Republicans #39; Obamacare betrayal
In the Spring of 2014, two Georgia state representatives fought to fully stop (or "nullify") Obamacare. Their biggest obstacle? Fellow Republicans. The vote: http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/en...
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A campaign leaflet at a Georgia rally.
WASHINGTON Republicans in Georgia are fighting to the finish in one of the most crowded and competitive Senate primaries in the country.
The race along with primaries in five other states on Tuesday -- will, like many others this election season, test the staying power of the Tea Party movement. And they will set the stage for what is expected to be a grueling midterm fight where Republicans are determined to flip the Senate.
A total of seven candidates are running in the GOP primary for an open seat in Georgia left by retiring Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss.
Among the candidates is millionaire businessman David Perdue -- the cousin of former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue -- and Rep. Jack Kingston, 22-year veteran of Congress.
Kingston and Perdue have been leading the polls,with former secretary of state Karen Handel following close behind.
Others in the packed race include Rep. Phil Gingrey and Rep. Paul Broun the outspoken physician who nabbed national headlines for calling evolution and the Big Bang Theory lies straight from the pit of hell.
A runoff is considered likely. If none of the candidates in Tuesdays race receives more than 50 percent of the vote, the top two will head to a July 22 runoff. The winner will then take on the Democratic rival in Novembers elections.
A May 14 Insider Advantage/Fox 5 Atlanta/Morris News Service poll has Perdue leading the pack with 27 percent of the vote. Kingston comes in at 19 percent, followed by Handel at 17 percent.
Of the top three, Handel is perhaps closest with the Tea Party movement, and has been endorsed by Tea Party Express. Tea Party-backed Ben Sasse won in last week's Nebraska GOP Senate primary, one of the few primary victories the movement has claimed so far this year.
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Washington (CNN) -- Republicans call it a government cover-up similar to what forced Richard Nixon to resign. Democrats call it a right-wing conspiracy theory.
The fallout from the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans continues more than 19 months later, with further details last week that raised questions about how the Obama administration responded to the violence less than two months before the President's re-election.
Few issues reveal the hyper-partisan politics of Washington more than the ongoing debate over an issue now known simply as Benghazi.
Last Friday, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa announced that he had subpoenaed Secretary of State John Kerry to testify at a May 21 hearing, alleging that the State Department failed to comply with an earlier subpoena for documents.
House Speaker John Boehner followed up by announcing a special congressional committee led by a Republican colleague would investigate the matter. The House voted on party lines Thursday to create the panel, but Democrats have yet to decide if they will take part in what they claim could be a Republican-led witch hunt.
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Issa called the administration's lack of compliance "in violation of any reasonable transparency or historic precedent at least since Richard Milhous Nixon."
At the White House, spokesman Jay Carney shot back that Republicans continued trying to reap political benefit with what he called conspiracy theories about a Benghazi cover-up.
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Cover-up or right-wing conspiracy?
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Washington (CNN) -- Establishment Republicans, backed by business-friendly outside groups, launched a counter-offensive this year against conservative Senate challengers after two election cycles of hard-right candidates winning GOP primaries but losing in November.
Republicans need to flip six seats this year to win back the majority and don't want the same scenario to play out again. The tea party's scorecard this year is far different than in 2010 and 2012, when it knocked off several establishment-backed candidates.
Short-lived tea party victories
It's too early to say if the party's over, but as Stuart Rothenberg of the non-partisan Rothenberg Political Report wrote earlier this month, "it's already clear that the pragmatist conservatives have stopped the anti-establishment's electoral momentum."
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March 4
Firebrand Republican Rep. Steve Stockman launched a last-minute bid against Texas Sen. John Cornyn, but he never seriously challenged the incumbent. Cornyn won by more than 40 points.
May 6
North Carolina state House Speaker Thom Tillis won big against his top two conservative opponents, winning enough of the vote in the primary to avoid a costly runoff that would have delayed his general election face-off against Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan, one of the nation's most vulnerable incumbents.
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Is the (tea) party over?