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Sotomayor Hearings: Sen. Sessions, Meet Sen. Hatch
As the hearings on Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court opened this morning, the contrast between Democratic supporters of President Barack Obama’s first nominee and the Republicans likely to oppose her elevation was perfectly predictable. Not necessarily so...
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| July 13, 2009; 12:24 PM ET |
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Words for Main Street
The banks won’t get it. But maybe more of the American people will. President Barack Obama’s young administration has barely muddled through the murky banking crisis this past month, sending a message of indecision to financial markets that detest...
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| February 24, 2009; 10:50 PM ET |
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Republicans Sucking on Lemons
Just how sour can House Republican leader John Boehner look? About as sour as someone forced to suck on a lemon -- as President Barack Obama forced Republicans to do at the very opening of his speech to a...
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| February 24, 2009; 9:47 PM ET |
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Obama and the Wimps
An incredulous Barack Obama, experiencing the hysteria that overtakes the Washington metropolitan area whenever a flake of snow or even the prospect of it is forecast, joked about his daughters’ school, Sidwell Friends, being closed due to the thin...
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| January 28, 2009; 12:50 PM ET |
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Caroline Crumbles
Not since Gov. Mario Cuomo chartered two planes to ferry him to New Hampshire to launch a presumed presidential bid -- but left the aircraft idling and unused on a runway at the Albany airport -- has New York...
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| January 22, 2009; 2:56 PM ET |
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From Mr. Cool, a Brisk Shower
President Barack Obama, who made his political reputation as an elegant orator, couldn’t possibly have lived up to the rhetorical expectation millions of Americans had for his historic inaugural address. So he didn’t try. But that doesn’t mean he...
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| January 20, 2009; 3:03 PM ET |
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