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Will House Democrats Join With Republicans To Escalate In Afghanistan?
1 day ago ago from DownWithTyranny!
The White House is trying to bum rush tens of billions of dollars through Congress to fund the Afghanistan escalation without a debate on the war. But Bush is gone. And Hope and Change are here. Right? I recall when President Clinton, a former DLC Chairman, had decided to move the first President Bush's catastrophic NAFTA legislation-- that did so much to accelerate the destruction of the U.S. manufacturing base-- through Congress, he ...
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13 hours ago ago from City on a Hill Political Observer
The embattled Senate Majority Leader, Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada, sure stepped in it this week. No doubt filled with child-like excitement on the prospect of successfully usurping one-sixth of the nation’s economy into some geezer-offing, price-raising, ineffective socialist healthcare plan, Mr. Reid couldn’t contain himself. As with many Democrats (Senator Lieberman excepted of course) Mr. Reid’s euphoria over yanking more money from ...
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19 hours ago ago from Free Thought Manifesto
By Tom Engelhardt December 5, 2009 Courtesy Of Asia Times Online Let others deal with the details of President Barack Obama's Afghan speech, with the on-ramps and off-ramps, those 30,000 United States troops going in and just where they will be deployed, the benchmarks for what's called "good governance" in Afghanistan, the corruption of the Hamid Karzai regime, the viability of counter-insurgency warfare, the reliability of North ...
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5 hours ago ago from The Roosevelt Room |
As published for The Wall Street Journal on December 10, 2009: Probably not, but their candidate recruitment so far has been stellar. Democrats began the year as masters of the political universe, winning the White House and increasing their majorities in Congress. But the year is ending badly for them. Their top initiative, health care, is deeply unpopular. Congress's approval rating is 26%, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's is 28%, and Senate ...
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9 hours ago ago from Musings and Their Meanings
Not likely but possible, so says Karl Rove : "Democrats began the year as masters of the political universe, winning the White House and increasing their majorities in Congress. But the year is ending badly for them. Their top initiative, health care, is deeply unpopular. Congress's approval rating is 26%, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's is 28%, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's is an anemic 14%. Political currents are running against the ...
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Karl Rove: CanRepublicans Retake the Senate in 2010?
9 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
Democrats began the year as masters of the political universe, winning the White House and increasing their majorities in Congress. But the year is ending badly for them. Their top initiative, health care, is deeply unpopular. Congress's approval rating is 26%, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's is 28%, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's is an anemic 14%. Political currents are running against the party of Barack Obama. Democrats now trail ...
Related contentRepublicans, Independents Make the Difference in Support for Obama on Afghanistan
6 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
Republicans and independents are the key forces in forging a narrow majority of Americans who support President Obama's strategy for Afghanistan, and on many other fronts, the president's approval ratings and backing for some of his key initiatives have been on the slide, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll conducted Dec. 4-8.
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5 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
Then, after equating opposition to Medicare cuts and tax increases with support for human bondage that it took a bloody civil war to end, Mr. Reid went on to draw analogies to women's suffrage, Social Security, civil rights and Medicare. Mr. Reid would have done better listening to Mrs. Snowe about the "history" of major social legislation, which she also discussed in her November speech. Her main and telling point was that durable social ...
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7 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WASHINGTON As diplomats might say of a meeting between rivals that is just short of undiplomatic, President Obama and Congressional Republican leaders had a full and frank discussion at the White House on Wednesday when they met to discuss how to create more jobs. Doug Mills/The New York Times Representative Steny Hoyer, left, Representative John Boehner, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, President Obama and Senator Harry Reid in ...
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By Jonathan Weisman When President Barack Obama summoned the bipartisan leadership of Congress to talk jobs, this probably wasn't what he had in mind. In an apparently tense exchange, Republican leaders lectured Obama on his policies, saying uncertainty over energy, health care and financial legislation was freezing business hiring. Obama fired back, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi : Stop trying to frighten the American people. ...
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