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The health care bill is a mark of the remarkable, enduring strength of the anti-abortion movement.
Cooper says yes , ambivalently.
JMart gets a Deeds memo that doesn't look all that great in retrospect.
And hits Des Moines.
A former hostage goes to State.
Palin's doing the Gridiron.
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A moment of odd paranoia from Jonathan Martin's piece :
In addition to the suggestion that government officials would consider hastening the death of the infirm or handicapped, she began her remarks with a puzzling commentary on the design of newly minted dollar coints.
Noting that there ...
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Sarah Palin
POLITICO reports :
Hours before an expected vote on a sweeping health care bill, House Democrats believe they've secured the 218 votes they need to approve the bill, several party insiders said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took to the House floor about 6:30 p.m. to say, “Today we ...
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Unemployment is the highest it's been since the early 1980s.
Deeds never figured out how to handle Obama.
Jones and Ross appear to differ.
Abbas could find lame-duckhood liberating.
A DNC official blames gay activists for splitting the party.
Give Geoff Garin due credit.
Brad ...
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Mike Ross
Democratic National Committee
Brad Ellsworth
Barack Obama
Jon Stewart
I mentioned yesterday that Mary Landrieu had been dumped by the Palm Beach County Democrats for her refusal to promise to vote for cloture on health care.
Today, her replacement, Dennis Kucinich, seems to have been dumped as well, if for different reasons :
With some local Democratic ...
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Israel
Dennis Kucinich
Democratic National Committee
Iran
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Not much room for discussing who saw which
sign in this statement from the Elie Wiesel Foundation:
Elie Wiesel on the GOP Tea Party's anti-Semitism and Holocaust comparisons: "This kind of political hatred is indecent and disgusting"
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Weisel blasts the tea party 'anti-Semitism': 'Indecent ...
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A colleague notes that Sarah Palin's book tour retraces the steps of her fall campaign, which drew giant crowds in Ohio, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and The Villages in Florida.
She also expressed, publicly and privately, her displeasure with the McCain campaign decision to pull out of ...
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Washington, D.C
It's a meme that just won't die :
U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal, now a Republican candidate for governor, this morning declared himself in sympathy with those questioning whether President Barack Obama was born in the U.S.A.
The occasion was an online chat [Georgia Rep. Nathan Deal] had with ...
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Barack Obama
Nathan Deal
Contra the RNC survey , my colleague Josh Gerstein pointed out Tuesday:
[I]n New Jersey..., voters were asked if they approved of the job Obama is doing and 57% said they did—even as 49% voted to boot Democrat Jon Corzine out of the governor’s office.
In Virginia, Obama even ...
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Barack Obama
Republican National Committee
In its effort to nationalize the off-year results, the Republican National Committee released today a survey asking Christie and McDonnell voters whether they'd chosen their candidates in part to send a message of displeasure with present policy in Washington.
The survey found ...
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Bob McDonnell
Washington, D.C
Barack Obama
From Martin and Harris :
[Tim] Kaine, whose term as governor ends in January, said that with the 2009 races now done, his focus at the DNC would shift to pushing the president’s agenda. But he indicated that activists who want to see him take a more aggressive tack and embrace the role ...
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politico.com - 46 hours ago
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A member of the Texas House follows the
well-worn path for Southern Democrats, and blames Obama: Rep.
Chuck Hopson, D-Jacksonville, will seek reelection, but as a Republican — a move that might save his neck while wrecking the party's ...
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A Democrat leaves the fold, citing Obama
Peter Nicholas :
At least one Democratic political strategist has gotten a blunt warning from the White House to never appear on Fox News Channel, an outlet that presidential aides have depicted as not so much a news-gathering operation as a political opponent bent on damaging the Obama ...
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Fox News
Barack Obama
A source familiar with David Paterson's ad buy telle me he's going on air from November 6 to 12, and spending a total of $625,785 in Albany, Buffalo, NYC, Rochester and Syracuse.
That's enough to turn heads upstate, and a serious commitment of the governor's political resources. It may not be ...
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National Security Advisor James Jones's departure from his prepared remarks in his J Street address -- which I noted earlier -- offers an unusual sense of the White House's foreign policy priorities, a reader notes.
"[O]f all the problems the administration faces globally, that if there ...
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China
politico.com - 2 days ago
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Organized labor, still battling to stop plans to
pay for health care through taxing expensive plans --
but unwillin to flatly oppose reform -- will consider a plan to reduce its contributions to Democrats who don't side with them on the issue, a ...
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Labor mulls contribution cut
National Security Advisor James Jones, speaking at J Street's conference a few weeks ago, departed from his prepared remarks in one extended passage.
"[O]f all the problems the administration faces globally, that if there was one problem that I would recommend to the president that ...
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Marcia Kramer reports that David Paterson is "bringing
on board campaign powerhouse Harold Ickes, who was former
President Bill Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff." It's a smart hire: The most obvious way for Andrew Cuomo to push Paterson ...
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Paterson hires
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New York Governor David Paterson is up with
a pair of ads, one (above) hitting back at
critics, the other striking a more apologetic tone about "mistakes." As I reported recently , the campaign is a last-ditch effort to save his ...
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Air Paterson
The White House will nationalize 2010.
Huckabee leads the 2012 field, and fewer than a third think Palin is qualified.
Her biographers suggest she makes things up.
Gaspard huddles in Wisconsin.
TNR blasts Gration.
Kerik pleads out.
Tea Partiers take DC.
The left finds ...
