Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may be in “no rush” to complete the work that sends a finished healthcare reform bill to President Obama to sign into law, but a growing number of his colleagues disagree. Some lawmakers not only see an opportunity to enact health reform, but also a new chance to establish a [...]
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President Obama addressed the House GOP today on Live TV and it turned out to be “An Amazing Moment” in political and perhaps television history.
Accepting the invitation to speak at the House GOP retreat may turn out to be the smartest decision the White House has made in months. Debating a law professor is kind [...]
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The political right vociferously argues that much or most of the current agenda of the political left violates the intentions of the Founding Fathers, i.e. is unconstitutional. The claim being, in essence, that the genius displayed at the Convention in 1787 created a work product that was designed and intended to be a roadblock in [...]
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Coming off his first State of the Union address Wednesday, President Obama appears to be in better political shape with the American people than has been widely assumed.
Already anxious going into this year’s midterm elections, the fear of many Democrats grew as Obama poll numbers continued to slide. That worry exploded into near-panic earlier this [...]
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The following is the prepared text of President Obama’s State of the Union address, delivered Jan. 27, 2010, as released by the White House:
Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans:
Our Constitution declares that from time to time, the President shall give to Congress information about the state of our [...]
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And, if you look at the dollars spent on this campaign by both sides and the outcome, they roughly parallel in proportion. These days in Oregon, the $ spent is always roughly equal to the votes garnered. Cash politics. Yum.
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Air America, the liberal radio network, went down in flames, Jan. 21, when it filed for bankruptcy. It wasn’t because of air-to-air combat with conservative talk shows and bloggers. It wasn’t because of the Recession, although reduced advertising revenue, a reality of all media, also affected Air America. It wasn’t even demographics, even though older, [...]
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Eighty-two percent of them said they want a public option as part of the Democrats’ health care reform.
Yet they just helped elect a guy who opposes the public option and the Democrats’ health care reform.
They’re Obama voters who cast ballots for Massachusetts’s new Republican senator, Scott Brown. He promised to be “the 41st vote” against [...]
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The power of Twitter in Haiti… the video says it all:
Follow @TheHaitian on Twitter.
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Tags: Haiti, Twitter
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I wasn’t able to watch the Haiti Telethon tonight, but the NYT has a very good review of it.
The bottom line for tonight’s star studded extravaganza was that everyone “showed excess of restraint in the pursuit of extravagant generosity, ” in other word it wasn’t about the stars who performed and answered phones, it was [...]
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