending to 2008 levels, as per the GOP’s campaign manifesto, known as the ” Pledge to America .” read more

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What Will The GOP Cut?

After victories in the midterm elections, resentment over spending, “caving” and leadership choices.

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Tea Party Activists Angry at G.O.P. Leaders

Bubba’s putting on his campaign hat again. After stumping tirelessly in the run-up to midterm elections, the 42nd president will head to Chicago to headline a public event for Rahm Emanuel in his mayoral bid. Emanuel, who served as a senior White House…

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Rahm Gets a Boost From Clinton

Republicans will fight to bolster the midterm gains they made at the polls in November, while Democrats will try to hold on to as much as they can.

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As Seats in Congress Shift, Redistricting Looms Large

After Democrats’ losses in the midterm elections, the soon-to-be jobless are turning to networking.

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Jobless Aides Comb the Democratic Market

Remember the 2010 midterm elections? It turns out they weren’t over: The final two House and governor midterm contests were called Wednesday, with Democrat Mark Dayton being declared the next governor of Minnesota and Long Island incumbent Democrat Tim…

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Final Midterm House, Gov Races Called

Are they there to govern, of just destroy? As Washington works through its “lame duck” session and prepares for next year’s new Congress, there are signs that the government-haters are preparing some serious hating on government itself. The country needs to get moving. But conservatives, rewarded in the midterms for a strategy of obstruction, are bent on stopping everything and turning back the clock. For two years they followed a strategy of blocking everything and blaming the President for not making people’s lives better. read more

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Dare Call It Sabotage?

As we approach crucial climate change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, the key question on many people’s minds is this: what nation or nations will have the courage to stand up to the United States, which still represents the key obstacle to a binding agreement on global warming? If it looked unlikely that the U.S. would reduce carbon emissions before, the recent midterm elections have made such a possibility seem even more remote: many incoming Republican legislators simply deny that global warming exists. read more

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Cancun Climate Summit: Time for a New Geopolitical Architecture

Support for Israel has long been one of issues that both sides of the aisle could agree on. But during the last round of midterm elections, Republicans repeatedly argued that the Obama White House had been tougher on Israel than previous…

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Can the GOP Actually Help Israel?

Fresh Republican support for the Israeli government after the U.S. midterm elections may be offset by Tea Party suspicion of foreign aid.

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G.O.P. and Tea Party Gains Are Mixed Blessing for Israel

So much for 2010 as the year of mutiny, when the American people rose up and said, “Enough! Throw the bums out!” As the dust finally clears after the midterm elections, and the bodies are hauled from the field of battle, guess what? It was all so predictable. The safest thing to be in 2010 was an incumbent. read more

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Alexander Cockburn | Time for a Real Mutiny

The drubbing of Obama and the Democrats in the midterm elections offers many lessons. There are obvious ones, such as confirmation of the old saying, “All politics are local.” While the polls were akin to a civil war slaughter with an electoral battlefield stained blue, the Democrats did manage to defeat some right-wing and Tea Party candidates on the two coasts even as virtually the entire South and large portions of the Midwest gave the Republicans a heavy boost. read more

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Shellacked: Liberals Are More Afraid of Mobilizing Their Own Base Than They Are of the Right

Less than a month after midterm elections brought a change in power in Congress, the White House and Republican leaders agree on one thing: changing the culture of earmarks.

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Earmarks in crosshairs of both parties