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10 hours ago ago from race42008.com
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19 hours ago ago from Exploring the Political Spectrum
Paul Mirengoff raises an interesting question on Power Line : whatever happened to the Obamacons? Last November, as I described here , I voted Democratic for president for the first time since 1980, when I was still experiencing the hangover from my student-liberal days that had then been over for a year and a half. Mirengoff links to a commentary piece that Christopher Buckley wrote in March, regarding his decision to vote for Barack ...
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21 hours ago ago from News In Politics
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14 hours ago ago from The West Virginia Rebel's Blog
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9 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The clock is ticking for Democrats. The health care reform bill has now become for all intents and purposes, as politically charged and attached to Democrats' success or failure going into 2010, just as Iraq and the oft befuddled and always erratic War on Terror was for Republicans. Much like our compromised ability to wage war while reconfiguring centuries of damaged theocratic lunacy plunging us deeper into debt, not to mention robbing ...
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7 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
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13 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Congressional Democrats are starting to voice their anger at President Obama over the way health care legislation has been compromised, blaming him for not fighting harder. "The president keeps listening to Rahm Emanuel," said Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) . "No public option, no extending Medicare to 55, no nothing, an excise tax, God!" he exclaimed about the Senate health care bill to Roll Call. "The insurance lobby is taking over." "The ...
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7 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
Barack Obama has won a place in history with the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year: 49% approve and 46% disapprove of his job performance in the latest USA Today/Gallup Poll. There are many factors that explain it, including weakness abroad, an unprecedented spending binge at home, and making a perfectly awful health-care plan his signature domestic initiative. But something else is happening. Mr. Obama has not ...
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