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Stupak: There's No Deal, And I Won't Agree to a Promise to Fix ... - — Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak said yesterday at a townhall in his home state, “I'm more optimistic than I was a week ago” that a deal could be reached to pass a health care bill that bans public funding of abortion. |
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Don't Embrace Eric Massa - — Sources say the investigation into Massa will be damning. — Reliable sources on Capitol Hill say the House ethics report on Eric Massa will be damning. Obamacare opponents, like Glenn Beck, might want to think twice before indulging Massa and letting … |
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3 days ago |
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Illinois Democrat Lipinski Will Switch from Yes to No if Health ... - — Add Congressman Dan Lipinski of Illinois to the coalition of pro-life Democrats standing firmly with Bart Stupak in the fight over taxpayer-funding of abortion in the health care bill. |
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4 days ago |
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The ACLU and Human Rights Watch Rally to Holder's Defense - — The American Civil Liberties Union has an amusing full-page ad in the New York Times today (p. 8 of the Week in Review section). It morphs a photo of their onetime favorite, Barack Obama into...George W. Bush! |
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4 days ago |
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Obama Talks, Syria Mocks - — The wages of appeasement. — The Obama administration has from the start seen Syria as a leading case for engagement. Barack Obama said so during his presidential campaign (announcing he would meet Bashar al Assad without preconditions) and repeated this policy view again last summer: |
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6 days ago |
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Rapper Jay-Z in the Situation Room - — The Situation Room in the White House was reserved for national security meetings in previous administrations. Apparently in the Obama administration it's used not only to map out campaign strategy, but for celebrity photo-ops as well: |
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8 days ago |
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Obama Now Selling Judgeships for Health Care Votes? - — Obama names brother of undecided House Dem to Appeals Court. — Tonight, Barack Obama will host ten House Democrats who voted against the health care bill in November at the White House; he's obviously trying to persuade them to switch their votes to yes. |
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10 days ago |
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Predators Over Pakistan - The U.S. drone campaign is effective--and legal. - — The U.S. drone campaign is effective—and legal. Why won't the Obama administration's lawyers defend it? — Targeting terrorists and militants with Predator drone strikes is one campaign promise President Obama has kept to the letter. |
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12 days ago |
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Fly Now, Pay Later - — Fiscal policy gone wild. — “Watch what we do, not what we say,” President Nixon's attorney general told the press. Unfortunately for both men, the press eventually did that, and we got the first of the “gates:” Watergate. The consequences for President Obama … |
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14 days ago |
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The Main Event: Ryan v. Obama - — On deficits and spending. — Rep. Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, just launched a full-bore assault on the faulty assumptions behind the claim that the Obama health care plan will reduce the deficit. Obama didn't even bother questioning Ryan's presentation. |
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