blogs.abcnews.com - 1/16/2009
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He's been speaking, pontificating, sermonizing, lecturing, orating, hectoring, admonishing, and evangelizing from the Senate floor since 1973, but today Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., bid adieu to his colleagues in the Greatest Deliberative Body in the World to become the vice...
truthdig.com - 1/16/2009
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The taxpayers’ bank opened a new branch on
Thursday: Uncle Sam just threw $20 billion Bank of...
America’s way. The government is also on the hook for $118 billion more in crap assets. Bank of America chief Ken Lewis calls it the ...
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Bank of America, Literally
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Biden Leave The Senate With A WHOPPER On His Lips
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... The gregarious and gracious Jake Tapper of ABC posted an amusing story of the rambling and rather pointless farewell speech Thursday that Joe “the mouf” Biden left on the Senate floor (you make the joke here). Tapper headlined his piece “Biden Yields the Floor (Literally).” The “literally” was just Tapper’s little jab because apparently Biden used the word nine times during his loquacious 5,659 word address to his Senate colleagues. ...
Biden Leave The Senate With A WHOPPER On His Lips
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-By Warner Todd Huston [image] The gregarious and gracious Jake Tapper of ABC posted an amusing story of the rambling and rather pointless farewell speech Thursday that Joe “the mouf” Biden left on the Senate floor (you make the joke here). Tapper headlined his piece “ Biden Yields the Floor (Literally) .” The “literally” was just Tapper’s little jab because apparently Biden used the word nine times during his loquacious 5,659 word address to his Senate colleagues. From Biden’s speech, Tapper relates one of Joe’s little … shall we say, “stories”? I say “stories” as in those same ...
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Amid all the farewells is a hello. Roland Burris is scheduled to be sworn in Thursday as the junior Senator from Illinois.
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Biden's son leaves Iraq for inauguration —
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New senator back on old turf —
CNN Political Ticker 1/16/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Ted Kaufman today becomes the newest senator in Congress, but he's back on some old turf.
Kaufman will be sworn as Delaware's junior senator. Standing next to him will be the man he's replacing, Vice President-elect Joe ...
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