Senate Democrats vote to bring health bill to floor for debate

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:47:00 +0000

REID SEEKS PASSAGE BEFORE CHRISTMAS Caucus remains bitterly divided over public option Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 22, 2009

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Reid Slams Broder As A Retiree Who 'Writes A Column Once In A While'

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:54:20 +0000

Did Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just describe liberal bogeyman David Broder as "a man who has been retired for many years and writes a column once in a while"? Yes. Yes he did.

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WaPo cuts several positions

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:50:53 +0000

The Washington Post has cut several positions, primarily on the web side, sources tell POLITICO. I’ve heard there may have been about 10-12 staffers let go, but it’s unclear exactly how many at this time. Sources have told me that Travis Fox and Pierre Kattar -- both ...

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Krauthammer on Landrieu $100 Million 'Louisiana Purchase' Buyoff: 'It's a New Kind of Business as Usual'

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:21:00 +0000

Remember earlier this year when the new era of hope and change was ushered into Washington, D.C. and President Barack Obama made the statement on day one his policies would "represent a clean break from business as usual" ? Not so fast says Charles Krauthammer, columnist for The ...

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Reid targets Washington Post columnist in floor speech

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:15:18 +0000

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Saturday morning criticized a Washington Post columnist who called Democratic healthcare bills "budget-busters." "Now, Madam President, to focus on an editorial written by a man who has been retired for many years and writes a column once in a while is ...

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Get Sick in Another Country

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:51:00 +0000

In case you didn’t see Frontline’s Sick Around the World last week, here’s an opportunity to review this informative one-hour presentation. Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid visited five capitalist democracies—the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and Switzerland—to ...

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Rogue Fact: Palin suggests "no other candidate" subjected to scrutiny "about their hair, makeup, or clothes"

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:00:32 +0000

Media followed Politico in reporting on haircuts. After Politico senior political writer Ben Smith, in an April 16, 2007, blog entry , "broke" the story that Edwards had spent $800 on two haircuts the media -- including The New York Times , The Washington Post , the Los Angeles Times , USA Today ...

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Senator Giuliani?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:02:07 +0000

Is former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani weighing a Senate bid? Photo by Bonnie Jo Mount of the Washington Post After months of relative quiet regarding the political future of former mayor Rudy Giuliani (R), the New York newspapers have exploded this afternoon with reports that not only has ...

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When News Falls in the Forest

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:51:05 +0000

On June 26, a joint ProPublica-Washington Post story included what turned out to be startling news. The Obama administration, we reported, was "strongly considering criminal charges in federal court for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and three other detainees accused of involvement in the Sept. 11, 2001,

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Obama Tells Troops: “You Guys Make a Pretty Good Photo-Op”

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:52:00 +0000

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a speech during a rally with troops at Osan Air Base in South Korea November 19, 2009. Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak called on North Korea on Thursday to return to stalled nuclear talks and end its atomic ambitions in return for massive ...

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Sarah Palin: Rogue for President?

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:34:46 +0000

Just over half of Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll have an unfavorable opinion of Palin. Sarah Palin - United States - Government - Alaska - Executive Branch

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Poll: Most Support Global Warming Treaty

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:29:34 +0000

Six in 10 Americans say the United States should join the Kyoto treaty on global warming, rejecting President Bush's economic arguments against the accord. Bush, saying it "makes no economic sense," has declared that the United States will not participate in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which ...

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Oh, So Now U.S. Soldiers Are 'A Pretty Good Photo-op'; Let's See How This Obamism Gets Covered

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:30:00 +0000

The Washington Posts's Anne Kornblut ( saved here in case her report is modified or disappears) captured a comment Obama made to U.S troops at Osan Air Base in South Korea while heading back to Washington after his Asian trip. I believe that the comment (bolded) could be seen as shining a less ...

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Barack Obama and Foreign Policy by Biography

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:30:52 +0000

The Washington Post writes today about the limits of Obama's biography in foreign policy. The paper's story notes that Obama talked extensively about his biography and personal experiences in Asia, then asks: But is his biography-as-diplomacy approach beginning to show its limits? read more

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Sen. Byrd breaks congressional longevity record

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:54:58 +0000

Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, November 19, 2009

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Why does the Washington Post keep running fluffy profiles of anti-gay activists?

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:50:00 +0000

In late August, the Washington Post 's Style section featured a friendly profile of National Organization for Marriage executive director Brian Brown. The profile, by Post writer Monica Hesse, portrayed Brown and NOM as a "rational" "sane" "mainstream" organization, and their critics as shrill ...

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Edward Woodward

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:48:06 +0000

Actor Edward Woodward has died of pneumonia. Big Hollywood has a nice obituary. He’s probably best remembered for playing the title character in The Equalizer , a deeply moral TV show about a middle-aged guy who packed heat and kicked butt in pre-Giuilani era New York City. The ...

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A Closer Look At Polls on Health Care Reform

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:07:36 +0000

The polls on support for health care reform must be taken with a grain of salt. Most recent polls such as the Washington Post-ABC News poll show a fairly even split. Many people are expressing opposition to things which are not actually in the proposed legislation based upon the scare tactics ...

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Polls - Swampland

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:59:00 +0000

A poll taken by CNN today has Americans opposed to the health care legislation passed by the House, 49-46. A poll taken by the Washington Post has a 52% majority opposed to the war in Afghanistan. I'd say that I take both with a grain of salt, except a grain of salt is more substantive. Let's ...

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HackWatch: Harold Meyerson

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:37:00 +0000

Former Reason Burton C. Gray Memorial Intern Jeremy Lott catches the Washington Post columnist flipping on the use of the Senate filibuster. Writing in the American Prospect after the Republicans cleaned up in the 2002 off-year elections, Meyerson predicted that the ...

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