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Think about it; party leadership acting totally inept while a charismatic young Democrat presidential candidate captures the imagination of the normally lethargic youth vote, captures the senior vote, women, and even sends a thrill up the leg of the media.
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In dueling floor speeches, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) each portrayed himself “on the right side of history.” Reid trumpeted the Democrats’ $849 billion bill, which received its cost analysis from the...
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Reid (D-Nev.) invited Daschle to his office for a meeting with Biden as Democrats are scrambling to secure 60 votes to clear a procedural motion on healthcare reform. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has strong friendships with Democratic centrists...
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Its public image is often shaped by people who appear to have gone into government because they saw it as a steppingstone to talk radio. But deep in the bowels of the GOP, there are serious people having quiet conversations. The people holding these...
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Guess who else wants to pull the plug on granny and kill Sarah Palin's baby? Rachel Maddow showed Thursday night that not long ago Rush Limbaugh promoted death panels on his own radio show, Newt Gingrich sung their praises in the pages of the Washington...
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President Barack Obama says if Congress ends up requiring individuals to purchase health insurance, people who can't afford it and small businesses should be exempted. In a letter to senators Wednesday, Obama reiterated his support for a new public health...
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In the month since $146,000 in unpaid taxes and penalties forced former senator Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) to withdraw as the nominee to become secretary of health and human services, other appointees say an army of investigators from the White House,...
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Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and legislative leaders Wednesday approved the redistribution of $225 million into the state’s main bank account during a meeting of the State Finance Council. The move allowed the state to officially resume paying income tax refunds...
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Health care reform is still on the agenda this year in Congress, despite the departure of President Barack Obama’s point man on the issue. Tom Daschle’s withdrawal as Obama’s health czar and nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services is a glitch,...
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Tom Daschle’s recent withdrawal from the HHS nomination has some people worried about the prospects for major health reform. Those folks may take some solace in something a senior administration official told the Treatment, the New Republic’s nifty health-care...
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