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Congress, under a Democratic leadership that once promised to roll back the excesses of the USA Patriot Act, gave overwhelming approval to an extension of the act without any new…
February 26, 2010 / 3 Comments / Read More
They came, they talked, they pontificated, they postured. In the end, they accomplished nothing. After seven-and-a-half hours of positioning, President Barack Obama, Republicans and Democrats failed to reach any agreement…
February 25, 2010 / 3 Comments / Read More
Here’s a moment of rare Washington bipartisanship for you: Republicans and Democrats agree that President Barack Obama‘s much-ballyhooed publicly-televised summit on health care will be much ado about nothing because…
February 24, 2010 / 5 Comments / Read More
A desperate President Barack Obama is pulling out all the stops in a last-ditch effort to salvage his $950 billion health care plan but critics of this latest move from…
February 23, 2010 / 11 Comments / Read More
Time-proven ploy of politics: Identify an enemy and then run against that enemy. Many candidates run for Congress not by opposing the record of their opponent but by running against…
February 21, 2010 / 8 Comments / Read More
Coming soon to daytime television: America’s long-running civic drama over how to provide better health care to more of its people without breaking the bank. President Barack Obama summons anxious…
February 20, 2010 / 7 Comments / Read More
President Barack Obama vigorously defended his $787 billion stimulus on Wednesday, insisting it rescued Americans from the worst of the economic calamity and ripping Republican critics who called it a…
February 18, 2010 / 4 Comments / Read More
Indiana Democrats stunned by Sen. Evan Bayh's decision not to seek a third term…
February 18, 2010 / 2 Comments / Read More
Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh‘s decision to leave Congress is hardly a surprise to those who see political moderates as an increasingly disaffected bunch who have had it with the bitter…
February 17, 2010 / 11 Comments / Read More
When Democrats run out of ideas (a problem that happens often) they turn to their standard political tactic: Blame former President George W. Bush. Record deficits? Bush’s fault. Record unemployment?…
February 3, 2010 / 19 Comments / Read More
