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Published 1/29/2009 by Howard Kurtz at Wash Post In Congress
Maybe bipartisanship is overrated. In the end, for all of Barack Obama's courtship, he got the same number of Republican votes as Bill Clinton did for his economic package in 1993: zero. The battle lines were clear when John Boehner and his GOP pals held a news conference to criticize the Obama s...
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