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Something strange and a little disorienting is happening in the fight to reform Wall Street: It looks like the reformers are actually starting to win.
This is not something you could have said as recently as six weeks ago. Back then, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank ...
Congress
Barney Frank
Christopher J. Dodd
International Monetary Fund
As has been the case all year, progressives are giving mixed reviews to the latest legislative step health care reform legislation, the 60-40 Senate vote-to-proceed, which is basically a preliminary cloture vote. While everyone's happy that the vote wasn't lost, there's a fair amount of angst ...
Congress
Bill Nelson
Joe Lieberman
Health care
Ed Gillespie
It's often said that you can't hope to apply Iraq strategy to Afghanistan because the two countries/conflicts are so different. But Stanley McChrystal seems not to agree :
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World
Iraq
Afghanistan
al-Qaeda
Nate Silver makes the sharp observation that all the public hand-wringing by red state Democrats about how they won't vote for the health care reform bill in its current form may not do them much good with their voters:
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Congress
Max Baucus
Jon Tester
Chuck Grassley
Harry Reid
These did not reach the intensity of the 100 hours war in 1969 between Honduras and El Salvador which was also over fought over World Cup soccer matches.
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World
Algeria
El Salvador
Israel
Hosni Mubarak
France
Barney Frank
Vice President Biden’s chief economic advisor Jared Bernstein seemed loathe to make headlines during a forum the Metro Program staged last week in Washington with the National League of Cities (NLC) on the nation’s deepening local government fiscal crisis. Instead, he stuck ...
Congress
Stimulus Plan
Jared Bernstein
Washington, D.C
Foreign Policy
Scott Murphy
Lamar Smith
In news that is sure to warm the hearts of every American, the Charlotte Observer has a report today about Sarah Palin's meeting with Billy Graham and his son, Franklin.
"He's followed her career and likes her strong stand on faith," said son Franklin Graham, who was present for the ...
World
Sarah Palin
Iran
Iraq
Congressional Quarterly 's Shira Toeplitz has a good rundown on all the ways in which presumptive Pennsylvania GOP Senate nominee Pat Toomey has moved to the center ever since Arlen Specter bolted for the Democratic Party. Which makes me again wonder whether it was a mistake for Obama to ...
Congress
Arlen Specter
Republican National Committee
Pat Toomey
Democratic National Committee
Joe Sestak
Barack Obama
This just in, from AARP and the American Medical Association:
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Washington, D.C
Health care
tnr.com - 8 hours ago
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Ross Douthat's column in today's New York Times
makes the perfectly sensible point that Sarah Palin and
Mike Huckabee have decided to use their fame to become bigger celebrities, rather than more policy-oriented, serious public figures. Huckabee ...
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One of the most fascinating aspects of the health-care reform debate are the creative, highly targeted arguments that outside groups are marshalling to try and kill it. My current favorite is from the Gun Owners of America . (If you think the NRA is a bunch of accommodationist wusses, this ...
Congress
Ron Paul
Last week, the Republican Governors Association held a conference outside Austin where the group predicted that the ideas-oriented campaigns of Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell would serve as harbingers of the 37 gubernatorial races next year--an issue I touched upon in a
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White House
Bob McDonnell
Haley Barbour
Chris Matthews
Bill Ayers
So far the number of public officials who think the Treasury Secretary should go probably. But the ones who do are expressing their opinion with increasing passion. Cantwell. DeFazio. Joint econ committee...
Moreover, there seem to be growing signs of danger ... people in the House told me ...
White House
Timothy Geithner
Les Gelb thinks Obama's trip to Asia was a flop , and that the time would have been better spent on a Hawaii vacation. He also wonders whether, after a couple of foreign trips with little to show for them, Obama's foreign policy team is serving him well:
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White House
Barack Obama
Foreign Policy
Afghanistan
Congress seems intent on once again using infrastructure spending to address the nation’s rising unemployment. The real shame here is not whether this is--or isn’t--a good idea but that we don’t know one way or the other.
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World
Stimulus Plan
Foreign Policy
United States
Ed Gillespie
Charlie Baker is a moderate Republican businessman who's running for Massachusetts Governor. In other words, he's got a lot in common with Mitt Romney--or at least the version of Mitt Romney who existed before he thought he needed to be a lot more conservative in order to win the ...
