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RNC member calls on Steele to quit — Michael Steele should resign as Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman, according to a committee member from North Carolina. — In an e-mail to fellow RNC members obtained by The Hill, Dr. Ada Fisher, North Carolina's national committeewoman …
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For GOP: all pain, no gain — Four months after John McCain's sweeping defeat, senior Republicans are coming to grips with the fact that the party is still - in stock market terms - looking for the bottom. — Republicans this week are processing two sobering new polls that found …
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Fears of a Clown — Once upon a time, you could drive to the most remote reaches of the United States and escape Rush Limbaugh. But from the Mogollon Mountains of New Mexico to the Badlands of South Dakota, where only the delicious twang of a country tune or the high-pitched pleadings …
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Why is John McCain being such a jerk? — The post-election lovefest is over. The defeated senator has even learned Twitter to attack Obama. But don't call him jealous. — Sen. John McCain smiles during a news conference in December. — WASHINGTON — A couple of weeks …
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My Response To The White House — When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money. — I fight to help viewers and readers make and preserve capital.
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Democrats' Diversionary Tactics — In the first two months of 2009, the Democratic Congress and the White House have spent more money than the combined cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the response to Hurricane Katrina. After they doled out taxpayer dollars at such a blistering pace …
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Obama Hosts Bipartisan ‘Timeout’ Dinner at White House
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Obama Taps Clinton Ideas but Not Clinton Herself — WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton has not participated in any of the White House's planning sessions on health care, the issue that defined her public persona during the 1990s. Intent on establishing herself as a powerful secretary of state …
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Health Industry Voices Support for Obama Health Plan
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Presidential Bait-and-Switch — What Obama once promised, and what he's delivering.
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IS HEALTH CARE A ‘PRIVILEGE’ FOR SOME?
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Rep. Wamp: Healthcare Is A ‘Privilege,’ Not A ‘Right’ For All Americans
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First Lady Michelle Obama shows even she has a gift for the gaffe — It was all going so well. The dresses, the brains, the Vogue cover shoot - everything so far about Michelle Obama has left us wide-mouthed in admiration. It seemed there was no end to her fabulousness. Then Mr and Mrs Brown came to stay.
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Was ‘Lady Macbeth’ behind Barack Obama's snub of Gordon Brown? — On US radio's Garrison show today, I was asked for my reaction as a true born Englishman to President Obama's double insult - first the sending back of the Winston Churchill bust, then his snub to Gordon Brown. “Tough one.
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Sex Appeal May Have Hurt Sarah Palin — In a Sept. 4, 2008 column, just after Sarah Palin accepted the Republican nomination for vice-president, Will Wilkinson wrote admiringly of her “sexual power,” adding: “I think she is a tremendously sexy woman. How this will affect the race, I have no idea, but it's just got to.”
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The Treasury Mortgage Mod Program: Should We Hope It Doesn't Work? — The Treasury today announced its so-called “Making Homes Affordable Program”. — I am clearly an old fart. The fact that the Treasury bothered to have a logo created for the program (do consumers and servicers …
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Matters of Principal — TO stanch the hemorrhage of foreclosures …
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Unlucky or Unwise, Some Homeowners Left Out
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EXCLUSIVE: Rove Warns of ‘Show Trial,’ Says Dems ‘Would Love to Have Me Barbecued’ — Karl Rove tells FOX News he is looking forward to telling the House Judiciary Committee about his alleged role in the firing of federal prosecutors and the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.
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Jon Stewart's rant: Santelli re(un)wound — Apparently Rick Santelli - famous for “Santelli's rant” on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a broadcast diatribe against the Obama administration's bailout of bad mortgages - should have shown up on The Daily Show.
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Auditors Raise Doubts About G.M.'s Viability — As General Motors acknowledged in its annual report on Thursday that its survival was in “substantial doubt,” the White House said it was “working around the clock” on the auto industry's problems. — G.M. warned last month that its auditors …
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THE BANALITY OF PROGRESS. — The speech ended. “Let's get to work,” the President said. The attendees — a mixture of congressmen, advocates, stakeholders, and analysts — filed down the long hall to their breakout sessions. Another reporter turned to me. “What did you think of the speech?”
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One France Is Enough — The French writer François Mauriac once said during the cold war that he loved Germany so much, he was glad there were two of them. After what an undivided Germany had done to France in World War II and before, that was understandable.
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The “Afghanistan” Problem is In Pakistan — Joe Klein's article on the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan is informative, but doesn't inspire a ton of confidence. It seems that military planners want the Obama administration to dispatch further additional troops to Afghanistan over and above …
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Brown says he hasn't filed federal, state taxes in 2 years — ATLANTA — Nearly 10 percent of Georgia state legislators are late filing or paying their state taxes, and state Sen. Robert Brown is apparently among them. — Brown, D-Macon, said Wednesday he's not sure whether he actually owes …